Anzai Nobuyuki

A forgettable series with mediocre to eyeroll-worthy art and a story that creates and then drops plot threads faster than you can realize that you just wasted your time reading this series. And faster than I realized that this is almost tit-for-tat the meat of "Flame of Rekka", but half the length. I guess Anzai Noboyuki just really liked that one story, but thought "why not make it more like a Western-style fantasy video game, but shorter?"

The art improved since "Flame of Rekka", but it's still not a great art style. It's not atrocious. It's the generic "big limbs, tiny bodies, I can only design three female characters but an endless trove of largely freakish male ones". Lots of women fall in love with the shounen protagonist because that's how shounen work. The series is so short that half the story - training - takes place off panel because there's just too much of it. But, as we're told helpfully by Generic Sexy Catgirl in somehow a worse outfit than a catsuit, that training is making them there generic heroes strong! I haven't even mentioned the roofying plot thread (point? Bounce?). But it's okay! Because... it's a permanent roofie! ...Yay? Also, the subtitle series should be "Anti-climactic", because that's far more appropriate (e.g., the primary antagonist's plotline) than calling your fairly typical shounen tournament storyline "Marchen awakens romance", given that although there are a few romances in the series, they are almost universally pushed backstage whenever they happen to pop out of the graves they're buried in.

I know there are better forgettable generic shounen out there than this, but I can't remember them, because they're forgettable generic shounen. Literally the only saving grace about this one is that it is short, unlike "Flame of Rekka", which is 33 volumes.… (plus d'informations)