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Ballsdeep69
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I have feared the day they get human forms, since I first started this series because the art style of this series and the way these creatures are drawn is already so close to furry bait sometimes I don't need them tempting fate.
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I'd say we do it a bit less thoroughly in the south(or at least Georgia), we heard all about Germany, I don't know if it's because Japan's an ally now but we only got some vagaries about the stuff Japan did, like they told us about Kamikaze bombing and Pearl harbor and about how we nuked them and about how we helped them post war, we got mentions of the Rape of Nanking we did not go into details, (we didn't talk about the widespread sex slavery, the widespread regular slavery, the government condoned human trafficking, Japan's goal essentially being european style colonization of the mainland, the minor genocides they performed on small island populations south of Japan, the let's say... excessive human experimentation where some of the things they did just seemed like doing f***** up things for the sake of it because I don't understand what medical value some of those experiments had, we don't even really talk about s*** we did like the firebombing campaigns or the island hopping offensives, like the curriculum was kind of bare bones) no I had to learn about all that stuff way later on my own time, but we got every dark detail on stuff in the Holocaust, but I think that's more so American education kind of caring less about stuff outside of the western spear of influence (autocorrect changed sphere to spear and honestly...it fits) just like how we only acknowledge some of the fucked up s*** the American government has done, and it's really only the stuff we either got outright caught for in 4K, or stuff we want to Pat ourselves on the back for being better than now, and occasionally stuff we're Low Key proud of when we really shouldn't be.
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Either that or industry editors just tell them not to bother with it cuz you're not going to increase sales by adding more foreigners I guess, since they are going for a primarily Korean audience so they mostly want to see stuff Koreans will readily and easily identify and recognize, and quite frankly immigrant populations in Korea and Japan have never been large enough ( excluding Americans and (mostly American and European) tourists) for the everyday person to be particularly familiar with them.
Additionally I notice similarly weird depictions of the Vietnamese, Mongolians and occasionally even the thai, coming out of China and Korea that just never tracks with me given how close those countries are and how much intermingling I know happens between some of them, and then I remember that racism exists everywhere and the flavors you get in other places can be wholy unfamiliar from the ones you're used to.
Like how Chinese and Korean stories often shit on the Japanese too, but at least that's because of things they did during world war II (that they've mostly never apologized for and for an uncomfortably long time refused to acknowledge they did. Real rough shit too I'm talking stuff that Nazis had been on record saying we're barbaric vile and cruel) so at least there's historically recent bad blood I guess? Maybe there's just a lot more minor things that happen that I will just never know about between populations that identify with those countries, like how I doubt most people on the planet give a s*** about or even know about State rivalries in America.
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Ballsdeep69 - 1719646818
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Ballsdeep69 - 1719646652
The continual gag of shenanigans escalating while Kenji's just doing other stuff off screen only for him to have to shut it down somehow when he gets back has been one of the series greatest strong points.
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For similar reasons I always wonder why India gets shafted in series like this, as they have just a straight-up massive population,(like at least 1/8 of the human population I believe) so if superpowers get allocated proportionally there should be like a dozens of s-classes(or whatever the equivalent for the series) from India like they always have a lot from China and the US always has the most (or second most depending on how "pro-korea hoorah" the series is) which at least is usually because we just buy people off from other countries instead of having a proportionally high amount, which tracks seeing as that's how we get some of our best scientists, doctors engineers and all manner of other people, but it's always like one person from India and they're always on some dhalsim shit either being a guru or some magic future prophet (and don't even get me started on how these series always treat Africa, the only other place I see Africa treated like this is... most western media? huh... maybe this trend denotes some underlying problem? Nah. probably not.) like a lot of these series will give Japan a lot of people too, which granted is because they just need villains and in America you use terrorists or the cartel, while in Korea you use gangsters or "the shifty Japanese"
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Ballsdeep69 MissBadEnd - 1719645511
And at end of his journey he'll have created some failed heroines of his own and thus the life cycle is complete.
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Ballsdeep69 - 1719645284
You know a comedy is good when characters routinely end up naked exclusively for non-sexual reasons to the point that people just stop commenting on it.
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Ballsdeep69 Aefher - 1719644982
What is that man done to Garner such hatred? to see his comment with nothing but dislikes.
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Ballsdeep69 Meringue - 1719644532
I will agree Deku getting all those powers in such a short time frame, kind of just because he's the chosen one, did feel wicked unsatisfying, it kind of felt like whenever Sasuke would get a power up by virtue of having the special blood ™️ and his magic eyes, when we don't see the efforts or even the signs of the efforts these characters take to earn these cool new powers it makes the powers feel like bullshit.
(As an aside me and my friends theorized hirokoshi just really want it to make deku into Spider-Man bit by bit, and it culminated in the edge lord deku ark where he has the full face mask, does everything alone whips around town on his black whip and has his danger sense)
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It's like when kakashi became hokage, man is just out here like "guess I got to carry the crown"
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I would argue the dark deku thing is double pointless already, because he does a little bit get the lesson of trying to understand the villains from talking with stain and from talking with shigaraki and from talking with toga previously, and he didn't really need the teamwork lesson considering most interactions with villains or any threats in the series up to this point were efforts of teamwork already like I think the only two threats he dealt with solo were gentle and that muscle dude. Like honestly that mini arc didn't even really need to happen, it more than anything felt like some kind of check mark on a board somewhere when I read it wholly unnecessary other than a couple of cool visuals.
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Ballsdeep69 dienstagHD - 1719642792
I will be honest dog I was really hoping the answer was "die"
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Ballsdeep69 Neurofez - 1719641860
No I read it, granted I read it week to week so there's some parts I don't completely remember, I simply stated that the thing he was going for was a thing I specifically found boring and unfortunately common for female characters in shounen in regards to why I specifically did not like ochako, to say I didn't read it simply because I disliked it feels somewhat...reductive. like I can see what he was trying to go for but he did not put in enough time and effort to make that successful (at least for me) so I'm simply judging what he actually did.
But once again if you were to consume the entire Arc or even the entire series in a more concise time period some of these problems will probably be minimized or at least less noticeable because you have less time to think about these things and more time to let the story Shepherd you along like I imagine the writer intended.
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Like the reporter guy is wicked shitty, but they aren't wrong and that he's the only one who actually had hope that they could get out of this s*** and try to find a way to do so, it's just that he went for the method with the highest absolute success margin completely disregarding others lives in the process, and then after that proceeded to go for the route that kept him alive the longest, disregarding others lives in the process.
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Ballsdeep69 Solcastic - 1719623197
Like yeah it's a long flashback but it's showing us a part of the world we haven't yet experienced as well as vital backstory for the main character, while introducing several characters that, while not strong enough to hold an entire story, are definitely strong enough to hold a single story line
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Ballsdeep69 Meringue - 1719616266
It's less no death =no tension and more bad pacing equals = no buildup = no tension, the no deaths thing was more so that if you're not going to Pace it in a way that tension stays consistent you can at least kill people to generate some stakes and tension, because one piece has really long arcs with relatively few or at least ambiguous deaths (more pre time skip then post) but one piece is paced well enough at least in the manga that it always feels like there's stakes regardless.
like I said shonen often substitutes tension for death or stakes (think any sports manga) it wasn't that the week to week nature made the pacing bad it's more so that the week to week nature made the bad pacing worse, like they never let a fight build and flow naturally, it would always just cut away arbitrarily to cut to whatever else is happening elsewhere, which some series do but the crucial part is very rarely was whatever else happening elsewhere directly tied to what was about to happen in the previous area. Like the entire Arc was a bunch of disjointed fights up until the end when some of them sort of connected slightly. So instead of having a building of hype like you might get for a long One Piece Arc (or even jiu jitsu kaisen arcs which are all really long) occasionally intercut with emotionally or energetically low moments like comedy or a flashback or an explanation or drama, it's more like hype would build and then be slapped out of you so that ochako could yap at toga for a while about some lame flat ass romance shit for a while and then we cut to spinner talking about how racism suddenly just exists now ( and it's existed this whole time but we've just never brought it up in the past 300 chapters because reasons), and then it cuts to the most overpowered character in the series somehow immediately losing a fight she by no means should have lost because the villains GOT to be busted like Madara, and then it'll cut back to deku and then it'll cut away again and then it'll cut to endeavor and then it'll cut away again and then it'll cut to an Admittedly great fight with Mecha all might vs all for one, only for the fight to end in a wet fart of a conclusion instead of having a meaningful impactful conclusion between two generational foes. The effect after a while is annoyance and disorientation, you don't care anymore because they never let you settle in a place long enough to care anytime you sort of care the dumbest possible outcome happens, and then it just keeps going and going. It's sort of feels like a Zach Snyder movie when he has complete control: there's a lot of style, the style is... interesting, but the style mostly works as individual moments and they don't necessarily join together to make a cohesive whole, and the writing is just sort of lackluster and generic in parts while being outright derivative in others.
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