TSS....eh. I think supercow explained the Chapter 2 well. Great art (and an action Matrix like bit), but this chapter was just another showcase of how our bishonen MC is so edgy, cool, badass and OP. Meh. Move the story along or die by getting axed. The manga is called Tokyo Shinobi Squad, introduce the members instead of pushing a random filler for no reason.
I will admit that Samurai 8 became *slightly* more interesting for me, but it is still very weak, especially for a story from a veteran mangaka. Hey, at least it is better than some other questionable newbies, so there is that. *sob*.
I do not agree with that at all. You want to do a Stealth Symphony?
The first colour page Tokyo Shinobi Squad introduces 4 characters. Three characters were immediately shown in the first chapter. Well even four, if you take the justin bieber incident page.
Bleach, Naruto, One Piece, Toriko, Jujutsu Kaisen, Muhyo to Roujie, D. Gray-man, Shaman King, Mx0,... a lot of important characters were introduced quite late for the continuation of the manga.
When the art is fine, it's more or less story, setting and pace which decides whether or not a manga survives. Chapters 3-9 are very important chapters.
E.g. Double Arts; it had a great start but unlike the majority I felt that it would fail because the pace was too freaking slow.
Tokyo Shinobi Squad's biggest plus for me is that Jin Narumi (main character) and En-San (supporting character) were immediately introduced with a certain story/mistery surrounding En. As a reader everything is given to me from En's point of view because the first two chapters are mostly about the character Jin, but it's En's story that interests me a lot. I kind of expect a change of point of view later.
TSQ's upcoming chapters will be important.
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