LOVE-BULLET - Vol. 1 Ch. 6.6 - Twitter Extra: What Does a Modern-Day Cupid Smell Like?
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Considering how much powder they burn just casually, I’m not surprised. But I wonder if that’s the intention or if Cupids all smell like something pleasant but unique to whoever smells them. The other girls claimed she smelled like different things.
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inee just announced on Twitter/X that LOVE BULLET sales aren't doing great, but luckily she still has time to promote the series!! This Twitter extra is just one of several things she's released as new content in the past couple weeks. If you'd like to help the series avoid early cancellation, check out SupportLB.carrd.co!
The LOVE BULLET Discord server is organizing a push to spread the work with the message "Read Love Bullet!" We'll be throwing the hashtag #ReadLoveBullet around when spreading the word!
If you enjoy the series, we hope you'll help out however you can!
Look forward to a couple more releases from us this week, including Chapter 7!
The LOVE BULLET Discord server is organizing a push to spread the work with the message "Read Love Bullet!" We'll be throwing the hashtag #ReadLoveBullet around when spreading the word!
If you enjoy the series, we hope you'll help out however you can!
Look forward to a couple more releases from us this week, including Chapter 7!
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This series has so much heart and soul put into it, it's criminal how overlooked it is.
BTW their wings look so cute when they're folded up on their backs, super adorable
BTW their wings look so cute when they're folded up on their backs, super adorable
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Gonna get a copy next month, hope is still within time to matter
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LOVE-BULLET is a series I hold extremely close to my heart. I have been here since Chapter 2 or so and the notion that we will never see the end of Inee's story hurts. If you have $5 to buy the manga digitally, please do. If you want to go the extra mile, there is an extremely high quality physical release you can purchase for $14 with free shipping off Manga-Republic.
If you are interested in helping contribute to saving LOVE-BULLET, buy a copy of the manga, join the Discord (link in the chapter credits), and help us promo on X/Twitter. If this is the end, we aren't going down without a fight.
Long live LOVE-BULLET, and may luck be on our side.
If you are interested in helping contribute to saving LOVE-BULLET, buy a copy of the manga, join the Discord (link in the chapter credits), and help us promo on X/Twitter. If this is the end, we aren't going down without a fight.
Long live LOVE-BULLET, and may luck be on our side.
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I really hope it doesn't get axed. Really, really hope. And yeah, are they still counting sales? I got a digital but it's so nice to look at that a physical copy would be no waste of money even if I can't read the runes. And of course helping the series being allowed to continue would make the cost totally worthwhile.
I never really picked up a distinct smell from burned powder but reloading ammo with Vithavouri was a great experience. They should make that stuff into a perfume. I literally stuck my nose into containers of N140 and N160 and huffed it.
I never really picked up a distinct smell from burned powder but reloading ammo with Vithavouri was a great experience. They should make that stuff into a perfume. I literally stuck my nose into containers of N140 and N160 and huffed it.
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To my knowledge, yes. If you already got digital though, no pressure to rebuy the book unless you want to.
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Noooooo. This is criminal! We must protect these cupids!
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DON'T WORRY YALL I'LL SPREAD THE WORD
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The interesting stuff never do well, fucking Japan
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I might try to post a few screenshots of love bullet on some websites or something (ill add the manga name too)
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...which was a whole 4 chapters ago.
Honestly I'm amazed there's a discord server dedicated to something that has had all of like 1.5 small story arcs so far.
I'd like to see this continue, but honestly it's not that clear to me where it's going and it hasn't been around long enough for me to be that invested in it.
The more recent chapters seemed to have a bigger focus on action and competition without a clear goal, pretty far removed from the initial unrequited love hook. Like it went from this impactful thing about dying before realizing love, into this thing where the cupids were fighting with each other for...some...reason. Because one of them was just kind of a dick I think?
I don't know, maybe that's what you love about it, but I can understand why it's not gaining that much traction.
I also think that withholding chapters because it's not selling enough is a really bad way to encourage sales. If I saw that there's a new series that seems interesting but is already on the verge of getting axed, I'd probably avoid buying it because of how likely it is that I'd be spending money only for the story to prematurely end. Reminds me of crowdfunding. It also creates an incentive for those who have invested to essentially become salesmen for it, such that their own investment pays off. Which is exactly what is happening here.
I don't like that this is floundering while that Daredemo manga is somehow popping off. The market is stupid. But I do feel that people are overselling this nascent story a bit. We really haven't seen enough to know it's going somewhere good and meaningful.
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People are putting their vote in for this manga because it has what you're framing as a negative thing: potential. There's only so much a story needs to do in one volume to hook readers and have them ask "Where is this story going? I want to know more."
Many are rallying around it because it did that very well. We were introduced to our main character who is a casual matchmaker-turned-actual Cupid. Everything's been set up so that we're ready to now follow her into her own journey of discovering love and the 3 mentors who all seem to have their own ideas of what it means to be a Cupid.
And I think you misunderstood the situation. The author is taking a break because she either takes the time to do this last push of promotions or she doesn't take a break, doesn't have any time to promo on her twitter, and then sees her manga axed without her having been able to do anything on her end. I'm sure you'd agree most fans would rather wait an extra month than get a faster release this month but a certain death sentence for the long term story.
For some context, the magazine LOVE BULLET is running in doesn't have really any advertising power. The author of Hanamonogatari (another manga that was axed 3 volumes in) mentioned that despite her first volume going viral and having good sales in the beginning, the Comic Flapper editor she worked with was a doomer about her work the whole time and the official Comic Flapper account never even followed her account or gave her any ads. When a magazine/editor doesn't have advertising power on their end, the incentive is put on the author to do promotions by themselves on social media. When manga authors are working as much as they are, it's really unreasonable on the publisher's part to ask the author to do their own marketing too. On the Japanese front, it's very much a case where most manga fans just haven't heard of LOVE BULLET yet because it hasn't been promoted enough by Flapper or Kadokawa. International fans tend to be a bit noisier (and open about pirating manga), so word spreads quicker in some instances.
Seeing how much people like the story after a single volume, I think there's more than enough reason for people to be clamoring that it deserves to at least tell a story beyond Volume 2!
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Let me explain from my point of view why this manga captured me in so few chapters.
So I started to read because I saw this post from the author:
https://x.com/inee/status/1831980821416436202
And I thought it went pretty hard, so I checked the manga. The first page is great; you can see the difference in colors between the regular people and the cupids, how the personalities of the cupids are portrayed in their character design, how the two friends have holes in the form of hearts, meaning that they have been shot before, the sight in the form of a heart, and how only one gun has a sight, meaning that gun is going to be the one that is going to shoot her.
And there's a lot more, but the post is going to end up too long if I keep going. So just a few more things: the author put a lot of attention to the guns, and how they use them; there are a lot of hearts and things that reference hearts everywhere; for example, the order and the grenade have the number 556 (kokoro(heart)), very cheesy but cute.
I feel the manga is pretty honest with its premise, and it has a lot of heart, no pun intended. I want to see the backstory of the other cupids and more.
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First, chapter 0 is a silly competition involving guns about how to resolve a love triangle between childhood friends. It serves as a preview of what's to come, and I think it made it clear that there would always be some action sequences later as well.
Chapter 1-6 forms the first proper arc, which did not just devolve into random fighting: the action sequence takes up only about half of chapter 4 and 5 each. Chapter 1 rewinds to Koharu's backstory as a human. Her best friend Aki was indeed in love with her, but Koharu died before she could answer Aki's confession. That tragedy of missed chances is the emotional hook of this arc, but it's not forgotten about like you say.
Chapter 2 and 3 are a one-two punch of Koharu finding out that not only is her first mission to choose a partner for the now grown-up Aki, but that even five years later Aki never loved anybody like she loved Koharu. Then over chapter 4-5 Koharu finds that there's a girl in Aki's entourage of admirers called Sakura who always looks out for her and just wants to make her happy. In other words, Sakura loves Aki now the same way Aki used to love Koharu when she was still alive, and of course Koharu picks her.
Koharu finalizes her choice in chapter 6, says goodbye to Aki, and the arc ends with a perfectly nailed tearjerker scene that I don't know how to recap without doing it a disservice. It hurts so good that I find it odd that someone can come away from that chapter and only remember the fight that was already over in chapter 5. I think the series is not only unique because of its modern take on Cupids, but because it effectively and elegantly leverages a yuri tragedy involving the protagonist who can't even fall in love until she becomes human again.