
And after all, ***** is written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, so don’t expect any less! URASAWA x TEZUKA ***** is certainly what you need when you’re trying to get into manga. Bizarre story, perfect characters, mind-bending mystery and thrill, and a genius execution. Despite not being that big of a bookworm, I was sucked by *****’s overwhelming story and direction, reading it day and night, non-stop! ***** has got everything. I casually started with the first chapter, and dang boy, I loved that shit. So one day, searching for a good manga to start with, I found out about Naoki Urasawa’s *****, the first manga I read, and damn, that was good. Just feels like the projects tend to lose themselves a little.So since I started watching anime, I profoundly relished reading mangas. I just wonder if maybe they don't plan out their series or perhaps need more aggressive council when they are planning stuff out.

I think when you read it you'll have a sense of what I mean too, I've discussed the manga with a few people and they seemed to have come to similar conclusions.Īgain, I'll make it clear that in terms of craft I think few comic artists in the world really compete with Urasawa. Pluto isn't very long and worth reading but I think suffers less from being overly convoluted but does also feel like where it actually ended and where it probably should have ended being very different points. though I think it also suffers from continuing significantly longer than it needed to and as a result a few of the twists being particularly weak and feeling forced. 20th Century Boys does indeed become a victim of its own convoluted nature.

Honestly I think that is a pretty fair assessment. I do love Asadora and Sneeze and other short story stuff they do as well, I hope people are also checking it out. I dunno, I think Urasawa is a master but can also be very very hit and miss. I own the print run of it, I think that when it works it is amazing and even though the ending is pretty weak I still enjoy a lot of the ideas the series explores. In saying all that the one I enjoy most is actually Pluto. Monster ends the best so I think it is the strongest work overall just for that, Billy I just haven't read enough of it. Monster and Billy I have less extreme opinions on. Pluto everything past the detective is pretty weak in general.

20th Century Boys goes from one of the best manga ever written to a genuine chore to read by the end. Like Urasawa is a god when it comes to creating fun casts and somehow making a cartoony style seem mature and appropriate in very heavy stories.īut my god does he have trouble with endings. I think all of his works when they are in their groove are easily some of the best comics in general, let alone manga, ever created.
