Lazy Sunday so I cracked into this as soon as I saw the thread go up. This manga feels like the perfect level for me right now. Short, simple to digest sentences, with N+1 sentences left and right too. It’s also building my confidence on reading kanji w/o furigana - something that I think was really tough with Bocchi for me. Having a tiny bit of inner conflict with the story because on one hand it’s nice to see fujino spending her childhood with family and friends, but I am also so here for the drawing skills revenge arc and her throwing it all away is tough haha
The very all or nothing thinking is fitting for this age I bet. Become a drawing hermit or throw the whole thing out as futile, one or the other. Honestly, I like the goofy little things 藤野 draws. The other’s art is much more technically impressive but more just a set of images. Coming up with these goofy storylines is worth something!
I feel like I make more dumb mistakes than the average person when it comes to mixing up manga characters and the like, but these are two different people, huh? It’s funny, people recommend manga for the images helping you to understand the text, and here I needed the text to figure out the images. Like yeah I can see the small differences, but half of them are the kind of thing I’d write off as just drawing them a little differently from other angles and stuff.
for me the easiest way to tell characters apart generally is hairstyle. i feel like mangaka mostly try not to have characters have the exact same hairstyle unless they’re saying something about their uniformity etc.
I think this is what happens when you have a more grounded style and not have everyone have weird hairdos or facial features, the style makes the characters kinda blend in together.
I agree that the characters look alike, but on the other hand, I think their expressiveness is really a highlight and helps me figure out some of the dialogue better. I appreciate how, even if you didn’t know what the characters are saying, you could figure out the tone of the conversation based on their facial expressions, the panel framing, etc.
The irony of Fujino giving up drawing when her comic looks SO much better compared to a few years ago! She was improving GAH
I’m also enjoying the slangy-ness of the dialogue - does Fujino’s sister use アンタ instead of あなた? It stood out to me.
