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alteredphoenix · 10 months ago

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I've developed another pet peeve: which is, when the manga has the characters go into excruciating detail about their abilities and how to utilize them while in the middle of combat.

Another pet peeve: describing events in text boxes while said events are happening at the same time.

#i'm noticing these two aspects a lot in shounen manga #specifically: from this week's chapter of kagurabachi #idk maybe i'm being too fussy #but you have to trust your work to tell its story as well as get the points across #without having to spell things out for your readers #you have to trust your readers to follow along and put the piece together #or at least have an idea as to connect the dots a'la Point A to Point B and so on #this is the exact same thing osamu tezuka pointed out when writing astro boy #and i feel like committing to 'hold your readers' hand' is doing more harm to the story than it is good #like there's a time and place to handhold but once you get past the first few chapters you have to wean them off it #some stories opt to just throw your reader in with no context whatosever #but again you have to trust them to paint a picture and understand what they're looking at #or at least come up w/ their own interpretations in a story that's meant to be open to interpretation such as dark souls #idk i think i'm griping too much #just venting #manga #armi reads manga

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