Sentai Daishikkaku
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I know I shouldn't be judging the author based on their works (and vice versa), but I fear for Negi's sanity. Having read all the currently available chapters in a few days, I am honestly shocked by how it became more and more brutal, pessimistic, cynical and depressing. Especially the IRA arc - yeesh, I hope Negi's okay. After that ended, things were starting to look up a little, but now we're back where we started: frustrating, somewhat pointless-feeling battles that are simply not fun to read.
Not because they aren't well-drawn or anything. Well, the pacing's hella slow, but it's not slow enough to be terrible. It's just that there are mainly two kinds of battles in Sentai Daishikkaku: those where both sides are filled with such idiots and/or assholes that you don't want either side to win, or occasionally, those precious few likable characters are pummeling each other and you don't want anyone to get hurt. Neither is exactly entertaining.
The MC is "interesting", because he qualifies for both of the above, weirdly enough. It's certainly an accomplishment to have a manga where the main character sometimes feels like the hero of the story and other times the villain, and this can change almost from one scene to the next, but the price Negi pays for this is that his character development is just all over the place. The MC's goals are increasingly hard to pin down, which may be intentional to a degree, but at the same time, he's nonetheless stubborn about them to the point of stupidity and self-sabotage. It's hard to root for him either like this.
After the Quintessential Quintuplets, the hacked-together plot is also depressing to witness. There are flashes of Negi's earlier brilliance and planning here and there for some plotlines, but largely, you get the feeling that he's writing the story by the seat of his pants, changing directions from one chapter to the next on occasion. Even the character writing, which I think is one of Negi's greatest strengths, isn't at all consistent: he regularly warps characterizations to make them fit the current story direction. What kind of character is Hisui? Or Chidori? Or Usukobo? It's hard for me to say, despite having read 150+ chapters of this manga. It's sad.
As much as I wanted to like Negi's new work, I honestly feel strangely relieved having reached the (current) end of the series and have little motivation to follow it further. It's probably not for me, but I think it's objectively not that good, either. 4/10, dropped.
Not because they aren't well-drawn or anything. Well, the pacing's hella slow, but it's not slow enough to be terrible. It's just that there are mainly two kinds of battles in Sentai Daishikkaku: those where both sides are filled with such idiots and/or assholes that you don't want either side to win, or occasionally, those precious few likable characters are pummeling each other and you don't want anyone to get hurt. Neither is exactly entertaining.
The MC is "interesting", because he qualifies for both of the above, weirdly enough. It's certainly an accomplishment to have a manga where the main character sometimes feels like the hero of the story and other times the villain, and this can change almost from one scene to the next, but the price Negi pays for this is that his character development is just all over the place. The MC's goals are increasingly hard to pin down, which may be intentional to a degree, but at the same time, he's nonetheless stubborn about them to the point of stupidity and self-sabotage. It's hard to root for him either like this.
After the Quintessential Quintuplets, the hacked-together plot is also depressing to witness. There are flashes of Negi's earlier brilliance and planning here and there for some plotlines, but largely, you get the feeling that he's writing the story by the seat of his pants, changing directions from one chapter to the next on occasion. Even the character writing, which I think is one of Negi's greatest strengths, isn't at all consistent: he regularly warps characterizations to make them fit the current story direction. What kind of character is Hisui? Or Chidori? Or Usukobo? It's hard for me to say, despite having read 150+ chapters of this manga. It's sad.
As much as I wanted to like Negi's new work, I honestly feel strangely relieved having reached the (current) end of the series and have little motivation to follow it further. It's probably not for me, but I think it's objectively not that good, either. 4/10, dropped.
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as much as this goes, yeah the later chapters got good again.
though not everyone sticks to the end so there's that
though not everyone sticks to the end so there's that
As a fan of super Sentai and Kamen rider, yeah this does not cut it.
The chapters stuck in a loop where
1.D having his hype moment and aura telling he will show the world how powerful the villain army are.
2.D then proceed to goof around in the fights, avoiding attacks like coward.
3.A third force (usually another dragon keeper) swoops in and steal the kill or D defeated them in the most unsatisfying way possible, either by luck or non combat way.
Villain D absolutely did not grew as a person after so many chapters and I had reread this 2 times, and funnily for a series poking fun at super Sentai, itself was stuck in a cycle of the main character not growing.
It was fun for the first 50 chapters, but god the development really stalled after
The chapters stuck in a loop where
1.D having his hype moment and aura telling he will show the world how powerful the villain army are.
2.D then proceed to goof around in the fights, avoiding attacks like coward.
3.A third force (usually another dragon keeper) swoops in and steal the kill or D defeated them in the most unsatisfying way possible, either by luck or non combat way.
Villain D absolutely did not grew as a person after so many chapters and I had reread this 2 times, and funnily for a series poking fun at super Sentai, itself was stuck in a cycle of the main character not growing.
It was fun for the first 50 chapters, but god the development really stalled after
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Favorite manga ever right here, it sure as hell isn't perfect but i'd say its still really great.
D, the mc, isn't on the same level of strength or endurance of literally every enemy he faces, so he has to get by on his intelligence alone, and it makes for interesting fights.
character development is fairly subtle unless its extreme
the characters themselves are fun and interesting
what appeared to be a fairly straightforward plot slowly became a rabbit hole of conspiracy and mysteries (in a good way imo)
Fairly violent but not in a "What in the actual fuck am I witnessin right now?" type of way
I even bought the physical volumes
I'd say give it a try.
D, the mc, isn't on the same level of strength or endurance of literally every enemy he faces, so he has to get by on his intelligence alone, and it makes for interesting fights.
character development is fairly subtle unless its extreme
the characters themselves are fun and interesting
what appeared to be a fairly straightforward plot slowly became a rabbit hole of conspiracy and mysteries (in a good way imo)
Fairly violent but not in a "What in the actual fuck am I witnessin right now?" type of way
I even bought the physical volumes
I'd say give it a try.
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