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“Also the moment the author decided to use Skylar as an accessory for Cirrus pains it's the moment I knew we're fucked” tan real tere, siempre he preferido mantenerme lejos del fandom por la misma razón de que siempre han visto a skylar como “el malo”, cuando se trata de un problema de cirrus siempre es ‘trauma, adolescencia’ pero cuando es algo sobre skylar el tiene que tener “mejor desarrollo” y es básicamente la peor persona en la vida de cirrus según las fans.. bastante decepcionante que el manga este terminando de esa manera porque al principio tenía mucho potencial :(
Anon, ven a darte un abrazo !! el fandom me da asco !! El trato especial q le dan a Cirrus vs las sobras q le dan a Skylar me enoja tanto. Yo la verdad no interactuo con el fandom. Solo leo en silencio 1 o 3 tweets cada vez q sale un nuevo capítulo para luego ir a discutirlo con 1 o 2 de mis mutuals en privado. Como decías, tenía potencial pero luego de la temporada 2 todo fue a pique... Q decepción. Lo q más aborrezco es cuando autores no se toman en serio su trabajo de escribir los personajes y las resoluciones a todos las problemáticas traídas en sus obras psychological. No todos pueden escribir sobre temas tan profundls y complejos pero de igual manera tratan solo para decepcionar y hacerme enojar ugh lo odio de verdad
Did you got into first? Manga or manhwa?
I think both were around the same time in middle school so my memories is a bit foggy. I just remember I started anime first and then naturally ended up finding about Japanese and Korean comics 🤔 logically, my guess is that it was mangas because my first ones were SE and GA after I watched their animes, respectively. So it makes sense I got so into them that I quickly grabbed the mangas 😂 BTW My first manhwas were Flow and Witch Hunt (I read them on the webtoon app~). I recommend them!
pancakes or waffles?
I love ur recs!!! I've read a bunch of Shonen and seinen as well as shoujosei thanks to u!!
Love ur acct
how do you balance reading so much! i love reading manga but i never end up starting new things because im scared of abandoning my old things etc
My friends know that I suck at balancing my reads 💀 I would start a manga just to never finish it and pick a new one. I do try to be consistent with 70-80% of my ongoing reads. If they're monthly mangas, I usually I'm uptodate (sometimes I would let the chapters accumulate and binge read. Depends on the type of story they are tbh). If they have weekly release, I would go months without reading and then binge read one day. But it also depends on my mood tbh. Some days I read A LOT, some I read 1 or 3 chapters. I think that if you like/live a story enough, even if you start a new one, you will eventually come back to it... I only drop stuff I become uninterested in or bored of. BTW my only hobbies are anime and manga so maybe that's why. I'm actually envious of others who have more going on their lives, so don't take after me 😂 just read at your own pace and capacity.
this may seem like a bizarre question but how do you find new recommendations to read? sometimes i end up catching up with my tbr and don't have any new recs because my friends don't like the same stuff as i do. browsing on anilist is also mostly hit or miss :(
Well, it's mostly thru my friends/mutuals for me. Another thing I do is that if I liked a manga, i search the mangaka and look for their previous works. If your friends don't like the same stuff as you, I think you better opt to find accounts that do and actively recommend things (I'm not saying you need to unfriend your friends. Just that it will do you good to also surround yourself with people that share same interests as you. At least, that's what I do.)
What are your thoughts on the shoujo manga Studio Cabana? Do you think it has a shot at an English license?
Thank you so much for answering my question openly!!
The first shoujo I ever read was scans of some really no one talks abt manga called ufo baby lol over years I spent most of my teens to early adulthood reading shoujo on manga rock. I understand piracy is not an issue in near future anywhere, still i think a poor kid also should be able to get hands on a shoujo manga 😅 but let alone poor most of us here see affording manga as a big privilege. And sometimes if manga is licensed you won't get scans, like i haven't seen any poe clan scans because it's licensed in English. And they cost my monthly electricity bill lmaoo. But there's an even bigger south east Asian market for manga
South Asian market is pretty decent for manga nowadays yet it's always jump titles, because exposure is through anime or Netflix, Netflix being so affordable in my country lesser than our cable tv connection since 2000s seemed pretty big deal for me, it's lowering the barrier for entry because there's also a good chunk of anime of all demos in it. Yeah entertainment is a privilege, it's not health care (not that Tht is free lol) but escapism from reality and time are also a privilege which everyone should afford. While I'm overjoyed shoujosei titles are getting licensing it's still mostly the American and some European market, i wish it's something accessible to global south through a digital platform like wsj which btw is really cheap. And not just few new titles, since they are well aware of classics and 90s shoujosei impact. But I'm not sure because all these are also spread across different magazines and not jump and subsidiaries so... not aware of the issue fully. Anyways thank you so much for answering me. I really love your twt it's very fun to see the titles and recs and ur reviews.
Totally get you, anon!! here most mangas i can find in the few physical manga stores in my city are wsj titles or shonen titles per se. Most people like me have to buy manga online from English or Spanish publishers. There's not really a big manga market like the one in SEA but the anime community is hugeee here, even before netflix and other streaming platforms started incorporating anime in their streaming catalogues. Tho i see manga/webtoons fans more and more these days but they mainly read on their phones (like me). If they do end up collecting some manga title, it's 99% likely it's a shonen title lol My hopes is that more shojosei animes come out and are later shared in streaming platforms like Netflix so more here get interest in the mangas :( until then, well... you already know lol
btw i also spent my middle school-high school days reading in mangarock lol and thank you for your messages (i loved them) and your kind words 💛
Hello there, hope this question isn't to weird..
With quite some titles for a long long time shoujosei is getting old revivals etc.
I'm joyous for those, it opens a lot of chances to exposing the demographic. But also this could be a reason they'll give strong enough against piracy in some distant future hypothetically...and affordability is always an issue. Unless you are willing to expend good, buying a few of your fav series is one thing but entire series? Of how many?? I feel conflicted as someone who can't afford and I start thinking of questions like entertainment is a privilege huh...but also this is someone's livelihood too so.. it'd be great if we get a wsj style digital affordable platform but that's a far dream I think??
Your thoughts if any??😅
Your question isn't weird dw!! I also think entertainment is a privilege ( not everyone can afford going to the cinema for instance). I also would love a digital affordable platform solely for shoujosei titles like they are in Japan but for now, we will have to accommodate with the ones existing like kmanga, jump, ect who do have some shoujo titles. The problem for many (including me) is that many of these apps are only available in the USA & Canada. I hope they change this 😔 and I hope they make it a membership/monthly paid instead of point system because that hurts my pockets more 🗿 your worry about piracy is kinda silly for me tho. Piracy is impossible to stop even if they make ALL titles available in many languages and AFFORDABLE, there will always be someone out there reading it for free in a sketchy website lol I mean, it's a privilege to be able to pay for reading manga and not everyone has that privilege. Lastly, where there's will, there's a way. I have read manga for YEARS abd every time a website is taken down, new ones appear. So don't worry too much, anon.
Hikaru ga Shinda really is just a Walmart off brand homosexual version of I Want to Hold Aono-kun 😭😭😭
I feel like hikaru author is reading aono manga and decided to make one but in bl
RIGHT?? 😭😭😭this girl yuri only has eyes for aono and aono only 😭😭😭 she loves aono too deeply to even think about fujimoto
Reading aono kun manga sometimes confusing me... im glad i found u here tere:)))
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