Just looked up Fire Punch, and the premise does seem interesting. Not too many chapters to catch up on either. Might have to try this one out next. 

Is that because everyone is talking about Bleach now? xD If that is the case, I understand. I don't follow bleach either...

I knew going with the Jump-esque image was the right call.  It's Jump+, anyway, whatever that is.

Also, since I posted that, an awesome new character has appeared.  She seems to be both insane and hilarious.  That's always a good combination.

Yep that is absolutely a person from the Manga/Anime. Not sure of their name yet -but I instantly reconized the picture.

You should watch it. I'm not sure why I expected something "serious" - but this isn't serious at all. It is light hearted and great.  I can recommend a couple places where you can download it, if you don't want to deal with having to stream it off crunchroll.

I watched it yesterday, too.  The joke in that page is in the anime but I feel like it was better executed in the manga, probably due to translation. 

One thing I really like in manga that anime can't replicate are those little side comments.  Sometimes they're really funny or informative, almost like thought bubbles, but they make no sense in animated form.

Also, yeah, Super is leading a Jump revolution.

I just started something called Fire Punch and, holy cats, it's brutal.  Lots of death.  It's about a dystopian world where everything is snow and ice.  People are born who are blessed, meaning they have powers, and a particularly powerful Blessed named the Ice Witch has brought ruin to civilization.  Most villages are on the edge of freezing and starvation but some have grown powerful by preying on and enslaving others.

The titular character of the manga is a boy who has fantastic regeneration abilities--which, as it turns out, isn't that great of a thing when people are starving.  Yeah, like I said, it's brutal.

Bad stuff happens, obviously, and he essentially turns into Kratos, except MORE UNKILLABLE.  Lots of people dying, innocent and bad, lots of Fatality! type kills.

Pretty interesting.  I see 11 chapters out and I'm on chapter 7.

I don't follow Bleach, so much as I shadow it; like a vulture waiting for something to die.

You had me at the bolded. I kinda wavered with the italic...but I came back and then some with the underlined.

I'm too lazy to look it up, but I know Shueisha has a lot of other manga under its umbrella, and several that use the Jump brand. I don't know the difference exactly, but I'm pretty sure it has a monthly version and a few online-only versions used for spinoff manga (I recently found out that Ao no Exorcist is in a monthly version of Jump, for example). I don't know too much about it, but there was a Gintama gag once where Gin and Zenzo told each other to read various Jump spin-offs while fighting over the main magazine. And I take everything in Gintama as law of course.

It looks like Fire Punch is weekly though, which is good for me. Since I tend to lose interest in monthly...wait I think we already had this conversation. Hm. *scratches the back of his head*

Sweet! Glad to hear that joke is in there. I heard it was being adapted into an anime and was wondering how it would turn up. Having been up to date with it, I was worried the anime wouldn't be so good, since I feel the comedy in this manga is so-so at times, or not really even there. I feel like it's more about the art and the cute characters than having good writing. I dunno if that's just me though. The 1st couple of chapters I really enjoyed.

Now that I think on it, I don't think I've really both read manga and watched their adaptations for any works I followed, so I'm not really familiar with differences between a manga version and anime version. If there was an anime version of Yotsubato though, I would soo watch that. Too bad the mangaka is completely against that, so that will never happen...

As I said in the anime thread, New Game is like a moe version of Shirobako.  Now go watch Shirobako, it's an extremely good original anime about producing anime.  Very informative, too.

Have you seen/read Azumanga Daioh, the previous work by the mangaka of Yotsuba?  It's one of my favorite anime of all time and one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Speaking of hilarious, I just read the latest + Tic Neesan, which is always ridiculous, and laughed out loud.