once I've realizes the sheer absurdity of length that are the arms, everything was ruined. I couldn't look anywhere else. not a single word read, I only could wait for another glimpse of those criminally long hand attachees.
but in all seriousness. those arms ARE FRICKIN LONG.
I just notice it when they are chibi
OK I know we all complain about the artstyle.. but.. did the artstyle get worse in this chapter? yeah, I don't like the new style either, but at least before it looked clean? this chapter looked kinda scratchy? like there wasn't enough time to finish it? or is the artist trying to subtly change the artstyle a bit?
I thought the premise was really interesting and I really thought the whole thing would take a bit of a darker turn, especially bc of the beginning, but then he's just.. "hehe :p"??
I had hoped that this would be more serious and he'd act more like a classical "evil supervisor" (let's think more like the dokkaebis from orv..) - and I'm kinda confused as to why make him one of those entities and then he's just "ok I'm telling you exactly everything you need to do"..so he told the sword Empress how to clear the dungeon and the was like "nah, she did it all by herself!!"
also I kinda hate those silly chibi faces, they make me low-key uncomfortable.. so although the premise was interesting, I decided to drop it... if anyone's interested tho, there's sth with a similar premise, but more serious - - >" nebula's civilization" (the MC is not evil in there either, but far more detached from the story, more like a teller in a sense :'D)
Yeah... I also thought it would be a more serious/mature comic... I don't know if its novel based but I noticed much of the "serious but with some comic reliefs" balance gets thrown off when adapting to comics... too much chibbies and bright colors maybe...
And yeah... empress weirdness ain't helping. I hope he gets more contractors besides her... if possible some serious ones, some dark ones, come normal... and that they ain't all females that fall for him...
I think it's kinda sad that many of those story's tend to lean towards the comedic side, bc there are some really good serious stories which do not feel depressing despite the lack of comedy, simply bc the story is well written and there are some serious stakes for the MC (although we all know they will make it out from there) - think 31st piece turns the table, or F-class destiny hunter..
those two I think are good examples of MC and how they'd act after what happened to them.. heck even SSS-class suicide hunter has a realistic acting MC while having a comedic aspect..
so it's definitely possible to have a comedy aspect in there to lighten things up, but still to make the MC act realistically.. if it were clear from the start that this wasn't going to be a serious story I might have been less disappointed
Yep those are good ones. I don't like to blame it being bad on female characters, but on this one it's hard to not associate the ridiculousness with the sword empress behavior.
It's not just how different she is compared with the initial image mc had of her, she acts abnormally like a child and excessively clingy to mc. I could understand she being actually a bubbly person and becoming even a little dependent on him with her past and all... but it's over-exagerated. If even the mc have to make her "shut up and act serious" in public so she'd have a good image that shows how much of a weirdo she is. That broke up any expectations we had for a more serious comic.
Seriously, she is worse than Lily from Regressor’s Life After Retirement, and that is an actual child that went through years of worse abuse and is dependent on mc...
yeah, I get you..
I think she - as rude as it sounds - has ruined the story on multiple ways:
- her personality doesn't make any sense at all. in the past nobody knew what she's actually like, but I can't think of a reason as to what happened for her personality to change before getting famous, or for her deciding to switch her personality suddenly.
- she's supposed to be this natural talent with her great skill, but she's never tried sword fighting before? like couldn't she just have googled the name of the dude her skill is named after? if she can find the name of the friend of the dude, then she could certainly have found himself and known that his skill had sth to do with the sword. not even being curious about what your own skill might be is plain ridiculous.
- there's no room for actual growth or hardships if the first person he contracted with is the top nr 1 person of everything - everyone else can just be worse, so why contract another person (iirc he called his channel sth like sword saintess or whatever). so I doubt there will be anything else.
it's like once you've reached the top, encountering difficulties in the story sometimes do not make sense anymore. it's an issue I've had with another webtoon too recently - one of the first fights is against one of the top evil guys of the world, and a few ch later he struggles to win against a high-schooler?
but anyways, back to this one: I think her personality doesn't make sense (like you too said) and her inclusion this early in the story takes away all the possible suspense there could have been (also him telling her everything about anything)
Yeah! I do think that was the name of the book and not the library tho... cuz it wouldn't make sense a storyteller that only tells one story.
About MC... it kinda irks me that he's trying to actively "participate" in the stories he's "telling" I'd rather he acted as a proper guide, I wouldn't even mind him giving things on a silver plater to his contractors... but rn just seems like he's trying to steal their limelight instead of idk.. raising them? Into people strong enough to prevent the future he doesn't want...
Idk... it could be worse... but with the title I expected more from him and whoever he contracts...
"MAKE YOURSELF UNRECOGNIZABLE!!"
*Puts on one tiny fake beard*
"perfect."
would have expected sth more from someone who's job included it to disguise themselves properly
Lmaoo he's so bad at disguises! His first one was literally the same mustache and a hat!
I mean.. it works with superman and his glasses, so maybe that beard is enough
lol true.
thanks for sniping the series even when I explained the situation to you and you agreed not to upload
I know it's petty, I'm mad no nonetheless bc we put work into our stuff just to get ignored like this
That’s unfortunate. I love reading your translations bc the sniper’s mtl is sometimes unreadable.
I'm just so mad bc they said sorry when I asked them to stop but then completely ignored me.. like I just don't understand the reason why they are acting like that?
we had a good scanslation quality, and they didn't make it better if I may say so..
we are hoping to get the series back tho :)
Please do take it back!
I hope y’all take it back this whole chapter looked like ass
I have been so confused by the dueling uploads. I hope that other group backs off. Its is getting annoying. Your scans were wonderful!!!
hi guys!
I'm one of the redrawers from Salty Scans and I am as confused as you are. we have definitely not dropped this series and this is not our translation as you can see (since there's no logo of ours).
we just had to slow down because of real life, but apparently that made someone think we dropped it? I don't know.
anyways, if the person/team who uploaded ch 20 and 21 reads this, I want to let you know that we didn't drop it, and if you thought we did, you should have asked beforehand. otherwise this is sniping just like S2 did (only difference being better quality translations).
anyways it's kinda annoying tbh that sth like this happens again. we already are working quite fast, so if we don't upload for like 2 or 3 days because one of us is busy, it doesn't mean we abandoned the series and it's free to snipe.
just informing you
sssu scans have been working on this longer than you guys (no hate here ily guys) the team members have been busy with exams so made a mass release on the site they upload on yesterday, this is NOT a snipe, ive been following all the translations theyve done for the past few months and their discord server always gives updates.
yeah I know that (well that they were working on it before)
still it is kinda annoying, especially the lack of communication..
you know, I've worked at different projects before (and for and with different groups), and we've had situations like that before.. but still, it was always solved by communicating.. like when someone else "took over" a project, we talked about it, and didn't just continue uploading
like "hey, we are back and would like to continue with this project".. shouldn't be to hard to at least get sth like that, you know? just uploading chapters (although they were the original crew) is kinda rude imo
nvm previous comment (well, some part of it).. I forgot that mangago is an aggregator site
I don’t think it’s ssus’s intention to snipe as they seem like they only want their translations to be read on mangadex. The real problem is the person that uploaded their translations when we’ve already got a scanlation team that posts on here. Like, why steal scans from a team that doesn’t want it to be here, when we already have scans from a team that does. It makes no sense, and if they think they were doing a favor since it’s a few chapters ahead, it just makes trouble for everyone, including the ssus team that doesn’t want their translations reposted. Anyway, I hope you don’t blame ssus. I read their translations on another site before reading it here on mangago, and they’re not sniping or posting it on here(I bet my college scholarship on it).
thanks for not giving up on this series, even tho s2 sniped it :')
I'm actually so glad that people start mass reporting chapters "translated" by s2, so that we can get some proper translations from people who actually care about the series they work on <3
and thanks for saving this series :') I was about to give it up when I saw s2 uploading
Yo I'm so relieved （/TДT)/
Wait can u explain
s2? is that a translation group?
Hmm basically a group translated a bunch of chapters and releases them slowly 1 at a time.
Either Someone took those chapters and did a mass release or someone translated a bunch to give out. So people reported it, as its not from whoever had it .. idk kinda stupid, and it was all taken down
yeah they do really bad translations at a fast frequency and try to push out other translation groups using this quantity over quality
but it's resulted in readrrs dropping manga because they didn't wanna put up w trash quality translation
so I'm really happy that they've been reported and removed from this site
ohh i see!! thank you for explaining it to me
S2 sniping the ch once again. but we are almost done too, so just be patient until tomorrow when we'll upload ours :)
(also why do I get the feeling that the quality of the S2 chapter has improved? do they actually upload "proper" translations out of spite now? :'D)
Y'all really out here saving us and shit bless ヾ(☆▽☆)
The quality is still so low. I think they post a bit better chapters on their website, but it is still annoying af. Can't they get a hint? We will wait for yours. You always deliver very good quality. (⌒▽⌒)
thank you so much :D
I'm so glad that people really appreaciate our work so much and are willing to wait a bit longer for it :)
hey translator :D since you said you read all the comments, I think you probably gonna see this one too :')
aanyways, I was wondering if you need help? I can't translate, but I've worked as cleaner and typesetter before.. I don't know if you have someone to do that or if you do it yourself, but my offer stands if you need help
I usually check the most recent chapter if I wanna continue story to see if I like where it's going.. but what happened to the artstyle?!?
I literally couldn't recognize the MC again, if it weren't for the scar on his chin?? they even forgot to add it on one panel???
the art literally got so ugly I can't sorry mongu, I can't continue this disgrace