2010-11-11, 11:29 PM
Deadman Wonderland is too convoluted. I've read all the chapters, but the characters don't seem to stick. The plot also seems erratic and even though continuity is present, it doesn't seem to really matter who dies or what happens in the past. The Wretched Egg and the Red Man are taking too long to explain. I prefer large themes to be completed by mid-arc and not to be this pervading question that makes me wait for the whole entire series to finally find out the answer.
The Breaker is too predictable. I've read all the chapters, but you can kind of predict what is going to happen next and the manga is guilty of stretching out the plot. Plot stretching is fine if there is something that can be enjoyed from the process, but I can't quite find that in The Breaker anymore. The actions scenes are nice, but the series itself isn't something that I would go back and read from the beginning.
Elfen Lied got weird when it became all about mating and spreading sperm. Actually Elfen Lied was pretty much always weird with the dual personality and the hand-like super powers. If a character has to be mean, then I'd prefer that they just be mean. I don't want to have to wait and say, "Oh no. Sure hope that the dual personality doesn't kick in here and she totally kills everyone because that would be terrible if that happened by chance." It has that Deadman Wonderland feel where there is that sinister crazy double personality that could do anything anytime and I just don't care because if something crazy is going to happen, then it should just happen already. And not because some whacko double personality kicks in. That just seems like a plot device.
I'll check out Maison Ikkoku and Battle Angel.
Hunter x Hunter, I've read all the chapters but felt that the series ended at the end of the videogame arc. The new chapters are a little off-kilter with the ants and somehow seem to lose sight of the previous arcs in terms of characterization, plot, ect.
Mar haven, I've seen some of it and I'm not sure if I like it, but I'll look at it if I have time.
Tang, Mx0 wasn't popular at all in Japan and had to end early and Medaka Box usually winds up bottom five in the questionairre list. SWOT is enjoyable to me because I know that something will happen every chapter.
The Breaker is too predictable. I've read all the chapters, but you can kind of predict what is going to happen next and the manga is guilty of stretching out the plot. Plot stretching is fine if there is something that can be enjoyed from the process, but I can't quite find that in The Breaker anymore. The actions scenes are nice, but the series itself isn't something that I would go back and read from the beginning.
Elfen Lied got weird when it became all about mating and spreading sperm. Actually Elfen Lied was pretty much always weird with the dual personality and the hand-like super powers. If a character has to be mean, then I'd prefer that they just be mean. I don't want to have to wait and say, "Oh no. Sure hope that the dual personality doesn't kick in here and she totally kills everyone because that would be terrible if that happened by chance." It has that Deadman Wonderland feel where there is that sinister crazy double personality that could do anything anytime and I just don't care because if something crazy is going to happen, then it should just happen already. And not because some whacko double personality kicks in. That just seems like a plot device.
I'll check out Maison Ikkoku and Battle Angel.
Hunter x Hunter, I've read all the chapters but felt that the series ended at the end of the videogame arc. The new chapters are a little off-kilter with the ants and somehow seem to lose sight of the previous arcs in terms of characterization, plot, ect.
Mar haven, I've seen some of it and I'm not sure if I like it, but I'll look at it if I have time.
Tang, Mx0 wasn't popular at all in Japan and had to end early and Medaka Box usually winds up bottom five in the questionairre list. SWOT is enjoyable to me because I know that something will happen every chapter.