This manga was weird. I dropped it after a while.
Just something about the way it was written and the structure made it feel strange, it kind of wandered all over the place.
>>144260155
I sort of get what you mean. It's pretty rough in the beginning, but holy shit, what a ride it is once it picks up its pace.
Those last few volumes were amazing.
>>144260345
Yeah, in hindsight I should have stuck with it longer but I have so much in my backlog that I'll often just start reading something else in and never come back to things like this. It's hard to put my finger on exactly it was that was strange about it, I don't like manga that are different, but the difference here was something I didn't really have a taste for.
>The tension with his family was never explored
>No resolution for the war effort or clarification for the princess' motivation
>The Sky Dragon ended up being a throw-away encounter
>Didn't get to see the execution of the plan to set up Shinjo as a war hero and force him to endorse a counter-attack
It's not like it wasn't a good ending, but holy shit I need more. I would love to read a sequel.
>>144260516
It's definitely a niche series.
There's a lot of military exposition and it lacks some of the story beats you're used to in traditional action series.
The way it builds characters and the weight of the story is amazing though. I really got a Band of Brothers feel from it.
It's a pretty believable war story that makes you care for the soldiers.
This series had some amazing art.
>>144260648
>and force him to endorse a counter-attack
It was the contrary, he was suppose to condemn the counter-attack as foolish and recommend the defense of the homeland.
I thought Eyeshield just disappeared all of a sudden. One last game then next chapter he's in college and that's it. Still loved the whole thing but I was really hoping for some closure with all the characters, it felt like there should have been a goodbye chapter at least.
>>144264934
Oh wait, you're right.
It was the general that was promoting the counter-attack.
Hmm, that actually makes the ending slightly more conclusive.
>>144265168
>One last game then next chapter he's in college and that's it
Welcome to Jump.
>>144265168
Everything after Christmas Bowl was basically an extended epilogue.
I kinda liked that we got the World Cup as a bonus. I think the final chapter was fine as a "and the adventure continues!" sort of thing.
I can't really see how else it could have ended.
>>144265302
Tell me about it.
Has there ever been a long-running Jump series that had a conclusive ending?
I can only really think of Dragon Ball.
![img000005[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/PZ3H4X7.jpg "img000005[1].jpg")
There's not enough cute fuwa fuwa manga like it. Especially with loli romance of sorts. At least they actually end up together
Who still mad?
I forgot the title, may someone tell me?
I still remember one of the knights were sold to a pedo lord till he died of a heart attack
>>144259988
I was very satisfied, a rarity for manga.
>>144266151
I'm not surprised you can't remember. It's called Imperial Guard, which is the worlds least interesting title.
>>144265482
>Dragon Ball
>conclusive
>>144265428
I think it's mostly Cuz I so desperately wanted Sena to get together with Suzuna, so that's probably why I thought it ended fast. I did like how it was almost entirely about the game of football, with very few 'beach episodes' if you will. But at the same time I think I would have liked to see more character interaction. Still one of my favorite Manga ever, a real shame that the anime didn't hold the same feeling.
>>144266890
Well it ended with the main cast having defeated the incarnation of absolute evil and saved the universe.
Showing how the cast is doing in the future and how Buu managed to reincarnate as a good person felt pretty conclusive.
It's not perfect but it's the best example I can think of.
>>144267055
>I so desperately wanted Sena to get together with Suzuna
That's really optimistic of you.
>>144265482
I personally thought YuYu did decent, granted, I know a lot of people hate the three Kings arc but it ended the series nicely I thought.
>>144260771
>>144259988
>Same artist as Shut Hell.
That explains those amazing colour pages.
>>144267181
I actually also like the ending, but I wouldn't really call it well done.
That final arc managed to both feel drawn out and rushed at the same time.
I'm still glad that we got to see those last epilogue chapters though.
>>144267129
Very optimistic, which is probably the only reason that Manga hurt so much to end for me, I usually don't get into the whole shipping aspect of a series but for Eyeshield in particular I was like a ravenous fan girl
>>144266442
>satisfying
>a rarity
>when the manga in question ended prematurely.
For the author that did HOTD, I really liked this. It is a hell of a lot better than the crap we have these days.
>>144267592
>For the author that did HOTD
what
aren't you mistaking himfor someone else?
>>144267650
Nope, he's technically the writer. And High school of the dead was shit but this wasn't.
>>144267592
>For the author that did HOTD
I'm really surprised that he did that as well.
The writing in this is off the charts for a manga and from what I remember of HOTD it was mostly generic trash.
