Still Sick - Vol. 1 Ch. 4

[MangaDex]

 

[Nogoodnms]

Woof. The drama kinda felt out of nowhere here, but sure, I'll roll with it. That last comment from y'all felt perfect, though.

 

[Symuri]

How I wish all cheap shoujo lovers read this chapter

 

[Serenata]

Painfully relatable honestly, even the words from her dad... kinda scary xP

Nice meme at the end

 

[Danglark]

Man, I just started reading this cuz it looked like fun... Now I'm way into it. I want more!!!

 

[Gustbk]

I like the whole commentary about not treating your audience like they’re stupid and relying tropes and how it’ll eventually catch up to you. Though I guess the overarching theme here is finding your reasons for drawing manga.

 

[primrosea]

@Symuri
I am one of them :)
it's fine though, I read shoujo manga for the kyaa-rolls, and if they had to resort to tropes to make me kyaa-rolling, I don't mind it very much

 

[Sem]

Hahahaha that last page comment

 

[avgjoegeek]

Oooo I was there last year! Dammit now I want to go back there.

 

[AgentKuga]

Hah this is getting deep
Scary
I'm staying for this.

 

[oichifan39]

Hell yeah meta discussion of manga tropes.

 

[Barnacles]

@Gustbk

It sounds like the authors from a certain genre of fiction could really benefit from that piece of advice (cough isekai authors cough)

@primrosea

Its more like the way tropes are lazily used that makes a lot of manga annoying to read, not that the tropes are necessarily bad. Like, its easy to tell when a mangaka is just phoning it in and following the same old formula without adding anything unique or interesting. Though its a bit harsh to call out the shoujo demographic specifically since shounen manga are often just as guilty.

Anyway, using the series from your picture as an example, Watashitachi wa Koi wo Shiranai is an enjoyable manga despite its cliche setup (charming guy falls in love with quiet girl) because the couple's interactions leads to very cute yet natural and gradual relationship progression. Its also free of drama and teen angst that is so common in this genre, which can be partially attributed to the side characters being great friends and not causing unnecessary conflicts even despite one of them being in love with the main guy.

It is in opposition to shoujo manga that have an unrealistically perfect outgoing guy fall for the average girl for no particular reason, and they only get together after tons of trite melodrama and simple misunderstandings. In those cases, any kyaa-rolls would be undeserved after all the shallow crap the author forces down our throats under the guise of "character development"

 

[necromanticLesbian]

ahh.. character development, peepin The Trauma and Its Effects.... good execution... hope maekawa lets shimizu in eventually...

 

[DreamCarver]

Oh man, she's doing the "god I'm awful" character really well.

 

[JohnJRenns]

holy shit with the chad editor. i mean, i guess the job of an editor is to give professional burns for a living

 

[The_FallenAngel]

Oh damn. Now that's, oof.

I believe in you Shimizu! You can get through to her!

 

[Saiangeli]

this author is trying to hard to make it edgy and deep. Shes acting like a kid instead of using her words

 

[FluentInManganese]

Oof, shouldn't have ignored the drama tag. Well, I just hope it doesn't get way too scary.