“I think I’ve finally, after a lot of searching, found a manga I enjoy. It hasn’t been easy. It’s just not my thing. The storytelling is often very decompressed, stretching one volume of content into three or four. And oftentimes you’ll find things repeated.
It reminds me of what drove me nuts about Harry Potter, the repeating. Once you discover a rock that can make people immortal WHO CARES ABOUT QUIDDITCH? I still can’t figure out why Harry Potter didn’t say, “Hey guys, do you realize we can do magic? Like, all kinds of magic? But instead of learning how to liquefy people we’re going to play broomstick basketball.” Despite all that (and SEVERAL letters to JK Rowling which I was very fortunate to not have end in legal action) I felt like whenever I picked up a Harry Potter book, before I knew it I was reading sports writing. YOU CAN’T TRICK ME INTO READING ABOUT SPORTS! Especially made-up sports. Because we all know there’s only one made-up sport of value, and that’s any sport where the point is to hunt other human beings. Running Man, Hard Target, Battle Royale, Hunger Games, and to some extent, I guess, 1994’s Ice-T vehicle Surviving the Game. “