I'm not sure if he will become a villain from this chapter only. I mean, his first murder was accidental, and his reaction was realizing he should try to be "happy". That is...slightly better than Light.
Also, holy Power Perversion Potential, god. If he goes the deep end with this be "happy" thing, he will construct a harem more fast than you can say "Yuuki Rito".
edited 5th Nov '15 12:33:20 PM by JusticEqualsVengeance
What is anime? Anime is...only a weeaboo way of saying animation, really.I'm already having heart palpitations. Will a page be constructed for the series, soon?
Oh, it's so easy to condemn, so hard to create!
...well this certainly isn't Death Note.
edited 30th Nov '15 8:15:35 PM by Soble
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!Should be interesting when the 13-26 episode anime comes out.
The premise sounds like a mix of Death Note and Future Diary.
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!…Isn't Jump Square the magazine whose editor-in-chief was bashed in Bakuman?
Anyway, it's… intriguing. I'm glad Ohba has refrained on the walls of text this time around (though I'm only at the first chapter).
It's ironic that after a series where there was neither Heaven nor Hell, Obata Tsugumi makes a series where there is (apparently) only a Heaven. After chapter 1 I must say I'm more interested in Nasse than in Mirai. I like her twisted sense of kindness and morality, and her shadowless design is pretty neat. And she's selling a stairway to Heaven…
I also like the fact that some of the angel "candidates" are utterly unmotivated and just want out quickly.
edited 13th Jan '16 7:07:03 AM by Lyendith
I created a page, I'll add some tropes later.
Let's try to keep it tidy and avoid Zero Context Examples. And since the series just started, let's try to avoid having an entirely white page. >.>
It took me longer than it should have to realize what the end of the chapter meant: I thought That "Metropolitan Man" could transform and was this girl he was crushing on all along but now I realize that they're two different people and we were just supposed to think that (s)he? was going to Mirai's school. It was a nice fake out early on.
Chapter 4 is up. And it's… ehh.
I thought I was gonna like Saki but this chap killed any expectations I might have had of her. I'm afraid she'll juste be the dead fish love interest after all. The dialogues also felt somewhat more childish than in the previous chaps. The only part that I liked was the Nasse/Lepel interactions I guess. Oh, and a meeting at a baseball stadium… They're trying really hard to mirror Death Note, aren't they.
edited 3rd Feb '16 3:39:43 PM by Lyendith
So far: great art, derivative premise, promising themes, haphazard plotting, mixed characterisation. The protagonist is endearing, even more than Yukki, while the story lacks drive, which is the opposite of what you'd expect from these guys.
Some flaws: the first chapter threw at me the skeleton of a backstory without fleshing it out, so that I could not care for anything until chapter 2. Now first-chapter suicides have to rush through the protagonist's life too fast to make the audience fully understand their despair, so they seem mentally unstable, but even without that it is very artificial. I recently started Idol Dreams, with a similar set-up but it felt more like typical Japanese despondency that leads to suicide. I would also like to see some reason why he loves this Saki girl, so far her only character trait is wanting to win. (And from my perspective, a human wishing to become God is showing a lack of ambition.) And the minor matter that this involves all humanity but then narrows down to Japan. (I'll forgive them if they give some good perspectives on suicides in the country.)
The bare flesh on display surprised me. Wasn't Death Note rigorously asexual?
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.Okay, Saki does not seem to be a promising character, she barely said anything. She's basically a cardboard cut out right now
On the otherhand, as I was reading it I was a bit annoyed how this was going to be another situation where all of the God candidates just happen to be in Japan even though this is supposedly a global thing, only to find out there is an actual reason for that. So that was cool.
Although if they're going by suicide rates, Japan is actually not the first country in that "ranking", far from it
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Chapter 6 is out... and it somehow felt disappointing for 59 pages. 30 of them were about something that could have been resolved well over in half the length and Saki is still a cardboard cut out (still have hopes she will get better). We get a nice flashback but I'm not sure if the MC should stick to the moral considering there are people whom are going for his life. New character appears. Hope he fares better than saki.
In truth I'm a mass of hatred and caffeine masquerading as a human being.

A new series created by the acclaimed pair who produced both Bakuman and Death Note.
Basically, it's time to pick a new God, and thirteen angels are tasked with picking a human (apparently at random) and competing against each other to make their human God, so they can stand next to them.
It was...interesting. I'm going to keep an eye out for this to see how I really feel about it after a few chapters.
edited 31st Oct '15 8:19:23 PM by LSBK