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#I dunno I feel like the scale of plot was much more... digestible in kks??
birdmenmanga · 3 months
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the pacing of birdmen... -_-
#just thinking thoughts...#it's not bad but... it's not good??#I think there were too many pieces that she was trying to move around concurrently#so much so that when something 'goes off' so to speak#it doesn't feel well-timed or impactful#and things don't really tend to parallel each other either#I dunno I feel like the scale of plot was much more... digestible in kks??#where like you start off with what yoshimori's doing#and then you slowly add in the shadow org and then build masamori's nefarious plot on top of that#the shadow org stuff is what typically spices up yoshimori's life pushing what we perceive as plot progression in the story#in the immediate foreground#and meanwhile sumiko's existence (and though the readers don't know it at this time) and her nefarious plot with tokimori#are ALSO simmering in the back at this time#I think it feels less overwhelming becuase in kks you have this concept of 'shadow org' first#which gets further broken down into 'night troops' 'coucil of 12' (13? i forgor) 'the leader' 'actually that's a fake here's the REAL leade#and because it's sort of just fine-tuning the details of this big thing#it doesn't feel like multiple factions to keep track of the way 'american flock' 'the eves' 'the mutants' 'chinese flock' etc. feel#it's so frustrating... I think the pacing at the end of kks and at the beginning of bm was good#but I think bm's pacing was a compressed version of kks's#in the sense that the end is a lot denser than the beginning#but whereas kks was too loose and directionless in the beginning#bm was too woven and dense at the end#SAD#SO SAD#MISS TANABE YOU CAN DO IT. YOU CAN CREATE THE PERFECTLY PACED MANGA I BELIEVE IN YOU#stray bird thoughts
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