Kumo no Graduale

[MangaDex]

 

[vartain]

Decent story, shame about the axe.

 

[NOUN]

it had me going and then abruptly end, like wtf.

 

[74HC595]

Man, just when I thought I found another cool airship manga and it never got finished. Back to Drifting Dragons it is.

 

[kunyka]

Man, just when I thought I found another cool airship manga and it never got finished. Back to Drifting Dragons it is.

WTF YOU PROMOTE DRAGONSLAYER TROPE BY MENTIONING RHIS GARBAGE MANGA?!

 

[74HC595]

WTF YOU PROMOTE DRAGONSLAYER TROPE BY MENTIONING RHIS GARBAGE MANGA?!

There is nothing wrong with any trope so long as it is thoughtfully executed. Westerner sees the whaling analogy and turns his brain off, just can’t handle the kino. Whaling is seen as bad because:

• some of the whales they targeted had significantly more capacity for intelligent thought compared to livestock
• they hunted so many whales that some species were pushed towards extinction
• the killing practices of industrial whaling ships are far removed from human roots as hunters trying to put food on the table
• slaughter practices were frequently wasteful with lower-value whale products
• mammals are easy to empathise with
• whales don’t attack boats or people
• it happened in real life

The manga Drifting Dragons sidesteps these issues to varying degrees. Mainly by making the sky unfashionably vast such that over-hunting isn’t a problem for artisan hunters like our main cast, but also by making the dragons closer to jellyfish than mammals, and making them threats to ships and people. The manga also shows us different perspectives of varying groups throughout the series. We meet Brno, who sees all drakers as an affront to the skies, we meet the drakers who impassionately poison their prey from a distance, and even the hunters who don’t care about the animal products and just seek to clear the skies of bounties. There’s the people for whom draking is just a job to put food on the table, and those who genuinely enjoy pursuing and eating dragons. The main cast is always seen as attaining a balance within nature, just as Senshi in Dungeon Meshi finds that he has become a part of the dungeon’s ecosystem.

Also it’s fiction. Different moral systems will exist in different realities. You remind me of the spergs complaining that Frieren posits the existence of intelligent humanoid beings who are born fundamentally evil and can be distinguished by their appearance and presumably their genetics. Wow, sure sounds like eugenics or racism to me, too bad, it’s a good story.

 

[kunyka]

There is nothing wrong with any trope so long as it is thoughtfully executed. Westerner sees the whaling analogy and turns his brain off, just can’t handle the kino. Whaling is seen as bad because:

• some of the whales they targeted had significantly more capacity for intelligent thought compared to livestock
• they hunted so many whales that some species were pushed towards extinction
• the killing practices of industrial whaling ships are far removed from human roots as hunters trying to put food on the table
• slaughter practices were frequently wasteful with lower-value whale products
• mammals are easy to empathise with
• whales don’t attack boats or people
• it happened in real life

The manga Drifting Dragons sidesteps these issues to varying degrees. Mainly by making the sky unfashionably vast such that over-hunting isn’t a problem for artisan hunters like our main cast, but also by making the dragons closer to jellyfish than mammals, and making them threats to ships and people. The manga also shows us different perspectives of varying groups throughout the series. We meet Brno, who sees all drakers as an affront to the skies, we meet the drakers who impassionately poison their prey from a distance, and even the hunters who don’t care about the animal products and just seek to clear the skies of bounties. There’s the people for whom draking is just a job to put food on the table, and those who genuinely enjoy pursuing and eating dragons. The main cast is always seen as attaining a balance within nature, just as Senshi in Dungeon Meshi finds that he has become a part of the dungeon’s ecosystem.

Also it’s fiction. Different moral systems will exist in different realities. You remind me of the spergs complaining that Frieren posits the existence of intelligent humanoid beings who are born fundamentally evil and can be distinguished by their appearance and presumably their genetics. Wow, sure sounds like eugenics or racism to me, too bad, it’s a good story.

No, these series are GARBAGE.