Does anyone remember Ral Grad, the slightly ecchi-fantasy battle manga that got cancelled in 29 weeks - despite being drawn just a short while after the artist, Obata, just scored big in
Death Note? If a multi-million seller can't use his name to survive in Jump I don't understand why people still get convinced that the wife of Jaguar's (by the way, a 150,000 seller) author can pull such Connection weight.
So one reasonable theory is people just like to bash someone they don't like on all grounds & reasons, no matter how thin the reasoning is......
Okay, okay, I should have qualified by saying that I do read Enigma and enjoy it a great deal. I totally agree with you that this is totally an unfair claim to level against it. I'm not the one leveling it, though. I'm just saying that many 2channers do. And I can sorta see why since despite being brand new, Enigma is already getting so many color pages. And its first 7 chapters before the chapters were ranked were all placed quite high on the TOCs, something that certain 2channers think is the editorial division giving preferential treatment to it.
Like I said, I disagree with this, but I can still see why people could make that conclusion. Haters will be haters, and they'll find whatever negative things they can to say about it, even if it's baseless.
I can think of a few reasons why Enigma is bashed though:
1. Like Psyren and similar stuff..... Not only is it not typical shonen, it's also the type of polarizing stuff (material-wise & story-telling) where many with really likes or detests it.
2. Now that the manga is "settled" and relatively free from cancellation pressure it seems to me the author take solid steps to introduce characters, which to typical shonen Jump readers (teenageers, mainly boys) can be slow but certainly beneficial to a long-running manga.
3. Fangirl-bashing guys from 2ch. The author's seemingly doing a good job with fangirls and lots of 2ch guys bash it like Reborn, telling the fans (girls) to scoff off from their
SHONEN jump.
(If you're free, try search the Moto fanart & Matsurigi X Kurisu in pixiv.net, and you'll know why the guys has gotten some prejudice against it LOLOL.)
Personally, Enigma is getting just about as much colour pages of early Kuroko (first 5 : chapter 1,2,9,11,15)
And "Dois Sol", I only want to check it, because of the name, i want to know if the title is derived from Portuguese. =]
Somehow the coming selection doesn't elicit much anticipation from me.... ^_^;; The top batter is the author from KOSen, a cancelled work that start 1 week later than Psyren and got cancelled in 12 weeks.......
(I've nothing against that author, I read and think KO is not that bad, but his story&drawing isn't the type that attracts shonen or light readers......)