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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
I just binged From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman
I really enjoyed this. I like that the MC is kinda wholesome. You get the typical "harem" around him, but they're his former students. And that is truly how he sees them. He's overly humble about his abilities. It's clear to everyone else that he's highly skilled. Also as someone almost middle aged, I appreciate that the MC is too 😅
The animation is pretty good. It seems like it has a mid-tier kind of budget. The fights are CG, but they still look pretty good. The choreography is good.
Don't really care for watching it on Prime, but I'm glad a season 3 is in the works.
You Are A Four Leaf Clover just released its final chapter.
There arent any english translations yet, so I was just using google translate to get a rough idea of what the text is.
This series was a real rollercoaster. Theres suicides and assassinations and magic and conspiracy, its pretty intense at times.
I kind of feel that this last arc was pretty rushed, this last chapter just sort of solved the longstanding conflict within just a couple pages. Thats not a big deal, the problem throughout most of the story was a mystery rather than direct confrontation. It just felt kind of abrupt how quickly it all got resolved. The final confrontation with the big bad guy gets handled very easily in the end.
Im glad that despite how fucked up the story is early on everything ends up working out and everyone is happy and safe at the end.
Came across a bunch of manga about murders this week,
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A pen, handcuffs, and a common-law marriage | Chapter 15
https://weebcentral.com/chapters/01M5MEGANZVNF2VYJ36RG3N4PE
What if detective Conan is a mute highschooler and instead of putting the hapless uncle to sleep and talked over a voice changer, she solves crimes by blackmailing the uncle with a marriage proposal and making him interpret her bad drawings.
The crimes are not as elaborate as Conan, but the gimmick makes for sone interesting scenarios.
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The pit of darkness | Chapter 1
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1031110
Boy found the perfect tool for crimes and awoken his inner psychopath.
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Sing 'Yesterday' for me
https://weebcentral.com/chapters/01J76XYVWH130X2RMCKTHC9GRX
Unrequited love olympiad. There's not just a love triangle but a whole interconnected chain of one-sided relationships. All's well that ends well I suppose.
Where's the murder you ask? Well FMC has a pet crow (eh)
~ manga corner ~