Forum - View topicREVIEW: How to Treat a Lady Knight Right Manga Volume 1 Review
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Blanchimont
 Posts: 3584 Location: Finland |
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I read the manga a few years back, and at least what I remember I enjoyed it quite a lot. Guess the humor doesn't strike everyone...
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Minos_Kurumada
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If I remember correctly, the original title is "A Story About Treating a Female Knight, Who Has Never Been Treated as a Woman, as a Woman", seeing the name change to a TL/DR version its funny.
Anyways, yeah, this is as basic as it gets, you read it, it gets a couple of chuckles out of you and that's all, the fanservice its enterally abs based though, so if you are into that then, you have plenty. The best joke its most probably how Leo's Demonkind rival spoiler[Gets in the same situation as her, with a hero falling for her, seeing Foolie scold him for being so pushy with a straight face when the hero is acting exactly like him was hilarious.]. Perfectly readable, it's not Angel Densetsu though. Last edited by Minos_Kurumada on Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:59 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Seif
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I very much respect you but this definitely is something you don't get, my friend. The volume is absolutely fanservicey, but it's catering to a very narrow and very specific demographic. This manga series is midriff/ab catnip. That's the entire point of this manga and the reason the art is "overly detailed" as you pointed out. As it's target audience I can tell you that this manga is aimed like a laser-guided missile toward midriff lady-ab fetishists. It's entire reason for existing is to focus on toned girl abs. |
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roxybudgy
Posts: 132 Location: Western Australia |
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I picked up this series after reading "My New Wife Is Forcing Herself to Smile" by the same author, which I quite enjoyed. But "Female Knight" became a bit a slog after a while, pretty much the same joke repeated over and over again, despite later introducing additional characters.
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Yune Amagiri
 Posts: 1102 Location: France |
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I had fun reading it each week while ongoing until the end, i even wanted more actually. As a tankōbon i get why it might be repetitve for those who would binge read, mangas which originated as short web series tend to revolve around the same joke while changing the situation.
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KabaKabaFruit
 Posts: 1903 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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Worth the read if you like six-packs or just bare midriffs in general!
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Posts: 551 Location: Poland |
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I noticed many short web series I've read get less funny and start to feel repetitive with manga serialization. The premise gimmick is usually much better as a short chuckle, and just isn't fit for several pages per one situation. |
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Fluwm
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I dunno, I think that's a pretty common problem with gag/comedy stories in general -- they start out strong with a solid premise, but fail to expand on that premise and just wind up driving the original joke into the ground.
And part of it may just come from people working within the constraints of a serialized format, where to goal isn't to tell a proper story with a beginning, middle and end... but to keep the thing serialized for as long as possible. That can inhibit the natural creative desire to change things up, ya' know?
Sadly, nothing ever is. |
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Posts: 551 Location: Poland |
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OK, but I've often read the serialized chapters that retread the material from Twitter or other web manga form, which often already had 20 or 30 chapters, and the same material was just clearly worse due to extending 2 or 4 page joke or witty scene into 8 or more pages, and those pages just made everything duller, even if author tried to add more plot or some thoughtful dialogue to it (which was often just mismatched with the tone). On the other hand I've seen plenty of gag/comedy stories based on one main joke, going strong 300 chapters later, like Sleepy Princess or Tortured Princess, uhhh, I'm sure there are some non-Princess examples as well. |
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Fluwm
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Is that latter one the series with the... kind of odd title? Something like... "'Tis Time For Torture, Princess?" If so, I'd say it definitely qualified as running its one joke into the ground and just sort of shambling forward on inertia. The premise was amusing at first, but I certainly found myself not caring about reading any further after a certain point.
Meanwhile, Sleepy Princess has most definitely expanded its on its premise quite a bit. It hasn't really been solely about "Princess gets into hijinks for bedding materials" since the second volume or so. It's done quite a lot to flesh out the setting and characters and map out a rough series arc. In fact, it'd probably be among the first series I'd point to as an example of a something that escapes that one-note-pitfall of comedy manga -- along with Angel Densetsu and (maybe) Squid Girl (iirc, it's been a while since I read it). |
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a_Bear_in_Bearcave
Posts: 551 Location: Poland |
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I disagree about "Time for torture, Princess", I still find it funny. Besides, my point wasn't about series with gag/comedy series with one main joke in general, but about noticeable loss of quality when changing format to longer form, even when retelling the same chapters. I don't think Squid Girl even qualifies one "one joke manga" anyway, any more than ALF the TV series did. If we classify Squid Girl or Angel Densetsu as such, we can as well group also One Punch Man or Mob Psycho 100 with them, and then why not several sport manga with one-track-mind MC? |
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