Monthly series tend to have lesser comments than weekly ones, even something like World Trigger only gets posts on one or two days a month...
that said,
I did read Platinum End monthly through the first 20 or so chapters...thought it was good, then just put it on the side because it was monthly and well, I like to have lots to read (now I just buy the volumes). I was hoping it would get an anime.
Honestly, I think thats all it needs for those volume sales to pick up. IMO, I'd assume it would get an anime, last, if the anime doesnt make it explode like Owari no Serafu or BLue Exorcist, then it'll end in two or so years.
I liked Platinum End, the lead cast and their allies. Art and character design was/is great too. The Death Game aspect is always a compelling idea.
Yeah, the main reason I didn't continue (apart from not immediately loving it, as unfair as it is) was due to its monthly schedule. Even when I really enjoy a monthly manga (like Blue Exorcist, Attack on Titan or Vinland Saga), it's kinda hard for me to be there every single month, I'm bound to wait it out and forget stuff (I'm awful at that). With comics I read I don't have
that big of a problem, but it's definitely there (really behind on the X-Men titles, for instance).
Interested to see what the anime would look like. The art is great, yeah, although I wish I liked the main characters' designs. I
could see the anime being CG-based, which, eh... Although there has been a few good-looking CG animes, so hey.
If you read Platinum End hoping to enjoy a new "Death Note", you would be disappointed. Overall, the story has good moments (but is not exceptional), and the art is amazing as you would expect from Obata. A main problem, in my opinion, was the pacing. This was particularly evident in the final arc, where I had the feeling that nothing was happening for 4-5 months - just not too much uninspired dialogue, in particular if (I repeat myself) you expect something at the same level as the Kira VS L "fight". I fear that the monthly serialization didn't help Ohba. Having the physical volumes, when I re-read them I felt that the story was progressing in a more natural way than when I read the monthly chapters (I doubt this will be apply to the last chapters, which were really dragged).
However, there exist much worse manga. As
BassForever is saying, this a "fine" series - not completely bad, not exceptional. If you read it with this mindset, you could appeciate it.
Interesting. I wasn't really expecting the next DN. Like, that's a very unique, damn fun read (even if it's got quite a few flaws, especially as it went on) and I thought the same of Bakuman (again, with very similar problems regarding pacing, running for too long and stuff like that). So I'd be satisfied with an entertaining manga with great art and interesting concepts, which I see this has.
I might read the starting chapters in Shueisha's Manga Plus and, if I see I'm into them, I'll continue.
And yeah, the monthly schedule you as the reader and the authors as, well, the creators have to get used to. It can be such a different vibe to weekly manga. Good thing is that I'd have a nice amount of chapters to read, so I wouldn't really feel the drag!
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