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KoB posted:I'd say way too many plot threads were just dropped, either he got the chance to end it or it was cancelled. I don't think it's much of a secret that he was unsure on how to continue the story in a meaningful way or just lost interest a couple of years ago. Maybe he thought the OVAs would renew interest but they were crap sooooooo
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I would have liked to see more of China and the Phoenix Alliance. Thinking about it. It would have been fun to have Kenichi go to Thailand with Apa and to China with Ma or Ranka. For as diverse as some of the characters are Kenichi leaves Japan like twice.
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Guyver posted:I would have liked to see more of China and the Phoenix Alliance. Thinking about it. It would have been fun to have Kenichi go to Thailand with Apa and to China with Ma or Ranka. For as diverse as some of the characters are Kenichi leaves Japan like twice. It might have helped if the YAMI stuff had been kept as more of a background element - something Kenichi was aware of, but rarely ever got to be directly involved in because, you know, dangerous and stuff. Which whilst that was the case for a good chunk of the series, by the end I can't easily recall that many major fights where the Masters weren't present and weren't ultimately stealing the show. Some world hopping to deal with things that the Masters are too busy/too overkill for would have been interesting for showing off the martial arts of the world, whilst also lending to the 'third world war' angle that the series tried for later on. Or heck, the Phoenix Alliance stuff would have at least made sense by sheer volume. Kensei was supposed to have several thousand students - an easy enough excuse for YAMI to try and take it over. But yeah, I'm curious on Matsuena's new project. Apparently the same issue Kenichi ends will be the one carrying the announcement. Another martial art series maybe? Something more sci-fi? Fantasy? Slice of life?
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Just hopefully it's not a full series based on that weird 3dcg fantasy thing he made.
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I expected the series to end with this arc but not in such a rushed manner. Definitely getting the feeling that either the author lost interest or the series was put on the chopping block by editors. It's a shame because it seems like there was a lot of ground left to cover, and a lot of subplots aren't going to be resolved.
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Could it be a non-ending? Like I never read Dragonball Z back when, nor did I bother with Naruto when the Shippuden jump happened, but is it within the realm of possibility that it's all "HSDK is ending! Get ready for HSDK: Shippuden Z starting next month!" Because, yeah, it does feel kind of like a lot of hanging threads are still there.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Could it be a non-ending? Like I never read Dragonball Z back when, nor did I bother with Naruto when the Shippuden jump happened, but is it within the realm of possibility that it's all Dragonball never actually switched to Z. Dragonball Z is exactly like Shippuden in that it was a arbitrary line they made to distinguish two parts of the same material, complete with a time skip. quote:It might have helped if the YAMI stuff had been kept as more of a background element - something Kenichi was aware of, but rarely ever got to be directly involved in because, you know, dangerous and stuff. Which whilst that was the case for a good chunk of the series, by the end I can't easily recall that many major fights where the Masters weren't present and weren't ultimately stealing the show. Some world hopping to deal with things that the Masters are too busy/too overkill for would have been interesting for showing off the martial arts of the world, whilst also lending to the 'third world war' angle that the series tried for later on. Or heck, the Phoenix Alliance stuff would have at least made sense by sheer volume. Kensei was supposed to have several thousand students - an easy enough excuse for YAMI to try and take it over. I honestly kind of preferred the manga when it was grounded in smaller problems. Its easy to forget that apart from connections that really only showed up at the end of the arc, Odin was largely just a gang of delinquent students that hated Kenichi because of 'reasons'. I do wish they'd kept that trend going after Odin, having most of the fights be relatively low key and perhaps even without the risk of death involved.
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Caros posted:
this is pretty much why I went from loving the series to death, to just kind of passively following it to see if it would ever end. That, and the fight scenes suddenly exploding into naked grotesques.
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LvK posted:this is pretty much why I went from loving the series to death, to just kind of passively following it to see if it would ever end. Yeah, me too. I actually skipped most of the big tournament arc my first time around partly because of this. It's just frustrating because I find an incremental manga like that to be very entertaining. Perhaps it's just me but we'll done training arcs are really interesting to me, and a manga that is nothing but training for the next challenge in interesting ways is far more interesting than save the world plot #47. That isn't to say there can't be threats. Loss of self worth, injuries etc. Hell, even if Kenichi had made a pledge never to lose could give fights some personal edge without making them to the death, and giving a constant reason not for the Masters to intervene directly. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of what the series did, it just lost some of that charm when it tried to go big.
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...Ha. Of course, talk about how they could've done more world hopping, and the idea gets included in the final chapter. So yeah, obviously rushed again, with the final chapter offscreening a lot of the return to normalcy. Apparently Ken created the manga (or a novel version of it) in universe and won the Naoki award, and the final scene goes with the obvious answer we've probably been expecting of the series for a while. Admittedly, saying 'that's a story for another time' is fairly standard, but it does kinda feel like it invites the possibility of returning to the series some day, even just with one offs, to perhaps flesh things out or show off some of an older Kenichi's adventures.
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Sep 13, 2014 11:59
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Last Chapter http://www.mangapanda.com/historys-strongest-disciple-kenichi/583
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Sep 13, 2014 15:45
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Good to see that Niijima achieved his dream.
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Sep 13, 2014 17:10
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It was a fine last chapter though I feel that it needed a few more chapters before this one. Silly how the married picture obscures his and Miu's face. I liked seeing crab hair suddenly show up in Siegs band. Sieg is easily one of the best characters in the story.
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Sep 13, 2014 17:28
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So that happened. That ending is so goddamned abrupt it feels like it should be followed by 'rocks fell and everyone died.'
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Sep 13, 2014 18:06
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If you are going to have an abrupt ending like that to a story that could have lasted as long as this one just skip to the end part of Kenichi becoming a master. I don't need to know what everyone was doing one year later.
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The ending wasn't terrible and I'm glad the series ending hasn't dragged out like naruto's did, but part of me wonders if the Matsuena just got bored with the work and wanted to move on to something else.
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Monaghan posted:The ending wasn't terrible You must have the lowest goddamn standards. It was literally a one chapter checklist at the end of an abruptly ended arc. That was one of the worst endings I've ever read. So the entire Eternal Sunset thing was to launch one missile? And none of the big villains even get climactic fights? And we never even see the full design for the head of the weapon division? And the One Shadow Nine Fists are still running around doing ... some stupid poo poo? It just reeks of a poor author getting bored.
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Caros posted:So that happened. Replace Poochie with Kenichi and... 
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Sep 14, 2014 01:37
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I think you mean ""became a master" not "died"
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Caros posted:So that happened.
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Darth TNT posted:Silly how the married picture obscures his and Miu's face. Author was trying to keep it vague if he really married her. Notice his wife has way shorter hair like the other masters daughter, the mouse photobombs the photo, ect. I have no idea why he did it, it's not like he wasn't already sort of dating Miu by the end.
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I, for one, am glad the author didn't try to make me care at the end after successfully making me not care for over a year now.
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NutritiousSnack posted:Author was trying to keep it vague if he really married her. Notice his wife has way shorter hair like the other masters daughter, the mouse photobombs the photo, ect. I assume the brown hair girl wearing Miu's barrette in the lower photo was confirmation enough.
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NutritiousSnack posted:Author was trying to keep it vague if he really married her. Notice his wife has way shorter hair like the other masters daughter, the mouse photobombs the photo, ect. Renka gets her own separate photo, and the little girl in the picture having Miu's appearance but Kenichi's hair colour is an obvious giveaway. Its likely because it means he doesn't have to draw an adult Kenichi or Miu for differing facial designs - just get one's arm up to Sakaki levels, and the other in a wedding dress, and thus easy implication they grew up without having to figure out how they grew up.
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I am pretty disappointed we didn't get to see Kenichi's head on a hulking 8-foot master body.
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Nilbop posted:You must have the lowest goddamn standards. It was literally a one chapter checklist at the end of an abruptly ended arc. That was one of the worst endings I've ever read. Nah, it's an epilogue and not a real chapter. Two weeks ago he said it was going to be ab epilogue and lo and behold it's a 7 years later where is everyone (including some minor characters) now? For an epilogue it wasn't bad, for a chapter set after this last arc it was horrid. Astro Nut posted:Renka gets her own separate photo, and the little girl in the picture having Miu's appearance but Kenichi's hair colour is an obvious giveaway. Yeah it really seems lazy.
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Sindai posted:I am pretty disappointed we didn't get to see Kenichi's head on a hulking 8-foot master body. I'm pretty disappointed that we didn't see Kenichi's head on a 3-foot-tall sex offender stereotype
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Darth TNT posted:Yeah it really seems lazy. Shigure x Kenichi is the OTP, anyway.
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Kokoro Wish posted:Shigure x Kenichi is the OTP, anyway. I have no problem with this.
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Kokoro Wish posted:Shigure x Kenichi is the OTP, anyway. Kenichi x Buddha Statues
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Did Renka's outfit get even more ridiculous than before? Or has that how it's always been and I just forgot since her clothes usually explode in seconds.
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There was. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-09-13/kenichi-manga-shun-matsuena-draws-3-one-shots/.78739
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Harry posted:Did Renka's outfit get even more ridiculous than before? Or has that how it's always been and I just forgot since her clothes usually explode in seconds. Its the same outfit she's had for a while now (namely, her second), but you also have to factor in how Matsuena's artstyle has changed over the last few years. Looks like he's testing the waters for potential new ideas though, with at least one of them looking like to be an inverse of how Kenichi started, with a high school student clearly displaying some above the norm athletic skills. As to the other two though, not a clue.
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New manga? It's good to see the mangaka moving on to completely different things.
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Read up to this page, went 'nope' and closed the tab. I'm tired of this mangaka's pervy bullshit and without the investment I had in early HSDK I've found I'm not willing to put up with it.
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Wow that was terrible. Cookie cutter, by the pound generic. GhostofJohnMuir posted:Read up to this page, went 'nope' and closed the tab. Yeah he's very proud of that shot. It happens three more times (or was it four? im not checking again.)
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Well, not-Kenichi and not-Miu will probably not be seen again. I thought the author would have the restraint of not having clothes being torn to shreds in the one-shot but I guess that was too much to ask (and it doesn't really bother me, it is just so low-effort). Anyways, "My neighbors, the ninjas" suuuuucks.
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trucutru posted:Well, not-Kenichi and not-Miu will probably not be seen again. Yeah I'm really hoping this isn't his next project. I did kind of like the way the kid talked though (or how it was translated), reminded me of Kenshin.
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Kenichi was a remake of some other comic he wrote. This dude is just incapable of any additional character designs or personalities. I guess this time kenichi has a sword and there's ghosts or whatever if you're into that kinda thing?
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