so i've been reading the worst manga ever, Hello, Melancholic!

this. shit. sucks. im 5 chapters in. it is infuriating. it's about some dipshit high school maladjust who cant make it one sentence into a conversation without breaking down. that is our quivering mess of a protagonist. as far as i can tell its some high school love story to give ppl like her hope or something. literally every single page is her exaggeratedly breaking down into an anxious spiral about how this other chick wants to be her friend. and holy shit i hate the snaggletooth anime trope. i assume its a cheap way to give characters and designs "personality". its distractingly annoying. every page bro

i cannot imagine projecting onto a protag like this. i tried hate-googling it and it turns out im the only fuckin one in the world who hates it. i think its one of those things that 99.9% of people going into it, are doing so because they know they will like it

i should read fist of the north star

That sounds like Komi can't communicate

Sounds kinda like Watamote.

I mean to be fair not every main character is meant for the reader to project upon

Just read something else if it annoys you that much, x.x

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

I mean to be fair not every main character is meant for the reader to project upon

its deff a problem of mine. it happens with any media i consume, so if its a bad fit i get really angry and uncomfortable. i genuinely struggle to separate myself from the fiction, the immersion can be pretty overwhelming

Please don't read Platinum End or Rent-a-Girlfriend. Those are pretty bad.

im gonna read fist of the north star next

Hypnospace posted...

Toko from Danganronpa.

I'll never get the love for Toko. Doing a replay rn of the series and fuck, she grates on me so much.

JKwaffle posted...

I'll never get the love for Toko. Doing a replay rn of the series and fuck, she grates on me so much.

She actually gets very good character development in Ultra Despair Girls, so she has more going for her than most other Danganronpa characters. Most are pretty bare bones.

now its doing some stupid flashback about an incredibly toxic lesbian relationship however it is being portrayed as wholesome

bloodboiling

Sounds like the creator of this manga is a fetishist.

i mean its just run of the mill slice of life yuri trash. i dont see anything fetishy about it, i just fucking hate it

Worst manga ever? You must of never read Usagi Drop.

Tsukasa1891 posted...

Worst manga ever? You must of never read Usagi Drop.

ive never heard of most of the things itt tbh

im only reading this one because my partner loves it. and im only ragging on it here cuz i dont want to rain on his parade

Dungeater posted...

ive never heard of most of the things itt tbh

im only reading this one because my partner loves it. and im only ragging on it here cuz i dont want to rain on his parade

The video will explain it better then I can. But the tl;dw is after MCs grandfather dies, he finds out his grandfather secretly had a child with his care giver and no one else in the family is willing to take care of the kid. So MC adopts her and for the most part it's a wholesome slice of life manga, until the time skip where the adopted daughter falls in love with MC and the rest of the family encourages MC to marry her. So in the end the manga just comes off as a creepy story of a child being groomed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn_221j4BTA

i just fucking hate boring slice of life shit so much

i assume the appeal is if u had a shit childhood u can relive it thru the stories

but i would bet cold cash my childhood was worse than the majority out there and this shit just makes me mad

i want power fantasy. not "loser makes friends/gets gf" fantasy

Wherethisfeom posted...

I would say it's the other way around. "Slice of life" is pretty normal. Things like episodic sitcoms, comedys, and drama are mainstream. Power fantasies are more geared towards people who either aren't having the greatest of lives or have a lot of excess energy.

i have never known a slice of life fan who wasnt hurting bad

whereas im hurting the worst and im basically the only one i know into power fantasy

and i mean real power fantasy. not escapist "protag goes to another universe" bullshit

im talkin like playin as kiryu and wailin on goons all day

or doom

Wherethisfeom posted...

You've never heard of fans of things like The Office and Community that weren't hurting? Or Spongebob?

im talking strictly about anime/manga bs

im finally on the end

kenshiro be patient my love

im coming

oh yea i also read like 60 chapters of Billy Bat. it struggles with pacing. its managed to keep the intrigue for a long while, and its got some good comedic timing. but its taking too long for payoff, i think its finally lost me

If it gets an anime I'd watch it

I can't do manga, but I love Yuri SOL

it's a very short manga. it's 14 chapters plus some bonus ones here and there

im finished. finalleigh

so i guess i'll type up a quick summary of my thoughts

This genre sucks. I don't know why anyone would want to read about a group of lovestruck high school kids will they won't they'ing for an entire run. You have the main character, who I guess is meant to be relatable for the ppl who read this. She's is a tall, gangly, neurotic high school freshman with crippling self doubt and anxiety. She can hardly make it through a conversation. She is invited to join a music club by some spunky upbeat popular girl upperclassman. The others in the club are the Bitch character, the Manipulator, and the Goddess

The Bitch and the Manipulator are also will they won't they'ing. It's grating. It's fucking insulting, because their relationship is incredibly fucking toxic. It begins with the Manipulator pretending to kill herself in order to gauge the reaction of the Bitch. They become fiendishly codependent and it's painted as a beautiful love that they have. It makes me fucking sick.

The Goddess is a non character. She exists for all the other characters to be like "omg she's so perfect and cool and everyone loves her and wants to be her" - she has next to no presence in the story otherwise

The Bitch and the Manipulator talk about fucking a lot, which is extremely uncomfortable. There are also scenes of them in bed post-coitus, also uncomfortable.

The main character does end up developing somewhat. She ends the story still prone to self doubt but has become somewhat responsible and able to navigate conversations and form surface-level acquaintanceships.

I would call this a slow burn that failed to ever ignite. If you are the type to get annoyed when characters act stupid, nonsensical, or pitiable, do not read this. I legit had to take breaks due to how mad I was getting.

Overall, I would not give this any points. I have zero respect for the manga, zero respect for the author, and zero respect for the opinion that this is good. It is universally lauded, somehow

0/10

Why do you keep forcing yourself to watch/read things you don't like?

MorganTJ posted...

Why do you keep forcing yourself to watch/read things you don't like?

because i have an open mind

and it's not like, forcing. once i start something it's hard to stop. it's almost like i dont feel my like or dislike of something is legitimate unless ive completed said thing

Dungeater posted...

i just fucking hate boring slice of life shit so much

i assume the appeal is if u had a shit childhood u can relive it thru the stories

Thats... a wild take...

Sometimes it's nice to have something different, something more chill and wholesome... Most of my manga collection is either Shonen stuff or Monster Girl Ecchi stuff... But then I have all of Komi Can't Communicate because it's just a nice change of genre... And I had a fine childhood...

i meant to say live vicariously, not relive

u are very skilled at articulating things

this particular manga tries to have it both ways. the main character and the love interest quasi get together a few chapters before the end. but then oh they're both awkward and confused now, instead of just the MC. only at basically the very end do they really make it

and then it time skips 2 years of high school, then skips again to university where they're adults

completely fuckin unearned shit

Dungeater posted...

i should read fist of the north star

Just keep in mind you should probably stop halfway through >_>

When they do the will they wont they until the end, I chalk it up to the writer having never been in a relationship themself and can't write what they don't know, or it's because they're scared readers will drop it and not buy the merch when MC doesn't choose there favorite harem member.

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Wherethisfeom posted...

That sounds very obnoxious. I'd probably get frustrated at that too lol. I'm not sure if your partner has seen it, if they like romance they probably would have, but you could check out Kaguya-sama. Might be spoilers so don't read if you care for spoilers, but they do get together in the middle of the series but it does take quite awhile to reach it. This series is interesting because it focuses more on the comedy aspect than the "emotional" aspects and the premise is treated as a battle where both of them are intentionally trying to get the other to slip up to them first. The male MC is also much cooler compared to the average romance MC but he isn't an edgelord either. Something that might be relevant to you is that the anime has the MC being voiced by Saitama's voice actor and the MC's dad is voiced by DIO's voice actor.
But there are still some cliche romance tropes here and there and I'm not sure if romance in general is something you really vibe with.

oh i didnt realize u gave a rec here. it doesn't really sound up my alley though I do like when Dio shows up like in attack on Giant

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