Essence_of_Meh
@Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 hours ago:
After Ross announced the campaign is dead a bunch of YouTubers (and media, I think?) picked up the topic and started spreading the word far and wide. This is the result.
- Comment on Manga recommendation where girl "saves" guy for selfish or narcissistic reasons? 1 day ago:
Noted and added to the pile, much obliged!
- Comment on Manga recommendation where girl "saves" guy for selfish or narcissistic reasons? 2 days ago:
I’m a bit torn on this since with Melissa I always felt more like she’s beating some sense into unruly children rather than manipulating them. Still a great series though!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 27] 2 days ago:
I went for a bit of a palette cleanser since last week and decided to read Hero Killer - a brutal action manhwa about a world with villains and heroes with magical gifts.
I’m a bit mixed on it to be honest. Not because it’s bad (it’s fine in what it tries to be), it’s just most of it doesn’t really vibe with me. The story is edgy and treats itself super seriously, action is flashy but can be messy and unintelligible at times while character proportions (especially MC) can vary widely panel to panel. I was actually very close to dropping it after a dozen chapters or so.
Then the unexpected happened - authors started to show how much of a goofy goober MC really is. Not only her! There’s a lot of side characters who feel like they’re from a completely different series, so you go from the main antagonists of the story who are edgy and serious to the other half of the cast being absolute weirdos in comparison.
This one thing is honestly the only reason I’m still reading for now - I don’t care about the epic conflict, I don’t care about hero/villains politics, I don’t care about MC’s motivations. I just hunt for the scenes of MC being silly and weird and acting like she’s part of a gag manga rather than a protagonist of a bloody action adventure.
Also a good amount of well built female characters is always a plus. They aren’t crazy buff for the most part (they’re mostly the lean fighter types) but compared to how scared many action series are of showing muscular women I’ll take what I can get.
- Comment on Manga recommendation where girl "saves" guy for selfish or narcissistic reasons? 2 days ago:
I’m not familiar with Welcome to NHK but I have something that might fit the premise.
Villains Are Destined to Die is a manhwa about a woman being transported into a video game as a villainess who, as the title suggests, is destined to die. Because she’s familiar with the game and REALLY doesn’t want to die she does whatever she can to manipulate the male leads of the game to avoid that outcome. That includes helping a slave whose sole purpose for her is to become her loyal servant/guard.
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- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 5 days ago:
He actively misrepresented the campaign and spread misinformation about its goals. I don’t know if he genuinely didn’t understand or if he was too embarrassed to admit to a mistake but he did a lot of damage to the momentum and perception of the whole thing.
It sucks these big creators only now pick up the mantle but it’s better than nothing. There’s still some time left.
- Comment on [DISC] The Saga of Tanya the Evil - Ch. 90 6 days ago:
Another season was announced a while back, I believe - no specifics about the release though (or at least I’m not up to date with what’s going on with it).
- Comment on [DISC] A Useless Idol and the Only Fan in the World - Ch. 42 1 week ago:
Understandable. Last year (I think? maybe earlier) there was a discussion about people’s wants and needs for the community and someone mentioned having trouble with Japanese titles. While I personally don’t mind either way this is still an EN community so I decided to go with translated ones going forward to make it easier for people with similar issues. It can get a bit confusing when things go back and forth with every post though.
As for the nursing arc… yes, gimme!
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 26] 1 week ago:
That she is, though since you mentioned silver hair I can’t not respond with my a soft spot for Renee from The S-Class Lady.
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- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 26] 1 week ago:
To be fair, I did read this one too and mentioned it in previous threads (thanks for the suggestion, again). Besides, both MC’s do look pretty similar too.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 26] 1 week ago:
That’s the one I meant, I guess some places use a different title for it.
Get well soon! 😊
If I die… tell my mom… I left some ice cream in the fridge.
- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 26] 1 week ago:
I’ve been pretty sick and extremely busy so no much reading for me. I did keep up with the series I post here as well as catch up on Villains Are Destined to Die. One thing to mention on the latter - I really appreciate how done the MC is with everything. She had a shit life in real world, shit life in the game world and all she wants is to be left alone to exist in peace. It’s great.
Final update on my desktop app journey - I’ve decided to drop Komikku (it’s fine but has too many small and annoying quirks) and moved all the things I want to Suwayomi. The latter has it’s problems as well (to the point I use it less then initially planned) but the overall experience is better than Komikku so I guess I’ll manage.
A’ight, back to resting.
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- Comment on Manga Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 24] 3 weeks ago:
I returned to migrating my library away from Mangadex (I was lazy and took a break as doing so on a phone is a pain), while doing so I realised that some of the series I’ve moved over before stopped being updated on the new site and had to transfer them again. A bit annoying but thanks to that I found there were new chapters to catch up on and did just that. Other than that I’m still on the same binge as last week this time.
I Shall Master This Family
I caught up with all the available chapters and I can safely say I love this series. It’s engaging, has great art (and outfits!) and is simply a joy to read. It’s actually kind of bad because I ended up binging it too eagerly (as in, to the point of losing on sleep). Good thing I’ll have to wait for the updates now, I guess?Random thoughts:
- I hate the extravagant displays of wealth. This isn’t a problem with the series specifically (it obviously fits the story) but rather a general sentiment I have towards such things.
- So many sweet and emotional moments, I love it!
- Lorraine is precious and has to be protected at all cost.
- I feel sorry for Ramona, getting NTR’d by a higher power sucks.
- I’m not a fan of the magical elements in the story and think they don’t bring anything of value to the series. Thankfully they are extremely rare and don’t add much (except for 2 or so events) but that only makes me feel they could’ve been removed without losing anything.
Spoiler thoughts
I don’t really like Perez x Tia pairing - not because I don’t like either of them or think they don’t have chemistry but rather… it just doesn’t feel like an equal relationship. Perez feels too emotionally dependent on Tia due to all that happened between them. Besides, Ramona losing her fated love interest is just sad.
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