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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2025 5:05 pm
Recently, I've read 16-Bit Sensation (a historical manga about eroge in 1990s Japan; has a plot unrelated to the anime), and Double Arts (the most 2008 manga you will ever read, about a girl who will die if she stops holding hands with some boy).
16-Bit Sensation is really good, but I'm also the target audience of it. Like yeah, I love eroge, and I love learning about the golden age of experimentation* for the industry. Where everything is messy because people were trying whatever the hell they could, and what was big changed from year to year because nobody knew what sold. The last few chapters aren't translated yet, despite the translator still being around (they're working on RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai at present) and promising to do so once it was done.
Double Arts, I just started, but it's a battle manga about the aforementioned duo getting to the capital, and being hunted. I can't really say anything beyond that yet, because I just started. But given that I can imagine that most of us are old enough to remember 2008 in internet culture, I'd imagine it would feel very familiar even if it's your first time reading.
* For anyone wondering, the golden age for quality - likely the kind of golden age you'd think of when someone calls something a golden age - came after, in the 2000s. That's when Key, Mages, Uchikoshi, Black Cyc, and other really strong hitters released some of their best work.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2025 1:27 pm
House of Bone and Rain, by Gabino Iglesias.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 8:28 pm
Ace of Rebirth Recently, I've read 16-Bit Sensation (a historical manga about eroge in 1990s Japan; has a plot unrelated to the anime), and Double Arts (the most 2008 manga you will ever read, about a girl who will die if she stops holding hands with some boy). 16-Bit Sensation is really good, but I'm also the target audience of it. Like yeah, I love eroge, and I love learning about the golden age of experimentation* for the industry. Where everything is messy because people were trying whatever the hell they could, and what was big changed from year to year because nobody knew what sold. The last few chapters aren't translated yet, despite the translator still being around (they're working on RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai at present) and promising to do so once it was done. Double Arts, I just started, but it's a battle manga about the aforementioned duo getting to the capital, and being hunted. I can't really say anything beyond that yet, because I just started. But given that I can imagine that most of us are old enough to remember 2008 in internet culture, I'd imagine it would feel very familiar even if it's your first time reading. * For anyone wondering, the golden age for quality - likely the kind of golden age you'd think of when someone calls something a golden age - came after, in the 2000s. That's when Key, Mages, Uchikoshi, Black Cyc, and other really strong hitters released some of their best work. Going through Berserk. I always avoided it because the worst people imaginable were the loudest about it when i was younger, but it's really damn good.
Going back through Saga. Big Brian K. Vaughan fan.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2025 2:55 pm
Regrettably, not really anything. I've been so focused on post-graduate life and my new job that reading something hasn't really been enough to stimulate my brain. I like games more, I've come to realize lol, but I'm still looking for a nice book to scratch the itch.
Maybe it's time to reopen the dune series. I looooved the first book, but then started grad school when I picked up Messiah and, understandable, I just couldn't focus enough on the political monologuing and plotting in that book while having to complete assigned academic reading.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2025 3:05 pm
Home Box Office MAX Ace of Rebirth Recently, I've read 16-Bit Sensation (a historical manga about eroge in 1990s Japan; has a plot unrelated to the anime), and Double Arts (the most 2008 manga you will ever read, about a girl who will die if she stops holding hands with some boy). 16-Bit Sensation is really good, but I'm also the target audience of it. Like yeah, I love eroge, and I love learning about the golden age of experimentation* for the industry. Where everything is messy because people were trying whatever the hell they could, and what was big changed from year to year because nobody knew what sold. The last few chapters aren't translated yet, despite the translator still being around (they're working on RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai at present) and promising to do so once it was done. Double Arts, I just started, but it's a battle manga about the aforementioned duo getting to the capital, and being hunted. I can't really say anything beyond that yet, because I just started. But given that I can imagine that most of us are old enough to remember 2008 in internet culture, I'd imagine it would feel very familiar even if it's your first time reading. * For anyone wondering, the golden age for quality - likely the kind of golden age you'd think of when someone calls something a golden age - came after, in the 2000s. That's when Key, Mages, Uchikoshi, Black Cyc, and other really strong hitters released some of their best work. Going through Berserk. I always avoided it because the worst people imaginable were the loudest about it when i was younger, but it's really damn good.
Going back through Saga. Big Brian K. Vaughan fan. Berserk holds such a love-hate strangle on my heart. I loooove the narrative highs of the series, I absolutely abhore the overly sexual tones of so many scenes and how Miura found it appropriate to essentially extend every single sexual encounter to the nth degree, oversaturating what could have been impactful moments by making them tasteless. The Rape of Casca is one of those examples - narratively it's an incredibly powerful moment, but Miura just decided to go waaaaay OTP and essentially drew a kink porn out of the moment, and so many fans will rabidly defend those moments. The only egregious part of Berserk that 90% of the fandom seems to agree on disliking is the entirety of Wyald's character and story arc, but that entire chapter climaxes in the exact same OTP sexual rape s**t that just drags on for multiple pages too long. One/two pages, I can deal with, but entire chapters dedicated to rape is where I have to draw a line, and I say that as a certified therapist. Another huuuuge issue I have with Miura's Berserk is that the later chapters lean WAY too heavily into the loli s**t. And too many fans will rabidly defend it. Nope, not about that s**t. Stop drawing little naked girls accidentally falling onto our main hero, and double stop drawing it from the back side. Like wtf.
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2025 7:38 pm
Seraphiel V2 Home Box Office MAX Ace of Rebirth Recently, I've read 16-Bit Sensation (a historical manga about eroge in 1990s Japan; has a plot unrelated to the anime), and Double Arts (the most 2008 manga you will ever read, about a girl who will die if she stops holding hands with some boy). 16-Bit Sensation is really good, but I'm also the target audience of it. Like yeah, I love eroge, and I love learning about the golden age of experimentation* for the industry. Where everything is messy because people were trying whatever the hell they could, and what was big changed from year to year because nobody knew what sold. The last few chapters aren't translated yet, despite the translator still being around (they're working on RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai at present) and promising to do so once it was done. Double Arts, I just started, but it's a battle manga about the aforementioned duo getting to the capital, and being hunted. I can't really say anything beyond that yet, because I just started. But given that I can imagine that most of us are old enough to remember 2008 in internet culture, I'd imagine it would feel very familiar even if it's your first time reading. * For anyone wondering, the golden age for quality - likely the kind of golden age you'd think of when someone calls something a golden age - came after, in the 2000s. That's when Key, Mages, Uchikoshi, Black Cyc, and other really strong hitters released some of their best work. Going through Berserk. I always avoided it because the worst people imaginable were the loudest about it when i was younger, but it's really damn good.
Going back through Saga. Big Brian K. Vaughan fan. Berserk holds such a love-hate strangle on my heart. I loooove the narrative highs of the series, I absolutely abhore the overly sexual tones of so many scenes and how Miura found it appropriate to essentially extend every single sexual encounter to the nth degree, oversaturating what could have been impactful moments by making them tasteless. The Rape of Casca is one of those examples - narratively it's an incredibly powerful moment, but Miura just decided to go waaaaay OTP and essentially drew a kink porn out of the moment, and so many fans will rabidly defend those moments. The only egregious part of Berserk that 90% of the fandom seems to agree on disliking is the entirety of Wyald's character and story arc, but that entire chapter climaxes in the exact same OTP sexual rape s**t that just drags on for multiple pages too long. One/two pages, I can deal with, but entire chapters dedicated to rape is where I have to draw a line, and I say that as a certified therapist. Another huuuuge issue I have with Miura's Berserk is that the later chapters lean WAY too heavily into the loli s**t. And too many fans will rabidly defend it. Nope, not about that s**t. Stop drawing little naked girls accidentally falling onto our main hero, and double stop drawing it from the back side. Like wtf. i would agree.
it's one thing to understand the intensity of, say, the end of the first arc with Casca; it's entirely another to... defend it? that's part of the reason i stayed away from it for so long.
i don't really do "fandom" but i see fandoms, and a large base (anecdotally) has been... yeah. The horse monster thing sticks out in my mind. Blech.
i haven't gotten far enough to see the other stuff. i'm maybe 90 chapters in but i believe it was mostly released in a magazine and then compiled, so it came out in compilations as a printed manga, so each of those chapters is... maybe 8 pages a piece?
i got on board through the anime from someone who sold me by explaining "Guts' Theme" is somewhat a love ballad, and the first arc with Gutz/Griffith is very queer-coded, and explained further about some of the themes so i gave it a shot.
i'll see where i end up cause that sounds grim lol
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2025 7:46 am
Home Box Office MAX Seraphiel V2 Home Box Office MAX Ace of Rebirth Recently, I've read 16-Bit Sensation (a historical manga about eroge in 1990s Japan; has a plot unrelated to the anime), and Double Arts (the most 2008 manga you will ever read, about a girl who will die if she stops holding hands with some boy). 16-Bit Sensation is really good, but I'm also the target audience of it. Like yeah, I love eroge, and I love learning about the golden age of experimentation* for the industry. Where everything is messy because people were trying whatever the hell they could, and what was big changed from year to year because nobody knew what sold. The last few chapters aren't translated yet, despite the translator still being around (they're working on RTA Sousha wa Game Sekai kara Kaerenai at present) and promising to do so once it was done. If I remember correctly, you'll start seeing more of the loli stuff once you get through the false apostle arc (I think that was the name) with Bishop Mozgus as the main antagonist of that arc. The thing is, the story is freaking AMAZING and it was enough to let me just skip past the stuff I didn't enjoy, but there are also some really gruesome sexual things that happen in future seasons. And then theres the obnoxious pirate arc where miura took 2 years to essentially finish filler joke s**t before moving on with the story. It's only a couple chapters, thankfully, but when released he had started to slow down his release schedule and it took 2.5 years for readers to get through it. The climax of it is GREAT though lol. I might have to go give it another read, ugh lmao Double Arts, I just started, but it's a battle manga about the aforementioned duo getting to the capital, and being hunted. I can't really say anything beyond that yet, because I just started. But given that I can imagine that most of us are old enough to remember 2008 in internet culture, I'd imagine it would feel very familiar even if it's your first time reading. * For anyone wondering, the golden age for quality - likely the kind of golden age you'd think of when someone calls something a golden age - came after, in the 2000s. That's when Key, Mages, Uchikoshi, Black Cyc, and other really strong hitters released some of their best work. Going through Berserk. I always avoided it because the worst people imaginable were the loudest about it when i was younger, but it's really damn good.
Going back through Saga. Big Brian K. Vaughan fan. Berserk holds such a love-hate strangle on my heart. I loooove the narrative highs of the series, I absolutely abhore the overly sexual tones of so many scenes and how Miura found it appropriate to essentially extend every single sexual encounter to the nth degree, oversaturating what could have been impactful moments by making them tasteless. The Rape of Casca is one of those examples - narratively it's an incredibly powerful moment, but Miura just decided to go waaaaay OTP and essentially drew a kink porn out of the moment, and so many fans will rabidly defend those moments. The only egregious part of Berserk that 90% of the fandom seems to agree on disliking is the entirety of Wyald's character and story arc, but that entire chapter climaxes in the exact same OTP sexual rape s**t that just drags on for multiple pages too long. One/two pages, I can deal with, but entire chapters dedicated to rape is where I have to draw a line, and I say that as a certified therapist. Another huuuuge issue I have with Miura's Berserk is that the later chapters lean WAY too heavily into the loli s**t. And too many fans will rabidly defend it. Nope, not about that s**t. Stop drawing little naked girls accidentally falling onto our main hero, and double stop drawing it from the back side. Like wtf. i would agree.
it's one thing to understand the intensity of, say, the end of the first arc with Casca; it's entirely another to... defend it? that's part of the reason i stayed away from it for so long.
i don't really do "fandom" but i see fandoms, and a large base (anecdotally) has been... yeah. The horse monster thing sticks out in my mind. Blech.
i haven't gotten far enough to see the other stuff. i'm maybe 90 chapters in but i believe it was mostly released in a magazine and then compiled, so it came out in compilations as a printed manga, so each of those chapters is... maybe 8 pages a piece?
i got on board through the anime from someone who sold me by explaining "Guts' Theme" is somewhat a love ballad, and the first arc with Gutz/Griffith is very queer-coded, and explained further about some of the themes so i gave it a shot.
i'll see where i end up cause that sounds grim lol
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2025 5:36 pm
I started my reread of DearS after getting the Artbook finally and completing the manga collection. So far it's as funny and lewd as I remember. Peach-Pit's style will always be burned in my memory.
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