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Everything Burrito posted:yeah, "a bit stiff and could stand a little more editing & proofreading" would be how I'd characterize it. Readable imo but I'm also used to just mentally fixing dialogue to something that makes more sense as I read things so it doesn't slow me down lol Yeah, that's fair. I've been reading a lot of stuff with really smooth translations lately, so this was just a bit jarring.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 01:01 |
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The official release of Love Me for Who I Am got an early digital release and is out now. Regarding translating otokonoko, they just left the term as-is with a bit of an explanation, which I think is a great choice. Edit: Forgot I also meant to mention this is (part of) how they handle Mei's worrying over her pronouns: Onean fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jun 5, 2020 |
# ? Jun 5, 2020 07:01 |
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The author apparently got mobbed and scrubbed a lot of their stuff from Twitter and pixiv because people were accusing them of fetishisation.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 07:09 |
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its plenty common for artists to change their presentation as they progress further into a career of serialization but konayama hadn't changed much about their accounts until localization news hit which i thought was eyebrow raising. in any case, like everyone else in the world, the mangaka wasn't born with some innate knowledge of modern lgbt culture. they grew interested in it and decided to learn more and draw a manga exploring it. accusing them of drawing 'fetish content' previously does nothing to contradict this. well, here this sort of talk should be preaching to the choir. good localization. tankoubon author notes are always nice.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 07:34 |
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Onean posted:The official release of Love Me for Who I Am got an early digital release and is out now. Regarding translating otokonoko, they just left the term as-is with a bit of an explanation, which I think is a great choice. Speaking of, there's a new chapter out. 'Fetishisation' is a very vague thing for the author to have come under attack for though. I guess I don't really know much about them besides their latest work and from a quick look some touhou doujins I probably read years ago, but they seem ok.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 07:57 |
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Speaking of, there's a new chapter out. Uh, holy poo poo, what an abusive rear end in a top hat.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 08:32 |
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Speaking of, there's a new chapter out. Oh good
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 14:02 |
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Rody One Half posted:The author apparently got mobbed and scrubbed a lot of their stuff from Twitter and pixiv because people were accusing them of fetishisation. Antis ruin everything.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 14:08 |
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i saw some of that and its really funny that 'the artist tagged a picture trap once' turned into 'the artist is a pedophile' turned into 'the manga itself has pedophilia in it' twitter sucks
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 15:41 |
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I've recently (just today) started reading Love After World Domination and it's super funny and also heartwarming.
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 20:18 |
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Endorph posted:i saw some of that and its really funny that 'the artist tagged a picture trap once' turned into 'the artist is a pedophile' turned into 'the manga itself has pedophilia in it' What I saw was things showing the artist drew loli and shota stuff which is where the artist is a pedophile came from
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# ? Jun 5, 2020 23:56 |
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Ah, im glad calling a stranger in another country a pedophile on twitter was actually based in facts and logic
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 00:11 |
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we've historically seen that criminal pedophiles draw things like rurouni kenshin and torako and get the wrist slap if caught, yet twitter mobs try to unperson authors who explore taboo subjects through fiction and art. also, artists keep this content to their own spaces, to comiket, to pixiv, to nsfw-labeled twitters, et cetera. barging into twitter threads where perhaps confused teens are looking for a story that speaks to them, and screaming about pedophilia is a brutalization of the experience they deserved. Space Flower fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Jun 6, 2020 |
# ? Jun 6, 2020 01:15 |
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Ibram Gaunt posted:Antis ruin everything.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 02:08 |
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Space Flower posted:we've historically seen that criminal pedophiles draw things like rurouni kenshin and torako and get the wrist slap if caught, yet twitter mobs try to unperson authors who explore taboo subjects through fiction and art.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 03:13 |
Eh, I mean in this case wasn't it like actual porn of a young character who looked young? I don't feel the need to go on a crusade after people but it's not like it's a groundless accusation.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 03:43 |
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Cuntellectual posted:Eh, I mean in this case wasn't it like actual porn of a young character who looked young? It's basically just people who are primed to think of lgbt fiction as secret weapons deployed against them by people who hate them. Instead of like, things, made by people
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 03:53 |
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Speaking of, there's a new chapter out. I havent read this in months and i already hate myself
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 04:01 |
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Sono Bisque demonstrates two extremes of cosplay. On the one hand you have an earnest person interested in a hobby and has no biases. Simple curiosity and a desire to improve their craft but not one to participate. And on the other you have someone who is in it for the excitement and the characters. But also for the tits, however real they might be. They make a great couple.
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# ? Jun 6, 2020 15:29 |
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Brought To You By posted:Sono Bisque demonstrates two extremes of cosplay. On the one hand you have an earnest person interested in a hobby and has no biases. Simple curiosity and a desire to improve their craft but not one to participate. Y'all gotta quit making me like these straight romance comics. It's starting to make me think heterosexuality is acceptable, and it scares me. (Just binged it. Also, I kinda REALLY want to play the fighting game from ch31 now, even if the feature character is just a straight up Ramlethal stand-in.)
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 00:42 |
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Gutter Owl posted:Y'all gotta quit making me like these straight romance comics. It's starting to make me think heterosexuality is acceptable, and it scares me. Just play Rev2 and imagine you're playing it.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 00:58 |
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chumbler posted:Just play Rev2 and imagine you're playing it. I do. I'm an Axl main. But Xrd really moved away from the edgy gore n' pentagrams, notebook doodle aesthetic of the X and XX titles, and i've got a lot of affection and nostalga for that particular flavor of extra garbage. Skullgirls is the closest methadone for that sort of gurowave vibe (and I'm pretty sure the nurse character Vanessa in Sono Bisque is a supposed to be a direct reference to Valentine), but its still super jokey at heart and also tag games make my brain bleed. gutterdaughter fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Jun 7, 2020 |
# ? Jun 7, 2020 01:09 |
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Gutter Owl posted:Y'all gotta quit making me like these straight romance comics. It's starting to make me think heterosexuality is acceptable, and it scares me. quote:(Just binged it. Also, I kinda REALLY want to play the fighting game from ch31 now, even if the feature character is just a straight up Ramlethal stand-in.)
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 01:49 |
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Unsure if it’s been posted itt before, today i discovered Ikoku Nikki (https://mangadex.org/title/35217/ikoku-nikki) while working through my plan to read backlog on Mangadex. Pretty nice Josei slice of life/drama about a teenager moving in with her aunt
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 09:16 |
In a follow up to the Alcohol Yuri Anthology, having an offline room is good. And then there's a worrysome high school debut which is a bit outside my usual comfort zone but is just so drat cool and good that it makes up for it.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 10:58 |
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honestly i can't remember the last time i saw the criticism of 'fetishization' referred to something actually fetishizing and wasn't just twitter speak for 'i dislike this media'
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 11:32 |
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DisDisDis posted:honestly i can't remember the last time i saw the criticism of 'fetishization' referred to something actually fetishizing and wasn't just twitter speak for 'i dislike this media' I mean, when someone says an isekai is fetishising slavery, they're usually very literally correct.
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 11:38 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I mean, when someone says an isekai is fetishising slavery, they're usually very literally correct. thats clearly not at all whats being discussed here
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 12:25 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I mean, when someone says an isekai is fetishising slavery, they're usually very literally correct. those people generally also aren't running harassment campaigns against the person who drew it
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 12:25 |
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i can think of like. one instance of a slavery ln author actually getting impacted by the backlash against their work and it was because it was so absolutely, ridiculously over-the-top flagrantly nationalistic to such an extreme degree, with a main character who literally was a japanese war criminal whose super power was killing chinese people, that once news of its content got out after the anime announcement, the lns got pulled and the anime production melted in less than a week with every single voice actor pulling out of their roles. i've never seen something like that happen before or since contrast that with how regularly mangaka and artists who just post stuff online are personally impacted by people taking up an obsessive hatred against them for drawing something they didn't like
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 13:20 |
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its funny because you have some mangaka or artists who literally openly post anti-lgbt sentiments and nobody gives a poo poo but if someone who clearly has empathy for gay people maybe executes a story arc in a slightly fumbling way or might think astolfo is hot they get 70 billion death threats
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 13:23 |
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The Colonel posted:i can think of like. one instance of a slavery ln author actually getting impacted by the backlash against their work and it was because it was so absolutely, ridiculously over-the-top flagrantly nationalistic to such an extreme degree, with a main character who literally was a japanese war criminal whose super power was killing chinese people, that once news of its content got out after the anime announcement, the lns got pulled and the anime production melted in less than a week with every single voice actor pulling out of their roles. i've never seen something like that happen before or since meanwhile the manga adaption kept on truckin like nothing had happened
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# ? Jun 7, 2020 20:18 |
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So I've now read the first seven chapters of The Worst Witch in the World and wow, the Professor is really handsy and inappropriately boundary-pushing Quinta can definitely do better
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Darth Walrus posted:I mean, when someone says an isekai is fetishising slavery, they're usually very literally correct. i don't read isekai. it's a really common bad thing to say about lgbt media that i've never seen actually engage with the content of the media (beyond, perhaps, 'this has sex in it, which is bad')
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# ? Jun 8, 2020 09:27 |
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Kubo 28 Only read if you want to see a stone cold murder via Kubo's sister.
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# ? Jun 8, 2020 12:12 |
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Nate RFB posted:Kubo 28 Geez, I thought you meant the older sister. That was a one-shot kill.
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# ? Jun 8, 2020 14:47 |
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ToxicFrog posted:So I've now read the first seven chapters of The Worst Witch in the World and wow, the Professor is really handsy and inappropriately boundary-pushing That said, I'm now kind of invested in it and want to keep reading to see if Professor ever gets his poo poo together and/or Quinta tells him to gently caress off, because they're clearly getting set up as the canonical couple
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# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:20 |
Takeshisu shows us how things can get in this night of flight.
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# ? Jun 8, 2020 18:21 |
The Alcohol Yuri Anthology has been completed, and the last stories include a story by Tatunokosso about getting drunk and twisting the thread, while Yakiniku Teishoku shows us us that 3 minds together will bring about the wisdom of monju, and Kuune Rin shares how to love again. Inui Ayu also tells us about going beyond just a kiss, which is also .
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# ? Jun 9, 2020 14:06 |
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Super good new one-shot from the author of Octave Wandering in the Sky e: lotta drinking in yuri romance lately
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# ? Jun 11, 2020 04:16 |