This is one of the dumbest things I ever read.
The story is so much generic and straightforward, that produces "Am I already read that?" feeling constantly. You can make a bingo sheet with "the most common tournament arc elements" and check every single cell. It may have been intended to be "simple but epic", but its not. All the characters' actions look like a parody without humor.
Also, how much plot information you expect from a first two volumes of the comix? Hm?
One or two complete stories that reveal the main character? Check this out - it would be 2 fights of some deranged freaks.
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Aug 1, 2018
Black Lagoon
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Modern criminal action is a rare and unique setting for japanese manga and anime. And I think it`s awesome setting which the author filled with impact characters and exposition.
But there is a feeling that Rei Hiroe simply doesn`t know what to do next. He just doesn`t understand crime scene, how bandits look like, act, speak and why they do what they do, which is natural for a citizen of such a safe country as Japan, actually... So everything looks fake, cheap and patterned, as for me. And terribly overloaded with politics in the last chapters too. What are you doing, Rei? Hong Kong action movies is ... 
Mar 10, 2018
Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen
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Kizumonogatari was probably the most original and entertaining story about vampires that I read in my life. I did not read much of them. But most were similar. And now finally we have a screen version of the novel.
What do we have here? Characters designs ruined, ugly rotoscoping animation, irrelevant backgrounds work, monstrously prolonged scenes, they threw out half of the dialogues, but added lo-o-ong and absolutely pointless scenes and details that were not in the novel. Apparently, this is an exhausted, long-running project, many times changed the director, and released from the consideration "just to finish it." Or an eloquent demonstration of bad taste, lack of talent ... |
