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[PyroclasticFlow]

It’s literally made of tropes without a hint of subversion. If “unreasonably strong taciturn self-insert human saves elf girl and it takes a while for her heart to open up” isn't lazy, I don’t know what is. We didn’t see any setup for the strength of our hero, any motivations for wanting to save the village, any reason why he was late and only saved one or any resultant anguish, nor any setup for why the village was attacked or the standings of elves with respect to the humans and monsters in the world. There’s no worldbuilding at all, because you already know the world, because it’s the exact same shitty jrpg-inspired world with arrogant treelicking elves and angry scottish dwarves. They didn’t need to explain why monsters would attack an elf village, because that happens all the time in fantasy, you should be used to it by now. The only way this story could be written more lazily would be if the elf girl was the lone survivor of a caravan, and if our hero has memories of soy sauce and rice.

I disagree - hard to say for sure since it's only 3 chapters so far, but although this is far from subversive, it's bucking a lot of the usual trends.

In the sort of generic slop you're talking about:

• the MC would have usually been either a lot chattier or broodingly silent (this MC understands children well enough to keep her calm and consoled, and in the town clearly has relationships with people, but doesn't fall to either extreme of "everybody loves him" or "Broodlord McTormented")
• MC would have effortlessly destroyed every goblin in the village (instead he prioritized saving the kid and making sure that he wasn't surrounded, then ran away the instant he had the chance)
• there would have been plot contrivances to keep him and the kid together (instead he much more reasonably put her somewhere safe and normal)

Even the kid's combination of resilience and trauma are more grounded than a lot of slop series. She's neither perfectly stoic nor an inconsolable mess.

We also don't know anything about elves, dwarves, or goblins in this series, nor do we know if the MC is actually overpowered or just stronger than what we've seen him up against so far.

Overall it's too early to make a clear judgment but there's a good basis here, I think. They've avoided lots of the typical sloptraps and haven't gotten weird or creepy about anything.

 

[Anonymousjsj]

[resumo="mangá"]9f9fa579-6320-4d01-943b-5be5356e1995[/resumo]

Manga has potential, I just hope this doesn't become another shit where the protagonist is idolized This damn custom of yours always ruins the story.

 

[SH1352]

Finally a manga that isn't brain dead.

 

[Waya120]

The author is Jun so hopefully it's a good story.

 

[mikouchishmells]

It’s literally made of tropes without a hint of subversion. If “unreasonably strong taciturn self-insert human saves elf girl and it takes a while for her heart to open up” isn't lazy, I don’t know what is. We didn’t see any setup for the strength of our hero, any motivations for wanting to save the village, any reason why he was late and only saved one or any resultant anguish, nor any setup for why the village was attacked or the standings of elves with respect to the humans and monsters in the world. There’s no worldbuilding at all, because you already know the world, because it’s the exact same shitty jrpg-inspired world with arrogant treelicking elves and angry scottish dwarves. They didn’t need to explain why monsters would attack an elf village, because that happens all the time in fantasy, you should be used to it by now. The only way this story could be written more lazily would be if the elf girl was the lone survivor of a caravan, and if our hero has memories of soy sauce and rice.

The worldbuilding IS the lack of forefront story telling, the fact you HAVE to GUESS at what happened. That's literally how it happens in basically ANY story. There no apparent hostility of elves to humans as the only interaction is positive. And why the village was attacked? pretty sure its outlined in the art of the orcs/ogres that they are blatantly evil. I'm sorry you need to be spoon fed a narrative to be able to follow along but you need to accept every story will have tropes, its impossible to have one without a trope, and not every story follows the same pathway. Yes you regurgitated what 70% of the low effort slop that's spat out on the browsers are about, but in a 3 chapter comic, with little fore frontal story telling, how can you say your right? There's also no evidence of isekai. Are you just bored and went on a random fantasy forum to try... what? argue?

 

[NissanFairLadyZ32]

To finally be able to read a manga with Navigavi's art, i am truly happy.

 

[Everyly]

I freaking love the art!

 

[Lewd_Beast]

Adding this for the art. The story is solid, but I love the art.

 

[Nebylou]

This is good, I like it, a lot.
The pacing and story focus reminds me of a webcomic rather than a manga, definitely need more chapters to be sure.

 

[cajones]

It’s literally made of tropes without a hint of subversion. If “unreasonably strong taciturn self-insert human saves elf girl and it takes a while for her heart to open up” isn't lazy, I don’t know what is. We didn’t see any setup for the strength of our hero, any motivations for wanting to save the village, any reason why he was late and only saved one or any resultant anguish, nor any setup for why the village was attacked or the standings of elves with respect to the humans and monsters in the world. There’s no worldbuilding at all, because you already know the world, because it’s the exact same shitty jrpg-inspired world with arrogant treelicking elves and angry scottish dwarves. They didn’t need to explain why monsters would attack an elf village, because that happens all the time in fantasy, you should be used to it by now. The only way this story could be written more lazily would be if the elf girl was the lone survivor of a caravan, and if our hero has memories of soy sauce and rice.

Okay.

 

[RiasatSenpai]

GREAT ART

 

[GIN_8_6_]

A goblin slayer without helmets

 

[Zikeang]

Solid Start, I would have just preferred that he had a different design than the generic anime protagonist look.

at least they gave bro muscle mass instead of the stand mc twink build

 

[cajones]

It’s literally made of tropes without a hint of subversion. If “unreasonably strong taciturn self-insert human saves elf girl and it takes a while for her heart to open up” isn't lazy, I don’t know what is. We didn’t see any setup for the strength of our hero, any motivations for wanting to save the village, any reason why he was late and only saved one or any resultant anguish, nor any setup for why the village was attacked or the standings of elves with respect to the humans and monsters in the world. There’s no worldbuilding at all, because you already know the world, because it’s the exact same shitty jrpg-inspired world with arrogant treelicking elves and angry scottish dwarves. They didn’t need to explain why monsters would attack an elf village, because that happens all the time in fantasy, you should be used to it by now. The only way this story could be written more lazily would be if the elf girl was the lone survivor of a caravan, and if our hero has memories of soy sauce and rice.

That's fine and all, but nothing you said proves the writing is lazy. It only shows that you don't like it. Which is completely fine. You don't have to like things. I support your opinion. But there's no such thing as objective standards by which to measure the quality of writing. Personally, I think it's just fine. Not everything needs to be revealed up front. There doesn't need to be a mountain of exposition that tells you the entire story in the first chapter. World-building doesn't require a full explanation of every imaginable detail. Tropes are not automatically bad, and they don't need to be subverted. They're simply a tool you can use, and it just depends on how effectively you're using them. Arguing using tropes straight-on makes something bad is no different than trying to say that 4-chord music in a 4/4 time signature is automatically bad. That's not objectively true, it's just your opinion.

 

[MippRiter]

I don't think it will be continuing but i pray that im wrong.

The art style is the biggest selling point. Its rare to found an author that have a contradictory style, simple but at the same time, detailed.

I hope there's more.

 

[adt141]

I don't think it will be continuing but i pray that im wrong.

The art style is the biggest selling point. Its rare to found an author that have a contradictory style, simple but at the same time, detailed.

I hope there's more.

A new chapter came out a few hours ago on the artist's twitter.

 

[Autismonaut]

I KNEW i recognized this art, well let's just hope their writing is up to par with their art

What else has this fellow worked on?

 

[GreenGuitar]

Bait people with long first chapter, then release 7p/month, fking clown author, 0/10

 

[YAMEROOO3]

What else has this fellow worked on?

He mainly does art on twitter

 

[drfreeman12]

So this guy is basically a doomguy who happens to save people in his way?