New Normal - Ch. 68

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Wtf, is happening... went from chapter 1 to chapter 68 to see how this goes, and find myself in action series? Thought it was slice of life romcom
went from slice of life with social commentary (released around covic) to dumb politics shit to annoying trope galore romance-action abomination with pacing issues causing whiplash and now spamming "fanservice", sexual assault and attempted rape on FMC your princess is in another castle style plus supernatural weird action.

only here to get a good laugh out of how bad it can get every now and then. I unironically think the author went rogue lmao
 
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went from slice of life with social commentary (released around covic) to dumb politics shit to annoying trope galore romance-action abomination with pacing issues causing whiplash and now spamming "fanservice", sexual assault and attempted rape on FMC your princess is in another castle style plus supernatural weird action.

only here to get a good laugh out of how bad it can get every now and then. I unironically think the author went rogue lmao
Damn, so the series just jumps into random genres like its nothing. I was expecting a slice of life romance with drama between new girls and probably getting caught by the government or some shit. So going from the 1st chapter to this chapter just confused me, how it went to this. XD
 
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went from slice of life with social commentary (released around covic) to dumb politics shit to annoying trope galore romance-action abomination with pacing issues causing whiplash and now spamming "fanservice", sexual assault and attempted rape on FMC your princess is in another castle style plus supernatural weird action.

only here to get a good laugh out of how bad it can get every now and then. I unironically think the author went rogue lmao
There is neither politics nor supernaturalness, but I agree it's bad. Much like Takamine-san, I'm only here for the art.
 
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Damn, so the series just jumps into random genres like its nothing. I was expecting a slice of life romance with drama between new girls and probably getting caught by the government or some shit. So going from the 1st chapter to this chapter just confused me, how it went to this. XD
well, it does kinda go like that, new girl appears -> MC turns wishy washy when he was quite established -> drama -> new guy appears that is unbearably obnoxious and FMC is dumbed down to enable him -> more drama but somehow even worse than prior, nothing is organic and with terrible flow.

You just jump back and forth between them somehow being super smart and super strong, dealing with mercenaries using rifles and drones and shit and them being infinitely more stupid than the average teenager to enable whatever drama the author wanted.
I do think whiplash is the perfect word to describe the manga.

There is neither politics nor supernaturalness, but I agree it's bad. Much like Takamine-san, I'm only here for the art.
There absolutely was and is to both. Ch 65, 67, 68 all have people do these fancy One Piece Zoro moves, splitting a bear into 5 parts with one Katana swing. A lot of the cast has supernatural strength now.
 
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Having to escape herself and do a hail mary long-jump is actually a pretty empowering moment.

It's a shame the author only thought to depict it as fucking fanservice, otherwise maybe we could've been talking about the tenacity of the human spirit, but, of course not, let's sexualize a rape victim...
 
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I had hopes we were going to get a zig instead of zag and have him engaging in extreme gooner behavior like just wanting to see her dressed up & posing in fetish outfits while he jerks it, or foot fetish, or wanting something creepy-but-not-directly-sexual like her to be a replacement for his little sister. But nope, just normal rape. And i don't know why I even bothered hoping we'd get some sort of twist.

There is neither politics nor supernaturalness,
there's politics but its Japanese politics.
And there's some BS supernaturalish stuff going on, but its not overwhelming (yet); nothing that can't just be explained as "extra strong/extra lucky"

Damn you, school uniform, we were so close to seeing the good part :meguuusad:
Even worse because she was jumping and you know there was a bunygirl outfit in that rapey gooner's closet. We were denied bunnygirl Natsuki.
 
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Looks like I'm not alone in wondering what tf actually happened with this manga?
Author never forgave Covid for bowing out before he could milk it while it was trendy. Now he's left with old news and clearly doesn't know what to do with it, throwing darts at the board with the genres.

Using sexual assault bait as a cheap trick for engagement for four months before resolution was vile.
 

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