I know what was said, but I'm saying that the loli archetype, to me, means that they look like a child.
But that isn't the issue. We're not defending lolicons or whatever, or denying what was said.
I liked the manga but yeah, I have to agree. I felt off put by it. I hope this aspect is minimized over the next chapters. It's not a deal breaker to me but I wouldn't like it bothers me, even if the femc isn't an actual "loli".
Maybe not to the readers, but she clearly does to the characters hence the confusion.
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This is the one that goes directly to the stores, right? If so, nice. Then again it doesn't say how much is actual printed so it could be a small patch for all we know.
Undead isn't particularly worse that other anime though? It would probably be like Goblin Slayer or Shield Hero and be an issue within the anime community that everyone stops caring about as soon as it completes. Dolphin probably depends on timing. It's going to be at least 2 years for the anime to air (unless it pulls an I'm From Japan) and who knows what the situation will be like then.
This isn't worth speculating about, in HBC&D's case. We have no idea if it'll survive to that point. There hasn't even been a ToC ranking.
Are Goblin Slayer or Shield Hero on something that normies subscribe to like Netflix, Prime, or Hulu (Crave for Canadians as well)? Not something like crunchyroll or FUNimation which has a more niche consumer base. Genuinely curious because I don't know. They don't appear to be on any streaming services here in Canada.
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True, I just would find it very interesting if Shueshia kept serializing and pushing series that would have an uphill battle in the west.
For HBCD, maybe yes in the US now, but who knows how people will react to the same issues in a a year or two when an anime may be approved for those series. I do not think it would be a problem for both Europe and Japan even now.
I'm in Canada too and both shows I named are on CR and Funimation here. I was just using them as examples (why are we assuming Undead goes to Netflix anyway?). I'm pretty sure Shield Hero is on HBO Max in the US though.
FUNimation and crunchyroll are for a niche audience. Only people who watch anime will subscribe to those so such content is more acceptable to the type of people who subscribe.
I would believe Saiki K did somewhat well outside of jpn, of your list, its the most known and popular of those and got a nice cosplay following across the states. 'Also just do a saiki k netflix twitter search, a constantly updating tweet search
So, I got an answer.Okay, it's been more than 24 hours since this and it doesn't change. Magu-chan doesn't show any next date chapter in MANGA Plus since Chapter 4 was uploaded yesterday. I contacted MANGA Plus via Facebook but haven't gotten any answer yet, and even though 1 whole day has passed, there are no changes. I don't want to jump the gun too early, as I have commented on WSJ's Discord, this is weird. It's the first time I see it and I still go by it being 70% a dev error and 30% something actually serious. Anyway, I'm just letting everybody know. Whatever this means or whatever reasons there are behind this, I have no clue at all. I was hoping I'd at least get a copypasted answer from the service saying they'd report it and then it would change, as I have done in previous times, but nothing of the sort happened. Also please refrain from telling me that Viz has it scheduled for next week since we already know that Viz just puts templates in the chapters with next week's date and they don't update their Chapter Schedule page. And we also know MANGA Plus is way, way faster when it comes to schedule changes in the magazine and on their series, as we have seen with My Hero Academia or HEART GEAR. Anyway, hope it's nothing serious and it gets solved eventually. Guess this post also servers so no one is confused if they happen to come across this.
Maybe the mangaka got covid or some problem? I hope it's not serious as I'm loving the manga.So, I got an answer.
It's not what I expected, and at the same time is. Kinda 50/50, because it's not a copypaste but doesn't explain much either. The only thing I can almost extract from this? Is that it's not an error since they would have told me something like: "Huh, that's weird. We'll contact our development team!" as they have done already previous times. It's just weird. Anyway, pray for it to still be an error even if it doesn't seem like it anymore? and for it not to be anything serious.
From what I've seen in manga and anime, when they talk about a loli, they don't always mean that she looks exactly like a child.
The issue is not so much whatever the problem is but the consequences of it, whether it's hiatus or straight cancellation.
That might be it, yeah. Maybe the definition has evolved beyond what I considered loli to be.
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Is there *any* indication whatsoever that it's doing poorly in Japan? Do we know the general reception?
I don't think this really falls at all into reception given we're 4 chapters in. The situation of the mangaka will be the determining factor for the series, if you ask me. There's a recent example that happened in MagaPoke, Kodansha's digital platform, in which a series was straight up cancelled on Chapter 22 due to the mangaka suddenly falling ill.