im woke

dialectics

reduced to analog emotes D:

you’re welcome :3

i see it

caveman discovering fire mode rn

nuh uh

>do nothing
>enemies delete their soft power

fragmentizing global manufacturing by cementing the “hey if this ever touches the supply chain of an adversarial nation-state your head asplode” precedent, thank you nato, thank you pissrael

“sir, this Earth, it’s a Limited Preorder Seasonal Event Alter. XSSR 5* Misprint Polychrome Australium. top of the line. from the oldest vault.”

“What is this, a gilded turd? I wanted the one with the big mountains. the biggest mountains. nobody’s seen mountains bigger. come back when you have mountains. and trees. big trees.”

the way he says it—rare earths—I know he means rare earth metals but it sounds like he’s doing gacha for planets

imagine we all die and we don’t even achieve communism before it. how embarrassing for us. how truly embarrassing

I have to assume we can overcome. I have to assume it’s a possibility. It can’t end like this. I refuse to let this be it

I don’t know about that tbh I’m doing the Christmas bit for it languishing in my backlog

dropped off the Sakamoto manga when they essentially sidelined the fem deuteragonist. didn’t fuck with that move. kinda petty but just didn’t vibe with me and I didn’t care to continue after it

GGWP is GOATed, have the scanlations updated recently? I think I’m caught up. I think I was at the end of the tournament. I binged it a few months ago. I generally didn’t include my smorgasbord of rom-coms in my RSS feed as it didn’t seem pertinent to OP’s presented palate (besides the absurdist 100 Kano, which I recommend to anyone who has enough knowledge of harem manga to groan about them)

witch hat atelier just a week away, witch hat atelier in a week, wow, I am so excited about this information, witch hat atelier, a week! (It has been wasting away in my backlog I really want to get to it but I have been otherwise reading other things )

My reading list, at the moment (all ongoing):

• Dandadan (I’m a sucker for the urban-supernatural romcom shit it’s got going on, currently my favorite ongoing serial)
• Chainsaw Man (of course—probably going to be the seminal shonen of the decade. technically not originating in this decade, but it is in lock-step with the zeitgeist of the 20s. it’s going to be looked back on very fondly—if it continues cooking—and as a major influence on the forthcoming eras of shonen. you can genuinely already pinpoint some of that influence in the newgens if you know what you’re looking for)
• Akane-banashi (it’s hard to describe assuming zero knowledge of rakugo but it’s might be easier to conceive it framed essentially as a girl’s quest to become the next George Carlin)
• Kagurabachi (I hope by this point the idea of endorsing this being purely a meme has washed away because it’s absolutely GOATed John Wick Samurai Meathead-Shonen)
• Ichi the Witch (newcomer collaboration between the Act-Age artist who got fucked by the writer being a sex-pest and Iruma-kun’s mangaka, shaping up to be a banger at just 21 chapters with great worldbuilding, outstanding character designs, and notably-compelling characterization for such a new work)
• Girl meets Rock! (left ear Bocchi the Rock right ear whatever Death Note machinations Rin is up to)
• Hunter X Hunter (has one of the all-time best arcs in shonen, worth reading even though it’s in and out of purgatory)
• One Piece (I have to catch up, petered out after Egghead due to finals)
• Spy x Family (Pretty good recently)
• 100 Girlfriends (rather absurd parody of harem manga that essentially functions as a gag manga about both romcoms, haremslop, and archetypeslop in general. we’re about a third of the way to the promised quantity and I genuinely do not know how the author or the artist can still make chapters that feature every single character, but they do. its like a fever dream every single chapter. fanservicey but in a, and I cannot believe I am saying this in a self-convincing manner, genuinely ironic and parodic way)

Recommendations otherwise based on your list:

• Early Bleach (very weird-fun beginning and extremely locked-in all the way to the end of the Soul Society Arc. Personally, up to that point, a genuine 10/10 shonen. Kinda gradually declines afterwards, but not in a way that ruins it retrospectively for me. very well drawn. has a genuine variety of intricate and well-executed character designs, as well as standout paneling and use of negative space)
• Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (if you even ambiently enjoy Solo Leveling, I’m full-send on this rec. this essentially takes the Korean LitRPG urban power-fantasy setting as a hook and delivers a story with some actual depth that I still think about every now and then. Intricately explores its more metafictional themes that I have trouble encapsulating in their entire scope in a way that does not spoil the completed web novel. Genuinely felt the ending for like a day after I finished it. Has an ongoing manhwa adaptation and an incoming anime adaptation. I cannot shill this enough. It is the outstanding entry in its genre. even comparing it to Solo Leveling feels like handing Undertale to someone who’s just played Pokémon, not to rag on Solo Leveling besides it kinda petering out and not ending in a way that really satisfied me, but it’s hard to describe the finer details in almost the exact sense it is to Undertale without giving the bits away and losing some of the magic and craft to it, so I have to push it with a ‘trust me on this’)

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