Recommend the read. A little rough in places, but I think that with a little work on the MC(his personality/motive) and the whole
, this would make this a good shounen.
I'm guessing that if it didn't get serialized(?), it was because I feel like there was too much mismatch between themes/characters/ etc. to market this to an audience. Still think it could have a shot if it worked on the shounen elements.