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Nemu posted...

The manga really jumped the shark at the Phoenix Man fight. Up until that point, it was more of an expanded web comic, but they went off the rails with padding and revisions. I have no idea if it was mostly Murata's idea or if ONE was the force behind it, but it really got pretty meh from there on. It seems they want to focus on the aspect of having the main villain in the manga because the webcomic will never have time to get to it, but I don't know why they needed to go so over the top so soon.

Yeah on retrospect I would say the Phoenix Man fight is when it jumped the shark. I personally was actually tolerating it up to even the beginning of the surface fight but Golden Sperm emerging prematurely (pun unintended) was what made me really go "this is really awkward" and then it just went spiraling downwards from there.

Anyway officially it's ONE behind everything but the thing that really makes me consider Murata's contribution is the fact that Amai Mask was completely humiliated during the whole arc and didn't accomplish anything on the surface (which he was fairly prominent in the WC) to the point that he actually had to retcon Amai Mask being too cartoonishly evil (since the WC had him being a good guy).

Turns out Murata has gone on record saying Amai Mask is his least favorite character.