What does /a/ think of Manchuria Opium Squad? Has anyone here read it?
>>272346215it's kino
Wish it was more like Breaking Bad desu
good the only negative point that really bothers me is the fact that the team is portrayed as more good than bad when they are opium dealers
>>272346369That is a good point but Breaking Bad did the same with Walter making you cheer him throughout the series even if he's a shitty manipulative drug dealer. I think MOS will go on the same path eventually.
That's on my to read list for maybe two years. I should start it already, historical shit is almost always great.
>>272346215I'll get around to reading it when I finish 15 other manga I still have in my backlog
>>272346215i like the art
>>272346215Rin is very cute!
>>272346215Why isn't this manga more popular?
>>272347540It's a manga that takes place in China, and it being a Seinen does not help it
>>272346215Finally a thread on this manga>>272346369Yea it's the one major flaw with this series, but besides that it's great, a solid 8/10.
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>>272347953stupid pig...
>>272346456What? That’s your bias for Walter showing, Vance did everything he could to make Walter greyer and greyer by the final seasons, sure a portion of the audience may cheer for Walter all the way in but that’s for identifying with him to an extent but Walter was slipping and making bad calls in the end, showing how off the slippery slope he went.
>>272348041Let's be real, in the first 4 seasons Walter was shown as this guy you should cheer for, it was not until the second half of season 5 where that changed.
>>272348119That is the point, if Walter hadn’t gone off his game the audience would be cheering for the drug kingpin, the same thing happened with The Sopranos before all of these amoral main characters in serials started being made, Tony had to descend into a worse criminal and family man by the end otherwise people wouldn’t believe there was any stakes in being gangster.
>>272346215No, but am planning to, looks real good, I love the art.
>>272346215Currently on chapter 11 and it's going strong.
>>272347540Heavy historical subject and more realistic art, during jap occupation too
>>272346215The pacing is too slow. It's been like 150 chapters and they're still small fry in the underworld.
>>272346215I have and it's the most underappreciated modern Seinen. I would love to see some sort of anime of it but seems very unlikely.
>>272348694Extremely touchy subject with Chinese folk, and China became one of the biggest consumers of anime in recent years so there’s no way Japan will greenlit any anime production that can just skip the Chinese market.
>>272348756Yea that's the unfortunate reality. Maybe as a live-action?
>>272349114Hell no.
>>272346369Drug dealing is a victimless crime.Dealing poison and calling it drugs however...
>>272349114I stumbled upon the video series of this a week ago browsing for H games. Looks neet.
>>272346215Idk, i get weird vibes when they assemble their freakshow crew of main characters throughout the story. this kind of fit better with Golden kamuy where them being freaks was acknowledged and was part of the fun.The manga takes itself too seriously while the characters are too childishly written. Gives some tonal dissonance.
>>272349505What's wrong with a goofy main cast in a serious story?
If opium is this powerful, how come everyone uses other drugs?
>>272349779Because other drugs aren't found in machuria during this time.
>>272349505This was kind of my problem too, like I had wondered if even just having a more cartoony art style like GK would help make the tone feel more appropriate
>>272346215I thought the scans were dead which is why I never bothered.Now it seems it's almost on par with the Jap release
I read it like a year ago up until the point where scans stopped. I should pick it up again if I can remember where I left off.
bump
>>272350100Huh? Scans seem pretty dead and far away from the current RAWs still.
>>272350100>>272350218>>272351472Scans have already caught up with the Jap release, just go find and read them. Enjoy!
>>272346215MehIt follows the exact same formula as Dandandan>Shit happens>New teammate save the day then jjoin the team>rinse and repeat
>>272351616Not scans, the official release is up to date. The scans are dead for that reason.
>>272351928just read that
Mainland Chinese ain't ever gonna do a fantrans of this manga and a Taiwan publisher just got the copyright, so I might just buy them (there are also some illegal online versions from the physical/official online versions)
>>272346215peak manga
Where the fuck are people getting scans from? I haven't been able to read this since the scanslations stopped, the official scans werent uploaded anywhere, at least not as of about 6 months to a year ago when I last checked. Maybe there are scans nowAnyway it was good, was kinda mentioned on /a/ for a little while in the beginning for like a month but then never discussable again. Grateful for letting me know of it though.
>>272353828Start sailing the high seas
>>272353945looks like they finally got scanned just past Juneniceit's been so long I'll probably just start over from the beginning
OHHH IS THAT A SEXY WOMAN ON THE COVER BUT HARDLY EVER PRESENT IN THE STORY??? SIGN ME UP FOR MORE OF THAT SLOP
>>272354494?
Hell ya, loved this manga when I read it last year. I gotta catch up on the new chapters.
>>272346215All I know is that it starts by telling you the cool character dies and the lame MC, any not pathetic reader doesn't give two shits about, becomes cool... eventually. No competent writer does that. When you have taste that's all you need to know how good, or in this case mid, a piece of fiction is.
>>272349779>>272349960>If opium is this powerful, how come everyone uses other drugs?Because opium has become regulated and is actually not that powerful compared to modern synthetic opioids like meth, heroine, and morphine. Then there are synthetics which blows those out the water. Fent in particular is super cheap too.Also it's not like alcohol where beer/wine have less alcohol content than say moonshine. You just get fucked up quicker due to higher dose but it's the same formula. With newer opioids it's higher highs, lower lows, massively more addictive, and cheaper to produce.So that's like saying why isn't the model T still popular because any used car made after 00s would be massively better than a model T.
