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Psyren Review
By: thaivuN Date: December 5, 2010, 12:13 pm
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*copy pasted from my blog*
This is a review of the most read manga in mangafox but yet
poorly received series in Japan which will cause its demise. It
went from one of the best-selling manga in japan at a certain
point to a mediocre selling with a 2nd to last rank in the pool
of Weekly Shounen Jump for months. Psyren was made by Toshiaki
Iwashiro who previously worked on Mieru Hito.
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Summary: Yoshina Ageha is a high school student who offers to
help people with their problems for 10,000 yen. He'll take care
of your stalkers, find your lost animal, whatever you want. One
day when he's heading home, a nearby pay phone rings, and he
picks it up. The only thing he hears however is his own voice
echoing. After finding a mysterious card with the word 'Psyren'
printed on it, his life suddenly changes as he is drawn into a
crazy new world.
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What was so great about Psyren? The time travel aspect was the
thing that the most attractive to the story. The story seems so
different of what other mainstream manga like Naruto and Bleach
had to offer. The world 10 years later being a land of dust and
desert, and so the main characters must find a way to change the
future while surviving the danger of what the monsters in Psyren
bring. The art is well drawn and fits very well for a shounen
demographic. The important characters are likeable (except
Amamiya who was made to have inconsistent personality lol) as
well the antagonists too. I mainly enjoyed reading Psyren as an
alternative to the illusionary "Big 3".
What went wrong? I know I said the characters were likeable but
in a way, they all seem to be from a certain show. Yoshina is a
cross product of Ichigo Kurosaki and Yusuke Urameshi (The looks
of Yusuke, the black-coloured power and transformation of
Ichigo). Grana is the new Kenpachi (Eye-patch and crazy strong
power). Junas is Ulquiorra. Kyle is Jinta. Mashiro is Yoruichi.
I know people will say I shouldn't say Psyren is a rip-off since
not a lot of series has actual originality. However, when you
read Toshiaki Iwashiro's previous manga, Mieru Hito, you can't
ignore the fact that this mangaka made a career out of
over-using Bleach. While the characters-look-alike issue is
bearable, the story went downhill when the main characters
started gaining power strong enough to fight the bad-guys, the
W.I.S.E., leaving the survival aspect aside and starting to
bring more plot holes. "Why is there no new drifters in Psyren?"
and "what happened to that guy?" those are questions that
appears to make me confirm Psyren, compared to other manga, is
weak when it comes to connecting ideas and situations between
arcs. These little issues combined together became the downfall
of the series. The Weekly Shounen Jump magazine has 20 manga
slot every week. About half of them are action manga; Survival
isn't possible if the series in question isn't able to stand out
from the bunch.
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