Submitted 3 days ago by wjs018@ani.social to manga@ani.social
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.
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
Been quite a long time since I last posted on my highlights.
I discovered Baby Shachuuhackers.
“School is a bit suffocating.” 16-year-old high school girl Yonagi Fuji lives and sleeps in her car, but only in the backyard of her house because she doesn’t have a driver’s license. She wants to sleep in her car wherever she likes. Then, she meets a cheery girl from the same school who has a driver’s license, Ichinose Asahi?
It is definitely not an activity I would entertain, but the story is flowing nicely, the characters are very likeable, and the art is gorgeous. Not sure if it is yuri or not yet, and honestly don’t really care.
I also managed to finish I Reincarnated as the Little Sister of a Death Game Manga’s Murder Mastermind and Failed.
One day, Mai remembers that her perfect stepbrother is a character in a death game manga, and that one year later he will hold a death game involving all of his classmates, killing his sister in the process. Mai plans a variety of surprises for her stepbrother every day based on what he said in the manga, “Nothing unexpected happened, so I was bored,” but as the days go by, he begins to show abnormal signs… Only I know what my brother’s really like.
The concept is nice, but the story goes quite downhill. From deranged psychopath, he becomes severely yandere (which I loathe with a passion). Don’t really recommend this.
I have a metric ton of Play Store credit, and grabbed all available volumes of Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden.
Lying on her deathbed with seemingly no chance at recovery, a young Nia Liston is soon to succumb to her illness. Unable to give up hope, her parents desperately search for a cure in even the most obscure places, leading to the appearance of a hooded man claiming he can help rid Nia of her condition. But rather than curing her, the hooded man transplants the soul of a deceased hero who was undefeated in battle into the girl’s frail body. Given a second chance at life as Nia, the hero is determined to recover her new body’s strength by using a technique known as chi to target and eliminate the illness at its roots. With her enthusiastic hunger for combat having also been carried over, Nia is eager to return to exploring the world. However, the hero’s restless soul yearns to find a worthy opponent who can defeat her on the battlefield, sparking chaos wherever Nia may go.
This is insanely good. Go buy it. NOW.
Apologies, but you will have to wait a day or two for my normal comments in these threads due to traveling on my part. I just don’t have the literal or figurative bandwidth to do much atm.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Desktop reader talk
I took the time to set up and try out Suwayomi since last week. As expected, I don’t really like having to use a browser to use it but it’s alright otherwise. It does have a problem with detecting that my system is using dark theme and ends up launching with bright colours every time but that’s not a huge problem. Komikku is working fine as well. This one’s problem has to do with the way it searches through source sites - you can’t cancel a call for sites it’s still waiting for response from, even if you found what you were looking for. So if for example I add a new series to library and want to look for something new while the previous search didn’t finish (calls to some sites can get stuck without response) I have to restart the app to do so.
This also isn’t a huge issue (it’s relevant mainly when importing my library during an initial setup) but it’s a stupid nonetheless. —
Manga talk
The One Within the Villainess
I binged through the series last week. Despite having the same potential issue as May I Ask for One Last Thing?, i.e. completely overpowered MC, this one ended up having more going on for it in the end. Some examples that differentiate both titles:
Funnily enough, anime adaptation was announced a few days after I finished the series - perfect timing.
Side Characters Deserve Love Too
I did not expect MC to be a simp, let alone such a huge one. Her obsession ranges from hilarious to tiring, with the former being the more common occurrence thankfully. While the series can be a bit one note at times it’s still pretty fun to binge, if only to have something to do.
Late season 1/season 2 thoughts
While Joe was always kind of a Mary Sue character she still had to work within limitations early on, however small they were. When the war arc started I thought it had a lot of potential for some interesting story beats. That lasted up until the middle of the first battle chapter when our MC with no combat experience and very limited training quickly became the god of death and any tension just evaporated immediately. Like… it’s not like I wanted the series to suddenly change genres but man, can’t you keep the suspense for at least a moment? At least the final arc delivered pretty nicely. It had suspense, stakes, drama - pretty much everything I was missing from the rest of the story. It also got a bit darker compared to everything before it without go overboard.
In the end I did end up enjoying it quite a bit. I do have to say though: Benji > Kyle. I know he had no chance but I still prefer the side character to the side character. Especially considering how Kyle turned out to be in the end (not terrible, just not how I enjoyed him).
I Shall Master This Family
Woman gets thrown out of a noble family after everyone who had some respect or ties to her is gone, then she dies and is resurrected as her 7 year old self. Objective: take over the family.
Really solid so far, both in humour and writing in general. I appreciate that MC acts like a kid while working on her long term plans to improve her (and her dad’s) standing in the family. While the presentation is light and fun for the most part, story doesn’t shy from more serious topics like political manoeuvring, child abuse or bullying.
It’s my next binge target for sure.
PrincessKadath@ani.social 2 days ago
Firentia, one of my most moved protagonists. You’ll enjoy this one.
Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Her drive and care for other characters is truly moving, autocorrect knows what’s up!