KaguRai ~Kagura to Raito~ - Ch. 65 - Who Will Win?

[MangaDex]

 

[Crim]

This series started out really strong but I feel like around the time of the priest fight it started feeling really rushed or generally lost its own plot
Not sure if it's in the chopping block or maybe the opposite and the author didn't expect it to go on so long but it's largely lost what made it feel fun and interesting and I can't quite put my finger on it
Oh well, at least the art is still amazing. Thanks for the TL as always

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

That was very cute.

maybe the opposite and the author didn't expect it to go on so long

Feels to me that the author was surprised by the success and didn't know what to do anymore.

 

[xyzzy]

According to today’s Weekly Shonen Sunday issue, Kagurai is ending next week. I don’t know if we have an extra translated chapter or not but yeah, it be the end.

This series started out really strong but I feel like around the time of the priest fight it started feeling really rushed or generally lost its own plot
Not sure if it's in the chopping block or maybe the opposite and the author didn't expect it to go on so long but it's largely lost what made it feel fun and interesting and I can't quite put my finger on it

it’s one of those times where you see a manga with a flat ending and wonder if it was given a quick axe or if the author just couldn’t write very well

 

[swimminginsand]

Nah it felt like the author had a plan and then decided to end it. He dumpstered the whole antagonist group in one chapter. There was a lot untouched with the youma and japan. I don't think he ran out of ideas. I also think we have been going at this pace for way to long for it to have been axed, hell he even took breaks. This seems to be entirely by choice.

 

[KnightSpark]

Sometimes... a moment of hesitation can cost someone dearly.

 

[GhostOfBiki]

If this was getting the axe I feel like it would've been over already, this is actually taking too long.

 

[T-sama]

I have been thinking about the series direction and I have to say, I'm not 100% sure everything was the mangaka idea, reason I say that? Editors, doesn't most mangaka gets help from a editor to create the series? Like what direction to take and so on? Which made me think of two possibilities:

1 - This was indeed the plan all along but because it's the mangaka first work he kinda fumbled the pacing, some kept accusing the series of being axed but the reality is that if you reread the entire manga you can see the pacing starts to go downhill pretty early ish, at least in my opinion, another fumble is how Cattleya is so fucking overpowered too which I can't help but feel the mangaka put themselves in a corner with her

So this makes me wonder, did it go in this direction because the editor gave the mangaka too much freedom? Right editor can make or break some series, it's not really a secret that many great series exist in part because of the editor helping the mangaka so I can't help but wonder if this direction isn't in part due to a novice mangaka not having the right mangaka for them

2 - Which takes me to the second option that now I can't help but think about, now, I still think this is still more or less the story the mangaka wanted to take but looking at begining of the series I can't help but wonder if the original idea wasn't a more chill series focused on Kagura and Raito adventures, with them looking for Youma cure being more of a long term plot to excuse them traveling and having fun, I say that because I'm probably not the only one who felt that them being involved with Cattleya and her organization might have felt a little bit sudden

What I'm trying to say is that even if this is still more or less the original plan all along I can't help but wonder if the series became too serious and action focused because the editor suggested that, if you think about it that could explain the poor pacing and Cattleya feeling so overpowered, after all it all makes sense if fighting her was never planned to happen so soon, that also would explain why some things happened so fast like so many characters dying and the third host dying offscreen

All I can say for sure is that I do think for the most part this is the story the mangaka wanted to tell, only real question is who fumbled, the mangaka being a novice or the editor, both 1 and 2 are equally possible but nowadays I can't help but feel more and more that the direction changed at some point from "Kagura and Raito Adventures" to what we're getting now

 

[ThatGuy224]

Honestly I'm still enjoying this even tho it's about to end, especially the amazing artwork and abilities.

 

[T-sama]

Feels to me that the author was surprised by the success and didn't know what to do anymore.

According to today’s Weekly Shonen Sunday issue, Kagurai is ending next week. I don’t know if we have an extra translated chapter or not but yeah, it be the end.



it’s one of those times where you see a manga with a flat ending and wonder if it was given a quick axe or if the author just couldn’t write very well

As I basically said in my rant where is the editor in all of this? Sure a lot can be explained on the mangaka being a novice independent if this was the plan all along but wouldn't a editor theorically help them to not fumble things?

I don't think the series necessarely got axed because the pacing has been shit for over 30 chapters but thinking about it lately I can't help but feel it was "rushed" in the sense it was gonna be a more chill series focusing on Kagura and Raito adventures but someone convinced mangaka to focus on the drama and action cue we pretty much jumping right into endgame cause maybe mangaka never thought too much on the serious part of the series besides how it was gonna end lol

At least it can ffeel like someone removed the middle of the series rather than rushing the ending

Sometimes... a moment of hesitation can cost someone dearly.

Hesitation is defeat as some old asshole says :V

If this was getting the axe I feel like it would've been over already, this is actually taking too long.

That's one reason I feel this was more or less the plan all along, at least for the end of the series and what happened before with the organization, a lot of the fights dragged a little for multiple chapters while in other parts characters died super fast or even offscreen and now we're dragging the fight again, an axed series doesn't last this long

 

[T-sama]

Honestly I'm still enjoying this even tho it's about to end, especially the amazing artwork and abilities.

Would be nice if mangaka made some doujins to continue Kagura and Raito adventures that I can't help but feel editor conviced mangaka to remove :V

I think the fact that it's still enjoyable even if pacing is bad is another sign that this is more or less the original plan all along

 

[zacun]

I think the author was disappointed to be axed. He hasn't posted anything interesting on his twitter for a while.

For the info, chapter 66 is out since today and at the end it says that next chapter (67) will have color pages and will be the last chapter.

Welp, too bad. It had a somewhat good story / world and godlike artwork and fight scenes.

 

[yoshiii]

Thanks for translating!

 

[Fantasie841]

Ah, of course. The character who was fully intending to turn the world into one where everyone suffers is convinced to stop just long enough by seeing something cute in pain. Flawless writing of a great villain, really.

Thanks for the translation still!

 

[HAMBURGERMAN]

Does all this extra shit then see cute fluffy animal and crumples like a wet tissue bruh fake ahhh villain

 

[BobBob]

broke: reality warping
WOKE: FAST AND STRONG

At least Cattleya didn't turn into a monster. I assume she's dead here

 

[Bourbon]

People blaming the author don't seem to understand how manga are written.
It was more likely the editor or publisher meddling. The author drew several panels in chapter 62 showing the things he wanted to do with the series disguising it as the things Kagura wanted to do with Raito.

 

[Jybu]

I'm pretty whateves on this ending, but Idk... seeing that lil blorbo hurt definitely woulda made me reconsider my evil ass plan too T_T

 

[dcdfvr]

This is pretty dumb. She was willing to sacrificed all that only to hesitate like this in the end

 

[qaaj]

The author's last hurrah with regards to the visuals.

Genuinely, legitimately, actually fuck off with the writing at this point.

I absolutely do not blame the author, at least not without some context, but I wish this sort of thing would stop happening.