Check Out Some August Oldies!
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Accidentally in love: kept grossing me out until I abandoned it
Karate master: not my preferred genre
The magic ... behind: In volume 1 I loved the complexity of conflict, how the different participants in the events have their layers of reasons why they act the way they do and how their actions are driven by their own goals, their personalities, and the interaction with others. I disliked how the author prefers the "tell don't show" approach whenever possible and how repetitive it all reads. Then the second volume devolved into slapstick comedy without anything much happening, and I put it in hold. Will try again later to see if I am compatible with this style.
Saved/Apocalypse: If the first few volumes are good and then it gets worse... I am out of here, running screaming. I am saturated on shows that run on absurd simplicity.
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@Lex said in Check Out Some August Oldies!:
I'm curious about Karate Master Isekai so I'll give it a try.
A karate master who decides to battle with truck-kun with a kick is funny enough to read in my opinion. Plus being a manga will make it a quick read, so why not.
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@WingsStef yeah, ended up reading it and I liked it.
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@HarmlessDave said in Check Out Some August Oldies!:
the final arc that stops adding new heroines and resolves the Little Apocalypse.
Hi, since it seems like you've read the whole series, could you tell me how the harem is resolved? I tried looking it up online but I didn't see any answers. I read the synopses on J-Novel and it seems that he spends the whole 16 volumes with girls fighting over him. I already dislike that trope but I can stand it if the romance(?) is resolved. Other than that, I find the various otherworld characters interesting so I can put up with cat-fighting even if it lasts for 16 volumes. I just need to know, does he make a decision in the end and what is it? You can put it in spoiler tags in case other people don't want to be spoiled.
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@saidahgilbert The adventures continue.
Or if you really want to know...
The ending does work as an ending, but due to the construction of the series (i.e., a collection of disconnected short stories) there really isn't a clean way to end it. I found it satisfactory, but I can't speak for everyone.
Edit: FWIW, the series is better understood as an episodic comedy. I did find the formula got stale a couple volumes before the series threw in the towel and started its ending. I read all the 16 volumes back-to-back...
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@endoftheline Thanks for the reply. In that case, I wouldn't bother with the series. I don't mind episodic comedy but I don't find harem fighting comedic. There's no way I could read that for 16 volumes with no ending in sight.
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@saidahgilbert said in Check Out Some August Oldies!:
@endoftheline Thanks for the reply. In that case, I wouldn't bother with the series. I don't mind episodic comedy but I don't find harem fighting comedic. There's no way I could read that for 16 volumes with no ending in sight.
His harem destroying the universe is the background plot, but the stories in each volume aren't about harem conflicts, they are harem Pokémon as a side effect of going through a new trope like isekai or alien invasion. Also, since they are self-contained you can stop at almost any point. I thought the first 3-4 especially were very well done.
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@HarmlessDave
As you say, the focus is doing lovely treatments of various tropes...at least in the first several volumes.
After that...he'd hit the crème of the crop, and it's not his fault he was having a hard time finding tropes that stir our souls.I'm partway through volume 5...and temporarily stalled put.
But my sense is that it keeps going not because the MC couldn't choose one of the various gals, but that he intends a 'happy ending' for everyone, including the supposedly non-involved non-material AI that was tasked with coming back in time to prevent the mini-apocalypse. She may not see herself as being part of a 'story', but the MC does.That's the author's hook for keeping it going, of course.
The overarching trope driving the whole series.
And it makes it kinda hard to wrap it up, since there are always more tropes to give a treatment. -
PSA that Monday, September 2, is a US holiday, so staff have the day off. Catchups will switch on Tuesday the 3rd instead.
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@myskaros Oh, I should've been born an American then. So I would have a day off on my birthday instead of having to go back to work. 😜
Ah, I looked it up. It's not a fixed date so it would only be a holiday when it's the first Monday in September.
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