The Ice Princess Wants to Be Melted by a Small Patch of Sunlight - Ch. 12

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Yeah, tropes can be fine if they're written well or if they fit some interesting situation author set up. For example in one manga side totally-not-couple of tsunderes are shown at the end of festival arc hitting like every festival trope together and it's quite hilarious. It's just, tropes on their own, without any spice added by author, are bland and boring, especially if you've seen them hundred times before.
Yeah I don't have a problem with the tropes themselves, just how lazily they're normally used. Sometimes it's done well, but most of the time it's like reading the same chapter over again.
 
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I'll never understand why so many manga authors are seemingly incapable of actually breaking any tropes, and all just write the exact same shit. Without having read the raws, I bet I could just replace the fireworks chapter with one from some random romcom manga and not miss any plot points lol.

It's not even about using the tropes either, I'm pretty sure I can count on one hand the number of manga I've read where anything outside of those tropes happens in a fireworks chapter.

I read somewhere that publishers believe (or have found) that the Japanese audiences want the "comfortable familiarity" of just doing things the way that they're always done in these manga. None of them try to be unique because people don't want that, they want the story they're familiar with and doing the things they're "supposed to do", just with different looking characters and maybe a particular quirk to differentiate them (like this one having the two leads bond over caring for their younger siblings).

The result is that you can practically make a set of flashcards for like a half-dozen different chapter types/plots and the requisite tropes and just give them to someone to make their manga around, ticking each box as they go.
 
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I read somewhere that publishers believe (or have found) that the Japanese audiences want the "comfortable familiarity" of just doing things the way that they're always done in these manga. None of them try to be unique because people don't want that, they want the story they're familiar with and doing the things they're "supposed to do", just with different looking characters and maybe a particular quirk to differentiate them (like this one having the two leads bond over caring for their younger siblings).

The result is that you can practically make a set of flashcards for like a half-dozen different chapter types/plots and the requisite tropes and just give them to someone to make their manga around, ticking each box as they go.
Thinking about it, that does make sense given the whole "the nail that sticks out gets hammered in" proverb. I do find it odd that it seems to apply to art as well though (at least in the case of manga), given that uniqueness is a huge part of what makes an individual's art interesting, whether that's music, writing, whatever.
 
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I don't really think there will be a confession at the fireworks festival because from what I saw is they're relationship is not already reach the point that will be a confession yet. Idk which chapter that fireworks arc will be, but if there's some big turning point or progress between this chapter and before fireworks festival, it can be realistic if there will be a confession at fireworks festival.

Oh anyway, I just read this manga several months ago and read from ch 1 to ch 11,5 in one day. I regulary cheking for the update but it takes a long time to finally I read this ch 12 (which updated 2 days ago). Anyone know the update interval every chapter from this manga ?
 

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