Bearswithjetpacks
Reading the Spice and Wolf LN on a tour bus in the mountains of Taroko, Taiwan will always be one of my favourite memories.
If the community grows to a size as large as the manga subreddit, my guess is that it’ll take on similar characteristics - that’s the nature of manga in its current state and culture. It’ll only be different if conscious effort is put in to moderate the content and direction of discussions that take place here.
I suppose the good thing here is that it’s like we’re starting on a clean slate, and we can actually steer this instance in the direction we want it to go, at least for now.
It’s upsetting that the subs for media as broad as television and books and movies can hold substantial discussions and for the most part feel like a proper forum, while r/manga just made me feel like I was perpetually stuck in some corner of a sleazy bookstore dedicated to horny boys and men.
That’s not to say that there weren’t good conversations and recommendations to be found. I spent a good bunch of my time on that sub because the hidden gems were worth digging through the dirt to find. I’m just hoping the things I see and read here will be more palatable.
Shout-out to my American EMS brothers and sisters! May the patients you pick up have relatively manageable mangled limbs!
Yeah, this one’s a gem.
Honestly, it felt like this series had lost a little momentum before these past few chapters, but the tension and pace has really ramped up again, especially with Hikaru’s performance! I love what has been done with her character - there’s no personal spite or malice directed at Akane or anyone else, just a drive to prove to oneself the limits of one’s ability and ambition, and the same goes for the rest of the contestants. No doubt whoever wins this competition, everyone partaking of it leaves the venue enriched by the Rakugo they get to experience. I’m very excited to see the climax of this arc.
Apart from meta which has already been explained, players also play heroes which they’re familiar with. So the saying goes - “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” Some players become synonymous with certain heroes because they become such dominant forces in the game when given those heroes. Pros will practice and get exceptionally good at a small pool of heroes rather than play all heroes at a mediocre level.
It hasn’t been years but I wonder what Yuuji Kaku could have done with Ayashimon were he given the chance to tell that story in full. It had no time in Jump to lay the groundwork, but the Yakuza Yokai setting oozed style.
Ginka and Glüna was another series that was taken from us before its time. I think it suffered by being a little more cartoonish and straight edge in its storytelling in a time when Jump readers seem to be into more dramatic and edgy themes.
