What leads you to pick up a series or drop it? Do you like the fandom, plot, character design, or artist/author the most defining characteristic in your choice?
>>291333034I just like a good story desu.
Would you walk the thorny path with him?>>291333034I'll pick up a series for appealing characters and/or because I saw an interesting page posted (eg. I picked up Strikeout Pitch because of that "keep showing me different sides of you Shoma" page, ended up loving the entire cast)
It's xeno's birthday today.
>>291333375There's no soul behind those eyes. Japan should consider itself lucky that he chose baseball instead of villainy
>>291333380It's so nice of 4chan to give everyone party hats for Xeno's birthday
>>291333034I don’t like these threads because I feel like they lead with mildly interesting questions and then people start talking about what seem to be non-sequiturs because I haven’t watched or read whatever this is
Is the latest Kyoani anime worth watching?
>>291333034Cute boys and/or good plot
Would you a spider?
>>291333034Cute shotas. I consider everything else too. But that's the bare minimum to get my attention.
>>291333473Only if your love of homo schizos overshadows your intolerance for typical KyoAni bullshit.
The Melanco Killing author is incredibly based for not deleting her old art after getting published in Jump. A lot of really good stuff
>>291333461He certainly deserves it
I never read any villainess shit before, but Is Though I Am an Inept Villainess worth it for the yaoi subtext/fanservice? Otherwise I might as well watch Sparks of Tomorrow for Yosuke.
>>291333034>Do I want to stick my dick in characters?If yes then I pick it up usually.
>>291333380Would fuck the big guy, he looks like he talks big too much and that pisses me and my cock off.
>>291333034>What leads you to pick up a series or drop it? The premise, hot guys and yaoi are what make me want to pick up the series >Do you like the fandom, plot, character design, or artist/author the most defining characteristic in your choice?Depends on how chill or annoying the fanbase will be, I tend to avoid overly lighthearted stuff and style over substance edgeslop like the plague because their fanbases alone tend to attract idiots who will block anyone over takes they don't like.Depends on how they execute the story and character designs.Character designs wise, I prefer bishounen and ikemen but I don't mind old men if they're drawn equally as attractive.I prefer women-authored animanga nowadays but I don't mind men-authored animanga if they treat both male and female characters with the same complexity and doesn't shy away from bishies or yaoi subtext.
>I'm having a relapse into Fate shit after like 15 years >my ship/characters are completely different >Old stories and things I remembered don't hit anymore I'm so old... I've managed to unc myself too hard.>>291333034>What leads you to pick up a series or drop it? For picking up, it's usually if someone gives a shit about it. Even if I end up not liking it I tend to try finish it (assuming it's not a crazy commitment 300+ chapter thing) or if it's ongoing I'll catch up and then just forget to follow it. Sometimes I find good stuff. Sometimes I waste a slow couple weeks of reading on dogshit like OUT. Even if its just a translator who cares about this one manga and does a mid job, I'll go for it because they care (We did it! I guess.) >Do you like the fandom, plot, character design, or artist/author the most defining characteristic in your choice?I'll take a bad author over a bad artist (Oh Great comes to mind). Bad artist/Good writer even without a duo a very rare (Soil is quickest that comes to mind and some smaller indie circles work.) I try avoid fandom stuff just because I'm too old for it nowadays. I do miss zines and such as a way of having 3 to 4 month small interactions around a piece of media but they've sort of died since 2018. Good character design has lead me down too many bad mangas. I wonder how many people that lawyer dude from JJK has conned into people reading it...>>291336069>Woman authored manga I'm coming around to this a little. When a lot of my a long runnings finished around 2021, i really struggle to find replacements for a while and many of the male authored equivalents were just killing me. I like my trite drama too and nobody does it as good as a woman with an eye. I really hope Sangeki goes with the Roka/Miko subtext because boy a love triangle that has a gay corner with the tip being a paranoid incel is straight cocaine to me.
>>291335963Bot of these are shit for yaoi. Homobait has fallen.
>>291334466>>291334508I kind of wish she continued that oneshot, Melanco is good but the autistic ryona man scratches a weird specific itch in my brain.Also she's not even trying to sanitize her stuff for her published manga, the entire plot's just an excuse to torture Amane kek
>>291333034I pick up whatever strikes my mood, I don't have much of a standard.>>291333375The recent chapter was great>>291334117This, they should do a Yosuke spin off.>>291336889>Also she's not even trying to sanitize her stuff for her published mangaThank god an author is ballsy for once.
His suffering sustains me.
There are people here who are fans of The Elusive Samurai, right? And it looks like this series is going to get some new extra chapters!"The Elusive Samurai will receive a new manga adaptation to be revealed in the future based in new ancient documents about Hojo Tokiyuki life that Yusei Matsui was able to obtain recently, so he decided to write & draw a manga based in these documents!A video with Matsui and a historian discussing about these documents will be released soon."
I watched Sparks of Tomorrow after the finale aired, I skimmed through the last thread and it seems people mostly hated it. Personally I liked it well enough but it might just be homolust for the villain and the assistant.
>>291337189Many of the complaints were due to the plot getting pretty literally hijacked by a bl demon to be fair.
>>291337163I remember when those two shitposters in the chapter threads were saying he didn't care about the series anymore.
>>291337234I wouldn't count that as hijacking when the story was all about the conflict with Mizoe by episode 2 (episode 1 if you count his last minute appearance)
>>291337234Why is he so long?
>>291337363Adopted yaoi physiognomy to piss off the straights even more.
DENKA
>https://youtu.be/JIP2I0pfIicThe Charisma Summit concert is currently streaming for free. No wonder I didn't remember anything but the pillars, Terra isn't here! Ohse's drawing game was pretty fun though, and I do like the idea of the summit table for the games. I forgot World Expo's concept was so cute though, the pavilion intros are good. Tomorrow will be my favourite concert of the bunch.
When will get a decent homobait anime with main character homo again
>>291337363Adopted Orochimaru physiognomy to piss me off even more.
>>291335987He doesn't just talk a lot. He monologues. You simply must fuck him.
>>291333034My golden rule is that the series needs likeable characters. Cause even the worst series with a terrible story and a terrible plot is watchable if the characters are cool as fuck. I don't think theres a single aspect thats as important as the characters
I got more doujin in. It doesn't look like a lot in my picture but it's over 100.
>>291333034Art can make me pick up a series; character/story is what'll make me drop it. I'll stick with some things if I like a few characters enough, but if the story starts to dip and I'm not especially connected to any character, I'll let it go. Really sucks to like a character but still end up dropping whatever they're from because everything else just isn't working for you, though.
>>291333034Good characters interaction
>>291333034I drop a lot of series not purposely but out of some sort of inertia. Like, I really enjoyed Bravern but somehow I stopped part way and I haven't finished.
So who were the hottest guys this season?
>>291339155That's how I am too. I'm picky about picking things up in the first place. So I have usually already filtered out things that I would ever want to consciously drop. But I'll often get distracted or busy with other things and just not have the motivation to continue reading or watching.
>>291339205Protagonist Halo and Jan for me. I didn't care for this season that much and just want Nippon Sangoku and Yuushakei sequels already
>>291339352>Nippon SangokuDid you buy the bd?
>>291339155I'm like this with manga, I can like something a lot but I just need to miss reading a couple chapters and it'll just slide into I don't feel like reading it anymore territory.
>>291336953Yoji getting cucked and Fusetsu getting confirmed as verse. What a chapter
>>291339352Oh yeah and I also watched Kamui's show since he was naked every episode. I was hoping he'd fuck a male youkai for variety, but alas, we got doomed yuri instead.>>291339389I did! Haven't opened it yet
>>291339709Nice. Which bonus did you go for? I went with the misumi and flowers one. I'm going to pick it up on the 10th with my kimono standees so I haven't done anything other pay for it yet
I love spit trails
>>291333034Picking up can be for various reasons, but most commonly it's a good premise or a reccomendation from someone who's taste I respect. I just read My Son Seems to Have Reincarnated in Another World and it was a really amazing study on grief.The thing that is most likely to make me drop something is hating the characters. There is nothing that can salvage shit characters. Karate Minoru something something has great art, it's considered an all-time great kickboxing manga or something, but it's absolutely terrible because of the garbage cast. Every single one of them is smug and/or unlikeable. I've read swathes of martial arts manga that I really enjoy and I should probably like KM but I refuse to read any more because I read hundreds of chapters and it mostly just made me angry.Also the excellent All-Rounder Meguru is nearly ruined by a single character, not going to go too far into it but almost every problem in the manga comes from the rival character and it nearly torpedoes the seminal MMA manga for me.
>>291339933I also love shota xeno
>>291333034I'll pick up a series if I think the premise sounds interesting, which is why I got into Tetsunabe no Jan and Kami no Shizuku. I kinda fell off of both though because this also happens to me. >>291339155Also, genre is very important to me.
Kawaii...
How much size difference is too much size difference?
How old is too old?
>>291341958>How old is too old?When incontinence stops being sexy and a normal part of life
>>291335963Not yuri but very close you can just headcanon it
>>291342427Yeah, I've seen how close the yuri subtext is based on screenshots alone. But how was the yaoi subtext/fanservice for the male characters?
>>291333034Nipples I guess, if smutty.
Anyone else having trouble with catbox?
>>291342631Never mind.[Happy news]Chapter 20 of Rock n roll is here!https://files.catbox.moe/a2qsqo.cbzI love these retards. Also, I just know the mangaka used to draw South Park doujins.
>>291337130What's with the shitty type setting?
>>291337326According the people who read the ln, a good chunk of the plot with Yosuke and the robot was anime original and that the ln he forces the femc into a marriage for a sake recipe.
How come most series discussed in these threads feature old men? Where are all the shotafags and trap enthusiasts?
>>291343281Apparently the author was infuriated and made comments about how its supposed to be a boy meets girl series and how the older brother had nothing to do with Yosuke, posting more about Sayanara Lara than they did about their own show.
>>291343289because old men are the best
>>291343289Go back to /cm/
>>291343289People bring up stuff like Strikeout Pitch, dancing and speedy shotas, and other series all the time
>>291343481>”How dare you rewrite my character into something interesting”
In season 5 horrible things will be done to this child. Also menhera crossdressing but the fake boobs ruin it
>>291343509We desperately need more non-bara hairy men in BL.
>>291342508Males barely interact with each other
>>291343289Can't relate I keep posting xeno at all ages.I don't think a lot of series are 'old men' at all. The top ages are like 30-40. Why do you think that's old?
>>291343289Maybe they're not awake yet. There's definitely plenty of shota enjoyers in these threads.
>>291344497Damn this one is sexo. I recommend this.>>291342631I just tried to upload a couple pages and it kept giving me errors.
>>291344459Oh well, I will still check out for other reasons (namely strong female character writing from what I've heard), but I feel like villainess adjacent stuff tend to be more yume and yuri friendly than yaoi friendly from what I've seen.
>>291344497>The top ages are like 30-40. Why do you think that's old?NTA but if I had to guess it’s because most bl (and even western gayshit) skews towards younger characters. Most people just don’t really want to see actual old man yaoi because they don’t like old men. It is what it is.
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>>291344814Really? I feel the opposite, bl tends to skew on the older side when it comes to the average anime/manga.
>>291344814It just feels like that anon is under 30 or something and constantly reading high school romance or shonen. A lot bl tends to be HS romance but a lot of it moving to office 25-40y relationships. I wouldn't consider any of that old per say.
>>291344919You are new to BL, aren't you?
>>291344919Really? Maybe my perception is skewed, because honestly I don’t consider a person old until they hit their 50’s.
>>291344497>The top ages are like 30-40. Why do you think that's old?I think anything above middle-school age might be too old for them, anon. 20 and over must be practically decrepit.
>>291345112Anything above 30 is old.
>>291345091No, I am just thinking on the whole 20-40s is on the older side when it comes to anime. Sure, theres plenty with older characters but it seems kind of stupid to try to deny that it leans one way.
>>291345091He's right though. Just a quick search of CMOA or MRM shows you how many office work BL exists and whatnot. Sure there are still high school ones, but compared to straight stuff where the average girl is like 16 I'd say the average BL character is in his 20.
Seraph ends next month? Any bet?
Why do you think Blue Flag was kinda forgotten/never got an anime?I rememebr when it was right in the middle of it, it was fairly popular and even listed in some "top 10 works you'd like to see animated" and whatnot.
>>291335963Sparks of Tomorrow is legit one of the worst shows I've ever watched, only the OP and ED are good. I tried watching it for Sousuke but he's such a terrible character and everyone else sucks ass.I miss Sk8, at least Adam was a better "villain"
>>291345091Most BL nowadays are about sarariman or at least characters out of high school.
>>291345511One of the most popular BL now is what?10 things to do before you're 40? I see that shit everywhere. It's not my favorite but bl definitely is leaning to office and older.
It does brings up a funny question, when did you start being a fujo/fudan?I got into it back in 2012, though I was reading fujo work unaware years earlier and it probably affected my tastes a but.
>>291345281It's this. Anons are playing dumb.
>>291333034I pick it up for either plot or sex, if both are bad I drop it.Also, did you read Marriage Blues?It's really good, I like how shitty the MC is.
>>291345574Probably around 2006? I started reading fanfiction then and reading a ton of gender bender before I moved on to actual bl works.
>>291345626>Anons are playing dumb.A few hags not wanting to admit they're old.
Night homos.I finished my giant stack of xeno focused doujins.
>>291345847>hagsYou mean to tell me that there are women in this thread?
>>291345967You’re the only moid here
>>291345486At least the second season of Sk8 is next year.
>schizo menhera couple that choke each other outUnchanged man is pretty fun
>>291345967Terrifying if true.
the world needs more bratty masochist uke ojisan with attachment issues that gets dicked into submission by a possessive sadist younger seme bl
>>291346696But that's literally the only thing the world gets these days
>>291346626Truly.
>>291344827Bless menhera genki brats
>>291346807Name 5
>>291346969Sexo>*nom*
>>291346969Okay, which boy’d go best with Subaru? (Correct answers only)
>>291347242
>>291347242I flip flop between Julius and Otto too much but since Otto's recent possessive streak has been really interesting. Frankly, both their views on Subaru contrast with each other in a way that adds flavor to each.Otto sees Subaru being a hero as a bad thing, but Julius sees Subaru's strength as a beautiful thing.
I unironically loved the ending
>>291343281>>291343481I'm sure it was clear in whatever contract she signed that the studio would have the freedom necessary to rework the story as they see fit. You probably shouldn't sign off on that if the integrity of your work is that important to you. Complaining about the final product on social media seems is kind of a bad look.
>>291348262The ending is what I hated the most desu.I love Mizoe, but he was a huge piece of shit and there was no reason MC would want to save his ass at that point. He deserved to die. It would have been one thing if they incidentally saved him while shutting down the electric brain, but he went there with the intention to save him from the start.He should have had his comeuppance and die in that hole. Could even make it bittersweet by implying that at least they're reunited in death or something. Which is kind of what they were going for with the dream sequence in your image, but it's like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too and they just yanked him from the grip of Death.Again, I liked the show and I loved Mizoe, but that ending made me roll my eyes so hard.
>>291348262>>291348528Personally I thought Yosuke floating daintily like a flower instead of realistically crashing into the pipes and then screaming when he genuinely couldn't die no matter what he did was the funniest shit. I really do hope they somehow manage to make an anime original spin off of him going around the world with his gay butler.
>>291337130This chapter made me want a somewhat happy ending for him but he needs to suffer some more before then. And maybe a bit after.>>291336889Same. I liked it but it didn't feel like enough, it's BL but it basically just feels like Melanco Killing with high schoolers. A few more chapters of Saji becoming more and more obsessed would've been nice. Anyway after reading it, going through her twitter and seeing that her description saying she loves BL, I am now even more sure Ichinose is going to rape him at someone point
>>291341842No such thing as "too much" especially if you have a micro/macro fetish
>>291340099He's a very cute little bird
>>291349171>>291337130What's the name? What series is this?
>>291349359Melanco Killing
>>291345479The gay ending probably got it blackballed desu
>>291345574In the early 2000s when I was in middle school. A friend shared some of her manga with me and she had a couple BL ones and it got me hooked
>>291349171I don't know how this author does it. If I were her I would masturbate to my own sketches after drawing two lines and by the end of the day I would be dead tired and have nothing done.
Last week's talks of younger seme/older uke reminded me of a oneshot where a guy fucked his dad's friend and they got caught by the dad. Does anyone remember that one or the name of it? I think it was an anthology and there was another oneshot in it where a guy accidentally hooked up with a distant relative and reconnected with him at a funeral
>>291345574Weirdly enough I've been reading manga for almost two decades but I didn't got into BL/yaoi until few years ago. I read some fujobait/joseislop series like the Zelda's manga adaptations or 0-7 Ghost, I tried to read some smutt now and then but they never got my full attention because the guys were too girly. I think the first proper BL series I picked up was Shimanami Tasogare back in 2018 when I began to lurk /cm/ and /y/.
>>291345479it was boring as shit with an asspull rushed ending that was terrible.
>>291349987Took me a bit to remember, its Mesuiki x Ureoji BL
>>291350289Thank you!
>>291349318He's adorable.
Imagine the prison sex
>>291349171I feel like Nagi's too nice for rape but maybe it's just the newest chapter throwing me off with him actually somewhat being considerate of Amane.>it's BL but it basically just feels like Melanco Killing with high schoolersNot enough ryona desuI think Saji's obsessed enough, he already had his eyes on Asaoka when he decided to hang out with him and just never got the chance to act out. I want more chapters seeing how their relationship develops though.>>291345574The big one is probably when I got into Hetalia in 2009ish, I've been reading manga with fujobait before that though.
First 6 = all uke. Last 6 = all seme.
gyjo
>>291351582With pleasure!
>>291350054>malding so hard over missing the obvious that you contradict yourself in one sentenceAnyway, even if that was true (it's the opposite), shitty manga get anime all the time.
>>291345479>I rememebr when it was right in the middle of it, it was fairly popular and even listed in some "top 10 works you'd like to see animated" and whatnot.Interesting. I haven't been following the industry at all lately, but I wonder if the author seemingly going AWOL and the manga being fairly quick to complete (so no sales to boost now that it's over) have anything to do with it.
>>291345479>>291352129Now that I think about it, its success feels like a fleeting dream. One moment it was one of the biggest series around, then suddenly it fizzed out. And that was sometime before it ended. Then the manga ended and it kinda came back for a moment... only to go back into irrelevance, as if it had never happened. Kinda like Komi, but at least with that one I know it was because the art and plot got worse in each new chapter.
>>291352419Thank you for you contributions
Fantasy BL about two cute boys going on adventures when?
>>291343289ojicons won
>>291352535
>>291351618I can see it happening if Amane does something that truly upsets him, but yeah it's more likely to be dubcon or maybe consensual after a situation that causes a lot of adrenaline or something.>I want more chapters seeing how their relationship develops thoughSame same. They don't really need to have sex imo because the ryona already feels intimate and satisfying enough but some messed up romance moments would be perfect
>>291352535Memesis was kind of that with a side of ecchi. Sadly the artist went back to drawing hentai after this got axed or something.
Spiderbro?!
>>291351635Cute and correct
>>291353040Sweet, I like the cute spider but this is very good news.
>>291352088nothing I said was wrongthe entire story builds up that the mc will reject toma because he has no feelings for himthe ending is in fact rushed you never even see toma for all the hype about it overall the manga is just boring melodrama that used the possible "gay" friend to create buzz
>>291346696I wish this was the only thing the world gets these days. It sounds good but there isn't enough
>>291333034>What leads you to pick up a series or drop it?I'd like to say it's based on quality, but nowadays I just I get frustrated with anything that isn't "for me," for lack of a better way to put it. For me, pandering to me is paramount and character design and visual quality are right behind. No matter how good something is, if I know I won't like something about it or find it ugly, I skip it or put it on the perpetual backburner. I'll always appreciate a good plot, but I'd rather it be tied to a cast of bishounen with dynamics I like in a setting I like than some school harem romcom. I'm a little embarrassed about it kek, but I've gotten too old to have the patience to pan for specks of gold in a sea of dust.With that said, it's kind of bittersweet noticing my preferences narrowing and others' moving far away from mine. I never really participated in fandom to begin with, but I used to lurk a lot. It's become a pain in the ass to do lately, so I've stopped, but I get the feeling I'd have gradually stopped anyway with the way people's tastes have changed overall.It doesn't help that everything that appeals to me at a glance winds up being from some gacha game, but it is what it is. I'm just waiting for the generation that grows up on them to start making manga themselves.
>>291353040Shota spiderbro is real?!
I lose all respect for an artist if I know they're tracing 3d models especially for published work.
>>291353040>shota spider
>turning into Baseball Hisokais he gonna start lusting after shotas too?
I'm guessing this is a preview of the next chapter. He looks like he is about to be ravished
>>291353065I'll miss him but his cute little suspenders and sock garters help dull the pain.>>291353341His BIG LOVE for his big brother helped him transform
>>291353853I wonder when this will be completed. You can't do the same gimmick at the same intensity for every chapter. It's simply boring.
>>291353944I figure the author still has an intense desire for Michael Myers brutality but gay.
>>291351712Pit sex
>>291353995Yeah I'm just wondering what they planned for, 3-5 volumes? Any more and they they'll lose readership considering there isn't much more to really push in the story to make it exciting.
>>291353642Yoji better hide Shoma if that happens
Did you niggas read this?https://kuragebunch.com/episode/12207421984288888264dog bless alt publishers and their diverse catalog
>>291353944I'm pretty sure more than half the people reading this just want to see hot man getting ryona'd, the story isn't anything special if you take that away, it's just the usual revengeslop.
>>291346465Their eyes are close enough to kiss
>>291354353Ryona is a very rare thing, I tried to make a rec chart of only jp stuff for fun and could only think of 3 titles including melancho killing.
>>291354516>Ryona is a very rare thingIt just doesn't get many tls which is why you think it's rare
