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 I'll be honest. Flow is far from perfect. But having come fresh off of a second reading of this series (4 years after I read it for the first time), I think that this is a case of a series that just has an ending that is so well planned out it elevates the rest of the series to a higher level. Before we talk about that ending, lets first state some of the glaring flaws that Flow has. The first problem that I have with series actually comes from the translation. I read this from Webtoon, and the translations are simply not good. There is a decent amount of typos and grammar issues, and some of the dialogue can feel sloppy, which is more of a fault of the translator than it is of the author's writing ability. I'm honestly surprised that Webtoon still keeps this translation up (and are even charging Daily Passes for it), because this series just deserves so much better*. The translation is so awfully done, I would almost recommend pirating the comic.  *as an example, they say...

 Koudelka is a story with great potential that just kind of falls short, mostly in part due to the pacing and the overall length of the manga. I like the ideas that it has going for it, I just feel as though the manga needed maybe 3 to 4 times the length in order to fully flesh them out.  The story starts off as a simple "oh no mysterious girl has amnesia" story, but it quickly devolves more into sci-fi/fantasy tropes. Some parts of the story can feel a bit cliche, but I still had fun with those moments. What I do have a problem with is just how rushed everything was. I'm no expert on this manga, but it feels as though it got axed straight from the start, which might contribute to the rushed pacing of the story overall. The author tries to contain so much, yet with only 15 chapters, each story arc probably only lasts 3-4 chapters, and things just sort of happen that you have to accept. There are a lot of ideas and elements within the story that seem interesting, and the s...

 I've been listening to Continuum again, because I saw some random YouTube video about the intricate songwriting on the album. Continuum has never been my favorite John Mayer album, but it's not like I disliked it or anything. I just mostly thought it was for guitar nerds to geek out over, and unfortunately I don't know how to play guitar so most of it was probably just going over my head. But as I grow older into young adulthood, I think the lyrics on some of the songs are starting to really resonate with me. There's still a fair share of the classical John Mayer™ love songs on the album, but I think the ones that hit the hardest are the ones that talk about John's dissatisfaction with growing up. "Waiting on the World to Change" has this overall feeling of the world being unfair and hard to deal with, and being powerless to do anything. Mayer may have been 28 years old when he wrote this, but these lyrics almost perfectly reflect my current state of not ...