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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#1: Oct 31st 2015 at 8:08:36 PM

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

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#2: Nov 4th 2015 at 3:43:04 PM

Holy shit...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
TheCuriousFan Since: Jan, 2011
#3: Nov 5th 2015 at 12:09:04 PM

How long before the protagonist goes completely off the deep end, I wonder...

JusticEqualsVengeance This is The End. Now Hold Your Breath. from In Hell Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
This is The End. Now Hold Your Breath.
#4: Nov 5th 2015 at 12:29:42 PM

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.
NrueSRyz God of dumb luck when sidestepping pain Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
God of dumb luck when sidestepping pain
#5: Nov 13th 2015 at 5:28:24 AM

Imagine the damage he could do if he hit a important politician or a high ranking general with that arrow.

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Juneberries from Anywhere under Wisconsin. Since: Feb, 2013
#6: Nov 30th 2015 at 7:44:57 PM

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!
Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#7: Nov 30th 2015 at 7:58:07 PM

I'm not sure if he will become a villain from this chapter only. I mean, his first murder was accidental,

[lol]

"Ever human is born to become happy. Humans live in order to become happier than anyone."

...well this certainly isn't Death Note.

edited 30th Nov '15 8:15:35 PM by Soble

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#8: Dec 2nd 2015 at 8:59:48 PM

So chapter 2 is out. We find out more stuff.

Montegoraon Since: Jan, 2011
#9: Dec 2nd 2015 at 10:08:07 PM

That angel girl's design is so weird. I can't tell where her clothes begin and end at all. It's like the clothing version of one of those optical illusions of a fork with impossible tines.

Soble Since: Dec, 2013
#10: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:34:38 PM

Should be interesting when the 13-26 episode anime comes out.

The premise sounds like a mix of Death Note and Future Diary.

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MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#11: Dec 3rd 2015 at 1:52:23 PM

Will this end with both the protagonist and his opposite number dead at a crosswalk though?

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#12: Jan 12th 2016 at 3:32:49 PM

So chapter 3 has been out for a few days. It's not that surprising that another candidate is going to his school but the end did take me by surprise.

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Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#14: Jan 13th 2016 at 6:47:49 AM

…Isn't Jump Square the magazine whose editor-in-chief was bashed in Bakuman? [lol]

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. tongue

edited 13th Jan '16 7:07:03 AM by Lyendith

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#16: Jan 13th 2016 at 7:57:36 AM

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. >.>

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#17: Jan 13th 2016 at 8:20:00 AM

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.

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#18: Jan 13th 2016 at 8:49:00 AM

Huh… that's one hell of an introduction.

Unlike [up] I didn't think Metropoli Man was Saki, but I sure didn't expect this turn of events either. Maybe we'll find out that either God candidates or people already in love are immune to the red arrow…

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#19: Feb 3rd 2016 at 3:39:02 PM

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. tongue

edited 3rd Feb '16 3:39:43 PM by Lyendith

Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
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#20: Feb 4th 2016 at 9:53:07 PM

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?

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#21: Feb 5th 2016 at 8:31:31 PM

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.

Montegoraon Since: Jan, 2011
#23: Feb 6th 2016 at 4:56:58 PM

True. Even if you say there are additional reasons, like geographical compactness or population size, there's nothing that would put Japan "above" South Korea in that regard.

Lyendith Since: Mar, 2011
#24: Mar 4th 2016 at 1:11:20 PM

Chap 5 out. Welp Metropoli Man screwed everyone over. tongue The chapter was a bit tedious to read, though.

Berzerkerking Lord'o'Scrubs Since: Nov, 2015 Relationship Status: LET'S HAVE A ZILLION BABIES
Lord'o'Scrubs
#25: Apr 3rd 2016 at 10:07:53 AM

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.

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