MF Ghost - Vol. 8 Ch. 84 - Ryuji Ikeda Speaks
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I just finished watching the Intial D anime for the first time and finished reading all MFghost's chapters. So here my take for the MF ghost series so far.
1) Did the author take foreign opinions about Japan from YouTube's Vloggers' videos and Tourism videos. (Seriously watch " Abroad in Japan" Channel which is run by a British person and tell me they don't have a similar feel.)
2) I'm the only one annoyed about the Angels section. Like it's unneeded filler and fan service. I'm here for Car racing, not a idol story. I don't know maybe it's because I'm girl. What are the male readers's opinion? Do you like them or no?
3) Maybe it's because I watch the Anime for initial D not the manga. Or Do I feel like the author keeps putting the commentary over cities buildings and not the cars too much?
4) I wish the author went and study other racing stories that deal with multiple cars racing at once. He seems to be struggling a little bit. The Hot Wheels: World Race 2003 movie does a better job at handling this type of racing.
5) I do like the take he going with the main character. Though the execution could be done better.
1) Did the author take foreign opinions about Japan from YouTube's Vloggers' videos and Tourism videos. (Seriously watch " Abroad in Japan" Channel which is run by a British person and tell me they don't have a similar feel.)
2) I'm the only one annoyed about the Angels section. Like it's unneeded filler and fan service. I'm here for Car racing, not a idol story. I don't know maybe it's because I'm girl. What are the male readers's opinion? Do you like them or no?
3) Maybe it's because I watch the Anime for initial D not the manga. Or Do I feel like the author keeps putting the commentary over cities buildings and not the cars too much?
4) I wish the author went and study other racing stories that deal with multiple cars racing at once. He seems to be struggling a little bit. The Hot Wheels: World Race 2003 movie does a better job at handling this type of racing.
5) I do like the take he going with the main character. Though the execution could be done better.
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2. That's clearly fan service. I personnally don't care about it. Not needed for me, but no problem either. Guess if I was still a teenager, I would enjoy that.
The author seems to like to include girl and boy interactions, Initial D was actually more crude about it. But it was also interesting, seriously introducing Enjo kōsai, something you don't see that much in mangas (it's generally either comical or excessive smut, but rarely serious).
He's always mixing car racing and people's story. That's actually a good part about him to me.
3. There wasn't commentary like that in Initial D manga either. It seems like he's doing a lot of filler yeah.
4. About that, and what I said before, I just think that he's a kinda average mangaka actually. His art is not very good, and he doesn't seem to be very good with writing stories as well.
He became a legend because he's doing great stuff talking about cars, but that may be all.
However, Initial D serious side I mentionned earlier was interesting. Including good slices of life really can improve a manga.
2. That's clearly fan service. I personnally don't care about it. Not needed for me, but no problem either. Guess if I was still a teenager, I would enjoy that.
The author seems to like to include girl and boy interactions, Initial D was actually more crude about it. But it was also interesting, seriously introducing Enjo kōsai, something you don't see that much in mangas (it's generally either comical or excessive smut, but rarely serious).
He's always mixing car racing and people's story. That's actually a good part about him to me.
3. There wasn't commentary like that in Initial D manga either. It seems like he's doing a lot of filler yeah.
4. About that, and what I said before, I just think that he's a kinda average mangaka actually. His art is not very good, and he doesn't seem to be very good with writing stories as well.
He became a legend because he's doing great stuff talking about cars, but that may be all.
However, Initial D serious side I mentionned earlier was interesting. Including good slices of life really can improve a manga.
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"Or Do I feel like the author keeps putting the commentary over cities buildings and not the cars too much?"
It's the same in most of the Initial D manga, only that there it's scenery, mountains, side roads and a lot of secondary characters commenting on the race and very few buildings. The pace is the same. Two pages of race, two pages of commentary. Or 1 page and 1 page.
It's done for story reasons but most of all to decrease the author's workload. Cars and characters (mains and subs) are drawn by Shigeno, everything else is the assistants' work. This is the only way to keep up with a 16 pages weekly publication so not to go back to the last period of the Initial D manga, with months of weekly 8 pages chapters 'cause the workload was too much. The last volumes of Initial D took forever to compile and be reeased.
Shigeno does it this way, other (well established) authors in weekly publications draw 8-10 chapters, then go on hiatus for 2-3 months, then other 8-10 and so on and on. Some authors directly switched from weekly magazines to monthly ones for their new works to decrease the workload.
Everyone gets old and their bodies, stamina, drawing speed and so on are not the same anymore. And so we wait.
It's the same in most of the Initial D manga, only that there it's scenery, mountains, side roads and a lot of secondary characters commenting on the race and very few buildings. The pace is the same. Two pages of race, two pages of commentary. Or 1 page and 1 page.
It's done for story reasons but most of all to decrease the author's workload. Cars and characters (mains and subs) are drawn by Shigeno, everything else is the assistants' work. This is the only way to keep up with a 16 pages weekly publication so not to go back to the last period of the Initial D manga, with months of weekly 8 pages chapters 'cause the workload was too much. The last volumes of Initial D took forever to compile and be reeased.
Shigeno does it this way, other (well established) authors in weekly publications draw 8-10 chapters, then go on hiatus for 2-3 months, then other 8-10 and so on and on. Some authors directly switched from weekly magazines to monthly ones for their new works to decrease the workload.
Everyone gets old and their bodies, stamina, drawing speed and so on are not the same anymore. And so we wait.
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@KaitouRobin Shigeno is getting old, so ofc the quality is going down
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@Gurennoheyakara thanks for explaining.
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@KaitouRobin I'm honestly feeling iffy that there are so many foreign cars in this sequel to Initial D. It would've been fine but half of them don't even look modified. I'm not asking for wide body kits or GT500 looking cars, simple but believable mods are fine just like in Initial D. Canards and wings for downforce, aftermarket wheels and tires for weight reduction and better grip, and maybe some carbon fiber parts for more weight reduction. It's some of the first mods you could do aside from power mods done to a track car, be it a Japanese or a foreign car.
As for the angels, I quite like it. Initial D was quite the sausage fest aside from the Mako/Sayuki arc and the whole Mogi/Kyoko thing and besides, since this is a sanctioned event, race queens are a norm in Japanese racing events so it isn't totally out there. Hell, Best MOTORing Japan still has them to date on their touge maou videos.
As for the angels, I quite like it. Initial D was quite the sausage fest aside from the Mako/Sayuki arc and the whole Mogi/Kyoko thing and besides, since this is a sanctioned event, race queens are a norm in Japanese racing events so it isn't totally out there. Hell, Best MOTORing Japan still has them to date on their touge maou videos.
