“Omg dungeons menshi is so good! The characters and the worldbuilding and the art and the hu—“
It’s because the author had TWO MONTHS between publications instead of the usual week. 8X the amount of time to plot her story and see where she had been and where she was going and figure out how best to get there. Imagine if this was the industry standard instead of the crushing gears of weekly publication which grinds the minds, bodys, and souls of mangaka to dust until there is nothing left. Imagine Dungeon Menshi qualify manga as a rule not the exception. Imagine stories that did not destroy their creators. Imagine—
“I would say Louis has a puzzle that hasn’t been solved by a guy who spends his life getting the story. And I find one of the most interesting lines in the whole show is that I’m describing my former self and I say, “It’s a tale told to an idiot.” Well, who’s the idiot? That’s me. I’m calling myself an idiot. So, I’m calling my youthful self an idiot and I want to make up for that by going back and finding what had to be the greatest story I had ever investigated, but ineptly forty something years ago. I can easily imagine that. That comes up all the time in everyone’s life. I mean, it’s in its worst form. It’s like you get a Facebook account and you find that person you wanted to go out with in the ninth grade. You find them again, it turns out they will go out with you on a date and you’re willing to go and you’re just like, “Maybe this time I can get her to kiss me.” So maybe this time Louis will kiss me.” Eric Bogosian (x)
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