chainsaw man, death note ... the list goes on.
That's like saying Samurai 8 is better than Naruto, and S8 was a masterpiece compared to Hungry Joker that was terrible in all means (less the art)
About as much as when I said Samurai 8 was fiercely unpopular in Japan.
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Weren't you saying Yozakura would sell very bad too?
Samurai 8 had bad toc positions and declining sales from volume to volume, that information is easy to get. But honestly if you have your own source or more insight into the jp fandom and you believe TPGW has a bad reception, more power to you.
Doubt that, its terrible structure would have killed it anywhere. But I'm convinced it could have been a huge hit in Jump with a better editorial work to rethink the whole thing, because the author had fantastic ideas.
I recently read it, and I couldnt disagree more. I had fun with it, mostly because of the great artwork, but the writing was such a half-assed mess. It felt like Tabata never had any idea what he wanted to do, and the themes were only realized in the form of sloppy gimmicks. Black Clover is so much tighter and better planned out, he has improved a lot as an author.
Shuudan and Cross Account easily could have survived in Magazine and/or Sunday. Yokota is having 2 series right now with the Magic the Gathering manga and Ponkotsu which are within the same mood as Shudan and Dance Midgets were and those two magazines are more lenient to comfy series, meanwhile Date art was the best fit to a romcom and Magazine being the place of romcoms it could have fit there easily too.
sixth place.
Rain likes to pretend that he wasn't rooting for the fall of the series from chapter 1, in chapter 5 he was already screaming the manga would be a failure because he simply didn't liked
It's important to remember that Japan takes plagiarism very seriously. There are instances of entire careers being destroyed because of even rumours of such things. Anyone who has seen Re;creators would understand what I'm talking about.
I don't think the art was Cross Account's problem. It was that the protagonist was basically Mamiya Takuji written as a romcom protagonist.
It might seem stupid to you, but this is a different culture and standards we're talking about. One should account for that.
The plagiarism angle is literally half the title! That's how baked into the story it is.
Sorry, but all that you said about death note and chainsaw man doesn't make any sense.
This isn't some basis of the characters committing crimes. Adultery is far less serious a crime to murder, but it's far easier to justify why a character committed the latter and make the audience connect with them still. Light is an actual supervillain, but Sasaki is just a pathetic, talentless loser who, rather than trying to grow, steals from someone else while going on about how much that sucks.
Amalgam of Distortion I think would have survived in any other magazine. It seemed pretty interesting, so I'm surprised it got axed. Were the sales and TOC ranking low for it?
Sales were surprisingly decent, but the TOC was very low.
So? Why i'm (or anyone) supposed to be offended or something for being a story about a failed author who receives a Jump from the future in his microwave and using it to be popular? It's just a story, i'm supposed to read the manga and follow what the author has in store for the characters and story, not be offended or whining because "oh my God, plagiarism wahhh" it's literally the point of the series, it's like not enjoying Death Note because "it's wrong to kill people, i'm so offended!".
To be fair to Rain, I have seen people on other sites start to turn against the manga this chapter because the MC wasn’t completely punished for his plagiarism. I... struggle to understand why this series would have a harder time being successful when Undead Unluck opened with sexual assault for two or three chapters, but I dunno Japan’s culture. I think it could salvage itself for those disgruntled people by having the MC fail relatively quickly, as he tries to keep up with the expectations he made but never really earned.