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Manga review: Blame!

STORY: 6

Meet Killy, a mysterious man with a few words in a future where even the concepts of time and space seem to be lost. His mission is to find a human whose genes have not been altered too much. Those genes are the only way for humans to re-establish contact with the net sphere, a space or entity that is cut from the rest of the world, in order to remove the looming threat of annihilation.
Silicon life, Toha Heavy Industries, Safeguards, the plot can be confusing sometimes, so, if you cannot get in its particular flow, the story for you will simply be “a boy with a big gun goes up a LOT of stairs, looking to repair wifi”.

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https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/22/review-blame/

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currently reading Berserk (1989)

i'd need a manga to counterweigh this i feel. like a manga about empathy and cooperation and good feelings where characters hug eachother - so far i've come across Papa Told Me (1987)

I'm rereading the whole thing and I'm right now at the final fight. I hate this manga. In my memory the beginning and some parts of the middle were good and the end was really bad but I was mistaken, I don't like the manga at all.

One thing that really bothers me is that by the end of the story, Sasuke's plan and his motivation are shown to be wrong and violent (he uses the word 'revolution', and I'm bothered by how the manga twists this into a bad thing to do). This is in contrast to Naruto's naive and idealistic vision that everyone can work together and that even war criminals can be rehabilitated through enough talk no jutsu.

Trying to search if more people got that irk about Sasuke vision I found some people saying that Kishimoto agrees more with Sasuke than Naruto and was pressured to end the history with Naruto vision being the only correct one. It's that true? Is there any interview in which he addresses this directly? The only thing that I could find are vague posts and a light novel called Jinraiden: Ookami no Naku Hi, in which Sasuke talks more about his views but it's not written by Kishimoto, he only drew it.

If Kishimoto doesn't agree with Naruto, maybe I could even like the manga. It could transform the manga into a parody where the protagonist is a nepobaby from a lineage of war criminals that alongside with other aristocratic war criminals maintain "peace" amongst themselves while minor regions like Amegakure still suffers and every villain of the history are misguided revolutionaries who got defeated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/56892944

A Human Made of Words.

This has been one of the best manga I have ever read.

Oftentimes, you hear about how an author "paints with their words" or something to that effect -- Hagimoto does something different. It's not painting, it's not even sculpting... They do something more akin to Prometheus shaping a Human out of clay. Every page pulls you in and forces you to face the characters in such a realistic way, that you simply can't help but wholeheartedly believe that they're real people; Breathing humans of flesh and blood, that just happen to be made of lines and words.

Something that bothers me to no end, when it comes to a lot of manga that deal with bullying and topics of self-harm and suicide, is that they are gratuitously violent. I understand that that sort of representation matters, but it falls flat more often than not, I find. Not in That's My Atypical Girl -- here, everything feels real. It's a little hard to explain, actually, because I feel like I can't possibly hope to do justice to the pages, but it simply feels like it happened.

It's reality; It's raw and hard to read at times; It's painful and violent; But it's true. It speaks to you in such an undeniable way, that it transcends its medium.

This isn't the sort of manga that transports you into its world; This isn't an immersive experience that makes you forget reality. No. This is the sort of manga that changes your reality. After reading this, the world of the manga becomes your reality. This has changed the way I think, the way I see other people, and I'm sure it has changed the way I act. It's the sort of manga that will stay with me, even if I forget it.

Truly, a life-changing experience, and a heartfelt depiction of depression, anxiety, and ASD.

It is a little odd how self-referential it is, though. It's not bad in any regard, mind you, it's not even off-putting, but it is just noticeable enough that you begin wondering how much the author wants you to pay attention to it. It is a manga about a mangaka, after all, so I guess it makes sense, in a way. Still.

Morita's art is good (and actually gets significantly better as the manga goes on, I think, but I would argue that it is by far the weakest point of this work. Occasionally, the characters do look a little off. I suppose this opinion is a consequence of my being spoiled with lots of very high-quality art in other manga, but I can't let it go unsaid.

I know I didn't really speak too much about the plot or the characters in this review, but I feel that I shouldn't. The characters are complex and deep, all of them; However, I can't bring them to life in a short Lemmy review, so I simply won't attempt to describe them at all. It would be a disservice to the work. The plot is moving and compelling; However, I can't make you believe it happened, so I simply won't attempt to summarize it.

Please, read this.

...and let me know what you think!

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Rating: 5/5

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@manga Manga review: Chi no wadachi (a trail of blood).
A great title for a heavy subject, only if you can stomach its content.
https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/15/review-chi-no-wadachi/

Note

First of all, this question is mostly technical and only tangentially related to manga. However, such image annotation is mostly used by boorus, which are used mostly by manga/anime fans, so I thought it best to ask here. If this is not the correct place to post this, then I apologize. If you happen to know a better place to post this, would you mind telling me?

First Question

How do boorus annotate images so that textual data is associated with a particular region? You can see an example here. For example, if you highlight わたしのコードネームはハーモニー, a pop-up appears that provides the translation: "My codename is Harmonie.". It's basically the image equivalent of "softsubs" (subtitles that are not rasterized into the video stream, but instead dynamically loaded during runtime). Technical note: It's not important that the text appears when highlighting regions. The only important part is that text is associated with a particular region of an image. The user agent will determine what to do with this information. (If you don't understand, please don't worry about this part.)

Note: Wikimedia Commons does this as well. You can see this here. Please ensure JavaScript is enabled. Otherwise, the annotations won't appear.

Second Question (Very Important)

This is what I want to know the most: Is there an image file format that natively stores regional annotation like a booru? If you try to download the image in the link above, the annotations seem to disappear. I think that they are stored separately from the file. I want an image format that can store regional annotations within the file itself, so that the text and image are never separated.

I thought that PNG files could store annotations natively, but I'm not sure. Maybe JPEG XL can do it? I don't know. But this should exist. It would be extremely convenient for manga translation (or any translation, really).

You can read further discussion here:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803209
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805041

I am more surprised about Yuta Okkotsu 乙骨憂太 and Maki Zenin 禪院真希. They had kids together? Is 祈本里香 Rika Orimoto okay with it?

No need to pirate. The series is mostly free on Kindle. Most issues are either free or $0.99. Only a few are 6 dollars. Support the author.

Bad news everywhere. This is the best pick me up

We're finally back from hiatus!

Next chapter in two weeks.

https://mangadex.org/title/85387db6-e010-4ac8-aa33-bc5fe3b71b6e/one-of-those-manga-where-a-girl-goes-oh-no-i-m-gonna-be-late-with-bread-in-her-mouth

Manga review: Akumetsu

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/30/review-akumetsu/

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Manga review: The Ghost in the Shell

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/30/review-the-ghost-in-the-shell-%e6%94%bb%e6%ae%bb%e6%a9%9f%e5%8b%95%e9%9a%8a/

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/15274756

Book of the Dead is a Manwha that takes place entirely in the afterlife/purgatory, compromised entirely of young souls which killed themselves

This Manwha has a whole lot of Gore, Psychologically focused themes and surpassing trauma

The original Korean sources were NSFW with nudity but it has been cropped for the English translation

I had been searching for a long time for a Manwha like this, and when I originally found it, it only had 6 chapters so I felt like I had **won the lottery

if the gore and traumatic aspects are not a trigger for you, I suggest you check out the first four chapters

Personally it would be claymore, often hailed as a female centric berserk.
A story about the lowest class of a generation of engineered superhuman woman fighting monsters to save humanity.
The art gets better and better as it goes on, with stunning panels everywhere(example below). The intrigue struggle and strive the characters go through is a stellar example of simple yet effective storytelling.

Late spoooky one 👻

Thanks for reading!

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A wild ride from the author of One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100.