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I'm definitely biased as fuck, but I'd rank Kagurabachi in, at the very least, top 5 of best new-gen shounen mangas, dare I say it could even reach the top 3. It has honestly been a pleasure to read since chapter 1, it gets better with each new chapter, the power system is, in my opinion, pretty inventive, there's no annoying ass fan-service or ecchi elements, the ensemble of characters is memorable and everyone is at the very least interesting to read about, THE FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHIES?? ABSOLUTE KINO, and the art, whilst it was a bit rough around the edges at the start, has improved so, so much, and ughhh I gotta stop glazing it, it's just, mwah, perfection, 10/10.

What about you, though? Where would you place it at?

outside of what i wrote tho, i agree with everything else you mentioned. i like the power system but wish we had more of a grasp of the limits and functionality of sorcery. i really like the cast of the story including the villains. sojo was a great first obstacle and none of the other villains so far have hit quite as well as him imo, unless we count samura’s temporary villain arc. i think this story is still in its really early phase though so i think as we get like idk at least to chap maybe 150 that i’ll feel more satisfied with it. tbf i don’t normally read manga so i dont have a lot to reference in comparison to this story so it may be a lot higher up in ranking than i realized

omg i just realized the whole first response i wrote didnt post, only my second wtf basically i said my main issue with the story is that chihiro could’ve been written better. he doesn’t have much psychological turmoil despite his insane amount of trauma and experiences. it would be nice to see him struggle emotionally a lot more rather than just with battles. i also have a slight issue with how character emotions are expressed in general but i think it’s just from the author’s lack of experience tbh. the best stories are the ones where you can feel the pain and heartbreak of the characters and i mean the conflicts were written very well but the emotions in the conflict feel like they’re lacking a little smth that i can’t really explain

there’s actually more i have issues with the story but forgot to mention. all the main cast are too morally similar to the mc. there’s no character that isn’t on the opposing side that’s morally gray or with distorted morals. they’re all fundamentally what you could call good people but no one that’s just neutral or a bad person who does good things. the mc is lacking a member of the main cast that balances him out. a character like sojo as part of the main cast would’ve made the character dynamics a lot more interesting.

i think an amazing example of a well rounded main cast is the one piece crew. i’m not caught up past fishman island arc but each character in the crew is unique to themselves and have their own personal motives behind being in the crew that doesn’t necessarily relate to luffy until after they created a strong bond with the crew. examples of some of the crew’s motives: luffy -pirate king, zoro - best swordsman, sanji - find the all blue, nami - create a map of the world.

the main cast in this story doesn’t really have that at all like basically everyone wants the same thing without having an individual goal that just so happened to align with the mc yk

nah turning needs to be atleast 4k chapters i need it with me till i grow old broo

Where do you read the novel ??

Omg yes

So real, I need this to last till I graduate or I'll cry

check novel updates!

Novelingua has chapters up to ~800 translated, but you can read up to 1000 on scribd

Thank you !!