Red Hood

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That's pretty cute, maybe the manga should have had more tank adventures and more whatever the fuck it was it did have

Didn't read it, but I've seen pretty good designs, was it that bad?

Spent the first ~4 chapters in a shitty village that should've been destroyed by the end of chapter 1
Then spent the remainder doing an entrance exam until the axe
It was god fucking awful, and I say this as a /ss/ musclegirlfag

Worst part is there is a brief glimpse of what the author wanted to do in a chapter where they fight an armored crab, but its pretty apparent his editor told him he had to go for an "exam" arc to bring in readers.
Author got so mad with editorial intervention his story literally became about how he hates editors and how they fucked with his story and how now that its axed at least the characters are free from that bullshit.

That was surely the plot from the get go so it was a merciful axe before the story could fuck itself over later on.

The series fucked itself by being stuck in the same hovel for like 4-5 chapters. It killed all momentum. The exam was an attempt to save the series but it was too late at that point.

Even if the point was for the whole world to be constructed by writers from the getgo, the way it was executed was so filled with vitriol I can't not imagine it being reactionary to his editor. People need to remember he's the same guy from Samurai 8 and the one who got put on BNHA since 2020.
Part of me thinks people got mad at him for letting Kishi do everything he wanted with Sam 8 (which is supposedly why it was so bad) and he took it to heart when editing Red Hood and put many constraints on the author. But who knows, maybe I'm excusing the author too much.

Axe sama finish him

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>maybe I'm excusing the author too much.
this.

>but its pretty apparent his editor told him he had to go for an "exam" arc to bring in readers.
more like it already got axed and he went into panic mode.

Art was good but the author has no talent for writing. I wanted weird werewolf monsters and giant crabs and steampunk, not whatever the fourth wall breaking tweest was trying to be.

>Art was good
His designs are good but his paneling and composition can be really shitty sometimes, messy in a bad way.

It died for the next generation of shounen.
Doron Dororon and Ayashimon carry on RedHood's will of fire.

Red Hood manga/anime when

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>I wanted weird werewolf monsters and giant crabs and steampunk
Uh you did get that, nips just didn't care about those things so the chapters that featured them bombed.

>implying one "good" chapter could save a manga.
after village namek and going straight through the exam namek, it's clear one crab tank chapter can do jack shit.

>there are still people who believe this nonsense
the exam arc may have been editorial but the meta shit was obviously planned from the start

and although the editor might have forced the exam there's no way the editor asked him to do cops and robbers, not making his monster hunter exam about hunting monsters is entirely on him, he wanted a way to show off all the characters he had come up with and wasn't gonna have time to give proper attention

>the Japanese just didn't care
It seems like the modern Japanese readers don't care for anything shounen related.
WSJ has been throwing awesome different manga concepts at them, original and not original, battle and non battle, most of it just flops.
Only KnY was a real success, what does Japan see in it? A fairly mediocre series.
I think the authors need to realize this and stop emulating the 00s/early 10s shounen vibe, and appeal to the modern Japanese crowd as much as possible.
KnY is the future.
Blue Box is also a step in the right direction.

Does anyone still have the rar for volume 3's extras? Also semi interested in Kawaguchi's new oneshot after since he's definitely heard the criticism red hood got during its run.

Except KnY wasn't popular until the anime dropped, so many thought it was gonna get axed a few times and went from a meh series in Jump to a major hit overnight, it honestly seems like the animes budget makes or breaks an entire series

World building is only as good as the characters who experience the world themselves. The author spent too much time not focus in the characters which made people also not care about the world. Ideas are cheap, everyone can come up with something new, the problem is incorporate those ideas into a coherence narrative which is where Red Hood failed. People complain about the village Namek because ultimately it added nothing to the story. KnY succeed because it know what does it want to be, where does it want to go and how to get there.