Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.
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Tried reading Hakutaku, Shonen Jump’s newest thing. A game development manga sounds like a cool idea! Anyways, wow. That was complete shit. Character A (can’t remember her name, doesn’t matter) has been developing games for 3 years instead of going to school. She’s bad at it. Character B (can’t remember his name, doesn’t matter) has been learning to develop games for closer to 3 weeks. He’s somehow, inexplicably good at it. He can program. He can do art. He can do game design. He can do sound. Of course, this is all just stuff we assume he can do since the manga doesn’t show us any of this. It just shows those two teaming up and agreeing to make something together, then BAM! It’s done! Just like that. And everyone loves it. So Character A asks Character B if he wants to make games with her again with her as the producer and marketer and him as the person who does literally everything else. No clue what a producer or marketer even does here, and the manga sure isn’t going to show us. He agrees, and BAM! They made a fun game again. Completely off-screen. I’m dropping this. It already occupied too much of my time at 3 chapters; aint no way I’m giving it more.
Was it a physics based dragon simulator by any chance? 😅
No, but it might as well have been for all the awareness the mangaka appears to have had for what they were writing.
Following up on my comment in the previous thread, I bought the following manga on BookWalker to support them and keep them going:
Just like Love Bullet, these are not only among my top favourites, but also only have one volume released.
My contribution is just a drop in the bucket but hopefully it’s better than nothing.
Just read the first couple chapters of Wild Idol and it is pretty good. It reminds me a lot of Smoking Behind the Supermarket, just without an MC that is really dense.
I have been pretty busy this past week and, with the start of the new anime season, have spent more time on the anime side of things rather than the manga side. So, the backlog has grown quite a bit. However, that is also due to me finding a series that I have been enjoying and working my way through to catch up with the current chapters:
I have been really enjoying this series as I have worked my way through it (up to about chapter 10 atm). I guess I had been missing a good yuri series ever since I finished up Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord. So far, it has been really good. With one of the leads being mostly deaf, it is a bit serious at times (moreso than Kimi wa Yakamashi Tojite yo Kuchi o! was), but it manages to keep things light enough to not tip over to melodrama territory.
I managed to catch up to where the first season of the anime wrapped up. I paused my reading there at the moment since that is about when I found the first series I mentioned above and it kind of sucked up all my time instead. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here though.
This is only a handful of chapters in and has been pretty cute. It doesn’t really reinvent the wheel of romcom by any means, but the execution is pretty funny. The ways in which Momose constantly screws up her attempts at romance are pretty original.
moreso than Kimi wa Yakamashi Tojite yo Kuchi o!
I am still salty about it. I loved it so much, and they just had to do that. I’ll go back in my corner and shake my head.
