BLADE & BASTARD
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Picked up by Animated Glitched Scans?
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Oh, I didn't knew at first that this was the same creator of goblin slayer
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Putting my Goblin Slayer and dark fantasy bias aside, this manga does seem interesting.
It has pretty interesting and flawed characters with some mystery to it. The art style also works well for a more dark fantasy story since it knows when to make things bloody with a darker atmosphere. And at the same time it also knows how to make the atmosphere more bright for more lighter and none serious things. (Chapters 0 to 3.2)
It has pretty interesting and flawed characters with some mystery to it. The art style also works well for a more dark fantasy story since it knows when to make things bloody with a darker atmosphere. And at the same time it also knows how to make the atmosphere more bright for more lighter and none serious things. (Chapters 0 to 3.2)
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I kept wondering why the author of this went to such effort to set up the world only to have the protagonist be the stock-standard Guy In Black with Katana design. Even his name is just "Samurai" backwards. Then I saw their other credits and you know what, shouts to the Goblin Slayer guy for doing something without a "Sexual Violence" tag. That's progress.
This is enjoyable so far, especially for any fights that don't involve the protagonist. Jokes about his insipid design aside the bigger issue by far is him oneshotting everything. It's actually a pretty fun time seeing the rest of the party do stuff, and the story actually managed to have some tension.... by switching over to the perspective of a deuteragonist who actually has a backstory, motivations and most importantly, clearly defined strengths and weaknesses, you know, like a specialized member of a dungeon crawling RPG party. It's weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird how well written even the character who communicates entirely through dog noises (like I shit you not mf is a full on yubi yubi puppy girl) comes off compared to the main character, because at least she has emotional range, things that she looks for in the dungeon (treasure), motivation (food), strengths (fighting), weaknesses (diplomacy), etc. It's like someone took a good story and then mangled it to insert their Extremely Cool katana-wielding, all-black wearing, maxed stat, oneshot killer chuuni alter ego. It's business as usual for the genre as a whole but you don't really expect it in something that's otherwise this good.
Regardless this is still pretty decent, at least for now. I'm assuming out of hand that the protagonist will continue gg ez'ing everything outside of the specific things the rest of the party is set up for but it's got good atmosphere and very good side characters. Shouts to Garbage, Garbage #1
This is enjoyable so far, especially for any fights that don't involve the protagonist. Jokes about his insipid design aside the bigger issue by far is him oneshotting everything. It's actually a pretty fun time seeing the rest of the party do stuff, and the story actually managed to have some tension.... by switching over to the perspective of a deuteragonist who actually has a backstory, motivations and most importantly, clearly defined strengths and weaknesses, you know, like a specialized member of a dungeon crawling RPG party. It's weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird how well written even the character who communicates entirely through dog noises (like I shit you not mf is a full on yubi yubi puppy girl) comes off compared to the main character, because at least she has emotional range, things that she looks for in the dungeon (treasure), motivation (food), strengths (fighting), weaknesses (diplomacy), etc. It's like someone took a good story and then mangled it to insert their Extremely Cool katana-wielding, all-black wearing, maxed stat, oneshot killer chuuni alter ego. It's business as usual for the genre as a whole but you don't really expect it in something that's otherwise this good.
Regardless this is still pretty decent, at least for now. I'm assuming out of hand that the protagonist will continue gg ez'ing everything outside of the specific things the rest of the party is set up for but it's got good atmosphere and very good side characters. Shouts to Garbage, Garbage #1
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Wizardry. Good stuff. I recognized the spells. Too bad it updates really really slow (or is it discontinued?)
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Another character drama masterpiece by kumo Kagyu, Memorable Characters, interesting dialogue and character interactions. As expected from a someone that plays D&D.
Can't believe they have names now, that's what i call character development from the author himself.
World building is meh, Plot is straight forward, it's overall good if you just focus on the great part (Characters) instead of judging it from everything else.
Can't believe they have names now, that's what i call character development from the author himself.
World building is meh, Plot is straight forward, it's overall good if you just focus on the great part (Characters) instead of judging it from everything else.
Wizardry is a pretty good fit for the author.
I'm enjoying it quite a bit, but there are a lot of references that I'm pretty sure a lot of people aren't getting since those games aren't really as popular in the west as they used to be.
Stuff like Catlob, Cuisinart, Hawkwind and everyone else in that party.
There's a Wizardry OVA on YouTube that might be worth watching if you found this interesting.
I'm enjoying it quite a bit, but there are a lot of references that I'm pretty sure a lot of people aren't getting since those games aren't really as popular in the west as they used to be.
Stuff like Catlob, Cuisinart, Hawkwind and everyone else in that party.
There's a Wizardry OVA on YouTube that might be worth watching if you found this interesting.
