Couldn't sleep, aimlessly browsing the internet.
Accidentally stumbled upon a scanlation team's website, which was blocked on MD because they paywalled their releases.
Got curious, tried infiltrating the site.
Turns out I was able to bypass their coin system.
It's always both funny and fascinating to me whenever there's a brand new manga that's just got translated here,
and the comments were like "ooh, I've been waiting for someone to translate this for sooo looong".
And I looked it up, the 1st chapter hadn't even been out for a month.
Like, who are you? You came from the future or something?
I mean, I could understand it if it came from like a well-known, veteran mangaka.
But these guys are fresh newcomers. Some of them didn't even have twitter accounts before.
Like... have you actually known them well all this time?
Picture this scenario
A: I want a sad romantic story about a man who questions the sincerity of his love when faced with money.
B: Okay, let's make it about a poor guy who falls in love with a terminally ill woman, and she has a large inheritance that she will leave to him when she dies.
A: Great. But that's not spicy enough. It's too logical. Let's make the woman suffer from an illness that turns her into gold. So, her inheritance is her golden corpse.
B: what?
Just tried listening to an audiobook of a novel.
As someone with an inner monologue, I always read novels and manga with different voices in my head.
Voices that I find fitting for the characters I'm reading. (usually based on typical anime character voices)
So listening to the male narrator's raspy voice trying to soften his voice while reading the female character's dialogue made my skin crawl.
Hung out with friends, but I came late.
The first conversation I heard:
"yeah, there are hentai (manga), sold to Western, so they are uncencored.
But the plot has a rather problematic portion, so they cut that part out. So, the hentai is now censored.
It is both censored and uncensored."
I was like
These full 3D model manga that's been popping out every now and then are getting more and more freakier as they try to make it more detailed and realistic. Instead, they just look weirder.
Just finished reading a trainwreck of an ending of just another shonen action manga that I thought had great potential.
Out of pure curiosity, I opened the manga's comment section and saw the first comment was basically "great start, hoping for a good ending"
and I was like oh man, I'm so sorry for you. I don't know what to say, really.
Good thing the translation stopped, so you don't have to know, I guess.
aaaaand it happened again,
story set in a fantasy feudal Japan,
everyone's still wearing kimonos and hakama and all that,
battles are still fought with swords and magic,
dead ass generic story, nothing extraordinary, but I still like it,
suits my taste, it's right up in my alley,
7 volumes in,
and then suddenly they whip out a Barrett M82
and I was like


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