Ironhide wrote:I'm impressed you've watched 153 episodes in such a relatively short time. Took me around 3 months to watch all the currently available seasons of JoJo.
I watch anywhere between 2.5 and 5 episodes a day. Weekday I manage 2.5 (part in morning and then again in evening), and on weekends, when left to my own devices, I can go nuts. Ditto on lunchtimes if I'm not being asked to do gooseberry fool. Though I'd watch even more via my phone if Crunchyroll app was any good.
Jam-Master Jay wrote:JoJolion is coming to an end next month and it seems Araki is gearing up for Part IX at the age of 61, I guess the Stone Mask was real afterall.
Saint of Killers wrote:Jam-Master Jay wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:Jam-Master Jay wrote:I'd probably give Black Clover another chance if Asta were to be fired into the sun and I could somehow wipe my memory of his hair. Probably for the best that I don't pick it up though as I'm a bit burnt out and struggling to read everything else in Jump each week.
How many are you reading?
Something pretty cool just happened in chapter 45 of BC: annoying guy (the one who's always going on about his sister)
had an epiphany in the middle of a battle and thought up a new technique.
Everything but Me & Roboco and Black Clover. Roboco does nothing but make references to other Jump series and isn't very funny for a gag manga - High School Family, Magu-chan and Witch Watch are actually funny and Witch Watch even manages to pull off the reference-shtick better. Black Clover is just one of those rare series where a character design or art-style puts me off and the less said about screaming anime Asta the better.
From what I've gathered in manga groups is that it has some of the best pacing in the genre and a couple of really good characters so I'm sure you'll have a blast and I'm probably missing out.
It's funny you should mention pacing because that's what I'm not liking about it
It just seems to careen from crisis to calamity with very little happening in-between. *Of course* things of consequence happen in between, but not enough of it for my liking. Maybe it gets better, though. I'm on chapter 76. As for the art... there were a few good splash pages a few chapters back or so, but other than that, it's nothing to write home about. Ditto the characters and plot.
From what I've heard and what little I have read the plot isn't anything special but never gets boring due to the quicker pacing, though I suppose that speediness leaves less time for character development or overall world building. Character wise I've seen praise for writing some decent female characters who aren't made to be completely useless or only there for fanservice shenanigans.
Yeah. That sounds about right. The things I'd change re the prominent women on Asta's team is to remove half-naked drunk trope, and also reduce the pin-up shots of the snobby girl's rack.