It was great!
Hey, if you haven't played Tekken - I don't think this is for you. 6 episodes doesn't give them the time to build characters. Its more like: "hey, its Paul Phoenix! Oh hell yeah, Xiaoyu in her schoolgirl outfit! wow, they animated King's giant swing!". If you are a Tekken fan, you will love seeing all your favorite characters and moves brought to life.
The story is bad only in the sense that the Tekken story is bad, lol. Fighting games have dumb stories. I think they executed everything really well and made it seem less cheesy than I would have expected.
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Dec 5, 2021
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Man, what the fuck did I just read. This was all over the place in terms of quality. Lets start with the art: the first chapter looked great. I loved the design of the werewolves and of course was a fan of thick ass Grimm. And then the next chapter happened. Holy hell, the author could NOT handle the rigor of a weekly chapter schedule. I mean, I can't blame them, I don't know how any WSJ mangaka does it, but the immediate drop in art quality was the most noticeable I've ever seen. The final few chapters had almost no backgrounds, like they just ... 
Sep 13, 2021
Ame no Furu
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Overall a very enjoyable series. While I found the premise and setting to be interesting at first I don't feel that it was executed all that well and I ended up not caring too much about it.
But that didn't matter too much because the character writing and dialogue was superb. This series had some of the must unique humor I've seen in a manga or anime. I really wish I didn't have to simply describe it as "meta" or a "deconstruction" of tropes, because it really doesn't do it justice. Just very creative joke writing and witty dialogue. I LOVED the main character. Tsumugi was ... 
Aug 19, 2021
Kowloons' Ball Parade
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An interesting take on a sports manga. Sports series (baseball especially) have to navigate the same formula. Its how you navigate, circumvent, and execute the tropes that counts. Every baseball manga is going to be about going to the Koshien. So what are you going to do different?
Well this manga does A LOT different. The beginning focuses heavily on the building of a team from scratch. The protagonist is a cerebral, but ultimately unremarkable player. After being rejected from his dream team he must assemble a ragtag crew to take revenge. Its approach to the storytelling of the baseball games focuses almost entirely on the strategy ... 
Jun 20, 2021
Honomieru Shounen
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I think that this was a very frustrating axe for most of us. Phantom Seer was a good story, with great characters, and superb art and design. And apparently, very good sales - which is what makes this axe so damned puzzling.
My best justification for the axe is that Shonen Jump is a team sport. Everyone has important roles to play - the ace, the battle shonens, the romance, the sports manga, the ecchi, the romcom, the gag manga, etc. Phantom Seer played the same role on this team as Jujutsu Kaisen, and had peers in adjacent positions that had a setting of Japanese ghosts and ... 
Jan 24, 2021
Bokura no Ketsumei
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I haven't read an extremely large number of manga in my life, so this isn't exactly the most profound statement, but Our Blood Oath is easily the worst manga I've ever read.
Absolutely appalling. Even with bad manga there is always something about it that was redeemable - something about the authors work that you can see being a foundation to build upon with their next work. I feel bad for this mangaka but my god, it is truly shocking that they were given a chance in Jump at all. Their art is awful - well below what should be acceptable in non-gag manga in Jump. ... 
Jan 24, 2021
Shinrin Ouja Moriking
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Just finished reading all 35 chapters last night and today. Honestly, I don't really have any strong feelings about it. I don't think it was awful, but I wouldn't call it good. Everything about it was below average. Its not suprising at all that it never gained any popularity. The story the author was trying to tell had an interesting foundation, but just never really felt like it went anywhere. I wouldn't truly describe this as a gag manga, but none of the gags were great anyway.
Its always important that the 20 or so series running in WSJ make up a well-rounded and complete ... 
Jan 23, 2021
Agravity Boys
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This series was bad - I am surprised it made it to 50 chapters.
I'll start off with the only positive the series has going for it: the art is excellent. I really like the character design direction by the mangaka, and they created some stunning and detailed scenery. Every few chapters there would be a big full page panel or a two-pager - I would sit and look at those for a good minute, soaking up every detail. I am genuinely impressed with the level of detail that the mangaka could put into a WEEKLY series. That takes talent and endurance that is very rare ... |
