@coolboymew Oh shit, I remember reading this a few years back and completely forgot about it until just now. I'm surprised it got an anime but I'll take it
@rosey adaptations are usually toned down a bit... But they did go with the costume, so who knows. It could be a godly Interspecies Reviewers type of adaptations where they go above and beyond
@coolboymew It's a fun manga to start but it has too many characters now that the villain girls were introduced, not enough focus on the basic mahou shoujo team.
@coolboymew nice. this one's gonna make twitter's head explode. even aside from the fanservice the story and humor stands on its own, so it gets a huge recommendation from me
@coolboymew the manga's like 90% good fight scenes with brief moments of intrigue between them, so if it's a shit animation studio they're going to ruin it. it's pure action and well-done action.
Kaiju #8 is fantastic. Like some of the best action scenes in current manga. The filler arcs between the battles are middling at best, but the art and pace of the big battles is par excellence.
It sucks that the publisher has manag dex redirect to their site. I am one of those wait six months and binge kind of guys, but you really do have to keep up week to week to keep reading the free shit on the publisher's website. Miss one week and you are SOL
@coolboymew@All_bonesJones Also seems like they are skimping on the freckles. Granted they are fake and applied by her, but it is a plot point that she deliberately applies and does things to keep her appearance as mediocre as possible.
@Eiswald@coolboymew@All_bonesJones it's pretty good tbh. goes into alot of court intrigue but is well written and the characters are fun. at least in the manga adaptation of the novels.
@Heil_Honkler@Eiswald@All_bonesJones ah, it's an LN. Keep in mind to not compare it too much to the manga, even design-wise, as a lot of the times it's adapted straight from the source instead
@Heil_Honkler@All_bonesJones@Eiswald yeah, for example I've seen people shit on Gate as it "doesn't follow the manga chara design"... except it did, it followed the LN design lol
@coolboymew Any screenshots? What are they complaining about? It being “sexually exploitative” or something? I haven’t seen any good Twitter salt over something benign in a while.
@coolboymew Lol. Oh, no, the horror! 😆 I just read the first couple chapters and I thought it’d be about her being a Middle-Schooler with nipple pasties and sexually molesting several other girls her age while discovering S&M porno mags and being blackmailed by a demon familiar using sexually explicit kompromat (Twitter’s favorite!) to do all this. But, no, it’s because “their“ genre is being made for people that are not them. And this likely won’t teach them empathy and sympathy with the plight of other nerds and fans of things, because their stuff is progressive while everything else isn’t (“and you have to point it all out,” too).
@coolboymew Well, that was a fun 51 chapters, so far. Azul (forget her civilian name) is, was, and always will be best girl. Also, that body doodling was top-level. Speedy the Sea Cucumber, the shark, and the obscure Voynich Manuscript reference. Lol I wonder how many readers even knew what that is.
@coolboymew Neither can I. So, I won’t. I’m getting really tired of “ongoing series,” since they seem to be more and more taking more than an entire human generation to complete, even without being long. Or, they are really long, but unnecessarily so, because the author isn’t good at planning, even if he/she has a plan, in the first place. Then the endings suck, if they happen at all. I kind of wish the ones that have been going for around a decade could just take a year or whatever and thoroughly plan out the entirety of the rest of the series and then hire several professional artists to work on multiple chapters simultaneously after the drafts are complete and just pound it out over a couple of years, instead of yet another decade with a chapter per month, IF THAT. 😩
@coolboymew Waiting for DBS chapters is a little hard, and so is waiting for D-Frag, but Black Lagoon is all over the place. Rock needs to purify and wife up Revy already. Actually, all three of those are currently being dragged out due to incomplete ships (DBS with Mai x Trunks, D-Frag with Kazama and Takao/Funubori/Prez/whoever, Black Lagoon with Rock x Revy).