Yeah, but it's not like the story can go back now. Once the current arc with the lolis is done, the manga will have to go straight into the other affairs, mostly because they can't just ignore that one of the members of the party was taken.
Eh, I think Higuma's reception is good enough that Hokami returning is almost inevitable. While I will say it's hard to deny it had fans, I do think the series axing was inevitable, it didn't build up enough of a story and cast to grab readers (the only apparent ongoing plot thread was Higuma's battle with his morality, a good concept for an arc but not the sole thing a battle manga should hinge on), Higuma's battle style was unwieldy, and it didn't have enough of a unique identity compared to Chainsaw and Jujutsu. Hopefully, Hokami learns from his mistakes and improves, because I think he could be a valuable asset to Jump in the future.
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I mean, if you want a classic cult, just move to Taiwan.A cult classic and a classic cult.
A fine distinction.
the only reason I see is that in the future the author of Higuma can launch a new manga in the jump +
simple, sure has some manga in the jump that was canceled, that you liked.
People also still praise that and are salty it was axed.
I think this has nothing to do, even though chainsaw man is surviving even with jujutsu kaisen, kimetsu no yaiba and the promised neverland.
Promised Neverland isn't really an exorcist series, and the other three kind of fit their own niche (urban fantasy, Taisho era, and more mature "grounded" style) while Higuma was just another urban fantasy series. I do wonder if Higuma would have been more successful if it had gone on longer, it's pretty unusual for a flop to do better sales wise after a cancellation. Regardless, I hope the author can come back with an even better series, that maybe isn't based on such well worn ground.
Exactly. The thing to remember is that Jujutsu Kaisen is genuinely in how it completely ditches the "fantasy world" element of prior series and sets everything in the real world, with characters dressing very normally (Getou, a villain who is basically Evil Buddha, wears a tracksuit in certain scenes for example) and all the action happening in normal areas. Higuma meanwhile looks like yet another YuYu Hakusho clone, with the protagonist being a spiritually powered teen who fights rogue spirits on orders of his superiors from a fantasy world (said superior even looks like a kid).
Amazes me that people still think that it was cancelled.
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