One of Asano's most undervalued works, mainly because it's barely available anywhere.
Close to what he does in the "Isobeyan" bits of Dead Dead Demons DeDeDeDe Destruction, Heroes starts as a parody of convencional kids manga. A bunch of misfit heroes that defeat a Great Darkness. But this isn't a kids manga, this is Inio Asano, so things start, slowly, becoming more dark as you go through the chapters.
There's a double twist in the story: first, the childish hero story that becomes uncomfortably close to home, with cynical characters and real world issues being handled in that weird Fujio Fujiko-esque style. Then, as you think this
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May 30, 2016
I'm writting this because i started reading Horimiya and dropped it at chapter... 11 i think. This never happened to me before, but i also never read something so stupid to happen in a manga since Fairy Tail.
I'm not gonna spoil what but you can read said chapter and see what was it. The manga was fun, i laugh a lot when Miyamura said he was on his period (!) but the series itself had no direction and nothing happened. And then this shit, so forced, so useless, so put there just for drama but taking the story nowhere. This series looks good, the drawing ... |
