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me and lain are basically ntr comrades
I get the feeling many wouldn't care if the NTR was done well or not. The simple idea of cheating and love interests getting taken away is enough to leave a sour taste in the mouth and I don't disagree, especially since in the field making the major use of NTR, it is usually employed through rape and abuse, adding another dark shade on top of everything else, but it can also give birth to interesting stories like Musa or that other one with the dude smashing the face of everyone involved.
It can also be used as a way to show hot manipulative certain characters are like in Urasawa's Happy! (I consider it to have a light shade of NTR personally) and it's interesting to see how the characters overcome those NTR obstacles.
Yeah, of course the cheating/taking away part plays a big part too, but as I said most of the NTR either happens in short stories which you generally have no emotional attachment for the characters, or in more established series where it doesn't actually go fully through with a separation that's permanent or has long-lasting consequences, so in both cases it's mostly pointless.
If Nana to Kaoru can pull off a NTR arc that doesn't feel shallowly gratuitous, it can be interesting, but that remains to be seen.
And that's the bit that makes it dumb to me. Same with the last arc. All this will they get back together nonsense when we know that they do. The attempts to create tension are all so artificial. He really should do a time jump and then do this kind of thing.
A Huge Battleship
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Murenase! Shiiton Gakuen 6
My Big Sister Can't Be This Cute. It's reassuring to know that the group (well, just Lanka really) have some heavy firepower backing them up if the situation ever demands it. Animal smarts can only carry you so far sometimes.
Also impulse purchases are best purchases:
My Big Sister Can't Be This Cute. It's reassuring to know that the group (well, just Lanka really) have some heavy firepower backing them up if the situation ever demands it. Animal smarts can only carry you so far sometimes.
Also impulse purchases are best purchases:
BassForever
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Nothing, I knew it was like a .01% chance since Komi is a complete hack.
Jitsu wa Watashi wa ch134
Ah, siblings.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun ch78
Everything went better than expected.
Murenase! Shiiton Gakuen ch6
She's quite the big sister indeed.
Shuukan Shounen Girl ch19
These are persistent lingering feelings.
Spotted Flower ch18.5
No rest for the artists.
Ah, siblings.
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun ch78
Everything went better than expected.
Murenase! Shiiton Gakuen ch6
She's quite the big sister indeed.
Shuukan Shounen Girl ch19
These are persistent lingering feelings.
Spotted Flower ch18.5
No rest for the artists.
Stone Ocean
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In hindsight nothing, but the past few months have been nothing but "hey guys, remember the locket we bring up every 4 months or so? That's a thing again and the manga is ending!"
I think it's the first time I've read a harem manga that the MC actually picks someone but it feels like nobody won. I'm kinda impressed, but also fucking pissed since Double Arts died for this shit. Even the side characters subplots had better closure than the main story.
Also hi mangogaf
peaceiscloser
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Nisekrap 226
Inevitable garbage, but I was Team Haru so I was already dead.
Inevitable garbage, but I was Team Haru so I was already dead.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Re: Shokugeki no Soma and that thing where they pass tests despite the examiner being paid off to fail them: I think we pretty much need to all collectively agree that despite taste-testing being subjective in real life (and thus the examiner could just say its gross and fail them) in the context of Shokugeki no Soma, taste testing is completely objective. It's like passing a math test.
The only person who ever lies about food is Erina, that one time.
The only person who ever lies about food is Erina, that one time.
It's too bad that NTR when become a genre on its own have turned cuckolding into a plot that meant for eliciting anger or schadenfreude or both from its readers.
There's a saying here "Taste can lie". In a culture that rich with various of food, and taste are intertwined into tradition, you can't just easily lie through your mental construct on the food even when you're being paid fuckton of money. This is why most culinary competition manga have their character tries to beat each other by outdone their opponent dish. It makes the losing side not making a bad dish, but rather the winning one made a really good one. Such conditions will feels cheap coopout and unfitting in highstake plot where it involves underhanded tricks and the such.
Gotta admit that, at least, the genre is pretty effective at that, however cheap and shallow it is.
Nisekoi 226
Predictable as heck. Knew the ship I was in was going to sink long beforehand.
In recent memory, only the author of The World God Only Knows had the guts to do something different with the ending other than the obligatory main character end up with main heroine trope.
Predictable as heck. Knew the ship I was in was going to sink long beforehand.
In recent memory, only the author of The World God Only Knows had the guts to do something different with the ending other than the obligatory main character end up with main heroine trope.
A Huge Battleship
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B.A.D. Beyond Another Darkness 1-7 ("END")
So, uh, his angst is totally justified. At least, I think that's what happened, since the translation was often difficult to understand (and the subject matter didn't help). The comprehension problems + its short length left me feeling disappointed, since the twisted, supernatural, episodic, gothloli gruesomeness would've usually been music to my eyes. I suppose there's the option of looking into the light novel if I want to put my spirit to rest.
Incidentally, it's actually 9 chapters long, but it suddenly stopped mid-arc when its magazine died and apparently chp 7 is a much better end point.
A B.A.D. M.C. suffers a traumatic episode and ends up in the care/custody of a gothic lolita, who happens to run a psychic investigation clinic. I thought the guy was being melodramatic over his circumstances initially, but it turns out his trauma was caused by
being drugged and raped by his yandere friend, watching her commit suicide in front of him, then having her uterus implanted in him by the villain and becoming male-pregnant with a demon as a result.
Incidentally, it's actually 9 chapters long, but it suddenly stopped mid-arc when its magazine died and apparently chp 7 is a much better end point.
AlphaDragoon
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Unfortunately the girl he ended up with is also a rubbish character.
I love when the salt still lingers years later. The end of TWGOK was masterfully executed. The signs were all there, and had been set up from very early on, and he still managed to make it look like a twist. Great series.
Chihiro was alright. Some of the chapters where they're interacting on their own are quite fun. I think how bad the last year or so TWGOK was before it actually ended affects how people viewed the ending itself
I was team Ayumi but hey, it's still a pretty good ending considering the confusing as heck direction the story was heading towards back then. The writing really deteriorated quite a bit right after the Goddess arc.
I don't even agree with the idea that the last arc was bad. I think people just didn't like the idea of a child Keima arc lasting that long when they wanted more harem antics. As a prelude to the end of the story it made sense and worked fine.
Oh well. People will always judge a series like TWGOK in part on their personal like or dislike of the "winner." Chihiro not being flashy by design didn't gain her many fans, so even though she fit Keima and what he needed and wanted in a girl, people couldn't get over "not my ship."
Ah, harems.
Stone Ocean
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She was okay, and in a way the only one of two choices that actually made sense. TWGOK had a pretty decent ending considering what the shit was going on in the final arc. I still don't understand the whole Elsie thing, or anything really.
I can deal with NTR when I don't care about characters and am just in the mood for some bad taste.
NtK NTR though? Nope, won't read it, would just make my stomach turn.
Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa 134
Good family relations are embarassing, I see.
Domestic Na Kanojo 84
Good family relations are embara...wait no, that's something else.
NtK NTR though? Nope, won't read it, would just make my stomach turn.
Jitsu Wa Watashi Wa 134
Good family relations are embarassing, I see.
Domestic Na Kanojo 84
Good family relations are embara...wait no, that's something else.
I came away from the new Jitsu wa thinking those two siblings should interact more often. DomeKano had...been pretty obviously heading here for a while and still managed to kind of trip up the landing somehow. Whatever. I'm sure he'll bounce between the two sisters a couple times before all's said and done.
AlphaDragoon
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I actually don't have any particular feelings toward that series. I didn't read all of it so I'm only going by what I read, which showed Chihiro being a colossal asshole to Keima. It's kind of like Onani Master Kurosawa where he ended up with that dickbag girl despite her being horrible.
I don't know what little you read, but Chihiro was no more prone to moments of "being a colossal asshole" than any of the other major contenders, or Keima himself. So mostly I'm just going to say your read of the character is rather off. The reasons she wound up with him in the end have a lot to do with her being one of only two characters to have feelings for him without the interference of Hell.
If you dropped it early, your comments make some sense. It'd probably have to ignore the resolution of her initial arc that kicked off her character development, but hey, I don't know what you did and did not read.
Stone Ocean
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Kind of unfair to write her off without having read all of it, don't you think? Of course she's an ass to him, that's how tsundere works and it makes better sense after her two arcs.
Don't worry. This is just the start. Better bring a lot of water in the next couple of chapters.
But Keima did end up with the main heroine in the end!
She just ended up becoming his sister rather than his lover.
EDIT - Chihiro ending was telegraphed long in advance, anyone who was paying attention knew what was going on once they resolved the Goddess arc the way they did.
RockTurtle
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can i get in on the netorare fanclub? we can start a discord :B
ColossalLazy
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Kingdom 481
Kanki is fucking ruthless. Goddamn.
Kanki is fucking ruthless. Goddamn.
nabe_shogun
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bakuon 27
Hane ended up being a rebel after all.
Also why you shouldn't lie, it will usually backfire on you, lol.
Hane ended up being a rebel after all.
Also why you shouldn't lie, it will usually backfire on you, lol.
UrbanDandy
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Hajime no Ippo ch 1146
Is Takamura preparing for a heel turn? I know he likes to joke around about the rest of his teammates 'inferiority' but his attitude is taking it to extreme levels.
Is Takamura preparing for a heel turn? I know he likes to joke around about the rest of his teammates 'inferiority' but his attitude is taking it to extreme levels.
nabe_shogun
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Chikyuu no Houkago 23
Bonkichi is sure is a bad ass. Doesn't take shit from no phantom.
Bonkichi is sure is a bad ass. Doesn't take shit from no phantom.
CrazyDiamond
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It's not a secret that Kamogawa is more invested in Ippo's career than Takamura's and I think Takamura senses that and it both pisses him off because of how successful he is but also it angers him when Ippo falls short of being worth that investment. So it's more like 'who cares about that failure; why invest in him when I, a much more successful boxer, am right here.'
lol ippo should be so far along in his character/boxing development but the author royally fucked it up, takamura was basically gary stu and comic relief since chapter 1.
Like the ricardo sparring, date match and all his numerous matches amounted to nothing. He had the same shtick in almost every fight. Persevere, Work hard, Come back KO.
And miyatas match with randy boy is a fucking cop out,
Like the ricardo sparring, date match and all his numerous matches amounted to nothing. He had the same shtick in almost every fight. Persevere, Work hard, Come back KO.
And miyatas match with randy boy is a fucking cop out,
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