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SpazmasterX posted:Whaaaat? A wuxia manhua that's about an OP Mary Sue? This sort of bizarre phenomenon should be studied by the world's greatest minds. I know right
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Yeah, I think you'l just have to bite the bullet and read Act-Age on other websites to fill in the gap if you want to catch up on it. It's real good though.
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I unironically love to browse manga aggregators for the terms "god-king" "immortal" and "peerless" to see what kind of bottom-tier garbage can still somehow find a translator. I don't care if it's an old stale joke calling all xianxia protagonists volcels will always be funny.
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https://mangadex.org/chapter/851259/4 lmao the panels I tried clicking on a random chapter and was very surprised to find that it was about the MC effortlessly owning some guy and a woman he was with having her towel drop edit: Apparently it's the same woman from that earlier screenshot, but with different hair https://mangadex.org/chapter/863822/17 hahahaha apparently this guy is in his university fightman club, and is also an assassin? I don't understand this setting. It's like the regular world except there are randomly also cultivators and they go to college Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Apr 23, 2020 |
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Apr 23, 2020 21:15
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If someone can come up with a catchy title for Act-Age I'll make the thread
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Apr 23, 2020 22:09
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Act-Your-Age: Read Act Age!
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Pierson posted:I unironically love to browse manga aggregators for the terms "god-king" "immortal" and "peerless" to see what kind of bottom-tier garbage can still somehow find a translator. Hey, Meng Hao was able to get a woman after a few centuries. For like a month.
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Act-Age: The Method Acting to My Madness Acting
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gently caress that's a better name.
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Feel like people who make poo poo like this forget that wuxia protagonists are supposed to be, like, likable in some way
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Blockhouse posted:Feel like people who make poo poo like this forget that wuxia protagonists are supposed to be, like, likable in some way There's a strong negative energy to these things, where it feels like the main purpose is just to gently caress over people who wronged you. It's especially funny when it's some guy who is supposedly 30,000 years old or whatever, and the story focuses on him owning the people who were mean to him in college. They're all a sort of weird negative wish fulfillment where people can fantasize about beating up the school enemies. Like the fantasy is "IF I WERE ACTUALLY A POWERFUL CULTIVATOR I'D TOTALLY BEAT UP THIS MEAN GUY IN MY CLASS AND MAKE THIS GIRL FEEL SORRY FOR REJECTING ME" Regular wish fulfillment web novels also suck, but at least their fantasy is usually positive in nature and centers around "being powerful and having everyone love me."
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he doesn't have a personality, or even goals. if he fights, it is because someone shows up and says "hey let's fight". if he cultivates, it is because someone starts talking about how he can't possibly cultivate right now. even in scenes where he is not present, he is the only subject of conversation. also, i'm pretty sure he only keeps the dog around because it hasn't challenged him to a fight yet.
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It's also funny how the protagonist of that one is wearing clothes that only a teenager would think looks cool, but actually look extremely dumb and embarrassing.
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I love how most Chinese webnovels have antagonists that keep on escalating over the dumbest stuff. The protagonist buying the last hot dog at a gas station, eventually leads to them having to defeat a powerful organization with 5,000 people in it because some minor member of that organization also wanted that hot dog.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I love how most Chinese webnovels have antagonists that keep on escalating over the dumbest stuff. The protagonist buying the last hot dog at a gas station, eventually leads to them having to defeat a powerful organization with 5,000 people in it because some minor member of that organization also wanted that hot dog. This is basically the backstory to One-Punch Man.
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They're probably just using a wuxia staple where a small conflict spirals out of control because an increasing number of powerful people are obligated to take revenge.
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Are there any good wuxia manhua? Like, at all?
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New SHY has us setting up the next remnant to be pacified. Given the current setup, I'm expecting something vaguely kingdom hearts to pan out Like 'Hollow' turns out to be the spirit of Ai's sword or somethingVincent Van Goatse posted:As a man hurtling towards middle age I feel like I shouldn't be so invested in a plotline about fictional teenage girls having a sleepover. On the other hand Shy is just adorable.
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Are there any good wuxia manhua? Like, at all? I'm not quite sure if it qualifies as Wuxia, but Feng Shen Ji is fantastic.
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Most manhua is dire because it has a pace a snail would find bad
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Hiro Protagonist posted:Are there any good wuxia manhua? Like, at all? The Pinnacle. Though it's comedy wuxia.
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The Pinnacle of comedy 
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finally, a Shonen Jump series about teens battling demons
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Moriking
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We Never Learn: it's hilarious how Rizu is basically a supporting character in Sekijou's story, while this arc was supposed to be about her.
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The first chapter of Bone Collection is out https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1006691 My thoughts: Fairly standard shonen stuff. A bit too much of the 'our main character is a pervert' gags, but the premise is solid enough, if nothing special. The character designs are alright. The scene with the dad worrying was good. Not really enough action to determine how future fight scenes would be portrayed. And while the chapter sets up the setting and the mc's power, there isn't much direction as far as where the story plans to go from here
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unfortunately, they turned the raddest yokai of them all from a giant skeleton into a cute girl. everyone loves the giant skeleton! that poo poo's unforgivable. i also suspect that the dude's dangerous, self-destructive behavior that his family and friends are so wary of will be proven to be completely correct at all times.
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I thought the art looked amateurish.
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One of my least favorite tropes is "protagonist lives in a world (or transmigrated to one) where everyone has an unreasonable prejudice that he doesn't have, and he gains the strong favor of someone (usually a pretty lady) through not having that prejudice."
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eh, it's like b-tier kekkaishi so i'm here for it as long as they cut the nosebleed gags and such down not really bothered by the giant skeleton being a pretty girl who wants to eat pancakes, it's fun
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also, his lack of prejudice only seems to apply to cute small yokai and cute girls. the big scary...ish monsters don't count and he's perfectly willing to kill them so that he can become popular.
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Poor kappa though. They really tried to make that thing look as cute as possible before it got stabbed.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:also, his lack of prejudice only seems to apply to cute small yokai and cute girls. the big scary...ish monsters don't count and he's perfectly willing to kill them so that he can become popular. Ehh, he was also willing to pet the fuzzy thing in the drain. The only one we've seen him kill was talking about how much it was going to enjoy eating people, and he got his butt kicked by a slime that we can assume was similarly bad for people. As for the nosebleeds... at least he wasn't groping or anything. Reatively low on the 'pervert character' scale of terribleness. Kinda hoping skeleton-girl is going to have the ability to turn into a skeleton monster when she needs to. Mostly though, it's a fairly bland opening. And the title reminda me that Dai Dark hasn't updated in a while. The superior comic about a fighty teen who collects bones.
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Julias posted:I'm not quite sure if it qualifies as Wuxia, but Feng Shen Ji is fantastic. Feng Shen Ji is, indeed, a fantastic comic.
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Angry Lobster posted:Feng Shen Ji is, indeed, a fantastic comic. I'm a few chapters into the author/artist's most recent manga and so far it also seems pretty dope. It is called Journey To The West, but it's a sequel to the original novel.
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Aw yeah, bug fights! Bug fights! I wonder if this is planned to be a short one, just taking place over the course of summer?
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Vaguely related to this thread (wasn't sure where else to ask) but has Mangadex been loading really slowly for anyone else? For a while now it's been painfully slow, so the point where it takes 20-30 seconds to load a single page a lot of the time. My internet itself is fine and has no problems with other websites.Elfface posted:Mostly though, it's a fairly bland opening. And the title reminda me that Dai Dark hasn't updated in a while. The superior comic about a fighty teen who collects bones. The art was also worse and more generic than I've been accustomed to in Jump nowadays. It wasn't bad by any stretch, but most new manga in WSJ seem to have very distinctive and/or good art compared with your "average" manga (which isn't that surprising given the competition that likely goes into getting published in the WSJ).
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Ytlaya posted:Vaguely related to this thread (wasn't sure where else to ask) but has Mangadex been loading really slowly for anyone else? For a while now it's been painfully slow, so the point where it takes 20-30 seconds to load a single page a lot of the time. My internet itself is fine and has no problems with other websites. From the front page: "In order to address the explosion in volume of users on the site, we will be upgrading the database, which has loads of >100% during peak times. Therefore the site will be unavailable for up to 4 hours starting tomorrow (27/04/2020) at 1700 UTC. If everything goes according to plan, the downtime will be a lot shorter than 4 hours."
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Mikl posted:We Never Learn: it's hilarious how Rizu is basically a supporting character in Sekijou's story, while this arc was supposed to be about her. So pretty much everyone agrees Rizu is a bottom-tier heroine, but her chapters being taken over by Sekijou is funnier than any joke Tsutsui put in this arc.
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