Unfortunately the girl he ended up with is also a rubbish character.
Sorry, but no.
Also stay safe everyone. Sucks that it's such a common thing nowadays.
Unfortunately the girl he ended up with is also a rubbish character.
A time traveller runs a business that changes history to suit his clients' needs. This was far meatier than I was expecting, with many of its chapters being mini-arcs of around 80 pages each. It started surprisingly strongly, with two excellent and slightly touching tales about Jack the Ripper and the Mona Lisa, but then became bogged down in its unappealing overarching plot and laughable villain. As the arsenic on the cake, it was unceremoniously axed right on an end-of-volume cliffhanger. Impressively disappointing.
Speaking of which, I need to catch up on this.Sesuji wo Pin! 37
I am still loving it. It's a feel good manga, and i'm glad it got decent ranking in Jump (okay, maybe middle is not very good, but at least it's not the bottom!)
Blessed with suffering? Yes, yes he is.Man.... Kaneki is blessed.
The Climber volumes 9-17
Hmmm, what to say... Overall, this manga was somewhat of a disappointment for me. It wasn't a bad manga or a bad story per se, but it didn't give me as much enjoyment as I hoped.
I didn't like certain tracts of Buntaro's personality initially, but it was gradually building up once he went back to solo climbing after the middle part of the story because after that he finally became more... human, or normal if you want: marriage, getting a daughter, concentrating on work and family, finding people that accepted him and loved him.
So, seeing this person regress back and jeopardizing everything to go back to climbing, with all the consequences and choices he made during his last trek was just disappointing.
It was also disappointing seeing most everyone take advantage of him at one point or another while, at the same time, these characters are tossed in and out of the story like nothing. Miyamoto is forgotten for most of the story, only to come back to be a dipshit and then thrown out of the story again. Same for the club manager, a nice girl who became a literal whore and both times she came back into the story, it was to mess with Buntaro's life. I could say that it was partly also her fault if Buntaro ends a cripple. If she didn't fuck Takemura the dude wouldn't have lost his mind and wouldn't have taken Buntaro to K2 to try and beat him to show the woman (who doesn't give a fuck about him) how awesome he is so that she'd leave her husabnd to marry him.
And then there is the guy introduced in the initial story during that climbing competition. Toward volume 15/16 I started wondering man, I wonder what happened to that guy. I expected to see him show up again at some point, he seemed like a gifted climber, kind of special and crazy, did the author forget he existed? and woah, he suddenly shows up... dead and preserved on K2.
Obviously, the Climber is based on a novel based on a real person so it's obvious that some choices made by the real person, with their consequences, might not sit well with some readers, though there is the... positive note that, unlike the novel, Buntaro came back alive to his family in the manga (though a cripple) but I just can't shake the bad taste the whole thing left in my mouth because the last 3 volumes or so felt like a regression after finally seeing some growth.
The manga had great art as one would expect (though not at the start, where we even have yaoi level giraffe-necked-guys drawings) and I liked the man against the world/nature/mountain/himself spirit, the soloist struggle, the nerves of steel to be able to endure extreme situations but on a human level it felt short for me. It really wasn't what I hoped it'd be by the end of the tale.
The Climber volumes 9-17
Hmmm, what to say... Overall, this manga was somewhat of a disappointment for me. It wasn't a bad manga or a bad story per se, but it didn't give me as much enjoyment as I hoped.
I didn't like certain tracts of Buntaro's personality initially, but it was gradually building up once he went back to solo climbing after the middle part of the story because after that he finally became more... human, or normal if you want: marriage, getting a daughter, concentrating on work and family, finding people that accepted him and loved him.
So, seeing this person regress back and jeopardizing everything to go back to climbing, with all the consequences and choices he made during his last trek was just disappointing.
It was also disappointing seeing most everyone take advantage of him at one point or another while, at the same time, these characters are tossed in and out of the story like nothing. Miyamoto is forgotten for most of the story, only to come back to be a dipshit and then thrown out of the story again. Same for the club manager, a nice girl who became a literal whore and both times she came back into the story, it was to mess with Buntaro's life. I could say that it was partly also her fault if Buntaro ends a cripple. If she didn't fuck Takemura the dude wouldn't have lost his mind and wouldn't have taken Buntaro to K2 to try and beat him to show the woman (who doesn't give a fuck about him) how awesome he is so that she'd leave her husabnd to marry him.
And then there is the guy introduced in the initial story during that climbing competition. Toward volume 15/16 I started wondering man, I wonder what happened to that guy. I expected to see him show up again at some point, he seemed like a gifted climber, kind of special and crazy, did the author forget he existed? and woah, he suddenly shows up... dead and preserved on K2.
Obviously, the Climber is based on a novel based on a real person so it's obvious that some choices made by the real person, with their consequences, might not sit well with some readers, though there is the... positive note that, unlike the novel, Buntaro came back alive to his family in the manga (though a cripple) but I just can't shake the bad taste the whole thing left in my mouth because the last 3 volumes or so felt like a regression after finally seeing some growth.
The manga had great art as one would expect (though not at the start, where we even have yaoi level giraffe-necked-guys drawings) and I liked the man against the world/nature/mountain/himself spirit, the soloist struggle, the nerves of steel to be able to endure extreme situations but on a human level it felt short for me. It really wasn't what I hoped it'd be by the end of the tale.
Holy shit.Gintama
Holy shit.
Madao got his job back that he lost all the way back in Chapter 2.
WE'RE IN THE FUCKING END-GAME BOYS
Goddamn, only 2 chapters in and they've already reached the hand-holding stage. I suspect chapter 3 will involve police sirens.
So I just realized, English Jump is kind of fucked soon.
Bleach is ending, Toriko is ending, Nisekoi is ending, that's three of their featured series gone.
I know there will be replacement series, but what are the chances they'll last? The series that premiered the week after Naruto ended was Takujo no Ageha, that table tennis series that died pretty quickly.
They might have to lean into one the recent series they had Jump Starts for. Of course, they rejected them because fan interest was low.
So I just realized, English Jump is kind of fucked soon.
Bleach is ending, Toriko is ending, Nisekoi is ending, that's three of their featured series gone.
I know there will be replacement series, but what are the chances they'll last? The series that premiered the week after Naruto ended was Takujo no Ageha, that table tennis series that died pretty quickly.
They might have to lean into one the recent series they had Jump Starts for. Of course, they rejected them because fan interest was low.
So I just realized, English Jump is kind of fucked soon.
Bleach is ending, Toriko is ending, Nisekoi is ending, that's three of their featured series gone.
I know there will be replacement series, but what are the chances they'll last? The series that premiered the week after Naruto ended was Takujo no Ageha, that table tennis series that died pretty quickly.
They might have to lean into one the recent series they had Jump Starts for. Of course, they rejected them because fan interest was low.
So I just realized, English Jump is kind of fucked soon.
Bleach is ending, Toriko is ending, Nisekoi is ending, that's three of their featured series gone.
I know there will be replacement series, but what are the chances they'll last? The series that premiered the week after Naruto ended was Takujo no Ageha, that table tennis series that died pretty quickly.
They might have to lean into one the recent series they had Jump Starts for. Of course, they rejected them because fan interest was low.
Haikyuu is likely, it'd need a big recap since there's over 200 chapters now.
Gin Tama won't happen. Along with it also close to ending, Viz tried to sell Gin Tama years ago but cancelled it after 23 volumes.
It's possible we'll get Kimetsu or Samon. Mononofu and Demon Diary aren't ranking too well but we'll see.