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Shishunki Renaissance David Anonymous 11/27/18 (Tue) 03:03:14 No.882275

Let's have a thread about the most retarded and lovely WSJ manga before it gets cancelled for being too european.

The premise is that Michelangelo's David, along with other works of art like Botticelli's Venus, the Mona Lisa and the Manneken Pis are Japanese high school students. Venus is the class' pretty girl and David, despite looking like the ideal of masculinity, is an awkward dipshit. The manga frequently features a spoof of a famous paiting or sculpture. It also features girls headpatting girls.

Anonymous 11/27/18 (Tue) 03:43:27 No.882284

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It only took twelve chapters to get to this one

Anonymous 11/27/18 (Tue) 07:19:00 No.882314

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Gonna be a sad day when it gets culled for more generic shonen or isekai shit.

Anonymous 11/28/18 (Wed) 00:46:07 No.882466

>>882284

Another HxH reference? Looks like I need to read this.

Anonymous 11/28/18 (Wed) 01:41:56 No.882471

>>882284

It's such a silly series, but I enjoy that things often turn out alright for David. He keeps doing dumb shit, but it pays off in the end, instead of being cringe comedy.

Anonymous 11/28/18 (Wed) 19:06:21 No.882592

>>882471

Despite the silly premise, it's fairly clear the author has a lot of respect for Renaissance art. Bringing ridicule to all these highly dignified characters is a juxtaposition for comedic effect, but the manga takes great care to never go into straight mocking territory. In the end, all the antics so far are endearing and never cringeworthy, even Goliath is likeable. You can tell the mangaka is having a blast doing this.

Anonymous 12/03/18 (Mon) 20:00:07 No.883925

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The new chapter really took a turn.

I do like that, of all the pieces of art that have been adapted for this series, this is the one that makes the mangaka say "Fuck it, I give up. I'm just scanning this one in."

Anonymous 12/03/18 (Mon) 22:13:17 No.883970

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>>883925

>"Fuck it, I give up. I'm just scanning this one in."

Maybe he was just feeling blue?

Anonymous 12/04/18 (Tue) 09:34:57 No.884076

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>>883925

It's actually great how David, by meeting friends, is growing out of his immature horny teenager phase in a subtle manner. He is still an awkward nerd, but he has a sheer earnestness that shines through. He's already manlier than most romcom manga protagonists by chapter 13.

Also I find it funny how you can immediately tell a statue is exposed at the Louvre thanks to the lighting an the walls.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 21:57:46 No.886296

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In which the Statue of Liberty occilates between French freedom and American being sexless prudes.

Anonymous 12/11/18 (Tue) 23:28:24 No.886326

>>886296

Your liberties end where her dokidoki begins.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 04:15:59 No.886361

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>>886296

What the fuck? There's acknowledging the Statue of Liberty was made by the French and there's author-san naming her after the French national icon.

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 05:25:43 No.886373

>>882275

why are some of them drawn in the typical manga style and others look like their statue/artwork they are from?

Anonymous 12/12/18 (Wed) 05:30:49 No.886375

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>>886373

Mainly because it is hard to make cute looking girls while sticking strictly to their renaissance look without it looking deformed or uncanny.

all the guys look like their artwork.

Anonymous 12/17/18 (Mon) 22:38:22 No.887912

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The fifteenth chapter, in which Manneken Pis is a hardcore delinquent, David continues to be a model of a man beneath his silly guise, and an imitation of my favorite artist, Magritte.

Anonymous 12/22/18 (Sat) 18:11:15 No.889762

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I don't think there's been a single chapter of this series that I haven't enjoyed.

Anonymous 12/22/18 (Sat) 22:08:34 No.889838

How long can this absolute madman recycle art gold into comedy gold?

Anonymous 12/23/18 (Sun) 08:35:22 No.889963

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>Going all out on the references, a boticelli mug, and cute glutton venus in a single chapter

>Plus a christmas special

Buon Natale indeed.

Anonymous 12/23/18 (Sun) 09:15:03 No.889977

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I can't believe I waited so long. This is gold.

Anonymous 12/24/18 (Mon) 21:23:05 No.890377

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>taking the opportunity to shit on modern art

I love those Japs sometimes.

Anonymous 12/24/18 (Mon) 21:31:40 No.890389

>>890377

Abstract is too good to describe Pollock if you ask me. The concept of going past infinity is abstract, white noise isn't.

Anonymous 12/25/18 (Tue) 01:07:08 No.890749

>>882275

If this was made into an anime there would be a lot of stills.

Anonymous 12/25/18 (Tue) 03:02:13 No.891007

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I'm not artistic enough to appreciate this.

Anonymous 12/25/18 (Tue) 07:45:04 No.891227

>>890389

I had the same thought the other day. It could be used as complement to some other multimedia work like an anime for example, to some effect, but not as a standalone work of art.

Anonymous 12/25/18 (Tue) 08:21:46 No.891234

>>891007

Ehhh to be fair there usually aren't any art in jokes other than "name drop painting/sculpture." Art in jokes would be an old Greek statue going from colored to colorless or David's mom being Vittoria Colonna rather than Athena without being name dropped stuff like that that isn't overtly apparent.

Anonymous 01/07/19 (Mon) 18:15:45 No.895683

>>891007

The nice thing about the art references is that they are plainly stated. They're not in-jokes only art enthusiasts get, it's more "hey, like that artstyle ? Check the original out".

Anonymous 01/08/19 (Tue) 02:00:46 No.895793

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>Le Sommeil (translated in English variously as The Sleepers and Sleep) is an erotic[1] oil painting on canvas by French artist Gustave Courbet[2] created in 1866.[3] The painting, which depicts lesbianism, is also known as the Two Friends (Les Deux Amies) and Indolence and Lust (Paresse et Luxure).

>The painting shows two naked women lying asleep on a bed entwined in an erotic embrace, resting after sexual intercourse.[2]

Poor David. He was barking up the wrong trees the whole time.

Anonymous 01/08/19 (Tue) 04:33:42 No.895814

>>895793

I think the last couple chapters, this included, might have spelled the gimmick's running out of ~~charcoal~~ gas.

This series died quite fast in my opinion. I'll probably read some more but I think that's it.

Anonymous 01/09/19 (Wed) 17:28:51 No.896212

>>895814

>History of art is a gimmick

>David's plan to woo Venus went on perfectly and they're now in a place where it's completely plausible they could get together

<It's getting stale hehe

Don't you have isekai to read, axe-kun?

Anonymous 01/22/19 (Tue) 10:53:49 No.900242

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Finally a new chapter, in which spooky urban legends are bullied by bakas and bakas are bullied by moths, and Redon shows up again.

Anonymous 01/26/19 (Sat) 13:24:10 No.901693

>>900242

This chapter made me curious, if this is a reference to the Mary of Japanese urban legend, shouldn't it be translated as 'It's Mary'/'This is Mary'? I'd need to check the raws to confirm that it wasn't specifically written as 'I am Mary' though. I mean unless other people start their phone calls with "I am anon. Please return my onahole already Steve you sad you'd bring it back Monday" and I'm the weirdo that would use it's/this is.

Generally the translation is really on point so I'm inclined to trust them but this seems like a pretty big oversight for a simple thing.