2012-12-09, 21:55 | Link #4721 | |
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ok ok, to be fair, the first...50 or so chapters were pretty decent but it went downhill after a while |
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2012-12-09, 22:04 | Link #4722 |
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Just notice the new tag, "kento boss". Made me laugh a bit and made me think about what this series went wrong.
I would of like for SK to point further into Utsumi photography hobby and made it a passion, just like Manaka from Ichigo 100% was. Film production was a strong emphasis for Manaka back in volume 1 and it strongly influences the story throughout. Not exactly missing the harem in Ichigo, but more of a passionate protagonist, who has a goal, other than girls.
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2012-12-09, 22:15 | Link #4723 |
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The problem with the manga is that it had too much of what made it good in the first place, drama. There wasn't much of a break between arcs, usually there is at least some chapters of just non plot to give reader a breather of the action.
As the saying goes "one would want a slice of a cake, not the entire thing", here we have an entire cake of drama stuff into the reader's throat. |
2012-12-09, 22:21 | Link #4724 |
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It's a very classic case in manga industry. Manga authors often make a living off their manga series, so it's good news for them if their manga is allowed to be extended to obscene lengths even if the story quality declines very badly. Well, people need to eat, so they may have to compromise their creative vision in order to put food on the table. Life sucks like that.
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2012-12-09, 22:53 | Link #4725 |
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The manga also gives people the wrong idea. Let's assume the Kento x Shou thing is real, and think about what Kento and Utsumi have been doing during the story:
Spoiler for Utsumi:
and now Spoiler for Kento:
Ok, now let's see what they got in reward for their behavior: Spoiler for Utsumi got...:
Now, our other participant Spoiler for Kento got...:
So bottom line, the REAL moral of this story: Just don't chase women like an idiot. Being all feelings and doing things for them won't get you shit. Just be a jerk, get tons of women, then apologise and get the one you want. Women love jerks. Kento should be the main character for SK's next manga. |
2012-12-09, 23:10 | Link #4726 | |
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Seriously, I am still piss off he didn't at least put up a fight against Tooru. Boy does not learn. This is why protagonists like Utsumi are going extinct and replace by other protagonist who actually develop both character and fighting skills. |
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2012-12-10, 13:51 | Link #4727 | |
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You have to realize that GE is on magazine that isnt fast on cutting stuff.It is not on shounene jump otherwsie GE would have ended long, long, looong time ago. Themagazine allows to run series even if they are not particulallry great at seelings but as long as they can stay afloat it is fine. GE isnt able to even stay afloat. It had too much drama, main heroine development just made her look more and more annying, while main herosdevelopment while visible doesnt seem to have too much of impact and sometimes had the tendency to loop itself. There are worser series than GE, but GE isnt a very good series either. If mangaka cuts the ridiculious ammount of drama without breaks she will make better manga. Or she could just switch to shojo. GE is closer to shojo in many aspects than to shounen. |
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2012-12-11, 05:13 | Link #4728 | ||
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All the rest were just garbage, aside from the very first chapters after 69's (up to around 80th) and chapter 93. Speaking about the story "after", Utsumi wasn't too different from Kento: he just used Shou... and then he throw her away... And I really HATE this.
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2012-12-11, 07:16 | Link #4729 | |
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Magazine #49 (07/11): Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (Cover) Rakugomon。(Lead Color Page, New Series, 59 pg.) Fairy Tail GE - Good Ending Like GE would rank second lol... or even beat Fairy Tail like it "did" a few weeks later. |
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2012-12-11, 09:31 | Link #4730 | |
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And it's not like that Shou didn't knew the truth. A big part of her "suffering" as her own fault. She played along and was the whole time deluding herself that eveything is OK, she did the same with Kento too. Reality denial and being dumb was always a big part of her personality. And f you lock now, she still has not learned anything and goes back to her ex that just used her for sex and as housemaid while cheating on her with other girls. I have read a couple of years ago an article that was saying that 40% of women go back to the guy that treatet them badly( beating, cheating, etc...) and Shou fits perfectly in that catogory of women. |
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2012-12-11, 11:18 | Link #4732 |
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The thing people have to remember about ShoRom protagonists, is that they are pretty much obsessed with the main girl to the point of it being unhealthy. They will willingly take a girl who treats them like crap over a girl who's really loving and nice to them (see Suzuka). The main girl can make a ton of mistakes, do some horrible things, and the MC can be with someone else, but as soon as that girl says she still loves him, he'll drop his current girl like a hot potato and go rushing back.
Honestly, it's why I've really started avoiding mangas like this. Lots of drama for the same end. I'd love to see an author some day just give the FU to a main girl who does something like that and have the protagonist fall in love with someone else, while the "main girl" learns a lesson from it all. Sadly, they always get away scott free. As for how well GE is doing, volume 11 sold slightly less than 30,000 copies.
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2012-12-11, 11:53 | Link #4733 | |
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It's not so different from Kento: Kento went to Shou when his girlfriend broke up with him, and when she come back he throw Shou away... Utsumi's case is quite the same. Well, I really HATE this. PS: Of course Kento is a really worse jerk than Utsumi, but still I don't like Utsumi behaviour at all (in this case).
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2012-12-11, 12:47 | Link #4734 |
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@Dauerlutscher:
You conveniently omit the part where it was actually Shou who threw herself at Utsumi right after he broke up with Yuki so Shou is at least as guilty of getting into a rebound relationship as he is. More so, she was the one that initiated it despite knowing he just came out of an unresolved relationship, he was reluctant at first whereas she persisted. It should've been Shou herself to know better than that considering she already had a painful reboubnd experience. |
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I'm clearly aware that it was rushed, but only because the author had not so much chapters left. Quote:
Kento didn't care that he was using her. It was his plan since the beginning that he would only fuck her and never took her seriously. But it was completely different with Utsumi. He took this thing with her seriously and tried to make it work even after he begann to understand that his realtionship with her was basing only on woundlicking. But the point where he could not go one anymore like this had arrived. And Shou and her refusing to see reality didn't help either. Quote:
I also blame Utsumi about that he had no common sense and rushed in a realtionship because he could not bear the pain of being alone and rejected. Heck, he even asked Yuki again in hope she would still take him back even after Shou and him were already in this rebound thing. In the end all of them are young and made mistakes. When i think about my realtionships in my youth, i wish i could have done many things better. But that is part of life, making mistakes and learning from them. |
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2012-12-12, 19:41 | Link #4738 |
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No surprises so far in the overall storyline.
Some more cliched "love interest has beem taken away by parents for appearences sake" plot points and Yuki should return home in about 5-8 chapters. Ugh and still she won't be with Utsumi when they return I bet....more 50 chapters for that to happen I bet again.....godamnit I've read too many mangas for too much time......
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2012-12-12, 20:06 | Link #4739 | |
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@Darth SpiderDen This manga got canceled and that is the reason why everything is so rushed now. There won't be another 50 chapters. |
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2012-12-12, 20:43 | Link #4740 | |
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Shift my previous post to manga ending when this plot is resolved or 2-3 chapters after plot is solved.
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