Märchen Crown Chapter 1 Discussion

If my reading of Kaguya and Oshi no Ko has taught me anything, it's that I shouldn't easily buy any intriguing or promising stuff from Aka without doing my due diligence and carefully following the story. Especially if it has some kind of edgy element. Otherwise, I might just get tricked and be disappointed once again when Aka just loses interest and ruins everything to get rid of the stuff faster.

@Fabris Considering that Aka has a supervisor this time, I bet someone will slap his hands every time he tries to break toys. But who knows?

@IzanaSolos Yeah. The guy really damaged his reputation and trust after Oshi no Ko, so I'm not going to buy his offer so easily this time.

@RobertBobert What kind of supervisor are we talking about?

@Oblomingo In addition to Aka and the illustrator, the creators of this manga also include a supervisor who is responsible for the composition and conceptual development of the title. https://myanimelist.net/people/83512/Aoikujira He is listed here as a second writer, but other media describe him as being in charge of composition.

@RobertBobert And what's that got to do with it supervisor? He's just responsible for certain elements in the story.

@Oblomingo This is not what supervisors do. Their job is to monitor the progress of work and make sure that everything is done correctly within the scope of the tasks. For example, Aka worked as a supervisor during the writing of Oshi no Ko by another author, ensuring that the novels stayed within the framework of the lore and meaningful narratives he wanted.

@RobertBobert that is, Akasaka writes, and this person just checks that everything is going according to plan (checking that there are no discrepancies in the plot, in case something is forgotten). His task is just to remember everything about the plot, am I right?

@Oblomingo This is a business matter, so we obviously can't say for sure how it all works. But presumably this person is responsible for making sure that Aka's work is properly developed within the given framework and does not lead to any plot holes or unwanted implications. The reason why he needed a supervisor for the first time depends entirely on your imagination and the degree of sympathy you have for Aka.

@RobertBobert Well, apparently we have different opinions about the reason ;)
But who cares for what reasons (romantic, cynical, and so on) a reviewer has been added, the main thing is to get a good manga ;)
If it makes the manga better, then I'm only glad, it's unlikely that this title will fall into the same place as Kaguya for me (and I love her with all my heart), but let her try (maybe she'll be next to ONK, I like her for the most part, even considering her flaws).
I'm already glad it's something else, I love it when people experiment. And what happens next, only time will tell us. I don't want to make plans for success or failure, there are more important things to do (and who am I, an ordinary person from the Internet with my taste for manga/anime).

@Oblomingo Depends on what the reason was. We may never know, but it's possible that the official supervisor of his new manga is doing some sort of damage control in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the disaster that was the ending of Oshi no Ko. Or they simply felt that Aka no longer deserved the creative freedom he had while writing the aforementioned title. If that's the case, then Aka is effectively on probation now and a lot depends on how successful this will be.

@RobertBobert here, everyone decides for themselves which reason seems more plausible to them. The main thing for me is that I personally like the manga, the rest is secondary. If the Aka itself has decided to hire a person, ok; if the publisher, ok.
I like Akasaka as a mangaka, but I also understand that he is just a person who can do something wrong (no one is immune). If such a move doesn't ruin the manga, then that's fine (and if it makes it better, then it's fine). So personally, I don't see anything wrong with this decision yet (it was just interesting to find out the role of a third person). And we'll see what happens next in the future (at least no one will take my Kaguya away from me, so even if Aka falls in my eyes as a mangaka... well, I'll still be grateful to him for Kaguya).

@Oblomingo That's why I say we don't know the real reasons behind it, so you can make it up yourself. Whether it will be useful or not is another question. I have my own thoughts, but I don't want to be a hater and wishing him failure.

Yup the whole time I was thinking this is too wholesome for Aka and that Mikel might be insane or his village might not be what it seems but that ending to the chapter went beyond what I expected. The witch seems pretty valid in keeping Rapunzel safe in the tower in this world. I'm pretty excited for this.

@Trap_Traps_Traps To wholesome for him? Even if we forget that Oshi no Ko was an edgy mess, before that his main hit was a wholesome romcom.

@RobertBobert Kaguya is the outlier among his works. He's an edgelord and Kaguya itself has edgy moments despite generally being wholesome.

Oh my god. I was just scrolling through Aka Akasaka's works, since Oshi no Ko ended a few months back, and i was reading a manga i just finished, so i was willing to see these new works he ended Oshi no Ko to start, and i found 2, a finished romcom and this one that just started. As soon as i saw the characters' names and the first few panels of the manga, i thought it was just a Tangled rip-off, and oh boy was i wrong. These last few panels completely shocked me. I thought it was gonna be all sunshine & rainbows till i reached this chapter's finale, curious to see what's gonna unfold in the upcoming chapter.

@Skuvan Aka, as usual, knows how to start stories perfectly and bait people into being interested enough to read futher. But let's hope that this manga won't become another victim of his inability to properly finish the stories he starts.

@1234SIYAM1234 Well, it was pretty obvious there was going to be some kind of twist here. Aka has done some serious damage to his career in the past year, but unlike his characters, he's not suicidal himself.

@RobertBobert Let's really hope so, cuz at this point, i feel like he's either trolling, or it's just who he is. Like, ain't gonna talk about OnK since everyone is aware of how it ended, but it wasn't just it, but also Love Agency which released a few months before OnK finale, also got cancelled for some reason while it was going so well. At this point, i feel like that is what to be expected out of any Aka work, nonetheless, i still hope this one survives such treatment at least.

@Oblomingo That's why I say we don't know the real reasons behind it, so you can make it up yourself. Whether it will be useful or not is another question. I have my own thoughts, but I don't want to be a hater and wishing him failure.

@RobertBobert that was funny seeing you having to explain to the other guy how supervisors work lol. I'm guessing the other person is only 14 with no life experience or probably most likely 34 with no life experience and still living in his moms basement. Still funny seeing how lost and irked they were learning what a supervisor was.

Either way thanks for dropping the info about him having a supervisor for this new manga, but didn't have one for previous stuff. Interesting stuff.

I have decently high hopes for this one.

Watch Aka ruin this one too.