or just reddit tier dogshit
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is this in any way worth reading?
or just reddit tier dogshit
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part of the time
probably shit now
I remember reading this when I was a teenager. I have found memories of it, but if I re-read it today, I would probably just be embarrassed about how cringy I used to be.
you had to be there
It quickly became obsolete.
So he only printed one volume?
There were like five or six print volumes, plus two omnibuses that collect them together.
It's a time capsule to the 90s and 2000s and has never stopped being that. I lost interest when the story started getting convoluted while not accomplishing anything.
When I was a young kid my library had the first 6 or 7 volumes and I absolutely loved them. Reread them every other year. When I was reminded this series existed and realized it was actually a webcomic, a big shot of nostalgia filled me and I just had to look it up. I was looking forward to seeing how it ends, because surely a series that made it to print a decade ago had to have ended right? Or at least very far in the outlined plot the author had.
I restarted from the very beginning and I can still say I like the parts I read through, and some of the stuff after, but nothing really changed in a way that mattered. I kept reading until I realized I hit the current page and found the story just...doing nothing really.
That was genuinely disappointing, and even a couple years later I don't expect it to be any different.
The young kid in me, who used to read comics and manga at my local library all day, still can't help but have a special place in his heart for MegaTokyo, but it's basically a shambling corpse at this point.
Loved it when I was a young weeb but it's pretty bad
The Largo era if you're looking for some period drama. Largo balanced Fred-chan and they both fell into the gutter when they separated.
I remember mostly just being very confused about it.
On one hand you had Pyro's drama about his female game avatar being killed by the goth girl who may or may not be supernatural but was definitely lesbian.
Meanwhile you had Largo and his insane zombie hoard thing that I could never figure out if it was all legit or just Largo's overactive imagination since it didn't mesh with Pyro's story at all.
Then there was the other guys from Sony and Sega who were trying to kill Largo or something.
It felt like the comic was trying to do way too much and was at constant odds with itself tone-wise.
I like it.
There's a lot of confusing shit going on it in. If you aren't paying attention, which is hard when reading two pages a month, it's easy to just gloss over something very important that gives some sensibility to things happening much later. It's fun if you can get into it, but hard to recommend just a casual read past the first bits where it was more jokes.
The whole Pyro drama was just "stuff that happened in a video game" and ends up getting relevant later, when the real life player of the goth girl shows up.
Largo was just sort of insane. This becomes story relevant later (at least, how the zombies and insanity relate) but in a bizarre way and it's one of those things you need to know about to get some later stuff in context. In short: yes he's insane, and yes there really are zombies.
Sony and Sega guys kind of become irrelevant because it was one of those early running gags. They do technically do something with it (regarding Ping the robot girl) but they sort of disappeared and it's just the plot of "video game company" trying to get Ping back.
>It felt like the comic was trying to do way too much and was at constant odds with itself tone-wise.
Yeah, but that's part of what made it appealing.
It's probably because the two creatives didn't agree on what they wanted the comic to be. The writer eventually got kicked off the comic by the artist
>The writer eventually got kicked off the comic by the artist
I thought they parted amicably?
>Four days later, Caston posted his view of the development on his website:[4]
>"After this he approached me and said either I would sell him my ownership of MegaTokyo or he would simply stop doing it entirely, and we'd divide up the company's assets and end it all. This was right before the MT was to go into print form, and I really wanted to see it make it into print, rather [than] die on the vine."
Well that sucks
>is this in any way worth reading?
Like other anons have said, you had to be there. Today it's mostly interesting as an historical document of late 90s/early 00s culture, produced by a guy who never escaped the moment of the document's creation.
I can think of half a dozen early 2000s time capsule webcomics to point you towards before Megatokyo, although even then I hesitate since "better than Megatokyo" isn't exactly a high bar to pass.
>I can think of half a dozen early 2000s time capsule webcomics to point you towards before Megatokyo
I'll bite, which ones?
Argon Zark
Exploitation Now
Sexy Losers
Kid Radd
8 Bit Theatre
Kagerou
Thanks for the list, anon.
>Argon Zark
Wait, did that get an ending or did the creator abandon it?
I believe both Argon Zark and Kagerou are *technically* still ongoing, but at a pace that can be considered "indefinite hiatus".
F in the chat for E3
I just cringed so hard it sent a psychic shockwave back through time.