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Soul-Ace Average 4.7 / 5 out of 14
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Adonis
Bruh from the dope character design , the humor , the continuation from part one. All of it is refreshing !!!! This is what the manga and anime scene needs!!!! Only issue I got is I wanna see mariiku whoop ol dude but I gotta wait lol . Keep this goin bro cause this is fucking golden!!!!
Dawn
Bruh this is SO HARD and the story line is amazing 🤩
Raillie
Looking forward to the chapters to come this was a great chapter
Rebsycolaa
I love how he added some real agriculture from the town. Helped me relate 100x more. Story line and characters are great! Real trill shi
Zakh
A great read! Love the character designs!
Can see your influences shining through, but I’m super excited to find out what happens next.
Asobu is a riot!
Otsukaresama!!
Karissa
Art style is amazing 🪐🔥
Can’t wait to keep reading!
Abraham Loftis-Acosta
Ayeee yooo I’m tryna read this series fuck these niggas get yo bag!
Alizah baht Israel
this was so good man, keep going i understand the distractions, im here with you you gonna put your foot down or work early in the morning or super late at night but good job
Daquan
Dope so far , it always be the quiet ones you have to watch out for. Panels are clean too can’t wait for chapter two
Biomegabear
Now I will say I like the designs and powers these two have. The story is easy to understand in terms of what their goals are. i forgot to mention theres different faces and jaws, noses, No generic shovel face to be seen here, Like Asobu(Also thats the perfect name for him given how he is in this its nice “if you know you know” moment I felt good having) A MAIN CHARACTER WITH FACIAL HAIR! Unheard of since the OVA anime days. Thats a massive rarity that it might be 1 time I recall seeing it. Big thumbs up for me. More people need to main characters with facial hair. You don’t notice it until someone does it and you get surprised by it. Now back on topic. So art is pretty good and I see the artists inspirations but at the same time can recognize the style on sight. A weird moment that made me kinda scratch my head is the censored curse which is the only one that had this in the chapter and its a good or bad thing just…a headscratcher like…”huh? why is that cencored?” Now the issue I have and I’m not sure if the author wrote this in mind and knows or not–well its more a mixed issue–
Its the dialogue manner of speach some characters have and thats good they have certain vocal habits, accents, or terminology that makes them unique or says where they’re from via culture or otherwise thats in itself is fantastic to add. But at times I couldn’t understand certain slang terms while others I did. Mariiku has what I think is an expression of disgust “Knalm-TamBaht” Now thats okay because you’ll figure out the usage in context. “fade any spot” is another good example which the later panels show what he means and that good use of show don’t tell. “Overstood” is easy enough “to understand something perfectly” I like that term quite a bit. “Mane” “Potna” “Showing Out” and maybe “wow she baaad” but that one seemed easy to understand but others might have trouble. But when the others 3 came I was instinctively looking for an translator note of some kind to help and there was not any.
So I’m just sitting here wondering one of two things:
This is intentional on a “If you know the you know” rule and rewards you for being familiar with the vernaculars and the reader feels good knowing something not everyone with catch.
Or
This is an oversight and theres going to be notes later to help explain it for people who are familiar and it can teach them about it.
Think about if someone who was reviewing the full volume 1 of Soul Ace and this was a literary obstacle if it they can’t follow without a note explaining certain terms that would be in more important context. Could influence a rating of some kind
But if the reviewer IS familiar then that would give it a higher score.
But I understand as an author that there are things I would not change for good reason and this author might that same thing where there’s core elements that NEED to be the way it is to get something across.
Its a good book but I just keep trying to rationalize the strange choices that don’t negatively or positively impact it– at least for me.
I really am going to be going to bed and waking up the next few days thinking about what chapter 2 is going be like. If they double down on these elements or scale it back. Because imagine if you to translate this in other languages that would be difficult to find phrases that would fit in Spanish, french, Korean, Japanese.
Now you thinking “Why are you thinking about this so hard like Soul Ace is going be some big worldwide success?”
Well, that’s because I do think that.
Maybe I’m wrong but thats what I feel.
Looking forward to chapter 2
Biomegabear
Chapter 2- Ok we get to see some fights and details on the harmonization system characters use and it confirmed the terminology confusion I had & yeah he absolutely has a sink or swim stance on it. Which has a +/- effect but he knows that and he’s fine with it. Its something unique to this series and he’s proud of it. I love that he standing strong stance which means he know who would read this. Its smart to have a demographic target and not appeal to everyone all the time at the cost of the media you’re making. Dedicated readers is ideal.