Sakamoto Days Chapter 182 Discussion

Too short! Loved it all the same. This guy in unhinged, seems like he could be the main villain of the arc.

Is it me or has the art for this manga in the last several chapters been pretty mediocre? The storytelling has also been feeling lazy at times, like that character who magically woke up from a coma, etc. I'm starting to wonder if the author is getting burnt out.

@Beatnik no? the art was only mediocre for that one chapter during uzuki's flashback because it was an unfinished chapter, other than that the art looks better than how it used to. and as far as kindaka goes, i think it was pretty obvious that he would wake up from the moment it was revealed that he was alive like over 40 chapters ago. as far as writing goes, it's not any different than sakamoto magically going slim among countless other things from this series, i.e rule of cool just as usual.

@ryzxgum

The art in the first half of the manga was cool and dynamic, but now it feels like every character is drawn in a rush, with sketchy looks. Take the evil prison guard for instance, he looks like a background extra instead of a main character. Hard Boiled and Heisuke also feel thinly sketched lately. If you go back to something like chapter 100, Shishiba's fight with Yotsumura has detail in the characters, the action looks clean, and feels like what you expect from shonen, but lately I just don't feel any magic coming off the pages.

As for lazy writing. You don't just have a character wake up for no reason, you need to initiate it, no matter how superficially. I.e - if there was a fight that took place in his room, and his bed got nudged, or he got hit in the face, then you could use that to explain him waking up later. But the author just doesn't even bother, and has him wake up exactly when the characters need him to.

Set-up and pay-off are fundamentals of storytelling. And when they're lacking it just feels like the author is going through the motions at the moment. Going floor by floor in a prison is a decent idea for shonen, but it's a shame the actual protagonist of the story is missing for it.

I'm basically losing interest. I don't think the whole Slur story arc is enough to sustain a manga for so many chapters, it should have transitioned to something else by now, in the same way that say, Naruto eventually stopped being preoccupied with Orochimaru and moved on to other villains.