Maria no Danzai - Ch. 36 - The Daily Life of the Two

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It's not that Japanese people are not critical, it's that official platforms are much more heavily moderated and being openly critical usually makes you stick out in a negative way.

Remember there's a way higher likelihood that the author and other staff will read your comments on those apps, so openly insulting them is not a good look, even if you didn't like the story. Also your comment might get deleted if it's deemed inappropriate.

You can even see in series that get very controversial sometimes there are folks in the comments asking not to get too violent with the author and keep the peace. It's a very cultural thing.

But that's also why, when you do see people actually being openly critical, you know the story is turning to shit.

It's also why in areas of true anonymity where you aren't being censured by the powers that be you see Japanese users (really most Asian cultures) being particularly vitriolic and mean spirited to the point that it makes even some of the worst trolls in the anglosphere wince and recoil. Look what repression does to a mother fucker.

For better or worse, the Western side of the world isn't afraid to air their dirty laundry and speak their mind which on the surface level makes it seem like we're just angrier in general but the alternative is the toxic positivity you find on the Eastern side with a roiling maelstrom bubbling beneath the surface just waiting to erupt.
 
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This is hilarious and absurd

It'd have been more sensible if his parents were powerful people, perhaps even abusive towards him, but it's gone in the dumbest and honestly funniest direction possible
If I had a kid that will turn out like that, I'm gonna slap him so hard, it'll be borderline abuse
 
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I came to this manga to take refuge from Juujika, not to re-live it god damn it....
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It's not that Japanese people are not critical, it's that official platforms are much more heavily moderated and being openly critical usually makes you stick out in a negative way.

Remember there's a way higher likelihood that the author and other staff will read your comments on those apps, so openly insulting them is not a good look, even if you didn't like the story. Also your comment might get deleted if it's deemed inappropriate.

You can even see in series that get very controversial sometimes there are folks in the comments asking not to get too violent with the author and keep the peace. It's a very cultural thing.

But that's also why, when you do see people actually being openly critical, you know the story is turning to shit.
yep yep, pretty much creating a circle of toxic positivity, pretty much explain why we got so many trash isekais, there's nobody directly saying that their shit is wack.
It's also why in areas of true anonymity where you aren't being censured by the powers that be you see Japanese users (really most Asian cultures) being particularly vitriolic and mean spirited to the point that it makes even some of the worst trolls in the anglosphere wince and recoil. Look what repression does to a mother fucker.

For better or worse, the Western side of the world isn't afraid to air their dirty laundry and speak their mind which on the surface level makes it seem like we're just angrier in general but the alternative is the toxic positivity you find on the Eastern side with a roiling maelstrom bubbling beneath the surface just waiting to erupt.
pretty much 2chan going fully unhinged for this.
 
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Wow author really tanked this. What's next, the antagonist is from another world and has cheat powers?

Don't write evil genius characters if you're not smart enough to make them geniuses without the characters around them being idiots.
 
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This is somehow more power fantasy than some isekai lmao

Also if Okaya was my child, and it got to this point, I'm def gonna kill him for the greater good of humanity
 

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