anime
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
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
they reach some sort of status quo
and just stay the same until I stop checking for updates
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 A lot of modern popular series (even in Japan) are also just softcore hentai
https://myanimelist.net/manga/131446/Kouiu_no_ga_Ii
also this is the series I was thinking of when I said this, it's one of the top (views and sales) manga in Japan rn
despite being quite literally just porn
Replying to Garbage #garbageatgaming There are a good amount of authors who just need to swap to only doing manuscripts or hop to a light novel or they are just going to die before the work is finished.
there's something comedic when the author themselves realizes this (or sales dip and they're told to wrap it up)
chapters become text dumps
trying to advance the world and setup very obvious plot points
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
I am still liking oshi no ko, I guess it has not gotten to the part where it gets really bad