Manga

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1191854

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Be it manga, manwha or manhua, what are some good villainess stories.

Im specifically looking for things that try to innovate in some aspect or that has a quirk that really makes it stand out to you, those that aren't your run of the mill "revenge, gets the prince, uses knowledge to humiliate everyone" kind of cliche story.

But that doesn't really matter, just recommend whatever story you have enjoyed in the genre if you like, even share your opinions on the genre.

Let's talk about villainesses!

For a while the Mahoro-chan bot has been posting titles, but they're often not well upvoted or viewed and seem potentially more spammy among the titles that individuals are posting themselves out of interest. The bot was fine when this community was still pretty low on subscriber count but I'm thinking it might be past that time as engagement has gone up, and there were already other voiced concerns from members that even individual manga discussion posts were spammy.

I'm not a moderator anyhow so we'd either have to contact the bot creator (mentioned in the bot's profile) or have a moderator do so depending on the decision.

Edit: I think @man_zonder_poespas summed up what I was thinking in a much better and concise manner in his comment: "Personally I like the idea that the chapter is posted by a fan of the series so that they’re relatively likely to respond to comments on the chapter. Y’know, have the idea that at least one person is invested in the thing being posted."

I know we have engagement issues due to being new and very limited in size or if people are being scared off by just discussion posts. I do think that the larger the community, the better the chances of more discussion and more non-chapter posts since lurkers are always a majority.

Having some sort of pinned discussion posts as others have wanted, or a pinned awareness post to help drive more engagement I think would also at least be a sign for newcomers.

r/Manga on Reddit allowed it, but I don't see anything mentioned in the sidebar here about what's allowed and what's not.

Since this community takes heavy inspiration on what the r/manga sub was doing, why not take one of the best parts?

In case anyone is wondering what that is, I'm referring to this kind of threat: https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/14p1m5o/what_manga_have_you_read_this_week_and_what_do/

Also I did do one of this 3 days ago in case someone doesn't want to see the reddit, although reddit paints a better example of what I wish it was.

I feel the community would greatly benefit if the mods were the ones that did the post and it was a pinned message that changed every week.

Reasoning is that unless pinned, the post just looses relevancy quick, a lot of people will miss it and also and very importantly, people that come see if they want to join can look at a post where people interact through an entire week and were some interesting conversations and suggestions are born instead of only seeing chapter releases that gather 1 or 2 comments at most since not everyone is keeping up with this many series (especially considering how small the community is right now)

Just in case, I'm not criticizing chapter release discussion, I think they are great as they keep the community with constant new content. It's just that with the small current size of this community, most of them are not interacted with and people unfamiliar to what these posts try to accomplish will not really get the best impression of the community if every post is almost empty (case in point, the guy like 5 or 6 days ago asking what the purpose of the community is), it's just the curse that comes with small size for this kind of format.

Nowadays D-frag is one of my favorite comedy manga, but when I tried reading it for the first time it didn't feel that funny or good, in fact I dropped it yhree times before reading it up to catching up, since theen I have re read this many times.

I think it is because of this "retort based comedy" that at the time of my first reading was kind of unfamiliar to me. A protagonist playing straightman and highlighting all the time how weird the antics of the side characters where wasn't that appealing.

Fast forward a few years later and I now find it hilarious l don't know it it's an acquired taste from reading more manga or just growing up.

So I'm curious for those that have read it or those that have tried, whate are your opinions on D-Frag?