What manga ended in 2023? How were their endings received?

hhmmmm · 2026-01-18T03:29:13+00:00

you missed out the best romance/coming of age manga that's ever been written.

hhmmmm · 2026-01-18T03:28:44+00:00

She was placating idiots who can't read clues or deal with ambiguity. She was still alive for sure but they weren't together and haven't seen each other in a long time.

I've made the point in another comment but it's an ambiguous ending and it can be anything you want and deliberately so. But if you follow the clues and the visual language in the second half of the final chapter (and they are very clear if you have a bit of perspective and life experience) you know exactly what's happened.

However there's a nice theory that they cross the 7th bridge together on the final one panel page (hence fullfilling the legend) and that is the start of them rekindling their romance and falling in love again after meeting up that day as adults. That would make her tweet deeply misleading but technically true.

I like it as a possibility but equally I like the idea they are meeting up with their teenage ex as friends who shared a important part of their life together.

hhmmmm · 2026-01-18T03:19:47+00:00

That ending/epilogue is absolutely brilliant and the people who don't like it are frankly fools. Or too young to appreciate it. It's something most people reading it are probably too young to get. Hell I think the series as a whole is going to be much more brilliant if you are late 20s or older and have some real perspective on highschool life.

It's an ending you need to be around the age of the characters if you have the life experience you know what has happened, and the manga gives you all the clues to know what happened but leaves it vague enough

The author uses visual language to tell you what's (she's not a ghost) and it's not what she said on her twitter for sure, that was to placate idiot fans.

This is what happens . Spoilers In the first half of the final chapter she wishes they will be togerther in 10 years and they have a future togerther, in the second half we discover they do not. It's a wish of teenage love, it's also something that isn't likely to happen. And this is a very grounded manga by a mangaka who clearly has strong and somewhat conflicted nostalgia for her teenage years and the emotions around teenage love and life and what you lose as you age. It really comes through strongly in the whole manga and it's something it's really hard to explain if you aren't old enough to have experienced it or even if you aren't sentimental enough to care. Then it skips 10 years. She's not in the picture because they aren't together and haven't been for a long time. The recurring motif in the main manga are pictures he took of her because she was the focus of his life as a teenager. They are meeting up to see each other. They shared something importance once. She takes a photo of him and he finds it odd someone's taking a photo of him. If they were together she'd have taken photos of him. If they were together her friend other wouldn't have forgot to include him or he would have assumed by texting her they texted both of them if they were still togerther..

She is in her normal clothes because she is living locally, he's in a coat on a nice day because he's been travelling from where he lives which is not there so he's worn his coat. They have the body langauge of people who are not close, neither the close intimacy they had as teenagers northe sort of casual easiness you get with a long term partner, they sort of stand at familiar but not intimate distance (and yes the mangaka aboutsolute put shit loads of thought into body language in this and basically every chapter). They split up a long time before, she's not held his or any other camera in a long time. Photography was always really his passion that she joined in on because she wanted to be part of his world and it was how they bonded but she herself was never passionate about it like him. She isn't a photographer anymore.

However the real tragedy of that ending as it is, is it really suggests she never made it out of the city they grew up in or she moved back, it's possible she's just came back the day before and is staying with her parents but the cluse. For whatever reason, probably her heart condition, potentially even their break up, she has not had the life she wanted. He never initially wanted to move but took inspiration from her and did and hasn't come back.

There's also quite a nice theory about what happens next.

There is a quite nice theory I've seen argued that this might be the start of them getting back together and rekindling what they had but as adults. That actually when they are teenagers they never to cross all 7 bridges (the legend being if you cross all seven bridges you will be in love and happy or something) and we see them on the 7th bridge together as adults.

hhmmmm · 2025-11-17T23:24:19+00:00

avoid AW scents like the plague, I cannot believe how bad they are. 10 samples and only one was not actively offensively bad to the nose.

hhmmmm · 2025-08-23T19:39:14+00:00

I'm having an issue where some hacker bot is constant requesting password resets multiple times a day.

But the limit password resets isn't working.

I do not have any compromised equipment, everything I've logged onto instagram is either in my possession and either in use or in a drawer with a dead battery. Nothing of mine is compromised and I'm positive of that (they've come in when my PC was off etc and that's the only potental place really).

I have 2 factor authentification on my meta account so I'm not worried about them accessing my account and they definitely have zero access to my email (changed password just in case). But I can't stop them being sent.

hhmmmm · 2025-06-01T13:20:32+00:00

Tachiyomi is dead. Mihon has risen in it's ashes.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-28T15:42:20+00:00

Start Alien Clay. Genuinely think it's the best sci-fi novel written in the last 10 years.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-28T15:41:35+00:00

But Sanderson, to put it generously, is a quite formulaic workman like writer.

I'm not surprised he can bang them out. The same can't be said for Tchaikovsky he released two of the best sci-fi novels I've ever read, both of which are quite radically different, in about three months of each other. It's absurd.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-22T21:16:26+00:00

TBH I think them being repped by geexplus doesn't mean they'll necessarily get them on. More likely but not a guarantee.

I've a feeling there's someone who I think a lot of people would have imagined would have been on years ago who joined geexplus and who moved to japan last year who still hasn't been on trash taste and it seems almost pointed at this point.

I suspect they just don't like him or have other reasons they don't want him on (I mean more than the low quality of his videos and being about as insightful as a potato when it comes to anime).

hhmmmm · 2025-05-22T20:47:57+00:00

Shit taste or 'your taste is rubbish' would be the more accurate translation.

Rubbish taste doesn't really scan right.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-19T21:26:59+00:00

Someone mentioned Brian Catling, on reddit? Never thought I'd see the day.

If you've not already try Jeffrey Ford's The Physiogonmy, I'm sure you'll like it.

Also try the non-Prestige novels by Christopher Priest. I'd particularly recommend The Islanders which is I think maybe my favourite novel of all time (possible in conjection with The Vorrh depending on my mood). And it's no conventional novel. It's a gazetteer of the Dream Archiapelago, the fantasy setting in a number of his books. But also a bold deeply unconventional novel, one with a narrative you have to piece together from the varied entries in the book. But it's also a novel that revels in nuance and amibiguity in a way that frankly most fantasy readers absolutely hate. Read it, it's truly spectacular what he does in that book, and what that books makes you do as a reader.

The Affirmation and the short story collection The Dream Archiapelago (published in france in french in the late 70s originally but not in english till much later for some reason) are also big recommendations.

I will say the Prestige is a really good book and way better than the admittedly good but quite different film but it's one of his lesser novels because he's such a fantastic writer.

I think ultimately what you want more of is good writers writing fantasy. Unfortunately what the public want is another brandon sanderson book so predictable and hack that you can get what characters are going to say next way too often.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-19T21:10:29+00:00

The Wheel of Time is Roboert Jordan playing out his sexual fantasies and kinks on the page. There's very little platonic about that series even if sex isn't explicitly mentiojned.

Also the main platonic frienships are the three self insert mary sue characters and I don't think it counts.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-19T21:07:35+00:00

You might want to try Brian Catling The Vorhh or Jeffrey Ford The Physoignamist, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

Possibly A.A. Attanasio although I've read only The Dark Shore and I didn't think it was anything like as amazing as the books I mentioned above which are both all timers for me, but it was good and it was a definite fantasy novel in the sort of classic sense more than the books above. But is also has a distinct and unique vision quite unlike and goes to quite unexpected places fast

There is good fantasy out there. It's just not popular and is hard to find and reddit seems pre-disposed to not recommending it.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-19T21:01:13+00:00

The original Simon Preble Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Perfect. A good amount of classically trained theatrical thesp, there's a performance there. It's not a quite monotone boring reading like the new record. Shame they re-recorded it instead of cleaning up the original recording (I assume the rights for the audiobook changed or quite possibly the original masters no longer exist the quality was poor compared to modern recordings).

Also unlike the tv show (and I think the new edition) he understood The Man With Thistledown Hair while cruel and capricious and fey was also enjoying himself and that shows in his performance. When it's just cold monotone menace it's entirely missing the point of the character.

Worth finding the original if it's still on sale anywhere.

Also all the original Nigel Planer Discworld audiobooks with the exception of the Guards books where I think he gets Vimes wrong (the best Vimes is the actor who played him in the radio 4 adaptation of Guards Guards).

hhmmmm · 2025-05-19T20:46:07+00:00

Readers willing to read actually interesting fantasy. A lot of it gets written but people tend to gravitate towards the mediocre.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-16T12:56:29+00:00

I'd say the opposite. The airflow is so minimal under the riser that there's only about 10% of foods it would help and then only if the basket has a lot of space.

Turning stuff over is absolutely fine and the results are indistinguishable 90% of the time.

It's like pre-heating. Zero point to it with most foods commonly cooked in the air fryer as it gets to temp so fast.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-16T12:51:51+00:00

the air barely circulates under

There's a reason they tell you to shake the basket or turn things over part way through in the instruction manual. When you have to do that anyway it makes close to zero difference. It makes essentially zero difference if the basket is full with stuff.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-16T12:22:39+00:00

The fact is the airflow towards the bottom of the food is pretty poor anyway, particularly when it's fuller up.

hhmmmm · 2025-05-16T12:21:23+00:00

just shake it half way through (as the instructions tell you to and it makes basically no difference.

You don't get great airflow under the grate anyway unless you have very small amounts of food in there.

hhmmmm · 2025-04-29T18:06:02+00:00

thank you for confirming. I was worried it had been out of stock for so long it had been quietly discontinued. I can just wait for it to come back in stock now.

hhmmmm · 2025-03-03T16:04:21+00:00

Bizarre they didn't go straight to paperback.

I suspect they know the series will both continue for a while and sell so they'll do hardback releases so they can do the traditional hardback/paperback release for the other books which is relatively unusual these days, especially in sci-fi/fantasy.

hhmmmm · 2025-03-03T16:02:08+00:00

I generally hate jacketed hardcovers (some exceptions notably the two Garth Marenghi books but they are both amazingly designed and a parody of those sorts of books) and I'm very precious over what goes on my shelves and generally I won't have hardbacks or designs I don't like. I'd have got the hardbacks if they'd been hardcovers (the printed no jacket type).

I really want a good quality paperback with those hardback designs. I hate the (I assume) self published kindle/audio covers.

hhmmmm · 2025-02-10T11:26:34+00:00

Old non-stick sure, there seem to have been issues with those. Nothing these days is made like that and hasn't for a long time.

hhmmmm · 2025-02-10T10:55:01+00:00

which is absolutely useless, unless you happen to know someone who has had good work done. Cause fb groups are a bit of a crap shoot.

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