Mahou Sensei Negima! Chapter 166 Discussion

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                        Not a single dialogue this chapter but I think the body language made its point quite well.

Least it went by fast but it's a shame after two pretty good/great chapters the series dives right back down the gutter (in more ways than one).

This chapter has no dialogue?

animalia said:
Terrestrious said:
Least it went by fast but it's a shame after two pretty good/great chapters the series dives right back down the gutter (in more ways than one).Why do you feel this way?



Had to re-read the chapter because I remembered squat about this, which I think right off the bat is pretty telling. Anyway, as I implied in parathensis, this chapter features a lot of that ecchi/harem-y  humor that I just never found that funny in this series (or any of the harems I've seen, which I've since learned to basically avoid). Secondly, this chapter seems like a complete throw-away to me. The conflict is brought up & resolved within it, & due to the style, it doesn't really provide any character insight. So that makes the chapter reliant on it's humor to work, so for me it bombed pretty hard.

Terrestrious said:
animalia said:
Terrestrious said:
Least it went by fast but it's a shame after two pretty good/great chapters the series dives right back down the gutter (in more ways than one).Why do you feel this way?



Had to re-read the chapter because I remembered squat about this, which I think right off the bat is pretty telling. Anyway, as I implied in parathensis, this chapter features a lot of that ecchi/harem-y  humor that I just never found that funny in this series (or any of the harems I've seen, which I've since learned to basically avoid). Secondly, this chapter seems like a complete throw-away to me. The conflict is brought up & resolved within it, & due to the style, it doesn't really provide any character insight. So that makes the chapter reliant on it's humor to work, so for me it bombed pretty hard.Fair enough in that case you might want to see Project ARMs for a dramatic example of a dialogue-less chapter

I am a sucker for these kind of chapters without without dialogue. While it obviously isn't something you want every chapter, having an occasional bit of pure visual storytelling is nice. Another good example can be found in Project ARMS.
basically, the protagonists have just just escaped from an assault on the ghost town where they were by escaping into a dried up underground river and following said riverbed to the Grand Canyon. After all that time in darkness there is a brief "greet the sun" moment when they are suddenly ambushed. The ambush is the dialogueless chapter. By showing guns from helicopters and other things shooting at them, and silent panels of screaming faces it really brings home the horror more effectively then if there was any dialogue.

Terrestrious said:
Least it went by fast but it's a shame after two pretty good/great chapters the series dives right back down the gutter (in more ways than one).Why do you feel this way?