LogFAQs > #946912151

You know, I think Dorei Yuugi encapsulates my frustration with manga in general. You have an interesting (or even good) premise but shaky writing/storytelling and so-so art, which is kind of enough to get you into the series despite thinking it's not that great. Within 10 or 20 chapters, you wind up invested enough that you want to keep following it and see how it ends. Then, either because of the industry's nature -- where titles are canceled due to lack of sales or the mangaka focuses on other projects -- you get either an oddly forced, kinda rushed ending that feels completely unsatisfying or no ending at all.

Granted, some of these issues are a broader problem among serialized content (which sets things up not knowing when it's going to end), but they're magnified in manga given how that industry operates. With a tv show, you could see changes season-to-season. With a manga, it's either week-to-week (or chapter-to-chapter, once it's collected elsewhere) or volume-to-volume so it's across a shorter span of time.

While the solution might be to just look for things that were big enough to start to get an adaptation or look at heavily-reviewed popular series, a lot of cooler stuff is kinda under the radar.

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