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I think it's really cute how they're all getting along with each other. Gives me lite Remix Heart vibes.
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the next chapter is on my Otouto-san's birthday XD
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So now is it yuri bait CGDCT? Yabuki opens up from unexpected angles.
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So no one addresses the casual sexual harrassment? I guess it really is Values Dissonance...
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@milleniumbug Yeah, I do think it's values dissonance. I'm not sure if women really do grope each other so casually in Japan, but I'd be extremely surprised. But in the anime/manga (2D) world it's pretty normal to see that, esp in the last 20 years. I think if we had the author in the room they'd laugh nervously and say that it's indeed a different world or something. Now mind you I'm not necessarily defending this.
Back in the 90's it was also normal in the anime/manga world to have a pervert character (usually short or with cartoonish proportions) going around groping girls or stealing their panties and it being really funny to see them punished. That wasn't OK then I think and it's definitely not OK now. I guess time will only tell if what's (millenium) bugging you will be why people look back at this era and see it as really dated. My prediction is it will indeed, in incremental degrees, as lesbian identities become more and more accepted by the Japanese mainstream. It's less farther along than you'd hope.
In any case I was much less bothered by it than you, but I'm still very glad you brought it up.
Anyways! The chapter itself. All I'm gonna say is I'm really enjoying this manga so far and I usually can't stand shounen as a genre. The genre is usually something where you get half a story and half pages of the artist showing off with an arbitrary fight scene while all the dialogue temporarily just becomes chuuni cliche BS. For me the genre is like going to a sandwich shop that is known for arbitrarily replacing some of the ingredients with a large slab of cardboard you still have to chew through if you want to eat the rest of it. Even some of the "good" ones are like this. Why not just go to a different sandwich shop?
This isn't the case with Ayakashi Triangle which so far only has had very natural-feeling battle scenes that emphasize the theme of the story or characters. And guess what? It trusts its readers aren't some kind of magpies with ADHD if they don't see violence every two seconds and it will sometimes have chapters that just don't have a fight scene, like this one. Very good stuff.
(I'll be honest and say I've not given shounen a fair chance in a long time so maybe this example doesn't stand out as much as I'm making it sound like it does. Either way I'm happy to be here)
Back in the 90's it was also normal in the anime/manga world to have a pervert character (usually short or with cartoonish proportions) going around groping girls or stealing their panties and it being really funny to see them punished. That wasn't OK then I think and it's definitely not OK now. I guess time will only tell if what's (millenium) bugging you will be why people look back at this era and see it as really dated. My prediction is it will indeed, in incremental degrees, as lesbian identities become more and more accepted by the Japanese mainstream. It's less farther along than you'd hope.
In any case I was much less bothered by it than you, but I'm still very glad you brought it up.
Anyways! The chapter itself. All I'm gonna say is I'm really enjoying this manga so far and I usually can't stand shounen as a genre. The genre is usually something where you get half a story and half pages of the artist showing off with an arbitrary fight scene while all the dialogue temporarily just becomes chuuni cliche BS. For me the genre is like going to a sandwich shop that is known for arbitrarily replacing some of the ingredients with a large slab of cardboard you still have to chew through if you want to eat the rest of it. Even some of the "good" ones are like this. Why not just go to a different sandwich shop?
This isn't the case with Ayakashi Triangle which so far only has had very natural-feeling battle scenes that emphasize the theme of the story or characters. And guess what? It trusts its readers aren't some kind of magpies with ADHD if they don't see violence every two seconds and it will sometimes have chapters that just don't have a fight scene, like this one. Very good stuff.
(I'll be honest and say I've not given shounen a fair chance in a long time so maybe this example doesn't stand out as much as I'm making it sound like it does. Either way I'm happy to be here)
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I guess Yabuki really is just going ahead and making a genderbending CGDCT slice of life yuri romcom with shounen ninja action supernatural ecchi fanservice characteristics. In shounen jump.
The title page being just a shot of the girl friend group together is pretty cute and striking, since the MC is portrayed as just one of the girls there showing off her phone with her friends, as the starring shounen hero of a SJ series. Really something!
Hopefully the future bonding with those girls gives a lot of feel-good SOL moments of making more friends, and also some classic TG storylines with the MC learning how to navigate it properly and learn new things. That comparison to Remix Heart is really on point too, if the story develops that way...maybe he read it for inspiration?
The title page being just a shot of the girl friend group together is pretty cute and striking, since the MC is portrayed as just one of the girls there showing off her phone with her friends, as the starring shounen hero of a SJ series. Really something!
Hopefully the future bonding with those girls gives a lot of feel-good SOL moments of making more friends, and also some classic TG storylines with the MC learning how to navigate it properly and learn new things. That comparison to Remix Heart is really on point too, if the story develops that way...maybe he read it for inspiration?
Some idiots are complaining that this manga is too ecchi. WTF! This manga is made by the author of To Love Ru. Either you are blind or living under a rock, Yabuki sensei is famous of his ecchi works. This manga ecchiness is tame compared to his previous works. If you don't like ecchi or genderbend manga, I suggest you stop reading it and go read other manga that suit your taste.
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