So I bumped into a new series while going down the rabbit hole with no description. Cover art and title was interesting so I read a few.

Standard setup and back story. Might be interesting to see if anything unique stands out…

Then it kept jumping forward. The story progressed way too fast.

I realized it was a manhua.

I don’t know why but there’s always so much happening so fast it’s hard for me to digest it all that I end up dropping it.

What are your thoughts?

Other manhua I’ve dropped:

  • Versatile Mage

  • My Wife is a Demon Queen

  • Monster Pet Evolution

  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I’ve completed the second one. It’s horrible. I’m ashamed at myself for reading it all the way. It’s not just manhua, but also manga and manhwa - they’re bad (at least the newer ones). If I had the chance to, I would go on a rant about all the three mediums of comic. Barring a few, I hate most of them. I no longer enjoy reading them - in fact, I’ve stopped reading for about three years, tried getting into it recently, and I’ve stopped again. It feels too forced, unnecessarily sexual, mentally draining, repetitive and bland.

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      4 months ago

      I tend to find the best stuff when I go by author/artist/mangaka rather than genre.

      When something is good, other works by the same people usually come with a lot of the same attention to the same things that made something good. Barring that, I look up the stuff that those creators say inspired them, etc.

      Follow the chain of creation, rather than consumption. The latter is the path you’ll see most fans treading and so many consumers of art just want the same story told over and over. But talented creators will combine things and make deliberate changes to make something new, so when you find people like that, trace their paths to find the good stuff, and then trace that path, and so on.

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      4 months ago

      There are only so many stories that make me feel satisfied.

      This is one of the reasons I enjoy reading Solo Leveling. It’s not a groundbreaking story at all. But its a clean and short read.

      I’ve started to get more into LNs since you get all the world building thats cut out in adaptations.

      My Wife is a Demon Queen was interesting to me since the MC is sort of powerless, but with the power of creativity and drawing he’s strong. I like crafty sort of stuff with creation as a driving force. Legendary Mechanic is on my to do list.

      Look into Overgeared. The LN is crazy long and its a slow build up but the author warns you that the MC is a piece of crap that evolves as the story goes on. It really started to get good about 200 chapters in. The story got picked up for Manwha adaptation. They did a decent job with it!

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        I have started to hate most of the stuff that I read. Power fantasy like tower-climbing/levelling-up and otome/villainess is something I detest very much. I admit that I’m guilty of consuming it, because curiosity - and rightfully, it has killed the cat in me time and again.

        Apart from that, I hate over-repeated, unfunny jokes related to “accidental” sexual assault, and the cocky “smirk syndrome”. And don’t even get me started on special otome highlight panels - the hero/heroine can say the most ridiculous nonsense, and people won’t question it, cuz “muh fleur, glitter en shiz”. When it comes to adult category, they’re the worst, especially the “guilty pleasure” part of it - apparently, some people like it, but me, I’ve been traumatized.

        I like reading stuff that makes me feel like I’m a speck on the universe. I also like reading good slice of life. Good, as in, not just pointless daily life time-lapse. Something similar to Hyouka, where the story is slow-paced.

        Here’s a few of them that I enjoyed of the many I’ve read:

        • Manga:

          • Hyouka (I’ll probably read the light novel because this is so damn good)
          • Ai Ren (very dark and traumatic, but hits the right spot of transcendental mysteriousness and cosmic horror)
          • Attack on Titan (Spoilers only: I’ll start from the beginning sometimes later)
          • Uzumaki (cosmic horror)
          • Monster
          • Samurai 8 (I like this, the theme is very similar to Asura’s Wrath)
          • Code Geass
        • Manhwa:

          • Bastard (my number one manhwa favourite)
          • Days of Hana (bitter-sweet romantic story)
          • Tower of God (I’ve yet to resume - I stopped reading about three years ago, this isn’t what I consider as tower-climbing, more like tower-transcendence)
        • Manhua (all the manhua I’ve read are absolutely shit, except for this one):

          • Pan Long
        • Light novels

          • HakoMari series
          • Kamisu Reina series

        Right now, I’m considering moving to actual novels, from diverse international authors. Maybe a few in English, Hindi, French and possibly, my own mother tongue. I don’t really like the currrent enshittification of East Asian animation. Maybe I’ll read something like Inuyasha, Trigun, Blame, WorldEnd, Astra Lost in Space or Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash in the future.

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          Hard for me to make a recommendation besides overgeared for a LN. Non standard story. Its a leveling crafting series about a MC playing an VRMMO. The twist is he’s a horrible gamer and self centered. But because he plays inefficiently it ends up helping in the long run.

          He also solves his issues fairly quickly but keeps playing as a career gamer. Ends up socializing through the game and becoming a better person. The character development is fantastic.

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    4 months ago

    Only manhwa I recently read was What Happens Inside the Dungeon and though it has rough start, Reva’s art improves a lot and it does a bait switch halfway where it turns out that the dirty jokes and gags also come with plot.

    The stupid jokes never stop but the characters get fleshed out and there’s some actual stakes. I enjoyed it.

    I do read The Gamer on occasion but mostly to see how it keeps upping the complexity of the plot while giving the reader less and less of the characters, and somehow it just keeps going. I do not consider it good or worth recommending.

    Solo Leveling’s manhwa Adaptation is also quite good IMO.

    The Breaker is fantastic, but its manhwa in name only. Korean, yes, but the author basically draws it 100% like a manga.

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      I read the gamer on occasion as well. It’s tolerable and does provide some context. It does have the occasional info dump with gets old fast. I tend to skip the history bits.

      I’ve read the breaker 1 and 2. Fantastic series. This one is korean not Chinese though.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah I only just learned the differences between manhua and manhwa when I looked it up after commenting to make sure I got it right.