I like Kommamura demonstrating intelligence in battle by assessing everything and Bambietta is cool. And also Werewolves just kinda kick ass. But yeah him being human makes a lot of sense since why else put the armor back on him?
Naruto was eh. I liked how Kishi flat out put the characters in the flashbacks and it was all sufficiently creepy. The resolution moved a bit too quickly though. Would have liked to see more of the tug of war. Kinda like how the Kamehameha Showdown between Cell and Gohan worked. Would have been more fun that more of the internal stuff.
One Piece shattered by suspension of disbelief hard. 800 years without war? I'll bet. It's really just there to make us sympathetic to the Riku family and feel bad when the King is controlled but that is such a ludicrous notion I felt forced out of the story to just ponder how that could be. I mean the Nefertari were good rulers(the best in the series so far from a moral standpoint) but 800 years of peace? Lol no.
That said Doflamingo is sufficiently assholish. Too bad it is kinda ruined since he is tricking an idiot.
Because it had Minato confronting Obito, and solid dialog and good art.
One Piece had a bunch of busy pages (art-wise) where outside the law fight, nothing happened, and people decided to do stuff I thought they'd already decided to do. Actually, I guess looking it over, the Law stuff was pretty good, so maybe put it on the north end of the gap, but I don't have much emotional investment in this story arc.
Two very different series. One's about "Just as planned!", the other's about fighting against almost-impossible odds, victory being snatched from defeat and defeat from victory.
I would say the second half of DN is definitely weaker.
"To all visitors from Transylvania looking for the head of Voivode Dracula: Yes, we have it. Yes, he's dead. No, you cannot see it. No, he will not return and invade you again. It has been over thirty years, please stop pestering us."
If you liked Death Note, you might like Spiral: The Bonds of Reason, or Record of the Fallen Vampire. They're by a manga author who loves "Just As Planned," stuff (with RotFV extending it to battle tactics).
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