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honestly my taste is so trash normally that I might as well be a raccoon but this is so trash even I can't put up with it... plot is paper thin and makes no sense, jokes don't land, art is... idk. And more than anything IT'S CRINGE. There I said itttttt

my man Jay is a bunch of red flags in a trench coat and my butthole still twitches at his horny vibes is this what Freud meant about the death drive and the sex drive being really close lol

<3 Akabeko is becoming one of my new favorite authors!

I think it is safe to say that if people want a story where conflict wraps up nicely and situations get resolved fast this ain't it. It's also maybe a bit spicy but it's not really a smutty type of webcomic either. I empathise with readers who are annoyed at the slow progress, so I'd advice if you feel impatient to drop this story for now and come back to it every three or six months or so (it is what I do with long running manga like Jujutsu Kaisen or Akatsuki no Yona, etc).

Drawing manga and webtoons (well) takes a lot of time, and things tend to happen a lot more slowly. I remember when I was 15 and I thought Kimi ni Todoke both the manga and the anime were horribly slow and it killing me inside, but when I went back to rewatch and re-read recently the pacing made perfect sense and if anything it all happened in a logical time span within the narrative of the story. It's just that when you wait chapter per chapter it is a lot more difficult because you experience time much differently than the story does. To an author a story might take "just" a few years afterall but if you are 16 "a few years" is your whole ass puberty!!

Personally, I tend to be much happier when an artist takes their time to tell a story properly the way they want to than when they rush to please their audience, because as a result a lot of manga suffer from it. Under the Oak Tree is obviously built as a long running series that has a huge amount of world building and political intrigue and both mcs have a lot of character growth to do. The novel took quite a while to complete and a manga adaptation would take at least triple that time. But this is not what everyone is looking for!

Manta, the company that serializes this in english, is over-flooded with crappily drawn and crappily paced, full of inconsisency issues (isekai type usually) webtoons exactly because those authors dont care about making a cohesive and well told story but to give readers the satisfying story bits as soon as possible that begin and end within a year, and honestly they had so much crap like that that I unsubscribed.

I guess it's a bit like comparing reading to sex, do you want the 5 minute quickie or a multi hour drawing edging session? Both are fun, they are just different flavours ^^

nooooo it ended just like thaaaaat???? ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ wtf just as I was getting even more into it!!!! I like that this one has a more laid back nature than Mushishi

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kyaaaaaaaaaa

somehow this was very cute but it felt very non romantic to me... like i wish it was a story about two close family members that reconnected. I'm not saying this in a moralistic sense, it just didn't feel like a romantic love? I felt like skipping the love scene parts because it clashed with the rest of the vibe somehow?

this was extremely sweet and also made me upset at being lactose intolerant and unable to buy cake unless it's custom ordered ╥﹏╥

hahahaha i legit was both crying and laughing at the same time in the first chapter like Aya-san. We need more absurd manga like this

I feel like this gave me a stroke I give up I should have dropped it when they were playing "eat the sausage" but I'm an idiot