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Weird as hell ride though, in a very fun way. And reading what's out of their new manga, Dai Dark, it's even weirder. You can def tell Q has a type when it comes to ladies and guys both.
Also because I'm crazy/my tablet is nice to read on, I'm reading all of Black Clover from the beginning. It's honestly got it's moments, but boy I could do without the fanservice. It's not sexy, it's just creepy!
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I was wondering because
I also don't generally like this is how strong your magic is because of how you were born and nothing you can do about it type stuff.
I really wish i liked Dai Dark. Dorohedoro has the most amazing world building. It just feels alive. Dai Dark does not. The world just feels kinda empty. Plus the characters are all basically Superman in power level which is lame.
On the subject of Fern's power level:
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She's a prodigy not in the blessed with good genes sense, but in the "loves to practice" way. And it's all been under the guidance of an elite teacher.
well shadowrun or VtM would have had to have been invented about 20 years earlier and caught on in the american cultural zeitgeist in the same way and been exported to japan in the early 80s
Current episode spoilers
Fern didn't win because she's superior to Ehre in magic, Fern won because Ehre underestimated her and by the time she realized that she was already done for.
Modern mages are pretty similar to demons. They've all got this notion of "dignity" of a mage and both Frieren and Fern take full advantage of that attitude to win. Ehre even mentioned that Wirbel is the same in his methods.
Anyways, this series does something pretty interesting later on (way after what this season of the anime will cover) that I haven't really seen in these fantasy isekai stories. Granted, this series is still an ecchi harem isekai and this spoiler is not going to change that if you don't want to engage with that kind of stuff.
The afterword in each volume does keep saying "The next volume will probably be the last," but so far that hasn't been the case. It's currently on track for between 1/4 and 1/3 of the entire series to just be it's epilogue, assuming it actually does wrap up in the next volume or two.
Which is kind of funny for a series that was very loosely based on the Lord of the Rings (with the Japanese title even being a direct reference).
she has a social life now, since Stark is around! sort of...
also the other big American TTRPG influence in Japan is, like
Call of Cthulhu
so
Yeah, it does seem like everything really is over, and I appreciate it giving us closure on a bunch of things, but it also could have done this, like, a hundred chapters ago and it would have been better for it.
I'm enjoying Dai Dark for what it is and it's strange, empty yet complex world. It's got a very good texture all of its own
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I realized the other day that I’m a year behind now
The upside: ha ha! By putting off reading it for a year, now I have a year’s worth of chapters without having to deal with week to week cliffhangers!
Greatest Estate Developer is second-place and is also starting to do some very interesting things.
Quick! Fix this!
But seriously, i'd be genuinely interested in your take when you catch up.Where'd you leave off? I'm guessing somewhere in the mid-30s, or 40s? so around the point of the Zenza training?
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E: ok yeah it finished airing in december, apparently not a split cour either, there is a movie though. (Released in japanese theaters in december)
I guess they were catching up too close to the manga and didn't have enough material for 24 more episodes.
Chapter 42 was the last one I read says my saved spot in the SJ App, so right before
I started reading it after someone here (you?) described it as a revenge story in disguise.
Fake-Edit: the most remarkable thing that happened in the latest Apothecary Diaries happened in the preview for the next episode
Something about this back feels wrong. I don't know if it's just the trapezoids going too low or if there's something more.
That said, I'm very much looking forward to next episode.
The second most remarkable thing was
That was me!
Part of the reason I love it so much is because it's an incredibly human story, and by having the stakes not be world ending stuff - instead, just a young woman out to prove that her dad's art held value - it's able to really bring the characters to the fore.
It's also just exceptionally well written. There's a bunch of subtle, clever things done with who we've seen perform, and how their performances are presented
Very minor spoiler on that for example
To say nothing of how it takes a lot of standard Shonen tropes (training arcs, rivals, petty politics, tournaments) and uses them to great effect.
The art is also genuinely magnificent, like I'm putting it up with both Hiromu Arakawa and Ryōko Kui (FMA, Dungeon Meshi respectively) in quality - and they're two of the absolute best in the industry.
All the more so when you consider that Rakugo is a mostly audio based performance art, with minimalistic acting - translating that info a visual medium, especially a silent visual medium is one hell of a challenge.
Also just on a personal level, I love learning about the intricacies of other cultures, and this is a fascinating window into art form I'd have trouble learning about otherwise. Delightfully, there's a Redditor on /manga who posts with more details about the Rakugo world each week in the weekly threads. It's very cool.
I really hope if/when this gets an anime adaptation - which like it keeps getting colour pages, it's gotten an insane amount for such a young manga - they get a studio and voices across who can do it credit
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Meanwhile, Martial Master Asumi continues to tread exactly zero new ground -- it's a manga about fighting and that's what it's about, but it's just a really _polished_ version of that sort of thing; the choreography is always clear, the action sequences have impact, the character progression is all pretty standard, but it's doing such a good job of what it's doing that it's very enjoyable even so.
The quick plot pitch is that high school girl Miyagi ends up paying her classmate 5k yen once a week to come hang out with her. Miyagi's a mega-latchkey kid with no mom and an absentee salaryman dad and an anxiety disorder, and Sendai's the disappointingly-just-pretty-good younger sister to an over-achieving sibling, so her parents mostly ignore her which she returns with a quiet hatred of her family. Around their friends at school they're both seen as nice normal girls, but the transactional nature of their relationship ends up perversely liberating for them both. Abandoned, anxious Miyagi is drawn to the feeling of having control over a relationship, Sendai doesn't need the money but finds it validating to have someone provide such a tangible proof of her value to them. Their relationship takes a pretty quick swerve into the psychosexual, and there's definitely some fetishes there getting explored. Not actually having sex but definitely some very heavy sub/dom vibes and such.
What I appreciate about the writing is that like, a lot of crappy writers would go, "Sweet, they're doing weird shit to each other, that's endgame, that's the fantasy." The writing here is smart enough to know that what the girls actually want is to like hold hands, go on a date, and come out to their friends, but all that requires things like emotional intimacy (terrifying), self esteem (lacking), and risk taking (again, terrifying). Both of them are deeply conflicted - they want to get closer but they're scared of change, they want to know how the other girl thinks of her but they're afraid to say how they feel, they want people to know that they're an item but they don't want their peers to judge them.
So it's all kind of a reversal of that normal romance story arc where an attraction gradually builds until finally they get together and smooch or sex each other. This story starts with physical intimacy, big moments are instead like, the first time Sendai volunteers to cook Miyagi dinner, the first time they go do something out in public together, the first time they hug. It's oddly wholesome! It's also nice that for once a Japanese author doesn't let things ever get kinda rapey - they're always very conscious of consent. Also,
I'd say the gold standard for "these two are thoroughly twisted yet compliment each other" is Flowers of Evil, and relationships never factored in at all(not between the two leads, anyway).
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To piggyback off of this a bit...
IMO, this also lends itself to a slightly different interpretation of what Frieren said about Zoltraak being enough for mages of the era. Frieren wasn't necessarily making a general statement about the era they live in as much as she was making an assessment of what Fren might need in respect to fighting other mages. In other words, no need to get fancy when you can snipe them when their guard is down before it matters or exploit an opening in their defense the moment it appears.
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