Post a manga you like and others will comment a positive and a negative aspect about it.
Feel free to mention a pro and con you see in it yourself and try not to be too hateful.
I'll start with Real, I have a hard time thinking of anything negative other than Inoue's lack of commitment, but the work itself I don't know.
I tried to get into real but basketball it's not my thing i guess. Inoue's it's cashed I think he just made it in life as mangaka and can't be bothered with actual work. He has gifted the world with enough memorable art. Let's just take into consideration how life stealing it's the japanese manga work system.
Of course i will post my all time favourite manga that i can read over and over (i don't care if it's no finished), Vagabond.
- It's Vagabond so of course a lot to like, the art, story, dialogue it's pretty good.
- I found it a bit confusing to read at parts, when it gets too philosophical it can get a bit hard to follow, to really get what Inoue or Musashi is getting at and not just skimming through the pretty pictures. Probably not easy to translate either. It also jumps between past and presents with in few panel flashbacks that can take a bit to register.
Also Inoue is currently working on Real, supposedly, not sure how much he might have been affected by Covid though.
I started it but I didn't care about it to pick it back up.
dropped it in the first couple of chapters. wasn't really interested in MC. More interested in his partner who got married to the random girl
The first 40 or so chapters are mediocre. Everything Paper Labyrinth onward is mindgame kino
I still think Gintama is the best manga of all time, mostly due to the humor and character development.
The serious stuff at the end wasn't the best though, and the end itself was very odd.
I don't get why people say the hangman game wasn't good but the paper labyrinth is. Both are the same in the sense that the opponent is cheating and the MC has to figure out how and use it against him
Man, I really need to get around to reading Usogui.
It all comes down to the cyber eye. People just think its extremely outlandish and too scifi. I don't love it but I'm not an avid hater of it either. I think the hangman game is where you can actually start seeing what makes Usogui great, but Paper labyrinth is where it finally solidifies itself
Do it. I had it in my list for a solid year before I picked it up because I heard nothing but "it gets good at X chapter" It easily became my favorite manga hands down. The first few volumes feel almost like another manga with how much it improved itself in both story,gambling, and art. I can't give enough praise to the translators too, because they go out of their way to make charts explaining all the parts of each arc later on that make your mind explode with how intricate it all is
Now would be a good time to get into it imo since we're in the final arc now with 59 chapters left so if you hurry you could experience the end with everyone
>I heard nothing but "it gets good at X chapter"
It really is the best example of "it gets better later on" syndrome
I have read many manga where the beginning parts are somewhat of a slog and then it gets better, but Usogui truly takes the cake of "how did this not get axed?" to "this is one of the best things I've ever read"
Is the translation for the earlier chapters fine?
Haven't read any of these to comment, but I'll throw pic related.
Pros: Very interesting time period and it seems really realistic and well researched into inventive tactics and the art of war at the time.
Cons: It's hard to give a damn about any of the characters for some reason, it's only at the very end that you kinda feel some slight attachment to them.
Just fine, Duwang takes the reins for the minotaurs labyrinth arc and its amazing quality scanlation. everything before that is serviceable. iirc theres some really neat fonts for the typesetting
Yeah they're good, the current group had a few bad ones at first but then got an English proofreader and went back and uploaded better versions with correct English
Cool.
Actually wait, which chapters are the ones that got reuploaded?
They have a couple of name inaccuracies but honestly thats about it other than some hiccups.
This has been on my list for awhile after I read Kingdom. Glad to know its got good war tactics in place cause I love that shit
The first ones they uploaded from before getting a proofreader. I think it was the 80s and 90s
Huh, I'm reading Bokko right now.
> cool chara designs and the story is way more complex and thought out than your average battle shonen.
> too silly, it's just weird, the tone of the manga is all over the place, it's filled with joke characters that aren't just joke characters, but actually have a lot of relevance to the story. A thing of the time period I suppose, that 90's shit of being deep and serious and also wacky and retarded like Saber Marionette J.
Never read it.
Don't remember too much about it other than the art desu, it's been so long since I've read a chapter
Great from an artist's perspective, it really captures the anxiety and gives really good lessons about art and progress in general. I've never had rashes and my stuff is mainly digital nowadays but other than that the main character is very relatable. A con would be that it's hard to believe the level of dedication of the main character considering he'd literally never done art before, but then again that's sort of the premise of the manga. I also appreciate that they use real art for the stuff the students do, but in turn that makes it hard to see gradual progress from each of them individually, or to perceive individuality in some of the exercises.
Absolutely great. You can see the evolution of the art and the author's other work I'm reading, Batuque, displays real evolution in that aspect.
The more I read though, the more the beginning seems complete nonsense. Marco is such a beast and the referees are so good, that the pen trap Usogui laid out and the building battle they won can only be remembered as pure luck at this point.
Been meaning to check it out, I think I read the first 10 chapters maybe two or three times and it didn't grab me, I probably am gonna have to endure this rough beginning.
Great strategy, action and paneling, but I can't remember a single character other than the protagonist and that weird digging dude.
As for mine, I love the artstyle, battles, and the characters, but the method through which the main cast gets powered up to fight the final battle is total nonsense, just pure awful, especially considered it was meant to defeat them.
Your comment made me interested in Blue Period now, didn't know it dealt with the artist's journey. Hope the MC isn't some talented genius, as Japan is obsessed with talent, which is a meaningless concept next to hard work and other variables. Thanks.
>but the method through which the main cast gets powered up to fight the final battle is total nonsense, just pure awful, especially considered it was meant to defeat them.
I don't remember what you mean by that last part? They gather/inherit all the legendary paopei or whatever they are called and train on some time chamber for XXXX amount of time, am I remembering that correctly or what do you mean?
>Absolutely great. You can see the evolution of the art and the author's other work I'm reading, Batuque, displays real evolution in that aspect.
It's really interesting how many "hidden gem" artists/authors Shueisha has outside of WSJ.
Art was nice, story felt really dry to me. I can't get into Inoue manga.
That's nearly it but I believe the time chamber was imposed on them by that alien chick, it was meant to seal them in there in a time void, except instead of slowing them down it worked like a hyperbolic time chamber in which they were only trapped until they got strong enough to leave.
Will pick Blue Period up because this sounds very interesting.
Weekly Young Jump is probably my favorite magazine currently running.
>Batuque(though he just took it online for more freedom
>Kingdom
>Golden Kamuy
>Kowloon
>Real
>Kaguya
I unironically think Sorachi is a genius, but genius and regular schedule don't always work well together
Is that what you didn't like? I can't disagree though, it's an interesting and complex story, but not very well written in the end. So someting like that didn't bother me as much because it just felt natural seeing the level of writing of the entire series. But I really don't remember if they just pushed through the void with sheer will or if they got any sort of help or if there was something that made it possible.