QIN! QIN! QIN! QIN!

>>279784832
The minister is surprisingly understanding

>>279784969
Yeah, I expected him to be one of the war hawks.

>>279784620 (OP)
This whole arc has been fucking wild.

>>279784796
>Oink
Han pigs?

>>279785665
They are pigs.

>>279784969
He probably knows the jig is up and the king did the right thing to avoid a complete destruction of Han's culture and history.
Considering his grandson ended up helping overthrow Qin and establish the other Han dynasty, he did the right thing here too.

Why are kingdom threads dead on /a/ despite being absolutely huge in Japan and even on western Manga sites?

>>279787237
Everyone knows what's going to happen, very little theorizing to be had.

>>279784673
>>the masked brute turned out to be a handsome man
You know what? Why not.

>>279787295
Sure but kingdom is like multiple bump limit threads popular elsewhere. It's incredibly strange.

>>279787613
It's a shounen about a somewhat fictionalized history about ancient China. You gotta be a weeb for both China and Japan to get the appeal in the west.

>>279787237
/a/ thrives on hype, and the slow pacing of story is hostile to hype. Doesn't help that Hara hasn't produced a single memorable spectacle for the conquest of Han

Compare that to Baki. Baki's pacing is also slow as hell: a couple of attacks thrown and then the readers sit through a soliloquy on fight philosophy. But Itagaki knows how to hype and he also knows spectacle (however ridiculous it is[/spoiler]

Why could Shin not be promoted to general without a last name but Tou can be the #2 great general in Qin? Is his name actually like T Ou or something? Or was his general status just granted directly by Ouki?

>>279787869
>You gotta be a weeb for both China and Japan to get the appeal in the west.
I'm pretty sure you don't need to be a fan of China to appreciate the warring states era. In fact any knowledge of it would be spoilers.

>>279784879
I miss when Tou's personal unit was just a bunch of guys with mustaches

>>279784673
penis head is a bishounen

ZhaoGODs aint losing to Qindogs. They got lucky Hanpigs are bad at battle.

Han should fight to the very last drop of their blood. I'm a true hanese btw.

>>279787237
kanki’s death took away a lot of the hype here

>>279786916
I thought these Han kingdom and Han Dynasty are completely two different things

>Conquers Han with minimal bloodshed and in barely one year
>Such a Gigachad the king of Han simply surrenders
>Manages to create a strong bond between former Han citizens and Qin
>Doesn't job to Riboku like Fraudsen or Clownki
>Gets princess pussy all for himself too
Truly, the strongest general under the heavens

>>279793036
You are correct. That's why I said the other Han dynasty
I do hope Kingdom goes to the establishment of Han Dynasty after Qin. Han gaozu reads like some 50 years old shounen protag

>>279793115
>princess
Is she still a princess after this?
With those dead eyes she probably thinks she’s going to be forced into a qin official’s harem

>>279784969
I mean unless you are completely retarded even if you were a war hawk the gates have been opened and you have like minutes before the invading army is literally in the throneroom.

Its really not the time to do anything but just be like
>Okay whatever

>>279784673

>>279787869
It sold 110 million copies in japan alone and gets less attention than boruto, dude lol. I think 4chan is the issue.

>>279794795
>>279787869
You're both new. When the manga was being translated the threads were reaching bump limit in just a few minutes each time. The reason it isn't active here is because each chapter covers so little. The wars in the manga last almost as long as they did in real life.

>>279784757
Kanki’s basedry is reincarnating nicely.

>>279795223
If I go to any manga piracy site it's always among the top manga and the comment sections are flooded with replies every chapter. I can guarantee you less than 1% of the board has read kingdom, and don't pretend like what's happening in boruto is even slightly as interesting as a kingdom chapter. The manga hasn't dipped below a 9/10 in quality since the coalition arc, it is consistently great. You can't handwave away one of the top manga in japan being flat out ignored on a supposed otaku site.

>>279795314
And you're a retarded faggot who can't comrehend the words infront of you. You are mistaking fast threads with popularity. The threads used to be fast when alot of chapters were coming out. Now that the chapters and the pacing are slow people here have less to say. Alot people here still like it and rate it highly, I'm sure, just they don't come to the threads.

>>279795367
>Alot people here still like it and rate it highly
You're wrong, /a/ has changed and no one knows it exists any more. It's not that they don't come into the threads, it's that they no longer post on 4chan.

>>279794795
It's purely because it's so long and chapters are so short.
While Ippo lost a lot of popularity it's a similar issue.

>>279787237
The storytime around 4 years ago had a fair amount of following.

>>279796669
>While Ippo lost a lot of popularity it's a similar issue
But these manga didn't lose popularity. On western manga sites. Where they are frequently the most heavily discussed manga in those sites. And it didn't effect the jump manga here, so it's pretty clear what /a/ has become. A place to discuss one piece, dragon ball, and naruto. This used to be a place where people would say "everyone is an asshole here but they really know their stuff". This objectively isn't true anymore. Now all people can say is "everyone here is an asshole and they barely know anything".

>>279797836
Looks like the people storytimes attract don't stick around for very long or have fleeting interests.

>>279799996
I occasionally read posts here about dropping a manga or waiting for arcs to finish and such as a reasoning behind the lack of discussions in general, which is weird because Kingdom has a steady progress compared to One Piece for example. It's true that Kingdom has downsides here and there, but so far, I haven't found a reason to stop reading it. The only difference now is that sensescans are slower.

>>279800499
>which is weird because Kingdom has a steady progress compared to One Piece for example
I don't think it's weird at all when you realize this place is just a breeding ground for newfaggots from X formerly known as twitter. (storytimes REALLY helped develop that)

>>279784879
1 down and it took 19 years to draw. Jokes aside this arc had pretty nice fast pacing.

>>279784796
my man. I now respect this man despite him being a pussy shit spineless bastard for 10 chapters

>>279799955
Oh boohoo some popular shounen get containment threads filled with shitposts by people from sharty or whatever they're calling it this week. As if the far greater issue with /a/'s culture isn't a stunted emotional development built around the fear of growing older and insecurity about anime being a hated hobby and endless pseudointellectualism about how sex and sexuality work in different manga genres. /a/ is the way it is right now because the NATIVE population is too spiteful towards the people who would live to see anime have any kind of future to seriously entertain what its present has to offer. All /a/ talks about is a history that you can learn about but will never truly understand by metrics that are deliberately impossible to quantify to keep muh heckin reddit normie zooms off my board reeeeeeeee

>>279801241
>Oh boohoo some popular shounen get containment threads filled with shitposts by people from sharty or whatever they're calling it this week
Nigger, the sonic manga thread has more posts. This board is a sad parody of old /a/. Every day there's less and less reasons for someone with genuine interest in manga and anime to be here. Despite 1/5 of the catalogue being dailies I have zero reason to come here to discuss manga. When a manga piracy site equivalent for anime discussion arises, there won't be any reason to come here for seasonals either. Its obvious which way the wind is blowing.

>>279787237
I think this manga is kinda interesting, but I haven't really bothered to really pick it up and read it all.

If there was a storytime, I'd definitely follow it. The last one was a long-ass time ago, right?

>>279801577
>If there was a storytime, I'd definitely follow it
It has 840 chapters. It will take over 2 years to catch up at that pace, anon.

>>279801656
I mean, the Jojo storytime has 998 chapters, and Jojo chapters are usually way bigger than this.

>>279801734
No one is discussing jojo. It died as soon as the storytime did. And the entire storytime was just /dbs/ (sharty) memes being spammed over and over.

>>279801765
Anon, most people who followed the storytime already read Jojo. There's really nothing to discuss there outside of Jojolands, and Jojolands only gets a chapter once every blue moon.

>>279801734
Kingdom is a manga with dense political plots, strategic multi-volume battles, and historical references. JoJo is surrealistic /fa/ manga about full-lipped teenagers punching vampires. I don't think a storytime will promote discussion. It doesn't seem to have helped JoJo either, despite taking much less effort to follow. nu/a/ seems more interested in naruto and sonig the edgehog, and pubes for some reason, and that appears to be the whole board to me. I honestly can't help but agree.

>>279801823
That kind of seems like a bullshit excuse with a new anime coming up soon.

>>279801879
>>279801894
Anon, all those reasons are exactly why this manga is better for discussion than Jojo.

There's nothing TO discuss in JoJo. It doesn't have a setting or plots, what you see in the story is what happened, and most of the story basically ended in part 6 when the universe reset.

>>279801923
>all those reasons are exactly why this manga is better for discussion
Not in this place lol. It would just be people spamming unfunny memes and bumping 50 chapters in, then it will go back to not existing when they jump to the next thing.

>>279801977
Well, then I guess there's nothing to do. There's not really any way to attract more anons outside of a storytime.

Maybe I'll binge read it myself at some point if i have the time, but mangadex went down the shitter so hell if i have any idea of how to find all the right translations.

>>279787237
/a/ is a normalfag board, only shilled shonenslop and yuritranny shit has shitty generals.

>>279802019
>but mangadex went down the shitter so hell if i have any idea of how to find all the right translations.
All of mangadex has been 1:1 copied to comick and kingdom only has one translator, so you could read it on weebcentral. It's also popular enough to have its own dedicated site for hosting the manga, a quick Google search could have revealed that. And what do you mean "if I have the time", you're not doing anything right now lol. It's ALSO getting an official English physical print in November. How can you claim to have any interest in manga and not know this? Did you simply halt reading manga when mangadex died? When it was a shitty site you should have never used? And you should have been using a reader to back everything anyways so you can just migrate your subs? This is common sense. This site used to be for diehard otaku, what happened? This is like basic information you can even find on wotaku which even the dumbest tiktok zoomer knows about.

>>279802019
>but mangadex went down the shitter so hell if i have any idea of how to find all the right translations.
lmao jesus

>>279802122
> you're not doing anything right now lol
If i weren't I'd probably be reading it wouldn't I?

>>279802196
Well anon, you're clearly a retard so I'm not going to reply to you any more. Guess you truly have nothing to do now.

>>279802019
>the right translations
What in the world did he mean by this?

>>279802284
Sometimes, manga have multiple translations, and some of them are shit.

>>279802301
And you can't determine for yourself which one is the correct one? Like its always official, most recent fan translation, and blurry 10 year old scan with broken english. Not a lot of hard choices. And this doesn't even apply to kingdom. How can you be this helpless?

>>279800550
>this place is just a breeding ground for newfaggots from X formerly known as twitter.

>>279784757
"Is it really a win if I didn't job to Riboku for 30 chapters?"

Ribokek, your days are over

>>279784757
>No, I don’t want that!

>>279784879
Thank you for posting.

>>279787237
There's very few female characters the resident schizos can try and latch themselves to. Which is good.

>>279807804
Wrong!

>>279787237
For some reason the Ravages of Time manga did a lot better.

Why are there so many blond Chinamen in this?

>>279811487
That would be because of the fujo spammer, I'd imagine
>manga

>>279793115
And yet he's only the #2 of the Qin Six. I imagine Moubu is considered #1 cause his killing Kanmei is still unmatched as a feat (except for Shin killing Houken) and he also never loses

>>279811610
There were villages in ancient China where people were born with blonde hair, but mostly because it looks cool. It's a recessive gene so it's not common.

Ouki's army so much better than Ousen's. Obviously Ouki already had another GG-level guy just hanging around but I still think I'd rather Rokuomi than Akou and so on.

>>279787237
The shit tier scanlations we've been having for like a year aren't helping either. Why don't those fuckers just wait for better raws? They have no competition. Sense scans have seemingly given up.

>>279802019
Where do people like this even come from?

>>279815146
I don't know why the ones that get posted here are so smol

>>279813172
Interesting.

https://youtu.be/mBc5LYRbtc0
People know the kingdom anime has been pretty good since season 3 right? Its not even a long read to catch up to that.

>>279818878
The main issue with the anime is that the over-the-top insanely retarded violence has been censored and like 50% of the manga is people being dismembered in crazy ways. Even if the anime was a literal sideshow it would be top-tier if it included that, just because everything is so well written. It's still pretty fun to watch but it's like a 6/10 whereas the manga is a 9/10. Kingdom has the Berserk curse where it's so crazy it can't be properly adapted.

>>279784757
>Did we really win by not murdering tens of thousands of men and paying for it with the lives of tens of thousands of other men? Is that really it?
Please Shin

>>279800984
> this arc had pretty nice fast pacing.
That was my takeaway. Excellently paced, even the big silly bash'em crash'em battles weren't dragged out senselessly long, all of the political and social intrigue was fun and succinct, the big emotional moments didn't waste full chapters just to convey how emotional they were, and then we finally get to the last few chapters where it's fucking OVER, but rather than belabor the point with 4-5 chapters of stalemate or "Oh no, what's he going to do?!????" or a needless battle in the capital, we just got to the point, had our final last words said, and moved on. Good on Hara, this manga may have some fire still in it.

>>279787237
In the greater Western manga enjoyer sphere, I'm not exactly sure why this series isn't as popular. Some people get filtered early on with the Chinese names in the first 50 chapters, but given a tiny amount of investment it's easy to get back to the Japanese renames, some people just get filtered by Chinese Anything in general, some people just generally have a hard time following a story that isn't about some self-insert Isekai protagonist who has a harem and a cheat power. It's hard to say.

On /a/, specifically, it's because of the comical inconsistency with chapter drops. Sometimes we get breaks, sometimes we're on schedule, raws drop anywhere from 3 seconds to several days after public release, translations come in anywhere from 3 seconds to several days after the raws are dropped, Sense-Scans is numerous chapters behind and struggle to keep up, and the worst part is that through all of this, and SpeedTL anon sometimes gets the jump on all of this without any regularity. It's really hard to keep track without something like Kingdom Tuesday so we always know when it's going to be a Kingdom Thread Day.

>>279811487
Ravages of Time threads are even more quiet than this which is really sad since there are hordes of Chinkshills in this board nowadays. They don't even care about their best

>>279820826
He realized he would have to think sometimes and lost interest

>>279788447
technically none of the guy's in Ouki's army were considered generals

>>279821271
They had some momentum when they were being posted before.

>>279821453
>hyping up Rokuomi
KEK

>>279823464
>Tou is the living inheritor of every major trait Ouki was known for, being an incredible statesman, an incredible warrior, an incredible leader of men both in tactics and strategy, a fair man on and off the battlefield, and a keen eye for talent
>Ryuukoku is Tou's direct advisor and a well-regarded tactician who can feel out the battlefield and all of its bizarre changes, reacting to shifts with precision
>Kanou is a do-or-die wrecking ball who can enter the most suicidal of battlefields and always seems to muscle his way through to the objective despite being riddled with injuries and his army generally decimated
>Doujin is dead
>Rinbou is dead
>Rokuomi...kills people?
What is Rokuomi's gimmick other than just being a really good fighter? I know he gets teased for this, and Hara is generally more subtle with presentation for character attributes that are consistent, but I have literally never seen Rokuomi do anything other than end lives and yell.

>>279823586
Ouki seemed to have seen Tou as his equal.
>>Rokuomi...kills people?
He's not even the unga bunga type either, but he did well at the coalition arc.