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Originally Posted by Shinji103
Lol, sorry, not to be rude but I can't help but laugh when people keep asking "where's the plot" in manga like this.  Manga like this don't have plots; they're not supposed to, lol. It's an episodic comedy manga, that's all. You're looking for rivers in the desert; you'll find the occasional plot in your straight-comedy manga/anime, but not often. Hayate no Gotoku doesn't have a plot. Lucky Star didn't have a plot. Nogizaka Haruka didn't have a plot, and it porbably still won't in the upcoming season 2. That's just the way it works in Japan. They're making manga for Japanese readers, after all, not U.S. readers. |
Oh geez...
If the series established itself from the very beginning as an episodic comedy series, then there wouldn't be any complaints. But since it decided to introduce the romance element to the series, it created this sense of expectation that the author's going to resolve that somehow. Nobody's (except maybe some trolls) going to be happy if the author just simply went "Romance? Nah, it was just there for the lulz"
Can't say much about Nogizaka Haruka, but I don't think anybody was expecting anything from Lucky Star, simply because it's 4-koma. If it wraps itself up quite nicely in the end, it'd be a pleasant surprise to everyone. Hayate no Gotoku, on the other hand, very much does have a plot that's (loosely) holding everything in place. Sure it might be going all over the place with it, but there's at least some noticeable character development as the series progresses on, and the love polygon isn't exactly something to blow off either
If the series has some really obvious UST, then if nothing else, that by itself is the plot.