[It's not my fault!]

[It's not my fault!]

All these years later I'm still mad they didn't adapt the minus arc

This. The minus arc and the student council election were the best arcs in the whole manga. It could've ended with Zenkichi becoming president and I would've been happy.

『 I dont' think you understnad what the brackets are supposed to be, user. 』

「I really wish there was more content with Kumagawa in it.」

Daily reminder that Kumagawa died a virgin.

what happened to him?

what are the brackets for? i never understood that

It's a Japanese pun.

>The reason why Kumagawa's "speaks" in brackets is a bit of a pun (see 『カギカッコ』). The context here implies literally [括弧]{かっこ}つける (kakko tsukeru), meaning "to add brackets/parenthesis (to something, e.g., a sentence)." The pun involves a well-known expression [格好]{かっこ}つける (kakko tsukeru), meaning "to show off or try to look cool." Kumagawa speaks in the way he does because he is trying to sound cool.

When he's being sincere, he doesn't use the brackets, as in

Fuck, what was that one page where he says "I'm the victim!" and Medaka loses her shit?

He was the best.

Might be my favorite Nisio character even though I'm a huge Monogatarifag.

he's good but not the true hero of the manga

Medaka Box is one of those manga that would probably be even better when read in japanese, assuming that you can understamd all the puns without explanatons.

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It is implied he is swimjews baby daddy.

Why does Nisio write the best jews?

can someone explain his character to me?

Here, in manga version

The world's most successful and powerful loser.

He's a sore loser who shitted on people, but being a bitch when smacked by the MC.
So just exactly that, a sore loser.
Pic related, him in middle school.

All Fiction is actually stronger than his first sealing ability.

Here is what you need to know. In the second Shonen Jump popularity poll contest, Kumagawa won with almost four thousand votes. And Medaka the main protag who holds second place, didn't even reach a thousand.

>tfw handbra jeans

He's like if you took the power, fetishes, and losing ability of everyone on Sup Forums and pumped it all into one person.

He's basically /ourguy/

He loved a girl. But he was afraid that he only loved her because she was beautiful. So he ripped off her face. He still loved her even without a face so he was happy that he isn't shallow.

Nips had shit taste big deal, if can't even explain it means he's just some stuck up generic character that nips usually love.
Probably something like Natsu.

Well that answered my question.

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just post the page.
Now after knowing the context though, is it really what he did? Aren't he actually sealed her off or some shit?

Get raped. He can't be explained.

Unironically kill yourself

NisiOisin's magnum opus.

literally me: the character

Imagine a Mary Sue heroine who is da best at everything and cannot lose ever.

Now imagine a villain who's aware of this and decides that this is bullshit.

The fuck? Where is that ever implied?

Irony is Medaka was beating him up over nothing.

He was just in a strange relationship.

>Handbra + jeans

My nigga. I was proud of Kumagawa that day.

he is immortal (thanks to all fiction) though.
unless you are referring to all his deaths that were all fictioned, in which case he has died a virgin many times.

sorry, user, your fanfic was never implied to be canon

this.
all he did was rip a god's face off to test his love.
she also ruined his plans of maintaining school peace when he was class president.
she was a delinquent in middle school so he tried to set her straight with destroyer-san, but she wouldn't stop.

>class president
I meant to say student council president

>be me
>am normal kid
>parents send me to super power research center to see if I am "abnormal"
>see autismo kid next to me
>try to warn her about normal people
>some normalfag tells her to become super hero
>middle school
>am student council president
>autismo kid is delinquent
>send friend to try to discipline her
>she doesn't stop
>friend falls in love with her
>he quits student council
>am in love with vice president
>try to prove my love love for vice-prez by ripping her face off
>it's okay since she is a god
>autismo kid walks in
>autisticscreech.wmv
>she starts beating the shit out of me
>tells me to drop out of school
>have no other choice since she is threatening to kill me

He couldn't win ;_;

I want to marry Anshin'in!

>he only wanted the girl he loved to stop wanting to kill herself
why are the other characters so shitty towards him?
he isn't a bad guy at all.

i didn't know this was a thing

Did you say please?

Post yfw

Funny that Zenkichi and Kumagawa became bros

He was an absolute dick to everyone along the way and I don't remember anyone figuring out his motives.

That scene resonated with me so well.

He won the popularity contest by bribing the readers with fetish outfits.

>mangafox

>yfw

no one tried to figure his motive out.
he was only a dick in order to provoke them to test their skills/abilities to see if any of them could beat anshini'n.
everyone was a shit to him without even trying to understand him.

He was pretty good at being manipulative they probably took him at face value.

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that's exactly what they did.
none of them tried to look any deeper into his motives other than what he said (which was him bullshitting them).
medaka even claimed to have reformed him despite not having done anything to help/understand him.

Sometimes it feels like Nisio's trying way too hard to look edgy. You feel like he's conveying some kind of message about modern manga but it's hiding behind too many layers of irony.

I always loved his minus's believe though.

>first few powers have psuedo-science explanations
>then comes a reality warper and a literal god
Nisio sure had no fucking clue what he was doing.

plot twist:
he wasn't a minus the whole time, but was a non-equal that had a skill that turns all other skills that he gains into minus/negative skills and boosts their minus power over time. this is why when he got hundred gauntlets it turned into all fiction. it is also why he is able to make new skills by combining the skills he has (i.e. non-fiction and april-fiction).

it was his first serialized manga and it wasn't originally supposed to be a battle shonen so its not really that surprising shit got pretty loose as it went on

You may have missed the point

No user, a minus isn't based on what ability he had. It's about the personality and the outcome of those ability.

anyone want to tell me why it turned into a battle manga for no reason?

I for one, am glad that it turned to be battle manga. I dropped Medaka Box exactly at chapter one and picked it up again in chapter 56.

I have been there during weekly thread and even now I have never read chapter 2 - 54.

not if your a non-equal.
anshini'n had both abnormalities(plus skills) and minuses because she was a non-equal.

most likely popularity reasons. many jump manga go this way if they start to fall too low. Yu Yu Hakusho was originally just going to be Yusuke having ghost adventures.

I dont know man. I doubt Nisio is the type of guy that wants to run a weekly comedy ecchi romance manga

there was too much bs to make it enjoyable

Emukae's denial scene was tragic, but I'm glad they actually went through with Zen just saying "no" right to her face instead of stupid yandere shenanigans. Not like he was gonna end with anyone but Medaka in the first place.
She's still the best girl though and won in my heart ;_;

>comedy ecchi romance
really? the sense I've gotten from his work is that he likes all those things

His special ability is that he's a loser.

Yes but not as the main subject. He likes it as filler. He always goes full philosophical bullshit

>Keep forgetting what he did other than MB
>look him up, again
>re-discover for the 8th or so time that he wrote XXXholic and the _____gatari set
I'm surprised every time.
Every single time. It's incredible.

can explain the concept of the "adults" in japan when they compare it to teens like in MB?

He wrote a spin-off novel for xxxHolic (as well as JoJo), but the actual manga was made by CLAMP

Really? odd. You have a link for the spinoff?

Book Maker is OP as fuck you mongoloid. Kumagawa with All Fiction doesn't stand a chance against Ajimu, Medaka, etc. But Kumagawa with Book Maker can. He'll still lose though since that's the point of his character but it would give him a better chance than having All Fiction.

why the fuck does everyone have the same blood type

zenkichi you lucky dog.

no they didnt. it just became meh,

Because Abnormal have that kind of blood.

>zenkichi
>mentality= zero
>previous mentality= normal
what?

What does being a zero even mean?
Is he juat so average that it became a special thing?

Japaness have horoscope based on your blood type.
O have a special meaning but I forgot which one.

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We should have gotten a spin-off about Kumagawa trying to enter the work force while trying to be a responsible adult. In his own way
Or, even better, Medaka gives Kumagawa a gig as a teacher in Hakoniwa and we get "GTK"

Are there any other absolute madman characters that were more fun than Kumagawa?
Reigen from Mob Psycho 100 was based too but he was nowhere near Kumagawa's levels

>When translated from kanji, Devil Style means The Right to do What is Wrong.
but I thought it was a "no surprises" style like
oh you have another transformation? nope. well maybe not exactly but the exact manga page explained it better

He appeared in a total of 2 episodes of the anime and I still think he was the best thing on it.
And that extra episode's villain was retarded
That piano going nuts when he appeared in the last actual episode of abnormal was so great. They wasted Ogata by not making a "minus" season, she did a spectacular job.

Kaiki and Ii

>anime adaptation was done by Gainax, up to the minus arc

I'm still pretty mad, the anime was such horse shit compared to the manga. Why does monogatari get such a good budget and medaka box doesn't?

Dude, she was cute, and their relationship had promise with the first-name basis and him coming back from the dead to help her, but I doubt that.
They say the last time they saw him was the graduation ceremony and in the last chapter, the narration says Kumagawa vanished without a trace in defiance to the rest of the planet.
Unless he pulled some memory erasing shenanigans on Mogana, the kid ain't his.

>and him coming back from the dead to help her
My god I miss this fucker.
And I am of the opinion he was just as good as a villain
Anyone ever translated the novels?

I love pages like this.

One writer, One character, one guy who understands god tier fetishes and juxtaposition.

Dude subversions lmoa.

>I will aim for the cover of WSJ
Dammit, Kumagawa. You were far too good for this wretched world.

How can an antagonist that betrays people left and right be so pure?

There's no message, he's just doing what any other battle manga is doing but having his characters talking about it while they're doing it. It's completely generic but hiding behind meta.

Whose breasts are those on the right corner?
Is Kumagawa gonna pull some cinderella shit to find out? I'd read that.

Zaregoto got an adaptation. There's still a faint hope. And then it will be terrible