>author lets you think there's a happy ending coming
>and then thoroughly kicks you in the balls for ever making such a stupid assumption
Author lets you think there's a happy ending coming
Brandon Clark
Dominic Walker
Fuck you for reminding me of this.
Daniel Thompson
Context?
Ayden Mitchell
It's from "Eden - it's an Endless World".
It's really good, you should read it and ignore the following spoilers!
>setting is a slightly high tech, slightly post-apocalyptic future
>MCs sister got kidnapped before the start of the story
>about 100 chapters in, MC finally has enough intel and influence to attempt a rescue
>he puts together an expert crew of all the characters he's met in previous arcs
>they manage to get the sister out, but she got injected with explosive nanomachines shenanigans
>just when they're about to board the escape submarine and get out of reach, OPs pic happens
>this causes MC to have a complete mental breakdown, he falls into hard drug use and becomes irrelevant until the end of the story because he has to go to rehab
It would seem Hiroki Endo has a thing for building up relationships for dozens of chapters before ending them brutally and irrevocably.
Jeremiah Ward
Eden was so good when it wasn't focusing on that pseudo-philosophical crystal bullshit. Every time the story witched to that thing I had to keep my boredom in check.
Jonathan Adams
Is the pic from the same manga?
Connor Hill
> crystal stuff was boring
shit taste
> believing happy things were gonna happen in Eden after finishing 1st arc
I assume that was among your first manga. Ok, maybe I can consider it´s ok to think more people were gonna make it till the end, but please on´t tell me that was ruining your experience, because everything I see among manga readers is "fuck it, they kill to many characters" or "fuck it, no one dies here" and that kind of bullshit.
Isaiah Brooks
This didn't bother me as much as the crazy shift in tone from one chapter to the next. You think you're reading some sci-fi adventures, suddenly it turns into The Godfather in South america, and just when you think it's finally settled into a comfy favela Slice of Life, it comes at you with domestic terrorism, GiTS cyborgs, and the benefits of an authoritarian police state.
AND THEN the author throws the gnosticism, philosophy and Quantum physics at you, and all hell breaks loose.
Still a great read though, with a pretty satisfying ending, which is a rare thing IMO.
Yup, that's MC and his mommy girlfriend.
She's a prostitute.
Mason Howard
second greentext part for OP
Gavin Torres
>She's a prostitute
Picked up. I have a thing for prostitutes.
Nathan Butler
based cyberpunk manga.
first half/third was much better.
Kenji is a great character and fighter and has some of the best fights in manga period.
if you don't agree with these facts explain yourself.
Carter Jackson
>but please on´t tell me that was ruining your experience
No, of course not. I didn't mean to come across as angry or disappointed, I just wanted a nice Eden thread and unfortunately you don't get many replies if your OP is "let's discuss X".
Henry Moore
Enjoy, you're in for a wild ride!
Easton Richardson
>crystal hater here
It just didn't fit. On one hand there's futuristic drug cartel shenanigans with focus on interpersonal relationships and on the other there's the existential stuff. They were too different and barely had anything to do with each other. Doesn't help that I thought relationships were the authors stronger point, which made the lackluster crystal stuff.
The only times I cared were with the Indian doctor and the impotent bloke. But, again, that was because of the characters and not the crystal stuff itself.
The ending was satisfying enough, but it could've been better(that dude that was supposed to be a rival of sorts to MC's father just came out of nowhere).
And, yeah, the constant change in tone got pretty annoying at times. The start, which goes from "most of the world's population is dead and it's an Adam and Eve post-apocalyptic adventure" to "just 10% actually died and it's a coming of age story about their kid" was the worst one.
Alexander Scott
>I thought relationships were the authors stronger point
You should check out his other work, All rounder Meguro. He completely drops the scifi and mysticism, and just does a comfy Mixed-martial arts manga with great characters and relationships. The matches are also an incredibly realistic depiction of MMA, as far as manga goes anyway.
You may need a minimum of interest in martial arts however, or you're going to be bored to death.
Jace King
>Kenji is a great character
Only once he gets his brown loli apprentice. Until then, he's just "plot armor: the character".
>first half/third was much better.
Where's your cutoff point, the timeskip? If so, I completely agree.
Mason Ortiz
I've been meaning to read it since I read Teppuu, but I didn't get the chance.
Leo Miller
What is the mangaka even doing nowadays? All the authors of these well kwon and liked old series somehow disappeared or do some absolute generic bullshit series nowadays that have nothing in common with their old stuff and feels like their authors were forced to do them.
Hunter Powell
His last series was about a periodic table elemental vampire PMC fighting some political faction. It's ended though last year.
Kayden Roberts
Is meguru still ongoing, or is it just in scanlation hell?
And did any group pick up the vampire story? Haven't seen english scans anywhere, only the first chapter in Brazilian on mangadex.
Sebastian Morgan
Still salty about this
Carter Parker
Endo's short stories really are something else.
Especially the one that's just straight up 20 page of porn.