the more i read this the more impressed i am by it. i love the way that the author doesn't trauma dump all the necessary characters' backstories in one-go, and leaves a lot up to plot-reveal or gradual revelations from other characters. i also love how these moments are often used to introduce new characters in a way that expose how culturally ingrained they are in this world, even if they're new to us. like they feel like real characters who have their own personal life in this world, and since we don't have their full story or picture and we often have to piece together a fraction of their backstory through the different perspectives of other characters who know them, they feel like real people to even the audience.
i think this immersion also applies to the story's setting, as well. like the way the culture, laws, and politics aren't info-dumped in a couple panels or suddenly exposed to us and instead scattered throughout the story so we get the info we need to understand what we already know, makes it feel like a real world with real people. because a real world is always going to feel so much bigger than one person, so it makes sense how we're learning more about its cohesive culture and rules gradually through the characters' interaction with it, rather than having a large exposition about how it works like there's some random narrator or god telling us, a separate third-party, about this place. like it feels like a culture and setting whose existence doesn't revolve around the audience perceiving it, and can be a real place that functions on its own with or without the readers. idk if this makes sense, but it feels like we know as much about the world as the characters we follow do, which i think is hard to do given how many characters of different sides and perspectives we're following so far. like i think many authors who create amazing characters, settings, and backstories, don't have the ability to plan ahead and properly introduce it to the audience without making it feel like they're all creations of another human (LOL GEGE,,, JJK IM LOOKING AT YOU). like all those authors have crazy creativity and imagination, just no writing skills lol. meanwhile i think the author of sakamoto days has both, and idk i just think it's an amazing story lmao. bc not only is it so well-written, it's pretty entertaining, as well. and the artsyle is SO good for its plot: like the action scenes are AMAZING.
ngl. i couldnt get into this at first bc my suspension of disbelief was broken by the fact that some random, normal gamer dude could defeat a group of mages from the getgo in an alternate world, using nothing but teleportation magic and a blade (bc like. i just could not believe that a group of adults that grew up with magic couldn't use basic defensive magic to stop a regular knife?? like we know defensive magic exists as a basic magic, too). also mc being a lowkey sociopath didnt rlly make sense to me without context, so i just couldnt feel immersed into the story no matter how hard i tried. but as i continued reading, all the other characters/npc felt so real that it didnt even matter if mc felt like a 2D imposter.
im ngl, that was lowkey a crazy plottwist. where tf did the real pumpkin knight go
Lmao he probably got knocked out
lowkey, he's a real one for that tho LOL. like,,, it was not voluntary on his part to be a victim of identity theft, but like,,, thank u for ur service mr pumpkin
lowkey dude said all that based off her personality. bc like. he's asking questions about management/how the establishment was made and its efficiency, and assuming she's a newcomer bc she has no questions about it? like bruh if i was a regular parttimer i'm not going to give a shit or bring up these questions to my boss. and he's also assuming things because she's airheaded and clumsy. bruh what if that's just her in nature LOL. like the "I can tell you're a noob" is crazy. Like. Yeah he's right LMAO but being clumsy or airheaded are usually part of peoples' natures, regardless of what setting or experience they're in.
honestly the only selling point this manga has is the panel from the first chapter where someone said "he's like your stand' like seeing a jojo reference pass by so quickly in a random shoujo bl manga was crazy to me
"BOMBASTIC SIDE-EYE"??? bro i heard that audio out loud in my head, it started ringing. i can't believe i saw its transcript in manhwa font. sometimes i wish the author knew how other places TL their work bc i think interpretation is an artform and a solid form of worship. also i like how MC is unlucky as hell but also at the same time he legit flung someone's shit out the top floor of a school window, asked someone in the RUDEST form possible to listen to him, ripped off their shirt after dragging them down a staircase, like,,,, by this point he's the common denominator LMAO like that's just on you,,,,
i like how ppl around him are also getting pissed off, not just the MCs.
WHEN R U COMING BACK, MY BABY I AINT EVEN JOKING WHEN I SAY THIS IS RHE MANHWA I CAME BACK TO THIS SITE FOR
Well it's back hahaha
i read the title and was like "no way this is gonna be good" and then i saw the ratings of 9.7, and i was like "oh??" AND THEN I READ THE COMMENTS AND IM LIKE, THIS SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE WHAT I FIRST EXPECTED FROM IT SO WHY IS THE RATING SO HIGH LOL
okay i actually read the 7 chapters and it's not the worst. the first two chapters about him being an OP badass who gets a ton of girls is just his dream, and in reality he's some poor, transmigrated dude who's just trying to make it in life with a cheery attitude. the following chapters actually seem to have a general plot and setting, and we even get a male companion who's not used as a slapstick compared to MC (like they seem like actual friends and he's not drawn poorly in a way where it suggests he's going to disappear as the story progresses; like his friend looks like a legit character). though i will say this story is like,,, it's kind of whatever. in my opinion it's not the most entertaining and the comedy doesn't really hit for me, but it's not a bad read and it's definitely something that if i had nothing better to read, i'd spam like 300 chapters of.