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Caught up on the current (12!) chapters of Ketchup Ninja, I think I can recommend it to anyone who like really crazy stories or anything that pokes fun at stereotypical american culture. I posted a page from it in the last thread but I'll repost it in this nice fresh one:

Also been reading Holyland, if you like fighting (specifically street fighting) and coming-of-age stories you'd probably like it. I really do. It's essentially about "beating depression by learning to beat the shit out of people" but that's really simplifying it.

Currently reading Ketchup Ninja, I can't even describe it. It's so fucking bonkers. Japan bans ninjas, high school girl/ninja moves to the US and enters school there. Only it's completely insane. And kinda entertaining?

And now we can enjoy a subtitled version of this trailer.

Yessss. Features the newer announced characters and some game features. The President makes a stunning appearance. Some glimpses of alternate outfits, too, like Jonathan's striped shirt+ballcap outfit.

1 good first episode and 4 fantastic following it? Yeah I'm feeling pretty great about it. Any scene with Yasaburo and Benten interacting, even if it's completely without words like the fireworks scene last episode, is just really, really good. Benten is an incredibly hard character to figure out. Is she really just selfish? Are her interactions with Yasaburo a game to her? Is there genuine attaction? Definitely looking forward to the rest of this.

He was acting like Eren got killed to see if the titan would react. It worked, since he was thinking that Eren was the FemTitan's goal.

If by "vein" you mean the cyberspace vs realspace themes and such, go for Dennou Coil. It's somewhat lighthearted but is really interesting and is just fantastically animated throughout.

The President of the United States, Funny Valentine, was confirmed and he'll be bringing along his Stand Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (aka D4C). Also confirmed was a non-DLC version of Kira, and fans will know the difference between the two, who is also bringing along Killer Queen but also the cat-turned-plant Stand Stray Cat.

HxH has fights, yes, but they're not always the focus. It has a really well planned out and in-depth power system that doesn't really allow for "power levels", since every character who knows it can use the basics, but their special abilities will be widely different and it will usually come down to who is smarter. And for bad guys, it's a bit more complicated than that. There's no overarching antagonist, some arcs don't even have one. Plus, the main characters are all interesting, even the main-main, who at first glance just looks like your typical shonen protag, but is always entertaining. Naive, but not stupid.

Fix that. HxH is probably the most consistently well written shonen manga and Madhouse started off kinda wonky but by episode 30 or so they have been doing an increasingly better job. And the current arc, which the old anime never animated, is truly one of the best arcs in anything I've read, and MH has been doing a great job adapting it.

RK is great but don't bother watching past like episode 60, just read the manga after that.