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Centuria's first few chapters seemed really promising, with it's dark atmosphere, Lovecraftian creatures and unforgiving world, but then characters start acting like they're in a children series, with everything being black and white, villains being comically evil and the heroes being little angels from god, mc is as naive as a toddler, characters win battles with the power of friendship and all.

Very disappointing, this is a generic shonen series trying to pretend it's mature with GORE and over rendered backgrounds, non-powered characters in full armor moving like they're weightless, even the art that felt was incredible in the first couple of chapters started showing cracks, ... clothes look like they're made of stone, odd head/face proportions and expressions, plus the crazy giant hands and bulky forearms, makes everything look odd and the author seems really proud of the way they draw them, it's constantly the focus of some panels.

As i consume more and more manga/anime i realize that 90% of everything coming out is trying to cater to the biggest demographic out there and that's the casual reader that has read five manga or that just doesn't mind reading the same thing over and over again, i'm not saying using stereotypes, archetypes and tried and true formulas are a bad thing, but if you're doing in the most surface level possible, i don't really get what we're supposed to take away from this piece of art called manga, that at this time has nothing interesting to offer.

Found the artist on twitter and just got swept up by how good the art is, had to read the manga, didn't disappoint, great character designs, very expressive faces, good panel layout, great environment, amazing art all around, fights aren't good though, there isn't much choreography and it's not particularly engaging, and so far the magic system doesn't seem suited for a shonen series, now that i think about it, there wasn't even a single proper fight yet.

Story is very generic and just bleh, i don't really have a better word for it, bland, boring, shallow, uninspired, even when something interesting shows up, nothing is ... really done with it, monsters that don't wanna eat humans, even though they have to? glossed over, demi-human racism? glossed over, domestic violence? glossed over, self-h*rm? glossed over, unaliving? glossed over.
Every other chapter, a thread shows up, but it's not followed upon, maybe the author thinks that by just mentioning or showing something is the same as tackling it, i wouldn't complain about this if the manga had an interesting story and was developing clear themes for the reader to think about and these threads were just to give an idea of the wider world, maybe it's too early for this with just 4 volumes, maybe not.

The characters are another problem, they're either super boring, completely generic or outright annoying as hell, the guy who sells them info is legit all three at the same time.

So far i don't see many reasons to keep reading and i can't see that changing in the near future.

No, this isn't the Death Note successor some were expecting, it's Mirai Nikki with bland characters.

This story has almost nothing going for it, just edge, it's full of it, also super cheesy somehow, the Power Rangers thing is not even the worst of it, edge and cheese don't go well together.
Ohba shit the bed hard, nothing is interesting about it, intrigue, characters, plot, really mundane directing, no atmosphere at all, nothing, the manga has a way better look thanks to the great Takeshi Obata though.

Why the heck skip 33 days to let the Red Arrow end it's effect? Did nothing happen in that entire time? ... It's such a dumb decision, it doesn't even look like something that a seasoned writer would do, it's just wasting time, the two have no chemistry at all and him confessing changed nothing, it also generated no conflict or moved the story forward at all.

Why didn't those 2 knuckleheads notice Metropoliman changing places in the Stadium, can't they see people flying in the peripheral vision?

Main duo are as bland as they come and Nasse is super cringe, is that what "pure" means? The detective isn't as bad and would've been a better choice for main character instead of the brain dead duo.
Ohba for some reason still doesn't know how to write female characters.

Metropoliman is a weird mix of Death Note, Devilman and Zetman characters.
He doesn't seem as smart as he thinks he is, his motivation for killing anyone in his way, being his sister doesn't make sense to me, he seems the type of characters that feels above everyone, there was no need for a more "profound" reason.

The fan service is really in your face.

This is pretty bad and will just get worse, trust me.

BandMaid OP pretty great though.

As a concept artist, I was quickly intrigued with the premise, well of course, I’d love to watch a story about artists, art itself and the process of art making, but after watching the anime and also reading the manga, i think it’s just not very good at anything.

For an anime that’s supposed to be about art, the art itself is surprisingly lacking, in part bc of the mangaka's artstyle, which is pretty amateurish and they’re able to make it even worse with the damn awful animation, a lot of jerky movement, heads moving in unnatural ways, faces going off-model constantly, how on earth ... did they think this was okay, for a story about getting better at art, i feel like it should have been much much better.

MC is very very plain, in a self-insert kind of way, has no personality whatsoever, feels like a isekai protagonist that just reincarnated, shows some doubt early on about following the career, but gets over it pretty fast, doesn’t even want to keep some back-up choices, in case he can’t make it.
I could understand the choice to make him like that, if the story is going to actually showcase the characters around him, and the MC is just a vehicle in which we see that happening, being the eyes of the audience, but that's not the case at all.

He gets 90% of the whole screen time of the series, only thinks about art and nothing more, is 150% focused, does nothing outside of art, leaves all friends behind, stops having fun, changes his life completely without a second thought just bc he saw a huge ass painting, being an artist becomes his entire personality, goes in a month, from not knowing anything about drawing, can’t even draw a stick figure, to intermediate level art, drawing complex shapes, shadows, values, actually painting, color theory, complex composition, design, not just drawing simple objects as they are, not just simple pencil/charcoal drawings.
For some reason he’s learned all these different things in a month or so, not years.

The only saving grace is Ayukawa, but her character won’t amount to much in the long run and only sporadically shows up here or there going long stretches without appearing.
The other side characters have even less screen time, and with the little time they have to develop, we don't even get to actually know close to nothing, making them not amount to much, we only see them as these one dimensional characters with one quirk characteristic each, it's also not like there are tons of side characters in the story.
From the ones that actually have some recurrence, we've got the school teacher, that later gets swapped for the prep school art teacher, and the three stooges(Miss Perfect/Edgy Boy/Art Buff) that get most of the time that was reserved for Ayukawa, before their introduction.
That makes it 4 side characters at most, at any time and they still can't develop them.

There is too much focus on the boring self-insert MC’s story, maybe this is for teens with no self-confidence, that were interested in art at some point but thought it was too hard and just gave up, and this is your chance to live in the shoes of a very good artist that could do everything you could not.

I do kind of like the very brief snippets of the behind scenes some of the art techniques, the life of an art student that goes to school/college for it, since i didn't go to art school or anything like that, and i mostly work digitally, plus also how very different people approach the same problem, all of the interesting things are weirdly usually scarce though, bc we’re stuck with the boring main character, which does things in a very straightforward, bland and simplistic way and hogs the focus all for himself, from the less boring characters that irregularly show up.

This is a badly directed power fantasy anime, but for drawing.

I can't believe i got excited to read this trash.

Story(3.5/10): I never thought a Tsugumi Ohba story, would remind me so much of all of the super cringy, gorefilled edgy manga, that were funnily enough inspired by Death Note, it's like seeing Akira Toriyama writing the FanFic plot for Dragon Ball Super.
There was no real meaningful development aside of the first few chapters, no new powers, no new rules, no interesting new concept or even any event that would give any motivation whatsoever to the main character, or maybe make we see him in a different light.
The story grew stale even before the end ... of the first volume, it could've been 30 chapters long and it wouldn't lose anything, it might as well have ended after the first main villain is defeated halfway through and it would've been better for it, but not by much.

Art(8.5/10): Takeshi Obata delivers, as always, been a fan of him since the Hikaru no Go days.
Even though this is not his best, Platinum End is nothing to sniff at, even with the bland designs, specially the "battle suits", i also expected a bit more detail or complexity in the artwork, since this is a monthly title and looking at his earlier weekly work.

Characters(2/10): I don't understand what happened, every characters needs to be hyper over the top or as dull as a rock.
After a certain point in Ohba's career, he stopped being able to write believable people, and he couldn't give even a little bit of a personality to Platinum End's main character, even if his life depended on it, don't even bring up female characters and the romance, they're as ridiculous as the respect Light has for his mother, sister and Misa.

Enjoyment(3/10): Was there really any, aside of seeing Obata's work, and to see the trainwreck happen in real time, i wish he would find a better writer to work with.

Conclusion:
This is not the Death Note successor you were hoping for, you can see in Platinum End, all of the worse aspects of Ohba's writing style, how convoluted the story can get, exposition heavy and bs philosophy that leads nowhere.

The ridiculous ending made me chuckle, overall score of 3/10 it is.

The Dragon Ball Super manga story is based on outlines done by Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball, much like the Super anime; Most of what the anime does, like introducing new transformations, hair colors, change in outfits are mostly done to sell merchandise and appease nostalgia seeking baboons, by coping exact scenes and retreading developments from earlier Dragon Ball series;
Toyotaro on the other hand doesn't seem to need to do this kind of thing, going more for the cool factor with break neck speed pacing, but that doesn't always seem to work.

I want to start by saying that the Dragon Ball Super ... manga is automatically better just by rushing through the adaptation of the Battle of Gods arc/movie and entirely skipping that horrible Fukkatsu no F arc/movie.

The one thing i would say the anime has over the manga is the comedic filler episodes, mostly from the ones right before the Tournament of Power, with the Baseball, Dr.Slump, Great Saiyaman and Pan/Pilaf episodes being one of the best of the entire Super anime.

The art of Toyotaro(aka Toyble, creator of the fan manga Dragon Ball AF) is great, he has some weird construction lines, making a few of the characters look wonky and anatomically incorrect he likes to reuse shots from the original DB manga and his own shots from Super, but they work for the most part, his main appeal comes from the fact that he apes Toriyama's 80's style mixed in with his more recent leaner designs to perfection, and even some times having a more polished work on the fact that he doesn't have the time constraints Toriyama had with the weekly publication at Shonen Jump and also having to create the story.

Battle of Gods arc (5/10)

Very simple arc, introducing the higher Gods and God Ki.
Much better power scaling than the anime and movie but still weird, making SSJ3Gotenks and Ultimate Gohan irrelevant for some strange reason.

Universe 6 Tournament (4/10)

Just a tournament arc put together in a rush, new cool characters in Monaka, Hit, Frost, Cabba, Champa and Vados, plus the God of all things, Zeno, which is way less retarded in this version.
Piccolo and Majin Buu are wasted.
Since there was no Fukkatsu no F arc, there was no teasing of Gohan's comeback and then backing down after just a couple of episodes, the manga gets a pass on this.
Very smart fight on Goku's side against Hit, using the original SSGod transformation, instead of the most useless transformation since SSJ3, the palate swap SSGSSJ or SSJBlue, that was supposed to have perfect ki control, but we learn in this arc that it drains a lot of stamina if used a number of times in a roll, the arc ends with not much happening, and everything goes by too fast, it is a bit of a letdown.

Black/Zamasu arc (4/10)

This is where it gets complicated, this arc started great with a lot of promise, the return of Mirai Trunks and the introduction of a fan fiction level character, Goku Black.

The introduction of Black was great, there is so much suspense and terror in what Trunks was going through, Toyotaro did an awesome job with the reveal of Black being Goku.

This arc was where I started to feel like Super could actually improve, even more so in the manga because it was changing most of what was happening in the anime, taking out stuff like the time travel plot holes, Zamasu’s ridiculous anger towards Goku, Trunks whining on every chance he had, terrible power scaling, SSJ Ikari, plus the episode where Zamasu says that it's Trunks’ fault that he is killing everyone, and even though it doesn’t make sense, the character takes that as a fact and starts moaning again, don’t even start on the Cellphone Mafuba and the Kuwabara Spirit Bomb Sword, none of that was in the manga, thank god.

The manga added a lot of backstory, seeing Trunks training with the Supreme Kai, turning SSJ2 and defeating Dabura and Babidi was great, also we got more great stuff from Gowasu and ‘Shin’ in this version, Merged Zamasu’s great range of techniques, Goku mastering SSB, I even liked Trunks’ role at the end of this arc and the multiplying Zamasus, way better than the anime.

But even if i hold this arc of the manga in so much of a higher regard than it’s anime counterpart, it still isn’t that great of a story and leaves so many characters out of the loop, wasn't this supposed to be so grand in scope, like a DBZ saga? When it's also said and done, the arc still has the same Deus Ex Machina and feels almost as contrived as it's anime counterpart.

ToP/Preview -- ??

Way more to the point then the anime, making it sometimes feel rushed, but it truly plays out like a battle royale, I don’t know how to feel about it yet.