Shounen Chagecha by Yoshio Sawai

[StrangerAtaru]

And he wears a tiger mask XD but don't forget the "???" guy he may be in second year but he seems powerful, this leaves the group of 5 people? Will they stay as Don Patch and Tokoro Ten? Or will they be like Softon and Hatenko: they come, they do something and they leave the group?
This series girl's name is sure strange, Kawai Himawari XD but she seems strong

Himawari is a cute name: it's Japanese for sunflower. (sort of almost called the chapter just "sunflower" until I realized that was her name). As for the mysterious two: they could just be watching over a lot of what the Gekiatsu group does and not intervene unless they need to...remember, the means by which a lot of Bo-bobo's team came together took a while too. Heck, Tennosuke was originally planned as just a one-joke character in chp. 2, got enough interest to get an A-Block arc, didn't really do much in the Gunkan arc and really didn't become a permanent team member until Hajike Block.

 

[Sexy Randal 105]

Chagecha seems a lot different from Bobobo. I stand corrected. This seems a lot more intelligent as opposed to being punched in the face with comedy. Don't get me wrong. I love Bobobo. It does feel like getting attacked by a clown sometimes though.

 

[StrangerAtaru]

Chagecha seems a lot different from Bobobo. I stand corrected. This seems a lot more intelligent as opposed to being punched in the face with comedy. Don't get me wrong. I love Bobobo. It does feel like getting attacked by a clown sometimes though.

I think in some ways this is Sawai's continued evolution as a mangaka. We saw some of what he's doing now in Shinsetsu but that was still sort of tied to the random insanity of Bo-bobo. At this point, we still have randomness but it's more or less controlled compared to what it was prior. There may be a few other "random moments" but a lot of it is more or less a gag/action hybrid compared to Bo-bobo more being a gag series that followed the action rules.

 

[Oni_James]

Himawari is a cute name: it's Japanese for sunflower. (sort of almost called the chapter just "sunflower" until I realized that was her name).

i was saying it because Kawai-> cute, Himawari-> sunflower, the cute sunflower, it sounds more as a nickname than a name XD

 

[Sexy Randal 105]

I think in some ways this is Sawai's continued evolution as a mangaka. We saw some of what he's doing now in Shinsetsu but that was still sort of tied to the random insanity of Bo-bobo. At this point, we still have randomness but it's more or less controlled compared to what it was prior. There may be a few other "random moments" but a lot of it is more or less a gag/action hybrid compared to Bo-bobo more being a gag series that followed the action rules.

I kind of like this better. In Bobobo, I would often be annoyed by the randomness, because I wanted to actually see some of the characters fight. Serious characters like Softon actually had potential to do so.

 

[StrangerAtaru]

I kind of like this better. In Bobobo, I would often be annoyed by the randomness, because I wanted to actually see some of the characters fight. Serious characters like Softon actually had potential to do so.

It all sort of depended on the character and the situation. In some ways, characters like Softon and particularly Torpedo Girl were either too "dull" compared to the craziness and insanity or Sawai never really used them too much in battle due to most of their attacks being practically unstoppable to nearly all the enemies. (heck, he retired Torpedo Girl in Shinsetsu preventing her from taking on anyone and just turned her into a full-time teacher...I'm not saying she was invincible but usually she could only be defeated either psychologically or when she ran out of juice and turned back into OVER...and that hardly ever happened) So far I think Sawai has made his lead powerful but at the same time possibly set up the potential of the "pinnacle" at the start allowing for further battle development as the series goes along.

 

[Sexy Randal 105]

I don't really know much about Torpedo girl, because Viz are asshats....

 

[StrangerAtaru]

I don't really know much about Torpedo girl, because Viz are asshats....

Viz has released one fight with Torpedo Girl: Shibito. (also known as Poet or "Bad Bard") Basically the only reason she was somewhat held under control in that fight was that he used a mind-wipe ability, which affected everyone except Don Patch (who technically has no mind). Prior to then she just knocked him around and even blew up everything he threw at her. She also fought against Giga where pretty much everyone worked as a team to take him down. The rest of the arc just had her running around on her own.

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New chapter, new translation:

http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1054282

Two lessons learned from this chapter:
-Little kids shouldn't have that much power if they can't control it
-Mysterious Tiger Mask...well, he seems familiar.

 

[.break]

Edited Manga's up~!

Looks like stuff's gonna' get thick next chapter...smells epic.

 

[Oni_James]

so cool, it seems the series are getting greater each week^^
about the new ones: i don't see that Doraji'll help a lot and Longhorn, it seems usagi is going to help more than him XD we haven't seen Kotaro yet but he seems strong
i really want to see Tiger Mask fighting, seems they are going to fight against those 5 from Metro high, can't wait to see next chapter^^

 

[StrangerAtaru]

Doraji may just come back down to Earth but I think this was just Sawai's excuse to go crazy with a 9-year old fighter. The third guy though and Washio are probably the ones that are still complete mysteries (as is Tiger Mask...but while I didn't want to say so in the chapter his actions and "forms" do remind me a bit of Don Patch). Probably my only problem with the chapter: Masato looks more and more like a tsukkomi every week.

 

[Networks]

Any Edited Manga group start to release chagecha?
*don't found on onemanga*

I guess chagecha starts to look like with bobobo.. 1 man, 2 kids, 1 pet

 

[StrangerAtaru]

Any Edited Manga group start to release chagecha?
*don't found on onemanga*

I guess chagecha starts to look like with bobobo.. 1 man, 2 kids, 1 pet

PHUNK has been scanslating it for the last four chapters, no one has alerted Onemanga though. (but I've seen it on mangafox if you want to read it in collective terms) If they get it, they get it...if not, oh well.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

well it's scanlated regularly and with good pace, so hopefully someone will take note and put it up (onemanga were notorious with toriko's placement, though that was due to a lack of consistency till recently.)

Also, I don't have a leek or anything

 

[StrangerAtaru]

Also, I don't have a leek or anything

That's safe...if you did you'd probably go Lotiuma on us.

 

[Maxy Barnard]

now THERE is something we can expect tiger mask not to do!

unless................. could he be orihime as a sort of curveball? :P

 

[StrangerAtaru]

now THERE is something we can expect tiger mask not to do!

unless................. could he be orihime as a sort of curveball? :P

Well I think if Orihime appeared in Chagecha, she'll probably look like this:

Spoiler

 

[Maxy Barnard]

the funny thing being that that fits in ever so well with the world of sawai!

i wonder if spoilers'll show up this week at all :O

 

[StrangerAtaru]

the funny thing being that that fits in ever so well with the world of sawai!

i wonder if spoilers'll show up this week at all :O

Doubt it: the spoilers come if a series has been around for a while and has a following. This series is both too new and probably won't last long enough to reach that point.

 

[Sexy Randal 105]

I don't think a gag series needs spoilers. o_O