I personally didn't like that Stealth Symphony page... It's just so crowded you don't even now where to start. Gintama color pages are really nice, really simple but full of win. For example the page with Sougo.
Exactly. Its like SS (Stealth Symphony) is trying to be cool for the hell of it. Sorta like a little kid screaming 'look at me!' in a Family Guy-esque manner. Ah, I remember the Sougo one. That was cool too. I think Sorachi does better with center color pages than he does with lead color. Sadly due to his lack of self confidence, I doubt we'll ever see an art book. I'd so buy one immediately.
Exactly.
They picked because of Narita Ryougo, not for the sake of Amano Youichi.
Come on, there are english shonen jump readers that do want to read this manga more than the others. Please be open minded and accepting of others mangas to read.
So, you guys don't like the artwork or the story. It sounds like you guys don't like the color page, but not much about the story, itself.
That might make sense. I mean they got a decent response out of having a novelist (Nishio Ishin) and mangaka before. Why not try it again?
Well...I wouldn't go as far as that. It's just far too crowded. Most times first chapter color pages have a splash image of the main character and a few (key word being few) other characters we should care about or will be important. I seriously doubt every single one of the characters featured on the page will be featured in any meaningful way (But hey I could be wrong?) so it feels kind of artificial.
I know you wrote this while I was writing my thing, but I guess you could say that. But a color page is the introduction to a manga, just like the Opening theme is the introduction to an anime. If that fails to capture one's attention then it's fair to assume the manga itself will have a hard time doing so. Not saying it's impossible mind you, since sometimes a color page can just be really badly done, but it's much harder to be for sure.
Since they done that for both Nisio and Kagami, so it isn't really surprise for ESJ to add Narita.
Then, how the story in general?
I wrote my impressions in my previous post. To sum it up quickly however...Good art, a bit cliched, and uneven pacing. All the sorta stuff you can expect from a WSJ first chapter. Well....a Shounen manga first chapter in general to be fair. It could get better, but I think all series should be given that chance before being trashed.
The only thing which different from other WSJ first chapter is that it didn't focus on one episode/chapter.
Which is true. Not sure if that helps the wonky pacing or hinders it though.
The first chapter didn't make me go "whooah awesome!" but I liked it enough to actually want to try reading the next chapters. Let's see how it turns out. The end for Illegal Rare c03 was pretty nice, looking forward to c03~04.
I like that teacher in I Shoujo. Those stares are scary lol. Didn't expect the secret to actually be out that fast but I think it's great. I guess the series will focus on the relationship between the characters that I still have a hard time "pin-pointing" actually. I can't see whether they don't like or like each other more... I'd say like but it's pretty ambiguous.
They're running out of stock in the manga. It's possible they might be changing up the events of the end of part 1 of the manga, depending on how they handle the last 4 episodes. The Twitter uses the term 区切り which means like "break point" but can also mean "close" so it's kinda vague. Maybe it'll come back, maybe not. Either way I'd prefer a break to tons of filler waiting for the manga to get further along.
Yeah. I'd assume that Toriko might comeback in a year or two. It's always a smarter move to not put out fillers and just take a break.
Nobody's being intolerant of Stealth Symphony fans; there'll always be fans of even the worst-performing series, not that we know for sure if Stealth Symphony will be one. We're just pointing out the potential, objective flaws we think the series may have that will threaten its survival.
ehhhhhhhhh I wouldn't call Cross Manage a poor choice in the long run, it's been a strong digital performer on the first few weeks of release for the 4 volumes they've done. And the monthly choices (Blue Exorcist, Seraph of the End, and *shudder* Zexal appear to be working out well for them. And One-Punch Man. It's only really the WSJ titles that have had pretty bad luck for them, and those are HUGE gambles each time. The JP audience for Shonen Jump is woefully unpredictable at the best of times.