Comment on Peak Fantasy
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
The map reminds me a little of the world in Hunter x Hunter. The viewer is initially shown a world map (a flat projection) that is basically the typical cluster of continents in a vaguely ring-like shape, but it is much later revealed that it’s not a map of the whole planet but just a fraction of the surface area, and all the inhabited continents are actually completely encircled by one giant super-continent labeled “The Dark Continent”, meaning every known ocean was just part of one super-continental lake called “Lake Mobius”.
p.s. watch/read hunter x hunter, it’s a cool manga
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I stopped reading a couple years ago. I think we still haven’t reached the new continent by the time the new mega hiatus hit, right?
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
They’re on a boat headed toward the mega continent. There’s a lot of political drama/murder.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
That’s right, it was just like 30 chapters or so since then most likely, and it’s all been the succession war on the boat headed there. I think most likely the story is written so that they never actually reach the Dark Continent because the ship was always meant as a vessel for the sacrificial ritual of the succession war. On a meta level, there’s not a specific enough stated goal for the expedition, so I think it’s meant to be a pie in the sky. I’m fine with that though, since the succession war has been my favorite arc in the whole manga so far. All just my personal opinion on it, of course.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Really? Maybe it’s because I was reading it week by week but st some point I couldn’t keep track of the dozens of characters anymore. I think I have 10 or so unread chapters because I’ve been dreading reading it because I already forgot everything. I think I should go back reading from the day they departed.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
Personally speaking, I loved it, partly because it was so ridiculous in scope. You are probably right that it’s good to read from back around when they depart, if not a little before, in order to preserve some degree of orientation given how convoluted it gets. I’ll probably need to reread a bunch too once it zooms out from the current situations that are easier to understand.
I guess the thing that I really like about it is that, when you make the effort of really paying attention to it, it all makes sense and is engaging, whereas a lot of media falls apart when you drill down on it.