Monkey peak is fun so far, i'm a fan of survival stories, especially ones with a focus on how characters interact with eachother and having their own little personalities. Stuff like how far a human being can push themselves emotionally and how far they are willing to go to survive.
Can't really say that the monkeys are "scary" but they have an interesting presence and i like the mythological background, along with them being like silent serial killer ripoff like Michael Myers, being that of an overpowering evil presince, hell it literally could be a dude wearing a mask since they don't really show the mouth moving. I mean the idea of an evil serial killer monkey is retarded but overall it does add some flavor and some mystery.
Actual horror manga that did the disturbing scenes well? Gannibal.
It was super fucking subtle, and psychological. They didn't go all out with gore (atleast not from the 120 chapters i've read so far) and the manga just builds up this very uncomfortable feeling, especially in every single character. I would have liked to see how it ended.

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probably my favorite manga is "jisatsu circle". it's loosely based on the movie of the same name, aka "suicide club", but the manga has a different story and is much darker. it's a one off, so it doesn't overstay it's welcome, but so much happens in the one volume it has. it starts the same way as the movie, with dozens school girls jumping in front of a train, but one girl survives. these girls were a part of a club at school that glorified suicide and self harm. the club has one leader who is called mitsuko, but that's her title not her name, and when the club dies the girl who survives becomes the next mitsuko and starts the club again. I don't want to get too into spoiler territory but there's gore, suicide, self harm, sexual exploitation, and even though my friend who read it said she saw the ending coming from a mile away it was a shock to me and the moment I read the last few pages I was in awe. highly recommended if you like dark manga.

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I'm going to have to re-read it a couple of times. Not because it's a bad story, it's an actual work of art and a masterpiece. It's rich, very dense so i think a couple of things flew over my head. I thought the symbolism with the photoshop of "mitsuko" was interesting. Really makes you think of the nature of "sacrifice".

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How would the cat know?

To me the suicide club seems like a type of strange social contagion, like those tik-tokkers doing retarded shit or those people who ate dry cinnamon.
After reading the note section in the back it left me thinking, what did he mean by psudo-religious groups? i guess i can only think of american ones, but i don't think i heard of japanese ones besides Happy Science.

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Did anyone watch the TV show that aired in japan? It was somewhat lighter then the movie and the manga but still pretty funny.

The anime is crude and irreverent, but honestly, the OVA, as a metaphorical grieving of the author's suicide, is truly notable in that regard.
It'd be kind of hard to acknowledge the series as a whole without bringing it up. The series seemed short-lived anyways... It's all just really unfortunate and depressing so I can't watch any nekojiru stuff without that being in the back of my mind.

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found a sound mad of nekojiru there's also a bunch of other mads
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm14932364 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30921199 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm15797495 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm12685741 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6307646 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm325431 [Play]
https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm431923 [Play]
you can also watch a bunch of the episodes with english sub on there
https://www.nicovideo.jp/search/ねこぢる劇場

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This, but with those mormons who knock at your door.

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I also find it funny that this is the only time that the father took action, instead of spending his time bingedrinking as usual.

The manga is presented in chronological order while the anime is split up and kinda randomized. something interesting i noticed is a scene in the manga where Osaka is wearing an Ultraman mask. Also, sometimes cats are rendered in hyper-realistic fashion which in the anime cats are cartoony 100% of the time. Another thing is osaka speaking French to tadakichi the only word she knew tho was "please"

i finished reading azu, it felt like there was more content there then the anime. not to say the anime was bad but it just was longer. id recommend the manga. there was roughly four extra azu related mangas, made to celebrate the anniversary of the series. one was basically a bonus story, another was a fan anthology of short azu stories made by diffrent authors, there was a second fan thing and another was a crossover with fist of the north star.

I really enjoyed the bizare dream like quality azumanga goes into like reality and fiction blends into this altered state of some type. It's made me obsessed with finding anime/manga that blurs the line of reality although ive found nothing yet besides one manga so far but it was a horror manga and not a comedy like azu

The title Raspberry heaven implies that there is an opposite, A Hell. but if thats the case what would the title be? What's the opposite of a raspberry?

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Is anyone aware that OSAKA IS BACK
I personally had no clue that yotsuba was still an ongoing series.

damn thats crazy

I was watching one piece and it turns out cats are addicted to kiwis because they belong to the same family as catnip.

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can you post the clip?

>>500
Actually for whatever reason i can't. You would think it would be on youtube but all that's availible is several short vids of luffy eating a kiwi. In episode 214 the anime exclusive character Chiqicheetah, at first starts sniffing luffy because early on in thd ark he had eaten several long kiwis, and during a roller skating race they realised that chiqicheetah is a cheetah-man so they fell the long kiwi tree to distract him. Sanji, the manager of the straw hat roller derby figured out that kiwis have been known to be related to silver vine, which is used in asia as a catnip alternative which is why the cheetah man was sniffing luffy and behaving weird.

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From a manga i'm reading called "monkey peak"

I was reading the seinen manga adaption of the train man manga, it's pretty cute.

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Manga suggestion: All you need is kill
I found it while browsing one of those websites that hosts mangas, i had been browsing under the mature tag, and after spotting i was like "eh, why not?" thinking it would be some throwaway story, not realising that i had found a real classic. It's funny too because i didn't know that the light novel that had been adapted into this manga, was later used as a basis for the fucking movie with Tom cruse, Edge of tomorrow. But no doubt the manga is fucking good.

some stuff I have enjoyed to the point of finish them:
Boys on the Run
The Mermaid Princess's Guilty Meal
Rokudō no Akujo-tachi
Spider-Man / Itsuwari no Aka

>>86
Mada Ikiteru

Mushishi is really good, infact its everything i ever really wanted out of a comicbook or manga. There's little facts in the story that interest me, like how the boy brings things to life with his left hand, and the left hand has been generally known to be "evil".
Also the japanese word for pillow is super interesting.

Manga suggestion,
Ori no Naka no Soloist or, Soloist in a Cage.
A short and sweet manga, like a less shit version of "promised neverland", great art too, it's really a hidden gem.

Kind of unrelated, but when I'm listening to music I'm feeling luke warm on, I tend to imagine it in the context of an anime op or ed and it usually helps to make me appreciate it more...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDWuip1k5o [Play]
This is probably my favorite op. It works for me since I mostly listen to instrumentals.

I like the full versions of these songs but I will keep them to their Anime OP / ED cuts for the sake of staying in-line with the thread.

>F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu OP - The Meaning of Truth
https://youtu.be/rKXIzkHARjo [Play]

>Rose of Versailles OP - Roses Fall in Beauty
https://youtu.be/eJIeJIqw-J0?t=7 [Play]
https://youtu.be/_yrC46t4Kc0 [Play]

>Rose of Versailles ED - You are the Light, I am the Shadow
https://youtu.be/LFHK2a0t6Gg [Play]

>Hunter x Hunter - Hunting for your Dream
https://youtu.be/tK-d2LJlaaQ [Play]

>Samurai Champloo ED - Shiki no Uta
https://youtu.be/mQAfG3DgG7M [Play]

Another anon posted about Pegasus Fantasy so I'll leave that be. Instead I will add...
>Hokuto no Ken OP - You wa Shock!
https://youtu.be/JKk6hHU0iUs [Play]

In the West, there are a lot of other series that were popularized during their runs on Cartoon Network / Adult Swim. Champloo is such an example, though others also include Full Metal Alchemist, Inuyasha, and others.

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Nothing beats the Excel Saga OP

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Got reintroduced to anime earlier this year by a good friend of mine. I'm unbelievably late to the game, but I can't stop playing this song on repeat.

Let Me Be With You - ROUND TABLE ft. Nino

Chobits op

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This is so awesome.

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>>351
I like the usage of humor, Its not distracting at all from the story. I like the mystery behind the main character, How they tease Kenshin's history with some characters and his place in history with the ushering of the meiji era of japan. He's lone wanderer type but quite compassionate. It's nice.

It seems like a common theme for the three chapters i've is for past actions, well intended or otherwise to come back and haunt you.
Kenshin was right in a way that kamiya should have payed attention to the people that was being taught and to watch for retards who might use what they learned for terrible reasons, Even people who seem honest take advantage of her like the old man who wanted to sell the dojo.
It was interesting to see discussions of swords like if they where modern day guns insofar you can't even carry one without getting arrested even though you are kind of safer with one, then without.
I'm assuming eventually someone from kenshins past is going to raise some hell or someone is going to come for kenshin assuming that with his death, the old era will close finally so that a new one can be ushered in but there hasn't been any hints of that yet.

Such a fucked situation, they labeled the sekiho army as frauds because the government couldn't afford the tax reform after the war and they they decided that they could pretend they never offered anything in the first place, besides the army, they wiped out anyone who even knew of the promise in the first place. No wonder Sagara was pissed.

https://japanesegallery.com/anime_and_manga/blog-page/anime-manga/historical-elements-in-rurouni-kenshin.html