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With no cliffhanger and this scene, I thought for a second that this was the end of the whole story... a *very* rushed one, but nice enough to not hang in mid-air.
I hope they will keep up their...

You can't blame Miyoshi for getting it wrong. To her it must have been like finding a love letter, and when you find out your boyfriend/girlfriend has had a secret of this kind from you, you...

Wow. That was so way back and by now hardly more than a cameo that I completely forgot about her and actually had to look her up.

Aoki, Miyoshi, and who did I miss?

There is no more trust between Ashirogi and Miura. You can't work with someone when you are not trusting each other, so he should resign as their editor. It would be for the best if Hattori got them...

Well, someone here asked for it specifically ;-)

Medaka should appoint her as vice-president. She wanted someone who would stand up to her, and the judo captain was indeed an antagonist who wasn't...

Of course not, having them fail just to satisfy his personal preferences would cost him his head - IIRC he's never had someone with a real hit, so he'd better be desperate about having them succeed....

I think so too. I think "Ore Futari" is about a man who has the memory of another person inside his cyberbrain or something like that.

Readers would probably recognize the style after reading half a year's worth (if I'm not mistaken) of Trap...

"Ore Futari" is going to be sci-fi, not a romance, so I think instead of "Us Two", it could also mean "Me, two people" as in "I am two people". But judging from the titles, I like "Future Watch",...

Wow, there's really a lot happening... I didn't completely understand the last part, but it looks like there will be the usual horse trading not unlike when Mashiro was hospitalized. "If A happens,...

I can picture the meeting between the mangaka and the editor:

M: MB's popularity is going down, I'm came in 16th in the last polls, what should I do?
E: Make it into a battle manga!

I, too,...

And I can say, with good conscience because it's in some prediction thread here: I told you so :p

To be honest, I didn't like Trap to begin with.

EDIT: Here it is:...

The chief editor looks like such a nice guy in reality, totally unlike the Bakuman rendition.
But that SQ guy really looks exactly like in the new year's party chapter, I could have recognized him...

If Azuki wanted Mashiro to say he didn't like it, she shouldn't have written "LOL" each time suggesting that it was okay with her! He would have gotten the point, even if only subconsciously....

Sounds like what they said in Bakuman is a suggestion any mangaka gets when the results from the questionnaires drop: "Make it more battle-ish!" Which suits the time frame since it's chapter 4...

Yep. the mangaka saw the danger of repetitive one-shot stories and took a different route right off the bat. Chapter 1 as a redo from the one-shot, chapter 2 as a slight variation but keeping the...

I'm sorry, I didn't know it was that strict, I thought just hinting at the subject without giving anything else away was okay, because the way I worded it it could still be anything...
I edited it...

It's not entirely clear to me because it's out of context, but it's along the lines of, "That reaction is so abnormal, I take it back!" (probably the reaction when she invites him to her room) and "I...

Heh, so Aoki IS capable of expressions other than scorn or boredom ;)

Indeed a nice chapter, and an early change from the expected Medaka-makes-the-evildoers-suffer-and-thus-reforms-them routine.

I only did a quick on-the-fly translation just for others to be able to read it, sorry... Well, at least it's not Babelfish... :D

While true, I know of a few cases of worn-out wrists that had to be treated medically. Not really healthy despite all advertisements...


Makes sense, though I believe that the longer you stick...

As I remember it, the story was crap and not understandable, while the drawings were fine. With a decent storywriter and more time (read: better time management) he could pull off something nice.

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Translation of the above:

Directly after the serialization conference, Aoki and Aita meet. "I want more shounen magazine elements." - "What does that mean?" - "Battles, for example." - "You mean...

Kind of like "Otaku Emperor's new Clothes" ;-)

There were others? I looked through the chapter again, but what do you mean? :blink

Not going to happen. Fukuda can draw well enough by himself, the same goes for Nakai, and their tastes in stories seem to differ too much. Moreover, one's drawing style would not go well with the...

Oops.
Sorry, I had forgotten that detail, you are right.

As somebody mentioned, Mashiro did the same when he went and started working as an assistant for Eiji. While I don't want to see any similarities in their behaviour, they are there. The difference is...

@Meromorphe: My, quite an in-depth analysis of why I liked the one-shot better than the first chapter. Also, while the OS was as long as Ch1, it didn't feel dragged out to me, but Ch1 does.

Sorry for being such a noob, but what preview?

I love the running gag of Medaka striking the same pose as the person in the foreground, with an arrow showing her position :-) It always catches me off-guard and makes me laugh out!
The art is...

Only further proves my point that she is a complete bxxh. I see her and Koogy becoming the villains of the series, if there ever is one (at least for the time being).

Hiramaru is completely...

It will be difficult do make a main plot, it will be probably a series of one-shots until the author comes up with an idea.
Personally I liked the one-shot better than chapter 1. Maybe because...

Could the server be down at the moment? I'm getting an "address not found"...

EDIT: http://www.s-manga.net/boys/ is the right address...

Whenever I see a new manga serialized, I think of the...

Well, let's keep it at that :-) I see your point, though it doesn't convince me 100%, but I'm not in the mood for a discussion that involves that much opinion and that little facts (meaning both...

Probably Super Jump, the seinen magazine from Shûeisha.

And Light WILL become the god of a new world order and Hikaru WILL become the best Go player in the world... oh sorry, I didn't see any of this happen. Hm, you must be wrong, then ;-)

It's also...

At least his audience has the right sex :P
As he says, he is pushing the boundaries of shounen, it's about writing close to the edge of going overboard. He acknowledges that his story might be...

I somehow want them to fail with Detective Trap - and if only to see another interesting concept for a manga Shujin comes up with ;-) But the whole manga doesn't appeal to me too much. To be honest,...

Nah, no problem :-) The raw really says "dosu", it's just the same as a tantou. Or close enough.

I don't think it's that Kiyoshi is especially vulnerable to it though (not more than any human),...

If I'm not compeletely mistaken, it says that Miura, by chance, bumps into Azuki?

I'm wondering if the assistants are paid by the mangaka or by the publisher... my guess is the mangaka pay them, otherwise the 12000 Yen per page would let them get really rich with 80 pages per...

Uh, just look at the picture in the article :)

A tantou is, literally, a "short sword". There's also an English Wikipedia article, but it doesn't have any references to the word "dosu", while the...

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When the veteran assistant sees the condition of the workplace, he is quick to say, "There are not enough desks", "everyone needs a PC" and so on. Saiko tells Shujin, "If (...?...),...

It's a little late, but did anyone else notice that on page 4, instead of working Nakai is drawing Aoki over and over? :D I just stumbled upon this and couldn't stop laughing!

In my opinion Hattori didn't look too excited when he told them they were going to get serialized... maybe he still thinks it's too early for them?

Azuki probably will take the offer, then one of...

Wikipedia Japan redirects a search for "dosu" in Hiragana to the page for "Tantou", so it's just that I guess.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%A9%E3%81%99

Miyoshi won me almost the first scene she appeared in. Extroverted, perky, helpful and enthusiastic without being really annoying. She does get annoying now and then, but in a way that is different...