Hoshi Tsukai Selena
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Bear with me while I collect my socks...
Though typically drawn to more scabrous fare, I love everything about this series. The art & design put me in an instant eyeball trance, and by the time I got my brain degoggled, the story and characters had set the hook. As a longtime fan, it's lowkey thrilling to see LEN[A-7] ascend so confidently to a new level. And not, as is common for artists trying to escape Prison Planet Ecchi, by offering a domesticated gloss on her R18 work [1]. Selena the Star Druidas (Druidess?) breaks sharply with that past, trading the grown-up wit and frankness of Lena's best doujinshi [2] for wide-eyed innocence and playful imagination, resulting in a fantasy adventure not too far removed from Studio Trigger's Little Witch Academia.
Shit got me high is what I'm saying, but the drop came brutal when it hit. Turns out scanlators Monkey Bussines, ignoring the enthusiasm I would manifest only seven months later, ditched this project back in February. They claimed at the time to have received credible visions of "an official translation for various countries." But here in mid-August, marooned on the far shore of Volume 1, I see little cause for hope. Selena wrapped after only 17 issues, and the internet of nerds seems hardly to have noticed. With less than 2k MD followers, I expect the remaining chapters to sit untranslated for years.
So I shouldn't complain. I'll have plenty of time to enjoy the frustration. Half tempted to feed chapter five to a smartbot, though. Just to see what comes out the back end. I hear they're better than people. And everybody loves terrible amateur machine translations. Left-justified purple and green text dropped onto approximate page regions in Paint? I could do that. No problem 😎
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1 e.g. 2020's Love Score
2 e.g. #263076, #266101
Though typically drawn to more scabrous fare, I love everything about this series. The art & design put me in an instant eyeball trance, and by the time I got my brain degoggled, the story and characters had set the hook. As a longtime fan, it's lowkey thrilling to see LEN[A-7] ascend so confidently to a new level. And not, as is common for artists trying to escape Prison Planet Ecchi, by offering a domesticated gloss on her R18 work [1]. Selena the Star Druidas (Druidess?) breaks sharply with that past, trading the grown-up wit and frankness of Lena's best doujinshi [2] for wide-eyed innocence and playful imagination, resulting in a fantasy adventure not too far removed from Studio Trigger's Little Witch Academia.
Shit got me high is what I'm saying, but the drop came brutal when it hit. Turns out scanlators Monkey Bussines, ignoring the enthusiasm I would manifest only seven months later, ditched this project back in February. They claimed at the time to have received credible visions of "an official translation for various countries." But here in mid-August, marooned on the far shore of Volume 1, I see little cause for hope. Selena wrapped after only 17 issues, and the internet of nerds seems hardly to have noticed. With less than 2k MD followers, I expect the remaining chapters to sit untranslated for years.
So I shouldn't complain. I'll have plenty of time to enjoy the frustration. Half tempted to feed chapter five to a smartbot, though. Just to see what comes out the back end. I hear they're better than people. And everybody loves terrible amateur machine translations. Left-justified purple and green text dropped onto approximate page regions in Paint? I could do that. No problem 😎
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1 e.g. 2020's Love Score
2 e.g. #263076, #266101
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Just 3 Volumes, what a shame.
Even on a website where its available to read for free, it has barely any follows. It could've easily gone to at least 8 volumes and had a "single-cour" anime adaptation, but I guess people were too overwhelmed with better fantasy manga titles like "I died, now i'm reborn as an OP MC or something in another world".
At the time of writing, its incorrectly tagged as "slice of life", which it definitely isn't, its a fantasy adventure set in a world with unique magic and creatures.
I'm gonna keep my eye on the mangaupdates page of LEN[A-7] so I can be there to buy whatever she decides to create next.
Even on a website where its available to read for free, it has barely any follows. It could've easily gone to at least 8 volumes and had a "single-cour" anime adaptation, but I guess people were too overwhelmed with better fantasy manga titles like "I died, now i'm reborn as an OP MC or something in another world".
At the time of writing, its incorrectly tagged as "slice of life", which it definitely isn't, its a fantasy adventure set in a world with unique magic and creatures.
I'm gonna keep my eye on the mangaupdates page of LEN[A-7] so I can be there to buy whatever she decides to create next.
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This had a lot of potential to be really interesting, surprised and sad to see it ending so soon
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Why the one who goes first is the one that have gorgeous 
