Viz's choices are the obvious ones. They were never going to pick up Poro or U19, and it doesnt seem Westerners can appreciate Hungry Marie. Its either love or hate.
Kamui best villain. Infact Gintama has so many amazing villains... As does HxH, Jojo.
humor isn't that great, the characters so far are unlikeable save for Marie, and it generally seems all over the place.
I can say the same for Dr Stone... People like to take shots at it's characters, but theyre no worse than Stone's obnoxious, useless and edgy trio. Infact Robot and WNL are the only two this round with bearable characters (and even Robot only has 2)...
It suffers from the same problem as U19 in that it takes 4 chapters just to get a basic idea of what kind of series it's planning to be but even U19 at least had a theme to tie the lazy attempts at genres together with the adults are oppressing kids and the kids have to fight back! stuff. All Marie has is the gender flipping and while that might have been fine a decade or two ago it's not a novel thing any more, a series needs more than just 'he's a boy trapped in a girl's body XD' to be entertaining.
That actually doesn't bother me. Too many series fall into the trap of putting everything they have into the first chapter, and they have nothing to follow it up with. Poro had this exact problem, as did almost every new series from 2016 (aside the ones that stayed). Id prefer they took their time, although i understand rookies cant really do that.
No doubt Marie is the least structured and slowest of the round, although its comedy has been enough keep me interested so far. I dont think Tamura would have gotten away with it if he didnt have past success. Hell he still might not get away with it. Anyway, it will be interesting to see if it ranks terribly or well. I dont believe the colour page is any indication given how many have failed in the past that got the same treatment).
