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    Daily/Weekly Chapter Rankings [Planned]

    The main issue is the staff recommendations are a small set of series. It's basically a single list, which rotates occasionally, but that's it. Community lists can be much longer, can be focused on certain genres or ideas, etc. They exist right now, as Trodsen helpfully points out: ... But...
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    Daily/Weekly Chapter Rankings [Planned]

    I should add that the scrolling bar of 10 "Popular New Titles" is much too short a list for discovery purposes, and thus lacks genre variety. And also that filtering publication year in advanced search is both too coarse a time window, too indirect a metric on recency, and takes something like...
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    Daily/Weekly Chapter Rankings [Planned]

    Theres currently no good way to discover series on Mangadex. Your options are essentially: staff picks live feed of chapter releases advanced search with a sufficiently narrow set of search terms None of these options are great. Staff picks are maybe obviously the tastes of a few people, and...
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    Spice & Wolf: Gourmet Exploration - Ch. 1.2

    I'm so invested it's adorable
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    Thunderscans

    Their uploads would be better without any text at all. Or images, for that matter.
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    Potion wa 160 km/h de Nageru Mono! ~Item-gakari no Ore ga Bannou Kaifukuyaku o Touteki suru Koto de Saikyou no Boukensha ni Nariagaru!?~

    it's like barely MLB fastball speeds. People apparently hit 105mph relatively often, so apparently a good professional pitcher could one shot dragons on the reg.
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    Potion wa 160 km/h de Nageru Mono! ~Item-gakari no Ore ga Bannou Kaifukuyaku o Touteki suru Koto de Saikyou no Boukensha ni Nariagaru!?~ - Vol. 1 Ch.…

    the peak of irony is this is basically just MLB baseball speeds. Seems like a few people have hit 105mph pitches in games, which would apparently just instantly kill a dragon. Think of the poor catcher.
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    Houseki no Kuni

    I honestly feel like the only reason chapters 98-108 felt so repetitive and difficult to read is that they were spaced out over two years of hiatuses. Resetting to chapter 90 or so and running through the last 18 chapters makes things piece together much better, and the pacing feels more...
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    Dragon and Chameleon - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Two Manga Artists

    Feels like a metaphor on the state of AI art.
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    Boy's Abyss - Vol. 5 Ch. 45 - The Holy Mother From That City

    @dope69 Almost every character in this series is emotionally abusive in some way. The mother is abusive in the sense that she neglects the protagonist, saddles him with responsibilities, and does not hold her older son accountable. The teacher is abusive because she removes the protagonist's...
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    Haibane Renmei

    Great work, ty! Haibane Renmei is incontrovertibly among the greatest anime of all time, and I'm glad the art book and some doujinshi have been translated here. For those complaining of a lack of chapters-there are no more chapters. Abe explains in one of the doujinshi that once the series was...
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    Ganbare Rakka-tan!

    I choose to believe this is canon. I do see the conclusion to Rakka's arc making sense though, with her only able to pass on after she is confident the next generation are in good hands. It makes her a nice parallel to both Nemu, who couldn't pass on until Reki was ready, and Kuramori, who was...
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    Yuru Camp△

    Wonderful series! The equipment and culture is spot on to my experience of camping with a club--right down to buying cheap garbage tents and being surprised when they self-destruct, and to organizing a camping trip then having everyone agree to stay in a motel when it starts raining. If you go...
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