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In which there are spoilers for the early chapters of Wild Adapter.
I gave up on Wild Adapter a couple of years ago. I was (and still am) a huge Komiya flagwaver. With his collection of constantly shifting bruises and pseudo-swanky pinstripe suits, he was the cutest thing in the series. And I was sufficiently distressed (inasmuch as one can be distressed by such things, in the grand scheme of life) when he died that I stopped reading.
I didn't really mind; Saiyuki is the Minekura manga as far as I'm concerned, and to me all the characters in her other series look like the Sanzou-tachi cosplaying, which causes weird dissonances in my suspension of disbelief. (Come to think of it, Komiya looked the least like any of the ST to me, which is probably another reason why I dug him the most.) And not buying Chara every month or so added another 600 yen to my wallet; always a plus.
Scroll forward a few years, to a time when Saiyuki chapters have become so short and unengaging that I read them in the store, Koori is finished and Silver Diamond is published sporadically, Bohra Naono's stories are not as good as they once were, and DNAngel has entered what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amasugiru refers to as "DBZ Time" in which it takes roughly six months worth of chapters for Daisuke or Dark to get dressed. Manga is going through a dry spell, but at least Chara comes out every two months. So I started glancing through it again. And at about 4-6 pages, the WA stuff I saw was not that interesting. (And Komiya was still dead.)
But this month, I was treated to a pretty pretty cover picture of Kubota eating chocolate, and almost 30 pages of story (more than Saiyuki!), so it looks like I'm being reeled back in. I've caught up on tanks 2 & 3, and the recent chapters, and I still think Tokitoh is a pale replacement for Komiya, and that Kubota is still suish and overdone (and hard to identify with), but eh, it'll probably grow on me. Beats waiting for the next Ichi Raci, at any rate.
I gave up on Wild Adapter a couple of years ago. I was (and still am) a huge Komiya flagwaver. With his collection of constantly shifting bruises and pseudo-swanky pinstripe suits, he was the cutest thing in the series. And I was sufficiently distressed (inasmuch as one can be distressed by such things, in the grand scheme of life) when he died that I stopped reading.
I didn't really mind; Saiyuki is the Minekura manga as far as I'm concerned, and to me all the characters in her other series look like the Sanzou-tachi cosplaying, which causes weird dissonances in my suspension of disbelief. (Come to think of it, Komiya looked the least like any of the ST to me, which is probably another reason why I dug him the most.) And not buying Chara every month or so added another 600 yen to my wallet; always a plus.
Scroll forward a few years, to a time when Saiyuki chapters have become so short and unengaging that I read them in the store, Koori is finished and Silver Diamond is published sporadically, Bohra Naono's stories are not as good as they once were, and DNAngel has entered what
amasugiru refers to as "DBZ Time" in which it takes roughly six months worth of chapters for Daisuke or Dark to get dressed. Manga is going through a dry spell, but at least Chara comes out every two months. So I started glancing through it again. And at about 4-6 pages, the WA stuff I saw was not that interesting. (And Komiya was still dead.)But this month, I was treated to a pretty pretty cover picture of Kubota eating chocolate, and almost 30 pages of story (more than Saiyuki!), so it looks like I'm being reeled back in. I've caught up on tanks 2 & 3, and the recent chapters, and I still think Tokitoh is a pale replacement for Komiya, and that Kubota is still suish and overdone (and hard to identify with), but eh, it'll probably grow on me. Beats waiting for the next Ichi Raci, at any rate.
