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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #300 on: March 06, 2012, 08:22:03 PM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #301 on: March 07, 2012, 03:57:48 AM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #302 on: March 07, 2012, 05:30:45 AM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #303 on: March 07, 2012, 08:34:27 AM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #304 on: March 07, 2012, 09:48:46 AM »
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Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
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Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #305 on: March 07, 2012, 12:31:41 PM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #306 on: March 07, 2012, 12:44:34 PM »
Heard something interesting Akamatsu ends his exclusive contract with his publisher

Seems like a plausible reason for the really quite abrupt ending.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #307 on: March 07, 2012, 12:53:17 PM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #309 on: March 07, 2012, 11:41:59 PM »
Heard something interesting Akamatsu ends his exclusive contract with his publisher

Seems like a plausible reason for the really quite abrupt ending.

Keeping the quality up for an extended series is very difficult (Bleach, for example, could have ended much sooner). I'd rather see the series end that allows the author to start up a new work with fresh ideas than to drag it out and risk the quality decrease the longer it lasts.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #310 on: March 08, 2012, 12:11:44 AM »
Seems to me that he left plenty of hooks open to plug in a second story to, if hes inclined. Only now he can afford to self publish.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #311 on: March 08, 2012, 02:43:05 AM »
Heard something interesting Akamatsu ends his exclusive contract with his publisher

Seems like a plausible reason for the really quite abrupt ending.

Keeping the quality up for an extended series is very difficult (Bleach, for example, could have ended much sooner). I'd rather see the series end that allows the author to start up a new work with fresh ideas than to drag it out and risk the quality decrease the longer it lasts.
Like DBZ post Frezia, Death Note season 2, everything past the invasion arc in Bleach, etc.

There *are* a few exceptions. Time Skip and are planned as such.

Time Skip is the excuse to kill the old themes and plots and bring in a new set. Like Naruto and now Negima, the old theme is gone while nearly the same characters remain. Expected plot arcs are traded in for a fresh view on the world which prevents things from becoming stagnate. Ultimately, if you were a fan of the preskip you just watched your series die. The good news is the is always a chance the newer version will be more successful if the author reflected on input received from the last series and you do have the same character(s) in some mannerism.

The other is of course planned as such. I don't mean opening a bazillion possible arcs and leaving plot holes everywhere so you can later fill. I mean a compacted story, the intermission was planned to happen or it never was. Like in Code Geass you would think the season cliffhanger was the inflated part or in Full Metal Alchemist they completed a smaller arc and were sent to the cold region you know at some point they were supposed to find out Sloth was digging tunnels, everything in some mannerism is progression of the original concept even if you get tangents on new character interactions. The author has a beginning, idea of the road, and the end. Everything may the inflation of the original idea, but it's still the original idea and that's why you over look some flaws and call it a good story.

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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #312 on: March 08, 2012, 02:14:11 PM »
Seems to me that he left plenty of hooks open to plug in a second story to, if hes inclined. Only now he can afford to self publish.

We ought to do a Negima PBP for the hell of it.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #313 on: March 08, 2012, 04:37:50 PM »
Seems to me that he left plenty of hooks open to plug in a second story to, if hes inclined. Only now he can afford to self publish.

We ought to do a Negima PBP for the hell of it.

Freeform or otherwise, I am interested already.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #314 on: March 08, 2012, 04:47:36 PM »
Seems to me that he left plenty of hooks open to plug in a second story to, if hes inclined. Only now he can afford to self publish.

We ought to do a Negima PBP for the hell of it.

Freeform or otherwise, I am interested already.
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #315 on: March 08, 2012, 04:52:34 PM »
Seems to me that he left plenty of hooks open to plug in a second story to, if hes inclined. Only now he can afford to self publish.

We ought to do a Negima PBP for the hell of it.

Freeform or otherwise, I am interested already.
Mutants & Masterminds is generally the easiest way, but that's almost too easy.
Beats GURPS.  :p
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #316 on: March 08, 2012, 07:41:06 PM »
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #317 on: March 08, 2012, 10:09:29 PM »
Excuse me but could you guys tell me where you get your visual novels from? I can't seem to find a place which sells visual novels  :(
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #318 on: March 08, 2012, 10:46:36 PM »
Excuse me but could you guys tell me where you get your visual novels from? I can't seem to find a place which sells visual novels  :(

Haven't really bought any in a while, but Waldenbooks, Books a Million, and other retail book stores usually have a decent selection. However, more obscure series or out-of-print works would be most readily available on Amazon. Some areas of certain countries may not have a profitable market for manga sales, thus you may have to travel to find a decent selection.

There are also certain gaming stores that sell them, and there are also stores dedicated entirely to anime/manga merchandise (those tend to be rare outside of major cities though).
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Re: Anime & Manga 4: Brotherhood
« Reply #319 on: March 09, 2012, 06:43:06 AM »
Excuse me but could you guys tell me where you get your visual novels from? I can't seem to find a place which sells visual novels  :(

Haven't really bought any in a while, but Waldenbooks, Books a Million, and other retail book stores usually have a decent selection. However, more obscure series or out-of-print works would be most readily available on Amazon. Some areas of certain countries may not have a profitable market for manga sales, thus you may have to travel to find a decent selection.

There are also certain gaming stores that sell them, and there are also stores dedicated entirely to anime/manga merchandise (those tend to be rare outside of major cities though).
That's for manga. Visual novels, as in, things that look like this
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are harder to get your hands on. There's a select few with official translations into English, such as Ever17, which this screenshot is from, but those can run the gamut in terms of translation quality and cost. (Ever17, for example, has a translation that's actually worse in places than what you'd get with Google, and goes for... holy shit. 500 bucks on Amazon.) Generally, your best bet is to find a fan translation patch (there's sites dedicated to this, such as TLWiki) and importing the Japanese version. Also check the vendors at any anime/manga conventions you go to, I've seen a bunch of VNs (almost exclusively smut, though) for sale before.

Seems to me that he left plenty of hooks open to plug in a second story to, if hes inclined. Only now he can afford to self publish.

We ought to do a Negima PBP for the hell of it.

Freeform or otherwise, I am interested already.
Mutants & Masterminds is generally the easiest way, but that's almost too easy.
Beats GURPS.  :p
I guess. I still have yet to look at it.
Thinking on it, though, Negima is one of few anime that could actually be pretty well modeled with D&D (barring the whole drawn-out Shounen battles thing, but can't have everything). Exalted with enlightened mortals could also work, but... Exalted.
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