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Manga News/Discussion |OTY| Creatively Bankrupt

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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
lmao

Komi did an entire Marika's health chapter without fucking telling you what's wrong with her
 
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Zweizer

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Spring, a Minuet (One-shot) by Itou Hachi

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A cute story about the friendship between a pianist and a deaf girl.
 
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This post in the anime thread lmao:

A Black Falcon said:
This season, the good shows are Rin-ne and Yamada and the Seven Witches, and they're both great!



It's an occasionally moderately amusing and often numbingly stupid comedy (most often otaku-centric comedy) and incest-bait series about an otaku imouto girl and her big brother, a young salaryman. They live in a one-room apartment together, and she always makes a mess, eats junk food, plays videogames, goes to school, etc. and he tries to make her clean up, cooks, sometimes indulges her, goes to work, etc. She's got three female friends too, all of whom also have big brothers who they think well of, probably to a quasi-incestuous degree. I wish that I'd be wrong about this stuff sometimes, that there could be animes with siblings with normal relationships, or close ones, without the moronic incestbait you usually see... but in a show like this, aimed at the audience it is? Sadly, I doubt I am.

There's occasional fake yuribait and one of the girls might like Umaru's brother too, but make no mistake, almost all relationship stuff in the series is incestuous -- for the main pair, about how close they are, about how really the two of them don't like being apart despite how annoying she is (because of how she acts at home), etc etc. This series has almost no actual relationship anything in it, so don't expect something like Oreimo; this is a comedy series first. But when, for example, in one of the more recent chapters in the manga,
he goes on a business trip and she follows him on the trip because she Umaru got jealous because Onii-san was standing next to a woman (who is his boss) and is on a first-name basis with her. Then they touch a statue together, a statue where' it say that when two people touch this together good things happen for them'; and 'is supposed to be reserved for lovers, but there's no rule prohibiting siblings
... that's clear incest-bait, even if the series never has gone anywhere with it. Of course there's also that they live together in that one-room apartment (they each have their own half of the room; hers is always a mess, of course), neither having a boyfriend/girlfriend (because they care too much about eachother), stuff like that above, etc., but there aren't real relationships here. It's still really stupid though.

Oh, when not at home (eg. at school), Umaru is beautiful and popular, and acts like a normal girl of that type, though VERY little time is spent showing her school life, outside of interactions with those three friends of hers. Then she gets home and puts that hoodie thing on, and she turns into a one-foot-tall chibi. There's a running joke (it really isn't funny at all) about how people actually can't recognize her in the other "form", because she seems to actually change size even though that is quite impossible. One of the female friends thinks that Umaru and Umaru-with-hoodie are different people, for instance. :S I don't get it, but it's stupid.


So yeah, why are people looking forward to it? I really have no idea,.if the anime is anything like the manga it's going to be really dumb. I have read the manga, I admit it, but it's an awful series and it's a hate-read, for me, really. That and the chapters are only 8 pages each. Still, I hate it, but haven't managed to stop reading the manga yet. Bah. There are occasional amusing parts, but not nearly enough to actually justify reading it, much less watching an anime. And I definitely won't be watching the anime.
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Bisnic

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Angry Grimace said:
lmao

Komi did an entire Marika's health chapter without fucking telling you what's wrong with her
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"Oh noes, I made my character have a serious disease but I don't know what the fuck it should be. Welp, time to postpone that for next year with some "sorry cant tell you" plot twist."
 
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean....there is no incest in Umaru-chan unless you're just looking to insert subtext on your own.
 
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dani_dc

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Well the last few chapters of Umaru did has a scene or two where I could see someone interpretating it that way, before that though? No indication of any incestual feelings whatsoever.

Nisekoi 171

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I have no idea what this panel was supposed to mean.

I'm guessing Komi tried to imply with this arc that Marika thinks this is her last New Year's, we'll see if that's the case (probably not).

Marika explanation of her feelings felt quite nice.
Looking forward to the mother arc, I just figured Marika mother was long gone since she was never mentioned before.
 
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upandaway

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That's the first time I've ever seen "hate-read" used as a coined term like that, it feels like my vocabulary got a huge boost just now
 
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Zweizer

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Revo said:
Any series with siblings is incest bait.
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I blame LNs for this perception.

wonzo said:
fyi this is the same dude who proclaimed gekkan shoujo was sexist because of the dynamic between kashima and hori inbetween writing multi-page essays about all his favourite pedo pandering harem series
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First time I heard of that one. I don't know if I want to bother reading the logic behind this accusation of sexism.
 
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bobohoro

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dani_dc said:
MangaGAF loves to hate-read, particularly Seo works.


Sometimes I have to explain to people that having sisters IRl isn't actually anything like Oreimo
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That reminds me that I should read KNIM right about now.
If noone has any better suggestions for me.

Please do!


And all the brother/sister-love in anime/manga feels pretty cheap and fake most of the time, like their relationship is in name only. Rarely do you see two people written like they are actually family, and when it happens, they are even less likely to fall in love with each other. Which is why I usually don't take the incest tags seriously, because it never feels like a taboo in most cases, most of the time the sibling love interest is more a mash-up of childhood friend and sudden co-habiting memeber of the opposite sex.

Which is why I think the common perception of people into it/creating it not having actual experience with having siblings will probably not be that far off on average.
 
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Lain

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mdubs said:
Need opinions, how good are My Little Monster and Say I Love You?
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Both are good, though they are kind of different type of love stories. Say I Love You has a bit more... smut and deals a bit more with the personal problems of the characters. My Little Monster has a bit more comedy.
If you can afford both, grab both!
 
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thesaucetastic

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About the sibling thing, I agree with the whole "it's basically childhood friends + cohabitation" angle, and not a true sibling bond. I can't even think of many believable sibling bonds off the top of my head...

dakkumauji said:
Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~ 02

hot dang, look at her gooooo

I'm really liking this. The children's card game is really helping setting up as the base for this world and I'm really glad the relationships are taking full center here.

the bonus of the relationship actually growing makes this even better
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That page and the one after it were amazing. The guy is probably a lil' masochistic, but hell, looking at her, I wouldn't blame him at all.

Best protagonist is best. It's so hard to come by not only a good female protagonist, but also a good "villainous" one to boot.

bobohoro said:
KNIM 1-10

Well, this is already off to a dumb start.
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Why would you do this to yourself.
 
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VRMN

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rrc1594 said:
Nisekoi 171

This bullshit, because I know the best girl is not going to win.
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I'm kind of dumbfounded that Raku could think "doesn't have much time left" has multiple interpretations. He's a dolt, but I think this is the first time that's shown up in something other than him being completely unable to read women who are painfully obviously into him.
 
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AquaWateria

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VRMN said:
I'm kind of dumbfounded that Raku could think "doesn't have much time left" has multiple interpretations. He's a dolt, but I think this is the first time that's shown up in something other than him being completely unable to read women who are painfully obviously into him.
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What makes it worse is how out of all the girls Marika is the one who makes it sooooooo painfully obvious that even a dog could understand. Why am I even comparing Raku to a dog when a dog is superior to him in anyway. Poor Marika she's better off with someone else instead of this shithead.
 
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