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Day 25!
Today's theme is I've been looking for you. Got something I'm supposed to deliver - your hands only.
Today's roll is The Dragon, the Hero, and the Courier, which is a manga about a half-elf courier doing package deliverers to things like dragon's wizards and heros
Honestly, I really like these kinds of world building stories, always such an interesting read ૮^ᆺ^ა
it's nice to see a courier who actually does their job no matter what, instead of abandoning my package because my "leaf pile was too threatening" I mean, sure it was shaped into the address of the courier's mother, but I paid for that delivery you bastard ૮ò-óა

This series has a super interesting idea of a generic rpg fantasy rapidly becoming modernized ૮.ᆺ. ა, and if ya want some spoilers;
ch.1 was about land disputes between the local council and a mountain dwelling wizard, with a side of resurrection magic
ch.2 is about how the "hero's party" has change and how its now handled, and on the side talks about how exp and levels is now handled, currency exchange, and bikini armor
ch.3 is about a dispute between too massive tsundere's with a side lore of paper, family disputes and patents
and that's all I will spoil for today!
In my opinion this manga is quite fun and I do recommend it! But on a side not, the bureaucracy in is manga really fucking irritated me

I know I said no more spoilers, but ch.5 was a bit too real it's about how skills that were once useful and needed (in this case mages) are becoming obsolete and replaced by machines that never get tired and are more efficient and effective than a human could ever be and cost less than a human ever will. it hits very close to home with the opening of the generative ai Pandora's box that looks to cut out the soul of humanity from our most sacred of works and goverments that don't seem to care about how it effects the people
 
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Day 26
Today's theme is big think
Today i got Moriarty the Patriot, I don't have much to say about this series as I'm tired and it seems to be a strategy-psychological-drama series so my brain isn't really absorbing it, ૮ ა but it seems pretty good. ૮.ᆺ. ა Been a long time since I've seen such meaty chapters, with the first few being almost 60+ ૮o.o ა
 
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Day 27! One more day to go!
Today's theme is Stories
Today i got The Seven Shakespeares, which is a manga based on Shakespear's life and career.
since i don't know the real life story of Shakespear, i can't tell how much of the story is real. ૮ -.-ა
But i can tell that author-san is Shakespear's greatest glazer ૮ .ᆺ. ა
author-san keeps portraying Shakespear as the chad and his haters as the soyjacks
Well those soyjacks are the joy despising puritans that treat anything fun as a sin so i don't really mind ૮.ᆺ. ა

But for some reason, the author decides to start writing fan-fiction on this secret forgotten Chinese town in England that existed before the first documented Chinese person to head to England or the First documented Chinese town (the latter of which was made a couple hundred years after Shakespear lived) ૮-ᆺ- ა

So I decided to read all that's on MangaDex, and i have to say, my first impressions are wrong ૮ -x-ა as the author decided to attribute all of Shakespear's works to their random oc ૮ -‸ლა idk if it's just early work inspiration, but some of the words in ch.1 makes me think otherwise ૮ -ᆺ- ა and to be completely honest, i don't really care, especially since the title "The Seven Shakespeares" leaves me to believe there will be six other oc's to write the plays ૮-ᆺ- ა

I'll end with this, the theory that Shakespear didn't write his plays comes from (from what i can tell) a belief that the son of a working class family couldn't be intelligent enough to write such masterpieces, and is a theory that isn't applied to other writers of fame who come from similar backgrounds. On top of that, scholars of Shakespear have repeatably called into question the validity of the theory, as there are many holes with the people that supposedly made the works. Leaving things highly unlikely that Shakespear didn't write his works ૮-ᆺ- ა
 
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I got this oneshot about two dorks dating
It was pretty cute
And then, I got Bleach
The regular series. Good thing I've read it all already. Rukia butt.
Then, this, at least the second story of it
It's a shoujo about a girl who likes being bullied by the boy she likes, I guess.
Finally, this, some kind of Queen's Blade. I'm not sure if this is a spinoff or the original
It's lewd but also readable
 
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Day 28, the final day

Tonight's them? Manga

For the final roll, we have Dragon and Chameleon, a story about the greatest mangaka of today swapping bodies with his asshole assistant that can copy any style. the assistant happy to finally be someone of note, and the mangaka excited to surpass 'himself' ૮òᆺóა

I'll be fully real, imma not talk on the story, other than saying that it's great, as I don't want to spoil anything ૮ oᆺo ა
The are on the other hand? it's so beautiful, I could go on with fluffing it up with words like "you can truly see the mangaka's passion! ૮✧ᆺ✧ა" or "every panel, every move, it's all so smooth! ૮✧ᆺ✧ა", but I won't, ૮ .ᆺ. ა as I feel like someone else with better knowlage in this would be able to put it into better words than I just did (although, what I said is true ૮.ᆺ. ა) and go straight to i can recognize the ergonomic chairs ૮o.o ა

But I will mention, y'know how Food Wars has that food climax thing whenever someone great eats a dish? ૮ .ᆺ. ა
this is the manga version of that, where people climax after reading a great manga ૮˶'ᆺ'˶ა

you can feel the mangaka's passion about manga in its everything in this masterpiece, I truly recomend it ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
 
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Final day of Random Roulette February gave me
A Touhou Doujinshi
Fan made prequel to PCB where nothing much happens

And then I got girl's love...
There was a story about touching breasts, a story about an aggressive "real, bona fide lesbian", etc...
A fan of the genre would probably like it..

Another one for good measure, a oneshot about highschoolers who can see ghosts..
It's fine, kind of a Rick and Morty Ghostbusters dynamic going on.

This was a fun challenge. I think I got more interesting stuff than unpleasant stuff. Found a couple of series I wanted to read to completion. The random button is alright, I guess, it generates stuff other than BL sometimes. Sometimes the stuff the random button generates is even good.
 
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I feel like I should do an afterword on this challenge, give my closing thoughts ૮ .ᆺ. ა

To be perfectly honest, I thought this challenge would be easier, I didn't expect it would be weirdly tiring to read 30+ random manga (some days had more than one manga.) for 28 days straight ૮×.×

But I AM DONE!!
I AM
(probably) NOT GOING TO DO THIS AGAIN!!!

Would I recommend anyone do this challenge? HELL NO
Honestly, this challenge could've killed my interest in reading manga for awhile <- definitely over-exaggerating ૮-ᆺ- ა
But the couple of great series i got helped prevent the burnout ૮o.oა
But fuck this challenge, I had shit I needed (wanted) to do, but instead I was making sure not to miss a day ૮ò-óა

But, it's over now~ so imma go do something more productive than read manga all day <- lie

But now for some shout-outs:

Shout-out to @MilkDrinker, if you weren't here I probably would've dropped this challenge before we reached halfway ૮^ᆺ^ა

And shout-out to @Nyanyan444, if you didn't decided to break one of the most well known rules of this forum, not only would this thread lack any plot twists, any failures, and the funny joke that the person who made this challenge couldn't complete it. But you also gave yourself the bronze medal, so thanks for that ૮^ᆺ^ა

And finally, is there any manga that I got from this challenge, that I would recommend? ૮.ᆺ. ა
Of course, silly! ૮^ᆺ^ა With a ૮≧◡≦ა ♡ kaomoji to signal my faves among faves, those day's would be:

Day 1: Beginnings
Day 2: manga with no translation! ლ૮ ლა
Day 4: cars! ૮^ᆺ^ა
Day 6: fate ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 7: Jeremy Wade: River Monsters ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 8: It's a penguin!
Day 10: Kurikurikurikurikurikurikurikuri ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 14: valentines special!! ૮✧ᆺ✧ა ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 18: dedication ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 19: comrade
Day 20: "isn't this supposed to be a "manga roulette"?"
Day 21: human relations ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 23: mercy ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 24: dragon gay sex
Day 25: I've been looking for you. Got something I'm supposed to deliver - your hands only. ૮≧◡≦ა ♡
Day 28: Manga ૮≧◡≦ა ♡

With a final score of 16/28: 12 don't recommend, 16 do recommend, and 9 faves among faves

Goodnight everybody!

what you're still here?
the RR is over now buddy, maybe come back next year to see if someone is masochistic enough to do some more
perhaps you want to know just what were my rules?
how did i get so many full mangas? how did i get so many great mangas?
well if you truly want to know those rules
open 1000 more spoilers
open 999 more spoilers
open 998 more spoilers
open 997 more spoilers
open 99- y'know what? fuck that early 2000's comedy bit
here's my rules:

So... you must be wondering... how did i get consistent good series? well because there's no rules for this challenge
So I was able to make my own personal rules, those being:
1. series must have at least 5 translated chapters <- I would break this rule on Day 9: @Data_Gold was feeling lazy ૮.ᆺ. ა
2. series musn't be 18+ <- I would break this on Day 2: manga with no translation! ლ૮ ლა
3. series must be manga, it is a manga roulette after all <- I would break this on Day 20: "isn't this supposed to be a "manga roulette"?"
4. nonsense rule to pad out the rules <- this rule would also be broken on several occasions
5. I judged all the manga by their vibes, and if i didn't vibe with it, i skipped it <- this rule lead me to skip so so many series
i should stop trying to be funny when i know i'm not...
 
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To be perfectly honest, I thought this challenge would be easier, I didn't expect it would be weirdly tiring to read 30+ random manga (some days had more than one manga.) for 28 days straight ૮×.×
Massive respect to your dedication
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I knew I voted right at the V5 Big Three thread
 

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