Psyren
Alt Names: | -サイレン- サイレン PSYREN-サイレン- PSYЯEN |
Author: | Iwashiro Toshiaki |
Artist: | Iwashiro Toshiaki |
Genres: | Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Mystery Psychological Romance Sci-fi Shounen Supernatural |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Psyren follows the adventures of Ageha Yoshina, a high school student who is chosen by Nemesis Q as a participant in the Psyren games. The games take place in a world known initially as Psyren, which is revealed to be the real world a decade in the future. Ageha and his friends attempt to alter the future and save the world from becoming Psyren. (Source/Wiki: psyren.wikia.com) |
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86 Comments
I have passed on it before because I believed it was a simple survival themed manga.
What I have found on the contrary, was a manga that kept me on the edge of my seat for two days straight, from Chapter 1 to 145/6. I would have finished it earlier, but I had to sleep.
The pace may seem too fast and previous readers have mentioned a rushed or clichéd ending but IMO, it is perfect. It's plot is constantly moving and there's almost no filler content at all. Character development isn't a lot but is enough to be remarkable.
Its ending...
It's been a long time since I've been swept off my feet by a manga like this. The tension and excitement had me trembling and is still with me as I type this. Psyяen pulled me in and I was with the entire cast for the whole thing. I'll never regret reading this and I doubt you will too.
So fuck you WSJ. Iwashiro-sensei, you should just move on to another magazine already.
This has a plot, you just missed it. Read the summary. The plot of this manga is so transparent, I'm surprised you're taking issue with its supposed nonexistence. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Your other issues with with manga are personal opinions and I have no problem with them... unless you claim them as fact.
You know there's always a reason why a particular series popularity fall or increase. Even a crappy plot can be popular if its interesting enough*cough~Bleach*. Psyren failed because it neither had a plot or elements to make it interesting enough.
I thought it was good, and honestly it's not like they just threw in the space monster ending: they mentioned that meteorite right away. Just because there weren't hundreds of chapters of school life and minor mid-boss fights and training montages, does that make it bad? I certainly don't think so.
I know, I have seen a questionnaire myself before. However, I never heard of anything like being 4th getting a random placement. By that logic, you're basically saying even series that polls well are being placed randomly at a place where people tend to ignore. Obviously they place series that is doing well to a place where it could gain attention. Examples: New Series are on the first placement all the time to give them more attention. Another example are covers, they give them to series worth giving more attention to.
Do you actually think Jump magazine readers are constantly growing? Not all thing goes as planned, including the age targets. Last year, Shueisha just had a problem of circulation decrease, meaning the buyers decreased. The buyers of the magazine are still the same buyers even after 5 years. Look at Jump's lineup, there are a lot of old generation mangas there. You don't expect a new reader will read Kochikame, right? Even new One Piece readers relies on tankobon output instead of buying the magazines. It may be the most popular magazine line but Shueisha itself is still only the number two Publisher.
Tower of God?
Art is a little below average at the beginning, but it gets really good towards the later chapters.
@Misdreavius and wintercry
According to Bakuman, which is a Jump comic about Jump comics, being a bottom dweller is not an absolute indicator of neither quality nor popularity.
Jump ratings are (according to Bakuman) based on a "Top 3" ranking system, which means that if a comic XY is considered to be nr. 4, it could very well end up on the lowest ranks, simply because it was never (or rarely) rated 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
Also, Jump is a comic read mainly by kids around 12-16 of age, with the average reader age being ~14.
Basically this means that a manga like Bleach could very well be the worst manga ever, yet still be the most popular in Jump, since it targets an audience that only seeks action and combats involving badass skills and evolving skills.
I do and i cant see why it hasn't been done yet
On a 10 point sclae this one gets a solid 8, highly recommended.
Being a bottomdweller in Jump doesn't equate to the quality of the manga, it just means the people who voted didn't like it as much as all the other mangas at the time.
Japanese people seem to have vastly different tastes compared to us English folk anyway. I mean they made Mx0, one of the most interesting shounen mangas, get cancelled.
Probably the best manga I have read so far...