Some New Manga

[--NightBattery--]

oh well i guess i can't argue with that kind of logic, also goku is superman, and superman is jesus.
It's just that i never ever heard of some one disliking dragon ball mistakes passionately.
it was one of generation Y big meaningless things.

[darkbutflashy]

mostly people exchanging blows.

I vaguely remember the Anime being mostly about building up enough power for the next blow (which happened in the next episode - but only if nothing failed in the meantime).

However, The Alita: Last Order Manga had been this way during a great (and boring) number of chapters, too. Still the series is cool. And even constant fighting can be cool. Read Cyborg Kuro-chan, it's hilarious.

Try to imagine reading an A5 format page for 60 seconds even when there is no dialogue, and it is maybe 4 or 5 panels, if not even a single full page panel.

Oh, I sometimes do that when the story has slow pacing, like the mystery mangas written by Naoki Urasawa. My imagination fills in even more pictures.

Who cares, as long as there is ad revenue and merchandise flows.

General rule: it's the pile of crap which makes it possible to do art on its top.

[BD]

I vaguely remember the Anime being mostly about building up enough power for the next blow (which happened in the next episode - but only if nothing failed in the meantime).

Well they do that too, but usually in the manga it's one or two panels, unless it's a training thing (that is: building up enough power to make it thinkable to defeat the bad guy) but even there usually the focus switches onto people doing stuff and every now and then there is a panel on the guy that's training.

In the cartoon they spent so much time doing "oooh"s and "aaah"s that it felt like watching a slow motion climax build up between narcissistic body builders. What in the comic was a flash of power one panel long followed immediately by a blow in the cartoon it is unbearable. I've seen some charging up lasting even 20 minutes or more.

Now i only watch cartoons if by peer review i get told it was better than the comic/book that originated it (better, not same, i read one piece and naruto, but i don't follow their cartoons) or if people really tell me that it is a gem.

However, The Alita: Last Order Manga had been this way during a great (and boring) number of chapters, too. Still the series is cool. And even constant fighting can be cool. Read Cyborg Kuro-chan, it's hilarious.

I tried the cyborg cat... wasn't my type of humor. Alita last order was a bit "meh". The original Alita was incredible, this is an action comic with heavy combat focus with slapstick humor. There's a dozen a dime of comics like that, even featuring cyborgs. With boring infodumps and fart jokes i wonder if the guy making it is understanding why his originale story was a success. Though i imagine his behavious is so baffling only because he is actually wearing a trollface mask and doing this as a spiteful "take that" to the huge amount of requests to continue the original story.

Anyway when i read something like that (combat focused humor) i tend to prefer either intelligent humor or unintentional humor. Like "Red Eyes". It is so baaaaad and serious in its motives i find it irresistably hilarious. Or "Arms"/"Spriggan" (two comics, same author) really trash gems. Talking of fembots and going to the other side of the spectrum "Hexxaxion" was an action/combat comic which was an affectionate parody of sentai/megarobot genre featuring many T1000-like fembots. That one too was a real humor gem, i laughed so hard i felt in love with the story.

Oh, I sometimes do that when the story has slow pacing, like the mystery mangas written by Naoki Urasawa. My imagination fills in even more pictures.

Well it depends on the pacing of the story. When you see a couple of punches being exchanged or a martial arts move you don't go musing over the details of the scenery, like if he is consistently drawing the background from different angles while keeping the same details in the same spot. (hint: he was.)

General rule: it's the pile of crap which makes it possible to do art on its top.

I usually hear a variation of that: "it's the crappy jobs that pay the rent" from which it is inferred that you do art on your free time, even if your are an artist.

[darkbutflashy]

In the cartoon they spent so much time doing "oooh"s and "aaah"s that it felt like watching a slow motion climax build up between narcissistic body builders.

You are not alone.

I usually hear a variation of that: "it's the crappy jobs that pay the rent" from which it is inferred that you do art on your free time, even if your are an artist.

That's not what I meant. It's not the individual artist who has this problem but the merchandise industry as a whole. The more art, the less sales, though there are exceptions.