#huppa reads g manga

[tanukifucker91]

i didn't take a lot of caps reading the g manga but please look at tokoha here

[tanukifucker91]

after i finished star road asuka i read the first 2 and a half volumes of the g manga

it’s really hard to say something quick and concise about it because at every turn i’m comparing it to the anime, but honestly i thought it was quite good. it’s hard to talk about it because while it's certainly different from the anime i’d still say the characters feel more similar to their anime counterparts compared to the cfv reboot/manga and the og anime. there's a few parts that are almost identical to scenes in the anime, and while i feel that the reboot and the og anime are tonally different the g manga kind of doesn’t feel that way at all.

the characters feel a lot more developed from the get go, which is one of those things i don't like at all but that you just gotta deal with because how much shorter a bi-monthly manga will be compared to an original anime series. there’s some scenes here and there though that i really liked, in terms of how chrono, tokoha and shion become friends... they’ve managed to include kumi a whole lot more too which is really great. especially how the friendship between chrono and tokoha is portrayed i like a whole lot, it feels like they’re more consciously trying to understand each other and be friends from the get-go which is quite heartwarming. chrono and shion instead have the rivalry between them played up a lot which i’m less... enthusiastic about because like... in the anime the way shion keeps comparing himself to chrono is literally something that gets in the way of their friendship. i get that shion in the manga is more mature so he can be more responsible about it or whatever i guess. i just think it’s a tired anime/manga trope that the anime did something interesting with so when the manga plays it straight it feels weird.

one thing that feels weird that i didn’t even realize until i sat down to write this is that shion and tokoha get a lot more introspection than chrono does. like, a lot more. where i am we still don’t know much about chrono at all. there’s a few throw away lines in the first chapter and as of volume 3 mikuru appears briefly and we know he lives w her but that's it. makes me wonder if his backstory is gonna be radically different or something... which’d make sense, honestly.

there’s the manga original antagonist, ayato riku. i quite like him actually. he’s funny. basically he feels like “shit guys we need some sort of rival or something but itou akira that slow-ass mf didn't finish the og manga yet so we can use ibuki and we can't have a whole regional tournament arc just to introduce kanzaki and them so uhhh what character can we throw together real quick” except they actually succeeded in making a pretty fun character. tbh idk where to start with him, but he’s funny but still intimidating enough and i like how he’s not a bad person perse but still clashes with the other characters and obstructs things just by being himself. he also stalks chrono and stuff (we couldn’t let go off that plotline now, could we) and lies to mikuru about them being friends and shows up at his school (unclear if he actually enrolled or not) and also they might live together now (i'm not sure how serious he was about that). he’s only been around for so long but i am honestly really curious what they’ll do with him.

the fights are p long and thoroughly covered, which is nice. the cards are old though, like old even when the chapters came out. there’s only like 2 original manga units that i can think of which is honestly way too little to switch things up. like they could have given riku his own gc cards but they didn’t, probs bc they were already getting more than enough support. the chapters end with these little deck info pages and it's cool that people can like, read the manga and then build those exact decks with cards that exist and can be bought at the time of the chapter’s release. in terms of the enjoyment of the manga itself though i think most ppl would agree w me that a mix of old and new cards is better.

anyway 4 manga tankobons have been released so far but only the first 3 are available on kindle so that kinda sucks since it feels like stuff is just about to get started. idk when vol 4 is gonna be available or when it even came out but buying physical copies is so annoying so i hope it’ll be available soon enough