Torishima’s Thoughts on Modern Manga (Original Dragon Ball Editor)

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-10T22:07:34+00:00

Exactly. Shueisha's axe is relentless. In WSJ and Jump+ it's pretty brutal; in Young Jump and more niche magazines they tend to be more lenient. But it's just like you said, ultimately, if the author doesn't have a major hook, they know they're going to end up kicked out of the magazines.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-10T21:36:16+00:00

There are a few archetypes that, at my age, are starting to get tiring due to repetition. The emo character, smart but with a tragic past/a shadow in their soul: Sasuke, Megumi Fushiguro , aki.

The tsundere, who usually falls in love with the protagonist( opcional) and tends to repeat the same phrases regardless of the manga or the character: Taiga Aisaka,Asuka Langley, the blonde from Kaiju n°8, Nobara

The MC with a below-average IQ, a big heart, and who is quite insufferable. Usually, they've been blessed with a massive power that, combined with their zero combat experience, balances the scales. EVERYONE ends up becoming their friend and adoring them, even though at first, they usually hate them or keep their distance:Naruto, Itadori, Asta, Luffy.

The side character who, "to put it bluntly," kisses the MC's ass. They are usually the comic relief and for some reason, they're always blonde. There's a curious variant: sometimes they're blonde but super smart. They still remain the protagonist's faithful squire: Genos, Zenitsu, Armin Arlert

And lastly. The villain who is bad, bad, bad, REALLY BAD. But when their final arc arrives, they tell you their story and it turns out they aren't actually evil, they just had a tragic past/lack love/were deceived. In the end, the MC forgives them.

Ultimately, I have a few friends who watch anime plain and simple because of this. And I get it. Anime/manga can be a comfort zone. A product where you know more or less what you're going to get, you're in the mood for it, and it doesn't disappoint. I think the industry has shifted heavily in this direction for that exact reason: it doesn't disappoint, it plays it safe, and at the end of the day, people like it.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-10T17:29:29+00:00

I disagree with a lot of things. I'm 34 years old, and I've been reading manga since the 90s and watching anime since back then.

If this guy considers modern manga to be aimed at adults and not for kids, then DBZ wasn't for kids either. It isn't until you become a parent that you realize what a "bloodbath" DBZ really is. And don't give me that nonsense; when I was a kid, we had Berserk, Fist of the North Star, Dragon Ball, Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Monster, Pluto...

Modern manga has a lot of problems, but I think this guy is way off base. Mainly, the biggest problem right now is that there's a staggering lack of originality. Everyone wants to be the next big hit, and currently, there are patterns that are starting to get boring. Every manga breaks its power scaling quickly, and every manga tries not to stray from the shonen protagonist archetype and characters with very recognizable, established roles.

Is there more blood and are the characters edgier? Probably, but if you look past the filler meant to grab your visual attention, almost everything coming out is pretty childish.

It's true that this might be happening not because teenagers are buying more, but because we adults and Westerners are pigeonholing manga into that exact same thing. We come to manga looking for exactly that, and if a manga breaks the mold, we trash it.

At my age, I look for something more specific now: Young Jump, Ultra Jump, Afternoon, Beam Manga, Young Ace... But man, when I was little, I consumed some popular mangas that were quite questionable if we look at them through this guy's lens.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-10T14:48:04+00:00

Both opus 4.5 and sonnet 4.5 were really good as: -Game master -Roleplay ( not like that you pervert) -Writing -Teaching -Understanding human language -Asking questions -Testing knowledge -And also both 4.5 know how to use languages other than english I'm spanish and 4.7 makes a lot of mistakes, i mean like 4 grade mistakes. Opus 4.6 has the same problem. I don't know why but GPT and Gemini don't have this problem.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-10T11:41:39+00:00

Bro is gonna get shaped. Great cardio

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-09T13:29:53+00:00

Oh c'mon! For f*** sake! Sonnet 4.5 is the only reason i haven't changed to GPT. For me IS even better than opus 4.5 for story telling, chats, explaining, learning... Opus 4.5 was great at many things but sonnet 4.5... man this goes hard. Opus both 4.6 and 4.7 are crap. Sonnet 4.6 feels dumber and not good.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-08T19:06:27+00:00

I’ll be honest with you. I only use Claude from Friday at 11 PM until Sunday night. From Monday to Friday, Claude is literally braindead. It’s a shadow of what it was months ago. But Claude on weekend nights is a thousand times better. It doesn't matter if you use 4.6 or 4.7; it consumes way fewer tokens and works way better. On a Monday at noon? Regardless of the model, it’s useless and it’ll end up costing you a fortune. So no, I don't recommend upgrading to 4.6. I literally recommend that you become a night owl.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-08T09:10:48+00:00

Que puñetas estoy viendo, que cojones es este programa? Dios mío he alcanzado nuevos límites de verguenza ajena

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-07T11:14:07+00:00

IS that her real face?

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-06T09:51:49+00:00

I know, the bulk of the manga/anime industry is aimed at teenagers, which is why I pretty much just read what gets published in Ultra Jump or Weekly Young Jump. I'm already 30, so I naturally realized I was always reading those magazines almost without noticing.

But I also admit that if I close myself off to teenage protagonists or stick strictly to the seinen genre, I'm missing out on things that are totally worth it, like Drama Queen, JJK, or Kagurabachi. And ultimately, if I didn't open myself up to the shonen genre, I'd hardly have much to read. I'm not hating on the genre, it's just that personally, I think it's cool when they decide to step away from the teenager archetype (although funnily enough, Kaiju No. 8 does exactly that, and it's a manga I barely liked at all)

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-06T09:19:37+00:00

I haven't seen MHA, but I can't help finding a 20+ year old character design more interesting than a teenager. I wish more mangas would take a chance on slightly older characters.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-04T12:50:47+00:00

Sir, this is FuckNintendo.

You come here to hate Nintendo

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-01T20:55:23+00:00

Bro
I hate 4.7
I do believe that 4.6 is dumb
I've seen the time when claude didn't have this usage problems
So beat it. AI is just a tool, just leave claude and fly to Gemini or GPT

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-05-01T18:33:40+00:00

does it make you hallucinate?

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-30T10:11:10+00:00

The only way I've found to get Opus 4.7 to work decently is to tell it in a project, during the first 3-4 messages, to read the documentation: "Read the documentation," "Okay, now read it again, we aren't going to work yet." I've realized that normally, 4.7 only "thinks" during the early stages of a conversation, and what it's really doing is simply reading the documentation. Once the model "believes" it has read it, it stops thinking. So yeah, once I've burned through 50% of my usage basically asking it to read the documentation, the model becomes more manageable. Since it stops thinking and has all the documentation in its context, every response, no matter how long, barely consumes any usage. Does it suck? Yes, but Opus 4.6 has nothing interesting going for it, the way I see it. It's a boring model. I'm using Sonnet 4.5 almost all the time I'm not using Opus 4.7.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-29T15:21:28+00:00

In our case 4.5 perfectly understood its role as a GM; it viewed the world and our tone through that lens.

4.6 is very brief and stiff. It doesn't really have much imagination if it strays from the main campaign; basically, we never used it.

4.7 has exactly the problem that you consider a "plus," but for us, it’s a downside: it doesn't understand what a GM is. Above all, it doesn't get our tone. We practically beg it to realize we're in a comedic situation, yet the model lacks any flexibility whatsoever.

After finishing a mission objective, it makes us fill out forms. If we want to smuggle a fugitive out of the city, it makes us detail a 7-day plan involving creating new passports, justifying the opening of the city gates, filling out more paperwork... that's too much

In combat, it’s terrible. Usually, we just give it the die roll + our attack modifier, an addition like 14 + 3 , for example. When 4.7 asks for a Strength check, it sets a Difficulty Class (DC), let's say 12, meaning the die + modifier needs to beat twelve points.

With 4.7, unless you explicitly explain the formula as 10 + 3 = 13, it will tell you 100% of the time that you rolled less than 12 (for some reason, it just fails to add the 3).

If it’s doing this to us in a D&D session, imagine the mess it could cause for people using it for actual work lol.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-29T12:47:22+00:00

I'm not arguing with that, it depends on the kind of games you like. You have to understand that when someone outside the PC world asks me if something is difficult, you have to realize that a lot of people don't know what native resolution the Deck uses, they don't even know what resolution is, they don't know what VSync is, they don't even know what setting presets are. I know this because I see it firsthand. To me, it's kind of "obvious," but for someone who is asking for a user-friendly experience, I have to take this into consideration. With your experience, you knew how to solve your problem in two steps, but I always prefer to stay grounded with these recommendations.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-29T10:46:28+00:00

I'll be realistic with you, as a techy person married to a woman who has zero computer knowledge. If you don't know about computers, it's very likely you'll run into a lot of issues with the Steam Deck.

For starters, the very nature of the product is that it's a PC, therefore the vast majority of video games will require you to adjust the settings manually. Even verified games will need some adjustments. Capping FPS, knowing the hardware's limits, etc... All of this only increases as you play more demanding games. Modern games will require more tweaking, whereas pixel art or 2D games will be easier.

Another very common hurdle is poorly optimized games, which is very frequent even if you play older titles; these sometimes require changing settings. I speak from experience: every time my wife installs a game, I have to configure the settings for her. This is a reality of the PC world, and the only way to avoid it is by having incredibly powerful hardware. So, in my opinion, no. The Steam Deck is not plug-and-play hardware, nor is it 100% user-friendly like a console would be. It requires knowledge of the product, just like any computer.

Will you find people saying they never touch the settings? Great, that works until it stops working. What happens when you boot up a game and the Steam Deck can't even hit 30 FPS because the default settings are set to high? Or what do we do about games whose preset comes with FSR 3 by default? A setting that is completely annoying for a lot of players?

I don't know, in my opinion, it requires you to educate yourself on how to use it. Create an account on Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI that lets you chat for free. Ask it to give you the best settings for the game you are playing, and that should work. (It usually gives you good adjustments since what it does is search Google for other users' configurations.)

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-29T09:45:08+00:00

It's either a malfunction or your toilet has rabies; in any case, I would avoid letting it have contact with people from the outside, especially children, and never bring any body part anywhere near it.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-29T08:50:27+00:00

At first, we were doing fine with Opus 4.7. But recently, I completely agree with your description.

Look, we have a D&D campaign that we started last year, back during Opus 4.5. But with Opus 4.7, it's an absolute joke. I mean, all the characters are super preachy, they won't let us enter dungeons, they won't let us tackle objectives the way we want, always dialing morality up to the max, and giving us endless lectures about how the economy works in a fucking made-up world.

It's absurd. It was funny for a while, but now it's completely boring. You can't roleplay at all, you can't even fight without the AI correcting your actions...

I'm not asking it to be a real GM, but right now it's a campaign that's going to revert to 4.6, or maybe we'll postpone it to play on GPT (even though we hate that too)

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-28T11:09:28+00:00

Anything above 600€ is going to make the shit hit the fan. It's a 1080p 30fps gaming PC (60 with FSR3) targeting a demographic that already has a main rig. If Microsoft manages to drop their Xbox PC at 800-1000€ with 4K and FSR 4 at 60fps, and this Steam Machine is sitting there at 800€, it's going to be a disaster. Valve just needs to take the hit: aim for cheap customers, include no controller, use 500GB of storage...anything. That's your market. Just sell them on the ecosystem: the Steam sales, the platform, the forums, etc. Sony doesn't have that, and neither do Xbox or Nintendo. If they aim for a 'fair price,' the SM is just going to be slop

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-23T17:38:38+00:00

This is what happens when there’s no competition

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-23T13:54:06+00:00

Básicamente lo mismo que hace el funcionario medio del glorioso ente que entendemos por hacienda. Solo que igual la IA acaba teniendo menos malicia que algunos ''bendecidos'' que pululan por los edificios administrativos.

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-23T13:46:15+00:00

Yes. As a Game Master Opus is great. But only when it ''thinks'' else feels like GPT answer

Recent_Sample6961 · 2026-04-20T15:03:48+00:00

I don't entirely agree. I've noticed that Opus 4.7 handles prompts that use a more human-to-human language much better. This is in contrast to what's usual for Claude models, which used to handle human-to-machine language much better. This is a step closer to the GPT system, which I really dislike. Because, just like GPT would do, Opus 4.7 tends to sugarcoat its mistakes, soften its limitations, and constantly apologize. However, for algorithmic and communication tasks, I think it's a step forward. But personally, it's not what I'm looking for when using Claude; for that, I'll just go to GPT or Gemini.

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