Pictures of the MANGA of CRACKTASTIC DOOOOOM!

[telophase]

I've been talking about this manga all afternoon, and just got a chance to scan some representative pages, so you can see that I AM NOT LYING when I mention things like RAISED BY PIGEONS and RAMPAGING BACKHOES.

If you want to read the other entries first, and trust me: you really do, click on the raised by pigeons tag and read backwards from the bottom.






Near the beginning, Shota gets reprimanded by his sensei for fighting some thugs who were challenging the dojo.



Here's a closeup of the HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU NOT TO USE KARATE FOR FIGHTING panel for rachelmanija




And Shota's big moment of realization as he sees a man fix a TV with a light bash! This is how he can use karate to enhance poeple's lives!




And now, downtown Tokyo as the static-discharge warning is broadcast. Here's Momoko, our heroine, futilely raging against the vending machine!




HONEST TO GOD SHE WAS RAISED BY PIGEONS.




Shota's traumatic past! RAMPAGING BACKHOE!




I DIED SAVING YOUR BLACK BELT THAT YOU THREW DOWN IN ANGER!! With a bonus of OMG PARALLEL IN THE CURRENT TIME! (The shack that he lives in ON TOP OF MOUNT FUJI collapsed around Momoko as he attempted to fix it with one blow.)




Remember that I mentioned that he LIVED ON TOP OF MOUNT FUJI? Well...




YES. YES, HE DID. I AM NOT KIDDING. HE MADE FUJI ERUPT.




Later on in the story, Shota and Momoko hook up with a small-time con man Kanji. He wants to take advantage of Shota's unreliable fix-it talent and make money. Shota agrees, provided that they travel. At the moment, the world is made of urban areas surrounded by desolate wasteland. Here, Kanji tries to dissuade Shota by mentioning the horrible, violent gangs that live in the wasteland between the cities, including (I type here in case you can't read the text in the image) the Go Enthusiasts Clan, the Pencil Carvings Enthusiasts Clan, the Puppy Eyes Enthusiasts Clan, and the Winter Morning Futon Clan. He also calls Shota a criminal, which causes the lovestruck Momoko to whip out her secret pigeon martial arts.




...which they think is just as insane as we do.





Conclusion: THIS MANGA IS MADE OF WIN AND CRACK AND AWESOME. BUY IT. BUY IT NOW.

Remember: this is Hikkatsu! Strike a Blow to Vivify by Yu Yagami, published by Go!Comi.

Comments

[oyceter]

OH. MY. GOD.

RAISED BY PIGEONS! SHE IS ACTUALLY RAISED BY PIGEONS! THERE IS A PIGEON ON HER HEAD! SHE TALKS TO THEM AND CALLS THEM MOM AND DAD!

I think that's an entirely new level of "fowl of DOOM!"

[telophase.livejournal.com]

YES! YES! YES! YES!

I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU! I TOLD YOU!

BEST MANGA EVER!!!

[coraa.livejournal.com]

PIGEON! ON HER HEAD!

so awesome.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I BELIEVE YOU ARE CORRECT.

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Raised by pigeons... shack on top of Mount Fuuji... *has no words*

PS. meganbmoore linked me to this and told me to friend you - all part of her master plan to get me addicted to manga. So, hello!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And rampaging backhoe! This is, like, the ultimate manga!

*waves* Welcome to the insanity. :D

[myrabidpetspoon.livejournal.com]

SECRET FIST OF THE PIGEON!!!!!! and a RAMPAGING BACKHOE??????? THERE ARE NO WORDS!!!!!!!!!!
*bows down to telophase and the manga made of PURE WIN*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

YOU MUST NEVER USE KARATE FOR FIGHTING!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

this looks amazing. i must have more than ever.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And I haven't even told you everything, just because you guys will want to discover some of it for yourselves. :D

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

The puppy eyes enthusiasts nearly got me, but the line that killed me was the "Hey, Shota, do a repair blow on this girl's head" while she's shouting out pigeon attack names.
(taking a deep breath to regain control of myself)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I managed to hold it in until near the end, when an unnamed character pops up - you will have to buy it yourself to see who and why - while thye're looking at auroras in the sky, and says, in tones of ringing DOOOOOM, "I hate it. Aurora lights in the skies of Japan. THEY'RE JUST PROOF THAT THE WORLD IS BROKEN!"

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

I am joining the Puppy Eyes Enthusiasts Clan.

Dogs. They have eyebrows, you know?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The Haiku Enthusiast and Bonsai Enthusiast Clans are mentioned earlier. I'm hard put to decide. :D

[khursten.livejournal.com]

o hai!
destroyed brain much. Will show you secret fist of Mt. Fuji one arm two twist attack in gratitude. @w@
kthxbye. XDDDDD

This is the best manga recommendation anyone has ever shown me. XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Little did I know what wonders lay before me as I set foot in Borders during lunch today...

[cicer.livejournal.com]

As I said in oyceter's post: I like how the people of this world are apparently savvy enough to fix their broken technology with carefully-placed karate chops, and yet these is no foster care or CPS. Nice.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Maybe the pigeons are CPS!

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Must. Buy. NOW.

One legged Pigeon attack!!! Birdsonnerhead!!! Rampaging backhoe!!!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And that's not all! But you must buy to seeeeeee! XDDDDDD

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

SOLD!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I knew you would appreciate it!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

ANGRY!

That's my favorite part. Even more than the pigeons.

ANGRY!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrassed to admit that it took me a long time to even notice that they'd translated the sound effects. XD

[chomiji]

>wonders why Momoko has no guano on her head<

I blame my Mom the neurotic/manic-depressive microbiologist (may she rest in peace) for these occasional attacks of utterly irrelevent logic.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Someone made Mt Fuji erupt with one blow of his fist, and you're worrying about guano. :P


:)

[bitpig.livejournal.com]

From the art, I'd say she was raised by ordinary rock pigeons (Columba livia) — hardy, cliff-dwelling birds which mate for life and are indeed among the more intelligent dove species. She did well to hug them — it's rare for a rock pigeon to live more than 15 years or so.

Fun fact: after the chicks are hatched, Mother Pigeon flies off to collect forage, leaving Father Pigeon to tend the nest. He feeds the chicks a nutitious liquid called "pigeon milk" which he produces from the lining of his crop.

I'm just glad she wasn't brought up by those depressing Mourning Doves (Zenaida macroura)...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Or Inca doves - they infested the Trnity campus and I had a Bio professor who delighted in telling us how vicious they were. :D

[tavella.livejournal.com]

...you should crosspost this to scans_daily, so that others can share the wonder that is RAISED BY PIGEONS!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I may have to do that. :D But tonight, so I can upload and link to the larger versions of the scans in case anyone wants to read the itty-bitty text. :)

[kulimar.livejournal.com]

Nice find. This looks awesome. I love totally ridiculous and over the top things like this (long live FLCL).

-Kaz

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's really the outrageousness of manga that makes me read it, and something that takes that just that one step too far is awesome. :)

[madame-manga.livejournal.com]

.... ....

Sign me up for the Winter Morning Futon Clan.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think if there were a Fluffy Baby Kittens Clan I might have to join that.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

So I woke up this morning still completely exhausted. Staggered through my morning routine and out the door, hating the world. Walked a block and came across the pigeon on the sidewalk, just pecking around.

(Since when do pigeons come out when it's raining, anyway?)

I thought, of course, "RAISED BY PIGEONS!" and my outlook on the world did a backflip.

(Thank you.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heee! XD

Strangely, I didn't notice any pigeons outside work this morning. Wonder where they all went?