Medaka Box [Manga]

[Homura7]

Medaka Box is only second after One Piece in my agenda. And Kubo should take notes from Nisio in how to troll with style.

EDIT:

Full summary.

Spoiler for spoiler:

>Two adults run in a corridor.
>Zenkichi "Woah I'm late! I'm late! This is embarassing as a working adult such as myslef! It's your fault for having taken to long with that client, Bami"
>Bami "That's not true, that's your fault" His character has been developed of his front hair bangs, and his face isn't black anymore (I don't kniow if this was ever explained, but it was a pun: "honesty" and "no make up/unpainted face" are the same in Japanese, so yeah).
>Zenkichi "Did we make it in time?" He opens the student council room door. There's a banner with "Ajimu (omission) 10 Year anniversary"... and Kujira, Mogana, (maybe Emukae the spoiler guy is not sure), Hansode and a very hot, super hot long black haired chick girl.
>Zenkichi "Seems like it, haha..."
>Bami "We're dead". And they go to the floor moments after.
>It has been 10 years since Ajimu's death. And everyone else continued to stroll down the path of life.
>Mogana "As an apology, hold this baby for a second, I want him/she to become as strong willed as you"
>His/her name is Mogami, which mean "the best" (I'm sorry, as the names in Medaka Box are from places, I do not know the gender)
>Mogana changed her surname, but her new one is unknown.
>Mogana "I thought I would swim forever, but not anymore after I had this baby. In fact, a family is what I always desired."
>Akune enters. He created a toy manufactury company Souzoushin (Creative Heart) which earns billions a year. He build the toy himself, like, with his own hands. "Creating things is fun".

>Their generation is remembered as the golden age of hakoniwa.
>Nabeshima won the Olympics, gold medal in running with only one leg. Afterwards she retired, and now plans to teach judo to elementary students.
>Kujira is trying to make science, medicine, advance as always, maybe one day she'll be able to heal Nabeshima's leg.
>Aka too is studying medicine. Meanwhile the flask plan is being used by Kujira. Oudou to study energy, etc.
>Tachiarai developed a cryogenic machine to sleep and is now inside of it. She said she believes in the future, in the one 100 or 1000 years from now.
>Most of class minus 13 went missing. Kumagawa went missing since graduation.
>Hansode "Every minus is unemployed..." She enters with Emukae. Hansode succeded Obi in becoming the leader of the Shiranui village, and has now turned it into a sight-seeing location. Iihiko changed too, apparently.
>Hansode "Is he hiding something? (Then here's a part I have no idea what it mean) He's not fazed by either white, black or light. (It's not a Japanese expression or anything, maybe a pun which went over my head, sorry)."
>Zenkichi "So why are you still the same"
>Hansode "It's a secondary effect of succeding Iihiko"
>Emukae became a florist. Her flowers sell well. "My hands are kind of dirty, but I'm happy. I can't use my ability anymore, just like Aka.
>Super hot black haired chick "My older brother also works now". She unfasten the eye-patch. She was Wanidzuka, now she's Akune Shori.
>Shori "The Munakata family used to battle demons since ancient times..."

>Zenkichi "Stop making a mess out of the plot already!"
>The five who were always together... continue to do so. they plan on developing smart phone games.
>Kumagawa whereabouts... are sure mysterious. Hinokage joined the National Police Agency, and Torai became a bureaucrat. Even with such connection, did he accomplish nothing? Other Hakoniwa students also are having good careers. Aso is an announcer, Moji became some kind of teacher and Hinata... a salary-woman.
>So everyone must be wondering about Zenkichi's fate. He became a member of the Kurokami group. "With this, I can finally work with whom I want. It's been 4 years since I joined".
>Akune "Then, it's better that you go and meet Medaka, she's in the school chairman room". Zenkichi "Going!"
>Akune "So what about you, Bami?" Bami takes out of his pocket a Kurokami Group ID.
>Bami "I have to keep watching Zen."
>Akune "Boy, your character sure changed"
>Bami "I don't think so."
>Zenkichi "Medaka!" He enters the room at full power. In front of him, Medaka is covered by an excessive amount of... dogs.
>Medaka "Uhm... yes?"
>Medaka specialty: animal empathy"
>Next: climax center color

So to say something I will say, "Akune you goddamned lucky bastard!!"

[Wolfenstein]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

I'd like to say "I'm glad it's over", but I'll wait for next week to do that.
I hope we can all forget about this series in due time.

I myself will definitely be forgetting alot of a few select arcs, for sure.

In after-thought, I'm sure I'll definitely look back at this manga in the future and it won't be as good as I remember it to be right now. It had very good high's - anytime Kumagawa or Zenkichi took the spotlight - the problem is it also has extremely bad low's - whenever Kumagawa or Zenkichi weren't in the spotlight - and it really is more of a "little effort troll-tale" than a good, solid story.

If I were to rate only the high's, I'd definitely give this manga a glowing rating and recommendation.

Overall, It seems like a 6/10 manga, though. Probably gonna get lower once I start reading more.

[Kinali]

Originally Posted by Kurusu-Shirudo

Spoiler for spoiler:

>So everyone must be wondering about Zenkichi's fate. He became a member of the Kurokami group. "With this, I can finally work with whom I want. It's been 4 years since I joined".
>Akune "Then, it's better that you go and meet Medaka, she's in the school chairman room". Zenkichi "Going!"
>Akune "So what about you, Bami?" Bami takes out of his pocket a Kurokami Group ID.
>Bami "I have to keep watching Zen."
>Akune "Boy, your character sure changed"
>Bami "I don't think so."
>Zenkichi "Medaka!" He enters the room at full power. In front of him, Medaka is covered by an excessive amount of... dogs.
>Medaka "Uhm... yes?"
>Medaka specialty: animal empathy"
>Next: climax center color

Spoiler for spoiler reply:

Four years to finally work with her, huh? So he must have gone through a lot if it took him that long. I wonder if he had to do that in order to marry Medaka or is he finally selfish and wants to be with Medaka?

I'm not sure why but to me it seems like the relationship has gone back to square one. Her response to him entering the room seems like "oh...so why are you here?". I guess I have to wait for the actual translation to see if she says it exactly like that and to see what her reaction is like. Of course since there is no information on what happened between them all those years maybe I'm just looking too much into it. But who knows maybe they have been together all this time and Nisio is just hiding that fact. If they werent though does anybody think Medaka will reject him this time? At the moment we know that he still hasn't forgotten about Medaka but were not sure about her.

Anyways besides all that I'm upset with Emukae being all alone. Zenkichi rejected her and he still doesnt seem to have any progress with Medaka as far as we know. He messed up so bad in my opinion.

[KLGChaos]

Originally Posted by Kinali

Spoiler for spoiler reply:

Four years to finally work with her, huh? So he must have gone through a lot if it took him that long. I wonder if he had to do that in order to marry Medaka or is he finally selfish and wants to be with Medaka?

I'm not sure why but to me it seems like the relationship has gone back to square one. Her response to him entering the room seems like "oh...so why are you here?". I guess I have to wait for the actual translation to see if she says it exactly like that and to see what her reaction is like. Of course since there is no information on what happened between them all those years maybe I'm just looking too much into it. But who knows maybe they have been together all this time and Nisio is just hiding that fact. If they werent though does anybody think Medaka will reject him this time? At the moment we know that he still hasn't forgotten about Medaka but were not sure about her.

Anyways besides all that I'm upset with Emukae being all alone. Zenkichi rejected her and still no progress on Medaka as far as we know. He messed up so bad in my opinion.

Spoiler:

I wouldn't say no progress on Medaka. She no longer scares animals away. That means that her original failings of not being able to understand people (and animals) no longerexists. Which means she's developed into a perfect, flawless being. Note, I didn't say it was good development.

[Kinali]

Originally Posted by KLGChaos

Spoiler:

I wouldn't say no progress on Medaka. She no longer scares animals away. That means that her original failings of not being able to understand people (and animals) no longerexists. Which means she's developed into a perfect, flawless being. Note, I didn't say it was good development.

Spoiler:

Sorry I meant Zenkichi's "progress with medaka". It just makes Emukae's rejection feel much worse for me.

[Last Carpet]

so looks like the series may finally be coming to a close.

I say "may" because you never can tell with Nisio.
Even if he's done with Medaka's story, I hope he's not done with this world. Who knows what else he could do with it.

When/If they get married, I wonder what their kid will be like?

So....Akune Shori.
I'm a little surprised.
Still wondering why she doesn't go by her real name.
Wonder how Akune's relationship with Kei is.

You got married to my sister......Dakara Korosu

[Homura7]

Spoiler for spoiler:

Cute, ain't it?

[Soji]

Kurusu-Shirudo@Yeah.
Although, I must say, I never expected to see this scene.
But like you said, is cute.

[bastek66]

Christmas cake Medaka :3

[willx]

Wait, Nabeshima has a busted leg? When the frig did that happen!?

[BladeEntity]

Who wants to take a guess at Kikaijima's new surname.

[AlphaDragoon]

Originally Posted by BladeEntity

Who wants to take a guess at Kikaijima's new surname.

My money's on Kumagawa, considering her big whomping crush on him.

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by Kurosu

speak for yourself. Best series evah, never gonna forget. Best shonen jump series in a long time.

Is it? Look at its whole year ranking..sure..the best'est series evar!!!!

Medaka Box is only second after One Piece in my agenda. And Kubo should take notes from Nisio in how to troll with style.

You got it backward. Nishio should learn how to troll while maintaining his works ranking at the same time from Kubo. At least you don't see how often Blleach landed at below top 5.

[Iby]

Spoiler for about that pic:

Huh, so now her new skill gathers animals instead?

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by noobita

Is it? Look at its whole year ranking..sure..the best'est series evar!!!!
You got it backward. Nishio should learn how to troll while maintaining his works ranking at the same time from Kubo. At least you don't see how often Blleach landed at below top 5.

Going to agree here. Nisio is a really popular author; Medaka Box's poor reception is a testament to its poor quality in comparison to most of his other works.

Originally Posted by AlphaDragoon

My money's on Kumagawa, considering her big whomping crush on him.

It had better fucking be.

[Wolfenstein]

Kumagawa Mogana sure has a nice ring to it. I guess it has to be her, since all other competitor's for Kumagawa don't seem to be involved in any way, but we best wait for the chapter.

[Westlo]

Honestly rather see no mention at all of Kumagawa in these final 2 chapters, basically nothing apart from "he hasn't been seen since graduation", would mean he'll get future material while everyone else is wrapped up.

Originally Posted by noobita

You got it backward. Nishio should learn how to troll while maintaining his works ranking at the same time from Kubo. At least you don't see how often Blleach landed at below top 5.

Bleach was bottom 5 more often than you would think, especially during the Fullbring arc. Probably the reason why Kubo got told to move onto the final arc even after he was trying to "reset" things.

And Kubo trolls? lolfanbase... it's bad enough with Nisio but at least he's a genius at times (wait until you see how the "big issue" in the next tv series is resolved, when I saw the foreshadowing in Nise, godlike), with Kubo it's just being trash.

[aohige]

How is that even comparable.
Bleach is still selling 700-800k per volume, well above the 500k threshold of polls mattering.
While Medaka volumes continuously performed below 150k on first print, and 200k at best for annual.

Polls does not matter if you sell above a certain count.
Medaka was nowhere even close to that line, ever.
In fact, even Sket and Beelzebub beats Medaka in sales by 50-60%.

[Lupus753]

Then they both should learn lessons from Andrew Hussie. Homestuck is so popular that a video crashed Newgrounds after mere minutes, simply due to the traffic. But his books have not sold that many. Does he still count? Probably not.

[Westlo]

Originally Posted by aohige

How is that even comparable.
Bleach is still selling 700-800k per volume, well above the 500k threshold of polls mattering.
While Medaka volumes continuously performed below 150k on first print, and around 200k annual.

Polls does not matter if you sell above a certain count.
Medaka was nowhere even close to that line, ever.
In fact, Sket and Beelzebub even beat Medaka in sales by 50-60%.

How the hell am I even comparing them?

Reread what I said ffs.

He tried to reset things with Fullbring, had massive drops in sales and bottom 5 tanked for most of the arc, he's now clearly in his final arc. If Fullbring was a success I doubt we'll be having this conversation. He got his mag replaced with an inferior seller in Toriko as far as "promotion" goes, lost his anime and got told to cut the crap and get on with it.

You ignore the fact that his final arc could take 3 years to finish, Naruto has been in final arc mode for a while too.

In fact, Sket and Beelzebub even beat Medaka in sales by 50-60%.

What's your point, since this has f all to do with what you quoted.