Jan 4, 2023
La Mosca ("The Fly") is an 80s action/sci-fi flick with all of the expected tropes, only in manga form. Or manhwa, whatever. It's got mustache twirling villains, downtrodden-but-tough protagonists, giant monsters, gruesome deaths, insane characters, weird drugs, a few semi-interesting twists, and some impressive cleavage. It's not bad, but it's not really good either. The characters are extremely one dimensional, their motivations are hollow or just uninteresting, and it's hard to really care about anyone or anything that's happening. It was just.. okay. Don't expect a whole lot, and you won't be disappointed. I'm not entirely sure what else there is to say, but I
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Sep 15, 2022
Sousou no Frieren
(Manga)
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One dimensional characters, no exposition, an empty world with basically no world building, very few, if any explanations for why things are the way they are, a story so slow that it would make Togashi blush, predictable, cliche gags (the boy is a pervert, haha, that's funny right?), cliche and uninteresting dialogue, boring (but still good in terms of quality) art, extremely one dimensional "enemies" (demons), I could go on and on. I do not understand the hype. It's fine. That's it. It's just fine. There's no sense of adventure, risk or danger, the MC is a 1000 year old Mary Sue, and as I
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