I first found this when the manga website I used listed this above Naruto in popularity. Something that might topple that behemoth in popularity I had to see, so I went ahead and tried it. And it was oh so very promising. I had laughed within the first couple of minutes, the facial expressions were very good. The main character seemed interesting enough, and the absurd circumstances seemed like a break from the typical shonen.
And it did follow through, for a short time. The manga set up that there were 4 student bosses in the school, the 4 strongest, and predictably, Oga goes to try and fight them all. And that arc was good, I had high hopes for this, a shonen that I might actually like. But the problem is, after this happens, it appears the manga gets a little confused, it doesn't know what else to do. And so the manga goes from quite good, to... the same thing again, but with less driving force.
And it doesn't really ever recover from it. The humour is still there, but that's all that's left, the humour holding up a series that should of finished on a high, but instead continues. Maybe it gets better after x hours after I dropped it, but I didn't have any reason to continue it, I saw nothing going for it. I don't think this is a bad shonen, just not a good one. Maybe my dislike of shonen anime to significantly biasing my opinion, probably is really. But this was the first shonen I had real hopes for after reading it, and the first I felt genuinely let down when I dropped it.
In conclusion, if you don't like shonen this isn't going to be an exception to your rule. But if you are willing to give it a chance, read the first arc, because if the manga had kept that up my review would have been much more favourable.
