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Thanks for picking it up
I can see why interest is waning. With chapters like these the premise is dropped entirely and there’s hardly any conflict (like not even slice of life conflict). It feels a bit like the author’s philosophical ramblings distilled through fictional characters. I still think it does a nice job of characterizing the characters and building an interesting dynamic. But it is a drag to get through with pages upon pages of text with little conflict. The resolution also isn’t super interesting (it hasn’t been since the Eri reveal and conflict). They pretty much just come to the “good” conclusion and its hard to say they experienced change or growth. Eri is the only one that even needs to grow and that’s been reqlly slow and she feels more like the comedic relief than anything right now. At least with the main cast even when the plot is kinda ridiculous or even nothing a specific lesson is taught to the characters and they noticeably experience so,e growth. Which i guess is also fine if the author is trying to treat the school chapters as filler to flesh out the world and have these conversation (but then again I’m not sure focusing on a single high school and having somewhat unrealistic debates between teenagers accomplishes that). I’ll definitely stick around to see how it goes though.
That said, I’m not sure the logic holds up. Like if there are 8 billion people and soon more robots than people than that’s a little hard to believe. There’s not nearly that many cars in the world; there’s less than 2 billion and we’re already running into major space issues ne that’s me assuming these robots run on completely clean power (which btw not even humans do and even fully electric cars (which isn’t entirely clean energy either) are manufactured in carbon footprint heavy ways). Did the teacher mean more robots than people in Japan where the population is smaller and dwindling? Because that’s more believable but feels like a different problem.
I can see why interest is waning. With chapters like these the premise is dropped entirely and there’s hardly any conflict (like not even slice of life conflict). It feels a bit like the author’s philosophical ramblings distilled through fictional characters. I still think it does a nice job of characterizing the characters and building an interesting dynamic. But it is a drag to get through with pages upon pages of text with little conflict. The resolution also isn’t super interesting (it hasn’t been since the Eri reveal and conflict). They pretty much just come to the “good” conclusion and its hard to say they experienced change or growth. Eri is the only one that even needs to grow and that’s been reqlly slow and she feels more like the comedic relief than anything right now. At least with the main cast even when the plot is kinda ridiculous or even nothing a specific lesson is taught to the characters and they noticeably experience so,e growth. Which i guess is also fine if the author is trying to treat the school chapters as filler to flesh out the world and have these conversation (but then again I’m not sure focusing on a single high school and having somewhat unrealistic debates between teenagers accomplishes that). I’ll definitely stick around to see how it goes though.
That said, I’m not sure the logic holds up. Like if there are 8 billion people and soon more robots than people than that’s a little hard to believe. There’s not nearly that many cars in the world; there’s less than 2 billion and we’re already running into major space issues ne that’s me assuming these robots run on completely clean power (which btw not even humans do and even fully electric cars (which isn’t entirely clean energy either) are manufactured in carbon footprint heavy ways). Did the teacher mean more robots than people in Japan where the population is smaller and dwindling? Because that’s more believable but feels like a different problem.