Well, honestly I like the series, but I wanted to understand why so much people hated it, mostly because it could help me to be more objective at the time to analyze it. I understand what you are pointing and it's true, anyway now I can say I like a series with many defects but since I'm blinded I wont stop seeing it (I feel like a christian now)
Once again, sorry for the bad english-
Actually if you like something, other people be damned, you should really just enjoy it. Don't let other people convince you that you don't actually enjoy something that you do.
There are good things about this series. I've criticized the bad in some of my other posts, and I lean similarly to how many others do. But this is also not my first IDY manga. IDY can rope you in easily because he actually is good at, or rather finds artists that are good at, drawing sexy female characters, and as a writer he can make a lot of superficial but visceral plot settings. The problem comes in the fact that he can never really finish anything he starts and eventually his lack of plot comes back to really detract from what he writes.
If you've read a few of his series, I guess you have less tolerance for it. He did a bunch of them at once, but just chose to continue Freezing. Or else I probably wouldn't be reading this, I no longer read any of his new work and am really only interested in finishing what I started.
If you can turn off your mind his stuff is a decent enough read. I like some of his characters and some parts of his mangas. I like Su-Na quite a bit right now. I've read a lot of really awful manga, IDY's stuff isn't near the bottom. I wouldn't say he's a hack. The problem is he has some great top tier ideas and settings, which tantalize the reader, but then his execution is mediocre so it gets really disappointing and that makes it look worse than it is. If he wasn't able to actually build up any interest people wouldn't get mad because it would just be straight mediocre, and mediocre is actually pretty good because there's only so many great mangas but a lot of really crap manga.
What sucks is I'm sure Freezing also won't have that payoff that people are really looking for. He's building up this curiosity and tenseness to just what the Nova are, where they come from, and what Aoi saw that makes him so convinced humanity is doomed but he will still fight for them anyway.
But since I know there won't be a payoff, and I'm expecting it to be stupid, I'll actually be fine. The problem is a lot of people that don't know IDY and are getting emotionally invested are going to be pretty darn pissed when it happens. When it eventually happens...hopefully this doesn't just get abandoned too.
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