Manga comparison thread

Originally posted by Q99
Yes, Battle Angel Alita and it's sequel, Battle Angel Alita Last Order. Dystopian future with cyborgs.

The first series takes place in a place called 'the scrapyard,' a town at the base of a floating city that lives off of their trash.

A Doctor-slash-bounty hunter (called Hunter Warriors) discovers a cyborg girl in the scrap heap and repairs her. She turns out to somehow know the ancient Martian martial art, Panzer Kunst. Lots of stuff happens.

Often dark, sometimes gory, but very good.

How long is it?

Originally posted by jalek moye
How long is it?

The original is 9 volumes or so. Last Order is around 16 so far.

Though I will note, for the most part the original series has segmented stories- each volume or two has a complete story, often with a fair amount of time passing in between. So you can just buy one or a few at the start and not be left hanging.

The second, on the other hand, gets to more traditional 'one continuing story' pretty fast.

Btw, the reason there was two series is because the creator was sick and in danger of dying, so the last half of the last volume has a now non-canon rushed end too, as he wanted to finish things off in case he didn't make it. He recovered and made a branch point, with the original now being a fun what-if.

Question time.

Who is the ugliest character in the HST? Rank an overall, and for each series.

Overall: Big Mom

Naruto: Onoki

Bleach: Charlotte Cuulhorn (I'm so mean)

One Piece: Catarina Devon

Editing loser...will think on it.

She's ****ing grotesque, lol.

Originally posted by NemeBro
Who is the ugliest character in the HST? Rank an overall, and for each series.

Is it the make-up?

Lesse....

Naruto: Fuguki since he's been colored.

Bleach: Aaroniro is two ugly heads so him.

One Piece: Pierre

Overall: Ivankov!

Madara's picks!

Overall: Usopp

Naruto: Tenten

Bleach: Chad.

One Piece: Hodi.

No Bleach?

I'm still laughing over this week's Naruto chapter. So no.

This week:
1) Naruto
2) Fairy Tail
3) One Piece

All pretty good, though, and next week's OP looks to be awesome.

I've shifted to doing the previous FT in the rankings, rather than updating when FT comes out several days later.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
I'm still laughing over this week's Naruto chapter. So no.

Was doing the haermm face the whole time.

Is it just me or has Kubo been taking a lot of breaks lately?

But Naruto is no.#1 hands down this week.

I'm pretty sure Kubo has no idea what the **** he's doing, at this point.

Hmmm....

Name the best "OMGWTF Moments" in the HST.

One Piece: Ace's Death
Naruto: Sasuke surviving C0
Bleach: Ichigo coming back from the dead?

Originally posted by wakkawakkawakka
One Piece: Ace's Death
Naruto: Sasuke surviving C0
Bleach: Ichigo coming back from the dead?

I meant the good kind. One Piece was a good choice, the other two are more "OMGTHISMANGAISSTUPID!" type.

Replace Bleach with either Aizen stabbing Momo and revealing himself as the villain or Hitsugaya stabbing Momo imo. Other than that, yep.

Edit: Urg, fine.

One Piece: Ace dies.
Naruto: Tobi is Madara.
Bleach: Aizen stabs Momo.

Oh.....welll um let's try again

Bleach: Ichigo's first time using Bankai
Naruto: Sakura smashing the 3rd Kazekage puppet.

One Piece: Ace dies(obviously)
Bleach: Aizen stabs momo(might be the best overall)
Naruto: The 6th Coffin's body is revealed.