No, we just can't be bothered with all the shit we feel is useless and a waste of time. If I want to read a book, I'll read a book.
Manga is a form of literature, you're supposed to read it like a book, but with pictures. Fuck, that's the entire comic medium right there. If you can't appreciate that, stop reading manga, period. If this is how everyone thinks when they read manga, I guess I must be some type of peak human or something.
No shut the fuck up.
Whatever is explained, will be stupid.
Then you're doing wrong. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself. Reading manga is about having a book in your hand, reading it from panel to panel in proper sequence (possibly multiple times), reading all of the dialogue no matter how shitty it is, etc. You don't sit back on your pimp ass couch looking at your pimp ass HDTV watching pimp ass characters doing pimp ass shit. No, you read a fucking book. A book with words and pictures in sequence to tell a story. You will never ever understand why Naruto and Bleach fucking suck unless you actually read manga.
I am not ashamed of doing shit the way a real boss would do it.
Man, you sound like my high school literature teacher.
Nope, just wrong on every level. If you knew anything about the medium in question you'd know that words are just as important as the visual. It is true that comics have their origins in early sequential art (aka barely any words, sometimes captions explaining what's going on in the picture) but it's still a form of literature, just like a movie script is. The final product is a whole nother story, but you're still reading what is, at the core, a book, that's meant to be read in either a serialized magazine or in a compiled volume.
Pretty much. I don't skip anything in any of my favourite manga. Read every word and admire the art a lot. But for smut, romance, bad arcs of shounenshit? Absolutely. Or in the case of Medaka Box (I love shitting on it), I skip panels whenever I feel Nisio is masturbating to his text
upandaway said:
I laughed at this.
because they're fucking boring.
I see no contradictions
smutgaf is best subset of mangaf
Always the underlying truth.
I'm not saying I'm skipping half a chapter or something.I skip the pages because I find that page's contents to be fucking boring. Those few boring page's aren't going to make me want to drop the manga. For example, I read Naruto because I find it to be quite interesting but sometimes some of the chapters are pretty boring(like the beginning of the war chapters like team 10 vs asuma or hanzo vs samurai leader) so I skip a few pages in them or quickly skim through them.Those few boring pages/chapters don't really dampen my opinion on the manga as a whole.
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I think part of that may have to do with translation and cultural perspective issues. Some of it is because those translating it apparently didn't "get" it. Which is why we initially had the mistranslation where people thought it was Oda talking about "black people being super strong and their afros give them power" which is just stupid.
Oda says "Does the Champ wear the Afro, or does the Afro make the Champ? The mythical power within Afros is a mystery to science even today." Oda is referring to a very specific few Japanese boxers here.
The line is without a doubt a reference and tribute to Yoko Gushiken (left), a Ryukyuan champion boxer who had great fame in Japan, and who wore an afro. He's still popular in Japan, and quite a number of boxers emulate his style as a tribute (right).
He is a major cultural icon, and the imagery associated with him being "a champ" is the core of the reference.
