[Akiyoshi]

On the issue of time pacing in my opinion that stopped being an excuse long ago. 30 manga chapters are more than enough to make some decent progress on a story, it's been done before. And FORCE is infact dragging stuff more than necessary. We're not on Ep 2 of A's anymore, heck there has been like 4 encounters with the Huckebein already and now the 5th is about to star on next chapter (not to mention the Grendels and Tohma. And even after all that showoff of abilities, lame upgrades and some exposition we still don't have a freaking clue on what's really happening xDU

Instead of A's Ep 3, FORCE is right now more like on StrikerS Ep 11, near the half of the season, some battles happened but plot developenet is slow as hell and the series still feels like there's no solid direction to move the plot (i swear, until the Numbers attempted to kill Vivio on the helicopter StrikerS's plot felt like a child lost in a park xDU) ...ok, in FORCE's defense, the plot do have some sense of direction or at least we have been told by characters about important events soon to happen ..the problem is that "soon" has been delayed mercilessly for almost two years now xDU (of a manga that is about to reach it's 4th year xDU).

It's a once-per-month manga, ok, but the fact pagetime over those 27 Chapter has been badly administrated is more and more evident as time goes on and the story is still stuck on the same stuff.