2011-11-29, 20:29 | Link #823 |
Snobby Gentleman
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 43
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New Page 8: Recall and Call
Apologies. I'm still one-week behind TV broadcasts schedule.
On-Topic: I felt actually little scary from reading the Editor-In-Chief surely look when informed that Niizuma and the others were boycotting and not letting the manuscripts for serializations due to Ashirogi Muto's unfair hiatus. I may be one of those who were actually supportive of the Editor-In-Chief's decision to put them on hiatus, until Mashiro could get discharged from the hospital, at the least. The Editor-In-Chief still takes it hard Kawaguchi Taro's death, and it was understandable the choice he made to ensure not letting history to repeat itself with Mashiro as well. However, the beauty of triumphs relies in the simple path that people who attempted to become the best at something were not able to make breakthroughs, but until realizing their own limitations and still pushing forward in direct violations of whatever rules their relatives, society, or even their homeland governments imposed on them. And, yet many of this people throughout in whatever industry, social context, or historical event, achieved those ambitions. Takagi and Mashiro are just two other fishes exploring the true and vast sea of the manga professional industry, and this one was a needed downer for them in order to make a glorious comeback. However, the question is if it would not have become an issue for their manga serialization after all the time Mashiro spent in the hospital while the publishing for TRAP was put on hiatus? |
2011-12-05, 01:52 | Link #832 | ||
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Well, he's a newbie too. Trap was his first series. Just like you can't trust his eye just because he's an editor, you can't expect him to be as competent as a veteran when he just got his job.
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2011-12-05, 21:16 | Link #836 |
Snobby Gentleman
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 43
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New Page 9: Resumption and Low-Rank
My intuition told me something was uneasy reading Miura's reaction in the first meeting right after the hiatus when his fingers twitched.
Later, the ranks for TRAP started to plummet after the 20th chapter, and everybody knew that the hiatus took its toll on the manga's popularity, adding as well the other two shounen manga debuting with similar genres as TRAP. I know how Ashirogi Muto felt when the news were broke to them. The same as with job not knowing when you can get the axe, if your performance doesn't bring forth expected results for the company. A manga ends and with it the promise of a dream. But, as we say in my country, there isn't a night that comes endless, and our champs are setting their fired moods towards their next ambitious manga. Take note that Miura was so heatedly adamant when the boys picked-up ideas from their fangirls to incorporate them into TRAP. To a writer, definitely, it's the worst case route he or she wants to attempt to rise their published stories, because incorporating multiple ideas, and that those ideas are biased not keeping in tone with both the scope and tone of the story might backfire against the author. |
2011-12-12, 17:28 | Link #840 |
Seishu's Ace
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
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I don't consider what Niizuma said a "weakness", per se. What he's really saying is that Ashirogi's protagonists are too complex for the typical SJ reader. At best, they need time to build an audience. In fact, it seems as though their style is probably better suited for seinen than shounen. I think "Money & Intelligence" was basically a seinen manga anyway, and "Trap" pretty close.
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