JJK (Manga): 7/10
honestly i'm a bit disappointed as I actually enjoyed the anime and consider it one of my favourite shounens, it's just that the pacing of the manga does feel kind of bad. Honestly, the anime overall feels less smug and feels it gives more time to character moments, the manga feels edgier and faster which may be a good thing for some but not for me
I think the action scenes are pretty bad NGL, mainly because it feels like you were meant to read it as it was publishing and have a break every chapter. The magic system of JJK is complex, and while it does make sense, it's hard to keep track of, this isn't a problem if you're reading while it's being published, you get time to analyze the fight and talk about it with your friends and overall understand things better, but just reading it at a normal speed uninterrupted, every fight feels like RANDOM BULLSHIT GO as there is a brand new attack followed by a flashback of how they learnt that skill and it's just there is also not any real point of reference for any of the characters power level anyone could do anything and any point and win so it never really feels like a tight fight
Now, every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, again, good for the weekly reader, not so much for like literally any other point in time, I feel they give such importance to the last page that honestly devalues the rest of the chapter,
now, what I said about the manga being edgier. JJK has a thing which is also present in many modern shounen which is to be cool is to be smug, to not really give a shit about anything, honestly, make it look that you're even bored of the fight, which I do get, it's kinda cool, but honestly that only works in certain circumstances like maybe when there is an aura of mistery around the character, as it can make the character feel hateable. If you see every other character putting effort in or suffering and they just don't really care that doesn't make them cool that makes them look like an asshole, in the anime this feels better because there are more scenes that humanize the characters, at least they get more screentime, while in JJK they feel like one in a billion
I don't like how this was marketed either, they kinda went like "oh we're going to kill EVERY character that is because JJK is adult and cool and better than the rest" and that just doesn't make a good story, the quality of the story isn't proportional to how many characters you kill
honestly i'm a bit disappointed as I actually enjoyed the anime and consider it one of my favourite shounens, it's just that the pacing of the manga does feel kind of bad. Honestly, the anime overall feels less smug and feels it gives more time to character moments, the manga feels edgier and faster which may be a good thing for some but not for me
I think the action scenes are pretty bad NGL, mainly because it feels like you were meant to read it as it was publishing and have a break every chapter. The magic system of JJK is complex, and while it does make sense, it's hard to keep track of, this isn't a problem if you're reading while it's being published, you get time to analyze the fight and talk about it with your friends and overall understand things better, but just reading it at a normal speed uninterrupted, every fight feels like RANDOM BULLSHIT GO as there is a brand new attack followed by a flashback of how they learnt that skill and it's just there is also not any real point of reference for any of the characters power level anyone could do anything and any point and win so it never really feels like a tight fight
Now, every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, again, good for the weekly reader, not so much for like literally any other point in time, I feel they give such importance to the last page that honestly devalues the rest of the chapter,
now, what I said about the manga being edgier. JJK has a thing which is also present in many modern shounen which is to be cool is to be smug, to not really give a shit about anything, honestly, make it look that you're even bored of the fight, which I do get, it's kinda cool, but honestly that only works in certain circumstances like maybe when there is an aura of mistery around the character, as it can make the character feel hateable. If you see every other character putting effort in or suffering and they just don't really care that doesn't make them cool that makes them look like an asshole, in the anime this feels better because there are more scenes that humanize the characters, at least they get more screentime, while in JJK they feel like one in a billion
I don't like how this was marketed either, they kinda went like "oh we're going to kill EVERY character that is because JJK is adult and cool and better than the rest" and that just doesn't make a good story, the quality of the story isn't proportional to how many characters you kill