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@thereisanother
The first 70 or so chapters of this manga weren't praised for fight-scenes and gore alone. Character-writing, attention to detail, author doing the proper research, frequent allusions and references to history, good art, very good pacing, humour that actually fit the story.
Somewhere, at some point, writing became simplified. Manga skipped over a lot of interesting chapters, scenes, characters in favor of banal, formulaic, and still lacking detail ones. Then it became worse. And worse. Einar and Thorfinn's relationship and interactions post-farm — extremely few very short ones. Gudridd's development is fast, rapid even, and then time-skip happens and suddenly marriage. Thorfinn's character turned into flat Kenshin-clone (unlike Kenshin himself, who was written as a comparatively rounded character), the woman with the crossbow what's-her-name could just as well have been dropped from the group entirely. Throfinn has enough reminders of his sins — getting another one, that constantly stalks after him, staring at the back of his head all the time, is not believable in or out of story. Garm — how the fuck he got in this manga? Shonen is where he belongs. Sigurd, how he was inserted in the story, his wacky hijinks was a very a constant very awkward mood whiplash after a mood whiplash. At least his final confrontation with Gudrid if it can be called that, was decent. But short. Author might have expanded on that, but didn't. Too hard to write something more in-depth there? Confrontation with Halfdan was also well done. Serious and *slightly* humorous. Just like this series used to be. But also too short.
I could write a chapter by chapter breakdown of every gripe I have with this series, but English is not my first language and it's difficult for me to get across what I mean accurately.
So
TL;DR The problem is not in the change of direction after prologue, but in a lackluster, lazy, rushed execution.
The first 70 or so chapters of this manga weren't praised for fight-scenes and gore alone. Character-writing, attention to detail, author doing the proper research, frequent allusions and references to history, good art, very good pacing, humour that actually fit the story.
Somewhere, at some point, writing became simplified. Manga skipped over a lot of interesting chapters, scenes, characters in favor of banal, formulaic, and still lacking detail ones. Then it became worse. And worse. Einar and Thorfinn's relationship and interactions post-farm — extremely few very short ones. Gudridd's development is fast, rapid even, and then time-skip happens and suddenly marriage. Thorfinn's character turned into flat Kenshin-clone (unlike Kenshin himself, who was written as a comparatively rounded character), the woman with the crossbow what's-her-name could just as well have been dropped from the group entirely. Throfinn has enough reminders of his sins — getting another one, that constantly stalks after him, staring at the back of his head all the time, is not believable in or out of story. Garm — how the fuck he got in this manga? Shonen is where he belongs. Sigurd, how he was inserted in the story, his wacky hijinks was a very a constant very awkward mood whiplash after a mood whiplash. At least his final confrontation with Gudrid if it can be called that, was decent. But short. Author might have expanded on that, but didn't. Too hard to write something more in-depth there? Confrontation with Halfdan was also well done. Serious and *slightly* humorous. Just like this series used to be. But also too short.
I could write a chapter by chapter breakdown of every gripe I have with this series, but English is not my first language and it's difficult for me to get across what I mean accurately.
So
TL;DR The problem is not in the change of direction after prologue, but in a lackluster, lazy, rushed execution.
