Daily Manga Thoughts 2: The Return

We Never Study is kinda threading water. I'll still read it, but my only real excitement for it is Sensei chapters. Most anything else is the "Misunderstanding" trope.

I still think Food Wars is a quality manga overall, but no denying the last arc was pretty subpar and shat its pants a bit. Pretty reminiscent of when Bleach went downhill, I think FW just ran out of ideas and would've been better off ending an arc earlier.
The ending is going to be some Prison School type of ending.
 
Oh, Our General Mayo is one of the most perfect manga ever. An adorable little girl, through hereditary succession becomes the General leader of communist socialist country Coldonia.
 
DMT:
Ooh, it's a red letter day for me. The nice old ladies next door have a moved out son who collects manga. And since he's gone and it was taking up space, guess who lucked into an assload of manga to read? This guy. We're talking...

 
DMT:
Ooh, it's a red letter day for me. The nice old ladies next door have a moved out son who collects manga. And since he's gone and it was taking up space, guess who lucked into an assload of manga to read? This guy. We're talking...


Neat you got some cool stuff in there. Would have been a shame if it had all been girly shoujo.
 
I have Citrus queued up for watching, so I thought it would be a good idea to finally introduce myself to yuri manga. Turns out that yaoi isn't the only one of the pair that's laden with predictability and silly tropes. Also, related or not, the familial angle it takes on makes me feel weird in at least one way or five. Please don't force a living situation by doing this.

On with the search.
 
I have Citrus queued up for watching, so I thought it would be a good idea to finally introduce myself to yuri manga. Turns out that yaoi isn't the only one of the pair that's laden with predictability and silly tropes. Also, related or not, the familial angle it takes on makes me feel weird in at least one way or five. Please don't force a living situation by doing this.

On with the search.

Bad romance tropes know no boundaries, they just morph according to target audience.
 
I happened upon the page for Reiko the Zombie Shop last night and genuinely want to read it. It sucks when your interest is piqued by something that started over a decade ago, and the only way you can find to read it is costly and inconvenient.
 
I started trying to read Scum's Wish a few nights ago. Regardless of whether I like it or not, (leaning more towards the latter), it has some of the nicest art I've seen. Maybe I'm just biased as I've been reading yaoi, though...
 
DMT: Independent manga can get confusing with the tags. Oh, shounen romance you said? Well they're eventually actually fucking in this one.
 
DMT: Geez, I really thought Manabi Ikiru wa Fuufu no Tsutome was just weeb bait until it went 1-100 with that premise backstory reveal. Jeebus. That actually made me accept it.
 
I've been reading manga again, which is definitely an odd experience. I started out with marathoning Dragon Ball's first sixteen volumes, and am now working my way through a bunch of digital manga bundles I bought a while back.

I doubt that I'll start ongoing manga, but this at least I'm reading something.
 
I've been reading manga again, which is definitely an odd experience. I started out with marathoning Dragon Ball's first sixteen volumes, and am now working my way through a bunch of digital manga bundles I bought a while back.

I doubt that I'll start ongoing manga, but this at least I'm reading something.
I'm reading so dang much manga. So much easier to do at any time than anime. Places like r/manga on reddit has then also made it easier to keep up with ongoing series, and has introduced me to serious gems I otherwise would not have found.
 
I'm reading so dang much manga. So much easier to do at any time than anime. Places like r/manga on reddit has then also made it easier to keep up with ongoing series, and has introduced me to serious gems I otherwise would not have found.
It just feels like a bit of a gamble to pick up ongoing manga, but maybe the scanlation scene is more reliable now than what it was seven years ago?
 
It just feels like a bit of a gamble to pick up ongoing manga, but maybe the scanlation scene is more reliable now than what it was seven years ago?
Well I certainly totally do not engage with such lowly criminal scum, but there does seem to be more consistency. More series get regular updates than suddenly stopping by a pretty good margin. A series one picks up being canceled IRL rather early is a bigger concern.
And the "big" series have scanlators falling over themselves to snipe series at the first opportunity.

It's actually kind of a concern: there's people in the industry that leak the digital files used for the prints, which means the fastest pirates can get a translated chapter out literally before the Japanese version is available for sale. That genuinely upsets me, what with legal services like mangaplus literally letting people read the latest chapters for free, yet being undercut like this. It's probably just a matter of time before places like r/manga gets targeted by the ritual purgings that the industry does occasionally in order to protect the precedent of their copyrights. The mods are scared to confront the issue, and it's going to come back to bite them when the day of reckoning comes and the admins come a'knocking with a cease and desist letter they received from the manga industry.
 
Well I certainly totally do not engage with such lowly criminal scum, but there does seem to be more consistency. More series get regular updates than suddenly stopping by a pretty good margin. A series one picks up being canceled IRL rather early is a bigger concern.
And the "big" series have scanlators falling over themselves to snipe series at the first opportunity.

It's actually kind of a concern: there's people in the industry that leak the digital files used for the prints, which means the fastest pirates can get a translated chapter out literally before the Japanese version is available for sale. That genuinely upsets me, what with legal services like mangaplus literally letting people read the latest chapters for free, yet being undercut like this. It's probably just a matter of time before places like r/manga gets targeted by the ritual purgings that the industry does occasionally in order to protect the precedent of their copyrights. The mods are scared to confront the issue, and it's going to come back to bite them when the day of reckoning comes and the admins come a'knocking with a cease and desist letter they received from the manga industry.

Oh, right, legal day one releases are a thing now (as in, for years). I've forgotten about it since CrunchyRoll got neutered by Kodansha.
 
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