I thought the intro's set-up and ideas were pretty cool, and the main two's relationship was interesting.
Possibly my favorite axed series in recent memory, I liked almost everything about it. The pacing bothered people, but I enjoyed the low-key beginning and how it helped the development of the bonds of the main characters, worked pretty well for me. My feelings are that it wouldn't really work in Jump, even now, but maybe in someplace like Sunday the structure would've worked better.
I've noticed since manga+ started (especially since Stream died), the series that get the biggest audience in the west is whatever has the most intense or hotblooded first chapter and many's opinions don't change after ch 1 even if that was the only good chapter. It's all about the introduction, rather than the follow up.
It obviously had pace issues which led it to the axe, but I loved it. It was interesting, was developing stuff well and had good characters. Also, when I read the last chapter, I was thinking the author was trying to say "I had around 200 chapters of context ready in my head".
That too, it's in fact funny reading the comments for chapter 3 of Phantom Seer, it's like TPG all over again "ohh this is so amazing, this will be a hit one day, this is goated and blah blah blah" while on Bokura the comments are such a mess for whatever reason, seriously, Bone Collection first chapter has most of the comments praising and saying it's promising while Bokura is such a bunch of bs comments about axe and even Jump not having standards lol (Ofc not all comments since there are positive ones but the overall tone is more definitely mixed to negative)
Yeah, i was wondering if others were feeling too, the start of the manga feels like it was a such long time ago, the fights are cool but it feels like it's the same thing every week, wish the manga would go back a bit to the funny gags
Yeah, I feel the same. And it feels like every chapter have the same structure of the good guys getting a power up suddenly. I mean, for a minute I thought that it was what happened in this week's chapter, as the pattern keeps repeating itself.
Oh cool. I wonder if the Shigaraki advertisement for My Hero Academia Volume 28 is also still continuing.
I think the mashle author must think it wouldn't be interesting or manga to be purely comedy and decide to put more fights on. Personally I like it since almost half of the magazine is just comedy these days.
I think this chapter was pretty messy, the cool moments didn't really had any build-up or felt meaningful. I agree it would be good to be back to more gag focused moments, but i think the last two chapters weren't good regardless, the battle aspect still needs more work.
I loved the last saiyuki it's the first manga I got upset it got axe but it did had a two major problem too much info dumping in the beginning and the pacing was slow as dirt they was at the same location for 9 chapters
