@Demonicpoodle:
…I think this is a chapter I need to see the reactions of BleachAsylum of. No doubt they'll call it seinen high art.
fiddles a cigarette into his hand, ready to take a big, long puff with a sullen look on his face
Wondering if I could go and fetch something to satisfy your needs,I went to the asylum,but upon entering the anime/manga section,something far,far greater distracted me.A thread asking what's so good about Berserk,with this kind of gem inside:
Yeah this is what I feel. I guess I keep reading because I keep thinking there's going to be something good coming up later that I'm going to miss.
Basically what I look for in a manga is an interesting story with a philosophical meaning behind it. Let's take Bleach for example. Kubo manages to incorporate various ideas from different belief systems into his manga as well as incorporating things like race and ethinictity in as well. All te while he also delivers interesting scenarios that make you think on the spot e.g. were the Gotei 13 right to blindly follow Central 46, was the Rukongai massacre justified etc?
I heard Berserk did this as well but IMO I don't reallly see anything as interesting as the stuff Bleach in it so far. It just seems to me that Guts comes along he slashes down some enemies, there's some voyeurism and then the arc ends. Next arc is pretty much the same. I finished the Lost Children arc but I don't see what the point of it was. Felt like a filler tbh.
There's too little dialogue as well and IMO the more dialogue the better. It looks like to me that the author is jsut trying to be really abstract with the meaning behind each arc but I really don't see what he's trying to say or what's so philosophical about what he's trying to say.
Honestly am I missing something because I hear a lot of people saying that there's this huge philosophical meaning behind each arc?
Bleach is a better Seinen than Berserk.