Can we talk about the current state of the manga?
>bad guy: "I'm here to steal your power, admit defeat"
>good guys: "No"
>they fight, good guys win
>rinse and repeat for 50 chapters
This "admit defeat" thing is really getting old. A gauntlet of fights that play out exactly the same, with zero plot progression or any ending to this subplot in sight.

I only started reading it a month or two ago, and imo it started to lose steam by around chapter 90, with the alien invasion gauntlet
at this point I'm really just hoping for turbo granny to swoop in and save the day

>>280712115 (OP)
>watched latest episode
>remember the music ghosts arc
I feel like Okarun is already pretty good at multihitting. Why is he suddenly bad after the Evil Eye fight and needs to learn it better?

ts is mid af blud, bad plot, bad writing, bad villains

>>280712115 (OP)
shitshitshit

>>280712115 (OP)
it's a comic book for children. What exactly did you expect?

>>280712115 (OP)
Shounen doesn't have the balls to show the MCs lose or have any popular characters die in a major arc.

>>280714024
cuckcucuck

Chadchachad

>>280712115 (OP)
>Current
18+

>>280712115 (OP)
>Turbo Granny Arc
TG just wants to fuck (You) up.
Serpos want to harvest human junk cuz they're a race of incels.
>Acrobatic Silky Arc
Silky wants to reunite with her lost daughter.
>Serpo Arc
Serpos want to steal the good guy's powers.
>Cursed House Arc
Kinto family wants to sacrifice humans to their serpent god
Evil Eye just wants to fuck (You) up.
>Kaiju Arc
Vamola wants Okarun to mating press her
>Space Globalists Arc
Ayy lmaos want to invade earth, stealing powers is a side quest.
>Onbusuman Arc
Rin's childhood friend wants to guilt trip her to death.
>Danmara Arc
Fairy Tale Card wants to escape the board game.
>Kozuka Knives Arc
Saint-Germaine wants to steal powers.

In other news, OP is a giant faggot.

>>280712115 (OP)
Hopefully things will pick up once this mini Momo shit is finally over and the story goes back to Okarun and the main group.

>>280715145
Danmara was long as shit but balanced. Kozuka Knives is just a gauntlet of fights. Even though there is a goal, they keep getting sidetracked and are making next to no progress.

>>280715145
great
great
great
very good
very good
meh
meh
good
meh

>>280715301
>Hopefully things will pick up once the main story is finally over and the story goes back to the filler group
brainlet alert

>>280712115 (OP)
>shounen revolves around repetitive "fight of the week" plots
ground breaking news

>>280715479
All the good arcs have resolutions where all the set pieces and goofy side characters come together in a crazy yet satisfying way. All the mid arcs are ones where the conflict is resolved in a predictably generic shounen manner.

>>280715509
Sorry, but Okarun is the real protagonist of this series, and Momo’s just a plot device that’s been dragged out way past her usefulness.

>>280715871
lol, lmao even
thanks for proving me right, brainlet retard

>>280715145
B-but anon told me the series is all the same....

The manga's doing pretty good.

>>280715888
Imagine thinking that counts as a win. Try again when you’ve got an actual point, smartass.

ep3 intro was a let down for me. first shots are hard to make out. i know okarun grabs momo and makes a dash on the wall but only because i checked the manga pages last week out of curiosity. his spacial run around the room could have been way cooler than the animation. even the very first kick is unclear wtf was that right after the separation?

>>280712115 (OP)
>introduce new character who's either a sexy girl or goofy guy
>have to fight new character
>new character has a completely irrelevant 5 chapter sob story flashback
>new character joins the party
>new character gets their obligatory lovetrianglebait moment out of the way
>new character gets absolutely sidelined but still dragged around with the other 6+ pointless groupies for gags

>>280715301
I miss the comfy light stuff like Momo and Ken finding and bumping each other (around TurboGran's arc, the one with Segovia in Episode 5); Tatsu should bring that back a bit as breathers between or something.

How did the author of this manage manage to take literally none of the valuable lessons from Fujimoto? AI could generate a manga plot/characters like this easily.

>>280716393
I honestly have no fucking clue who you're talking about. All the side character have had multiple moments in the spot light after they were introduced. The only one who's been absent for a while now is Taro.

>>280712115 (OP)
In the last chapters, DanDadan is slowly transforming in PG-13 Gantz.
Adrenalinic scenes with every character having their moment, new stroy elements dropped every two pages, a chaotic and sometimes confused story.

>>280716786
Yeah, it’s been nonstop fighting lately, with maybe one or two chapters to breathe before the next one. I’m honestly so tired of it.

>>280712115 (OP)
I'm an animeonly, but I was very surprised when I realized Dandadan was a longrunning manga. The first season of the anime had the sort of quirky, manic energy that I usually associate with shorter (or at least short-ish) series, so I initially figured we'd be getting one more twelve-episode season. It's definitely not surprising to me that it's fallen into an unsatisfying/predictable formula if it's got 20+ volumes.

Plus, the Okarun/Momo romance was pushed so aggressively that, if they're still doing the "will they/won't they?" schtick after this long, I can only imagine it's gotten kind of old.

>>280716871
Tatsu is an NPC who loves MHA

>>280716786
>>280717081
People that say this always expose themselves as someone that just recently discovered the series with the anime. There’s a reason why 90% of DDD current fanbase didn’t know the series existed until the anime came out. All that shit at beginning with Okarun and Momo is BORING, watching 15 year olds hold hands and blush at each other 24/7 is garbage. They aren’t entertaining characters and their romance is generic as fuck. That’s why Tatsu has shifted the tone of the story to primarily action+world building and has put low priority on the romance slop.

>>280717396
Seriously.
By this far in the anime they already basically are there is no way it can go on that much longer

>>280713022
So that he could do it without going all out like he did in the first Evil Eye fight.

>>280717833
>All that shit at beginning with Okarun and Momo is BORING, watching 15 year olds hold hands and blush at each other 24/7 is garbage
Wrong
>They aren’t entertaining characters and their romance is generic as fuck
Wrong

>>280715993
Kaijuu had a bigger boost

>>280716871
Are you reading CSM Pt. 2?

>>280718199
nah it’s facts, nobody cared about this trash until the tiktok anime. 10 months ago Okarun and Momo were not known characters and their romance series itself was not popular.

>>280712115 (OP)
i thought the anime and manga were just for gooning to momo? shit my bad

>>280718373
It got an anime because the manga was selling well, dumbshit.
>tiktok anime
Yeah now I know I can discard your opinion safely.

>>280718417
It got an anime because it's a Jump title.

>>280718584
Right anon because all jump titles get an anime

>>280712115 (OP)
but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVG4xAAtPgI&t

Im trying to grind the anime but the dialogue is really bad
The characters either talk to the audience instead of acting like real characters, or they act exaggerated and talk nonsense that only serves the plot instead of what a character would actually say in that situation.

Im waiting for the presumably manga dialogue designed to awkwardly exposit walls of text to the reader to end so the characters can just be themselves.

>stupid boomers been hatin' on Dandadan OP1 and saying OP2 is better
>Creep's Nuts releases a song for a different anime instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmHqzxNIlc0
Call of the Night's S2 OP was supposed to be OUR OP!!! fr no cap

>>280718610
Holy based, new opinions for us Dandadanners to think!

>>280718584
I think most of us who have been in this hobby for more than a couple of years know very well being in Jump is not a guarantee of anime.

>>280718584
My favorite anime is Samurai 8

>>280718705
Psyren was canceled and yet there are rumors of a possible anime. World Trigger was selling like shit and still got an anime. Being in Jump helps a lot.

Its smug aura mocks me.

It's the fate of all shonenslop unfortunately, no matter how interesting the original premise was.

>>280717833
>That’s why Tatsu has shifted the tone of the story to primarily action+world building
If it were mostly worldbuilding with some action mixed in, I wouldn’t mind. But right now it’s like 80% nonstop fighting with barely any real development, and what little there is mostly goes to characters on Okarun’s side. That’s why I want this arc to end already so we can get back to the more interesting stuff.

How long has Momo been smol?

>>280719144
Why are you guys so obsessed with character/plot development? Who said every piece of entertainment needs these things? Can't a manga be focused only in creative action and funny interactions?

Its a comic made for children, anon. Its tiktok shounen. What the fuck were you excepting?

>>280719386
>why do you want to have a decent narrative in a story?

>>280719386
>Why are you guys so obsessed with character/plot development?

Aira is the only decent character in this abysmal series. She should become a mushoku tensei girl instead

>>280719460
>>280719488
>Year 2025 and there are still people that think plot is everything that matters in a work of art
I can't even imagine your brains when faced with manga like Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Aruku Hito or even Dr. Slump

>>280719607
All of those three have a better overarching plotline and worldbuilding than DanDanDan. They also look visually much better. Good examples of actual storylines, anon!

>>280719607
All of those have better pacing than Dandadan.

>>280719699
>They also look visually much better
Now hang on, Dandadan's got one thing going for it at least, and that's its visuals.

Momo... so cute...

>>280719699
The sad thing is that DDD has potential for decent worldbuilding. Instead of the characters traveling the galaxy to fight the aliens, the aliens come to vanilla Japan. Instead of traveling to Hell to fight ghost, they fight the ghost in “empty space”.

>>280715145
>Vamola wants Okarun to mating press her
He should have if Vamola wasn't unlucky to share a manga with Momo

>>280720175
He still wouldn’t have done it. Okarun is a beta with low testosterone and doesn’t have a high sex drive.

>>280719699
They are not plot-driven at all, are you dumb?
>>280719828
That's a better complaint. The pacing.

I am reading DDD in batches now, I stopped during the basketball part, returned like last week, and will probably do the same.
DanDaDan is better read in bulk

>>280712115 (OP)
you sound like an absolute fuckin' faggot

>>280720175
It's an important thing. Okarun basically gets what he's always wanted: a hot alien girl who wants to jump his bones. But he's so devoted to Momo that he's evolved beyond a petty desire like that.

>>280720421
>DanDaDan is better read in bulk
I agree but I also don't like this kind of argument because it's a series, it's made to be read weekly, chapter by chapter

>>280720557
It's published weekly because that's how this kind of series has traditionally been done but a lot of manga are written for the tankobon more than the individual chapter.

>>280720557
Oh im not defending it, but weekly series rarely have satisfying individual chapters, its just the way it is.

>>280720527
Sounds like very cheesy and surface level storytelling

>>280720644
It's not, it's embedded in the established characters and shown without being told.

>>280720527
>Okarun basically gets what he's always wanted: a hot alien girl who wants to jump his bones
That’s not what he wanted. He just wanted friends, before Momo he couldn’t make friends so he fantasized about aliens being real so he could be friends with them.

>>280720585
They are planned as volumes or arcs but the chapters are designed to work individually. Plus and WSJ do weekly rankings and use view meters for a reason.

>>280720745
Regardless, it was an alien and a pretty girl, a combination which should have been irresistible.

>Okarun calls another girl pretty
>she ragequits
Why is she like this?

>>280720054
When was the last time a woman looked at you like this?

>>280722151
4 years ago.

>>280719386
Mostly because it seems to untrained people like it should be fairly easy. Drawing as well as Tatsu seems like it should be properly super-rare, so just add a plot people care about right, how hard is that

>>280722964
I personally care about the plot, though I think the pacing could be better.

>>280723086
I think he obviously has a less serious case of Sakamoto Days disease where he just throws out set pieces to occupy the characters without having a good feel for the reader experience. Nobody on Earth got any catharsis from throwing frozen sharks into a hurricane to cool it off.

>>280723293
Yeah I think that mini-arc was a misstep. We already knew some bullshit was gonna interrupt the hammer quest, as it did this chapter, so it just felt like wasting time.

>>280723332
That said, it did confirm that the Serpos are still after Momo, so now we're heading towards a three-way clash between them, the Kur/CSG, and the gang.

>>280712115 (OP)
Is the author advancing the storyline?

>>280723476
Very slowly. Momo's been small for how many chapters now?

>>280715145
He's talking about the Kozuka knives arc specifically you mouth breathing moron, and he's got an excellent point. It literally has been going for almost 50 chapters now, and it's now really dragging on - it should have been resolved long ago but Tatsu is cramming everything and a kitchen sink into this arc.
The worst thing is that, reminder, this is also a romcom manga in addition to a battle shounen, and we had a confession at the end of Danmara arc followed by 50 chapters of blueballing.
By every fucking metric this arc has been dragging for too long, I just rolled my eyes when they arrived at the fucking temple at last just to be dragged away into another bullshit. The hype ran out months ago, this arc needs to end, if this fucking ninja shit isn't the last of it I might drop it until it's over. The only saving grace is that they manage to keep up with the release schedule.

>>280723506
>Momo's been small for how many chapters now?
39 and counting. Momo turned small in chapter 163 on July 29 - 2024, almost 1 year ago.

>>280723990
>coming up on a full year of tiny Momo
Grim. I have a feeling Tatsu is trying to delay the re-confession (and presumable reciprocation) as long as possible so that the main thrust of the manga, the will they/won't they of Momo and Okarun, won't come to an end. Personally I'm hoping they get together and we get to explore them as an actual couple.

>>280712115 (OP)
Its a shonen what do you expect. They all devolve into this

>>280712115 (OP)
Does she ever admit defeat to the cock?

>>280724077
Oh he is milking this shit
The real test for romcom writers is how (and if) they write the aftermath of the confession.
I feel much more respect to those who continue a coherent story after the confession instead of just crashing their manga to an abrupt end after the confession takes place.

>>280724266
Supposedly he read 100 shojo manga to prepare for this so I hope at least one of those had a satisfying post-confession story.

>>280724221
To the emotional cock, yes

Don't interrupt Momo's longing-for-Okarun time.

>>280712115 (OP)
It's so boring lately I keep forgetting to read the chapters

>>280724915
https://files.catbox.moe/ja9x4p.jpg

>>280725190
Momo with Okarun 100%

Scary Momo