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RSU 1741 said:
Made in Abyss is a study in contradictions: while it is correct to say that exploring the Abyss is some kind of STALKER-lite experience, I do think people fail to notice how little the Abyss itself matters in the narrative. It's kind of a fuzzy feeling, but.... the author is of course hell-bent on inflicting humongous amount of melodramatic misery on his characters, at times so much it borders on self-parody (while the village is fun as a self-contained idea, the amount of edge and forced misery is hilarious). At the same time the mystery of the Abyss isn't explored as it should. I'm not up with the manga, thanks to the glacial update speed, but.... what about the culture that left the bodies on the earlier levels? What about the artifacts? How, when and why the Abyss is built like it is? We speed through exploration and discovery to reach the next point where we can melt&mutilate children while our protagonists cry their hearts out.

The fact that the Abyss is gorgeous in animation doesn't mean it's explored in the narrative or that it's well used as a narrative tool. It's like the pretty background of a French comic book, an excuse to show off the artistry of a lot of people, kneecapped by the author's fetishes and difficulties in building a satisfactory story.
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It is a waste of a setting. The Abyss would be a delight for:

A tabletop game setting

A 'Mystery Flesh Pit National Park'-style "classifying and commodifying the anomalous" avant garde narrative

A non-pedophiliac horror story where competent adults equipped with the best of the best gear and knowledge descend further than anyone else and things only get worse, and they actually learn about the Abyss in the process

A mercantile/exploration video game where you delve for artefacts and exchange them for better gear to then delve further

Instead we got some pedo's child torture fetish.
 
The way the Abyss works makes routine exploration not worth it, funnily enough, as in the way back the curse always strikes you no matter what and gets worse the further you go, to the point one way trips are a matter of time, since sooner or later the stress will be too much, or you will go to the last level for reasons. Oh, and there's the time dilation bullshit, which is excessive.
 
Newcomer 42 said:
The way the Abyss works makes routine exploration not worth it, funnily enough, as in the way back the curse always strikes you no matter what and gets worse the further you go, to the point one way trips are a matter of time, since sooner or later the stress will be too much, or you will go to the last level for reasons. Oh, and there's the time dilation bullshit, which is excessive.
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Pretty sure there is routine exploration since the main method the entire town over it works is selling the artifacts there, and as time goes on the upper levels run out of artifacts so people have to venture deeper where the effects of the curse are significantly worse.

Not to mention that the curse is horrific on its own, but the megafauna and megaflora are also massive issues and they also get worse as you go down and you aren't safer with bigger numbers.

It's just a really cool setting, combining elements from real life and other media in a way that gels well. Even the cutesy art style reminds me a lot of Etrian Odyssey that would a horrific spin off.
 
I love how even across generations you can tell who or what company worked on a product based on a small detail like the eyes.
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So, for anyone who's watched Black Clover, I have an important question for you all. HOW? I keep getting to this point in the first episode every time I try it, and this fucking faggots voice makes me want to punch my screen out.

 
Professor Donger said:
So, for anyone who's watched Black Clover, I have an important question for you all. HOW? I keep getting to this point in the first episode every time I try it, and this fucking faggots voice makes me want to punch my screen out
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You think that's bad? Wait until you get to episode 2; the first 20 minutes are a recap of episode 1.
 
Professor Donger said:
So, for anyone who's watched Black Clover, I have an important question for you all. HOW? I keep getting to this point in the first episode every time I try it, and this fucking faggots voice makes me want to punch my screen out.
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Hell if I know. I read, then watched it because it's a Toonami show and because I heard Asta and Noelle's dub VAs got married while working on it. Also because I had yet to watch any of the Big Three before this show.

Speaking of which, maybe watch the dub and see if that's more tolerable than sub.
 
Only centuria (outside the 4 I read on sunday)released yesterday so I will shill it.
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It's usually my last read of the day, but it is fantastic. It's kinda shonen you expect n shit, probably inspired by bleach. But it was made by one of fujimotos assistants so that's a boon of good fortune (Dandadan, Spyx, and hells paradise I liked them, excluding hells paradise didn't watch, so I can't say much)
It's about a Slave boy who got Power of 100 men from a sea god who's now goal is to live with a slave baby, but unfortunately the baby is the child of prophecy so you can probably see how people would want her gone. If you want to see more from this great manga, it currently got 3 or 4 arcs right now, only 63 chapters you could probably blow through and experience high fantasy in 3 afternoons and learn what stylized anatomy is. Thanks for reading the shill. Currently Reading through Dorohedoro, Girl Meets Rock and weekly releases (CSM, Dandadan, Centuria, Kagurabachi, Sakadays, and Ichi the witch(I do like the translations adding slang im not a purist im here for entertainment))
 
twinArmageddons said:
Only centuria (outside the 4 I read on sunday)released yesterday so I will shill it.
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It's usually my last read of the day, but it is fantastic. It's kinda shonen you expect n shit, probably inspired by bleach. But it was made by one of fujimotos assistants so that's a boon of good fortune (Dandadan, Spyx, and hells paradise I liked them, excluding hells paradise didn't watch, so I can't say much)
It's about a Slave boy who got Power of 100 men from a sea god who's now goal is to live with a slave baby, but unfortunately the baby is the child of prophecy so you can probably see how people would want her gone. If you want to see more from this great manga, it currently got 3 or 4 arcs right now, only 63 chapters you could probably blow through and experience high fantasy in 3 afternoons and learn what stylized anatomy is. Thanks for reading the shill. Currently Reading through Dorohedoro, Girl Meets Rock and weekly releases (CSM, Dandadan, Centuria, Kagurabachi, Sakadays, and Ichi the witch(I do like the translations adding slang im not a purist im here for entertainment))
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Been reading this. Pretty good stuff.
 
I've been reading the Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra Light novels and I must say it's quite an entertaining piece of fiction.

The setting is similar to Overlord aka a young Japanese man is reincarnated into another world as the leader of the most powerful evil nation that's ever existed , and then proceeds to try to take over the world with his minions.

The first two volumes are a bit slow , because initially the protagonist tries to peacefully coexist with other nations, but then certain events occur in Vol 3 which lead him to reject any ounces of humanity he still had left and then he starts massacring anyone that dares to stand in his way of world conquest.

The best thing about this series imo is that compared to Overlord the enemies of Mynoghra can actually put up a fight compared to the enemies of Nazarick, that just get squashed like bugs the moment they go up against Ainz or any of the floor guardians. Overall the series has a lot more stakes and tension compared to Overlord, it's an easy recommend from me 👍
 
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Julianus Chadus Maximus said:
I've been reading the Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra Light novels and I must say it's quite an entertaining piece of fiction.

The setting is similar to Overlord aka a young Japanese man is reincarnated into another world as the leader of the most powerful evil nation that's ever existed , and then proceeds to try to take over the world with his minions.

The first two volumes are a bit slow , because initially the protagonist tries to peacefully coexist with other nations, but then certain events occur in Vol 3 which lead him to reject any ounces of humanity he still had left and then he starts massacring anyone that dares to stand in his way of world conquest.

The best thing about this series imo is that compared to Overlord the enemies of Mynoghra can actually put up a fight compared to the enemies of Nazarick, that just get squashed like bugs the moment they go up against Ainz or any of the floor guardians. Overall the series has a lot more stakes and tension compared to Overlord, it's an easy recommend from me 👍
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The anime is airing & the biggest (rhetorical) question for me is.

If evil:
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Why cute?
 
Julianus Chadus Maximus said:
I've been reading the Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra Light novels and I must say it's quite an entertaining piece of fiction.

The setting is similar to Overlord aka a young Japanese man is reincarnated into another world as the leader of the most powerful evil nation that's ever existed , and then proceeds to try to take over the world with his minions.

The first two volumes are a bit slow , because initially the protagonist tries to peacefully coexist with other nations, but then certain events occur in Vol 3 which lead him to reject any ounces of humanity he still had left and then he starts massacring anyone that dares to stand in his way of world conquest.

The best thing about this series imo is that compared to Overlord the enemies of Mynoghra can actually put up a fight compared to the enemies of Nazarick, that just get squashed like bugs the moment they go up against Ainz or any of the floor guardians. Overall the series has a lot more stakes and tension compared to Overlord, it's an easy recommend from me 👍
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I'll have to give it a shot, I've been meaning to get into LN's. Every time I try Konosuba, I end up putting it off.
 
Professor Donger said:
I'll have to give it a shot, I've been meaning to get into LN's. Every time I try Konosuba, I end up putting it off.
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There are fan made audiobook versions of all the Apocalypse Bringer Lights Novels up to number 6 available on YouTube ( 7 and 8 don't appear to have audio versions yet). If you want to progress through the story faster that's a good alternative . Personally I prefer listening to audiobooks because it let's me do other things at the same time ex : I can play an RPG like New Vegas or Skyrim at the same time .
 
Julianus Chadus Maximus said:
Same logic applies to Orcas and Tigers. If cute why so deadly ?
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Orcas, unlike tigers, are actually shockingly calm with Humans. Despite being apex predators they just... don't attack us.
Like ever.

Not even in the standard skiddish animal "run away" way either, they will just come right up to humans and start playing with them.

Real recognizes real, I guess.
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gaysexenjoyer said:
Orcas, unlike tigers, are actually shockingly calm with Humans. Despite being apex predators they just... don't attack us.
Like ever.

Not even in the standard skiddish animal "run away" way either, they will just come right up to humans and start playing with them.

Real recognizes real, I guess.
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>Hunts Great White Sharks on the regular.
>Chooses to be cool with the humans.

Truly the homie mammal.
 
Turkey Beef said:
MONSTER mentioned!
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Out of curiosity, has anyone else read the sequel LN Urasawa wrote a few years after the manga?
TLDR for those who for those who haven't, about 2 years after the event of the manga a string of murders happen Austria that bear some striking similarities with Johan but can't be because it clears up the open ending of the manga and out right states that Johan has been in a deep coma for the last 2 years and shows no sign of waking up.
The main character of the LN interviews almost everyone from the main series as well as doing some further digging about Kinderhime 511 and Franz Bonaparta that got glossed over in the manga to try and find out who this other monster is.
 
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