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 gave up.
Next, the story and pacing: Ignoring the ending, when the author knew they were getting axed - the pacing was far too slow. The cops and robbers game took WAY too long. I know Sakaguchi probably wanted to do a very Hunter x Hunter-style weird ass exam, but it was way too convoluted. Hell, I don't even know if I think HxH does that stuff properly either, but thats for another time.
Now, for the ending. Look, when a manga gets axed, the end is never going to be pretty. But goddamn do I respect the hell out of the author for just going with this Evangelion, M. Night Shamylon nonsense. If you got a team of really skilled writers to workshop this ending, and if it was the ending to an actually meaningful, long, and popular story, people would be talking about this as one of the greatest of all time.
But, hey, its not executed great - no blame there, it was impossible given the situation.
Overall, I don't know whether to give this manga a 4 or a 9. I'm going with a 7. It sure as hell doesn't feel right, but I gotta score it something.
