Next Title~

Once I'm done scanlating Buster Keel, I'm going to pick up Artist Acro by Sakurai Ato!

Mangadex description:

"Once upon a time, artists were able to use their special skills freely, until seven years ago with a group of artists began using souls as raw materials for their work. Now society lives in fear of artists as a young man named Acro Hamburger travels to the capital city to ply his trade as a sculptor and to realize his dream of becoming a great artist."

I read volume 1 (up on MangaDex by Project Kurai Ryu) and really liked the comedic and fantasy elements, so was pretty bummed that it only had 6 chaps scanlated 2 years ago. But now, with my noob Japanese skills and Google Translate, I can muddle my way through the rest >:)

Anyway, though I couldn't resist and bought the remaining volumes (2-9) off Honto already ($28USD yo!), plan is to finish BK first. Probably can't handle doing multiple series in parallel. 

TFW

"TFW you discover a new manga and really love the art and characters and midway through the first chapter you realize you recognize the style and the feels it's already giving you so when you check the author you realize YOU WERE RIGHT IT'S THEM!! but that makes you really sad at the same time because not only do you have to start waiting in painful anticipation for the next chaps but their previous work that got you hooked on this style was dropped by the scanlator so you will never find out how it ends, yet author-sama has moved on to their next work already!!!!!!!!"

Not really a relateable TFW, but this is ALL about the feels. And also I take pride in writing a 100+ word sentence.

Anyways, I'm talking about Charlotte Has Five Disciples, a Korean webtoon by YongYong. They did Black Haze (which is the said previous work), and they are also the culprit behind me rolling in bed in agony requiring that I read the next chapter and then, having received it, continuing to roll in bed in agony over what happened in said chapter.

I loved Black Haze to bits - I'll admit up front that the story was pret-ty hard to follow and felt really unnecessarily drawn out, and also the art started out amateur. But then that art went to beautiful but chunky to just plain gorgeous, and the premise and the randomness of the gags really hooked me. The magic/OP-ness harpooned me right in all my geek spots, so I was drooling all over it. For a good week, I wondered if some future version of me had created this webtoon, because of how much it slathered me in everything I wanted in a comic (but lol I'm never going to draw anywhere as good as that).

So yeah, I found Charlotte last week, and I was both ecstatic and depressed to discover I had stumbled on YongYong's next work. There are 2 chapters out so far and I'm already crying over the return of YongYong's beautiful art (which seems to have improved enormously since) as well as their amazing sense of humour.

Just look at how beautiful this is.

The creativity in premise and concepts are still high-tier and the story looks like it's going to be much more cohesive and directional than Black Haze (cough cough it's a good thing). We have a new female lead (and she's OP yay), plus we are promised a cast of 5 more interesting folks (who are also definitely OP)! To top it all off, it looks like a thematic topic is going to be romance??

It'll take me a while to get over the fact that Black Haze is done and forgotten by the valiant Korean scanlation vanguard, so I will settle for Charlotte as my comfort food. 

Bless the scanlators & YongYong, may their USBs plug in the on first try and fat cheques arrive in their mail. Looking forward to enjoying Charlotte Has Five Disciples!