Magico

Kitsune Inferno

The "coupling" arc (or wathever you guys call it) was definitely the highlight of the manga. Everything both before AND after that has been pretty lackluster. Not bad, but generic and pretty bland. Nothing special.

That arc, while still not a MASTERPIECE, was entertaining, the fights were very original, the powers interesting and the backstory for the main character was quite shocking and engaging. His half-psycho brother was also a breath of fresh air.

Then, came this Raven McBland into the mix, those incredibly lame bunnies and the romance angle got quite out of hand ("I'm the ONLY ONE who can make her smile! You hear me??". . .what the fuck, man? where on the 21st fucking century, you retrograde imbecile. . .), and overall, not very interesting.

Chapter 61 could mark a change for the better, since it felt different and quite epic. You can see the author went the extra mile with that ending page. But if he will resolve it in 6-7 chapters, then I don't know if it's worth the "hype". We'll wait and see. . .

Edit: and while we're at it, chapter 62 is out.

! Oh, hello sage guy who we haven't seen since, what, chapter 4? 5? And you've mastered an incredibly powerful magic!
! And. . .look, Sephirot (have we seen this guy before in the manga in person??)! And the 12 most powerful mages in the world! Well, that's kinda rushed, but, we'll have fun here!! What awesome powers we'll see from these magic mammoths of. . .(1 page later) Oh, all defeated off-pannel.

Raven's math magic was sweet as fuck though. I love the author's outrageous abilities so much, and his is certainly no exception.

kouch_lee

His powers were neat, that is true. (Though I wouldn't have care to see a bit more of it, or see that seemingly incredibly overpowered magic's weaknesses, etc. . .).

Everything else about his character was blandness itself.

GJardim

By the way, Redhawk caught up with the actual release. 62 and 63 are out.
http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/magico/en/0/63/page/1

Edit: wait, 62 was already out? Oh dear.

Jacko

Oh my, another manga with awesome potential bites the dust, fuck you WSJ.
And whats up with this moon fetish lately?

GetsugaZoro

Damn Magico is ending it seems…fuck really like the series and Nurarhyon is probably going next, two series I like getting thrown out.

Cruithne

@GetsugaZoro:

Damn Magico is ending it seems…fuck really like the series and Nurarhyon is probably going next, two series I like getting thrown out.

@cutty:

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Nurarihyon no Mago (END)

Absent: One Piece

Nurarihyon no Mago's final chapter will be published in the upcoming Jump NEXT!

Well, as you can see…

GetsugaZoro

Yeah it was obvious, really abrupt but obvious, well the series aren't either works of art, I just liked them for some reason specially Nura.

GEPPETTOSMONSTER

With the introduction of Typheous Oz the creator of echidna and thefact that the moon is echidna's head is a huge sign of this series ending

GJardim

@cutty:

Jump Issue nr. 31

Magico (END)

Yeah, it's the end guys. Well, Magico gave us interesting battles, like Shion vs Joshua, and cuteness overload. It was a good reading.

TLC

This sucks. Magico was pretty fun and interesting and had a ton of potential and deserved to be in Jump way more than fucking Bleach and Reborn. Ah well, c'est la vie.

Cruithne

Who called it.

I called it.

rayleigh92

this is very sad. magico's been the golden egg of 2011 rookies and now it dies?

GJardim

http://manga.redhawkscans.com/reader/read/magico/en/0/64/page/1
I somehow feel heartbroken while reading this. Magico, why? WHY? (I know why, but… meh)

Marano

With every chapter I read I just feel more sad that this is ending, I would have loved to see how this all would have turned out in a situation where it didn't come around in a rush and was laid out nicely in a long arc.

AfroSamurai

Magico's gone too…

Piitan

Man, such a rushed ending. Such a shame Jump didn't give Magico 10-20 more chapters to settle everything better. That last chapter just… sucks. And I'm sad to say so.

TLC

This is a real shame because this series had so much potential. Even in the very last, very rushed chapter, it displayed some interesting characterisation, unique concepts, heart-warming emotion. This series had a lot of heart to it. This wouldn't suck so bad if it weren't for the fact that Jump is full of far more mediocre manga like Reborn, Bleach and Naruto. What a joke.

DarthAsthma

Commemorate post of a series with huge potential but really questionable execution.

Jazzy Jinx

Welp, I can honestly say that I followed this series from beginning to end. Although, I think this will do the author some good ultimately. Now that he/she has some exposure and a sense of what it means to write for a large publication, perhaps they'll take that experience and utilize it for the better in the future. It wouldn't hurt if they learned to fix their pacing as well.

I think the problem is that the author was so afraid of keeping the readers captivated that they unintentionally created the quick pace and missed that it was actually killing itself. Whether from an entertaining perspective or a writing perspective, it shows the inexperience. It probably doesn't help that it had a lot of shoujo elements for a shonen publication as well.

Either way, I did enjoy it while it lasted and it had a ton of potential. Sad to see it go but now the author can grow some more so it's not a total waste.~

KageKageKing

Well…thats it, its over. Thats all folks.

! They destroyed the moon and The End. Just to finish I want to say that Jubee saying his wife's "measurements" was my favorite part.

Kizuchan

Well, that's it, I guess.
Manga with good ideas, but fairly sloppy pacing and execution. The main foundation laid in the first chapter was a little weak, if the bread thing would've been something more significant, maybe the romance would've worked a little better, that and not resetting Shion's character and thinking of another way to defeat Faust.

It's okay overall. Joshua was my favorite character of the series and my favorite chapter was Shion's backstory chapter.

D-kun

Such a shame to end so early. It was a pretty good run, I enjoyed it throughly…

Big_Bad_Lith

Nothing I can add that you all haven't said, it wasn't a masterpiece by any means, but it was consistently entertaining, and that's far more than I can say for a lot of other manga. But I'm looking forward to the wedding special, I just hope my heart can stand it.

Takaho

I saw a lot of potential and what the mangaka wanted to use in the series if it had gone on for much longer, which makes it quite a bit sadder almost.

Oh well. Magico, it was nice.

….But you've been replaced by Assassination Classroom so I feel a bit better now.

CaptainAppleJack

http://mangahead.com/Manga-Raw-Scan/Magico/Magico-66-Raw-Scan RAW of the final chapter is here, if anyone cares.

And uhmygawd, everyone is there. Me so sad.
I miss you, Magico!

Silverblade

Magico -magic marriage ceremony-
Simple, fast and overly sugary. Magico has ended the way it has run. I think it's for the better that it ended earlier rather than later. It is so much nicer to remember Magico as a short and sweet - to the point of giving the reader a diabetes - comic that has accomplished everything it has set out to do and never has taken itself for anything more that it wasn't - and not as an overblown abomination that barely resembles what it was in the beginning like many unnaturaly prolonged serializations.

Everything's fine.

TLC

@Silverblade:

Magico -magic marriage ceremony-
Simple, fast and overly sugary. Magico has ended the way it has run. I think it's for the better that it ended earlier rather than later. It is so much nicer to remember Magico as a short and sweet - to the point of giving the reader a diabetes - comic that has accomplished everything it has set out to do and never has taken itself for anything more that it wasn't - and not as an overblown abomination that barely resembles what it was in the beginning like many unnaturaly prolonged serializations.

Everything's fine.

I disagree. I feel that it had too short a run. It had a lot of potential to expand upon its world, give us fantastic new characters and settings, bring back old ones and give a fantastic, epic story that could have truly made this series into one of the very greats of Shonen Jump instead of that one pretty good manga.

But ah well, c'est la vie.

Damn fine final chapter though.

Gokuyuske

@Silverblade:

Magico -magic marriage ceremony-
Simple, fast and overly sugary. Magico has ended the way it has run. I think it's for the better that it ended earlier rather than later. It is so much nicer to remember Magico as a short and sweet - to the point of giving the reader a diabetes - comic that has accomplished everything it has set out to do and never has taken itself for anything more that it wasn't - and not as an overblown abomination that barely resembles what it was in the beginning like many unnaturaly prolonged serializations.

Everything's fine.

Yeah for sure; even in that last arc things were already getting a little repetitive. As it is I shall remember the series fondly. Especially the awesomeness of Shion vs. Joshua.

I enjoyed that last chapter. Didn't really make any sense that they all had to split up, but it gave me the right "last chapter" feels, so I won't complain.

Gliblord

Joshua was basically the only thing about the series that was awesome. Maybe the death Othello fight, too.

kouch_lee

@Gliblord:

Joshua was basically the only thing about the series that was awesome. Maybe the death Othello fight, too.

This.

I enjoyed the "couple tournament arc"; the fights were creative, there was some plot revelations concerning the main character that seemed to go somewhere (I think in the end it was pretty much for nothing, but. . .), and there was some promise for future arcs; it seemed like the series was finally showing sings of something good or even great at work.

Sadly, that was it.

Big_Bad_Lith

This ending chapter gave me a bad case of the Feels.

but this is the sort of series, that if I ran Jump, I would just go "Hey. I'll give you two years. You won't get canceled. Just write what you want." and watch the manga take off. I guess I don't know anything about this author's style, so I'm blaming the rushed pacing on always struggling to include MORE and MORE in hopes to keeping afloat in the rankings. And then obviously the ending would've been a lot better had it come, say, 150 chapters later. ah, well.

Cruithne

But then legitimately terrible manga like Swot would last two years too.

GJardim

Aww, the ending was so cute.

Gokuyuske

@Cruithne:

But then legitimately terrible manga like Swot would last two years too.

Oh god that would truly be horrible.

Gliblord

What's wrong with having Swot be two years long? Seems like an excellent trade off, considering nobody's forced to read Swot.

Gokuyuske

@Gliblord:

What's wrong with having Swot be two years long? Seems like an excellent trade off, considering nobody's forced to read Swot.

If you let every single manga go for two years regardless of quality you end up with crap like Lock-On! and Swot stopping potentially interesting new series from having a chance.

Also the universe as a whole would cry galactic tears with every new, shittastic chapter.

Gliblord

Just like a good manga can turn sour, a bad manga can improve. I think anyone who gets into the level of JUMP should be given a set time frame, and THEN if it's still terrible, it gets canned.

Johnnay

Lith did say "this is the sort of series", not that he'd give every series a two year grace period… Or that's how I took what he said.

Anyway, I'm still sad that it's over... but I'm glad that it ended with the chapter it did, since I really enjoyed it.

D-kun

Aw, I've just finished reading the last chapter. It was really sweet and made me feel like it was the last, it was really good.
I really enjoyed Magico, wished it could of done what it wanted to do, so much potential that didn't have the time to shine through.
It was really good.

Obs: I don't really like how everyone has to forget everything, it made a great finale, sure, but it's not a good idea on my eyes.