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Review: 前衛のアーチャー Zenei no Archer [Vanguard of Archer] One-Shot

前衛のアーチャー Zenei no Archer [Vanguard of Archer] One-Shot 前衛のアーチャー Zenei no Archer [Vanguard of Archer] One-Shot by Tadatoshi Fujimaki
My rating: 3 of 5 stars


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Good decent stuff. Since this is made by the author of Kuroko's Basketball I originally thought that this was going to be about archery as a sport, but it's actually a fantasy manga.

Overall it wasn’t very original. There’s a super-duper-holy-shit-overpowered main character who disappeared into the woods to "train" for 10 years, not disclosing any more info than that. There’s the useless sidekick cliché that I absolutely abhor. The main character has the "I wanna kill all Titans" clichéd motivation (except they’re not Titans they’re demons). (view spoiler)

You know what, while I’m at it I’m going to include a little spoiler section because I have some more spoilery thoughts about this one-shot.
(view spoiler)

So yeah, this one-shot is not revolutionary by any stretch of the imagination, but I still ended up enjoying the like 10 minutes it took to read. I have not really been liking a lot of the manga I’ve tried out recently so it was nice to read something that I liked for once. I know I didn’t really say anything good about it to warrant me liking it, but I dunno. Even though it had its issues and it wasn’t very original, I still enjoyed it. Can’t really tell you why. Part of it is probably because I really liked the art quite a lot. It also has a bit of a reverse on a certain trope, so that was nice I guess. The book synopsis is purposely vague about this so I’m not going to spoil you about it, but it’s there.

(view spoiler)


Read all of my reviews for Tadatoshi Fujimaki's books:
✪ Kuroko's Basketball: Extra Game
✪ Kuroko's Basketball -Replace-
✪ Vanguard of Archer
✪ ROBOT×LASERBEAM 1

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