The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

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Cloudman said:

Should you be showing me spoliers of manga I haven't read yet, haha? What if I was going to get into FT?! Huh? HUH?! o: Punk... ; )

I kid, I probably won't read FT, and I wouldn't get the context, so I would just forget about it.

 

Also, isn't the MC of Hero Academia like... the complete opposite of that? I thought he was a happy go lucky cowardish character. That 1st design seems totally different.

It was a vague spoiler! To you it won't mean much...but someone who follows the series would probably be annoyed to read it.

The author of Fairy Tail was heavily inspired by One Piece, so there's a lot of similarities in the art style, and plenty of story elements are re-used. Like Pokoko wittily mentioned though...there's a pretty massive gap in writing quality between the two. Fairy Tail largely jumps from one plot to the next without much actual build-up in between, and it never really seems like the author has more than a few chapters planned out in advance. With One Piece, meanwhile, you get the impression that the author has the entire skeleton of the story planned out. A random tattoo on one of the main characters introduced another main character some 400 chapters before he was finally shown in the story. Plot points laid out in chapter 30 might return in chapter 600. Random name drops in a previous arc might turn out to be main villains later on. I honestly can't think of any other author that rivals Oda when it comes to laying out story elements like this, in manga or otherwise.

Still, when it comes to Fairy Tail, I personally find the comedy to be great, and I love most of the characters. The author of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches was actually the Fairy Tail author's assistant for a while, and so, even though it's a completely different genre, you might recognize a lot of similarities in the humor, particularly character reactions and pacing. Some of the character designs look pretty similar too IMO.

The character from Hero Academia I posted is actually the rival character. If you read it you'll find that initial design pretty funny, since the character is kind of a douchenozzle in the main story, constantly cursing and being a jerk. I personally find him interesting though..even though he's a jerk he shows signs of character growth pretty early, and those are usually the types I root for. I might change my tune based on that the path the story takes though.