Zebraman
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I kinda like this
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You should watch the movie, too. Takashi Mike directed it.
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Scorpiodahmer suffered misogynistic delusions, and Crabjack and Marquis de Spine are literal serial killers.
If you sympathize and agree with them, and especially if you dislike that the hero is the one with a correct code of morals, you need to seek psychiatric assistance.
thats not what i mean. I do agree the hero is right, i hate and love that he is. like the villains are villains, they're bad, but they also are (most of the time) targeting people who've done bad things. Those character don't get any more likeable as well and I can't help agreeing with the villains that people like them should get what they deserve and such.
it's the moral of the story itself, though that people who've hurt others, people that really are an a-hole, could be once a good person or redeem themselves for their past actions. the villains and the bad people are both all "gray". It's wrong to wish them death. what I hate is that it can't be that simple but also that's what I love about the story.
maybe i do need psychiatric assistance, but I believe there are some truths in what I've said.
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nope, you just understood the point of the story. the author intentionally wanted the villains to have grey morality, and even spelled it out multiple times. if we apply that logic to a real life example, it would be kinda like this: just because someone expressing a truthful observation is a criminal asshole, it doesn't mean the thing he said was wrong and can be automatically dismissed.
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Way back as a 13 year old, I watched the live-action movie for this on the Sundance Channel. I always lamented that I could never find scans of the manga that also existed of it.
Then I found out 2 days ago a group has been scanlating it since last year, lol.
Anyways, it's cool to finally read the actual series. I resonated with the MC a lot, and I didn't realize how complex Crabjack was compared to how he was portrayed in the movie, as well as the other non-movie villains such as Scorpiondahmer (I'm assuming Shrikemanson will eventually get revealed to have a tragic backstory even though he's a scumbag)
Thanks for scanlating, @Coolout7000 and the rest of Midnight Bruisers.
Then I found out 2 days ago a group has been scanlating it since last year, lol.
Anyways, it's cool to finally read the actual series. I resonated with the MC a lot, and I didn't realize how complex Crabjack was compared to how he was portrayed in the movie, as well as the other non-movie villains such as Scorpiondahmer (I'm assuming Shrikemanson will eventually get revealed to have a tragic backstory even though he's a scumbag)
Thanks for scanlating, @Coolout7000 and the rest of Midnight Bruisers.
I made an account to post the literal same story. I was at my grandma's house in the middle of the night when I was like 12 flipping through cable channels in my room and came across zebraman and thought, what the hell is a Zebra Man? and like 20 minutes into it I scrambled to find a video to record the rest on my VCR because it was so interesting to me. at the time I didn't know tokusatsu outside of Power Rangers & Godzilla and thought the idea of parodying it was hilarious. The last 30 minutes is still the most insane progression and ending I've ever seen in something. I've been trying to remember forever what channel it was on and it was definitely sundance.
I remember waiting the next few years for Zebraman 2 to come out reading Google translated articles about it having found a DVD of the first eventually at a bootleg asian dvd store in the mall it became a weird cult movie with my friends and I.
I was always so intrigued by the idea they made a comic adaptation that the mangaka got to do his own thing and it was a darker story and always wanted to read it. I still have my shitty bootlegs of the first two movies and I spent like a decade looking for the Zebra Mini Skirt Police spin off movie with English subtitles. I love the movie (both of them actually) it made me a huge Miike fan and got me into more Japanese movies in general through high school, and haven't thought about the manga in years after giving up hope for a scanlation to pop up. I watched the movie for the first time in probably 7/8 years the other day and decided to eBay a set of the comic's tankobons just to flip through and own and stumbled upon this when I got on mangadex to see what else the author had made after.
My copies haven't arrived yet but I sat down and read everything on here in one sitting tonight, and honestly it was worth the 10+ year wait for me. I fucking loved this series. It's a different tone and type of thing than the movie as to be expected but is equally as awesome. It focuses on the things in my rewatch of the first one I thought should have been explored more in a pretty satisfying way. in the movie he's pathetic but in this he's beyond pathetic towards the beginning he's straight broken and complacent. So happy to have finally gotten to read this. the translation is good too. it's a pretty funny manga, not the same sense of humor as the movies but there are parts in here that actually made me laugh out loud.
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