Update: I gave this comic 6 months to see if it could become something, but it still hasn't.
It's still very slow, and that's saying something because I feel like it's progressing even more slowly week by week.
Second, the comic is essentially 60% mindless action scenes. This isn't like the beginning of the comic where the action was held by a good plot like the throne game or the hide and seek.
Now it's just pure 100% action panels filling up most of the page that easily become repetitive. This is because there is literally no stakes, and I seriously call BS on the whole motif of "few survive the tower", because every single major protagonist and side character is still alive. There is no tension whatsoever. Guy has his limb dismembered and is about to be skewed by a sword, Nope! Our protagonists come by after maximum buildup and cliffhangers to save the day. Hell, they even use their magic powers to reattach the limb. Everything is A-okay!
This comic is not about the 99% of the weaker participants, it's all about the 1% that are the strongest. Now, this in itself doesn't mean the comic has to be bad, and can be a interesting premise if they play it right, just look at HunterxHunter! Nope, instead these characters are all generic as crap. It's the same martyr hero syndrome like every other generic comic/manga/cartoon.
This is the biggest problem: It's cliche as crap, and the author is intent on making it continue as such. Every single week, there appears the same old hero protagonist trope that infest this genre.
It's a comic filled with long-term mystery, but so much short disappointment that it ruins the whole thing. To explain, the problem is I am interested in the outcomes of this comic and how the mysteries will be explained, but the road to the conclusion is just so terribly painful.
I feel as if there is a demographic change since the end of the fantastic first arc. It feels like a damn generic saturday morning western cartoon. This frustration is exacerbated by the mindless praise this comic gets for it's 'twists' and 'gritty story'. I feel like I'm in audience with a demographic of pre-teens discovering their first PG cartoon. Won't be surprised if that's actually the case.
In any case, I have dropped this at long last. |