Shiniki no Mahoutsukai ~Shin ni Aisareta Rakudaisei wa Mahou Gakuin e Kayou~
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I don't mind turn-brain-off kinda works, but this one takes it to another level. There are really no stakes.
1st chapter, the MC, as a baby, basically floats in the air and goes: "Greetings, Mother." -- and nobody bats an eye. The parents just go: "Oh wow :O
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And then, within a setting in which magic as a science is practically taboo, the MC constantly shows it off to....Everyone. Literally everyone, and nobody in the story tries to pin the MC as a devil or a living spirit, something, anything.
Basically, the MC constantly does stuff that should warrant very extreme reactions, but instead, everyone just accepts it and go: "Oh wow, neat d:"
It could've been funny, if it was played upon...Like, the MC tries to have people take him seriously, but instead, everyone in the current era are airheaded idiots.
TLDR: mediocre story. MC is a reincarnation of a genius, acts like he's 40 years old know-it-all, and nobody questions anything he does. Worst of all, people mostly just talk about what they want to do, rather than just do it. Even for zombie-reading, it's pretty meh.
P.S: This is one of those manga, where I am AMAZED it ever got adapted. I feel like even a non-pro version of any AI service could've produced the script for this. I always feel sorry for the artists who adapt this sort of shit.
1st chapter, the MC, as a baby, basically floats in the air and goes: "Greetings, Mother." -- and nobody bats an eye. The parents just go: "Oh wow :O
"And then, within a setting in which magic as a science is practically taboo, the MC constantly shows it off to....Everyone. Literally everyone, and nobody in the story tries to pin the MC as a devil or a living spirit, something, anything.
Basically, the MC constantly does stuff that should warrant very extreme reactions, but instead, everyone just accepts it and go: "Oh wow, neat d:"
It could've been funny, if it was played upon...Like, the MC tries to have people take him seriously, but instead, everyone in the current era are airheaded idiots.
TLDR: mediocre story. MC is a reincarnation of a genius, acts like he's 40 years old know-it-all, and nobody questions anything he does. Worst of all, people mostly just talk about what they want to do, rather than just do it. Even for zombie-reading, it's pretty meh.
P.S: This is one of those manga, where I am AMAZED it ever got adapted. I feel like even a non-pro version of any AI service could've produced the script for this. I always feel sorry for the artists who adapt this sort of shit.
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The Comment Section gives me the feeling that they would have burnt-alive the comic artists from my youth. LOL. Lord knows, Sailor Moon wasn't exactly "deep". And... had a daughter CONSTANTLY having INAPPROPRIATE DAD THOUGHTS.
Fiction doesn't need to always be The Brothers Karamazov people. Seriously...
That said, I can appreciate some of the griping.
From my vantage point, it's a light-hearted story about someone dying with regrets, being a total loner, who couldn't fulfill their life goals, making a second chance, used as a younger teen method piece to teach ideas about life. I do acknowledge that due to time compression, they are, unfortunately, doing far too much "describing" instead of "doing", though I don't know how much of that can necessarily be blamed on the author. These days, manga manufacture has become like other East Asian and South Asian comics, something of a toxic-rush-job where artists are pushed to "figure it all out on their own with little or no editorial input". It wouldn't surprise me if this comic didn't even get a real editor. Maybe, I'm being a TAD overcritical on this, but it's SO common these days. There's this one great series that even got an anime adaptation that was brutally cut short because the author got sick. Like, if they'd acted that way 25-years ago, MOST of the famous anime series folks know and love would have been axed. Hell, MOST of CLAMP was ad-hoc on the delivery schedule.
I think readers can and should be critical in their analysis of fiction. But likewise, they need to direct their ire at the SOURCE of the slop, not the artists or writers.
Writing GREAT stories does not, typically, occur in a vacuum. You don't just sit-down and plug out great art without feedback. Nor do you do so without editorial input. The greatest works often had the greatest feedback. But these days, only those who are cash cows have the hope of such "luxuries". And yes, it gets worse by the year. Capitalism is fucking over our readership by the day.
That said, I don't think the comic is anywhere NEAR as trash as the two previous commentators seem to make it out to be. Nah. Not even close. It's definitely lighter on the tension, but it seems to be designed as such. It's definitely not "original", though in fairness to "originality", very few if any stories actually ARE original. Art is the history of regurgitated ideas taken from life with slightly different takes based upon the experiences of others. Art is, after all, an author pushing ideas and their experiencing through a particular medium. I feel like these are the readers who would trash cave art without understanding nor appreciating it for what it is all because it doesn't meet their "biased expectations" of "what constitutes 'good art'".
I'd certainly not consider this trash.
From a reader's POV, I'd like to see more character development. More time to delve into the family and life. I get the impression the artist was forcibly rushed to compress far too much story into bite-sized bits in order to "get to the interesting shit" because some sales manager didn't understand that "compelling story" doesn't necessarily need to have a TON of ACTION. A kid growing up in a farm village with his background, improving the lives of the community can and HAS been done EXCEEDINGLY compellingly. What I see here is authors and artists doing their best under bullshit managerial oversight telling them, "HURRY UP TO THE GOOD SHIT!" and the author is forced to make obscene structural cuts that divert from the more interesting aspects of the story that probably got the story interest to begin with. It's a shame to because I see a LOT of potential. The "powerful mage reincarnated, horrified at the decline of magic" is a well established trope. It's one that can be effectively used to drive home quite fascinating and compelling human stories. What has changed, though, in recent years, is comic artists (and authors) have been given less and less opportunities to actually TELL stories, really interesting ones, because some idiot who thinks they know storytelling better than storytellers (I'm not referring to editors, BTW, by the rentier capitalist types who demand unrealistic returns on investment that are unsustainable). People who were notorious in the television industry for torching adaptations or ruining great storytelling because they wanted to "dictate from the board room". The same thing goes on here.
But given that sort of toxic production environment, what I find fascinating is that the artist and author actually still managed to get something out there that has some compelling features. If the aforementioned readers could only half-shit on it with their glorified Sunday Chicago Tribune Wannabee critics reviews, then regular readers can be trusted to find something light and mildly stimulating able to chunk through the daily grind. It's great for a second draft. What I want to see now is MORE character development. MORE humanity. More of what makes even the SLOWEST of slice-of-life stories immensely compelling. With that, I think the authors/artists can shitbag the management for the time being.
Speaking strictly from an art standpoint, I'd give the art a solid 7.5 to 8. While it isn't so awe-inspiring to make me cry at every page, it also does an excellent job at conveying emotion at certain moments, particularly with certain characters.
One aspect of the story that I appreciate is how the author takes the time to not let adults dispose of children like excess waste. Genz being a case example of a "plotter" using an "unwitting and immature/unwise/underdeveloped" child as a pawn in his schemes by leaning on historical learned prejudices, then when his plans fail, dumping HIS responsibility on the child rather than being forced to take responsibility for himself.
In a LOT of stories of this genre, the kids ultimately end up being the ones to take on the punishment of the full-grown adults whose prejudices and biases harm them. What I enjoyed most was seeing people, adults forced to see things differently, and healthy practices. The whole, "Child who makes wise observations beyond their age" being a case and point. Genz represents the kind of toxic culture that the story, it seems to me, is attempting to critique. How WELL it does that is definitely debatable, but I think what other readers here seem to miss is what the author seems to be intending---focusing on how we rear our young, how we as society deal with new ideas or people who don't fit into our social structure. Likewise, it would be super easy for an MC to not particularly care about their family or community, and for the community to shit on them. That's a common trope these days. What we don't see are communities banding together to help one another. Like, the community choosing in lieu of taking the Lord's money, to instead "raise them up as their hopes" and "invest with what little they have", that is an ancient custom, one that I think people have forgotten in the dehumanizing present. We have lost our communal connections, our social obligations, our community, our ability to love one another and bond. The story attempts to critique that fact. The magic I think is secondary to the social commentary the author is making. Much of what other readers have mentioned are secondary to the author's social commentary put forward in narrative form. The magic is just an avenue for the social rebuke of the dehumanizing aspects they see affecting their society. I wouldn't be surprised if this commentary was aimed in-part at Japanese culture, schools, and how they raise their children. The loss of communal involvement. The loss of collective care for others. The ability to "cast out" people "because they no longer matter". The unhoused situations in Japan or America could be a useful metaphor for the way the nobles treat commoners. Frankly, Genz is one of the most realistic takes on nobility that I've seen. The MC's territory's noble being an "outsider" because his "mother was a commoner", and how his "interest in magic" was a result of his love for his mother. That's GOOD CHARACTER WRITING right there. But, I feel like folks missed that. They missed what was right in front of them because the story wasn't meeting their expectations. Likewise, they couldn't look past the culture and economic art situation that has turned "commercially published comics" into somewhat of a hellscape due to extreme monopoly and rentier financialization. You can't justly assess a work of art without understanding where it came from or the circumstances made around it. It's like shitting on wall paintings because you are anachronistically comparing them with art that had far more history and scaffolding tȯ build upon.
Fiction doesn't need to always be The Brothers Karamazov people. Seriously...
That said, I can appreciate some of the griping.
From my vantage point, it's a light-hearted story about someone dying with regrets, being a total loner, who couldn't fulfill their life goals, making a second chance, used as a younger teen method piece to teach ideas about life. I do acknowledge that due to time compression, they are, unfortunately, doing far too much "describing" instead of "doing", though I don't know how much of that can necessarily be blamed on the author. These days, manga manufacture has become like other East Asian and South Asian comics, something of a toxic-rush-job where artists are pushed to "figure it all out on their own with little or no editorial input". It wouldn't surprise me if this comic didn't even get a real editor. Maybe, I'm being a TAD overcritical on this, but it's SO common these days. There's this one great series that even got an anime adaptation that was brutally cut short because the author got sick. Like, if they'd acted that way 25-years ago, MOST of the famous anime series folks know and love would have been axed. Hell, MOST of CLAMP was ad-hoc on the delivery schedule.
I think readers can and should be critical in their analysis of fiction. But likewise, they need to direct their ire at the SOURCE of the slop, not the artists or writers.
Writing GREAT stories does not, typically, occur in a vacuum. You don't just sit-down and plug out great art without feedback. Nor do you do so without editorial input. The greatest works often had the greatest feedback. But these days, only those who are cash cows have the hope of such "luxuries". And yes, it gets worse by the year. Capitalism is fucking over our readership by the day.
That said, I don't think the comic is anywhere NEAR as trash as the two previous commentators seem to make it out to be. Nah. Not even close. It's definitely lighter on the tension, but it seems to be designed as such. It's definitely not "original", though in fairness to "originality", very few if any stories actually ARE original. Art is the history of regurgitated ideas taken from life with slightly different takes based upon the experiences of others. Art is, after all, an author pushing ideas and their experiencing through a particular medium. I feel like these are the readers who would trash cave art without understanding nor appreciating it for what it is all because it doesn't meet their "biased expectations" of "what constitutes 'good art'".
I'd certainly not consider this trash.
From a reader's POV, I'd like to see more character development. More time to delve into the family and life. I get the impression the artist was forcibly rushed to compress far too much story into bite-sized bits in order to "get to the interesting shit" because some sales manager didn't understand that "compelling story" doesn't necessarily need to have a TON of ACTION. A kid growing up in a farm village with his background, improving the lives of the community can and HAS been done EXCEEDINGLY compellingly. What I see here is authors and artists doing their best under bullshit managerial oversight telling them, "HURRY UP TO THE GOOD SHIT!" and the author is forced to make obscene structural cuts that divert from the more interesting aspects of the story that probably got the story interest to begin with. It's a shame to because I see a LOT of potential. The "powerful mage reincarnated, horrified at the decline of magic" is a well established trope. It's one that can be effectively used to drive home quite fascinating and compelling human stories. What has changed, though, in recent years, is comic artists (and authors) have been given less and less opportunities to actually TELL stories, really interesting ones, because some idiot who thinks they know storytelling better than storytellers (I'm not referring to editors, BTW, by the rentier capitalist types who demand unrealistic returns on investment that are unsustainable). People who were notorious in the television industry for torching adaptations or ruining great storytelling because they wanted to "dictate from the board room". The same thing goes on here.
But given that sort of toxic production environment, what I find fascinating is that the artist and author actually still managed to get something out there that has some compelling features. If the aforementioned readers could only half-shit on it with their glorified Sunday Chicago Tribune Wannabee critics reviews, then regular readers can be trusted to find something light and mildly stimulating able to chunk through the daily grind. It's great for a second draft. What I want to see now is MORE character development. MORE humanity. More of what makes even the SLOWEST of slice-of-life stories immensely compelling. With that, I think the authors/artists can shitbag the management for the time being.
Speaking strictly from an art standpoint, I'd give the art a solid 7.5 to 8. While it isn't so awe-inspiring to make me cry at every page, it also does an excellent job at conveying emotion at certain moments, particularly with certain characters.
One aspect of the story that I appreciate is how the author takes the time to not let adults dispose of children like excess waste. Genz being a case example of a "plotter" using an "unwitting and immature/unwise/underdeveloped" child as a pawn in his schemes by leaning on historical learned prejudices, then when his plans fail, dumping HIS responsibility on the child rather than being forced to take responsibility for himself.
In a LOT of stories of this genre, the kids ultimately end up being the ones to take on the punishment of the full-grown adults whose prejudices and biases harm them. What I enjoyed most was seeing people, adults forced to see things differently, and healthy practices. The whole, "Child who makes wise observations beyond their age" being a case and point. Genz represents the kind of toxic culture that the story, it seems to me, is attempting to critique. How WELL it does that is definitely debatable, but I think what other readers here seem to miss is what the author seems to be intending---focusing on how we rear our young, how we as society deal with new ideas or people who don't fit into our social structure. Likewise, it would be super easy for an MC to not particularly care about their family or community, and for the community to shit on them. That's a common trope these days. What we don't see are communities banding together to help one another. Like, the community choosing in lieu of taking the Lord's money, to instead "raise them up as their hopes" and "invest with what little they have", that is an ancient custom, one that I think people have forgotten in the dehumanizing present. We have lost our communal connections, our social obligations, our community, our ability to love one another and bond. The story attempts to critique that fact. The magic I think is secondary to the social commentary the author is making. Much of what other readers have mentioned are secondary to the author's social commentary put forward in narrative form. The magic is just an avenue for the social rebuke of the dehumanizing aspects they see affecting their society. I wouldn't be surprised if this commentary was aimed in-part at Japanese culture, schools, and how they raise their children. The loss of communal involvement. The loss of collective care for others. The ability to "cast out" people "because they no longer matter". The unhoused situations in Japan or America could be a useful metaphor for the way the nobles treat commoners. Frankly, Genz is one of the most realistic takes on nobility that I've seen. The MC's territory's noble being an "outsider" because his "mother was a commoner", and how his "interest in magic" was a result of his love for his mother. That's GOOD CHARACTER WRITING right there. But, I feel like folks missed that. They missed what was right in front of them because the story wasn't meeting their expectations. Likewise, they couldn't look past the culture and economic art situation that has turned "commercially published comics" into somewhat of a hellscape due to extreme monopoly and rentier financialization. You can't justly assess a work of art without understanding where it came from or the circumstances made around it. It's like shitting on wall paintings because you are anachronistically comparing them with art that had far more history and scaffolding tȯ build upon.
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