I mean - this was a chapter about a twin-tailed tsundere getting caught in the rain and getting rescued by her crush, who offers her a folding umbrella that they eventually end up sharing, much to her dismay (and secret pleaaure).
In another situation, I could actually pan a romcom just by sneeringly noting that that was the plot outline of the latest chapter - with just those details, a reader would get that my point was it was just another tedious, cheesy, tropish nothing.
But that’s not what this is, and reading it didn’t feel that way. I don’t get why it works, but it does. I was completely swept up in it from start to finish, and satisfied and impressed by it when it was over, and I can’t even quite pin down why. It’s just… really good. Somehow.
Part of it is that there are neat little details slipped in along the way that provide context and add to the characters and the story. Like it’s not just that she happens to have twintails - there’s an actual cute story behind it.
The art is impressive too - especially the expressions.
I think there’s more to it than that though. I don’t understand how it works well enough to analyze it, but there’s something to the timing and the viewpoint shifts - like everything unfolds just right.
If I was an aspiring mangaka, I’d be studying this carefully, panel-by-panel. Because whatever they’re doing, it’s working.
How is this so good?
I mean - this was a chapter about a twin-tailed tsundere getting caught in the rain and getting rescued by her crush, who offers her a folding umbrella that they eventually end up sharing, much to her dismay (and secret pleaaure).
In another situation, I could actually pan a romcom just by sneeringly noting that that was the plot outline of the latest chapter - with just those details, a reader would get that my point was it was just another tedious, cheesy, tropish nothing.
But that’s not what this is, and reading it didn’t feel that way. I don’t get why it works, but it does. I was completely swept up in it from start to finish, and satisfied and impressed by it when it was over, and I can’t even quite pin down why. It’s just… really good. Somehow.
Absolutely. It’s incredible how the good use of a trope can change things.
Part of it is that there are neat little details slipped in along the way that provide context and add to the characters and the story. Like it’s not just that she happens to have twintails - there’s an actual cute story behind it.
The art is impressive too - especially the expressions.
I think there’s more to it than that though. I don’t understand how it works well enough to analyze it, but there’s something to the timing and the viewpoint shifts - like everything unfolds just right.
If I was an aspiring mangaka, I’d be studying this carefully, panel-by-panel. Because whatever they’re doing, it’s working.