Didn’t read Toriko, I take it?
No, that's another one of the long classics I've always heard about, but I doubt I'll have the chance to get through. The whole food concept sounds a lot more interesting than this house schtick.
The thing that excites me about Shimabu focusing on architecture is that it’s what he honestly wants to do, and is a personal hobby of his.
I remember seeing people who thought the whole food concept in Toriko to be weird as well back in 2010-2011.
This because you're probably used with Shokugeki no Souma and currently became a popular theme and even a meme, but at the time, "food hunting" was seen as much weird/uninteresting as house building today, it maybe come as a big surprise, but Toriko suffered a lot of resistence from people exactly for being a manga about food, so some of the comments towards the series since the announcement (here) is pretty much like a flashback to me from the Toriko years (weird/uninteresting theme, outdated art, ugly char designs, poop jokes and etc)
Thank you all for the responses. I'll probably stick with it for a little while longer at least since I'm also curious to see if it ends up hooking me. There've been a decent number of series that have taken some time for me to warm up to.
Try to interpret this a different way.
This is all well and good but then I’m reminded Samurai 8 was supposed to be Kishi’s passion project and look how that turned out. Perhaps Kishi was personally enjoying writing it, but unfortunately it was not the same for readers.
I’m of the opinion that Shimabu is a better writer than Kishimoto is.
Totally, you can usually feel when something is a passion project or an author is genuinely having fun with what they're doing (a Bleach example I always think of is how obvious it is that Mayuri is one of Kubo's favourites by how much fun he has with his fights and the attention he gives him). But I also feel it can be a tricky balance where an author can become too self-indulgent and get lost in something they care deeply about without considering how it comes across to others who aren't on that same wavelength. But I guess that's what his editor should be there for. I'm definitely going to keep reading and hope something clicks eventually, time will tell.
Yozakura is exceeding 25k right now..???
no, the last time i saw it. yozakura was at 23K.
24k on the 2nd week..? and its still on shoseki
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Why does it have to be a competition, i mean jump is in a dry spot right now, it needs as many hits as possible and to release anime pretty soon