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On the next Dragon Ball Z-- (lemmus.org)

submitted 3 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for August 16, 2024

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[–] PassingDuchy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes they just make up whole new stories (Bleach) or say fuck it and go their own way (Fullmetal Alchemist). I feel like the more accepted recent approach though is having a mini-series of an arc which has normal pacing (actually even often accelerated pacing cause they only get 12 episodes) and then just putting the show on hold.

And then you have when the anime affects the manga and the manga starts stretching the story out for "content" (feel like this happened with My Hero Academia and Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun). If it was a novel that's being published on a pay by chapter platform you're just completely fucked because they (generally) follow the Mark Twain model of pay per word so once a story gets popular that shit absolutely gets milked into the ground. If you're lucky they waited to do the anime until the comic adaption was half done at which point the novel will hopefully be done...

[–] Lightfire228@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago

you're just completely fucked because they (generally) follow the Mark Twain model of pay per word so once a story gets popular that shit absolutely gets milked into the ground.

This is a legit problem for web novels and wuxia (which get written and released chapter by chapter).

Lot's of random plot arcs that go nowhere, and a lot of recycled story structure.

I stopped reading Tales of Demons and Gods halfway through, because the main character gains the ability to pause time and "power up" whenever he wants. I was already quite tired of it, but that was the "fuck this book" moment

I shall seal the heavens and The Desolate Era are some of my favorites (although TDE has some severe plot meandering syndrome)