@Glomoro it succeeded in its task but it REALLY skewed the early tone of the series. doing that and going back to comedy is the writing equivalent of slewing drunkenly around the road
you're getting toward where you're going but the people around you will become alarmed
@ariqcs yeah. if this group is doing this explicitly as a means to help learn english, though, that changes a lot of context - but they should also have a disclaimer out front so everyone knows to brace themselves. of course that's me just pulling a motivation from thin air.
i mean... it's bad. it gets the opposite meaning of a lot of stuff and the english is incomprehensible
there's no "oh they tried their best so it's fine" when they still put out a bad product. they're not bad people because they did a bad job but too much coddling means nobody ever improves
@XL "how dare the protagonists not just casually conquer every obstacle"
read some different shit my man
@fari i kinda like that they hared off at the island immediately like assholes. there's a real 'adventuring' feel to this that a lot of these manga tend to lose after a while. it probably...