Zipman!!

This series had a ton of potential but from what other reviews have said and what Ive seen online the series apparently got cancelled. This shows from around chapter 5-6 and the pacing after this point is utterly terrible. This is probably not the authors fault due to cancellation but this ruins the fights and story progression. The pacing seemed rushed from the start but it didnt get to the point that the story started to suffer until around this 5th chapter point. The artwork is honestly incredible, with cool action scenes and a lot of creative character and weapon designs. The author was an assitantfor Oda and Horikoshi and the inspiration is obvious once you know this. The artwork looks like MHA mixed with the unique character and weapon design from One piece. The originality and creativity of honestly everything in the artwork is super cool, but falls short because of the rushed pacing. If this series would have followed the same plot over like 40-60ish chapters it would have been a solid 6 or 7 out of 10. I could go on and on but overall the pacing just ruins the cool and unique ideas behind the story. Spoilers now - More on pacing - THeres a lot that just doesnt get explained because the pacing is so fast. The backstory of Steel-X and the team is glossed over. The story also just completely skips over Cheena discovering that Kaname is Zipmann, which could have been a cool reveal but is just explained in 2 pages as Kaname joins the team to help fight against the chairman and his goons. All of the fights last less than a chapter, each of which could have been at least 3-4 chapters and actually had plot progession and background on making Zipmann grow in strength. There is also just bare explanations of many plot points, attacks, and how the tech behind all of the mechs work. Again, this is due to the pacing and story being cancelled but even 10-15 more chapters in total for the series could have allowed it to be a solid short run shonen. Overall - 5/10 just for the artwork and originality, could have been much better with fleshed out storylines but like I said like 50 times in my review the pacing and cancellation of the series forced it to skip over many story points, backstories, emotion, fights, and explanations of anything that is happening. Classic SJ series being cancelled, what can you do

This manga is created by the author of Yoakemono and unfortunately shares many of its flaws with it. In short, this is a manga that doesn't give enough screentime to any of its characters to really develop any particular emotions for them, but has outwardly nice art to look at and pretty solid character design. The main protagonist could be interesting if everything lined up correctly, but we aren't given enough background information on him to care beyond very minor details. The character personalities are very weak, which was also a problem in Yoakemono. Outside of the protagonist, nobody has enough screentime to feel any emotionfor them, and too many characters are introduced too quickly and then removed from the equation to really process them or be interested in them. Having interesting designs is great, but when the reader isn't really encouraged to care about the characters or get invested in them and their success, it becomes hard to care about what's happening to them. The plot goes careening off a cliff extremely quickly. I read something from someone else-that it almost feels like the author got bored of their own plot or the editors interfered greatly, potentially an extremely early cancellation notice. And I think I agree with this sentiment. The whiplash from chapter 4 to 5 to 6...I genuinely have no idea what happened. Everything sped up 500% and it's extremely rough. Nothing really makes sense after that point, and while you can see what general story beats the manga would've hit if it wasn't axed, it's still downright brutal to read. It's overall not interesting to read and it's even worse when it feels like you hit the fast forward button so even during the big heroic moments everything feels...whatever? The worst thing the manga does is just not capture any interest. I'll use the description I used to describe Yoakemono: "Oh. Okay. I guess this event is happening right now." Because that's how it feels. Things are just happening for whatever reason and you're supposed to care about them, but the plot isn't really able to get from point A to point B in a logical way. This is a big part of why everything feels whatever. Like, okay, this thing happened. Alright. Now this thing happened. This thing is currently happening, and you should probably feel an emotion about it. Definitely a pass. Maybe look up the character designs, they're overall very appealing.

First of all I love the first chapter, it's an amazing start. It tells you what you need to know in an entertaining way as well as jumping quickly into the plot. You don't feel confused and everything is clear from the start. It's entertaining and makes you want to continue reading. I am someone who tends to find first chapters to be either boring or confusing, so seeing how great it started just made me confused as to how this didn't get popular. The mangaka Yusaku Shibata was an assistant for both One Piece and My Hero Academia, this was pretty obvious from lookingat his art which has a few hints from both of these mangas. I personally found these hints to be very subtle, it's not really something that you think about while reading. The characters were pretty interesting, more specifically the main character and his twin brother. The main character, Kaname, is strong, hardworking and determined. He is scary looking and his stupidity makes him oblivious to how terrified everyone are of him. His goal was to be the main character, the hero, from his favorite show. While his younger brother, Koshiro, on the other hand is calm, a genius and cunning. He is adored by all and very well know for his inventions. This lead to Koshiro being targeted. Koshiro and Kaname are the opposite in a lot of things, yet they share one similar goal that they've competed in since they were kids. They are eachothers biggest rival. Though one trait they share is that both of them can be a bit hotheaded at times. Now the one character that I do have a problem with is Cheena the love interest and childhood friend of the brothers. She is a extremely stereotypical female lead, no personality, constantly gets into trouble and getting kidnapped resulting in the male leads having to save her, being unable to defend herself despite being able to fight, always being the one to worry about the male leads health, etc. Now this manga is cancelled and that is something you could tell in the story because the pacing shifts. This manga did have potential and I am actually a bit sad by the fact that it was cancelled. It would have been interesting to see a manga about a boy being inside of his brother (yes I had to word it that way), in order to fight the bad guys and figure out why they wanted to get rid of Koshiro. Overall it was an enjoyable read.