Fuufu de Itonamu Monster Farm ~Mezase, Mattari Slow Life~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 1.1

[welcome2atlantis]

They were hitting on a game character... cringe...

 

[Tony_Mushah]

Not gonna lie, I feel like the Comic Sans fit well with the title art style.

 

[nailbudday]

I keep seeing these dark elf characters in manga and they're hardly ever dark-skinned, evil or repulsive, contrary to western fantasy. Instead, they're often seen as a bad omen, and they get persecuted and enslaved for no reason other than prejudice.
The more I think about the more it makes sense to me that authors see the 'dark' part and interpret it as a kuro gyaru archetype ('black' gals) - flashy delinquent-looking beauties who tend to be kind to otaku, at least in manga.

Sure yeah but like... that elfs barely even tanned. She's not even gyaru tan either, normal-ass white person tan.

 

[FloorRoof]

Sure yeah but like... that elfs barely even tanned. She's not even gyaru tan either, normal-ass white person tan.

Is that a hard requirement? Most of these so-called gyaru I saw in manga weren't tanned at all, and while often suspected of being promiscuous they tended to be perfectly maidenly, just like some of them 'dark elves'.
Blond hair is a common theme in both cases - a very Japanese stereotype for delinquency.

 

[iririuuu]

Farm life = slow life?
This couple must be mistaken :/

in real life maybe but in a game it is indeed slow, after all you do a few things and wait for everything to grow, so in a way it is more slow life than grinding on dungeons for itens hahahah

 

[EchoGirl]

"fluffiness" aside, you'd think they'd be able to adopt say, a snake unless those are rare/hard to get in japan. if not like bugs or so but i guess ppl don't rly find bugs cute lol

They were hitting on a game character... cringe...

the most unrealistic part about that is that in other mmos/vr stuff it would've been a man in a cute girl avatar (tho who knows other than a voice changer maybe this VR game just uses everyone's real voice, tho in that case you'd think other than everyone starting with 'beginner' charas the 'scrawniness' would've been a choice lol) (tho the cliche pickup i don't think i've ever seen work versus the person turning the tables on them and being femdom or some cute crossdressing boy making a move lol)

 

[Dogwelder]

You saying a "dark" knife ear is an evil knife ear implies that there are good knife ears...
That's going in the book!

The only good knife ear is a dead knife ear!

 

[FiddlePop]

Is this what passes for a dark elf nowadays?

Kratos didn't explore Alfheim for this

 

[ColorNoob]

Kratos didn't explore Alfheim for this

"explore"

 

[GG334]

Literally why does everything have to be human male elf female pairings in every single fantasy manga?