That whole thing broke mdex rule 1.7 (no autogenerated AI slop uploads allowed), so if the guy didn't yeet them himself the admins did it for him
RIPIP 1550 (2025-2025)
I was curious/baffled enough by this to actually go look at the raws to see if there was any actual reason for this beyond hallucinating garbage AI OCR MTL operated by someone who has no idea wtf they're doing (there wasn't), so here's a quick 1550ese to Japanese/English guide just for giggles...
It's not strange for the free web app to require big black boxes; they don't age-verify the downloads/accounts/etc for those, so they kind of have to.
But like his tweet also says, that doesn't carry over to the book versions. Here's an example.
There's another series on the same app with...
idk why these black boxes keep showing up when there's nothing to censor underneath them
ngl this kind of manga terrorism usually gets an automatic 1-star rating from me, but maybe it'll turn out to be one of those inexplicable late bloomer series like Tales of Wedding Rings where several...
Julius: muahaha Washio I have forced you to reveal your secret powers you tried so hard to keep a secret so the kingdom wouldn't come after you muahahaha
Washio: tbh it was less the government stuff and more that anybody would keep it a secret if their power was to summon some kind of AI slop...
Y'know Hamita abandoning his manga ideas left and right wouldn't be nearly as infuriating if he didn't come up with some genuinely inspired shit on the regular like that panel having her goat eye pupils double as a censor bar
In retrospect, the schedule went to basically quarterly after the Volume 1 sales came in (it's hard to say definitively since DYC is a digital only pub and the sales rankings are still only for physical books, but all available evidence points to that it had really bad sales numbers). So I...
I was actually just finishing writing this up in the series thread, but might as well move it over here:
Welp, RtE technically managed to make it more than two volumes without being axed, but it didn't make it three -- this ended up being one of those series that got the old mid-volume chop...
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The JP title for this manga is: となりの席のヤツがそういう目で見てくる
Easiest way to get other manga titles in Japanese is on their main Mangadex series page under "alternative titles". Click "see more" to open up the extra info, then copy/paste the one with the Japanese flag and...