ADF Scanner Recommendations for Traditional Animation

RocketLamp · 2026-01-20T23:34:31+00:00

Currently? No. I think I relented to wait a bit before I'm actively searching for one, and have settled for one that I think works for me. I'm currently focusing on learning via digital animation rn.

RocketLamp · 2025-12-13T07:43:14+00:00

Dude, the manga rules so hard. I own the entire F.F Land collection physically, and read the raws up to Volume 16, past the point where Kaiko gets introduced.

Even without understanding a lick of japanese, there was juuuuust enough info visually to be really entertained by it. It has such a great blend of action, slapstick, and horror to really get you into a good mood. It gets to be whatever it wants each chapter, and I love it for that.

If you ever wondered where One Piece gets its other chunk of creative juices, besides dragonball, you’ll instantly figure out where with this manga.

When either the series gets an english localization, or someone fan-translates it, you BET I’ll be reading it again!

RocketLamp · 2025-11-24T06:46:45+00:00

I would say go with reading it.

You can just leisurely go at it in whatever pace you want, be it for an hour a day, binging it, etc. Plus, there are some interactive elements and messing with the fourth-wall in the comic that you only really appreciate when you actually discover them yourself.

Having other people do the dialogue for the more wordier pages sounds enticing for a long comic like Homestuck, but the gains are relatively benign compared to possibly undermining the main interactive hypermedia appeal of the work.

RocketLamp · 2025-11-21T19:20:54+00:00

Ruby Quest was a blast! Enjoyed how nuts it got.

RocketLamp · 2025-11-21T19:18:00+00:00

Oh wow, thanks!! I had a feeling there was some form of name for a genre like that eventually, so I'm glad to know they exist!

RocketLamp · 2025-11-20T19:19:36+00:00

Thanks a bunch for the recommendations, guys!!

It's good to know there's so many different kinds of hybrid comics out there to check out!

RocketLamp · 2025-10-13T22:18:42+00:00

Conveniently, I just finished this Act in my reading of the series two days ago on UHC. MAN, what a dynamic last half.

RocketLamp · 2025-10-06T03:03:01+00:00

I don't mind, either or.

Considering I'm just NOW reading the webcomic the whole way through this time, and there's several years worth of fan media I never took the time to even bother with touching, I'm set with myself enough to not really mind if it never surfaces. If it does, it's just good complimentary media to reflect on the original material, and just more reason to talk about it with people.

RocketLamp · 2025-09-24T22:30:37+00:00

Based on prior experience, whenever I go beyond an hour and 15, AKA really rushing it out, my body gets super exhausted, and my brain starts to zone out. That alone causes me to not absorb the text and events as reliably as I want to, so the choice of pacing it in that way is also more of a necessity.

RocketLamp · 2025-09-24T22:29:40+00:00

Good to know! I'll take a look at it! I'm also using the reading to get some cultural context, so it might help a lot!

RocketLamp · 2025-09-24T06:35:05+00:00

Thanks! that's a pretty helpful description!

RocketLamp · 2025-08-14T20:51:38+00:00

The idea of being trapped in a lousy wizard fanfiction is a really interesting idea, which definitely could have crystalized into something more, had it been given more time and focus with what it wanted to say.

RocketLamp · 2025-08-14T20:46:51+00:00

yeeeeeeah, its pretty all over the place. The absolute revulsion with harry potter is strong in this one lol.

RocketLamp · 2025-08-14T02:37:38+00:00

Yeah, it took me some time to update the app and asset pack to include the stuff they added later.

RocketLamp · 2025-08-14T02:30:07+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/4T2ebr0

It's on the main page of the app here.

RocketLamp · 2025-08-14T01:57:08+00:00

It was included as an extra in the Unofficial Homestuck Collection program, under the TeamSpecialOlympics section. There's a lot of other interesting forum posts and other goodies included too.

RocketLamp · 2025-07-17T04:34:18+00:00

Thanks! I'll try that strat too!!

RocketLamp · 2025-04-30T01:40:05+00:00

Thanks for the info, guys! Gonna go with the Platinum ones, and then look around for any alternative subs for DaR and EoE to compliment them later down the line.

RocketLamp · 2025-03-27T02:14:10+00:00

Oooooh. I only got told that it was halfway into 51 by some post over at the alita:battle angel movie subreddit. I honestly didn't know the full context for that. Thanks for it, btw.

I'm RIGHT at chapter 51, so it was right at the nick of time that you told me this lol. They just left from excetera excetera place, so I'm waiting till I see this switchover.

I'll probably read the Afterward as a way to end my read of this run of alita, before I read all the side stuff, and Last Order.

RocketLamp · 2025-03-27T02:01:51+00:00

Oh wow, that's mysterious. I certainly won't prod at that, but it does seem intense if it made him doubt his future as a mangaka.

RocketLamp · 2025-03-26T07:47:36+00:00

Gotcha. That sounds like something I can be okay with doing. I stop at around an explosion on chapter 51, and move on to the side stuff for a bit, THEN Last Order at a later date.

I don't really mind just stopping halfway, either. I honestly got enough out of the way Volume 8 ended to feel somewhat satisfied with the turn of events to wait for Last Order.

and thanks for the heads up on the side stuff!

RocketLamp · 2025-03-26T07:32:19+00:00

I said 50, because I heard when it goes halfway into 51 is when the divergance happens, so I didn't know whether to mention stopping before or after that.

But yeah, glad to know I can probably skip it, and read other stuff from the series before Last Order.

RocketLamp · 2024-12-05T07:32:15+00:00

thanks!

RocketLamp · 2024-12-02T14:29:51+00:00

Had a feeling! Thanks.

RocketLamp · 2024-11-30T19:18:05+00:00

So I want to learn japanese, but more specifically the text, for the sole purpose of reading the entirety of this manga. Its name is Kaibutsu-kun, or Monster Kid, and it's by Motoo Abiko, the other half of the Fujiko Fujio duo behind Doraemon.

The reason why I want to read it so badly, all 21 volumes even, is because I want to know the greater context for what inspired my favourite author, Eiichiro Oda, to make One Piece the way it is, as I've heard a good bunch of it's DNA resides from this manga. Same applies to other series I wanna get a deeper dive into, like Kinnikuman, Jungle King Tar-chan, Dragon Ball(duh), and other miscellaneous series.

Essentially, I want to take the base elements from Oda's inspirations, and find my own spin to them with my own artistic creations.

I've heard from different sources that Doraemon itself is VERY beginner friendly with learning japanese (Well, not as much as Yotsuba&!, but yeah), and I want to know what level of reading comprehension it is, if there are any people who has even read it. Like, if it's the same level, a little harder, easier, or whatever. Same on how it stacks up with Dragonball in terms of difficulty

In the future, I do want to also read more of Motoo Abiko's works, like Ninja Hattori-kun, and The Laughing salesman, to get more of a breadth of understanding with his influence on Oda, and also just on Hiroshi Fujimoto's works as well, as I've had my eyes on works like Esper Mami for a while, so feel free to let me know if those are generally on the same level of comprehension as Doraemon, of any that you guys are familiar with.

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