How come this doesn't get talked about as much as other long running shounen? It has a lot of the same problems most of them do but it has tons of cool moments
How come this doesn't get talked about as much as other long running shounen...
Anime was trash + characters don't scream their attack names which makes western manga readers confused.
It's not in WSJ (it's not even a shounen), it wasn't translated beyond a few chapters for the first five+ years of its run until the anime happened, and the anime was short and CGI and not dubbed on Western TV.
It is more violent than most shounen series so I guess it makes sense it would be classified as seinen but reading through it, it definitely feels like a shounen manga in terms of character progression.
It's the same basic kind of story, yeah, but it's in a seinen magazine. A large portion of the people who flock to the long-running shounen aren't looking there.
Horrible anime adaptation moreover Chinese history isn't exactly popular outside of Japan, save for maybe the 3 kingdoms period. It's extremely popular in Japan though and is the 5th best selling manga this year, if I'm not mistaken.
Looks like it sold the third most of any manga in 2019. Pretty crazy that it's doing so well even though the anime wasn't good. They make anime to sell more manga so I guess they don't see a need to reboot it or something. It would be sweet to see it get a remake like Hunter x Hunter did though.
The new season is much better than the previous ones so at least it's getting a proper adaptation now, even if still censored. Maybe if it got that sort of quality from the start it would be more popular in the west. Even Yas Forums doesn't seem to give much of a fuck about it.
This is a manga about large battle and yet the author can't draw horses right, which is funny.
the horses look fine though