reffty_gag wrote:
short movies ?
didn't see it sorry, haven't watched any but I don't see anything inherently wrong so yeah submit
cipher academy---------
bad
Cipher academy is a manga by the writer of monogatari about the cipher academy, a japense high school where they teach cryptology and only cryptology and there is also a massive bounty hidden somewhere in the school.
with the previous manga, jin, I praised that they treat medicine with a lot of respect, with cipher academy, I can't say the same. We need to understand that cipher academy is basically a battle shounen, most of the manga is just different people fighting in "Cipher Battles". To add insult to injury it was published on shounen jump weekly. So while they mention cryptology terms, they don't really mean anything, it's not remotely accurate to reality, and in many ways it just works as a magic system for the fights.
This magic system isn't really consistent either, there aren't really any underlying rules to any of the fights, as each battle often has a gimmick attached which makes every fight completely unique, I consider this to be a bad thing, mainly, because someone winning or losing always feel like complete random bs, if anything can happen at any moment, there isn't really any tension, a character may be losing but you know the writer can just write whatever in that suddenly makes them win, it feels cheap
With most high school anime or manga, while there are a lot of people per class, they only really write 4-5 characters, rest are just in the background. Cipher academy goes "what if we tried writing EVERY SINGLE STUDENT", so like there are a gazillion characters and you forget who half of them are halfway through and no one really gets that much developement
Honestly I feel this may not be as much of a problem if you're reading it as it's being released and then you go to the discord for the manga and then just discuss that chapter for a whole week like it's most common in most battle shounens but binging it was pain
the character designs are cool tho
placed in D rank
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