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Monday, February 23, 2026
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Max, do you read long-strips as long-strips
or do you chop them up into pages?
I cannot read them without cutting them up, not that it's hard but they are WAY too zoomed in for me otherwise
actually, let me try reading one in 4k
ok Max
I will conceede
they are readable on phones
I still will probably cut them up, since I usually read on my laptop
but yeah, idk why every reader forces you to zoom in to an uncomfortable degree
I've been reading more LNs again, first time in a while
I'll soft agree that I've also been annoyed with a lot of the manga I've been reading lately
I honestly don't know wtf modern series people are reading, for it to be "more popular than ever before"
not that there aren't good series
but most are monthly, and still manage to miss chapters
and waiting 2 months for 10-15 pages will never feel good
and for some reason I just doubt people are going back and reading classic series
so I really don't know what modern series would draw people in
A lot of modern popular series (even in Japan) are also just softcore hentai
more and more magazines/serializes are greenlighting them
Replying to taxes #tzfi this one ive been following for like 3 years and is probably my favorite
big reason i like this is because there's a very clear way the world is portrayed that even if it plays on tropes it flips back around to unique concepts and turns over and over
sometimes a fantasy story where things feel even a bit foreign even if a lot is the "same"
I think I appreciate now, more and more, how hard it is to have a manga with good pacing
excluding SoL stuff
and even then, so many series run out of that initial steam
and then just *exist* for years
I can shit on LNs for being needlessly long, but they can at least progress on an actual timescale in the real world
manga don't have that luxary
so poor planning, or wanting to write in circles
is just annyoing
and so many series just become a psuedo-SoL