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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Debut or Die!
https://mangadex.org/title/b753dae4-5c05-4a3a-aa03-70aa94da90ec
A comedy manga that starts out dark, but following that focuses on RPG like elements for a debut show for idols chock full with comedy and characters that you can support as you read chapter after chapter
I really liked this and as a result led me to read ones about filming, acting, writing and signing too.
The Knight Only Lives Today
https://webtoons.com/en/originals/a/list?title_no=6672
https://kotatsu.app/manga?source=WEBTOONS_EN&name=The+Knight+Only+Lives+Today&url=6672
A new Manwha released this year focusing mostly on the idea of being an average person and using the experience of your death to improve your skills to impossible levels
It starts off quite exciting and it’s a great read, becoming less serious as time goes on
it’s very interesting to see how our main character adapts to the threats and i found it to be chock full with fun characters
Sounds like Re:Zero
Re:Zero is trial and error, where he tries to solve the problem
Regressing Knight is Education through Repition, where he attempts to improve his talentless self through solving near impossible conditions rather than running
(Not that I’m saying it’s completely different, but it focuses on different topics)
A couple series I wanted to highlight from what I read this past week:
What would you do if the girl you love is already in an arranged engagement with another guy that is super nice, talented, and rich? Would you crossdress as a girl and then get hired as his maid in order to seduce him to break up the engagement? Well, that’s what happens in this series. As you would expect from a premise that silly, things get silly and messy. However, there are also some great characters in this series and it has been fun.
The finale for this series came out this past week and it was great. Don’t be intimidated by the chapter count in this series as they are all just single-page chapters. I really enjoyed it and for a good long stretch of time, this was one of the first things I would load up and check each morning to see the latest chapter.
This series has had a pretty inconsistent release schedule on Mangadex, but I really like this series. If it was up to me, I would have given this series the Best Artwork award personally. I am mainly including this series here to shill for it any chance I can get.
Maid Hachiya-kun Is In Love / Maid wa Koisuru Hachiya-kun
Also, Hachiya x Ikegai > Hachiya x Hanazono.
Hachiya-san x Ikegai is great, but so is Hachiya-kun x Hanazono. I do feel like we haven’t gotten much time with Hanazono and I would appreciate more chapters with her and Hachiya-kun to help us better feel his professed feelings, but the maid antics are just too much fun. The real wildcard is where Kyousuke is going to end up in all this
Sounds like a problem for modern cupids to solve
Oh man, can we get the Love Bullet girls to swoop into romcoms that are stuck and not moving anywhere? I would love to see them step in to some series and take the proverbial shot. Also, how they would resolve some tangled webs of love polygons.
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.
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?
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.
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).
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!
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.
