So I had planned on using Tomohiro Yagi's more recent series, Red Sprite, for this thread, but then I remembered he had ANOTHER U19 just before that. Iron Knight is a three volume story that only managed to get 17 chapters in before axed. It was a work developed after multiple one-shots with one even getting runner up in the Future Golden Cup of 2012. But it still failed, and probably for good reason. So this week we're going to cover the series plus the one shots bundled in the tankobons (save one that was never translated) about a shota that gets Monster AIDS and his struggle to protect humanity from more Monster AIDS.
>What is U19? Aside from the title of that one manga that features stupid sexy nazi scientists, anything that ran in Weekly Shounen Jump that couldn't even make it to 19 chapters and swiftly got cancelled.
>So it's crap Yes. But also no. All it means is that it didn't impress an audience. It might even mean something special to someone. But generally you can assume it's crap.
>Is this thing that is 19 chapters long a U19? No, just a regular axebait just short of true glory. But if we last long enough, we'll cover those that barely escaped the club. Don't worry too much about it.
>Will you storytime X? If I can find it, sure. But I'm kind of retarded as is my destiny as OP.
>Why would they publish this in the first place? Everyone asks this, and there's probably plenty of reasons. Maybe it was a good one shot. Maybe they won a rookie award. Maybe they actually showed capacity for talent to the editor but struggled with the weekly format. Maybe they wrote a successful series before their U19 failure. It's not a black and white business. But maybe with the power of RETROSPECTIVE we'll get a little bit of an idea why it did poorly.
Admittedly I rushed to download this, so I haven't properly read this series either. But I'm sure it'll hold some traits I found hilarious in Red Sprite
These U19s from the early 2010s honestly seem so much stronger than recent ones. These failed because they were missing some je ne sais quoi, new ones feel like they fail because the author falls flat on their face doing something incompetent in the first volume, usually the first half of the first volume including the first chapter that they probably worked on for weeks before serialization started.
Wyatt Allen
>the author falls flat on their face doing something incompetent in the first volume I think that applies to this series too from what I've read so far. This is word vomit and 'nothing happens'
>muh u19 Kill yourself you subhuman low IQ nigger, there's nothing special about that shti plenty of other manga were axed after 2 volumes before it and plenty after even Iron Knight was published before getthe fuck out of here with your autistic fuckin obsession withthat shit you dumb inbred NEET, fuck you and die
Brayden Harris
Why did this guy get two chances when both series were boring with sub-par art? Red sprite looks worse than this.
Juan Ortiz
There's a distinct lack of bodies among all this chaos compared to that spread with the piked heads.
I'm not too fond of the typesetting here, but it is what it is. I think he published another one shot a couple years ago. So he very well could try for a third series if jump editors are insane enough.
I'm not really seeing the problem, seems solid to me. The kid is supposed to be disoriented and losing his mind to demonaids before he gets shonen spirit from his buried humanity.
