Shuuriya Lodge no Kougubako
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This could be a better version of dimension W, and maybe also less boring than that.
These sci-fi + distopia settings are always interesting
Now I'll rant a little about how this good premise feels disappointing:
It's such a great shame most japanese authors can't write proper sci-fi anytime robots are involved, and this serie doesn't seem to be an exception from that,
everytime there are robots they are just "humans with mechanical bodies", sort of like catgirls, take an human and slap on it some decoration and call that anything but an human:
see? it's an human with animal ears, so it's not an human but an humanoid beast, with a mind 100% identical to an human
see? it's an human with mechanical bodies, so it's not an human, it's a robot, with a mind 100% identical to an human
maybe it has something to do with how their yokais and kami are really no different from humans with monster bodies, they think and act not really different from how an human would. (save few exceptions where the storytellers know how to write proper characters, and where monsters are monstruous, and kami are really divine, which is very rare)
From the writing point of view stories like gunnm (battle angel alita) make a lot more sense, and are more honest with themselves. You want to write a story about humans with robot bodies? Go for it, and don't call them anything else from what they are.
It's when the writer tries to call something as something it isn't, that the whole "show don't tell" starts to go out of the window.
Such is the case of calling humans as robots, the story will then be forced to explicitly tell you which characters are human, and which are robots, every single time, because there is no way to tell them apart from just watching how they act.
(see also the two girls eating in the first pages of the first chapter, the "tehe we wuz robots",
thanks for telling and not showing, this is lazy story writing)
Serious stories about robots instead, try to make it more noticeable how robots are not human, and how that can be seen from their own actions and "toughts", with robots usually being very rigid and excessively logical in "thinking" to the point of absurdity where they start to don't make any sense anymore (sense by human standards), but this one here isn't a serious story about robots.
This is just an average shounen, to be enjoyed for what little it can try to be,
with a premise containing moe robot girls this has already lost its chance to be a serious sci-fi about robots. (this is on the same level as chobits, robots only because the story tells you they are, but not because they show it in any way)
Assuming anyone was ever interested in reading a serious story about robots, this here seems to be instead more close to a hero story, with robots, sci-fi and mechanics as generic background, but none of those backgrounds are the real focus, nor are they developed to sustain the story on their own, cause the lack any depth.
(dimension W had the same exact flaws btw, sci-fi with no depth as background, but it also had a very similar tone and worldbuilding, so anyone liking this may also like that one)
Wish there were more mangas written by people with actual literacy in sci-fi, and not just "we use cool superpowers powered by future magic", but guess stories with proper sci-fi like "ghost in the shell" are too rare.
This one could still be funny and enjoyable, but it'll always feel like wasted potential. Since the premise is good, but it's already clear it won't go any far inside the sci-fi, but it'll just coast cheaply over it.
These sci-fi + distopia settings are always interesting
Now I'll rant a little about how this good premise feels disappointing:
It's such a great shame most japanese authors can't write proper sci-fi anytime robots are involved, and this serie doesn't seem to be an exception from that,
everytime there are robots they are just "humans with mechanical bodies", sort of like catgirls, take an human and slap on it some decoration and call that anything but an human:
see? it's an human with animal ears, so it's not an human but an humanoid beast, with a mind 100% identical to an human
see? it's an human with mechanical bodies, so it's not an human, it's a robot, with a mind 100% identical to an human
maybe it has something to do with how their yokais and kami are really no different from humans with monster bodies, they think and act not really different from how an human would. (save few exceptions where the storytellers know how to write proper characters, and where monsters are monstruous, and kami are really divine, which is very rare)
From the writing point of view stories like gunnm (battle angel alita) make a lot more sense, and are more honest with themselves. You want to write a story about humans with robot bodies? Go for it, and don't call them anything else from what they are.
It's when the writer tries to call something as something it isn't, that the whole "show don't tell" starts to go out of the window.
Such is the case of calling humans as robots, the story will then be forced to explicitly tell you which characters are human, and which are robots, every single time, because there is no way to tell them apart from just watching how they act.
(see also the two girls eating in the first pages of the first chapter, the "tehe we wuz robots",
Serious stories about robots instead, try to make it more noticeable how robots are not human, and how that can be seen from their own actions and "toughts", with robots usually being very rigid and excessively logical in "thinking" to the point of absurdity where they start to don't make any sense anymore (sense by human standards), but this one here isn't a serious story about robots.
This is just an average shounen, to be enjoyed for what little it can try to be,
with a premise containing moe robot girls this has already lost its chance to be a serious sci-fi about robots. (this is on the same level as chobits, robots only because the story tells you they are, but not because they show it in any way)
Assuming anyone was ever interested in reading a serious story about robots, this here seems to be instead more close to a hero story, with robots, sci-fi and mechanics as generic background, but none of those backgrounds are the real focus, nor are they developed to sustain the story on their own, cause the lack any depth.
(dimension W had the same exact flaws btw, sci-fi with no depth as background, but it also had a very similar tone and worldbuilding, so anyone liking this may also like that one)
Wish there were more mangas written by people with actual literacy in sci-fi, and not just "we use cool superpowers powered by future magic", but guess stories with proper sci-fi like "ghost in the shell" are too rare.
This one could still be funny and enjoyable, but it'll always feel like wasted potential. Since the premise is good, but it's already clear it won't go any far inside the sci-fi, but it'll just coast cheaply over it.
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