MaruMaru's Topics (23)

Re-explaining why the new art looks "awful" since people still want to hate on it.

The old artist preferred work with colour, the new artist prefers to work with line and shape. Artstyles can tell you a lot about the artist, and to me it's very apparent that each artist prefers a different part of the process. The old artist seems to prefer colouring and shading, whereas the new artist prefers lineart.

Neither artstyle is objectively bad, and neither is objectively better than the other.

It's just that the old artist had very bland, simple lineart, because he needed to save time in order to do gradients and shade properly, since he does soft-shading a lot more.

The new artist doesn't need to do soft-shading, nor do they have the time, because they put a lot more effort into their lineart. The lineart varies in weight a lot more, and they use harsher colours, which also adds a lot more contrast in comparison to the older art, where everything is a lot more blended and lighter.

Instead of soft-shading, the new artist uses a lot more harsher shadows, that tend to follow the lineart. Styles with heavy lineart and flatter colours are actually better for action-oriented comics because the shape and direction of movement tends to be a lot easier to follow in fight scenes.

It's so jarring because the old artist tended to paint in a way the blended everything together, which isn't bad. It just gives this sense of "everything belongs together".

The new artist, however, prefers clarity and tries to make each thing distinct from each other (again, not a bad thing). They also work with values a lot more, and there's more contrast., hence why the colours looks so different.

Yeah, that's it. It's really that simple.

Seriously, looking back at the older chapters DAMN everyone got yaoi-fied. Vercy used be more of a twink than Sunwon.

I'm still SUPER fucking salty this got axed. I know I can read the novel, but action media is SO much easier to digest in a visual form, and also the art was god-tier so I am mad.

HIDE YOUR FUCKING SPOILERS GUYS, WENT TO THE NEXT PAGE OF THE COMMENT SECTION AND NONE OF YOU KNOW HOW TO PRESS ENTER 6 TIMES DAMN

Okay so I did some google-level research to figure out wtf was going on and I bare results.

Can a cisgender male be born with a uterus? The short answer is: Yes. It is possible.
Can he get pregnant? Ehhhhhhh......mm, depends.


THE LONG ANSWER: There's a condition called Persistent Müllerian Duct Syndrome, or PMDS for short. Now, I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge that all babies start developing as females, before either changing sex to male or continuing as female. Before the sex is decided, the fetus will have the Müllerian Duct, which (from my understanding) will later on develop to become the female internal sex organs, however, if the baby turns out to have the XY chromosomes, the duct will break down into proteins.

BUT for PMDS (as in the name), this duct will stay, and therefore lead to the male in question developing a uterus and fallopian tubes. Can this uterus be used though?? Debatable.

(here is where you should start taking things I say with a grain of salt because I had to rely on Reddit and Quora...)

Males with PMDS are often infertile in both departments. If you actually look into it, the name Mikey Chanel, a transgender woman, might pop up, but with a further look, I found out Mikey was likely lying about her pregnancy. Not the fact she was pregnant, that in itself seems to be theoretically possible, but the way she got pregnant. She claimed that her uterus (developed through PMDS) had fertile eggs. However, there has never been a person with PMDS to EVER have had a fertile eggs, which would make Mikey the first. Not only that, she's been caught lying about how she got pregnant and the child she claimed to be having is non-existent so...

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NOW, relating back to the story. It would be theoretically impossible for the MC to become pregnant, even with a uterus, because as we discussed, there has never been a case of PMDS patient being fertile (in the female sex organ departmemt).

BUT, this is fiction, so let's say MC is a miracle case. Still....debatable. See, even if his female sex organs have fertile eggs, there's no way for the sperm to get to the uterus through his ass? Sperm cells can't diffuse (and even that is a long shot).

Mikey had once claimed to have gotten pregnant through the anus due to the sperm cells coming into the uterus from the fistula. Which...everyone seems to agree is bullshit. Because, again, you need a shit tonne of sperm to even fertilise an egg naturally.

The only way for the sperm to even reach the uterus would be if the MC had male pseudohermaphroditism, where he would also develop external female sex organs. But often times, that's removed after birth (depending on the choice of the parents). Plus, the MC clearly does not have any female external organs so...

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But is it necessarily impossible for a male with PMDS to become pregnant? No, not with modern medicine (haha). Theoretically, if someone with PMDS were to be able to get their hands on a sperm donor and an egg donor, they would be able to place that now fertilised egg into their uterus and hence, become pregnant. The baby would have to be delivered via c-section though.

The viability of that pregnancy is also debatable. The ovaries are very important in producing the proper hormones to maintain a pregnancy. And as we discussed, people with PMDS usually do not have this. So whether the pregnancy would be able to carry to term is VERY debatable.

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So basically, quite fucking impossible for MC to get pregnant.

the slow burn is SO REAL on this one ugh we're in it for the long run fellas, but it sure as hell feels GOOD and will have the BEST FUCKING PAY OFF.

I like how the author is taking a lot of time to flesh out their relationship but it isn't necessarily dragging on. By that, I mean unlike a lot of other slowburn or drawn out conflicts, it doesn't feel as though ANY of the characters can do ANYTHING simple and/or obvious that would significantly reduce the conflict and make things progress quicker.

Characters also don't feel as though they've been completely forced into situations they otherwise wouldn't choose to be in, which makes the progression of their relationship feel natural despite all the plot convenient coincidences lolol.

Basically, the characters don't feel as though they're FORCED together for the sake of the story being romance. It feels like they're just meant to be.

Good stuff, love this shit !!

The comments have gone from, "No! Stay away from Leon! He doesn't deserve trash like these ugly pieces of shit!"

to

"No! Stay away from Leon! HAVE ME INSTEAD. No! Leon...don't say anything- SHHHHHH. I am a garbage can, so I will take out the trash. A noble sacrifice, if you will. A necessary loss. NO! Don't fight it, its okay. I'll do anything to protect you. REALLY, I will. I have no ulterior motives whatsoever. None. None at all. Being railed by these men is definitely not something I would find hot OR sexy, at all. Ever. I am not happy in the slightest. Trust. "

and it's sending me, like it's literally so fucking funny

As cute as they are and as funny as him running away is, if I helped a stranger who wanted to go to the coffee shop I worked at, then they move in next to me and I run into them everywhere for like a week straight, I would think I'm being stalked too

Guys is this the cakeverse that one user was warning us about a few days prior or is it different (I can't tell) The cover looks like one of the cakeverse examples that was shown

Hey, to everyone checking it out, NOT a yaoi. It's been uploaded here twice.
This is the one that gets updated if you're interested: https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/don_t_pick_up_what_you_ve_thrown_away/

No clue as to why it was tagged yaoi or has yaoi in the title. It's a Rofan but also has made it's way in Otome Isekai circles.