I gave the art grief back when it began as well but the artist is a 20 year old former pixiv fan artist that's drawing manga for the first time. I think she'll improve as the story goes on and even if Act-age is cut short, she'll probably be better by her next series. Just drawing 18 page chapters every week will improve any artist's skill tremendously.
I gave it a hard time at first too, but it's starting to grow on me now. Plus, it has been gradually improving as time goes on. It's a small detail, but I love when she does those reflections in the characters' eyes. It just really makes those scenes pop for me
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I hope so, because I'm not just talking about the character design, anatomy and stuff like that, but also the way the pages are made. They are boring to look at.
That I'd chalk up to experience. If Bakuman is anything to go by, the writer might possibly do the neemu before handing it off to the artist and the editor checks that. Its also possible that the artist refines the neemu even further but both are newbies. I didn't see any particularly experimental or ambitious pages but that might be because I haven't read past the first 3 chapters. I'll wait until there are at least 20. But again, the editor gives the ok so they probably thought it was fine.
I hope Jujutsu and Act-age become successful. I'm always happy when rookies find success. It's also good for the manga industry overall because younger generations are needed to keep the medium moving forward.
To give an example, Higashimura Akiko has like 3 series running simultaneously with another 2 on break and has like 10 assistants to help finish all the work. From what I've heard, the mangaka pay for the assistants though the magazine will help in the beginning for sturggling artists, especially Jump. Keijo's mangaka had like 1 assistant, due to what I heard being a mix of the magazine not getting him more assistants and also helping him pay for them. That series was hardly a big hit. Regardless of the actual manga side, Jump is still one of the nicest magazines for mangaka in terms of accomodation.
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I'm already super into the first chapter of Alice to Taiyou. Not only to the main characters both seem likable (bonus points for the quick cat transformations), it looks like there could be a pretty lively cast of delinquent side characters. I'm hoping the next couple chapters continue to nail it.
Hopefully it just hasn't been released that. That'd be pretty sucky if all of the other ones have gotten one, but they leave out Alice to Taiyou
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