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Isekai Authors Hate Her: Local Manga Author's Work Has Themes
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Feb 4, 2024 23:04
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Dolash posted:The series mines the gently caress out of the thematic significance of consunption and desire. The Winged Lion is a great antagonist for actually developing those ideas with. I'm watching the show with my fiance who didn't read the manga and I'm very interested to see her take on it develop. It feels like a Japanese take on Warhammer Fantasy, where on the micro level you're a bunch of schlubs trying to get through a dungeon without starving or getting murdered and on the macro level the entire world is hosed up because of people grasping for both earthly and supernatural power, and those two levels feed into each other.
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Feb 5, 2024 02:28
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VideoWitch posted:Isekai Authors Hate Her: Local Manga Author's Work Has Themes uhhh i have it on good authority that themes are for eighth-grade book reports
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Feb 5, 2024 02:48
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Isekai has themes, they just aren't good themes for example, a common theme in isekai is 'slavery is totally fine actually/a good way to get a girlfriend'
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Feb 5, 2024 19:16
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Again I want to shout out her one shots if people haven't read them yet. If you dig high concepts unfolding into something else its kinda her main mode of work. Wolves Tell No Lies and Distant Utopia are up there in regards to best one shots I ever read. Wolves Tell No Lies even has who I would say is a prototype Laois.
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Feb 5, 2024 21:40
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Distant Utopia is incredible
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Feb 6, 2024 02:25
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Snooze Cruise posted:Again I want to shout out her one shots if people haven't read them yet. If you dig high concepts unfolding into something else its kinda her main mode of work. Wolves Tell No Lies and Distant Utopia are up there in regards to best one shots I ever read. I'm doing so immediately.
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Feb 6, 2024 03:29
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The Members of the Inutani Household may be my favourite so far.
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Feb 6, 2024 04:28
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Metis of the Chat Thread posted:The Members of the Inutani Household may be my favourite so far. I like that one but I especially like "Byakuroku The Broke" and "A School for Angels" and "Misunderstandings" and "Attorney at Law" and "Novel-dive" and "Distant Utopia" and
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Feb 6, 2024 05:08
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Hey, how dare you overlook the best one, All Of Them ( But Mermaid Sanctuary particularly rules )
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Feb 6, 2024 05:14
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Extremely Wealthy from Terrarium in a Drawer is my personal favorite, just from how good the punchline is
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Feb 6, 2024 05:43
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Metis of the Chat Thread posted:The Members of the Inutani Household may be my favourite so far. yeah, like from an objective viewpoint i think wolves beats that one but for like personal favorites inutani household is tied with a distant utopia for me. its just fun!
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Feb 6, 2024 07:36
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I think I'm just bad at literary analysis but I'm not able to understand "Wolves Tell No Lies".
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Feb 6, 2024 07:59
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Nebrilos posted:I think I'm just bad at literary analysis but I'm not able to understand "Wolves Tell No Lies". Right. The first few pages are from the in-universe manga the mom creates about her son's condition. Then the manga goes to the "real world", where her son is a young adult with more complicated feelings about his mom and his condition than the manga indicated, especially when trying to connect with a cute girl at his college. That help?
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Feb 6, 2024 11:03
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there is also a subset of diary manga about, raising kids with ____ , its playing off of like how you can find a mom blog about having a kid with autism or whatever
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Feb 6, 2024 11:24
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There is also this piece published in one of Harta's anthologies that was translated recently. Some people here might not have noticed it. Warning, there's nudity. Amumin fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Feb 6, 2024 18:31
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VideoWitch posted:Extremely Wealthy from Terrarium in a Drawer is my personal favorite, just from how good the punchline is I'm fond of the swerve in this very short short I don't think is collected anywhere.
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Feb 6, 2024 21:33
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Amumin posted:There is also this piece published in one of Harta's anthologies that was translated recently. Some people here might not have noticed it. ryoko kui... is woke! (postive)
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Feb 6, 2024 22:30
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Amumin posted:There is also this piece published in one of Harta's anthologies that was translated recently. Some people here might not have noticed it. this is one instance where i would have appreciated translator notes i picked up on the implications, but i had to go and look up if the sister's name was perceived as masculine in japan to make sure anyway these are some great shorts the scientist complaining about how boring it is to deal with the in-depth hiring process and health and safety regulations around their teenage mecha pilots was great
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Feb 7, 2024 00:11
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:anyway these are some great shorts the scientist complaining about how boring it is to deal with the in-depth hiring process and health and safety regulations around their teenage mecha pilots was great Do you have a link to that one?
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Feb 7, 2024 03:18
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Kyte posted:Do you have a link to that one? it's Future Interview from Terrarium in a Drawer
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Feb 7, 2024 04:37
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Amumin posted:There is also this piece published in one of Harta's anthologies that was translated recently. Some people here might not have noticed it. That's a really good one. Just read all of Terrarium in Drawer. Highlights: Attorney at Law is really good. I wanna read a whole series about her dumping her boyfriend and getting together with her coworker. Eguchi Miyoko's Travelogue really gets me. The juxtaposition of the travel diary and the reality of her trip is super cool Perfect Communication is incredibly relatable. Everyone is talking about Distant Utopia and with good reason. It's one of the best things I've ever read, if you only read one story from this it should be this one. I can't say enough good things about it, it manages to fit so much into 7 pages it's unbelievable The punchline of Man from the Future (referencing an earlier oneshot) fully took me out But really they're all good and worth reading. I'll definitely check out all the other ones I can find
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Feb 7, 2024 05:14
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Seven Little Sons of the Dragon is officially available in English and even with the boom of people interested in Delicious in Dungeon I struggle to sell it. Makes me sad
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Feb 7, 2024 06:20
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The punchline for Perfect Communication is fantastic lmao. edit: OK yeah I get the praise for Distant Utopia, wow. Metis of the Chat Thread fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Feb 7, 2024 |
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Feb 7, 2024 06:41
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thetoughestbean posted:Seven Little Sons of the Dragon is officially available in English and even with the boom of people interested in Delicious in Dungeon I struggle to sell it. I didn't know it existed, but thanks to you, I now own it.
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Feb 7, 2024 06:41
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thetoughestbean posted:Seven Little Sons of the Dragon is officially available in English and even with the boom of people interested in Delicious in Dungeon I struggle to sell it. That's real disappointing to hear, I was hoping for an official release of her other collections 
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Feb 7, 2024 06:50
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I would buy Seven Little Sons in a heartbeat if I wasn't brokeMetis of the Chat Thread posted:The punchline for Perfect Communication is fantastic lmao. Right????
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Feb 7, 2024 07:06
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Distant Utopia lives in my head. It’s a wonderful statement on artRand Brittain posted:I didn't know it existed, but thanks to you, I now own it. I’m genuinely delighted to hear this
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Feb 7, 2024 07:10
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Everything Kui has made is good, but I love her tendencies towards tragedy the most. The Beast still stands out for how perfectly it distills itself, the re-layering of a brief and brutal deconstruction of a common fairy tale with conflicted perspective to create something morally and emotionally complex and heart-wrenching. And that one panel scene -- everyone who's read it knows which -- simple and austere, but tapping that same essence as Ivan the Terrible and His Son. It's the crack cocaine of melancholy.
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Feb 8, 2024 01:18
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One of her obvious strengths is characterization, especially via art with her capability of making distinct faces. I think that strength really lends itself well to strong emotional payoff like tragedy, but really anything with strong emotion fits. You can really "feel" what her characters are going through via the art. She's so dang good!!
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Feb 8, 2024 02:04
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I sometimes wish I could go to an alt universe to see what tragic ending Dungeon Meshi would have been like. In the latest daydream hour Ryoko Kui had a bit about how the initial plan was to have Laois and Marcille go full heel. I wonder when exactly she changed her mind about that.
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Feb 8, 2024 02:31
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"just look at this loving costume. who would take her seriously?"
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Feb 8, 2024 02:37
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Marcille's evil costume was good and cool and cute and ruled and nobody will ever change my mind.
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Feb 8, 2024 02:44
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Counterpoint - still 2nd place to Space Queen Marcille
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Feb 8, 2024 03:06
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Counterpoint - still 2nd place to Space Queen Marcille *Blumenkranz from KLK plays*
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Feb 8, 2024 03:43
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Klaus Nomi lives!
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Feb 8, 2024 03:57
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IM A SIMPLE MARcille
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Feb 8, 2024 04:23
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Snooze Cruise posted:I sometimes wish I could go to an alt universe to see what tragic ending Dungeon Meshi would have been like. In the latest daydream hour Ryoko Kui had a bit about how the initial plan was to have Laois and Marcille go full heel. I wonder when exactly she changed her mind about that. I honestly think it became too obvious of a direction for the story. I reckon she must have decided before Kabru started talking about that possibility out loud, because there's no way she'd have a character spelling out the way the story is going if it was still the plan.
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Feb 8, 2024 13:14
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nice little touch in today's episode that wasn't drawn in the source panel
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Feb 9, 2024 03:58
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Oh! I caught that but didn't bother to check if that was there originally. Good stuff!
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Feb 9, 2024 04:09
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