I get why they did it, but in the process, it lost me pretty hard personally. That comment was more a bit of personal disappointment at the change in tone of the series.
The recent chapters have felt massively different from the first roughly dozen or so chapters. Any supernatural elements and delinquent fighting at the very beginning wasn't as serious, and reminded me more along the lines of Rokudou no Onna-tachi. There's a minor supernatural element there, but the romcom antics take center stage.
This. The first 13/14 chapters were romcom/comedy with some supernatural elements, but from chapter 15 on it feels more like a supernatural horror manga.
I suppose there are people who prefer it this way, but I liked it much better before it got dark.
Jesus Christ, seriously, you have a series from a author that has like a 100% history of dark and supernatural series, he start a new series that has literally the first page with dark Yui being sealed with supernatural powers, a climax where she violently beat delinquents and stating that there are many of them trying to find her, and just because the manga had the first chapters mainly as a "romantic comedy" (still with battles and supernatural elements happening between) it means that there was no sign or evidence that Shiibashi was planning the "genre shift"? come on, one thing is to like it or not, but blindly trying to refuse something so obvious? of course it didn't happened so smooth, the manga was dying in the rankings lol
Dude, maybe you have a habit of researching the entire history of the mangaka before you pick up a new series, but not everyone is like that. No need to mock people for going in blind and/or judging the story on its own merits.
And no, the fact that there were some supernatural elements and action scenes before does not mean that there was any evidence for a genre shift. Ranma 1/2 had lots of supernatural elements and fighting from the start, but it never stopped being a (romantic) comedy, now did it?
-"There's no mention of supernatural creatures or powers"
A monk seals a "person" with a bunch of chains tied in the hair and the girl needs to have the hair tied all the time because if not, the other "version" of her will come to life...Yep, no supernatural powers at all, that happens all the time, also, when you have a series by Hiroshi Shiibashi using supernatural powers related to old myths and religion you know that it will have youkais or overall supernatural creatures, you know, it's like 1 + 1 = 2
In the first ten or so chapters, the chain is the only supernatural element, and it's clearly just there to enable the premise. To say that that makes it a supernatural manga is like saying that Double Taisei is a medical drama because it deals with split personality syndrome.
-"The delinquents aren't shown to be threats..."
It's like you're just ignoring such basic ways of storytelling, of course the first delinquents didn't represent any danger to her, they were used just to make you understand that there are dangerous people trying to find her -_-
It's like you're just ignoring how comedy works. Ranma 1/2, Gintama, Dr. Slump, etc. also had people coming after the protagonist, but they never stopped being gag manga. Comedic action =/= genre shift.
Also, I really think that M+ comments are irrelevant for this one. I mean, M+ readers are waiting for "WSJ" series like One Piece, Dragon Ball, ect...you know, those mangas they read, like and talk about. Imo, they were waiting for this kind of series, so they are disappointed.
That's some of the most judgemental bullshit I've heard lately. M+ readers are people who like to read Jump manga, but have no access to WSJ or Jump+. How exactly does that make their opinion less relevant than those of any other Jump reader?
Also, yeah, Spy x Family is exactly like One Piece and Dragon Ball, obviously. That's why it's in the top 3, right?
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