The Water Magician: Arc 1 Volume 3 - Good volume with a lot happenning. It took a bit to get the ball rolling but after the first 60-70 pages that were a slog to get through it switched paces and I wasn’t able to put it back down.
To Another World… with Land Mines! Volume 10 - Another volume with a totally unrelated side story just wedged in between 2 directly connected normal chapters. I just don’t understand why they do this. The volume has two noteworthy plot points apart from that stupid decision with the chapters. One, there is a ship that finally sailed, and two the the main story and side stories seem to converge and both parties should meet in the next volume. I’m looking forward to this.
Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World Volume 9—The series is losing me. The first five or so volumes were entertaining enough, but since then, it has felt like a chore to finish each volume. This volume, for example, basically skips over everything that could be interesting and rather spends around 70% of the volume on the same joke of three side characters fooling around again and again—literally the same joke. It’s like reading about the Three Stooges.
Another volume with a totally unrelated side story just wedged in between 2 directly connected normal chapters.
It’s even creeping up in anime too! Some character will show up for the intro of an episode or something and then you’ll won’t see them again for like 5 episodes.
the the main story and side stories seem to converge
Oh, I like it when stuff like that happens. I read one Sci-Fi book a while back that used this as a super cool misdirection. The story opens focused on one space battleship. There’s a war and it’s basically hunting another space battleship. You get to know the Captain and a bunch of the crew. Then the perspective switches to their enemy, the other space battleship. And you get to know their Captain and their crew… and they aren’t evil or anything. Both parties are only fighting because there’s a war going on. So you start to empathize with both sides. BUUUUT I started noticing that one ship started having more named crewmembers than the other one so I was able to figure out which ship was going to win before the end. Still, I was like, “why the hell are we switching perspectives so much” when I was first reading.
basically skips over everything that could be interesting and rather spends around 70% of the volume on the same joke
“They get ready and then this MASSIVE and AMAZING battle happens! But enough about that! After the battle ended, Curly gives Moe a wedgie. FUNNY RIGHT?!”
“They get ready and then this MASSIVE and AMAZING battle happens! But enough about that! After the battle ended, Curly gives Moe a wedgie. FUNNY RIGHT?!”
The Water Magician: Arc 1 Volume 3 - Good volume with a lot happenning. It took a bit to get the ball rolling but after the first 60-70 pages that were a slog to get through it switched paces and I wasn’t able to put it back down.
To Another World… with Land Mines! Volume 10 - Another volume with a totally unrelated side story just wedged in between 2 directly connected normal chapters. I just don’t understand why they do this. The volume has two noteworthy plot points apart from that stupid decision with the chapters. One, there is a ship that finally sailed, and two the the main story and side stories seem to converge and both parties should meet in the next volume. I’m looking forward to this.
Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World Volume 9—The series is losing me. The first five or so volumes were entertaining enough, but since then, it has felt like a chore to finish each volume. This volume, for example, basically skips over everything that could be interesting and rather spends around 70% of the volume on the same joke of three side characters fooling around again and again—literally the same joke. It’s like reading about the Three Stooges.
It’s even creeping up in anime too! Some character will show up for the intro of an episode or something and then you’ll won’t see them again for like 5 episodes.
Oh, I like it when stuff like that happens. I read one Sci-Fi book a while back that used this as a super cool misdirection. The story opens focused on one space battleship. There’s a war and it’s basically hunting another space battleship. You get to know the Captain and a bunch of the crew. Then the perspective switches to their enemy, the other space battleship. And you get to know their Captain and their crew… and they aren’t evil or anything. Both parties are only fighting because there’s a war going on. So you start to empathize with both sides. BUUUUT I started noticing that one ship started having more named crewmembers than the other one so I was able to figure out which ship was going to win before the end. Still, I was like, “why the hell are we switching perspectives so much” when I was first reading.
“They get ready and then this MASSIVE and AMAZING battle happens! But enough about that! After the battle ended, Curly gives Moe a wedgie. FUNNY RIGHT?!”
That is so spot on it’s scary.