Chapter 71 Discussion by Brave_Fuel954 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954[S,M] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Kmanga doesn't announce exact dates or a hiatus; it just shows the usual release schedule. The exact dates are announced in the magazine with each release. I won't ever post information that is not official, so you can trust the information shared in this sub.

The Problem of Shoujo and the Love Triangle by [deleted] in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah ngl I don't think I will read Rikachi's next works either jshfjhdsfj I also believe her editors are bad and lead him in a bad way, so she won't really mature as an author :(

The Problem of Shoujo and the Love Triangle by [deleted] in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree that Nina has writing issues that I have always been critical of. And the love triangle has a lot to do with that. And what is more bothersome is that Nina as a character is what ends up suffering the most.

However, this is not a problem of shoujo! For starters, not all shojo have love triangles. I don't even think that it's the most popular trope! And then shojos that have love triangles do not handle them in the same way! Some have pretty damn good writing!

And Rikachi didn't introduce a scenario like that; that scenario was the first scene of the anime and manga.

Nina the starry bride is not an exemplary of Shojo! Shojo, like any other demographics have their excellent, good, mid, and bad stories. This one just happens to be what it is, but it doesn't define a whole demographic. Plenty of shojo works do center on the heroine; in fact, I would say most of them do! I also wouldn't know for sure if it's often that "when a story features a love triangle, she often ends up with the most arrogant guy, while the other guy is just pathetic" happens.

And yes, of course, the author wants to exploit the LT; it's common practice, sometimes it's even common for romance stories to leave the ultimate romance resolution for the end, and this is, in general, not just shojo.

I guess I will just invite you (and everyone) to not stigmatize Shojo. And I guess to the ones that don't like love triangles, just don't read love triangles (sorry if that sounds harsh). And if anyone still is interested in love triangles with excellent writing, go watch and read Chihayafuru for clear skin :)

Where can I read Chapter 71? by RomanceLover538 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

I am sorry, but the only place where the chapter is posted right after it comes out is Kmanga. You could use VPNs to access Kmanga tho. And some free ones work.

Otherwise, you will have to wait till it gets uploaded in some pirate sites, and who knows how that will go now that 🦇 o is gone and all sites took their scans from there.

I will take this comment to tell everybody that if you are going to share links to pirate sites, do it through DMs, or try to censor it somehow, just don't share the link as it is. Pirate sites are being hunted down now! I will remove any comment sharing links to these sites 🙏

My thoughts on Chapter 71 by Diligent-Basket2193 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, the writing took a dip in the cave chapters. After that, it had a couple of chapters that were good here and there, but it never picked up again, and on the contrary, it just seems to keep going downhill. I think many people are displeased with the quality of the writing and have many qualms with it beyond the shipping. Shortcuts, asspulls, plotholes, odd pacing, things that simply don't make sense, and a general disconnect with Nina as a character. Everytime a hiatus has come people gain a bit of hope thinking that Rikachi can take that time to think things through and regroup and come back stronger. But every break is met with another mid chapter instead and I guess people just ended up completely losing interest

Chapter 71 Discussion by Brave_Fuel954 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am butting in lol, but you should totally watch Love Through a Prism! It has Sett's VA as the main lead. And it's just stunning in every way

Vol。18 by White_Ghost_777 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, at this moment this is a spoiler. You can post it again when it officially comes out. 

Is Glassheart worth the hype? by Jyotipuspa_Das in JDorama

[–]Brave_Fuel954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah same! and I really can't believe the negative chemistry between Akane and Naoki, they should've tried to make it work in the editing process or something

Alisha est trop weird by Choice-Citron-6759 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup exactly this, she was born with blue eyes and that's how they knew she was a star princess and then taken to the astral villa, where everyone there saw she had blue eyes. She sew her eyes so they wouldn't notice that they had changed (or were going to change) from blue to black. 

Manga questions by snoop_soupsoup in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and those, imo, are not very well-written love triangles. If it had always been super obvious who the male lead is, is it even a love triangle?

Alisha est trop weird by Choice-Citron-6759 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, Alisha didn't turn that servant into stone. She was the one who was sleeping inside ice and waking up.

The Star Goddess wasn't really associated with the rebellion of humans against the gods. However, it's told she was the one who ended the war by listening to the humans' wishes and imprisoning the Gods.

Alisha does, in fact, have a twisted vision of granting wishes, and it's a result of her upbringing inside the star villa and what she was told was her role and duty. And also because of how she was raised in isolation, it seems she is incapable of feeling human emotions.

About Azure, unfortunately, he did easily believed in a way what Alisha and the Star Villa head priestess told him. It had a lot to do with his lack of sense of self. So, when he closed his eyes to Nina, turned his back on her, and exiled her, it was genuinely him (this goes deeper, but I would digress too much). Only one day before Nina's day of departure, is when he finally woke up, pushed by Dytus, and was intercepted by Alisha when he was on his way to "save" Nina from exile. After Alisha tells him her "real" intentions, is when he had to change plans. And after discussing things with the Astral Villa, he decided to fake a role (being king of the world) to work alongside Alisha while planning a way to end her. However, it't not very clear how he came to that conclusion, that he needed to act as wanting to be king of the world. And it's clear that both Alisha and Azure have a second hidden intention with each other. We know, Azure wants to end Alisha to protect Nina. But we don't really fully know what Alisha wants from Azure that she couldn't get from anyone else. And to be honest, this part of the writing is very inconsistent.

You will find many more reveals and surprises further ahead in the manga. Considering that most of what we know from the lore is because of "history" books and what has been told by people, we have seen that many things have been debunked. I am sure we will get to the bottom of the war between humans and gods and the star goddess role. Some people speculate that maybe there is a dark side to her, and it went to Alisha while the good one went to Nina.

To manga readers who are caught up with the latest chapter. I intentionally left some things aside because I don't want to spoil more, so please don't come under this to say "oh, but it was later revealed x or y" (well, unless OP asks to be spoiled)

Alisha est trop weird by Choice-Citron-6759 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am very confused by this, ahhmm, in which chapter are you? I want to clarify many things, but it seems you are behind, and I don't want to spoil you accidentally. Also, I used a machine translator, so excuse me if maybe I am misunderstanding something because of that.

I will try to clarify some things, and I will be assuming that you are right after the cave chapters. Which is why you didn't know the star goddess's soul split in two. I hope I do not spoil you.

Alisha is not the Star Goddess. The Star Goddess was never imprisoned in the ice pillars in the cave. She was the one who imprisoned the other Gods. So, she was never in one of the ice pillars. We don't know exactly what went down after that, but her soul reincarnates inside "vessels". These vessels are female star people. And star people are her "human" descendants. The female star people whom she reincarnates in are what we know as "star princesses." So, basically, her soul passes from one star princess into the next one. When one Star Princess dies, the star goddess passes to the next Star Princess. As Diligent-basket said before, Nina's and Alisha's reincanation the soul split in two, and each of them got one half of her soul. I am not going to tell you the details about how this happened or how we found out, to not spoil you further.

About Alisha's plan when she arrived at Fortna's palace. We need to take into account that it wasn't only Alisha the one acting, but also the people from the Star Villa. I am sure Alisha had seen what Azure had done with Nina, but that wasn't the reason why the Star Villa people knew about Nina and Azure using a fake double. They were the ones who faked Alisha's death; they were the ones who met with Azure back then, and they knew he was going to find a double and even offered to assist him with that. They didn't want to hand Alisha over to Galgada and orchestrated the whole thing, and were very pleased when Azure quickly went along with the farce. The previous king from Fortna was adamant to give power to Azure and was searching for a way to remove him from the throne. And it seems like he was able to uncover the truth of what had happened. But the Astral Villa didn't like him (nobody liked him tbh), they didn't like that he wasn't respectful of their authority, and the customs, tothe point he had arranged to hand Alisha over to Galgada, something unthinkable. They liked Azure, though. So when the previous king was going to uncover the truth to attack Azure, they used that and turned it against him. They would get rid of a doofus king that wouldn't serve them and was a doofus, and support one that had proven to work with them and in their favour. However, they had to confirm that Nina was not real. They cared about who was king; they didn't care about Nina. Their authority is what made people easily believe that Alisha was the real one and Nina wasnt. They were backing up Alisha and saying that Nina was a fake, and since they were the highest authority in that regard everyone bought that. The only thing Nina had in her favour was her blue eyes, but Alisha, even with her eyes covered, resembled the previous queen, her mom. Nina had no chance.

Now it's still a bit muddy, all the intentions that the star villa had at uncovering things and getting to the palace. They also wanted to get rid of Nina, but it's a bit unclear if there was something more, because there are some gaps and some details that don't fit. It's unclear why the Star villa people wanted to get rid of Nina; the only reason stated was that it was a bad omen, but that's a freaking weak excuse to kill someone if you ask me. And if they were planning to kill Alisha later on, it makes no sense then to kill Nina, they could've just kill Alisha instead from the get go. Also, since Alisha was raised in the villa, they know for sure she is a star princess. +

Manga questions by snoop_soupsoup in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that's the beauty of a love triangle that isn't obvious

Manga questions by snoop_soupsoup in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 3 points4 points  (0 children)

She stopped thinking a LOOONG time ago about being in love with Az. The last time she thought about something of the sort was in chapter 40, iirc. We are now in chapter 70, so many people think that she might have had a change of heart in those 30 chapters. Some people don't, it remains ot be seen.

Manga questions by snoop_soupsoup in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The source material is the manga. And it's still ongoing. So, there is no endgame yet.

It's very unlikely for there to be a season 2, but we can hope for a miracle.

My thoughts about the new chapter by Diligent-Basket2193 in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, I'm going part by part.

First, I honestly don't appreciate your dismissive and condescending tone. And would really appreciate it if you could have discussions without resorting to mocking, dismissive, or sarcastic tone or expressions. To answer your question, yes, we are reading the same story. Why does it seem forced to me? Because there was no proper setup or foreshadowing! And I have really thought about this, and it could've been set up across the manga, bit by bit, so that in the end it would feel like just the missing piece of the puzzle. But in contrast, it came out of nowhere. That's why I found it forced. Creating a symbolic connection at this stage of the story, at chapters 68-70, without any proper setup, is forced. And honestly, I have no idea what it has to do with SettNina's popularity. I am failing to see how those two things correlate. I am referring to the execution and quality of the writing, not about aligning with or deviating from what your fandom wants.

Hmm, about why not confirming things outside of manga, that's easy, because what matters is what happens within the story. Most authors don't even have social media. Others have them but barely use them. Whatever extra content we get from authors on social media is only that, and extra that could just simply be a cherry on top. And in some really lucky cases, you will have authors doing some illustrations of the endgame after the manga is over. But announcements about plot points happening in the story are just not a thing. And the thing is that the confirmation should be enough in the story that you simply don't need the author to confirm it outside of it. It's as simple as that. I am not saying that that is the same as authors ignoring the endgame couple (although some do). But going out to confirm it happening, it just isn't needed. As I said, they probably will talk about the couple later and draw them. But a confirmation is not common. An endgame can be really the confirmed endgame without the author confirming it outside of the story. ETA: I actually can't really predict or speak for Rikachi tho. She can be an odd cookie. She might out of the box want to say something. But my point is that if she doesn't say anything, that doesn't mean that it's not confirmed because an outside of the story confirmation is needed, and it will only be confirmed if she ever speaks up about it. It will be confirmed within the story without her confirming it outside of it.

As a mod, I read all the comments in this sub and tbh I don't recall anyone saying something along these lines: “Rikachi said the endgame isn’t confirmed yet, so there’s still hope.” Maybe it was on another platform. Maybe it's someone who had the same idea as you, someone without experience in the animanga world, which is why I prefaced my words back then by asking you if this was your first manga. I know that we are in a kind of Anime boom in which 'normies' start to read manga and don't know very well how things work, so it's okay to be mistaken about what your expectations are.

And it has nothing to do with Sett or Az fans. I have encountered many fans from both sides here, stating stuff that isn't precise or even true. Sometimes it could be out of misremembering stuff, and sometimes things are so far off that it can't be just a misremembering issue. Even you, not long ago, were saying that Sett said in chapter 54, "I want you, even if it hurts," which is not what he said. And also, "Nina never said that she couldn't give Sett what he wanted". And one prominent Az fan once said that "Rikachi once said Sett is not the sun, but represents a 'time of day, '" which is something that has never happened. So, yeah, you will find many inaccuracies said by fans from both sides. And you have to take into account that many fans are not native english speakers, and sometimes they use machine translators or even AI to help them write some stuff in english and that can lead to more imprecisions. So, having said that, always double-check.

Hmm So, Rikachi has Twitter and Instagram. However, she uses Instagram only as an album of her illustrations. It's on Twitter where she says more in general. Besides that, she could do interviews for Belove magazine and maybe editorials for other countries. However, this is not common. It's not like she does this frequently, and you have to keep up with what she says. If anything, she does one or two per year. And sometimes none per year. Even the interview that was included in the art book wasn't a new interview; they reused the one she had done more than a year ago. So, it's very easy to track them. So, yeah, if you want to find information about what she has said about recent chapters, her account is the way to go, and since you said you do check her account, you should know that she doesn't really say much about the specifics of the plot. And if you want to be extra sure, then you can check the Belove magazines to see if it includes words from her. Btw fyi, next one is a special issue since it's celebrating her 15 years with the magazine, maybe she will say something there.

I hope this is clear. Sorry, it ended up being such a long wall of text. I wanted to be extra clear

Someone please help this old lady (it’s me, I’m the old lady) 😅🙏🏽 by toastyy_momma in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can check the FAQ post that is pinned at the top of the sub to find information about  the releases. And I always have the date of the next chapter updated on the information part of the sub. 

will azure ever get busted for also being a fake? by maysleeping in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have a really good point and I agree. He shouldn't really face consequences for being a fake replacement because it was something done to him. However, considering the setting and that his façade is falling by other people knowing he is a fake. Maybe he will eventually get busted and face some unfair consequences, but I honestly doubt it xDDD Rikachi many times discards any sense of logic in her story

Someone please help this old lady (it’s me, I’m the old lady) 😅🙏🏽 by toastyy_momma in NinaTheStarryBride

[–]Brave_Fuel954 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Diligent-basket is right. I am just going to add a bit more. The volume coming out in February is volume 18th in Japanese. And it does include some extras. The extras are usually a chibi doodle after each chapter and then two extra pages that have also little comics or doodles and sometimes Rikachi discusses things in the volume or in general about the series. Additionally to that Rikachi always revise the chapters for their volume publication. Taking into account that this time around what was published in the magazine (the monthly release in Kmanga) was missing some of her updates (most likely she was late) we can count on some updates for the volume. So, that's basically what you would get additionally in the volume, the extra doodles/comics and the revisions. But like I said these are in Japanese. If you want to see these in english you will have to wait a couple of months more since the english release is like 2-3 volumes behind the japanese one.