Young Magazine released a special issue a few days ago that contained 16 oneshots. All of them are a part of a vote with the top 5 getting serialized as a reward.I'm going to dump every one of them, in case anyone wants to read them or wants to vote on which one they want to see expanded.Starting with my favorite.
I enjoyed the author's previous work. Shame it got cut short so I hope this one gets given the green light.
>>281917682Nice, thanks for dumping them
>>281917940Ah it's the far east chimera-mangaka. Agreed, it was a bit generic/rough but had it's moments. Also, just learned that he's only 25!
>>281918768You're welcome!
>>281918842I'm liking how this one focuses more on the mundane in a fantasy world. It's something I liked in Far East Chimera whenever it appeared. While the action was fine, the coziness of the world was what I liked the most.
Op are you just posting these manually? I recommend you install appchanX or similar (and get a pass)
>>281917750looking at the eyes, I assume it's by the same guy that did the Chimera smth manga?
>>281919889I'm using 4chanXT
>>281919913Yep, he's that one.
And that was The Journey of a Dark Elf with Fading Powers by Daisuke Itabashi!So what did you think?You can vote for it here if you liked it: https://young-magazine-usa.com/Just to mention, you can vote once per day. So you vote for the same series or multiple ones.See you tomorrow for the next one, GOUMA: The Blade that Slaughters Gods
>>281920373she qt
Actually better than Frieren
>>281921502I felt so after reading Saigo no Elf intro too
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>>281920115I want more of this resourceful elf!
>>281921559>Saigo no ElfJust looked it up,The start and the action felt a bit too convenient, then again, compared to Freiren that's at least inspired.
>>281918505bwaaa
>>281922908I mean, the character concept/gimmick is similar in both. Saigo no Elf has more enganing/interesting world concept (at the very least it's not a Dragon Quest reference: The World settings).
That was an pleasant read. Having no shonen powerlevel bs definitely helps. I hope it keeps the focus on the world and characters
>>281917682>you thought it was Frieren the slayer,>>281917700>but it was me, Thistle the brown twink!
>>281918505GOAT manga
>>281919108Oh yeah, its dungeon meshi-ing time
>>281917682cute, thanks
>>281917682>mfw americans have to vote to serialize this, picrel or actual transshit I forgot the name ofwhat are the suits at yanmga HQ even thinking?>>281920188>>281920115too gipsy. I miss chimeratica>>281920373>The top 5 titleswill be serialized on K MANGA!aww, I thought we were finally getting quality NTR in the west
>>281923953I'm inclined for notSissren but feels wrong when I didn't check the other candidates.
>>281917682>Frieren but black
>>281917682looked ht e other stuff and man there is like 3-4 worthy to make it counting with this, what a load of garbage
>>281918553Those hands look old compared to the youthful face.
>>281927006It's just detail, shading. Drawing them makes hands look older, although it is realistic, because hands do look more wrinkly and so compared to other skin. They do look older, but we tend to filter it out when seeing them IRL, drawing them realistically tends to expose it tho.
>>281918598>stop lewding elves
>>281920333she could always sell her body
>>281927166When there are pages like >>281919761 ?
>>281917682Neat.
>>281923953That they're getting a known audience? The editor of the fashion one explicitly said that they got a ton of support from Americans for the previous series
>>281917682The character design here reminds me a bit of Witch Hat Atelier
>>281921502This is too wordy of an introduction for supposedly a SoL in a school setting, risks of even more words down the line, and narrating feels is not the best way to do things, feels forced. Like it or not, Frieren's start was very good.
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>>281920373Thank you for sharing OP. It was nice.
>>281920373Thanks OP. I enjoyed the read. Their hands really bother me though.
>>281934863Old lady hands. Plz understand, she has no money to buy cream.
>>281932441nice
Taking tea with dark elves
>>281939540in all holes
>>281931307Since when are sophisticated introduction bad? Or words AND good art bad?I know we live in the era where everyone has the attention span of a goldfish but still, I'm worried about you.>Like it or not, Frieren's start was very good.It was literally just twists about absolutely generic fantasy tropes like following the immortal "after the demon lord killing", sealing the evil boss until he is no longer a big deal, mimic chest...etcIt should have been a series of disconnected jokes about fantasy tropes, instead of a slog pretending to be more than that.
We could use more dark elves main characters, evil or not.
>>281942318Dark elves are usually good in anime.
>>281941504Calm down, nigga. No one said anything about art, and many words don't equate to sophistication. I'd say being so high strung that you jump straight to making psycho analysis assumption and borderline name calling a bigger plague on discussion than anything else these days>It was literally just twists about absolutely generic fantasy tropes lNothing wrong about this, this one shot is looking like it will pull from the same. Frieren's first chapter managed to establish much more of the setting, the feels and the integral theme of the main character through other characters she interacts with. Meanwhile, here is a dark elf that's just being waku waku at everything and narrates on her own how she does manual labor now. You can't even really expect what would happen next because the whole teaching thing is so far removed from what she's about, it basically lacks a proper conclusion.The difference in execution is not even funny.Yeah, Frieren greatly degraded the longer it went on, but you're genuine enough to not let that influence your judgement, right?
>>281917682The cover here made me think of Witch Hat Atelier. That is a compliment.
>>281942819It's really Frieren at home
>>281942819How's Atelier going? I stopped reading when I caught up, when the girls get in that magic labyrinth, waiting to pile up chapters. Tho I fear it turning turbo homo
>>281943226God awful pacing and very homo/woman writing
GOUMA: The Blade that Slaughters GodsBy Hiroki Ishizawa (Kokuma Musou)
I'm going to dump this in a 2 pages format since it's easier to understand some of the choreography like that.
Also, I had to resize the pages and turn them into jpg in order get under the file size limit. So I suggest you read it from the official site if you want to see how beautiful the artwork really is
>>281943463>>281943509Why didn't you make a new thread?!
>>281943728I don't see the harm in reusing this one as long as it's still alive
>>281943358Bah I'll wait more then. I don't mind gay characters as in "hello this is my boyfriend ok let's keep plotting against the bad guy" but I dislike the "woe is me I'm so discriminated" type of plotlines
>>281943728Thread is already up. No need to make a new one.
>>281944125Well, that's gross. The art's excellent though.
>>281943960Because people nobody is going to guess that there's two manga's here. The second one will be ignored.
>>281920373Love the expressive artstyle and paneling, conveys movement nicely. Eyes remind me of late 80's style, somewhat like Touge Oni does. Getting some light Drifting Dragons vibes from backgrounds as well.I'll have to read that Far East Chimera mentioned by others in the thread.
And that was GOUMA: The Blade that Slaughters the Gods by Hiroki Ishizawa.Action packed story this time.Don't forget to vote if you liked it: https://young-magazine-usa.com/And again, each day you can vote once.See you tomorrow for the next one, Is My Love Strange?
>>281943226It had a very sluggish arc dealing with too many plot threads at once, but we just finished with that and got a bunch of Quifrey suffering and Punished Coco.
>>281917700Gotta love the obligatory ear closeup
>>281942801Glad to see you explain yourself in more detail and nuance but>so high strung that you jump straight to making psycho analysis assumptionAre you the same anon saying>too wordy>risks of even more wordsThen jumping straight to personal attack, Mr."nigga"?Even taken as sarcasm, I have all the reason to calmly and rationally be worried about considering that one-shot "wordy" by any average.>Nothing wrong about thisIf you believed I was implying Frieren start was bad, maybe you are the one overreacting as if I insulted your waifu.I specifically said right after that it should have continued to be a succession of joke & twists, justifying or subverting the generic fantasy instead of turning into (the bad kind) of generic fantasy by pretending it has a setting worth explaining.Compare that with say, Franken Fran, episodic around a theme.Or Drifting dragon.I'm not expecting more from a one-shot named "The Journey of a Dark Elf with Fading Powers" than I did from "Frieren: Beyond Journey's End".Still, the intro setup all you need to know:- a dark elf who knew the peak of magic, so she isn't talking out of her ass- she clearly learned to enjoy the simple things in life,- build up for the twist that no longer have power- and her world is created for mages where even sheep can be giant and territorial, so she's more akin to a disabled person now- plus a token quirkMaybe it will fall flat, but the Dark elf is objectively a less generic start than "what happen to the elf of the demon killing party".You did say there was a risk of more words
>>281945195I was reading through a few of the other oneshots yesterday and just noticed it looks like the page scrambles the order of them in the list each refresh. I guess it's to try and avoid biasing people to only read the first few or something.
>>281945539Holy based
Is it just me or are we entering the zeitgeist of elf protagonists who are not isekai?
>>281917682>author of Kyokutou ChimeraticaI liked that one. Hope he gets another go at it.
>Far East Chimeraoh shit, they really axed it? fuck
>>281944941They should just read the threads like they're expected to
>>281945516#Let me rephrase since my wording was admittedly not good and didn't carry what I meant across well.I don't like that the 2 characters directly introduce everything in what I feel is a very forced manner, not the actual word count. I was not feeling engaged as I was spoonfed information on the setting and the characters in unnaturally direct to the reader's mind dialogues that are closer to narration boxes than 2 people talking to each other."Nigga" is not a personal attack. I do not know if you are black, I did not use the r, and it pertains no further to my points in any way. Sass and banter should be taken merely as that. This>I know we live in the era where everyone has the attention span of a goldfish but still, I'm worried about you.However, is loaded with presumptions after an inadequate response to my "wordy". Very unhealthy.>If you believed I was implying Frieren start was bad, maybe you are the one overreacting as if I insulted your waifu.If you did not then your reply was simply an disjointed mess since I was talking about Frieren's start, yet you rebut with something irrelevant. It is reasonable to assume a correlation was meant to have been conveyed, thus the implication that Frieren's start was bad there.>as if I insulted your waifuAnd I quite clearly implied I don't put Frieren as a whole on high regards as "Frieren greatly degraded the longer it went on", but you're just so eager with your unfounded presumptions, aren't you?>the Dark elf is objectively a less generic start than "what happen to the elf of the demon killing party"I won't bother writing more to rebute your opinions. Let's just say there's no possibility of me agreeing with this assessment, nor the depths you've attributed to the one shot in comparison to the execution of Frieren's Ch.1. And let's not forget the failings (yes, I'll call it that) of the one shot to properly conclude on the premise for further anticipation with how the teaching gig was included.
>>281943546Yasuke?!
>>281946573Looks like it isn't, but that's where my thoughts went too.
>>281946445Yeah, and they sure aren't going to expect two different manga's from a thread called "Dark Elf's Journey"
>>281943890That's how you know we MMO
>>281943509Art has that Sakamoto/Boichi style of shading and dithering.
>>281945195This one's pretty good. Not my taste, but simple and straightforward for its intended audience.
>>281945195The art was nice, but something about it didn't really feel charismatic.
>>281946502I appreciate your rephrasing and can actually agree with you that it isn't praise-worthy organic, clearly building up the main twist with a rather heavy-handed cutesy way. That said, even manga I respect deeply like Drifting Dragon have to resort to heavy-handed intro to set the tone, and expect their reader to overlook it.To me the comparison over Frieren's sales pitch remain favorable. The only difference really is that Frieren played the "I'm old/mysterious/silent" card, letting us imagine the "depth" of her setting.>However, is loaded with presumptions after an inadequate response to my "wordy". Very unhealthy.I'll concede I should have left room for more sarcasm (Poe's law), taking your original post >>281931307 less literally.Just like it seems my own gib about your alleged waifu, was taken too seriously.>And I quite clearly implied I don't put Frieren as a whole on high regards as "Frieren greatly degraded the longer it went on"Sorry but I DO hear the exact sort of reasoning from actual fanboys, overselling many (imagined) qualities they saw in its start, worded like a deflect as if to not admit said start was any bit as generic.>I won't bother writing more to rebute your opinions.I honestly have enough respect for your answer to not see that as a loser copeout claiming victory.And consider the Dark Elf journey as capable of letting me down (despite expecting nothing) as Frieren, regardless of head start.
awaiting the Into the Dark thread. i have high hopes for that one
>>281948766For me it's The Graveyard Shift.
Having read through all of the one shots, this is about where they fall for me:Great:The Graveyard ShiftTo Dusk and TwilightThe Journey of a Dark Elf With Fading PowersGouma: The Blade that Slaughters GodsFasciationOkay:KikikaikaiThe Knight of BlasphemyProject MetalliaStill YouMeh:Boys Run the Riot: In TransitionProtocol RyuguThe Last TerranInto the DarkGodmotherPregnantGarbage:Is My Love Strange?
>>281945195Thank you for posting.
>Frierenslop
>>281952267Is that what they're calling this now?
elves: good
>>281917700Love the ears.With they were just a little fatter, though
>>281919142What kind of shitty magic system doesn't let you cook a meal?
>>281919761breasts
>>281943463That title is soooo fucking edgy
>>281945195Eh, I didn't really feel it. A good action setpiece, I guess.
>>281917682Nice, I got a physical version of that issue at ANYC. Only halfway through reading it
>>281945195Thanks for dumping!
