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I never thought I'd every say this, but both Naruto and Bleach have been AWESOME for the past few chapters. I actually find myself waiting for the new chapters to be released. \ Hopefully they can keep it up.

LOL! :lol: And both Naruto and Bleach are worth reading again, what a miracle! [hide=Image][/hide]

[hide="Berserk" - Definite Spoilers]I've read most of the manga, and only seen parts of the anime. Guts and Caska do survive, but Caska has a mental breakdown after being raped by Griffith during his ascension to becoming the fifth God Hand, Femto. I think she recovers sometime after volume 25, which is as far as I've gotten. They were both saved by Skull Knight who's rumored to be a king from a thousand years previous in history (he consumes each behelit he finds, somehow making him more powerful against the God Hand). The Band of the Hawk is absolutely obliterated except for Pippin, who wasn't around when it happened. Pippin and Caska stay with a hermit/blacksmith Guts met sometime previously; this is also where Guts gets all his tricked out demonslayer gear like his mechanical hand/cannon and a new six/seven foot sword. Then he leaves to go slay demons. Because there's an old elf home (abandoned) nearby to the blacksmith's cottage, Caska can stay there and her mark won't attract demons. Later, Kentaro Miura introduces a brand of crusader knights which is apparently closely related to the Roman Catholic Church. Guts has a run in with them and their hunt to exterminate the upheaval of demonic activity and witchcraft in the Middle Kingdom. Caska also gets involved, and at some point Griffith returns disguised in his old form to gather new followers and conquer the world. That's the center concept of the manga as far as I've gotten in it. Guts picks up quite a few companions along the way, so about where I am now they've got a group of 6-8 people traipsing around slaying demons. The original arc (volumes 1-13) were the best IMO, but the rest isn't too bad either.[/hide]

Alexander Anderson (from Hellsing) is the most badass character EVER! :thumbup:

Code: Geass is more philosophical than you think. No it isn't. :roll: At least that's IMO. At the same time, Azvareth has said the same about Elfen Lied, so I guess it's all up to the individual.

Randomly read a chapter of the Trinity Blood manga. I really like the style, might go back and start from the beginning. Looks very hardcore compared to the anime, which wasn't all that bad itself.

I really don't see what's surprising about this. It's just a bunch of guys in suits pretending to make informed decisions like they've been bred to do from the campaigning cradle. :geek: Have to run, might drop by later to make a more detailed post.

I was really impressed by Elfen Lied. I just failed to mention all the naked girls when I wrote an essay on it in high school. =D> There's a decent level of depth to it if you know where to look for it. PS: Lain and Texhnolyze beat the crap out of it though.

Three Pains down and three to go and he hasn't even tapped the Fox's chakra yet. \

I didn't think Tsunade was dead yet, unless I missed something. :? She retiring?

Naruto was never badass... The last two chapters have been seriously impressive imo. I hope they can keep it up, I'm liking it. =D> Pain is going down! PS: I'm filling in the gaps now, really not much of an idea what's happened since the end of the anime. And Kakashi had a shot at being Tsunade's replacement as Hokage? That'd have been an interesting twist if it'd played out (not worried about mentioning that because it's not really a spoiler).

I entirely don't get the CG fanaticism. The manga was kind of entertaining but the anime was not at all compelling. :? Haven't read the manga much recently either, guess it's just not what I'm interested in. I've read it as well; I thought it looked kind of familiar, then found out it's done by the same team who did Eureka 7. \ I like Wonderland more though, except somehow they totally killed the mood with the Scar Chain organization. I don't even know how they did it, but the crazy guitar monk is making things interesting again. You might want to look into Doubt as well; kind of a classic psycho-thriller that can get a little cheesy, but trying to figure out which one was the psychotic maniac kept me reading. :geek: Fantastic artwork as well, very dark/gory/highschoolaxemurderish. [hide=][/hide] You should pick up Texhnolyze sometime, Yosh-toshi ABe was in on it as well (he did quite a bit of work on both Renmei and SEL). I actually registered on Paypal and Ebay specifically for this purpose: won an auction and got both SEL and Texhnolyze complete sets last week. They pwn. The first half is more serious/realistic, the second half when they go to the surface totally makes up for the previous lack of surrealism though. :thumbup: I've tried to find NieA 7, but so far no luck. Added to BLAME! I think I know have the beginning of a respectable anime/manga collection tbh. Two mangas I've found recently worth recommending are by Tsutomu Takahashi: Alive! and Sidooh (first completed, second ongoing). Alive! is about a death-row inmate saved from execution for use in a scientific experiment involving a paranormal phenomena; 10 chapter thriller. Sidooh is about two brothers in 1858 Japan who are trying to become samurai and fight against westernization. Brilliant characters, huge body count. #-o Gentaro Yukimura is just badass. [hide=][/hide] PS: Also found out Tsutomu Nihei used to be Tsutomu Takahashi's assistant; I can't imagine them both working on a single project, that'd just be too much awesomeness. :-# Also getting Hellsing out again from Netflix; loved it before, but the better quality makes it come across so much better tbh.

GitS was exceptional. :thumbsup: I haven't read the manga yet but I hear it's also very good.

Are you kidding? The soul society arc was the highlight of the series. :thumbup: After that it got pretty crappy, but the manga is still good (IMO). A friend of my mothers got me Ranma 1/2 (episodes 138-161) for Christmas this year, gave them to my sister. :?

Well, yes. But that's far from making it a sequel. :thumbup: