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[Haruki]

Discuss Thesis here

[Com]

well since no one else seems to want too, ill start this off..
who actually likes this? i mean i think the main plot is interesting and all and the art is really good too but its just not.. exiting? or maybe thats just cause i have to work on it..

[semperspes]

I think the main character is rather inconsistent in personality so far, but that may be just me.

yeah I don't think much has really happened, there hasn't been much backstory or anything really but I do like all the pretty wings and things. And I love swords.

[Com]

hmm inconsistent how? lazy and doesnt believe what hes hearing when hes told about gods death and all, but when his friends in trouble hes pulls through.. typical protagonist? i wish there was a little bit of comedy though.. so much tension all the time x=

[semperspes]

well when he first saw rikel, he gave a weird little jump and looked like he'd pee his pants. His refusal to believe Rikel at first was also all based on irrational fear. And then, after being kicked around a little, he suddenly strikes a heroic pose with his sword and says "I will kill you if you're annoying."

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[Haruki]

lolz that's cuz he wants to protect his <3 girl
XD

yea, the main problems with webtoons is that the story progresses too fast.
sometimes doesn't really explain things

[truepurple]

"webtoon" Sorry, I don't recognize this as a valid term.

I have seen online comics/picture stories, tell storys slow and detailed. I have seen mangas with many chapters filled with not much but filler, with little story to said filler. Your overgeneralizing here Haruki.

Speaking of generalizing, this one seems to hit on just about every japanese manga stereotype, with almost nothing substantive underneath.  They even managed to squeeze in the "powerful being in your weapon or self" bit.

When the main character proclaims "I will bring down anyone who blocks my path", I really groaned. Its so grandiose, meaningless, and so "suddenly macho and proud" which goes to the inconsistency too.

If it doesn't get alot better quickly, I would recommend dropping it, that is just my opinion though.

[Haruki]

haha thx for your opinion.


but again.. like yours, that's my opinion as well.

it just has to do with the fact that the chapters are so much shorter, and so.. if nothing happens is a chapter, than nobody will want to read them right? since it will be boring?

so something does happen every chapter..

and it's really tricky to find that balance between 'not boring' and 'progressing too fast'.

plz do excuse our hero, that's just the kind of person he is. but i would appreciate it if you wouldn't call it a 'japanese stereotype' because well.. it really isn't

and i'm sorry to hear that you don't like this series very much, hopefully it will get better for you as the series goes on.

[truepurple]

and it's really tricky to find that balance between 'not boring' and 'progressing too fast'.

Not for me, I am not attention deficit enough to be bored that easy for there to be a "fine line" between the two.  My favorite so far on this site, Kubera, progresses at a pretty leisurely pace, notably slowler then thesis, but thats fine. Its not pacing that I dislike about thesis.

I said the whole thing was filled with japanese manga stereotypes, not the protagonist.

Is that who the protagonist is? Then as semperspes points out, he should have reacted differently to being approached by that death angel guy. The character just isn't well fleshed out, almost the opposite of fleshed out, with contradictions in there.

I will keep reading chapters for awhile I am sure, to see if things get better. Maybe it will just take awhile for the author to find his/her feet.

Anyway Haruki, how do you know what kind of character its suppose to be, its not like your the author or like the manga really tells you.

[Haruki]

character interpretation is an important trait of a god reader, and more importantly, the translator. (me )
at least, more important than people gives us credit for.

it's almost like how actors really need to understand their character to express them properly.

*sigh.. nvm.. i'm doing a crappy job of it anyway. ask semper.

btw

"webtoon" Sorry, I don't recognize this as a valid term.

O_O i'm really confused.... this webtoon is realeased on naver 'webtoons .. so how could it not be a webtoon?

I said the whole thing was filled with japanese manga stereotypes

?? like what? i don't think the author even reads japanese mangas.. i checked out her blog

check this out >>
http://media.paran.com/cartoon/cartoonview.kth?id=99&ord=1&mno=5
i couldn't believe that this was by the same author.
apparently it's her first time doing a fantasy.

as you said, let's give her some time to adjust, shall we?

[Com]

-.- its not in english haruki...
but i like the art o.o is it good?

[semperspes]

whoa, I love the art.

[garubezu]

so is this like an official survey thing that the translators are looking into? if you want to continue working on this or not? LOL

honestly, naver webtoons, sometimes you need to wait for at least 20 chapters or so before everything gets exciting...
personally i still have hope for this. i DROPPED TAL after 10 chapters i think, so much inconsistencies with the art, and i'm also considering dropping CREPESCULE, nothing exciting has happened for like 30+ chapters, it still feels like theyre still in the PROLOGUE. LOL

anyway...yeah still hoping you guys still work on this for at least the 30th chapter..IMO
thanks for the hard work

[mhh]

so is this like an official survey thing that the translators are looking into? if you want to continue working on this or not? LOL

honestly, naver webtoons, sometimes you need to wait for at least 20 chapters or so before everything gets exciting...
personally i still have hope for this. i DROPPED TAL after 10 chapters i think, so much inconsistencies with the art, and i'm also considering dropping CREPESCULE, nothing exciting has happened for like 30+ chapters, it still feels like theyre still in the PROLOGUE. LOL

anyway...yeah still hoping you guys still work on this for at least the 30th chapter..IMO
thanks for the hard work

I'm still planing to finish all remaining chapters (43 in total)l, but cleaning these chapters takes quite a while. And I didn't have any translations for a long time. Anyway you can expect more in the near future.

Edited by mhh, 24 December 2011 - 07:10 PM.

[JohnHarr]

They set up a giant army to be in their way only for them to warp past it at the very start of the next chapter D: