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The fact that this series is being obviously rushed due to a bunch of butthurt Japanese Jump readers getting angry over the very concept that plagiarism is being seen from a much more complex perspective than any other manga would ever touch and that Jump is complicit in pushing this series to be canned as quickly as possible to prevent from some sort of huge backlash shows the very worst of the Jump system, where even if a work is one of the most refreshing, impactful, and instantly gripping ones we've seen in the magazine since The Promised Neverland started 4 years ago, if you ... write anything off the grid of what's accepted of traditional values, then you're silenced and debased by ravenous children and 2channers who'd be much more content with reading 60 more chapters of Black Clover sludge.

Our main character Sasaki makes a difficult and deliberated decision to copy the material of a Jump series ten years into the future. He recognizes how morally obtuse the mere concept is, by taking away the brilliance of the future in order to survive in the present. When the original author Aino finds out that some storyboards she made in her room were improved on and released by another author, she searches for him to become proper rivals with him.

The conflict eats Sasaki from the inside, forcing him to put in effort to live up to the manga's future run, and when certain events unfold, he is forced to take on the stead of the series in order to still bring to this world the pure brilliance of this genius manga, even if it's not his own, not because he wants the credit to own the series (as he even denies taking any of the profits of the manga himself), but because he sees how it affects those who read it. It is the truest expression of why we read manga; to give us comfort, to give us something to look forward to every week even when our lives are monotonous or lonely.

The entire manga makes it clear, multiple times, that Sasaki is not a selfish person, and even if he makes a mistake by plagiarizing the future work, he still puts in his 100% just to hopefully live up to the real thing. He struggles and forces himself to become better and to help Aino in any way he can, to sacrifice his own energy to make things right. And he does it for the same goal as the original author Aino, to make a manga that everybody can love, something perfect and beautiful and hard-hitting, and ultimately it seems to show that these desires can become carnal and unhealthy, like Icarus flying too close to the sun.

Manga has the potential to make you think, and although plenty of Jump readers have probably never had the experience of having to think very hard to consider the actions of Goku or Naruto or Luffy, Time Paradox Ghostwriter is provocative, quite possibly ahead of its time, and forces readers to postulate the actual harm of plagiarism and the difference between intent and action-- the whole thing is grey.

Please give it a read (the whole manga is bound to end up only 2 volumes long anyways), and don't let history forget about this series.