With this manga being canceled, I found it fitting to rewrite my review.
Metallica Metalluca had good promise. It never reached it's potential.
The art is what you'd expect from a shonen manga. Inventive monsters, nice background and good character design. It's nothing too beautiful, but it looks good.
The characters, although they might be a bit standard, are fun. Doesn't change the fact that it's still a goofy main characters, a sexy girl and a wimpy sidekick.
The story. Where to begin about the story. A boy with a dream, having to take an exam first. It's cliché. At first I thought it would pick up, get its
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 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Metarika Metaruka, Metalica Metaluca, Juuoumujin Japanese: メタリカメタルカ InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 3
Chapters: 20
Status: Finished
Published: May 17, 2010 to Sep 13, 2010
Demographic:
Shounen
Serialization:
Shounen Jump (Weekly) Authors:
Mizuno, Teruaki (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #186182 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #7085
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Aug 11, 2017
Metallica Metalluca (or as I like to call it "The Thing That Should Not Be") is a shounen manga by amateur mangaka Teruaki Mizuno. It was the mangaka's first published work that he released in 2010. Usually, the debut work of an artist is their most important, since it can be very hard to Escape from a work if it turns out to be Some Kind of Monster. It can leave you Broken, Beat and Scarred both mentally and critically. Sadly, this is exactly what happened to Teruaki's debut manga, which ended up being like Cyanide to his career.
Now I'm not one to jump ... 
Apr 6, 2011
I liked the manga to be honest. I'm not the kinda guy to get that turned off of cliches. It looked like it had the potential to take off, but WSJ isn't exactly a place where sub-par manga gets a free ride.
In my honest opinion I think the author should start the manga from scratch with another publisher with new ideas. I think it was just a rookie mangaka who screwed up and needs a second chance. There was definitely potential in the manga, I think anyone could see that, but the cliches killed it before it had a chance ... |
