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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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  • UnboxiousEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    I’ve read a whole ton of stuff lately in preparation for voting, so here goes:

    • Made in Abyss - Did you think that Dungeon Meshi had a cool concept and great execution but wasn’t nearly fucked up enough? Boy do I have a manga for you! I mean, it’s a story about delving into a hole in the ground while living off the land and whatever monsters they happen to find along the way! The similarities are definitely there; it’s just that Made in Abyss has far, far more suffering and messed up stuff that happens. Great story if you can get past that though; to me this was the best fantasy I’ve seen in a while.
    • Love Bullet - There are only a few chapters of this out, but all 8 of them that I read were quite enjoyable. It’s a story about modern-day cupids battling it out to see whose ships sail.
    • The Eminence in Shadow - This one had me laughing almost constantly. The main character is absolutely nuts, and he’s a real treat to watch. I really hope Cid wins “Best Main Character”.
    • The Demon King’s Daughter is Too Kind - I got bored about 3 chapters in tbh. Wasn’t a fan.
    • ReluctantZen@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Made in Abyss has far, far more suffering and messed up stuff that happens

      I hear many great things about MiA, but this is what’s keeping me from watching/reading it. I’m not sure what to expect from this. Is it Berserk level? Or more like Re:Zero? Or more like Promised Neverland?

      • UnboxiousEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I haven’t read Berserk, but it’s worse than anything I saw in the first 2 seasons of Re:Zero or read in The Promised Neverland.

    • wjs018OPMEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      This lines up with my experience with all of these series as well, with the exception of Demon King’s Daughter. I thought it was fine, but I think there are better cute SOL series out there. Like you though, I didn’t get too far in before I stopped reading, so perhaps it gets better.

      I stopped reading Made in Abyss at a certain point because it just gets darker and darker as it goes. The worldbuilding and thought that goes into that series is phenomenal, but it just became a bummer to keep reading.

      Also, glad to see another fan of TEIS. The manga version of the story is genuinely hilarious and I love how crazy they let the manga get. The LN and anime are much more serious by comparison, to the point that when the anime came out, a bunch of manga readers were disappointed not to see buff Minoru (a manga-original addition) before he was isekai’ed and became Cid (among tons of other manga-original jokes).

      • UnboxiousEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        to the point that when the anime came out, a bunch of manga readers were disappointed not to see buff Minoru

        Me! That was me! After I read the manga I saw the first episode of the anime and it was kind of a bummer tbh. I was curious about whether that was in the original LN, so thanks for answering that!

        • wjs018OPMEnglish
          3·
          7 days ago

          The first episode of the anime threw a lot of people for a loop. It was content actually drawn from LN Vol. 4 depicting Minoru being the Stylish Thug Slayer. The LNs and manga don’t show the Akane-related content until they get to the LN4 part of the story. So, if you hadn’t read through LN4 when the anime premiered (the most recently released volume at the time), then the whole first episode was anime-original to you. On top of that, the first episode rolls the end credits early and then has a long post-credits sequence.

          Very mild spoilers for first 4 episodes of the anime

          Honestly, I appreciate what it was trying to do, but I think the way they sequenced the first ~3 episodes of the anime was confusing for a lot of people. Also, by having the Akane kidnapping in episode 1, it made a lot of people think that kidnapping girls is all the series is about due to both Claire and Alexia seeing their own kidnappings very early in the show as well.