Shikigami

This mangaka clearly has a lot of potential in terms of action, art, and comedy, but I don't think this one-shot is anything special. It moves far too quickly for for what it wants to do, using it's space really poorly. This has the unintended side effect of making the characters, setting, and premise feel extremely generic. Our main character has a few quirky qualities, but nothing that hasn't been seen in 90% of other Shonen manga. The comedy feels solid with great art, but the pacing is so fast that none of it really lands. The expressions of the characters sold the comedy betterthan the actual jokes themselves. I look forward to seeing what this mangaka makes in the future, but this feels like a poor man's Kaiju No 8. If it gets serialized I hope it goes through some major changes.