Kemono Michi - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[jokerxhisoka]

what in the flying fuck?

 

[Drifter]

In the very first chapter, the pervert main character steals a little girl from her parents with the intention of selling her when she is older. Someone slap a mature label on this filth.

 

[LayZzz]

Isekai stories are just getting weird now

 

[neorasp]

@Drifter
They were actually gonna sell her as a kid, and not for simple menial tasks either- for 'pleasure' ones.
WTF japan.

 

[GodGinrai]

Ok, nothing about the first time skip is explained, so we have no idea how he got this pet shop after suplexing the Princess... <.<

 

[Iceblade20]

Ok
Suplexing the princess
Owning a magical beast pet store running by beast people and a former wrestler
The female vampire is the ultimate butt-monkey
Got it

 

[ultraleaf]

So i just gotta find a princess to suplex to get shop genius!

 

[Ironclad]

Automatic 10
https://youtu.be/zpDAxhz9Dt8

 

[Ibri]

@GodGinrai: Authority= power. Power = loot. He beat the enemy leader so of course he got good loot!

 

[Argolok]

1 page in and im convinced

 

[bastek66]

Shame that color spread isn't stitched

 

[zawarudo]

MC is definitely based on NJPW's Kota Ibushi

 

[Aretheus]

@GodGinrai That was the best part of this first chapter. I can't believe I missed this for so long. It's a story that doesn't treat its audience like dunderheads that need to see literally every menial part of the adventure here. It doesn't matter how he got the pet shop, nor how he met all of these companions. The only thing that matters is that he has the shop and that he has people hanging out with him. If the author wants to fill in those blanks later, that's fine. But this first chapter getting right into the meat of the story is exactly what I like to see.

 

[GodGinrai]

@Aretheus You are literally claiming that having no coherence is a good thing. There's a difference between explaining the granular details and filling in an important gap in the setting for the story. Given that we don't even know what happened during that gap in time, it is near impossible to suspend disbelief that he somehow 1) owns property 2) can actually interface with nobles at all and 3) isn't wanted. They could have easily started at the pet shop just fine if they didn't show the summoning first. It is the fact that they showed the summoning that creates the plot hole and makes it difficult for the reader. They could have easily shown the summoning later in a flashback when they were ready to explain how he got where he was. Instead, we were left with a poorly explained gap and surrounding story that shows about as much depth as a story written by a 6-year-old.

 

[Aretheus]

@GodGinrai You know what im sick of? Seeing the exact same fucking isekai story come every single fucking week. Listening to pages and pages about the exact same gods and demons. And don't get me started on those adventurers guild explanations.

Only media for children ever feels the need to lead their readers by the nose the way Japanese fantasy manga does. To see someone breaking that generic, monotonous mold is something worth treasuring.

 

[GodGinrai]

@Aretheus The solution to overly similar stories is not to forego telling the story. Instead, you should be wanting these stories to separate themselves in storytelling manner, tropes, and plot elements.

 

[Aretheus]

Dark Souls has one of my favorite methods of storytelling, which is to say not telling it. There are few cutscenes, very little exposition. - Zero Punctuation

I think it's very dismissive to say that cutting down the generic final-fantasy-esque faff and chaff doesn't count as story-telling. Writing is not a science, it's an art. And if the author here has made the judgement that nothing in between these two points in time would have any significant impact on the story for the foreseeable future, then it's completely acceptable to skip over it.

The only reason most of these hack manga decide to include that nonsense exposition is because: a) They have no idea how to start a story, so they just start vomiting information b) They have no idea how to weave this information into the characters' interactions naturally over time.

I still don't think this manga is the best isekai or anything like that. Hardly even exceptional if you ask me. But this one aspect, I have a lot of respect for.

 

[Sivana]

So she gets insulted for being non-human, is told the noble isn't good, but still tries to sell the baby gryphon to him. Then finally realizes he's a horrible person, starts crying cause she can't say no, gets help, then bitches about said help. Wtf...

 

[Kaiju]

"From the author of Konosuba" guess they all can't be a hit