>>18343My current manga obsession is trying to finish every volume of
Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei.
I'm on vol28 currently out of 30 and while it has no overarching plot, it was interesting to see the form, content and characters shift with between the start of publication and the later chapters.
It starts out with a huge cast which at some point gets into like the mid 20s and it slowly "degrades" until it only uses 5-6 characters at best regularly and even those seem to only lose from their initial traits. It's basically getting worse but I still like it in a sense.
I'm sick of it, I wish it was over and I also don't know what I'll do with my life once its over.
It baits you in with having a melancholic main character who's a homage to Dazai and then you stay because you realise that it's basically just the author's neurotic diary about what grinds his gears about Japan currently, which is usually that the LDP is ass (because they are not nationalist and effective enough), something baseball/idol related and then also some really awful pun you only understand once you look up the kanji and then you actually want to kill yourself because it was so fucking bad.
And you kind of realize that yeah, you also have these moments where something about everyday life really ticks you off, be it an odd expression, custom or procedure where the entire thing falls apart the moment you think a bit too hard about it.
So like it's really relatable at least for me.
Also been re-watching the anime. Honestly from an artistic standpoint it feels like a prototype of Monogatari. Same studio. The quality's is shit for the first season but it's really funny honestly. And it has a good soundtrack and some nice character-tracks, of which I understand nothing but I like the tunes and some of the VAs can actually sing and no I am not going down that fucking rabbit hole where I care for seiyuus.