Shoujo Kishidan x Knight Tale - Vol. 3 Ch. 17 - Act 17
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It's no wonder that this series was axed. The mangaka had an exaggerated sense of who and what hobbyists of her sort are.
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@Oeconomist : The author planned to restart the serialisation on his own in this year, such as in Twitter or Pixiv.
https://twitter.com/inushins/status/1316994581083299842
https://twitter.com/inushins/status/1316994581083299842
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@rluka—
I'd read that the mangaka (not a he but a she) hoped to continue it after the publisher dropped it.
However, it won't catch-on commercially if it continues to present this hobby as it has.
Edit: @lastKANAshimi gives a reference that says that the mangaka is indeed male.
I'd read that the mangaka (not a he but a she) hoped to continue it after the publisher dropped it.
However, it won't catch-on commercially if it continues to present this hobby as it has.
Edit: @lastKANAshimi gives a reference that says that the mangaka is indeed male.
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This manga got axed because people failed to respect the gay hot lady knight aesthetic.
Glad to see the mangaka's not giving up on it though. I hope we see more of it.
Glad to see the mangaka's not giving up on it though. I hope we see more of it.
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@NinjaGoemon—
Except that no one in this story is a knight. The æsthetic here is gay, hot LARPer, and the story is set in a world in which this LARPing is treated as glorious and some schools spend enormous sums to support it. The only people whom I've encountered who think that LARPing is magnificent are a subset of LARPers who have no other source of self-esteem.
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https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=10097
Mangaupdates list them as a guy, was it confirmed elsewhere?
https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=10097
Mangaupdates list them as a guy, was it confirmed elsewhere?
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@lastKANAshimi—
I may have been quite misinformed on the sex of the mangaka, but I repeatedly read references with feminine gender.
I may have been quite misinformed on the sex of the mangaka, but I repeatedly read references with feminine gender.
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No, the chivalrous traditions from middle ages have just evolved into a current time as something between a sport* and a serious societal phenomenon and/or informal power that is taken seriously to lulzy extreme which is where the comedy and dorkiness comes in. Something like the "absurdly powerful student council" thing from anime plots, just even more silly.
* look how stupidly seriously is soccer/football taken by some people and it is much less cute
No, the chivalrous traditions from middle ages have just evolved into a current time as something between a sport* and a serious societal phenomenon and/or informal power that is taken seriously to lulzy extreme which is where the comedy and dorkiness comes in. Something like the "absurdly powerful student council" thing from anime plots, just even more silly.
* look how stupidly seriously is soccer/football taken by some people and it is much less cute
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@OnDeedolito—
Even if one takes this as a alternative history in which what they are doing evolved from Mediaeval tournaments, the result of that evolution was still LARPing, and they are still LARPers. That's why the mangaka draws upon LARPing in the explanatory omake.
Now, I have not criticized LARPing as such; but the portrayal of it as magnificent — no matter what the imagined history — is doomed to commercial failure.
Popular fiction about gladitorial combat — not about LARPing, but about contestants seeking each to injure the other — has a significant commercial footprint.
To make prancing football (a.k.a. “soccer”) akin to LARPing, one would replace the ball with a very obviously fake human head, and then engage in some great pretense of how significant the head as such were. As it is, yes, prancing football has wide social appeal despite its silliness, but the appeal is on a different basis.
Even if one takes this as a alternative history in which what they are doing evolved from Mediaeval tournaments, the result of that evolution was still LARPing, and they are still LARPers. That's why the mangaka draws upon LARPing in the explanatory omake.
Now, I have not criticized LARPing as such; but the portrayal of it as magnificent — no matter what the imagined history — is doomed to commercial failure.
Popular fiction about gladitorial combat — not about LARPing, but about contestants seeking each to injure the other — has a significant commercial footprint.
To make prancing football (a.k.a. “soccer”) akin to LARPing, one would replace the ball with a very obviously fake human head, and then engage in some great pretense of how significant the head as such were. As it is, yes, prancing football has wide social appeal despite its silliness, but the appeal is on a different basis.
