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Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Finally, a thread where we can post the daily Tomo-chan and hopefully no one will come in to poo poo on it. :carol:

Ostensibly, this is a page-a-day manga about a tomboy named Tomo and her struggle to get her friend Jun to realize he likes her back.

In reality: We all read the manga for Carol.
:carol:

It's a cute manga that can get a bit same-y and repetitive if you focus on the romance aspect of it. Instead, I think you should focus on the cute characters and their interactions.

The characters:
Tomo, the tomboy.

Jun, the idiot.

Yes, yes you are.

Carol, the cutest. :carol:

Mizusu, the misanthrope.

The Gyarus.

Tomomom.

Mizusumom.

Carolmom

There are more characters (and Carol hairstyles) that are cute and good, but you'll have to read it to find them!

You can read it in its entirety on Mangadex or the manga site of your choice, and here's the original webpage that has all of the over 700(!) pages in Japanese, if you can read it.

Also

El Burbo posted:

Free gorf

Edit: Gorf has been freed!

This series has now been licensed by Seven Seas!

Rodenthar Drothman fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Apr 16, 2018

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 19:45

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:42

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Ah, I love the smell of shitposting in the afternoon.

Not.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 20:18

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Srice posted:

It's a series with obvious flaws, of course people are gonna chime in with them in a thread.

Yeah, I have my issues with it too. Just remarking on the quality of the complaints themselves.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 22:14

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Srice posted:

On the flip side the praise is basically just "it's cute and good" which ain't high quality critique either!

But I'll step it up and say that it's a manga that starts off with some decent gags, but then it's content to spin its wheels and repeat the same gags with its one-note characters over and over. Sometimes it breaks out of that cycle and there's something clever (usually involving Carol) but for the most part it misses more than it hits and as a result that just makes it incredibly stale to me.

I know there are people here that read a lot of manga that can point to a bunch of series that do similar things with much better execution, but I'm not much of a manga guy these days so I can't name those alternatives off the top of my head.

All valid points. The problem is, "cute" is literally all I think this manga has going for it, so what else can I say?

I do agree that it gets very samey, hence the title and my comment in the OP. The romance seems to fall flat on its face because of that, so all I do is read it for the cute stuff.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 22:48

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Nothing will ever happen besides random cute things in tomo, and that's alright with me.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2017 23:26

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 01:03

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

chumbler posted:

Needs more of the other guy and his cool girlfriend, though.

Indeed. Maybe even a spin-off.

filthychimp posted:

Relevent hot video straight from the front page of reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B13yISVHWI

This guy's twitter feed is the best.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2017 12:43

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Yeah, I feel like the page a day format for a story like this impedes it a bit.

Then again, mousou telepathy does fine so who knows.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 01:17

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2017 15:34

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Hellbunny posted:

So am I the only one who can't read the raws? The site refuses to load yet I know it's not down...

Also tomo is cute and the haters need to chill. Seriously, of all manga in the world, this is the one that is unacceptable?

The read.tomochan.today site was taken down, now you have to find them elsewhere.

Also. I'm gonna ask:
If you're only coming in here to poo poo on the manga / laugh at the the readers of the manga please don't.
You shouldn't go to series pages to post in bad faith.

If I don't like X manga, I'm not going to go to X manga thread and mock it. I'm looking at you right now, K. Flaps.

E: if you want to come here and discuss what you do or do not like about the manga, go ahead. Mock it in the chat thread or something.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 00:17

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

This fanart is... good

DisDisDis posted:

Tomo and Jun go on what they won't acknowledge is a first date

Hey man, they're just hanging out.

Srice posted:

On the flip side even mild criticism of it gets some weird reactions. There's no cabal of people that decided to hate tomochan for no reason, it's just that when any negativity at all is called out as shitposting that happens to fuel some resentment that keeps bouncing between both sides!

Legit criticism is one thing - you'll see those of us who like it agreeing that yeah, it suffers from pacing problems, repetetiveness problems, and god-Jun-sucks problems. Yes, mousou telepathy is better in that way.

That's fine, but coming in here merely to say, "i dont like this, gas this thread," or to post actual Garfield strips (yes I made the joke, but don't use the joke to mock the manga repeatedly) multiple times is posting in bad faith and please don't do it.

Fake edit because I backed out to look at the rules, thank you Matoi. Let's all just drop this BS, and I'll post the new tomo when I get to my office.

It's cold out here.

Real edit: No new Tomo yet. Will post later if no one else posts it.

Rodenthar Drothman fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Feb 14, 2017

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 13:20

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I'm now morbidly curious, but more morbid than curious.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2017 00:59

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

El Burbo posted:

Not surprising, I could tell the maid dragon guy was weird without having to search for his porn.

, but I like the mangas he makes. Enough that I'm willing to just ... forget about the weird parts.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 05:56

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Nowhere, it's on hiatus for a week.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 18:51

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Pretty much. Ignore them. Or report them. Whatever, man. I'm choosing to ignore at this point.

(Not literally put them on ignore.

I gotta see the burb's fanart posts)

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 15:51

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Space Flower posted:

let me tell you, ~~the comic is posted in chat thread almost daily and commented on by people who like the series~~ we have people within the inner cell who are fighting every day and need your support. guerilla tactics to raise carol awareness have been met with resistance. the state threatens to crush us underfoot with a mighty boot, its heel smeared with poop emojis.

Carry on, soldier. Keep up the good fight.
:911:

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 19:24

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I, for one, vote:

Super Jay Mann posted:

Can't we all just get along and keep talking about how great Carol is?

Cause Carol is great.

Is Carol eating cotton candy considered cannibalism?

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 21:29

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

What do you mean "you people"?

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 22:07

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Oh okay.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 23:05

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I'm not gonna post the translation I see right now, I'm not sure I like it.

But, my friend, you may soon get your wish.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 12:58

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Well, poo poo, looks like another TL may not be forthcoming.

SOON.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 15:19

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

darkgray posted:

Wasn't there a rule once about hotlinking images? In any case it's showing up broken for me.

Ah, I forgot that batoto did the account thing which breaks it unless you have an account and are logged in. I'll re-up them in the future. Thanks for reminding me.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 17:08

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I never wanted this.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 00:01

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 02:01

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

See, now that's off-topic bullshit that I'll ask you not to post. Next time I see it I'll report it.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 04:49

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Carol is so powerful, you cannot contain her unless you hold her hand.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 05:15

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Looks like tomo is powerful as well.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 05:08

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

a kitten posted:

Now that Jun is dead perhaps something will happen

I, for one, support this development.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 16:33

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

He's also dense as hell.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 03:38

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Yes_Cantaloupe posted:

Subtle. I wouldn't have noticed.

And the signature, hahahaha

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 13:40

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I have done all I can. It is in the mod's hands now.

(Seriously though matoi, please don't)

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 15:29

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Secret technique: hug.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 05:45

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

littleorv posted:

Please read the artists' hosed up porn to see what happens next

... naw

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 20:48

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Apparently everyone draws hosed up porn now and then?

# ¿ Feb 28, 2017 22:22

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

We all know Jun really loves fireworks. It's just got him so worked up.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 05:55

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Carol is a damned monster.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 05:21

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

And I love her fluffy little cheeks anyway.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 05:21

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I don't think it's that it's straight-faced 4th wall breaking, but the fact that it seems to be the author admitting that "nope, nothing can upset the status quo, I need to keep drawing the same jokes for years."

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 14:18

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

It goes through phases, I think. Phases where it's slow, plodding, lovely relationship non-progress, and phases where it's just tomo+friends being funny and dumb.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 15:19

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 23:42

Rodenthar Drothman: May 14, 2013; I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

I now think this is the only way it can happen

# ¿ Mar 4, 2017 02:31

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