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[badninja]

So I can never figure out why I get why people have their issues with Soul Eater and why I think it's all valid and yet not feel them myself. I've always figured that part of it is because different people have different things they look for in reading, so what is one person's great fact is another person's most hated fact.

Okay? So I started thinking about that more today. And I just realized that somehow I've developed blind face in Ohkubo and that's why I can never get in line. So instead of going "well, this makes me mad" I go "I guess this'll make sense later, I must be missing something, my reading comprehension's gotta be subpar, I guess it's not a mistake, really it's not a mistake." and there are no major exceptions. (stuff like NEVER SHOWING ANY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SID AND BLACK*STAR piss me off, though.)

This makes me feel really, really uncomfortable and I'm not sure why. I THINK THIS MAY ALSO BE REALLY, REALLY UNHEALTHY. Plus, really, that sort of reading? It works in some places? But not others :|

Like.

I basically want 84 to die in a small fire. I've been going IT'LL GET FIXED IT'LL MAKE SENSE SO I NEED TO CHILL but uh. Still waiting on that one getting fixed.

So wait, I can actually be mad at that?!?!

Holy shit, this actually is a brand new concept to me.

Comments

[mymagicnumber.livejournal.com]

So whats the problem with 84 anyway?

[badninja.livejournal.com]

oh god

should i even get started on this

What's wrong is that he spent several years and an insane amount of chapters to build up to this. And then he basically laid it aside and went "this is never going to matter again, so why did you wait for it in the first place?"

It's not that he can't pull off some things in one issue. 88, for example, was stunning.

But he sure didn't do it here.

It felt like he said oh, okay, Soul needs to be balanced so let's just throw this away because I want to do something else. Character development? What's that? It's off screen!

I don't think any of that's actually what he said. My theory is that he meant to have 88 and 84 compare and contrast and he really did want to do this right. He's done compare/contrast with elements before. But it ended up pretty poor here. He's always experimental and I guess his experiment didn't work out.

[mymagicnumber.livejournal.com]

But then cant he make it look better later?

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Sure. That's why I stopped reading monthly again. I planned on waiting until a certain type of issue and then he provided it in 88. So I'm happy there.

IDK maybe the moon thing will help it out in the end. I'm not counting anything out. Part of the issue is simply he let readers think something was coming and then effectively kill what they wanted. I really don't feel like that's okay.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

So I can never figure out why I get why people have their issues with Soul Eater and why I think it's all valid and yet not feel them myself.

But I think that's a pretty normal reaction to, like, everything? I mean there are a lot of things where I can totally see why my friends would have issues with them but I don't have the same problems myself.

Case in point: I really loved chapter 84 although I can totally see why someone would be dissatisfied by the cop-out-ness of the resolution to the Soul/Little Demon confrontation.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

That's a really good point. I may just spend a little too much time on meta, haha .__.

And I actually really loved that confrontation, it's one of my favourite bits of the series. I guess I just feel like there should have been content? Like he paced Soul's resolution way too fast for what it was.

[nobl3sse-obl1ge.livejournal.com]

Nah. Blind faith is the wrong term when someone is reading it like you do. I think that just in general, you are okay with character arcs because you are simply okay with them. You have told me before that a large part of why you read is for the perceptions of madness. If 84 is a chapter you are singling out? Well, is that not just the same thing?

There's nothing wrong with having little criticism. Anyone who says that is dumb. Just keep reading how you are if it makes you happy. Does it really matter why?

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Huh I never really noticed that, but I guess it's true. One of the reasons I always come back is because for me, it is simply the best presentation of these themes of madness.

And it's less about how I enjoy it and more that I don't want to cause any trouble? I mean at one point I was told I should not be allowed to read the series and I was polluting it by doing so. Though that was really weird to begin with.

[nobl3sse-obl1ge.livejournal.com]

IT REALLY WAS. I still don't understand what was wrong with that person, just that I occasionally suspect it must have been related to the later comm troll, haha.

(Really, it would make a lot of sense.)

Anyway if you cause trouble then my views cause it too. I have absolutely no critism. I don't care what he does because it's his place to do it, not ours. I am sure I sound a little "the author is always right" but that's not exactly it. I just mean that there's no way to know why he is doing any of this yet, so how can we possibly judge before seeing the end?