Legend of the Northern Blade is a superb martial arts comic

I swear I had a more generally interesting blog post planned up but I got busy this weekend and for other reasons I’ve decided to postpone it. Instead I want to very quickly talk about Legend of the Northern Blade which is an absolutely fantastic martial art web comic.

God, he’s so hot

Some thoughts on The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and “comical cruelty”

I picked up the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor web comic a few days ago. I found myself so into the story that well I jumped right into the Web Novel. Those of us who have done this know the risk.

As the novel fever grips you, you get no sleep for several nights in a row. You find yourself constantly eye rolling at bad translations that came straight out of google translate without any proper editing. And after some time you get burned out and start thinking a bit more about the mess you’ve read.

This starts off so good, but why does it keep doing these small things I don’t like. Oh well. Time to stop reading it now and forget it exists for a few years.

Lady Baby is an interesting comic

First off, I’d like to wish best of luck and power to those protesting against police brutality (as well as everyone else who supports them but is quarantined/unable to help). Fuck da police in the US as well as many other nations. People should not be suffering or dying because of a racist institution. Change is long overdue.

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That important update out of the way, I wanted to briefly talk about Lady Baby which is an interesting reincarnation web comic.

Lively Characterization: The Undead Adventurer is still fantastic

A short while back (okay almost 2 years ago…) I wrote a quick post on Undead Adventurer and I wanted to briefly revisit that since I read volume 5 of the LNs one month back.

The Eminence in Shadow is downright hilarious

Scrambling to get through some quarantine content. I hope you all are doing well and are safe during these anxious times.

Read Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute (the Eminence in Shadow). It is probably the funniest isekai I have tried.

This manga is so hilariously chuuni. I love it.

Chronicles of Heavenly Demon: Yet another very solid martial arts comic

Chronicles of Heavenly Demon is a Korean martial arts comic about a skilled martial artist of the Spear Sect who was killed then reincarnated a few years later into an entirely different, demonic, sect. He goes about training, seeking strength with the aim of avenging the people who killed him and his old master.

Reincarnated in the future with another chance at martial arts greatness is by this point a tried and true formula and I love it, but Chronicles of Heavenly Demon is an especially fantastic implementation of the formula.

Mofumofu to Isekai Slow Life o Mezashimasu is nice!

With respect to tone, Isekai stories tend to come in 3 varieties. There is the standard pace ‘strong mc gets to go an adventure’, the recently popular ‘revenge I HATE EVERYONE’ super edgy tone and the pure slice of life fluffy story.

Contrary to what the title suggests, Mofumofu isn’t completely in the fluffy side of the spectrum, rather it veers between fluffy and standard and for me that’s perfect. I occasionally like the fluffy ‘I just do farming’ isekais, but they usually don’t grab me like a good adventure would.

12 Days of the 2010s: 12 Memorable Meta Moments

You remember how many folk post those 12 Days posts about anime in December? Well, I haven’t posted any on this blog in ages so why not make one now, except it is not about anime, but about the anime community itself.

Does 12 things from 10 years make sense? No, but hey.

Note: Unlike say a top 12 anime post, the following are not necessarily good, rather they are moments or trends that for good or bad helped define the anime community for me this decade.

Volcanic Age is excellent

In continuing the theme of one rushed post at the end of the month quickly talking about a webcomic I really like, I really like Volcanic Age. In fact I am surprised I forgot to do a post on it until now.

Volcanic Age is one of those reincarnation comics that start with someone dying but reincarnating as their past self. Basically they are given a second chance at life to either fix their wrong doings or help mitigate disaster/chaos/war. I feel like out of the current popular batch of manga/webcomics, Volcanic Age was one of the earlier ones or at least more popular ones to try out this story setup and it is still damn good at it.

Tower of God is a remarkable achievement

This post is probably many years coming. In fact I wrote a small blurb talking about Tower of God in this Halloween post 6 (oh god time is bad) years ago. In fact, while I don’t recall the exact date that’s probably when I ‘temporarily’ stopped reading Tower of God. You know how it is, you forget to read a new chapter and then they just pile up…for years.

I recently read up and caught up to the nearest chapter (in like 2 days 2 or 3 weeks ago….).