2021-12-12, 01:55 | Link #7242 | ||
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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To me Eva's biggest sin here is that she's dull, which is honestly the worst thing you can be in a series like this.
Come to think of it, all the major characters in Holder I find to be kind of neutral all around. Like, Karin had personality to her when she first got introduced, but her development kind of axed any interest I had in the character once she stopped trying to pass off Touta for someone else that's not discount Eva. Quote:
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2021-12-12, 02:27 | Link #7243 | |
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 34
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2021-12-12, 02:35 | Link #7244 |
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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I feel like there's a small difference between educating the majority of said orphans and keeping the most devoted around because they won't leave your side otherwise, and selling off your poorly designed Negi/Asuna clones to actively blow themselves up in other peoples wars.
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2021-12-12, 12:07 | Link #7245 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
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All of the 'reasons' of the Numbers for going against Ialda and Baal felt undercooked because of the terrible excuses for character exposition and development they had, and it doesn't help either that Baal is an awful character on his own, so playing off him won't do any other character any favors.
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I don't know what caused him to hate the Negima cast so much, but Jesus, he wanted to have every last one of them dead and done for without concluding their stories and now it feels like he's going through the motions of it badly and out of obligation. Last edited by NapoleonDeCheese; 2021-12-12 at 13:02. |
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2021-12-12, 16:55 | Link #7246 | ||
Honya-kun
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Clinton, Maryland
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Quite frankly, there's a good reason why I don't consider anything after Volume 36 of Negima (including UQ Holder) to be canon.
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2021-12-12, 20:50 | Link #7248 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
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The incorporation of Negima into UQ Holder was something that neither series needed.
What Negima needed desperately was a proper continuation to wrap up, and what UQ Holder needed desperately was being its own story. There needed to be two different series, but Akamatsu made the key mistake of trying to leave Negima unfinished, then sew it and UQ Holder together into a hideous Frankenstein's Monster. |
2021-12-12, 23:12 | Link #7249 | |
Darkhero of Monstadt
Join Date: May 2015
Location: rich mansion with maids
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2021-12-16, 13:20 | Link #7250 |
時の異邦人
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Emerald City
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We now know what Ken will do once UQ ended in two months
https://twitter.com/KenAkamatsu/stat...57701758922757 “As mentioned in some reports, we had an interview at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters. I am determined to run for the Upper House election next summer in order to protect my freedom of expression. We are currently in the process of selection, and if there is a formal announcement from the party, I would like to reiterate my intentions.” IMO It is bad the involment with politic mess up UQ, if that is true. Is is good he will fight for manga free expression. It is bad there won’t be a new title from him anytime soon if he won.
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2021-12-16, 15:59 | Link #7251 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
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... politics...
... politics, ugh... (Starts grinding teeth). I'll be frank, I have a default low opinion of anyone dabbing into politics. By its mere nature, it's a morally compromised battlefield and one prone to corrupt people even from the best starting intentions. If I had a dime for every politic I've seen turned away from its originally stated intents and betraying them, I'd be a millionaire now. All I can say is that if he delivers on politics as he's delivered on manga over the last few years, God protect Japan. |
2021-12-19, 08:59 | Link #7252 |
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Join Date: Jan 2017
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Considering everything he has been involved in since the end of Love Hina has been half-assed or an outright failure I'm not exactly optimistic about his chances. And despite it being a good cause I have too much resentment towards the man to really support him, anyway.
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2021-12-19, 16:42 | Link #7253 | |
Honya-kun
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Clinton, Maryland
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2021-12-19, 20:22 | Link #7255 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
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4 PAGES WITHOUT CHARACTERS! Oh my God, this, this, I just have no words. 4 pages in blank, surely with some dialogue over nothingness or something like that? I assume there's some big vague explosion or something and the universe ends briefly over some fauxlosophical rumination so Akamatsu has less pages to draw before retiring to political mediocrity? This, I don't even know what to say. 4 pages with no characters. This is the way he thinks a manga finale with tons of baggage from two series can be solved. It's like he's trying to set a record for how badly a mangaka can shit the bed before leaving it. **** this guy, now this made me actually angry. |
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2021-12-20, 00:43 | Link #7257 | |
The Mage of Four Hearts
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 34
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I've had the same thought. I suppose there's no other way to signal how much they hate the manga.
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2021-12-20, 01:47 | Link #7258 | ||
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2021-12-20, 08:52 | Link #7259 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
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The art still is gorgeous and I want some closure to the Negima characters I grew to love. Something better than the badly done rush job we got for the Good Timeline flashback, before anyone points that out.
"Don't like don't read" is a terrible refutal to criticism because it does nothing to address the problems pointed at themselves. Also, a double spread of a landscape is STILL a terrible way to waste pages when you've still only 80 pages left to address a major final battle, tons of character arcs from two series left unfinished, the salvation of the world, and so many questions still unanswered. Seriously, would that be supposed to make anything better at all? |
2021-12-20, 09:30 | Link #7260 | |
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I'm not trying to make this a "gotcha" moment or anything, it just seems like reading this series genuinely makes your day worse and there's really no reason to do so. Speaking from experience, when a show consistently heads down a direction you don't like the best thing is to shrug and jump ship.
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