Damn that second to last panel, and now to wait another month for the chance to see any kind of development on that front :(

What I don’t understand is that the post must be up inmediatly or else some people will miss the conversation. Why? People can still comment on it after having read it and it being posted hours later doesn’t make people not want to talk about it.

I really like this idea, even if it’s not a rule it should be common to post a comment with your chapter discussion post so that it can show someone is willing to have a conversation.

I try to post a discussion post every day but I don’t want that to feel like spam so I don’t want to do more myself, but I do try to comment on every single non chapter post I see

Thank you very much for looking into it! Hope it works out well.

Edit: damn I just noticed I make some walls of text, so: TLDR: I prefer no bot posts, but I understand why they are there.

I would like for it not to be bots doing these posts, I dont really like seeing so many posts with 0 comments.

The best solution would be to make it so that people posts the chapters so that it guarantees there will always be interactions and at least a comment by the poster. But as @OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net says, people probably wont be bothered to make such posts and that is probably true so its a big point against the idea of complete removal. (Although I dont really see a reason to worry too much about format and timing, its not like there is rules on the matter for the first and for timing if people already read it they can still talk about it)

The second best solution IMO is keep the bot, but if possible restrict it to what people are actually reading weekly, so that there will always be at least a comment. I just dont think the size of this community allows to have this kinds of posts allows for having lots of posts.

I dont really like the idea of expanding it even more, most people arent reading more than a few series weekly and with the number of users participating daily here (about 25) there is no way we can sustain that, it will just fill the feed with content that no one pays attention to. Of course one can simply say we dont need interactions on each post, just the opportunity is enough and if it doesnt happen there then its not a big deal. But at least to me it gives ghost town vibes, it doesnt feel good to look at the sub and see how nobody interacts. If anything I would prefer that we increase the user made content and diversify a bit from chapter specific discussions which, while cool when people actually have something to say and discuss, dont feel good when nobody is reading.

I also vote yes, it is better to not be needlessly stringent with this stuff as to not stiffle dialogue, I feel allowing them would make for far more interesting content and since communities are too small right now we don’t need useless fractioning and divides, people with a similar hobby need a place to talk and let that be here.

Jaja I can’t really go for it myself, I do need for the post to be pinned.

I did do a post about this 3 or 4 days ago, but it became buried quickly, although some people did participate. But it needs to be pinned, it’s one of the most important parts

Jaja same, I treat it as a blog for my own posts, but I do only one per week. But I do read it constantly to have conversations that don’t merit their own posts or to find recommendations.

Yeah not sure about the possibility of automation, if it needs to be manual I would volunteer to make the post, but there is still a need for a mod to pin it so it’s pretty much useless if it doesn’t come from them.

I had never thought about tsukkomi as laugh tracks but damn does that analogy fit them perfectly. I used to hate it as it felt cheap but some point along the way D-frag just got to me and I find it so funny nowadays.

I definitely agree with your assessment of good comedies, I love Grand Blue, especially the art style I feel is one of the best in the medium. Especially the over exaggeration to land a punchline, its kind of the inverse of when they dumb down characters into moe that they used to do so much in the 2010s and Im son into it. Also, Hinamatsuri is peak comedy, really loved the ridiculousness of Mishima side stories.

Had never heard of Chio-chan, added it to my read list, lowkey the plot sounds like Murphy’s Law.

Also as a side note, oh boy do I have so much to recommend if you like misunderstanding based comedy in manga, its probably one of my favorite genres!

Less than a dollar for each volume? That’s insane, I would certainly have thought it was a scam

I have two objections to this, although I’m not the biggest fan of cooking manga (I don’t really seek it out), first about unknown taste and second about mixed taste. Both are kind of interconnected.

This unexpectedly ended being kind of a large answer.

So for unknown taste, I might not know how a dragon tastes, BUT, I also don’t know how a turtle tastes. But I can enjoy reading a cooking manga where they cook a turtle into a soup and I even kind lf imagine how it tastes like. There are also many descriptors yhat are vaguely useful, like sour, tender, etc that coupled with the image hives a rough idea regardless of how wrong it may be in actuality.

Second is when they make their fantasy ingredients contradtable to IRL ones or a mixture of other two ingredients. It is the same as when people tell me frogs taste kind of like Chicken, if you told me a dragon had stiff meat due yo all the muscle and that it tasted kind of like a hard bird meat, I would completely believe it and wouldn’t detract , now if it says it tasted like a gorilla we come back to completely unknown flavours and imagination has to do some heavy lifting.

At the end if the day I think we can appreciate some of the beauty in fantasy food, taking heavy inspiration on IRL dishes but with twists that sound delishious.

While making this point I was constantly thinking about dungeon meshi and toriko, the first utilizes fantasy tropes appropriately to subvert your expectations and make unexpected but reasonable flavours out of fantasy beasts (also dome of the cooking methos are hilarious, like for the trap chest at the beginning). Then you have Toriko which used a lot of fantasy fruits that are mixed of what we have, like it’s not that difficult to imagine what a caramel melon would taste like.

At the end of the day, I don’t think fantasy cooking is that much worse, but the authors do need a lot more creativity to pull it off.

To finish, here is an analogy, It’s kind of like fixtional sports manga (although not 1 to 1) most people wouldn’t seek out reqding sport manga based on rules that were though by the author but that no one had ever played, those sports tend to have inconsistencies on rules, sometimes they aren’t fun to watch, they can be unintuitive, etc. Those are inherent problems that these works face that normal sports manga don’t because of the simple fact that sports have been developed across many years by a lot of people into something people enjoy, also the familiarity is an aspect that boosts enjoyment. But those being inherent problems doesn’t mean fictional sports in media are bad. They do require a lot of creativity and thought, especially if the author is gonna focus on them or else you get a shitty sports like quidditch.

PD: love that more manga discussions are creeping into the community, I lowkey hate [DISC] posts being so frequent, although I fo understand the necessity to keep things alive, but most people aren’t keeping up with more than a few manga and that makes it so there isn’t much discussion to be had unless the community grows to a large enough point that you have people reading everything.

Iris Zero

Same, that one was interesting too, I remember reading it pre pandemic and it had been in hiatus for a while. Didnt realize Ruri Dragon was on hiatus

For me its Saitou-kun wa Esper Rashii

https://anilist.co/manga/56651/Saitoukun-wa-Esper-Rashii/

It was some dumb comedy with an overconfident protagonist meeting actual espers which was so dumb funny to me, also it included a mind reader which is one of my favorite tropes in manga. It does have some of that 2000s and early 2010s ecchi which I feel has aged kind of poorly as it feel forced, at least for me. But the comedy is good, the main cast is funny and the protagonist is just really likeable in a sense.

Only problem is it lasts 26 chapters and the ending was so rushed it is nonsensical, I love this series but man when I reached the ending I was in disbelief seeing end that way.

Jaja just noticed the typo, it’s curious it took this long for someone to point it out.

Yep, Dragon Ball actually felt like an adventure. Also being inspired by journey to the west, at least in aesthetics and cast, is a huge plus for me.

Og Dragon Ball has so much charm, and it avoids the infinite scaling of power the series would later be known for

Nice, that is my favorite volume release of all time, it should be more common to do releases of that size (the cover is also nice, but I really like how big they are)

Solid beginnings, I much prefer dragon ball over manga nowadays.

A Doraemon movie was actually my first anime movie that I had, on cassette, when I was a child.

Are you a big Doraemon fan or was it just by chance that you got that?