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its just getting better and better
@MonkBonkie Unfortunately it is going to end soon, due to low ratings in Shonen Jump (see comments on reddit thread). But fortunately, it seems that their authors are going to give the story a proper ending. It is a pity - these are the kind of stories I enjoy, and the duo writer/artist are great. I will follow whatever manga they create in the future 🙂.
I have to add that the whole chapter is, in fact, a very meta dialogue between the author him/herself and the “villain”:
- “I tried that, I tried everything”: After that the author is basically spoiling us the rest of the story if they didn’t ax the manga. That is, potential plot points that could have happened in the story.
- “You were the villain I cast to destroy the dreams of the protagonist”: Literally “I am the author of the story, but if I tell you that, it would be too meta”.
- “That’s how a parent feels”. Again, “As I am the author, I want the story to have a happy ending”.
- “And I only have a tiny bit of battery power left”. Or, “they are going to ax the manga, so I cannot do anything else to protect her in the few pages I have left”
- The conversation after “I choose to leave the story unfinished” is, again, a conversation between the author of the story, who ran out of time and ideas to save the true protagonist (Aino) and the “villain” (Teppei), who “As a character, has a mind of its own” (those who have written stories know what I am talking about). Only the “villain”, who can act directly over the story, can execute “the third option”.
- “I want to give your story the opportunity to choose its own direction”. The story of the true protagonist has finished, with a story that will never end (think Act-Age: the characters are now frozen in time, and their stories will never be finished). Then the author ask the villain what kind of ending he wants - what kind of “Time Paradox Ghostwriter last chapter” he wants.
- “I am sorry, I do not have the time I would need to explain further”. Again, “this story is getting the axe, so I do not have much time left”
Love it.
- “I tried that, I tried everything”: After that the author is basically spoiling us the rest of the story if they didn’t ax the manga. That is, potential plot points that could have happened in the story.
- “You were the villain I cast to destroy the dreams of the protagonist”: Literally “I am the author of the story, but if I tell you that, it would be too meta”.
- “That’s how a parent feels”. Again, “As I am the author, I want the story to have a happy ending”.
- “And I only have a tiny bit of battery power left”. Or, “they are going to ax the manga, so I cannot do anything else to protect her in the few pages I have left”
- The conversation after “I choose to leave the story unfinished” is, again, a conversation between the author of the story, who ran out of time and ideas to save the true protagonist (Aino) and the “villain” (Teppei), who “As a character, has a mind of its own” (those who have written stories know what I am talking about). Only the “villain”, who can act directly over the story, can execute “the third option”.
- “I want to give your story the opportunity to choose its own direction”. The story of the true protagonist has finished, with a story that will never end (think Act-Age: the characters are now frozen in time, and their stories will never be finished). Then the author ask the villain what kind of ending he wants - what kind of “Time Paradox Ghostwriter last chapter” he wants.
- “I am sorry, I do not have the time I would need to explain further”. Again, “this story is getting the axe, so I do not have much time left”
Love it.
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It looks like the decision to axe this was already taken so the next chapters will be the ending.?
Even if it gets axed, what a great manga. in less than 15 chapters the author is making such a great set for the ending. feels like watching a movie.
Even if it gets axed, what a great manga. in less than 15 chapters the author is making such a great set for the ending. feels like watching a movie.
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We need to bring this mangaka duo to the west. Their talents in Japan are wasted...
We need to bring this mangaka duo to the west. Their talents in Japan are wasted...
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<sarcasm>
Because that's what we need at this point: an explicit admission that the characters are nothing more than shallow narrative devices.
</sarcasm>
I seriously hope all these people who are praising this thing are a botnet, because what we have here is another author under the delusion that metafiction automatically results in depth.
On a more constructive note, either the art is too good or the writing is too bad. They need to match up. I understand this is made by two people. So I hope the artist either starts drawing worse or gets a new writer.
Hashtag TheAxeMenAreRight
Hashtag DontAtMe
Hashtag OnlyReadingItToSeeIfItGetsBetter
Because that's what we need at this point: an explicit admission that the characters are nothing more than shallow narrative devices.
</sarcasm>
I seriously hope all these people who are praising this thing are a botnet, because what we have here is another author under the delusion that metafiction automatically results in depth.
On a more constructive note, either the art is too good or the writing is too bad. They need to match up. I understand this is made by two people. So I hope the artist either starts drawing worse or gets a new writer.
Hashtag TheAxeMenAreRight
Hashtag DontAtMe
Hashtag OnlyReadingItToSeeIfItGetsBetter
