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Been reading some old school mangas lately.
Specific, Desert Rose (manga from the late 80s about a merc group of hot babes) and Golgo 13.
Desert Rose is pretty fun and I do enjoy how they thought the world would look like in the "near future" and how terrorism would be fought.
They have an OVA that you can watch on YT (only subs)

Golgo 13 however, is not that fun. Nearly every chapter is the same and Duke Togo does not have much of a personality.
It is interesting to see how he plan the hits and how he does them, but Duke himself?
I never get a feeling that he is in any danger at all.
I get that he is supposed to be "international man of mystery" but his personality is just boring.
Golgo is still worth reading, but don't read many chapters at one, as they start to blend themselves together.
 
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did you expect anything more from isekai?
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The idea of "My useless skill is actually overpowered" is more Light Novel shit than isekai, and the best example for it is Magical Index. With Light Novels, especially ones that take place in the real world, you can understand why young adults would want the appeal of being secret badasses despite being average at best in their class (heck there's entire father-oriented media franchises of that type of being ex Marine/CIA).

With Isekai, secret badass is just overkill in being a pity party despite the main character being sent by god and doesn't need to be in some place where he is constantly compared to his peers.
 
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Been re-reading Needless. That manga is pretty amazing when it comes to its action and comedy scenes. One moment a villain gets clowned on by comedic effect and on the next page, gets their head blown off and dies. This just reminded me why a used to love anime/manga so much, just how absurd, goofy, and fucked it all could get on a moments notice.

Damn shame the anime never got a second season.
 
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Golgo 13 however, is not that fun. Nearly every chapter is the same and Duke Togo does not have much of a personality.
It is interesting to see how he plan the hits and how he does them, but Duke himself?
I never get a feeling that he is in any danger at all.
I get that he is supposed to be "international man of mystery" but his personality is just boring.
Golgo is still worth reading, but don't read many chapters at one, as they start to blend themselves together.
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Would that be because the kills themselves aren't that exciting? Compare that to Agent 47 in the Hitman games, who canonically (I think) pulls off hits by making them look like accidents, which are more flashy to see in some cases.
 
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Would that be because the kills themselves aren't that exciting? Compare that to Agent 47 in the Hitman games, who canonically (I think) pulls off hits by making them look like accidents, which are more flashy to see in some cases.
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Agent 47 is also a player character in a video game, where being an empty husk is beneficial since then you, the player, can project yourself onto him. Golgo is also an empty husk lacking in any form of personality or artistry, but he isn't a player character and thus is meant to be his own person where the emptiness and purely by the numbers business style works against him. It also doesn't help that his strictly professional way of doing things makes all his contracts start to feel very samey.
 
Literally thanking God that I had poor impulse control several years ago now that I know Space Brothers is very much out-of-print, and probably has been for a few years now. Had purchased the entire eight DVDs at once on a whim think in late-2019 because I knew that'd be the only way I'd ever watch the series lol.
 
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Agent 47 is also a player character in a video game, where being an empty husk is beneficial since then you, the player, can project yourself onto him. Golgo is also an empty husk lacking in any form of personality or artistry, but he isn't a player character and thus is meant to be his own person where the emptiness and purely by the numbers business style works against him. It also doesn't help that his strictly professional way of doing things makes all his contracts start to feel very samey.
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I'm really looking forward to Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2. The Nightcrawler and Manhunt vibes look amazing. I'm hoping for it to be much more violent than Season 1. I want it to be a borderline snuff film with the characters going off the deep end.
 
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Agent 47 is also a player character in a video game, where being an empty husk is beneficial since then you, the player, can project yourself onto him. Golgo is also an empty husk lacking in any form of personality or artistry, but he isn't a player character and thus is meant to be his own person where the emptiness and purely by the numbers business style works against him. It also doesn't help that his strictly professional way of doing things makes all his contracts start to feel very samey.
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I would say that Agent 47 has more of a personality than Golgo (as he at least has a backstory) and you get hints throughout the games about who 47 is.
Golgo?
really nothing.
 
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I would say that Agent 47 has more of a personality than Golgo (as he at least has a backstory) and you get hints throughout the games about who 47 is.
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Personally I'd say it's six of one half dozen of the other, but where 47 benefits is the fact that I am directly controlling him which adds a layer of artistic flair and dynamism to his work since I'm the one adding a personal touch and choosing how to kill a target, so even if I do it in a boring or by the numbers sort of way it still feels deeper/more exciting.

Golgo needs more theatricality to his jobs or more depth to his character outside of them to not come across as a plank of wood.
 
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