Again!! - Vol. 11 Ch. 117 - Danchou Qualifications

[MangaDex]

 

[Damoreth]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[baph]

Thank you for the chapter!

 

[meruKariya]

THANKS FOR THE UPDATE

 

[arimareiji]

Thank you for the new chapter. (^_^)

...is it just me, or was the mangaka seriously depressed while writing the last few?

 

[beperov]

@arimareiji Yeah, the MC became a worthless chump in this arc. It's gotta be something done on purpose. Maybe he just wanted to axe the manga?

 

[arimareiji]

@beperov Not just that, the way the other characters suddenly started talking about and acting toward MC... is pretty close to how a severely-depressed person thinks everyone secretly feels about them.

Maybe Sensei just found out about Logic stealing the I Want To Die musical, and it kicked him back into the depression we saw in earlier chapters? 😏😈

More seriously, it's jarring to see everyone switch almost instantly from trusting/respecting him to acting like he's worthless just because someone jumps in out of nowhere and says so. The ones who have worked with the arrogant riajuu before, maybe? But it's really hard to understand why Hiro, Tawara, and Fujieda would do it.

(And in terms of plot continuity, if arrogant riajuu is such a compelling figure that Usami et al instantly start treating MC like 💩 on his say-so, why had we never heard about him before?)

 

[zawarudo]

Author is a woman, by the way.

I'm guessing by the 106th chapter or so she began to realize there isn't really that much more she could do to extend the story to explore the already strenuous connection between the ouendan club hijinks and the time travel, so she decided to outline an ending and start it with a pre-redemption downfall arc (you know like in movies where the hero has gotten used to his powers only to meet a massive obstacle or letdown, which the hero eventually manages to overcome right before the story's ending). I realized this after reading the Japanese raws up until the end and re-reading the scanlations. This is the beginning of the end, so enjoy it while it lasts.

 

[BakedBanana]

Yikes, this has gotten even worse.

 

[4V29LN0n]

Thanks for the scans.

I'd like to imagine all scanlation groups really hate the later chapters, so they just stopped scanning this manga.

 

[FKW_ll]

Author is a woman, by the way.

I'm guessing by the 106th chapter or so she began to realize there isn't really that much more she could do to extend the story to explore the already strenuous connection between the ouendan club hijinks and the time travel, so she decided to outline an ending and start it with a pre-redemption downfall arc (you know like in movies where the hero has gotten used to his powers only to meet a massive obstacle or letdown, which the hero eventually manages to overcome right before the story's ending). I realized this after reading the Japanese raws up until the end and re-reading the scanlations. This is the beginning of the end, so enjoy it while it lasts.

I would even say that the author tried to extend the story way before that. It felt like the story was going nowhere when the Taka, the idol girl, was introduced. A large disconnect from the flow. Then the relationship between Usami and Imamura, which was progressing smoothly, was stunted and used for drama to further continue the story.

It's as if the author had no choice but to continue the story, because she also went through the Again :V

 

[zawarudo]

I would even say that the author tried to extend the story way before that. It felt like the story was going nowhere when the Taka, the idol girl, was introduced. A large disconnect from the flow. Then the relationship between Usami and Imamura, which was progressing smoothly, was stunted and used for drama to further continue the story.

It's as if the author had no choice but to continue the story, because she also went through the Again :V

Yeah Kubo didn't seem to have planned ahead that much. Having read this manga at least 3 times, you can basically skip all the filler chapters such as the Taka arc or most of the Samahiko stuff, and you will still miss nothing. My impression is that Again suddenly gained some popularity in Japan quite early on so she was forced to think something up that can extend its runtime, only for the manga to suddenly lose popularity again around the 100th chapter or so and at that point Kubo was probably already bored of the Again multiverse.

 

[FKW_ll]

Yeah Kubo didn't seem to have planned ahead that much. Having read this manga at least 3 times, you can basically skip all the filler chapters such as the Taka arc or most of the Samahiko stuff, and you will still miss nothing. My impression is that Again suddenly gained some popularity in Japan quite early on so she was forced to think something up that can extend its runtime, only for the manga to suddenly lose popularity again around the 100th chapter or so and at that point Kubo was probably already bored of the Again multiverse.

Such a shame, really. If only the manga was finished after concluding everything nicely, it would've gotten at least an 8 from me. But because of the fillers and inconsequential drama, my opinion of this manga has dropped to 5. Such potential, lost T-T