@FoxOnPie, you're right in saying I may be a bit too angry about this... and
@Minkulus, you're right in saying there's still some value in reading it: but still, this doesn't make my rant any less justified.
You can call it comedy if you want, you can point out people still buy it... but how does this cancel the fact this manga is still terrible? And like I said, I don't even want to comment on the plot: I'm just talking about the art here. It's the most amateurish thing ever. It's not only ugly, it's full of plain
mistakes too that you wouldn't see anywhere else. Remember all those scenes in the woods? Where the grass on the ground looks exactly the same everywhere, even within the same panel? That's to be expected, if you're using a Photoshop brush to draw it. Which is already laughable enough... but then things get even worse when there's that panel where you can see a close-up of the teeth on the ground after they've just been pulled out, and the author didn't even care about adjusting the size of the grass brush when drawing the blades of grass around the teeth, which resulted in them looking absolutely gigantic!
This is why I'm getting angry. There's nothing that can excuse this level of gross incompetence. But we all know why this guy here has a manga: because he's in Japan, and he can speak Japanese. When I published my two stories, I had to wait until another friend of mine did it first, then I had him ask the editor if there was a free spot for me in the next issue, to which he said yes... now we communicate with Google Translate and I pretty much never understand what he says; the first time, I had to wait until a copy of the magazine was delivered to my house to see with my own eyes what kind of stories were published there, since I couldn't even understand it from his own messages; now I draw my speech bubbles vertically and he fills them with the Japanese translation horizontally, and to this day I still don't know why; and since he's the one who translates my (English) texts into Japanese for publication, I'm not even sure if the version that ends up being printed is the same as the one I envisioned.
So yeah, I'm angry because if I had been born there, there's a chance I might have been in that magazine too. Instead the best I can do is write eight-page long one-shots once every six months, send them via email to a guy who can't even understand what I say, and in the end I don't even know if people liked them or not... simply because I'm not in Japan, where they're sold.
