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Sousei no Taiga is surely a refreshing read.

I hate serious historical manga that goes in long dialogues and historical details or the survival types that won't fail ro make you feel gloomy for the entire day after reading it but thankfully sousei no taiga manages to be anything but boring.

1.story
premise is simple so on chapter one we get right into it, and one thing i appreciate the most is the use of show-don't-tell at this stage of the manga. the characters don't dwell on the where and why they are there but rather let it sink in gradually which is a natural flow.
things seem ... to keep that natural flow throughout which I like i like when stories take a logical path it just makes sense.
I must admit that I am more interested in the day to day lives of humans who have to live with mammoths than i am in the conflict of racism having traveled back the the paleolithic era. at first i thought it was just a simple territorial dispute but it is now much grander than that and I'm this close to getting sick of it.

2. Art
Isn't vagabond level or anything but it didn't fail to capture, however, the absolute spookiness that each and everyone of our squad members felt when faced with the sight of the world as it was millions of years ago. when they faced an extinct species of trees and animals the author doesn't need to show me their scared faces because it is presented in a way that even the reader feels like they're right there in the moment i do appreciate that.

3. characters
the cast is pretty diverse in personalities but also in skin colour i do appreciate that. I am not sure why i feel, though that the characters interactions seem to fade more and more as the battles become more intense (that also makes sense story wise but it's still a shame)
I like the use of certain archetype, like chihiro being the funny cheerful girl, and riku being the older brother almost mom of the group. but my favourite by far is namuru who seems to have a lot of layers to his character i wish we explored it a bit more but well.
all in all i want a spin off of namuru with his family and for tiari and taiga to be married and have lots of kids i'm not asking for much, really. jk

as for the protagonist taiga i don't like how easy everything comes to him and it feels like the story is leading him rather than the other way around.

4.overall concept
I must admit that I am more interested in the day to day lives of humans who have to live with mammoths than i am in the conflict of racism having traveled back the the paleolithic era. at first i thought it was just a simple territorial dispute but it is now much grander than that and I'm this close to getting sick of it.

very interesting and fun even though it could be more, it is enough.