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  • Kanda@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    Manga was mentioned. What’s good these days? Who will find the One Piece (and why is it Blackbeard)? Do you believe in humanity? What’s your favourite footwear?

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      4 hours ago

      I have been preparing for this for a while (yeah, that’s why I spent so much time on this…)

      Some of my favourites (includes mangwa):

      Dan-da-dan (ongoing) (just note that the early part makes it look like it’s going to be very sexual but that’s not the tone of the whole thing. I’d call it pretty wholesome overall tbh)

      Hunter x Hunter (hiatus) (unfortunately it went in hiatus in the middle of an arc, but the whole thing is peak, each arc is like its own complete story of a slightly different genre)

      Surviving the Academy (hiatus though season ended) (person gets dropped into a video game setting, it’s a harem one but the characters have depth and it’s done well instead of a cringy self-insert fantasy. It’s actually a rare one like this that doesn’t have a “system” with video game-like levelling)

      Webtoon Character Na Kang Lim (ended) (found this one in comments on Surviving the Academy suggesting it to people commenting on it being a harem story that actually didn’t suck. This one is guy who reads a webtoon makes a comment about the oblivious MC who doesn’t see the characters throwing themselves at him and then ends up in the story himself as a regressor)

      Omniscient Reader’s Perspective (ongoing) (this one is amazing, story is MC was the only one who read a webnovel all the way to the end, some 3k chapters, then, on the subway gets a message from the author thanking him for sticking with it, this copy of the story might come in handy because the paywall is going up, good luck! And then the story starts with him in it. And it’s so good, between trying to help/manipulate/not get killed by/befriend the psychopath regressor MC that is already tired of everyone’s shit and use his knowledge from the massive overwritten book to get strong himself while avoiding the suspicion of very powerful entities)

      My Dress Up Darling (ended) (completely different pace from the others, this is a romance about a couple of high school students, one an aspiring hina doll maker, the other an aspiring cosplayer, he helps her make costumes and it’s funny and cute af)

      Others I like but won’t go into a long description for:

      Dragon Ball Super, Re: Zero (this one splits the segments into different named projects), Stein’s Gate, One Punch Man, The Knight Who Only Lives Today, Hero Killer, Pick Me Up, Solo Leveling (and ragnarok), I’m Going To Wipe Out This Country, 'tis Time for “Torture” Princess

      And one if you like the idea of 400+ chapters of a romance with characters so frustrating a decent portion of readers commenting where I see that they don’t even want them to end up together (myself included): Rent-a-Girlfriend

      Haha kinda related but the subreddit for Rent-a-Girlfriend is one of the must obviously bot-driven boards because it went from about 50/50 people upset with the author vs happy with it a few months ago to people mostly writing long comments repeating the same general statements optimistic about how it’s going, sometimes in Spanish (with people replying in English as if that was completely normal). It was sad to see, it just feels like an advertisement now instead of a discussion.

    • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      I actually think there’s gonna be a swerve where Teach gives up on the One Piece to claim the Ancient Weapons Neptune and Pluton. It seems like Teach’s focus should be revenge on Imu than caring at all about fulfilling Roger’s will.