A-Rank Boukensha no Slow Life - Vol. 2 Ch. 7
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Still loving this series. It feels like if Stardew Valley or Rune Factory were turned into Manga, but with less drama. This chapter has my first problem is the time skips in this chapter for the sake of the vegetable garden. I feel like they could have just planted them this chapter, had something else happened to end it, and then had the next or a later chapter start with his vegetables being ready to harvest. I don’t like it when so much time is skipped so quickly and I’m just told what what the main character did. I prefer to be shown rather than told and it makes it very difficult to keep up with the time that’s passed (it had to have been a couple of months at least in this one chapter)
@deltarayedge That’s not fair. I mean it’s not like Japanese stories don’t use other romance tropes. And it’s not like western stories (particularly movies to my knowledge), don’t use the trope as well. People have a serious fixation on “childhood sweet hearts” and falling in love after a long reunion. The trope in of itself isn’t anymore good or bad than all the other romance tropes. And you’re going to have one trope or another in writing (actually probably a ton). It’s not like authors say “I’m going to us X trope” (idk, maybe some can), but you just can’t avoid them when writing a story. Humans are more similar than we like to think and we’ve had thousands of years to write stories; unique situations just don’t existence anymore (though, I’d love to be proven wrong). The story can seem unique, but when broken down into underlying messages, tropes, themes, etc it’s all been done before. For example, I can write how a random woman fell out of the sky in a time hole, crash landed her space ship, and is forced to live off of the main character because she has no modern money. Sure I’ve never read that premise before (though I don’t expect it’s never been written), but ultimately it’s an “unexpected meeting” and “forced living together”. I’ve read both those romance tropes a billion times over. In writing it doesn’t matter if tropes have been done before. It’s all about the execution. What matters is HOW the author chooses to express the story. It’s not fair to fault a story because of the appearance of a trope when every story has them. Yeah, it can be poorly written, or it can be well written. We don’t know yet.
@deltarayedge That’s not fair. I mean it’s not like Japanese stories don’t use other romance tropes. And it’s not like western stories (particularly movies to my knowledge), don’t use the trope as well. People have a serious fixation on “childhood sweet hearts” and falling in love after a long reunion. The trope in of itself isn’t anymore good or bad than all the other romance tropes. And you’re going to have one trope or another in writing (actually probably a ton). It’s not like authors say “I’m going to us X trope” (idk, maybe some can), but you just can’t avoid them when writing a story. Humans are more similar than we like to think and we’ve had thousands of years to write stories; unique situations just don’t existence anymore (though, I’d love to be proven wrong). The story can seem unique, but when broken down into underlying messages, tropes, themes, etc it’s all been done before. For example, I can write how a random woman fell out of the sky in a time hole, crash landed her space ship, and is forced to live off of the main character because she has no modern money. Sure I’ve never read that premise before (though I don’t expect it’s never been written), but ultimately it’s an “unexpected meeting” and “forced living together”. I’ve read both those romance tropes a billion times over. In writing it doesn’t matter if tropes have been done before. It’s all about the execution. What matters is HOW the author chooses to express the story. It’s not fair to fault a story because of the appearance of a trope when every story has them. Yeah, it can be poorly written, or it can be well written. We don’t know yet.
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I havent read the ln, but
The whole childhood forgetto memory thing is too common in jp works recently, and here it was very unnecessary when the flower field meeting is good enough to work on its own.
And it's memey because the mc usually conveniently has his memories, uhh, "remembered" at the same percentage as the romance subplot progression.
The price u pay for getting a childhood reunion story that way is a copout, it renders most of the story development meaningless because the reason for marriage is now mostly "we got kindergarten crush memories back".
That weak writing point is not really related to trope use per se. A vanilla flower field meeting is also a trope.
And it's memey because the mc usually conveniently has his memories, uhh, "remembered" at the same percentage as the romance subplot progression.
The price u pay for getting a childhood reunion story that way is a copout, it renders most of the story development meaningless because the reason for marriage is now mostly "we got kindergarten crush memories back".
That weak writing point is not really related to trope use per se. A vanilla flower field meeting is also a trope.
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Page 9, did he eat a radish out of the ground without washing it? 
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Ah man, I cringed at the end there. Romantic plots like those make me cringe idk why
