Pyoro posted:

Mh, an actual witch-conflict plot in the background(?). Unexpected, I gotta say. Feels a bit ... lazy to just them die while sitting around? When everyone frequently teleports as they want ...

I think only one character has been shown with the ability to teleport others and she seemed unwilling to send anyone into the fight.

Hm.
Sadako can (at least) travel through devices, and the Fire Witch seems to have wanted to do the teleporting before Sadako ran away (she then teleports herself and her partner to the Sabbath base I'm pretty sure); and yeah Boss Lady can clearly teleport others and herself.

Also; she picked up Sadako and Hanako by remote-viewing, basically; so I was thinking more like doing something to save that witch / people than necessarily going to fight them.

I'm sorry, this arc was feeling fast-paced and poorly executed before they introduced a evil organization that murders indiscriminately. Feels like a massive tone shift (yes I know people died in ch 1 but it was a lot sillier).

I'm getting major axe vibes. Love Sal Jiang and the concept but at the rate it's going, I feel like it won't make it another volume...

Love how everyone looks so stylish and cvnty in this panel :D
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/wicked_spot_ch12#1

The designs of pretty much everyone are nice but I don't trust a yuri manga to run long enough to give them meaningful screentime. I'd rather just see more of Hanako and Sadako.

Pyoro posted:

Mh, an actual witch-conflict plot in the background(?). Unexpected, I gotta say. Feels a bit ... lazy to just them die while sitting around? When everyone frequently teleports as they want ...

I think only one character has been shown with the ability to teleport others and she seemed unwilling to send anyone into the fight.

Hm.
Sadako can (at least) travel through devices, and the Fire Witch seems to have wanted to do the teleporting before Sadako ran away (she then teleports herself and her partner to the Sabbath base I'm pretty sure); and yeah Boss Lady can clearly teleport others and herself.

Also; she picked up Sadako and Hanako by remote-viewing, basically; so I was thinking more like doing something to save that witch / people than necessarily going to fight them.

Fair, but I'm not sure any of them could have teleported fast enough to prevent Bruxa from getting attacked, since they were still figuring out what was going on and the attack came as a surprise. After that, either she was already dead (and beyond help) or she wasn't and not in much further danger, Ivet made it sound like she didn't expect to the enemy witches to keep hurting another witch without reason. That just leaves teleporting in to save the humans, but I'm not sure how much Ivet actually cares about that and, even if she does, jumping in to such a chaotic situation, without knowing what's going on, is a good way to get injured and/or create new problems.

I'm sorry, this arc was feeling fast-paced and poorly executed before they introduced a evil organization that murders indiscriminately. Feels like a massive tone shift (yes I know people died in ch 1 but it was a lot sillier).

I'm getting major axe vibes. Love Sal Jiang and the concept but at the rate it's going, I feel like it won't make it another volume...

The entire story has been pretty fast paced and there have been hints of darker elements and more going on behind the scenes, even if you discount Sadoko's introductory murders. Similarly, while the nature of "The Revolutionary Organization" is a bit surprising, I was expecting at least one additional faction to appear. So, overall, this feels like a fairly natural progression to me. I will admit that using a surprise attack to introduce them, rather than following Mone, does feel a bit sudden, but part of that is also the way it slows things down. After all, without their interruption, it's likely that more of Sadako's mysteries would have been discussed and those are much more central to the story and its conclusion.

Ultimately, this could be the result of the axe and an looming early end, but I hope that's not the case.

All that we've seen of the second volume seems disappointing to me compared to the first. The cast has become too big with too little time given to explore any of these characters, so they end up being merely plot devices; and the plot itself has become too fast-paced and convoluted. There's just no room to breathe and the short chapters really don't help. I was hoping things would slow down a bit now that they've gone back to the base, but instead we're introduced to yet another group that feels irrelevant to what initially gave this manga its unique charm.

Maybe if all these characters and ideas were introduced at a more reasonable pace they would have made the manga all the more fun to read, but with the way things are right now, it just ends up feeling like they're stealing precious time away from the actually interesting interactions of Sadako and Hanako.

alright... more new characters again...
what on earth is happening with this manga this is the kind of cast size we should be seeing like 100 chapters in. i appreciate sal jiang is trying to bring something new to the genre but the execution just isn't there. no room to breathe. a shame because i loved the early chapters

I'll be tuned on

tuned in?

turned on?

:)

LOL I'm only notice now this typo

This manga is awesome, but personally I am not a fan of battle shonen type of stories, which is the course this manga taking imo

Sexy women carry it for me

The basic ingredients of battle shonen can be summed up as a focus on action-packed adventure with an emphasis on strategy, unique power sets, male homosociality, and masculine self-actualization. (Also, beloved tropes like the hero solving problems by punching them really hard.) In this series, there are some characters with special abilities, but there is little interest in strategy or match-ups, so action scenes are short and scarce. And it's been a while since we've seen a named male character.

It's just interesting that a brief action scene involving female characters can somehow invite comparison to the genre where female heroes aren't just less common but their sidelining and general humiliation is basically part of the appeal.

Your answer has too many assumptions about me and my comment that I wasn't referring to. It's not because of the battle in the previous chapter lol. I'm talking about fast pacing, a mortal enemy who becomes a friend just by talking/friendship power or that they were enemies because of a misunderstanding, then adds another plot of a more powerful enemy, with them being the Real Evil, adding more and more characters, etc.
The production of Sailor Moon (TV series) decided to add elements of battle-shonen to the adaptation to attract a broader/male audience, and you didn't have men there either, if you read the manga almost the same things happen but they are handled in a very different way, so battle-shonen has components that you can extrapolate to narratives without men (therefore without any of the things you said) without any problem. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and for me it isn’t working here.

I haven't commented on the last chapter because I feel it's just the same gripes all over again, somehow getting worse and worse.

I wonder why I even keep reading this despite being certain there won't be an satisfactory end. And honestly, it's just for the style. Seeing the short twintailed which beaming with that bright smile. That oen witch speaking through her familiar. The magic dust(?) TV with corrosponding headset. One of the Revolutionary Organization witches appearing to a murder spree in lingerie with a bottle of what I assume is alcohol.

This should be an artbook. Everything is just so capital-A Aesthetic. How do you call following something with a maddeningly bad plot for the amazing design? "Gainaxing" is already taken...

the shocking part is actually revealing who Sadako san was..(/_\ )...
And the presence of the Revolutionary Organization..

Pacing?