slow week for manga
PostPosted:Fri May 14, 2010 9:18 pm
I think Bleach is the only manga that didn't totally drag on this week which must be some kind of record since Bleach defines dragging on. I figure I can skip One Piece for a month or however long this new flashback scene takes, and same with Naruto which is like a double dose of filler with more training + flashback at the same time!
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas seem to fell off some as the last two fights are pretty forgettable. Kaguho turning out to be Phoenix Ikki was, in retrospect, so obvious that nobody actually saw it coming, though this time he's on the other side. It also shows that maybe the good guys are a bit better than the bad guys since they actually figured out they should just convince Phoenix Ikki to leave in the name of friendship instead of trying to kill someone who can resurrect himself at will and powers up each time he resurrects himself too. Now the series bizarrely turns into some kind of weird S&M fetish with Pandora showing up, even though originally it looked like Kaguho was supposed to fight Pandora. Granted, any fight involving the Phoenix in Saint Seiya is kind of stupid since he absolutely cannot be defeated, but I'm not sure this is a better direction.
The Ravages of Time pulls a fake trailer thing ala Xenosaga. At the end of Volume 37 it shows Sun Ce's halberd dropped on battleground in a pool of blood. I've always wondered where that scene comes in and now volume 38 affirms that this scene DID NOT HAPPEN and was probably a ploy to get people to buy volume 38. It's also pretty disappointing that if assassins didn't take out the man-closest-to-god (Sun Ce), the solution is clearly send MORE assassins next time except it worked the second time. Given Ravages of Time pays no attention to what really happened in history I thought it'd be either Guan Yu (the God of War) or Zhao Yun that took Sun Ce out, but I guess he had to die sometime. The trailer on volume 38 says volume 39 is going to be the real battle of Guan Du, like it did back at volume 12. At this rate the 4-box comic stuff that shows "The real battle of Guan Du, coming in volume 130" looks like an increasing probable reality.
I mean, it's not like Ravages of Time is bad, but most people don't really care about the battle of Guan Du.
Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas seem to fell off some as the last two fights are pretty forgettable. Kaguho turning out to be Phoenix Ikki was, in retrospect, so obvious that nobody actually saw it coming, though this time he's on the other side. It also shows that maybe the good guys are a bit better than the bad guys since they actually figured out they should just convince Phoenix Ikki to leave in the name of friendship instead of trying to kill someone who can resurrect himself at will and powers up each time he resurrects himself too. Now the series bizarrely turns into some kind of weird S&M fetish with Pandora showing up, even though originally it looked like Kaguho was supposed to fight Pandora. Granted, any fight involving the Phoenix in Saint Seiya is kind of stupid since he absolutely cannot be defeated, but I'm not sure this is a better direction.
The Ravages of Time pulls a fake trailer thing ala Xenosaga. At the end of Volume 37 it shows Sun Ce's halberd dropped on battleground in a pool of blood. I've always wondered where that scene comes in and now volume 38 affirms that this scene DID NOT HAPPEN and was probably a ploy to get people to buy volume 38. It's also pretty disappointing that if assassins didn't take out the man-closest-to-god (Sun Ce), the solution is clearly send MORE assassins next time except it worked the second time. Given Ravages of Time pays no attention to what really happened in history I thought it'd be either Guan Yu (the God of War) or Zhao Yun that took Sun Ce out, but I guess he had to die sometime. The trailer on volume 38 says volume 39 is going to be the real battle of Guan Du, like it did back at volume 12. At this rate the 4-box comic stuff that shows "The real battle of Guan Du, coming in volume 130" looks like an increasing probable reality.
I mean, it's not like Ravages of Time is bad, but most people don't really care about the battle of Guan Du.