The Snowy Manga Discussion Thread

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Super_Boom said:

A while back, I'd say Hiro Mashima. The artstyle of his manga (Rave Master, Fairy Tail, and several others) has always been really appealing to me. It's clean, detailed, and I can actually follow the battles without problems, which is honestly more rare than it should be in the genre. He also does a great job with character design, and the comedy is usually pretty great.

Unfortunately...Hiro's story-telling skills are extremely hard to defend. He can draw emotional moments for sure...the problem is, it feels like he forces the story to reach those moments, rather than approach them naturally. I don't really get the impression he has the story planned out very far in advance...which some mangaka can handle well, but here, not so much. He also hates training arcs and extended fights...which is fine, since I also hate them, but it means he usually goes in the opposite direction, with constant nakama power-ups and sudden hero victories after dozens of chapters worth of build-up. I've said it before...but I'd love to see Hiro try his hand at a romantic-comedy manga, since I think most of his faults would be insignificant in a story like that.

I dropped Fairy Tail the moment Sting got on his knees and cried in front of several Fairy Tails members after all the build up he got through the whole Grand Magical Games arc. But i would defintetly read a romanctic comedy from Mashima that would definitetly be a much better genre for his  style then an action series.