the more i read this the more impressed i am by it. i love the way that the author doesn't trauma dump all the necessary characters' backstories in one-go, and leaves a lot up to plot-reveal or gradual revelations from other characters. i also love how these moments are often used to introduce new characters in a way that expose how culturally ingrained they are in this world, even if they're new to us. like they feel like real characters who have their own personal life in this world, and since we don't have their full story or picture and we often have to piece together a fraction of their backstory through the different perspectives of other characters who know them, they feel like real people to even the audience.
i think this immersion also applies to the story's setting, as well. like the way the culture, laws, and politics aren't info-dumped in a couple panels or suddenly exposed to us and instead scattered throughout the story so we get the info we need to understand what we already know, makes it feel like a real world with real people. because a real world is always going to feel so much bigger than one person, so it makes sense how we're learning more about its cohesive culture and rules gradually through the characters' interaction with it, rather than having a large exposition about how it works like there's some random narrator or god telling us, a separate third-party, about this place. like it feels like a culture and setting whose existence doesn't revolve around the audience perceiving it, and can be a real place that functions on its own with or without the readers. idk if this makes sense, but it feels like we know as much about the world as the characters we follow do, which i think is hard to do given how many characters of different sides and perspectives we're following so far. like i think many authors who create amazing characters, settings, and backstories, don't have the ability to plan ahead and properly introduce it to the audience without making it feel like they're all creations of another human (LOL GEGE,,, JJK IM LOOKING AT YOU). like all those authors have crazy creativity and imagination, just no writing skills lol. meanwhile i think the author of sakamoto days has both, and idk i just think it's an amazing story lmao. bc not only is it so well-written, it's pretty entertaining, as well. and the artsyle is SO good for its plot: like the action scenes are AMAZING.
Taro Sakamoto was the ultimate assassin, feared by villains and admired by hitmen. But one day...he ...
- Author: Suzuki yuuto
- Genres: Shounen / Action / Comedy
actually a ton of the cast, especially the morally dubious ones (even like, past ones like the aunt) are pretty much undeniably bad people because they've done objectively bad things, but you see how none of them rlly think evilly. it's strangely uplifting, to see how people who do bad things, know they're bad people, and DEF don't think they're good people (not even in a self-deprecating way, just in a "this is our line of work" way), seem inclined to be good-natured
Taro Sakamoto was the ultimate assassin, feared by villains and admired by hitmen. But one day...he ...
- Author: Suzuki yuuto
- Genres: Shounen / Action / Comedy
naw fr like as the story progresses it's kinda crazy how the harem itself basically exists in a semi-permeable membrane. like comrades and enemies alike are so fluid in who they choose to fight with or against depending on circumstances, and everyone's okay with it simply bc that's just how the law works (and the law is upheld by whoever punches the hardest and i think that's funny as hell)
Taro Sakamoto was the ultimate assassin, feared by villains and admired by hitmen. But one day...he ...
- Author: Suzuki yuuto
- Genres: Shounen / Action / Comedy
nah dude. like at first i thought this was hee haw haw plot but like in the later chapters, shit really gets fucking intense. and then the sudden mention of a CHAIN restaurant lmao?! in the midst of some of the most insanely drawn battle scenes with some intensely well-written backstories scattered as the plot progresses? like this is TOO good
Taro Sakamoto was the ultimate assassin, feared by villains and admired by hitmen. But one day...he ...
- Author: Suzuki yuuto
- Genres: Shounen / Action / Comedy
honestly i was kinda surprised to be so obsessed with the fighting scenes in this. like at first i thought it'd be the plot that drew me in, but as the story progresses and the fight scenes become more important, some of the panels are cracked. like esp with the old man mr. takamura. like he's actually fucking insane bro
ngl. i couldnt get into this at first bc my suspension of disbelief was broken by the fact that some random, normal gamer dude could defeat a group of mages from the getgo in an alternate world, using nothing but teleportation magic and a blade (bc like. i just could not believe that a group of adults that grew up with magic couldn't use basic defensive magic to stop a regular knife?? like we know defensive magic exists as a basic magic, too). also mc being a lowkey sociopath didnt rlly make sense to me without context, so i just couldnt feel immersed into the story no matter how hard i tried. but as i continued reading, all the other characters/npc felt so real that it didnt even matter if mc felt like a 2D imposter.
im ngl, that was lowkey a crazy plottwist. where tf did the real pumpkin knight go
lowkey dude said all that based off her personality. bc like. he's asking questions about management/how the establishment was made and its efficiency, and assuming she's a newcomer bc she has no questions about it? like bruh if i was a regular parttimer i'm not going to give a shit or bring up these questions to my boss. and he's also assuming things because she's airheaded and clumsy. bruh what if that's just her in nature LOL. like the "I can tell you're a noob" is crazy. Like. Yeah he's right LMAO but being clumsy or airheaded are usually part of peoples' natures, regardless of what setting or experience they're in.
honestly the only selling point this manga has is the panel from the first chapter where someone said "he's like your stand' like seeing a jojo reference pass by so quickly in a random shoujo bl manga was crazy to me
"BOMBASTIC SIDE-EYE"??? bro i heard that audio out loud in my head, it started ringing. i can't believe i saw its transcript in manhwa font. sometimes i wish the author knew how other places TL their work bc i think interpretation is an artform and a solid form of worship. also i like how MC is unlucky as hell but also at the same time he legit flung someone's shit out the top floor of a school window, asked someone in the RUDEST form possible to listen to him, ripped off their shirt after dragging them down a staircase, like,,,, by this point he's the common denominator LMAO like that's just on you,,,,
I'm pretty sure it's a manga, and if I remember correctly, there's a male MC who gets isekai'd with the rest of his class to another world. it's like super cliche i think, but not really(?). like MC gets transported to the middle of the woods, and i think the female god/deity is actively antagonistic towards him, like is trying to kill him off on purpose through where she spawned him with the belief that he'll die (since like. nobody makes it out of those woods or smth bc they're cursed or smth like that idek). and he ends up nearly dying in the forest bc of monsters and fantasy stuff and he has super trash skills. meanwhile, some of his classmates, especially a popular girl and boy, end up praised by the royal family (because everyone else was transported to like, this monarchy thing or whatever). and in this manga, i'm pretty sure the MC is not meant to befriend the rest of the class- like if anything i think the plot was setting up the MC to directly compete with the popular kids (it's like,, the stereotypical edgy teenager vs popular kids trope idek). and i think there was this nice female classmate who could use two types of magic, and it's implied she's probably going to end up being an important character.
it's like. idk i just remember reading it during my COVID trash-binge-reading days, and i just suddenly remembered it and wondered whatever happened to it since i'll get random updates of old, very similar stories every so often from other mangas, and i just suddenly wondered whatever happened to this one.
i like how ppl around him are also getting pissed off, not just the MCs.
WHEN R U COMING BACK, MY BABY I AINT EVEN JOKING WHEN I SAY THIS IS RHE MANHWA I CAME BACK TO THIS SITE FOR
honestly. if this was just another arc of Cheating Men Must Die, i wouldnt even be able to tell.
lowkey it's kinda crazy how author is juggling three main characters from VERY different backgrounds. like the way the girl MC was introduced was lowkey crazy.
The protagonist, Kwon Yongjin, who doesn't believe in superstitions, finds himself faced with u...
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- Genres: Webtoons / Action / Adventure / Horror
honestly, MC is legit a good dude. like he's not overly righteous or a stickler for morals, he just does good things bc he feels good things u know. but it doesn't impede on his rationale, so he's like not acting like he has an underdeveloped frontal lobe that should be lobotomized with the nearest wire bound spiral of a notebook.
on ch14 and legit what the hell is going on LMAOOOO
the way near the end of chapter 1 i had to pull out fast just to see if anybody else was gonna mention how MC double-checked his reincarnation status LOL