Asayake Refrain

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[Joakobm]

welp as a musician this is not my type of read, at least not anymore. Im really tired of the cute kawaii girls form a band cliché, maybe a few years back i wasnt so saturated from it, but now it seems like every single music manga has this characteristics. But not only that, i hate when authors use the "oh she's just a x instrument genius, that can play really well even though it takes years of professional experience to play like that", like thats so boring and unrealistic, mary sue type of shit, ISEKAI PROTAG TYPE OF SHIT. I, like the basic bitch that i am, consider beck the best music anime and one of the best music manga out there, thats what i always compare things with, i really liked that they showed, how you start by sucking at your instrument and you suck even more playing live with a band, most shows dont show that sadly. Not only that but it feels like the music aspect of the story is just a gimmick for the most part, like music could be replaced by any other artitistic hobby and it would be the same story, music is secondary the main thing is the romance or the drama, examples: fuuka, given, Fukumenkei Noise, white album 2, listeners, etc etc. And like i said, as a musician theres a lot more nitpicking on my end, but even without that i think this one, at least so far, is just Fukumenkei Noise or Fuuka levels of mediocrity

 

[JH7391]

welp as a musician this is not my type of read, at least not anymore. Im really tired of the cute kawaii girls form a band cliché, maybe a few years back i wasnt so saturated from it, but now it seems like every single music manga has this characteristics. But not only that, i hate when authors use the "oh she's just a x instrument genius, that can play really well even though it takes years of professional experience to play like that", like thats so boring and unrealistic, mary sue type of shit, ISEKAI PROTAG TYPE OF SHIT. I, like the basic bitch that i am, consider beck the best music anime and one of the best music manga out there, thats what i always compare things with, i really liked that they showed, how you start by sucking at your instrument and you suck even more playing live with a band, most shows dont show that sadly. Not only that but it feels like the music aspect of the story is just a gimmick for the most part, like music could be replaced by any other artitistic hobby and it would be the same story, music is secondary the main thing is the romance or the drama, examples: fuuka, given, Fukumenkei Noise, white album 2, listeners, etc etc. And like i said, as a musician theres a lot more nitpicking on my end, but even without that i think this one, at least so far, is just Fukumenkei Noise or Fuuka levels of mediocrity

that's an interesting take. Even as a musician, I got used to the "the characters know how to play already" thing, but I do think it's worth bringing up, especially in Riku's case here as we don't see how she learnt the guitar, like Kita from Bocchi.
I like SoL/cgdct stuff, and anything that incorporates music well explores it usually increases its likeability to me.
That being said, "the music aspect being replaceable by any other artistic hobby" is a valid comment, though nobody knows where the series is headed in the future. It is the reason and motivator for them being together, but it'd be a wildly different kind of manga if it were, let's say, arts and crafts.

 

[Joakobm]

that's an interesting take. Even as a musician, I got used to the "the characters know how to play already" thing, but I do think it's worth bringing up, especially in Riku's case here as we don't see how she learnt the guitar, like Kita from Bocchi.
I like SoL/cgdct stuff, and anything that incorporates music well explores it usually increases its likeability to me.
That being said, "the music aspect being replaceable by any other artistic hobby" is a valid comment, though nobody knows where the series is headed in the future. It is the reason and motivator for them being together, but it'd be a wildly different kind of manga if it were, let's say, arts and crafts.

totally valid dude. I am aware that some of the criticisms are just a me thing, im just really saturated from all those tropes. I didnt mind riku, she was easily the most likable character, but the girl vtuber that comes after just represents all i dislike from current music themed anime or manga, she just learns the guitar in a day, and i know she is practicing day by day, but im over the "shes just a genius excuse". And also you are totally right, it is too soon, we dont know how the story will turn and develop, but so far i find it lacking .

 

[JH7391]

totally valid dude. I am aware that some of the criticisms are just a me thing, im just really saturated from all those tropes. I didnt mind riku, she was easily the most likable character, but the girl vtuber that comes after just represents all i dislike from current music themed anime or manga, she just learns the guitar in a day, and i know she is practicing day by day, but im over the "shes just a genius excuse". And also you are totally right, it is too soon, we dont know how the story will turn and develop, but so far i find it lacking .

I'm just gonna play devil's advocate a little bit here and give a few excuses/arguments:

• she isn't perfect yet (keeps making mistakes, as implied in the start of chapter 6, as well as Kai's constant pointing out)
• we don't know the difficulty of her new guitar lines. Kokoro did rearrange Tiptoes to be easier for her to play in ch2, and I expect that to be the case for the new song, as giving something unplayable does nothing productive for the band.
• idk, her father's a bassist, so watching him when she was young (maybe) could've given her an impression of how to play...a similar instrument (this one's kind of a stretch, I admit...and don't hate me, bassists and guitarists)

practicing day by day

I'm p sure she sacrificed sleep over it for like the first weeks or something lol

Still, for her to be playing with others already is wild, let alone while singing... It's only been about two months since she picked it up.
I honestly would love more of the music writing to be covered, as a composer.