Hooray for another filler. So after writing the “Drifters” review, I had no idea what to do next so I was procrastinating while I thought about what to do next. I was recommended to play Celeste but the game was out of my budget and I was going to talk about a very specific trading card game but I couldn’t figure out a good title for it so here’s another filler, covering the things I read in class instead of doing my work. Hopefully by next week, I will have a game worth talking about or maybe even a movie if I bother getting an Netflix account.
First things first, we got “Bakuman” who is written by the same guy who wrote “Death Note” and I am 100% serious when I say this is better then “Death Note”. I was originally planning to do “Mangas Better Then Death Note” which would feature three mangas by the same creator but only “Bakuman” and “All You Need Is Kill” (which I will cover later when I get around to it’s movie adaption) was worth talking about but since “Bakuman” was still fresh on my mind, I might as well cover it now. “Bakuman” is a manga about two people who I forgot their names so let’s call them “Drawer” and “Writer”, trying to make it big as a mangaka duo and try to get published in Shounen Jump with their manga and while Writer is doing this because he likes manga, Drawer is in it to make up for his dead uncle who never got that far in the Mangaka business (I think so anyway) and also get an anime so he can marry the love of his dreams. Since this is in the filler review, you can guess I don’t have much to talk about here so let’s get it over with. What I like about this manga is quite simply is the way it conveys the struggles of mangakas, both for amateurs and pros alike and that is what got me in and kept me in and admire the two main characters for what they do and achieve in this manga as a wannabe mangaka. To me, it’s awe inspiring and is my favourite point about this manga but this manga still has some flaws and I think is a consistent problem with this mangaka and his ability to carry on a story. One of my biggest problems with “Death Note” is the fact half way through, it quite clearly has a end point but it continues to ignore that point and start a new arc which isn’t very good or interesting as the first half, bring down the whole thing for me and “Bakuman” has the same kind of problem. Granted, the transistion feels a lot more smoother then “Death Note” but I feel like beyond that point, it becomes far more dull. There is a forced introduction of an antagonist for the last half and the ending just feels standard. It’s nothing spectacular and it’s a disappointment. I do feel like the mangaka is not suited for long series such as “Bakuman” and “Death Note” since he does seem to lose steam as they go on while with something like “All You Need Is Kill” has all the charms of its longer counterparts but is also self-contained with its shortness so it doesn’t run out of ideas by the end. “Bakuman” is a 7/10 because even with its flaws, I still think it’s a great read but I don’t expect anyone to stick around for the end.
Next up, we have “Sun Ken Rock” which is by the same guy who was behind the “Trigun” series if the fact that all his main characters always have the same spiky blond hairstyle tip you off to that. The series follows Ken, a Japanese wannabe fellow who just wants to follow the love of his life to Korea and become a policeman except he fails and ends up being unemployed. After saving an old man from some gang members, he attracts the attention of another gang boss known as Tae-Soo and offers him a position in his gang which Ken naturally refuses because he is a “good person” and then continues to fight Tae-Soo but Tae-Soo surrenders and makes Ken the boss of the gang (which consists of 3 people at that point, excluding Ken). The story then continues to follow Ken as he becomes the strongest boss in Korea and I have nothing else to say about this. “Sun Ken Rock” to me is a just a great, well rounded series with very little flaws. I think it’s great all the way through until the end which is slightly sucky and a let down but I think the characters are great, the plot is well written with great twists and most importantly, the fights are fun and are great to read on top of looking amazing. My only problems is with the ending which I won’t discuss because spoilers and the fact this didn’t get an anime adaption already but that one is personal. Here’s the 8/10 so we can carry on with this review and make sure to read this when you get the chance.
For our last manga of this review, we have “Accel World” which I loved so much but of course, there had to be one cameo which just ruins the whole thing for me but we will get to that. The plot follows Haruyuki, a fat little piece of meat who is constantly bullied and takes his frustrations out on a squash game until he becomes friends with this girl which introduces him to the program, Accel World which in they enchance their brain power and capabilities at the cost of having to play inside this brawler game and duking it out with other users. I think the concept is cool and unique and it looks amazing but this being from the same guy who brought us the infamous SAO, this is has an SAO cameo. It’s completely out of left field and this doesn’t belong in the SAO canon. If it was to promote SAO, they should of made it a spin off and not part of the official canon. “Accel World” is just in a way, different from SAO and is implied that “Accel World” is far more technologically advanced then the SAO canon so why do this? I’m just disappointed with this series so here’s the 5/10 because apart from the SAO crossover, there is still some other issues in terms of plot and characters so I guess read it if you want some more of that Kirito action and you still think SAO is better then “/Hack”.
Here’s the usual end of review banter which is nothing this time because I used all of it in the start so see you guys next week if I can finally decide what to do next and I really hope I won’t need to do this again for at least a month.
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