Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.
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Trying to remember a manga I had read a few years ago. A little spotty on the details, but - MC is the first born boy of his family, but is missing a hand/arm and is a family disappointment and closed off/ignored. A girl comes to live with him as his maid and/or fiance and lifts him up and heals him emotionally.
The closest thing I can think of is Taisho Otome Fairy Tale. However, the MC loses function of his hand/arm early in the story due to an accident. Everything else seems to fit though. I remember reading the beginning of the series, but dropped it pretty quick. I don’t remember why though, probably just had too many series to keep up with.
Yes! This is it, thank you!
The only one armed protagonist born with a single arm I can think of is Devin from Standard of Reincarnation, but I don’t think that’s it.
Not it, but thank your for the thought! I don’t recall if they were born with only one arm or if happened later.
I picked up Time-stop Ugly Old Man thanks to the discussion threads from @themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
This shit is peak comedy.
I went for a bit of a palette cleanser since last week and decided to read Hero Killer - a brutal action manhwa about a world with villains and heroes with magical gifts.
I’m a bit mixed on it to be honest. Not because it’s bad (it’s fine in what it tries to be), it’s just most of it doesn’t really vibe with me. The story is edgy and treats itself super seriously, action is flashy but can be messy and unintelligible at times while character proportions (especially MC) can vary widely panel to panel. I was actually very close to dropping it after a dozen chapters or so.
Then the unexpected happened - authors started to show how much of a goofy goober MC really is. Not only her! There’s a lot of side characters who feel like they’re from a completely different series, so you go from the main antagonists of the story who are edgy and serious to the other half of the cast being absolute weirdos in comparison.
This one thing is honestly the only reason I’m still reading for now - I don’t care about the epic conflict, I don’t care about hero/villains politics, I don’t care about MC’s motivations. I just hunt for the scenes of MC being silly and weird and acting like she’s part of a gag manga rather than a protagonist of a bloody action adventure.
Also a good amount of well built female characters is always a plus. They aren’t crazy buff for the most part (they’re mostly the lean fighter types) but compared to how scared many action series are of showing muscular women I’ll take what I can get.
Edit: OK, Senshu is my second favourite character after Ihwa. She went from a dangerous one person artillery brigade to a complete brat in no time. She’s great.
