Rockman Zero

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The Rockman Zero manga interpretation and adaptation is quite the difficult beast to explain, straying from the original source material and having little in common with the video game series it was based off of from the beginning.

Art: The art style does little to portray the despair and mature tones that the games depicted, opting for a much more childish and cute environment and characters. The original style itself is recreated for the cover of the first volume, but is never used again, instead replaced with a childish Zero introduced in the second arc.

Character: Characters in the manga are outright cartoonish in nature, and nothing ... like their counterparts, much like Ciel's tsundere nature, the new appearance of Omega, and changes to Zero that attempt to disempower him. Though original characters are introduced and setup to a unique concept like Roze and Cial, the execution never leads to anything interesting or noteworthy.

Enjoyment: When I think of Megaman Zero, I see the nearly impossible odds and the struggle against the overwhelming might of Neo-Arcadia, and the difficulty that forces players to be victorious through repetition. I seemed more dumbfounded than anything else while reading through the series and wondering if the creator had actually seen much of the source material.

I don't even know where to start. As much as I sometimes like it when an adaptation diverges from the original source material, this case is ridiculous. Yes, let's take the most serious and traumatized character in the entire franchise and turn him into a cowardly idiot who screams and cries all the time and constantly needs a child's help to get himself together, yes THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!!

I just wonder how the guy who drew and wrote this can sleep at night. I looked at the other chapters and everything keeps getting worse. The excuse that this manga was published in a children's magazine ... is nonsense, there are many series in these magazines that can be compared to normal shounens. And some that even cover more serious and adult themes, like Ou Dorobou Jing and Rockman X by Yoshihiro Iwamoto.

Don't waste your time with this. The franchise's four 0:15 seconds commercials are more fun than that, just play the games and ignore this thing.