Agravity Boys review

fabishi8
Apr 09, 2021
This series was bad - I am surprised it made it to 50 chapters.

I'll start off with the only positive the series has going for it: the art is excellent. I really like the character design direction by the mangaka, and they created some stunning and detailed scenery. Every few chapters there would be a big full page panel or a two-pager - I would sit and look at those for a good minute, soaking up every detail. I am genuinely impressed with the level of detail that the mangaka could put into a WEEKLY series. That takes talent and endurance that is very rare in the industry. Compared to his peers currently running in Shonen Jump, Nakamura's art competes with the top tier and is clearly better than most art currently in the magazine.

But thats it. The humor rarely landed for me. I know that it is a gag manga, but the story and world building were frustrating in how completely random and off the wall it would get. This guy felt like he was fucking around most of the time, scrapping ideas at random, and constantly undermining his own story. The plot had almost literally no direction. In fact, it would be better if it had no direction to begin with, because the fact that he occassionally tried to point back to the overarching plot after ignoring it and undermining it for multiple chapters only made it feel even more pointless.

The authors humor wasn't very good and his storytelling and story direction were catastrophic.

I absolutely believe that his art deserves another shot in Shonen Jump, but only if he teams up with a writer.
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Agravity Boys
Agravity Boys
Autor Nakamura, Atsushi
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