Dokunie Cooking - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - Sacrifice
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Kinda sad that good series get axed way too early these days. It seems that if it doesn't sell well for 20 chapters, it's off to the chopping board :/. It's unfair to slow-start manga. Take Stealth symphony, which was uploaded to mangadex about last week?, I remember being so sad when it was axed because that manga had really good plot and good pace going. Oh well...
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what the fuck
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I'm expecting her to win with her foot odor. If super strong monster-san can't handle it, nobody can.
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Just one chapter more?... Well, I guessed this already, it was obvious. She confessed to the monster, she knows the monster's original identity, the angels that should turn turned and the so-called "god(lol)" came out and now it's an "eat or die" situation and we pretty much know everything but the original intention and origin of this so-called "god". Well, that wouldn't actually surprise me at all. The whole cooking gag turned stale a while ago and there's a limit to how much you can milk something like this before it's time to end it.
I really feel like this is the proper place to end it, any more and it'll just be beating a dead horse.
It was a fun, short and pretty hollow manga(it didn't feel very filling in the end, too much was lacking for it to be memorable, we don't even know anything much about the world there or anything for that matter as every single detail was left out), but it did what it was supposed to do, make us laugh a bit.
At least this author knows when to end something and won't shamelessly try to continue something forcibly. I'd like to think it wasn't really axed, the author just figured out that he had done everything interesting and that the gag and interesting parts about this manga had already gone cold. That's how you should do it, it's the sign of a good author. Don't be like the author of one piece who continues to milk that crap even after the cow died, rotted and turned to bones just because it was still somehow popular with some people who grew up with it and youngsters. Seriously, I was able to start predicting pretty much every single thing that was going to happen in that manga because it was so repetitive and the author never made a proper effort to change things around and try new stuff. It's a miracle to me how people can keep on enjoying it.
I really feel like this is the proper place to end it, any more and it'll just be beating a dead horse.
It was a fun, short and pretty hollow manga(it didn't feel very filling in the end, too much was lacking for it to be memorable, we don't even know anything much about the world there or anything for that matter as every single detail was left out), but it did what it was supposed to do, make us laugh a bit.
At least this author knows when to end something and won't shamelessly try to continue something forcibly. I'd like to think it wasn't really axed, the author just figured out that he had done everything interesting and that the gag and interesting parts about this manga had already gone cold. That's how you should do it, it's the sign of a good author. Don't be like the author of one piece who continues to milk that crap even after the cow died, rotted and turned to bones just because it was still somehow popular with some people who grew up with it and youngsters. Seriously, I was able to start predicting pretty much every single thing that was going to happen in that manga because it was so repetitive and the author never made a proper effort to change things around and try new stuff. It's a miracle to me how people can keep on enjoying it.
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"I'll let you comfort the pigs later." - Ok, we know what 'god' is into.
@Seregossa I agree about respecting this author for ending it when the jokes got stale (wish that happened more), but I would have been happier with a narration box of: "The End. Some say she's still trying to get the monster to eat her...", instead of the "god's evil and killed all the humans years ago, but some of them turned into demons" plot that's been cropping up repeatedly and is getting used to close things out. The premise of different JRPG-style fantasy archetypes (monsters, angels, elves, sacrifices, etc.) acting entirely opposite their normal depictions, while poking fun at cooking manga and serving up an elf in deshabille was fun. Turning that into this plot for an ending arc rubs me the wrong way.
One Piece mostly gets away with its immortality because, although its plot structures are repetitive and predictable, it's mostly an adventure story about traveling between new strange places and meeting weird people. It's a picaresque-ish story, not a long hero's journey kinda thing. It doesn't really matter that the basic plot beats of each island's arc are mostly similar, as long as the island and the people on it are interesting. Gintama is very similar, because as long as it manages to pull enough ridiculous parodies out of its capacious ass, it's still going to be entertaining as a set of loosely-connected interludes, rather than feeling like, for instance, Bleach, where Tite Kubo eventually just kept scrabbling to find things to lengthen the story.
@Seregossa I agree about respecting this author for ending it when the jokes got stale (wish that happened more), but I would have been happier with a narration box of: "The End. Some say she's still trying to get the monster to eat her...", instead of the "god's evil and killed all the humans years ago, but some of them turned into demons" plot that's been cropping up repeatedly and is getting used to close things out. The premise of different JRPG-style fantasy archetypes (monsters, angels, elves, sacrifices, etc.) acting entirely opposite their normal depictions, while poking fun at cooking manga and serving up an elf in deshabille was fun. Turning that into this plot for an ending arc rubs me the wrong way.
One Piece mostly gets away with its immortality because, although its plot structures are repetitive and predictable, it's mostly an adventure story about traveling between new strange places and meeting weird people. It's a picaresque-ish story, not a long hero's journey kinda thing. It doesn't really matter that the basic plot beats of each island's arc are mostly similar, as long as the island and the people on it are interesting. Gintama is very similar, because as long as it manages to pull enough ridiculous parodies out of its capacious ass, it's still going to be entertaining as a set of loosely-connected interludes, rather than feeling like, for instance, Bleach, where Tite Kubo eventually just kept scrabbling to find things to lengthen the story.
