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I've started reading komi-san after having it on my backlog forever and it is very cute. I love komi's "staring" face, it's adorable and goofy, wspecially when she sprouts cat ears when she shows particular interest in something. I just got to the end of her having her friends over for the first time and it was all just really cute. The cast so far seems to take a given archetype and crank it until the dial snaps off, komi being the socially awkward type going nearly full mute with the occasional stuttering gibbering, tadano is explicitly generic to the extreme to the point that his one defining trait is the white sprout on his head, najimi is the childhood friend stereotype magnified to infinity with gender ambiguity thrown in, etc. All very fun, some of the other introduced characters aren't great but the main three are worth it by themselves. Also komi's mom rules. I kept seeing people complain about the yandere character and thought the competitive weirdo was her but she wasn't. Very fun series though. The whole borderline cult hierarchy going on with the classroom is a trope I could do without though honestly.
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Oh hello yandere character Okay yeah she super sucks and not in a fun way, and this is only one chapter after her introduction, bummer Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 09:16 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 09:12
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normal anxiety often includes believing that everyone is staring at and judging you. komi's life sucks because she is so pretty that everyone actually does. every time she goes out, crowds of people stare at her and whisper to each other.
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May 16, 2018 09:24
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Yeah. This is a case where the typical ~school queen on a pedestal~ doesn't just inexplicably take it in stride but instead becomes fairly emotionally crippled by it. I'm wondering if it'll go into why her family hasn't sought help for her if it's been this big a problem for so long, or if it'll just kinda be brushed off as Just One Of Those Japanese Things like most treatments of psychological issues, or just not dealt with because that wouldn't be funny. Though after getting past the visit to the yandere's room I don't know if the author thought this was a good thing to have for comedic purposes, because it was skeevy as gently caress, holy moly, there was nothing good about that entire handful of chapters I just read beyond komi saying she would choose who her friends would be. Whole thing was intensely uncomfortable and the attempts at humor were awful.
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May 16, 2018 09:48
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Yamai sucks and never gets any better. Everyone else in Komi-san is good.
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May 16, 2018 09:54
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Good to hear. Shame yamai appears to continue to show up.
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May 16, 2018 11:03
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She gets less face time as the cast expands.
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May 16, 2018 12:13
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Yeah I distinctly recall her rotating out of the main recurring cast after a while so that's good.
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May 16, 2018 13:38
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Ah good, immediately into meeting a chuuni, and a suitably goofy one too It's really amazing how...expressive komi can be despite just being a pair of eyes and
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May 16, 2018 14:56
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Yeah, one of the nice things about Komi-san is that the author seems to realize which parts/characters suck and slowly eases them out of the story.
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May 16, 2018 15:30
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I want more of Onemine-san, she's cool
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May 16, 2018 15:32
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Captain Invictus posted:Ah good, immediately into meeting a chuuni, and a suitably goofy one too One of the hallmarks of good character design is being able to recognize them from just one or two defining features. Komi's giganto-eyes, Najimi's antenna things, and Tadano's hair-flower-burst are all you really need to see. Regarding Najimi: Some people seem to be down on how Tadano treats/harps on them regarding gender. Part of the problem is the translation, since in Japanese you can get away with not gendering someone in speech but English only has awkward "he/she/they"-type signifiers. But also, Tadano is constantly kinda exasperated with Najimi in general, not only about gender but about ... well, their entire personality. Showing up in a dress after spending all of middle school in a boy's uniform is just another drat thing with this idiot. They're still very close friends, of course, but Najimi's the wind, baby.
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May 16, 2018 15:36
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Najimi is cool and Tadano is the idiot of the relationship if he can not understand how cool his genderfluid friend is.
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May 16, 2018 16:55
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"Isn't it weird and wacky how my friend is wearing a SKIRT when he used to wear PANTS? I just cannot deal with my strange friend's wacky antics." - completely reasonable Tadano
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May 16, 2018 17:12
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attn dis: read this one http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/nichijou_climax/
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May 16, 2018 17:36
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I want to live in the alternate universe where the comic is about Najimi falling in love with Komi san because she's the first person they have trouble befriending.
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May 16, 2018 19:20
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It's still weird if you look at najimis uniform he/she wears a skirt but the boys tie and not the girls bowtie. I just kind of ignore the gender and understand it's just a gag, about childhood friends.
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May 16, 2018 19:26
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DisDisDis posted:I want to live in the alternate universe where the comic is about Najimi falling in love with Komi san because she's the first person they have trouble befriending. I am going to make an Isekai about another world where its exactly the same as ours but decent mangas are replaced with much better counterparts and Najimi manga will feature in it. e: Also feature would be a version of Yona of the Dawn where Lili is a member of Yona's harem. Snooze Cruise fucked around with this message at 19:31 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 19:29
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Najimi is cool and good, but is also kind of annoying as a person. However that's fine and somebody has to keep pushing the two dopes together.
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May 16, 2018 19:32
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Nihilarian posted:"Isn't it weird and wacky how my friend is wearing a SKIRT when he used to wear PANTS? I just cannot deal with my strange friend's wacky antics." - completely reasonable Tadano I don't remember it exactly but I honestly think his reaction when he first sees them is like, pretty normal for a young guy in modern society and doesn't really come off malicious. The only one I really thought was bad was the pool one cuz it's such an obvious boring joke and they would actually look a lot more out of place in the men's room in that instance and there's never been any indication in the rest of the comic that the girls would be uncomfortable having them around. Chillyrabbit posted:It's still weird if you look at najimis uniform he/she wears a skirt but the boys tie and not the girls bowtie. I actually like that touch with their uniform a lot
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May 16, 2018 19:33
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Snooze Cruise posted:I am going to make an Isekai about another world where its exactly the same as ours but decent mangas are replaced with much better counterparts and Najimi manga will feature in it. Both Yona and Geun Tae are spoken for, a true Lili tragedy
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May 16, 2018 20:12
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Also in my isekai where the mangas are better, that manga about the love rival being a ghost would have been about the ghost. And I would have more of that vampire thing to read the prunus girl person is doing. And Takako Shimura would write better endings. Rodyle posted:Both Yona and Geun Tae are spoken for, a true Lili tragedy There are not enough tears in the world.
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May 16, 2018 20:13
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Maybe she'll become a Sailor Uranus fan and move to Xing.
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May 16, 2018 20:16
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Prunus Girl College Years 
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Rodyle posted:Maybe she'll become a Sailor Uranus fan and move to Xing. Oh, so that is the reason why I like Kouren so much and think she is the coolest.
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May 16, 2018 20:25
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DisDisDis posted:I don't remember it exactly but I honestly think his reaction when he first sees them is like, pretty normal for a young guy in modern society and doesn't really come off malicious. The only one I really thought was bad was the pool one cuz it's such an obvious boring joke and they would actually look a lot more out of place in the men's room in that instance and there's never been any indication in the rest of the comic that the girls would be uncomfortable having them around.
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May 16, 2018 20:37
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DisDisDis posted:Prunus Girl College Years
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May 16, 2018 20:37
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DisDisDis posted:Prunus Girl College Years But when BL Wife & Wife?
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May 16, 2018 20:39
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Nihilarian posted:I don't remember if its the same incident you're talking about but the one that actually kinda pissed off is the "he/she/it" one. the joke is Najimi is wearing casual girls clothes at the pool and is on the way to the changing room with the girls and Tadano grabs them and is like 'where are you going' and then iirc there's a text box next page that says 'in the end they used the single occupancy' or something. don't remember what you're refering to tbh
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May 16, 2018 20:42
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Schubalts posted:But when BL Wife & Wife? It's ok, there's room for Prunus Girl Adult Life After College too
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May 16, 2018 20:44
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Snooze Cruise posted:I am going to make an Isekai about another world where its exactly the same as ours but decent mangas are replaced with much better counterparts and Najimi manga will feature in it. A world where romance manga continues after the main couple gets together. 
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May 16, 2018 20:58
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We already had Jitsu Wa. Also Ore Monogatari now that I think of it.
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May 16, 2018 21:05
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Agronox posted:We already had Jitsu Wa. Also Ore Monogatari now that I think of it. Between Smooth and Rough, Horimiya, Koudaike no Hitobito ...
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May 16, 2018 21:13
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perhaps the idea that no romances go on after the couple gets together is a cliche based on reading a narrow amount of works
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May 16, 2018 21:15
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May 16, 2018 21:33
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May 16, 2018 21:35
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Cake Attack posted:perhaps the idea that no romances go on after the couple gets together is a cliche based on reading a narrow amount of works So, this question has more possible answers than the ones I got in 2016? gmq posted:I want to read something where the couple ends up together, it happens before the end of the manga, and the manga is actually finished and it was a good ending. Basically, the rarest possible type of manga.
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gmq posted:So, this question has more possible answers than the ones I got in 2016? Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa
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May 16, 2018 22:25
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Itoshi no Nekkoke, Blue Sky Complex, Octave, Pieta, Honeymoon Salad
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Tsuru Tsuru no whatever, the one about the dude whose family runs the fish and lizard pet shop.
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