#Hima-Ten!

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Ah, young love! If your fingers are freezing in this winter cold, perhaps they could warm up by grabbing ahold of one of the romantic stories we’re reviewing in this week’s column, ranging from rom-coms to tragedies. Or if you want to stay away from that mess, you could dive fully into a different kind involving gore and swords. Either way, we’ve got you covered, fam!

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Adults’ Picture Book: New Edition (Vol. 3) • Hima-Ten! (Vol. 1) • Historie (Vol. 1) • I Wanna Do Bad Things with You (Vol. 3) • In a World of Lies, I Fell into an Unforgettable Love • In the Name of the Mermaid Princess (Vol. 4) • Kagurabachi (Vol. 1) • Rainbows After Storms (Vol. 1)

[iamzeon]

Hima-Ten!

[oratokyosaigunda]

Weekly Shonen Jump cover 2024年32号 issue

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Official English translated author comments featured in Weekly Shonen Jump 2024 issue #36/37

Sakamoto Days chapter 177 - Yuto Suzuki

My Hero Academia chapter 430 [END] - Kohei Horikoshi

Kagurabachi chapter 44 - Takeru Hokazono

Me & Roboco chapter 196 - Shuhei Miyazaki

One Piece chapter 1122 - Eiichiro Oda

The Elusive Samurai chapter 167 - Yusei Matsui

Akane-banashi chapter 121 - Yuki Suenaga

Blue Box chapter 160 - Kouji Miura

Jujutsu Kaisen chapter 265 - Gege Akutami

Hima-Ten! chapter 5 - Genki Ono

Witch Watch chapter 166 - Kenta Shinohara

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi chapter 7 - Shoichi Usui

Undead Unluck chapter 217 - Yoshifumi Tozuka

Mission: Yozakura Family chapter 237 - Hitsuji Gondaira

Nue’s Exorcist chapter 61 - Kota Kawae

Super Psychic Policeman Chojo chapter 25 - Shun Numa

Astro Royale chapter 16 - Ken Wakui

Kill Blue chapter 64 - Tadatoshi Fujimaki

Psych House chapter 13 - Omusuke Kobayashi

Kyokuto Necromance chapter 15 - Fusai Naba

Yokai Buster Murakami chapter 8 - Daiki Ihara

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WSJ AUTHORS' COMMENT IN REGARDS OF THE END OF JUJUTSU KAISEN'S SERIALIZATION ⭐

#Thank you, Gege Akutami. Most importantly, thank you again for creating Gojo Satoru.

[wickedsick]

Ichi The Witch wins "best color spread"

Not too sure what to think about the fact that they're introducing the 'God Majik' this early

Sakamoto Days wins "best fight conclusion"

I love this moment from Shin. No-Kill rules are always interesting when they're stretched to their breaking point.

Kagurabachi wins "best moral grayness"

This is evidently setting up the divide between Chihiro and the Kamunabi a bit more, and I really like it.

Undead Unluck wins "biggest reveal"

The idea that this is not the first time Sol and Luna have been erased by their own people is kinda funny to me though. Kings of never learning from their mistakes

Hima-Ten wins "paint by numbers"

This was a very... Standard chapter.

Blue Box wins "funniest relationship progression"

Chinatsu's Dad is a deeply funny character

Ultimate Exorcist Kiyoshi wins "I hate this guy"

This trope always pisses me off. Rest of the chapter was pretty good though

Akane-Banashi wins "best contrast"

This page so elegantly shows the divide between these two and how they perceived each other, I love it.

Yozakura Family wins "best cool down chapter"

I hope they beat Taiyo unconscious for this

Elusive Samurai wins "I don't know what this is but I like it"

This relationship is weird in a really enjoyable way, Matsui truly does it like nobody else

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Toki Reads Shonen Jump 2024, Issue #51

HxH: A Kakin soldier, Borksen, is captured by the Heil-Ly; Morena tries to recruit Borksen through a complicated and clearly rigged card game. Welcome back, Cipher Academy.

Yozakura: Tsubomi tells the twins how they can save Kyoichiro from sacrificing himself; the key is Rei's heart, which is only present because Hifumi previously spared Nii; Momo and Taiyo are freed of Asa's control. Hifumi's kindness is retroactively proven to be objectively correct, trumping any strategy or logic from the rest of the cast

Undead Unluck: Fuuko activates Remember, successfully upgrading the entire cast and allowing Julia to steamroll all of the Master Rules. Seems rushed at first, until you realize that Soul still hasn't been dealt with, and Julia just taught him a new facet to his Rule...

Roboco: Roboco writes her own relationship chart and can't help but ship herself with JJK's Gojo and Blue Box's Taiki. Watching Roboco fall into her delusions in real time is certainly a ride, and I'm really hoping that this chapter spawns a new meme template

Sakamoto: Tenkyu pulls off some sick tricks with his bow; Atari saves Shin with one of the most romantic displays of fate I've seen in Jump outside of UU. After all of that, it's going to be so funny when it turns out that Heisuke is her soulmate

EluSam: Kojiro's cousin, Kojiro, arrives to aid the team, but Uesugi sends Nagao to aid Sadamune. It looks like we're going to wrap up Kojiro's character arc soon, since his family and nemesis are converging

Witch Watch: The flashback continues and we see the rivalry between Moi and Kanshi's dads forming. All of the comments are suspicious of the kappa guy, Taiga, but I don't remember enough of the story so far to understand why

Blue Box: Chinatsu comes clean to her dad about her relationship with Taiki, and he tries to take her way; to compromise and make things easier on Chinatsu, Taiki volunteers to live with her dad in her stead. Chad move, honestly, props to you kid

Akane-Banashi: Issho and Shiguma approach Kiroku Kashiwaya to become his apprentices, but are initially turned away until they make amends with the soba shop owner; they learn of Kiroku's past in the army. I don't fully understand what made Kiroku accept them, but I was certainly touched by their apology scene

Kill Blue: The Butler/Maid Cafe uses underhanded tactics, selling idol merch, wearing cat-ears and sending scummy dudes to harass Noren; Noren awakens a femdom fetish in said dudes. We have yet to establish any real stakes aside from pride in this battle, but at least it's funny

Nue: Gakuro is revealed to have done some extra training off-screen with Hakutaku and manages to beat Rido with his new move, Massacre Gear. Not only is that a bad name for a move inspired by Gakuro's friendships, I truly don't understand what it does or how he acquired it; the presentation of events is sloppy, and the exposition of the power system is coming at an odd time

Kagurabachi: Billy Samura explains his motives to Uruha, claiming that he's going to use the Hishaku to eliminate the Swordbearers and then personally wipe out the less experienced Hishaku once they have the Enchanted Blades; Uruha understands his reasoning, but opposes his methods; as Uruha is killed, Hakuri manages to summon Chihiro. Compelling, but Samura seems kind of shortsighted here, since his plan is to ALLOW THE HISHAKU TO HAVE THE BLADES! They will definitely hurt more innocents before he gets to them!

Chojo: Kirara challenges Lily at the arcade and loses at everything, but they form a friendly rivalry. Every comment I saw agreed they should kiss.

Astro Royale: Kinpa takes a page out of MHA and realizes her invisibility can be used to refract light into a laser. I like that she was able to find an alternate use for her Astro, but it felt really sporadic; at least it suggests that other Astros can be upgraded too

Kiyoshi: On the brink of despair, Kiyoshi remembers Yamada's advice to breathe through his fears and gains the upper hand against Asuta. This definitely looks like an axe, but Asuta could escape OR it could turn out he's not the strongest enemy available afterall

Hima-Ten: On the bus to the school trip, Tenichi and Honoka lose at bingo and are forced to sing bad karaoke, but get to go to a coveted date spot as a consolation prize; Himari gives out lip balm that brings good luck in love, but ends up with one left over for herself. I appreciate that we're not dancing around Honoka's feelings, but if Himari is going to be competition, I wish someone would tell her that

Ichi: Shirabedonna suggests revealing Ichi to the world, but the Silver Snow Witch, Togeice, counters that Ichi needs to be taught proper manners first; Shirabedonna proposes that Togeice and Ichi compete to see who can capture a mushroom Magik first. Most of the comments seem to expect Ichi to lose to force a school arc, but I'm expecting this to show off Ichi's style a bit more

Shinobi Undercover: Hachikuma is revealed to fight with strings; Aoi is weirdly calm and keeps talking about fun upcoming events until she gets knocked out; Yodaka manages to take her back, and the fight intensifies. I assume that Aoi's positivity is her coping mechanism for losing her family, and she's not actually as calm as she appears to be

Hakutaku: Hikuma and Noto convince Zenji to help them make their next game; two months later, Noto very creepily convinces a bunch of kids to download what turns out to be an AR game. Wasn't this...supposed to be about dodgeball...?

Syd Craft: A master detective turns out to just be a savant at observation who just wants to know love; despite constantly finding out his love interests are murderers, Syd never realizes that his plucky assistant, Elio, is actually a girl in disguise or that his rival inspector, Souffle, is actually his childhood friend, both of whom are in love with him. Love the premise on its face, but right away it's another harem manga with no clear leading heroine, so time will tell if it's me or Tsutsui who truly Never Learns

Of everything this week, I'd say that Sakamoto Days was actually my favorite; Tenkyu's bow stunts were very cool, and Atari invoking impossible probability to make a gun out of scrap metal is a fun image that will stick with me for a while

UU would have been my favorite if not for the character moments it unfortunately skims over, most notably Tatiana and Billy's reunion. I still have faith that Tozuka is building up to something great, but that moment at least has been lost

Syd Craft's introduction is a lot of fun, I just hope that Tsutsui actually goes the poly route this time, or at least includes one if he does the multi-ending trick again

Supposedly next week or the week after we're going to be seeing a manga by ONE, Bug Ego, moving in from Young Jump; I don't know if it's going to start over or just pick up where it left off, or even if this is only a temporary move, but I'm worried about whether it will necessitate that something else gets the boot. At the moment it's looking like Kiyoshi, but I really hope not

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Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #61

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

Adele (Die schreckliche Adele)

[booty-uprooter]

she really said

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[studentofetherium]

what did she mean by that

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Prompt Discussion - Tenzo of the Kingdom | Festivals

Ten Days of Tenzo 2023: Day 4 (Nov 4)

Each year, the prompts for Ten Days of Tenzo are open to your interpretation! We enjoy all the TDOT participation, and we wanted to give some ideas for how you could interpret each prompt.

Tenzo of the Kingdom

You might think that this prompt is inspired by a love for Legend of Zelda, and you'd be correct! But there's more to this prompt than Hyrule shenanigans.

This prompt invites ALL the Royal AUs. Imagine a majestic Tenzo as King, Emperor, Frog Prince, Courtier, Royal Heir Recovered, etc. where he's never expected to pick up the lunch tab (it's what he deserves)! Or maybe he's the most trusted knight/warrior in the land charged with the safety of all who dwell within?

If you'd rather skip the shiny armour, Tenzo of the Kingdom could also be a saviour of the people (a la Robin Hood)! Imagine Konoha's biggest helper as the champion of the oppressed, quite at home camping deep within a forest.

And if you, like us, are an LoZ geek, let both your imagination and Tenzo run amok in Hyrule! How would he react to the Great Deku Tree? How would he react to Evermeans? Could he befriend Skull Kid? Is he Team Shiekah, or Team Yiga? Consider: Twilight Tenzo. Would he ninja-sprint to the final battle with Ganondorf, or would he succumb to the distractions of 1000 Korok puzzles? There are so many possibilities for Tenzo of the Kingdom, and we're excited to see how you interpret it!

Festivals

There are several festivals in the Naruto series, from the Quarrel Festival where people fight over Cats/Dogs, to the Rinne Festival where people exchange gifts. What other festivals might Tenzo want to celebrate? The Hidden Leaf Sports Festival? The Festival of the Screaming Trees? The Bring Your Best Helper Festival? DIY your own ninja (or AU) celebration!

Maybe you're drawing from personal experience. If you'd like Tenzo to celebrate the festivals that mean the most to you, go for it. For example, this beautiful depiction of Tenzo celebrating Diwali is just one of several ways to take on a prompt like this. There are tons of ways we can honour the wonderful traditions we may all have and respect their origins!

Maybe, we're thinking about the specific subculture of festivals through art and music. Can you see Tenzo attending Woodstock (no pun intended)? Performing at a music festival? Trying for crisis management at the Land of Fyre Fest? There are so many kinds of events, and we'd love to see where this prompt takes you!

Thank you to everyone who suggested a prompt, and to everyone who enjoys TDOT. These are just a few ideas! Feel free to get creative.

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[iamzeon]

Hima-Ten!

[terminally-twentyeight]

Last Jump Of The Year!!

We've got a hilariously adorable cover page, new franky VA (hello Todo Aoi,) and a bunch of jump festa news. I couldnt even touch the magazine till 5 pm my time, so no reviews, but I'll work on a review of all the series in jump this year, and we'll see if it happens. Thanks for reading Jump with me all this time!

[demifiendrsa]

Weekly Shonen Jump 2024 issue #36/37 cover

[kingofanemptyworld]

nine pages into this manga and I already have just… so many questions

feminist icon everyone

sir your what

…okay so this is just the humor, huh