What the fuck? It's just a poster, it's not the original or anything as far as I can tell. That's fucking crazy money, I get it's linen backed and all that shit, but man, surely you can buy a ridiculous quality repro of it for a fraction of the cost?

Each to their own and that, but that seems insanely high priced, amazing as it is. DAT PINK TEXT *chef kiss*

I am 4 volumes away from catching up with where Berserk currently is.

I originally read up to the end of the Golden Age arc a year or so ago, and now I have just finished the Falcon of the Millenium Empire arc. Fucking hell. Just... fucking hell. It's such a monolithic, well realised piece of fiction.

At this point Miura is over 30 yers into writing and illustrating it solo, and the release schedule has slowed to a crawl, but the level of detail and artistry he packs into each volume is totally unreal. 

For a Manga that just started as a tiny uni project about a guy with a big sword, it's come so far.

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Can't remember where I read up to but in the end I think I started to find the sexual violence against women to be too much. It started to leave a bad taste.

The art was always incredible though.

Same, but always appreciated everything else which is a shame.

Those new films were kinda ok too. Well, the animation got a lot better by the third.

Oh and there’s a Urasawa exhibit in London in June, will deco try and catch that.

Not that I begrudge anyone for giving it up, I just think overall it's part of the story and whilst it's unfortunate that it's such an extreme topic to cover, I don't think it's ever that gratuitous. 

Problematic, sure.

Oh and there’s a Urasawa exhibit in London in June, will deco try and catch that.

Very envious.

I think it’s meant to be pretty fucked. The Eclipse is a horrific event, but it’s not coming out of nowhere at all. Casca’s fate is grim and awful, but I don’t think it is gratuitous, personally. The fallout from what happens has been dealt with for 200 chapters since and it’s never considered a throwaway thing at. Griffith is taking everything he can from the both of them, it’s utterly horrendous and that is entirely the point. I think subsequent situations Casca ends up in are more glib and disappointing, but as horrid as the Eclipse is, I feel it justified itself.

I think Berserk is far from perfect in this regard, but is Game of Thrones much better overall? Genuine question here as I haven’t read it or watched much, but i hear there is a lot of invest, rape, nudity, prostitution and murder in it. There’s a good examination of it that someone wrote that I’ll dig up. Miura has moved away from rape as set dressing recently as well, I think at last count is over 100 chapters since it was portrayed.

There's definitely a lot of nudity in Berserk, and it's nearly all female. I've found it ridiculous that every female character is basically the same body type too, compared to the vast array of men. Miura isn't perfect by any stretch, but whether or not this is cresting a low bar or not, I think it's better than a lot of manga.

Edit: here's the essay: https://anitay.kinja.com/the-strugglers-pain-a-survey-of-sexual-assault-in-bers-1788202286

I guess i just find the idea of it all being gratuitous as something I disagree with. It implies it has no point, when in fact it is the whole point. The trio's relationship with sex and abuse is a huge part of their character. You can argue it shouldn't be necessary, but Miura wrote them like this and he's dealt with it for a long time.

Farnese's horse demon is crass, Wyald's entire arc is awful, the Troll chapters end in a pointlessly crass way too, Casca is submitted to more than she should be, but to disregard it all as gratuitous misses a chunk of context.

It's me, the boy who won't grow up.

Been binging JoJo's Bizarre Adventure recently. Just onto Diamond is Unbreakable. I am not sure if Araki is a moron or a genius, but I don't really care at this point.

Even better, it's a videogame in the show

Where are you watching JoJo @Tempy? We just finished what's on Netflix and I enjoyed it a lot, my brother says there's more though.

Where did you watch up to out of interest?

When I am at home I have a good link to a torrent site for BluRay rips with corrected Subtitles - no more copywrited bad names getting altered! - and no more violence getting censored.

When I am at Ev's I use her CrunchyRoll sub, which has the above issues but at least it has it all available!

I think Netflix ended with the end of part 2
I'll check the Brooks link, was thinking of giving cruncyroll a go but censored violence sounds like a no go.

Jojo is in a league of its own, looking up the mangas in like 2005 was a top 3 all time japan media decision. It has always been supremely good trash.
My only complaint about the shows have been their disgraceful underfunding, these should've been cost-no-object expressions of the source.

Cup Noodle One Piece add with Zoro. I'd enjoy it if they did one for each strawhat.

https://twitter.com/cupnoodle_jp/status/1131016830045134850?s=09

I quite liked Red Garden. I especially liked the coda episode.

I'd always avoided it for similar reasons. Think I'll need to watch it now after such a glowing reccomendation.

Same with jojo. I watched a couple episodes of the first series and didn't really like it but the later series have such a good reputation I feel I need to go back.

What was the deal with the crunchy roll episodes of jojo? Something wrong with them or did I misread something?

I enjoyed the bits of JoJo that are on Netflix (US), really need to get onto the stuff after that. B doesn't care for it that much anyway so would probably be fine with me continuing on my own.

Am only about 10-15 episodes into HxH, and the first two episodes I was afraid it was gonna go Naruto, but it's already quite a bit of fun. Interesting characters and some good animation.
Last episode we watched:
I'm not sure if Netflix has all the arcs, think it has 3 or 4 seasons. Curious to see where it goes.