To sum up this thread: it's very mixed. Some people enjoy it and has it's fans, others find it bland/too much exposition/etc. I'm not a fan :/
True but I stand by that I think Naruto's lackluster final arc cost him some goodwill.Overall, the simple matter is that it's not engaging the readership of the magazine especially strongly. But I feel like that's a confluence of factors - ranging from the mildly disappointing to the tolerable with time to the straight up bad - that means the series doesn't come out consistently strong, while lacking for any clear, singular highlight that would make ardent fans really go 'You have to read this' to others, to widen its audience. Even Black Clover for its initial disparagement quickly became a known quantity in which readers of the manga, and viewers of the series, could point to some cool or interesting moment that validated their consumption of it. Even as someone who's generally been alright with Samurai 8, what I liked about it was really in the small touches that have kinda gone away beyond the series' first arc, so now I'm kinda left wondering what honest hook there is. My will to persist with it is wearing a bit thin out of sheer boredom.
Nah otherwise other Naruto related things would have bombed. Boruto the movie was successful and the final volume of Naruto sold great. Loss of goodwill was had any real effect on this level it would have had to have signs of it else where.True but I stand by that I think Naruto's lackluster final arc cost him some goodwill.
True but I stand by that I think Naruto's lackluster final arc cost him some goodwill.
Nah otherwise other Naruto related things would have bombed. Boruto the movie was successful and the final volume of Naruto sold great. Loss of goodwill was had any real effect on this level it would have had to have signs of it else where.
I thought the Battle Royal stuff was gonna be S8's tournament arc and then it was over like the next chapter.
It is properly in a narrative death spiral. Attempts to fix it, only to make things even worse.
Man Hiroshi Shiibashi can't catch a break with his new series, but fuck Tokyo Shinobi Squad after that first chapter.
Good god, it took forever for those four stinkers to get canned. I did read it had something do with Jump's apparent restriction of eleven new series per year?
Regardless, I really do wonder how many second chances this'll get. I sure hope it doesn't come at the cost of Mission: Yozakura Family -- you can tell Gondaira went back to the basics after Poro's failure and studied up on what makes for a fun comedy/engaging cast.
I only read the first chapter -- apparently it became super xenophobic afterwards?
The weird thing is it didn't. All the xenophobia vanished after the first chapter.
Really? Guess that speaks to how forgettable the series was, ahaha.
Yeah the pacing is incredibly rushed, for a story that seems to want to try and stick around for a while.
Shrug I was actually enjoying beast children. But at least Mission: Yozakura Family is safe, now that's really fun.Good god, it took forever for those four stinkers to get canned. I did read it had something do with Jump's apparent restriction of eleven new series per year?
Regardless, I really do wonder how many second chances this'll get. I sure hope it doesn't come at the cost of Mission: Yozakura Family -- you can tell Gondaira went back to the basics after Poro's failure and studied up on what makes for a fun comedy/engaging cast.
I only read the first chapter -- apparently it became super xenophobic afterwards?
I feel like the author wanted a "Gotham-style hellhole" but also wanted to make it multi-cultural, and stupidly wrote an anti-globalization tract into the world-building.
Late reply, but it's a collection of Gotouge's one-shots.
I only read the first chapter -- apparently it became super xenophobic afterwards?
Shrug I was actually enjoying beast children. But at least Mission: Yozakura Family is safe, now that's really fun.
I don't mind Samurai but it definitely hasn't found a footing on the real cast dynamic yet. Lacks a strong personal rival and drive and that's effecting the focus as the scale has gone too big
Truth be told my real frustration is the Viz official translations of Act-Age, jujutsu Kaisen, demon slayer kny, and Haikyu(at least that should be caught up in a month or so) are all missing huge gaps(especially the first two) and are taking forever to fillI remember enjoying Beast Children's first chapter and then just...falling off? More than I can say for the other three, at least -- I knew Double Taisei was destined for the axe from the beginning.
Truth be told my real frustration is the Viz official translations of Act-Age, jujutsu Kaisen, demon slayer kny, and Haikyu(at least that should be caught up in a month or so) are all missing huge gaps(especially the first two) and are taking forever to fill
SnS as in Shokugeki no Soma? Yeah, it ended. It... may have been one of the worst downfalls in Jump. Like, holy shit.
SnS as in Shokugeki no Soma? Yeah, it ended. It... may have been one of the worst downfalls in Jump. Like, holy shit.
Oh wow, that bad? Can I get a summary to save myself the pain?
Assuming you're on the anime.
Soma and Erina eventually win the Team Shokugeki (it lasted so long in the manga, it seems to be much shorter in the anime). Azami realizes he's defeated and steps down as headmaster. Rather than take his position back, Senzaemon declares Erina the new headmaster of Totsuki while Soma becomes the new #1 of the Elite Ten. That's really where the series should have ended. ... It didn't.
We time skip to everyone in their second year. At first it seems things are back to normal, but then we're told about "dark chefs". Chefs that are "too dangerous" or something, I don't recall it was really fucking stupid. Their leader is a Asahi Saiba, Soma's brother (not exactly, he's a guy that Joichiro looked after and had to leave when his wife died and he had to take care of Soma). Asahi shows how "powerful" he is by beating Joichiro in a Shokugeki. Then he infiltrates Totsuki as a teacher with his plan to win Erina's heart. Soma hears this and says he'll win it... by making her say his food is good (because you can't have the asexual protag suddenly interested in girls). Asahi beats him and literally throws him in the trash. Then during an exam about beach food, he kidnaps Erina and we see his dark chef cohorts (it's so stupid). Erina says he'll consider if he beats her at the BLUE (the big cooking competition).
We then skip to the BLUE (fuck training) as we're introduced to more dark chefs. Including one that cooks with a chainsaw, one that cooks with a guillotine, and one that cooks by juggling so fast it heats up the food. I am not kidding. And it turns out the reason Asahi is so powerful is that he's able to take these techniques they have (as well as others) and combine them. It's like fucking Nen from Hunter x Hunter at this point. It stopped even trying to be about cooking too. All the talks of recipes and preparation? Gone! Asahi ends up beating Tsukasa to further show how strong he is, and then it turns out the person running BLUE, and I am not kidding, is Erina's mother. Oh, thought we were done with Nakiri bullshit? Fuck you, she's Sasuke now! She has the God Tongue too, and it turns out to be a curse as one ends up growing so tired of food she has to be fed intravenously. To make a long story short, Soma beats Asahi, and moves on to the finals against Erina. Now, one of the goals of the series was to get Erina to say his food is delicious. She tastes it and her stripping reaction is so strong, it destroys the walls. ... She says it's disgusting "compared to what I'll make". in the final chapter. Oh wait, it's not end.
There were three more epilogue chapters released. Part of it was nice since we got to meet Soma's late mother. But then we got a twist so unbelievably dumb that I can't believe it was written. It turns out that Asahi... is Erina's half-brother. Because a depressed Azami went to America and had a one-night stand with a local slut (not even my words, they call her that) which resulted in Asahi. But the truly worst part? Soma doesn't accomplish anything. He never beats his dad, he never takes over the restaurant, he didn't win the BLUE, he never gets Erina to say his food is delicious, the two don't even hook-up or get married! Not even a shot of wedding bands! The worst part? Yuto Tsukuda confirmed that he created Asahi to make Soma "realize his feelings for Erina". He basically killed the series... and doesn't even follow through with it.
I can't even recommend the series now. I used to say "check it out if you don't mind tits", but now it just annoys me.
The art style makes me quit reading after chapter 2...
With Tokyo Shinobi Squad ending, it's running out of cushions.
Unless that Agravity Boys series ends up being so terrible that it manages to keep S8 alive for a little longer. But at this point, who knows if Samurai 8 has much longer left.
I'm already enjoying Zipman! way more than I had with Samurai 8 :x
Turns out from the ranking this week, Tokyo Shinobi's last chapter was in last place with Samurai 8 in 2nd-last... For some reason that Dr. Stone Reboot series doesn't seem to be ranked? Is it like a mini-series with a set end date so it doesn't get voted on/ranked? But anyhow, that's STILL not a good sign for Samurai 8... We shall see where Zipman! places next week since the debut.
I'm already enjoying Zipman! way more than I had with Samurai 8 :x
Turns out from the ranking this week, Tokyo Shinobi's last chapter was in last place with Samurai 8 in 2nd-last... For some reason that Dr. Stone Reboot series doesn't seem to be ranked? Is it like a mini-series with a set end date so it doesn't get voted on/ranked? But anyhow, that's STILL not a good sign for Samurai 8... We shall see where Zipman! places next week since the debut.
Assuming you're on the anime.
Soma and Erina eventually win the Team Shokugeki (it lasted so long in the manga, it seems to be much shorter in the anime). Azami realizes he's defeated and steps down as headmaster. Rather than take his position back, Senzaemon declares Erina the new headmaster of Totsuki while Soma becomes the new #1 of the Elite Ten. That's really where the series should have ended. ... It didn't.
We time skip to everyone in their second year. At first it seems things are back to normal, but then we're told about "dark chefs". Chefs that are "too dangerous" or something, I don't recall it was really fucking stupid. Their leader is a Asahi Saiba, Soma's brother (not exactly, he's a guy that Joichiro looked after and had to leave when his wife died and he had to take care of Soma). Asahi shows how "powerful" he is by beating Joichiro in a Shokugeki. Then he infiltrates Totsuki as a teacher with his plan to win Erina's heart. Soma hears this and says he'll win it... by making her say his food is good (because you can't have the asexual protag suddenly interested in girls). Asahi beats him and literally throws him in the trash. Then during an exam about beach food, he kidnaps Erina and we see his dark chef cohorts (it's so stupid). Erina says he'll consider if he beats her at the BLUE (the big cooking competition).
We then skip to the BLUE (fuck training) as we're introduced to more dark chefs. Including one that cooks with a chainsaw, one that cooks with a guillotine, and one that cooks by juggling so fast it heats up the food. I am not kidding. And it turns out the reason Asahi is so powerful is that he's able to take these techniques they have (as well as others) and combine them. It's like fucking Nen from Hunter x Hunter at this point. It stopped even trying to be about cooking too. All the talks of recipes and preparation? Gone! Asahi ends up beating Tsukasa to further show how strong he is, and then it turns out the person running BLUE, and I am not kidding, is Erina's mother. Oh, thought we were done with Nakiri bullshit? Fuck you, she's Sasuke now! She has the God Tongue too, and it turns out to be a curse as one ends up growing so tired of food she has to be fed intravenously. To make a long story short, Soma beats Asahi, and moves on to the finals against Erina. Now, one of the goals of the series was to get Erina to say his food is delicious. She tastes it and her stripping reaction is so strong, it destroys the walls. ... She says it's disgusting "compared to what I'll make". in the final chapter. Oh wait, it's not the end.
There were three more epilogue chapters released. Part of it was nice since we got to meet Soma's late mother. But then we got a twist so unbelievably dumb that I can't believe it was written. It turns out that Asahi... is Erina's half-brother. Because a depressed Azami went to America and had a one-night stand with a local slut (not even my words, they call her that) which resulted in Asahi. But the truly worst part? Soma doesn't accomplish anything. He never beats his dad, he never takes over the restaurant, he didn't win the BLUE, he never gets Erina to say his food is delicious, the two don't even hook-up or get married! Not even a shot of wedding bands! The worst part? Yuto Tsukuda confirmed that he created Asahi to make Soma "realize his feelings for Erina". He basically killed the series... and doesn't even follow through with it.
I can't even recommend the series now. I used to say "check it out if you don't mind tits", but now it just annoys me.
God listening to Weekly Manga Recap reminds me more of the problems with Samurai 8 and its current arc.
Okay I don't care atm for spoiling since I don't think anyone here is reading Samurai 8, but in the recent chapter Daruma (the cat person) we learned earlier in the series is thatw as not his true form he used to be human but due to circumstances he is stuck in the form of a cat and thus much weaker.
The arc villain is Benkei, who has been fighting are protagonist for a bit and went up into space and so to get his stronger Samurai armor and shit to fight, but thanks to the protagnist Daruma was able to achieve his human form for a bit for the first time in who knows how long this is supposed to be a big moment.
With only 50% of his power, Daruma is able to make quick work of Benkei and defeats him and then we learn the true history of how he got more power by stealing and exploiting another character which is sad (but its not really) but it leaves a somber point that should end this arc...... but nope.
Turns out Benkei is still up and ready and goes off to his space station and is preparing to fire his space laser to blow up the planet, now the heroes are the fucking rebels from Jedi and are trying to invade and stop the Death Star and its just not exciting.
If you wanted to continue more with Benkei thats fine just have him escape not pull the you haven't stopped me yet, that undermines the whole Human Daruma moment of cutting him down and the flashback and extends an arc that didn't need it it had an endpoint
It be like in One Piece after Luffy went Snake-Man and him and Katakuri duked it out till Luffy was the only one left standing but as Luffy and Co were leaving, Sanji and Puddings farewell that Katakuri got back up and decided to make a giant Mochi wall around WCI blocking them from leaving till Katakuri was defeated again.
Or after Luffy blasted off Buggy in Orange Town and he was defeated, as the strawhats are leaving town and such Buggy begins to fire Muggy Balls from his ship and the starwhats have to defeat him still
Or in Naruto, like lets say after Naruto after he uses the Kuramas chakra for the first time is able to defeat Haku and as Kakashi is about to kill Zabuza instead of sacrificing himself to save Zabuza, Haku continues to put up even stronger Ice Mirrors to save him and is still a threat.
It frustrates me, because Kishi can still have good moments there are such events in Samurai 8 like the stuff with Hachis dad.
My god this sounds like a train wreck haha. Id be pissed if I followed this series since the start.Assuming you're on the anime.
Soma and Erina eventually win the Team Shokugeki (it lasted so long in the manga, it seems to be much shorter in the anime). Azami realizes he's defeated and steps down as headmaster. Rather than take his position back, Senzaemon declares Erina the new headmaster of Totsuki while Soma becomes the new #1 of the Elite Ten. That's really where the series should have ended. ... It didn't.
We time skip to everyone in their second year. At first it seems things are back to normal, but then we're told about "dark chefs". Chefs that are "too dangerous" or something, I don't recall it was really fucking stupid. Their leader is a Asahi Saiba, Soma's brother (not exactly, he's a guy that Joichiro looked after and had to leave when his wife died and he had to take care of Soma). Asahi shows how "powerful" he is by beating Joichiro in a Shokugeki. Then he infiltrates Totsuki as a teacher with his plan to win Erina's heart. Soma hears this and says he'll win it... by making her say his food is good (because you can't have the asexual protag suddenly interested in girls). Asahi beats him and literally throws him in the trash. Then during an exam about beach food, he kidnaps Erina and we see his dark chef cohorts (it's so stupid). Erina says he'll consider if he beats her at the BLUE (the big cooking competition).
We then skip to the BLUE (fuck training) as we're introduced to more dark chefs. Including one that cooks with a chainsaw, one that cooks with a guillotine, and one that cooks by juggling so fast it heats up the food. I am not kidding. And it turns out the reason Asahi is so powerful is that he's able to take these techniques they have (as well as others) and combine them. It's like fucking Nen from Hunter x Hunter at this point. It stopped even trying to be about cooking too. All the talks of recipes and preparation? Gone! Asahi ends up beating Tsukasa to further show how strong he is, and then it turns out the person running BLUE, and I am not kidding, is Erina's mother. Oh, thought we were done with Nakiri bullshit? Fuck you, she's Sasuke now! She has the God Tongue too, and it turns out to be a curse as one ends up growing so tired of food she has to be fed intravenously. To make a long story short, Soma beats Asahi, and moves on to the finals against Erina. Now, one of the goals of the series was to get Erina to say his food is delicious. She tastes it and her stripping reaction is so strong, it destroys the walls. ... She says it's disgusting "compared to what I'll make". in the final chapter. Oh wait, it's not the end.
There were three more epilogue chapters released. Part of it was nice since we got to meet Soma's late mother. But then we got a twist so unbelievably dumb that I can't believe it was written. It turns out that Asahi... is Erina's half-brother. Because a depressed Azami went to America and had a one-night stand with a local slut (not even my words, they call her that) which resulted in Asahi. But the truly worst part? Soma doesn't accomplish anything. He never beats his dad, he never takes over the restaurant, he didn't win the BLUE, he never gets Erina to say his food is delicious, the two don't even hook-up or get married! Not even a shot of wedding bands! The worst part? Yuto Tsukuda confirmed that he created Asahi to make Soma "realize his feelings for Erina". He basically killed the series... and doesn't even follow through with it.
I can't even recommend the series now. I used to say "check it out if you don't mind tits", but now it just annoys me.
They've already announced a physical release for it for 2020, and they are usually pretty cautious about waiting until something is safe before doing a physical release.Is this maybe an indication that the series isn't likely to get cancelled any time soon? Dunno if the JP side would have much say in this, but it strikes me as unlikely that Viz would push it if they felt it was in danger of getting canned.