Recent content by SlamMonster

Ichi was the best this week, finally evolving from fun to exciting. On the other end of the spectrum Astro Royale keeps confusing me, it's simultaneously babys first battle manga (kinda fun one at least) and also organised crime propaganda, which doesnt mix well, could be interesting exploring...

Surely that's on the writer too. Doubt the storyboard has just 5 blank pages with the instructions "go nuts with the action" and then the artist proceeds to do the most basic stuff. The series as a whole is extremely light on both the ninja stuff and the world building related to it, being a...

God, JJK was so ass. This manga was as bad since the second half of the culling game, as it was great before it, going from one of my favorite Jump series ever to one that I will never reread (but probably rewatch as an anime as long as they keep working their magic). I still enjoyed the last...

Hakutaku was a chore for me. It clicked in the end, but the way it made it there was underdeveloped, crammed and disjointed, just made little sense. It focused entirely on the emotional side which doesnt work until im invested, and I wasn't because there was very little about the actual games or...

I thought Candy Flurry was awful so I had low expectations...and was still let down. It had its moments but this is even more derivative, especially with Kill Blue and Kiyoshi in the magazine, so much is identical, and it's filled to the brim with the same tired tropes but in a very lazy and...

He has been doing work for Marvel. Did a really good one-off story about a Moon Knight from the past in Marvel 85th Anniversary Special, and has another one coming out October 30th in Phases of the Moon Knight #3 (a whole series about previous MKs through history). Nothing else has been...

I wasn't crazy about Ichi first chapter. The amount of narration really hindered its impact, and it really didn't need so much of it for such a basic premise, but the rest of the writing was fun enough. Let's hope it tones down the exposistion or finds a much more natural way to deliver it. The...

Skateboarding has a very strong Japanese presence in competitions so it's crazy to me how there are no attempts at a proper skateboarding manga. Similar with fencing, could only find one example. Team ball games are the obvious choices for success, though. Easiest would be beach volleyball...

The MHA epilogue mini arc was very solid, did a good job at closing its themes and bringing it back to its core ideas, which I think it strayed from a while ago for the most part. With its end, I might as well give my final impression of the series. In the end it ended up a lot better series...

Roboco was fantastic, a barrage of killer gags, in a league of its own. Kiyoshi is still the best new series in a while, this chapter was especially nice in the end (that school setup really had me worried), but it still lacks a clear direction, which makes me unsure about its survival.

I'm biased against the whole romcom genre, but even within that I found Hima-ten especially lame. It's so inauthentic, and even more so when read alongside Blue Box. I know they are doing completely different things, but it still makes it so weak. Didn't find the characters unique or the gimmick...

Kinda confused about what Ultimate Exorcist is supposed to be. The first half was a decent exorcist parody, but it was very similar to Yokai Buster (even if the gimmick was kinda the inverse it had the same structure) so I was puzzled why they would serialize them back to back. Then it turning...

I thought Yokai Buster was funny too with a strong and unique premise. It's not a traditional gag manga, so I would not say it was just one gag repeated, since it didn't really use a gag formula, instead the whole thing was one scene, mostly a conversation, a comedy routine, like a Japanese...

I gotta disagree with this. It simply lacked the one essential that every successful WSJ sports manga has, the excitement of the actual sport. All big sports manga in jump have that, regardless of its dominant demographics, whether they are young boys or dedicated adult female fans. While the...

Psych House was nice. I was afraid it would be simple slice of life or formulaic gag manga, but it did its own thing and I enjoyed. It does seem like it will be mostly slice of life, but it also hinted at more purpose. There is room for improvement, though, both the art and the script could be...