Daily Manga Thoughts

[randomredneck]

DMT: Yay, finally got to the chapter where Thorkell shows up. And double yay, he's awesome.

[signorRossi]

Originally Posted by randomredneck

DMT: Yay, finally got to the chapter where Thorkell shows up. And double yay, he's awesome.

And the best thing is that he will show up again in the chapters that are to come soon...

[BrainBlow]

DMT: I am a Hero appears to have an anti-hero now. A weirdly cool one.
Emphasis on weird.
But anybody that good at dual wielding a Kukiri and machete in this series is instantaneously awesome.

So far it seems to be a separate storyline though.

[Aranneas]

that's a strange combo. why not just use a pair of kukri?

[BrainBlow]

Originally Posted by Aranneas

that's a strange combo. why not just use a pair of kukri?

Probably because when you're in Japan, you can't be too picky about what weapons you want when you actually find some.
At least I think one of knives is a machete. "fucking big straight knife" isn't exactly a good description.
Ah, my mistake. One of his buddies took the Kukiri.

Still, awesome dual-wielding.
Not sure if this guy is supposed to be stupid, insane, or a portion of both.
But he's clearly capable.
Come to think of it, I think we saw him at some point earlier in the story. Some viral video on the web, which means he should be the most capable guy in the world.

[DontStay]

Occasionally I think about getting a tablet. Mainly for manga or some random crap reading. Been in stores and twice almost got one.. but then I can't decide what size I want.
9-10~ seems too big, but then 7 feels small.. the hell is wrong with me? lol Maybe I don't want the thing at all.

[randomredneck]

DMT: That awesome feeling of catching up on a current manga...then realizing you caught up and have to wait for new chapters.

[signorRossi]

Originally Posted by DontStay

Occasionally I think about getting a tablet. Mainly for manga or some random crap reading. Been in stores and twice almost got one.. but then I can't decide what size I want.
9-10~ seems too big, but then 7 feels small.. the hell is wrong with me? lol Maybe I don't want the thing at all.

9-10 or 7 inch is less important than 4:3 or 16:9 to consider imo; from my experience a rooted Apple iPad2 works quite well with the cloudreaders app, plays tons of video formats with XBMC for iOS (even some light 1080p encodes, just not 10bit, but more than any Tegra3 quad-core tablet) and battery life is fantastic (it doesn't drain the battery on standby with wi-fi on like my brothers Asus Transformer does). And I have to say this while not being an Apple fan at all, damn...

[DontStay]

I prefer 16:9, wide screen kinda feels like it's the way to go and is more convenient, for reading that is. Been looking at Nexus 7 or the new Sony Xperia tablet S, maybe this year something good will come out.

[signorRossi]

Isn't 4:3 closer to the format most printed manga comes in? But I think I would have to do some measurements myself to verify this assumption. And I actually hold my iPad with the shorter side up when reading manga.
As for something I have noticed in actual use: 16:9 with a resolution of 1280x720 isn't really that superior to 4:3 with a resolution of 1024x768.