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7/1/2025, 9:01:39 PM
>>3973493
>But fundamentally, you can't make a weekly story...
Except he has. It's had its ups and downs like all works. But even at its lowest points nigewaka has still been a good manga. And at its highs it's great. And the most recent arcs have been good ones.
The idea that it totally went to shit is the cope position. It's the exact purityfagging I was talking about where the instant it deviated from the "correct" interpretation at all, the "history fans" declared it irredeemable garbage and have been pissing and shitting themselves over it ever since regardless of the actual quality of the manga.
Also, I strongly disagree with the idea that going althis would have made for a better story. Tokiyuki being a literal who that was crushed beneath the feet of a great man of history has been integral to the story, its themes, and the character writing. And Matsui has even managed to leverage it to build suspense around how it will end.
The only downsides to it being a relatively faithful historical story are very specific Matsui writing quirks. He tends to do smaller character arcs that build depth through volume and interconnectivity with one another. So everyone dropping dead constantly hampers that process. And having certain characters that are effectively off limits from writing as particularly flawed would be a big limitation on anyone, but especially on Matsui. If there weren't such a taboo around shitting on the imperial family, I'm sure Go-Daigo would have been an Asano-like antagonist. But even with those issues, he's still done a good job by leaning harder on characters that do work with his writing style like Sadamune and Uncle Yasuie.
I don't think it will end up being as good as AssClass overall. But that was always going to be a high bar to try and clear.
>>3973495
Nigewaka is actually pretty solid on the education front for being a shounen manga. The volume extras are almost all infodumps about the period from his historian consultants.
>But fundamentally, you can't make a weekly story...
Except he has. It's had its ups and downs like all works. But even at its lowest points nigewaka has still been a good manga. And at its highs it's great. And the most recent arcs have been good ones.
The idea that it totally went to shit is the cope position. It's the exact purityfagging I was talking about where the instant it deviated from the "correct" interpretation at all, the "history fans" declared it irredeemable garbage and have been pissing and shitting themselves over it ever since regardless of the actual quality of the manga.
Also, I strongly disagree with the idea that going althis would have made for a better story. Tokiyuki being a literal who that was crushed beneath the feet of a great man of history has been integral to the story, its themes, and the character writing. And Matsui has even managed to leverage it to build suspense around how it will end.
The only downsides to it being a relatively faithful historical story are very specific Matsui writing quirks. He tends to do smaller character arcs that build depth through volume and interconnectivity with one another. So everyone dropping dead constantly hampers that process. And having certain characters that are effectively off limits from writing as particularly flawed would be a big limitation on anyone, but especially on Matsui. If there weren't such a taboo around shitting on the imperial family, I'm sure Go-Daigo would have been an Asano-like antagonist. But even with those issues, he's still done a good job by leaning harder on characters that do work with his writing style like Sadamune and Uncle Yasuie.
I don't think it will end up being as good as AssClass overall. But that was always going to be a high bar to try and clear.
>>3973495
Nigewaka is actually pretty solid on the education front for being a shounen manga. The volume extras are almost all infodumps about the period from his historian consultants.
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