>Princess is captured
>You must once again save princess
>Will you?
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Previous Fukuchi storytimes (and a few others): bun.filedit.ch
How to save time (and appreciate two-page story rhythms) by doublepaging your storytime volumes (v1.5.1): bun.filedit.ch
Now, being perfectly honest, I have fucked up to the point of doing the doublepaging literally right now. I wanted to start the thread so that readers can see it's not delayed until tomorrow. But it's going to be a few minutes before I can actually start the dump.
>most mangaka
ahhhhhhhh No. Sorry. I meant "of manga I've read and also still remember well-enough", and by "characters" I meant "story-essential ones".
Yeesh.
>Saike's "dog" constantly finds himself in chains
I like how Fukuchi waited to present the classification system; that way, it didn't limit the reader's scope of what Oracles could be and do, nor feel like a by-the-numbers addition.
He's damn good at writing when he wants to be, and that's one reason I pick apart his work so much: so that readers wanting to create their stories can learn from it.
Artist Acro is a good example of what can come from his influence. (And I'd storytime that too if translations were complete.)
And now I think perhaps Fukuchi is representing that Saike could indeed become a villain IF he isn't diverted from this potential. Again, from my perspective, the flow of the story has been primarily about Saike's education in balance and restraint/self-control (where before he had none, having no chances even to really realize he lacked these things.
>it also unusually contrasts with Saike's situation, who stubbornly persists to validate his own worth in one way, while Shinonome finds other things to live for other than Baseball.
This observation is even more interesting when you apply it to Hizu as well.
At the start, he didn't want to explain how to see fumes because it makes him more valuable to his lord and savior. Yet when the time came for him to pay it forward, he stuck to it, and in the process, surrendered those eyes without a second thought.
*their own
I'm surprised he could talk Kuroda into that.
But also not quite surprised, because after four years at least without his sister, Kuroda probably gets it.
Ah, there he is.
That motherfucker.
What a tool.
God is this still going?
Some mangaka will really cling to any hit they get, huh?
Something about this snow-dusted night makes for a nice stage.
It ended more than six years ago. It's the TLs that didn't finish until this year.
Good, how long did it stretch after the Nepal thing because that was when it really started pushing it.
Oh yeah, Artist Acro is another series I'm interested in, by an author who's close to Fukuchi and clearly her work reflects that too. Also, I just checked and see that a whole lot more has been translated now, cool, I really need to catch up more with my reading.
Wait, Calim can deploy chains at a far distance like that?
At least, he can now?
Ah, why didn't you like Nepal?
After that, it went for seven more volumes (number 11 was quite good). One shy of Ueki.
I like Saike and Kuroda's complicated relationship. Even after teaming up to beat a greater foe, they're still not entirely friendly with each other due to their ideological differences but it also leads to interesting philosophical discussions like these. I always wondered how Kuroda's warning to Saike would play out but not sure when it would happen until now.
Some really beautiful snowy scenery this volume.
Saike's dramatic death glare returns.
Hang in there, Mikan!
(All right, I fucked up a page, but since it's just recap pages for people who landed right on this chapter, please forgive me.)
Agreed. It's nice to have non-antagonists around who don't agree with the MC.
>Hang in there, Mikan!
Snort.
>Ah, why didn't you like Nepal?
Because it felt like it should have ended twice before that. It kept concluding these overarching plots with a happy end before introducing another one with no end in sight.
It was boring, formulaic. and it felt like the characters I used to like were stuck in a purgatory where they would never find peace, exactly like cape shit.
Interesting to see the antagonist actually having a point in his criticisms of the protagonist. It's true that Saike's anxieties are understandable since he was a nobody before getting his Oracle so he feels like that's the very thing that gave him worth, however, that motivation is indeed selfish.
>Because it felt like it should have ended twice before that
How so? I'm thinking back over everything prior to Nepal, and I can't see a single point the story could have just concluded without being open-ended.
>Volume 2: Hizu just acquired.
>3: Negatibrain, another hunter of wrongdoers, and his team of many members, including Ana, introduced.
>4: Acquiring Ana, but also introducing Saike's recoil damage.
>5: Resolving Kuroda's problem; Saike is still damaged
>6: The beginning was irritating, I agree, but Saike was still damaged and his kidnapping laid the groundwork for things that come later
At none of these points did I see a point for stopping. Only prep for the longer term.