Manga

For so long, I've hated comics. I've stopped reading almost two years ago, and I've recently tried getting in, again to my disappointment, for the following reasons:

• over-used troupes and genres
• action-oriented panels
• world building is poor
• arc builds up so quickly
• justification of social evil
• bad artwork

Personally, I had prejudice against manhua for being low-quality, as opposed to manhwa or manga, but by sheer luck, I was able to find a gem of a series.

Today, I came across Song of the Skywalkers (Bù Tiān Gē), and for the first time, I'm really enjoying reading and appreciating the panel artwork. Right now, it's too early for me to comment on the story, but so far, I've enjoyed it. I've been going back and forth, and I like the artwork so much, I'm thinking of purchasing it when I have some money.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12911947

Akira Toriyama has passed away at the age of 68

The Dragon Ball Official News page for this has been removed, but I'll update it if the article is reuploaded. Here's another news site with info and an X post with a screenshot of the original message.

NOTE: Found on Hoopla just now.

• get some weird powers
• get a wife or a few (but not too lovey-dovey)
• get a dog or replacement pet
• get a child replacement
• choose 2:
• • travel the world
• • getting chased around by the wifes/a king, despite being literally a god
• • cook for a random noble
• • organize some game or event

So I bumped into a new series while going down the rabbit hole with no description. Cover art and title was interesting so I read a few.

Standard setup and back story. Might be interesting to see if anything unique stands out...

Then it kept jumping forward. The story progressed way too fast.

I realized it was a manhua.

I don't know why but there's always so much happening so fast it's hard for me to digest it all that I end up dropping it.

What are your thoughts?

Other manhua I've dropped:

• Versatile Mage

• My Wife is a Demon Queen

• Monster Pet Evolution

Could someone help me find a place where I can download the full Evangelion RE-TAKE doujinshi? I've found places where they have maybe one or the other volume, but never all of them, and mostly it's places to read it online, not to download it, since I want to have a copy of it, bot the SFW and the NSFW version.

I think that after volume 4 or 0 there's a few other volumes called Kai or something else, but if I get volumes 0 through 4 I'm happy for now. If it's a Japanese version I'm happy too.

DISCLAIMER: ACTUALLY AN OPINION

I used to read Bleach a long time ago because a friend had a manga collection he let me borrow.

Now? I haven’t touched the series since because the characters weirded me out for some reason.

In this case, I’ll explain the scenario: Rukia and Renji were brought back into Soul Society for protection, so Ichigo and his other friends entered Hueco Mundo to rescue Orihime…but guess what? Partly through the mission, Rukia and Renji themselves appear before them and brutally beat down Ichigo and chew him out for leaving them behind anyway despite being under orders for their own protection. Yeesh. Well, it turns out Byakuya knew what was going on and after some stupid dialouge he let the two join Ichigo anyway and disobeyed Yamamoto in the process. Then Rukia quotes Byakuya to provoke Ichigo for comedy and to diffuse the situation now those two brutally apprehended him for something that wasn’t his fault to begin with.

Jeez, you too! And it turns out the strategy worked evem though Rukia and Renji were weaker than the Espada and barely survive.

Does anybody see how fundamentally flawed this series is as well as how violent Rukia is? Not to mention after the apprehension she doesn’t accompany Ichigo afterwards for that matter.