Marry Grave - Vol. 5 Ch. 49 - Scars of the Past

[MangaDex]

 

[victorsant]

How can a publisher keep something like Keijo running for 177 chapters and end this at 52?
Why Japan, why???

 

[criver]

Obviously because it didn't make enough money.

 

[tokita]

lol

 

[dopeboykx]

You can do it guys! almost there keep it going

 

[Kaiofficialone]

Such a big shame that this got axed

 

[mage_goo]

Huh, and here I thought Dante is another resurrected like Sawyer, since they deliberately mentioned that he's not growing at all in the flashback.

I guess I read too deep into it and he's just a natural midget.

 

[Lucky]

God this was really good.

 

[Garlyle]

I was so excited that Dante was going to join him in his incredible journey. I'm going to get shouted down for saying this, as I do every time I bring it up, but here we go. In this age of instant digital connectivity and globalism, why do series STILL live and die STRICTLY based on the Japanese vote? Many of these series receive global releases, to global audiences, and yet they are still only made for the Japanese audience.

Doctor Who is a British property. It is now simulcast almost everywhere. It is still very much a British property but it does take a global audience in mind. Movies, shows, games, comics; many of these things take into consideration that global audiences consume them and act accordingly. So why not Jump? You may now yell at me for being an idiot or whatever.

 

[ArakawaKousei]

Thank you for the chapter, Cyan Steam!

 

[criver]

@Garlyle
It's about money. The publisher doesn't gain anything from the western audience reading it over at mangadex. It's not about the Japanese vote, it's about people voting with their wallet.

 

[COF]

@Garlyle Shonen Sunday, not Jump

 

[kyrno]

dang i'm loving these fast updates, but still sad to see it go so soon

 

[orochijes]

Gotta wonder how we're gonna squeeze Dante, Rosalie, and the secret of those resurrection books into 3 chapters.

@Garlyle
I don't watch Doctor Who, but how does the British audience feel about the global influence of that show? Does anyone see it as a negative?

 

[riku_93]

@Garlyle
Haven't watched Doctor Who since the first couple of seasons but from what I hear, it has gone to shit because of it being global taking influence on all the sjw crap. Personally, its fine if they just want to focus on the domestic market as that is better than trying to appease everybody. With how sensitive some vocal people are nowadays, I'm happy Japan doesn't give a shit about others sometimes.

@orochijes
definitely a negative now with the recent season from what I hear.

 

[Nakewameke]

@victorsant
Hey fuck you buddy Keijo was a masterpiece of dumb shonen cliche and it was deliberately sabotaged by the magazine company mid-arc.

 

[victorsant]

@Nakewameke
Swimsuit girls in ass fights. A good manga don't need to rescue to this level of fanservice and "look I'm porpousefully cliche, this makes me good" to present a good story.

People like this is the reason that this manga got axed.

 

[Lithe]

@victorsant
I'd actually stick up (no pun intended) for Keijo mainly for the fact that the tits 'n ass stuff was taken so seriously via sports manga clichés that it actually outdid the fanservice by a large margin - one of the main results was that it was so stupid that it was actually impressive.

When a significant plot point is ecchi (e.g My Balls, Boryaku no Panzer, etc.), it's treated like fanservice, but granted more significance. On the other hand, reading Keijo really felt like reading a sports manga with fanservice moments that had virtually no weight due to the content of the sport. I haven't seen anything quite like it before or after, and that novel quality really affords a lot when you can easily read a copious amount of manga online (and for free). Of course I'm discounting the Japanese audience in that context, but it's all a matter of opinion regardless.

Comparatively, this reminds me of the very beginning of Rave before shit started getting heavy. It's nice and clean (especially the style), but it's by no means special nor a masterpiece.