Kingdom
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Kingdom has been so good. Some of these other mangaka got to step it up.
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https://www.mangasail.net/content/kingdom-752
@Ivotas if you're still watching this, it is done.
I'll admit, the Kanki crew got some sympathy out of me in the end and they went out guns blazing. Enjoyable, but kinda sad in a story that's supposed to be about how Shin became a great general (you know, Shin, that secondary character who leads a crew of third-rank cameos every odd chapter)...Which he will achieve by watching defeat after defat from the sidelines, I guess? And Riboku is unsufferable as ever, of course
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https://mangadex.org/chapter/3fbad3fa-8f52-4285-be6d-f941d0559f69/1
Interesting characters and I like this predicament.
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New chapter is out. Looks like the philosophy clash has been resolved. I actually enjoyed it. A few too many gasps and reaction shots but the answers seemed to reflect Shin's experience and mind. Not bad at all.
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Yeah, well. I read that chapter and the one after, but I've almost completely lost interest in Kingdom at the moment. The philosophy clash is hard to make sense of (clunky translation probably doesn't help), and half of the latest episode was spent on Riboku wanking (again). Durrh.
Plot seems to be gearing towards an information war with possible traitors at the heart of Qin court, but with how the past 50 chapters have been I'm not holding up my hopes. -
I read sense's version which seemed fine but in turn I haven't read the latest yet.
I don't care much for Riboku hype either. I would like to hear more about Heki's whereabouts though if we turn back to Zhao again. -
This might be a top 3 Kingdom arc for me.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/fe9052be-709c-4a13-901f-f1fab2dd53fa/3 -
You guys still keeping up or what?
Been reading on a site that offers early scanlations as well as spruced up ones, but I'm too impatient to wait for the clean up.
Like how the battle started, a neat way to make it more dynamic and unpredictable.
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Between the terrible early translation and turn of the story, these days I only skim through chapters more often than not.
Right now it does look like the Akou army thing could spice up the battle, but the bottom line is that I simply cannot stomach another Riboku arc. I'm keeping fingers crossed that this time we may see him breathe his last, but for all I know he could still be around for a decade judging by how many generals and semi-developped bodyguards he has protecting him.
Which really is a shame when there are 5 other kingdoms to conquer. Why instead do we have to spend so long on bloody Zao and bloody stupid Riboku? T_T -
Damn, I finally decided to catch up. Last thing I remember was Kan Pi Shi dying, so I might be at 765. I plan to get to 780 by the end of the day.
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I've been keeping up with the bad scans, which became much better with time. Just read 806 yesterday.
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Caught up after seeing the thread revived. It had been a while since I had read any Kingdom, unfortunately binging this in one go doesn't bring any improvement: it only removes the wait between terrible chapters. The Zhao arc was every bit as hard to stomach as I had been expecting. At least I am glad we're dealing with something new now.
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I have stopped truly reading this series a long time ago. I mostly just turn the pages and read little bits of dialogue here and there.
I was interested during the Kan Pi Shi part but that came and went. We had another dull war where the author just keeps drooling over Ri Boku and Ou Sen while not showing anything praiseworthy. Constantly having characters fawn over them and call them geniuses, does not make it so.
It's really just a shonen battle manga masquerading as a seinen war epic.
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@PatTraverse I don't have it in me to completely drop it yet, but I recognize my own experience in what you write. Couldn't have worded my frustrations with this title any better.
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@Seafarer33 It's crazy to go back and read old battles and see how bad things have devolved. Like the first real campaign of Shin and company where war is shown as anything but glorious. You have all these mountains of corpses and Bi Hei feeling nauseous at the sight and the smell of all of those that have fallen.
There are of course the great strategies of multiple battles where the strategist mattered and not just how many hero units an army had and the quality of said units.
I feel like the author just started using the excuse that Shin is an instinctive general to not have to make any actual strategies. That still does not explain why Ri Boku the genius is basically a wizard and Ou Sen just stands there looking menacing while good men fall.
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considering the only worthy opposition to Qin was Zhao and that Qin was historically a powerhouse, the series should have ended in one large scale dramatic battle with Zhao and fast forward to an epilogue. I usually complain about an approach like that but to me, it always felt like the lesser evil alternative to whatever it is right now.
That, or change your main character. Because the later conflicts of china unification, while not as grand as the earlier years, still had stories worth telling that it is hard to do so with a fully fledged and developed main character like Shin.
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Chu will probably milked by the manga since it was a big state and they have a lot of named characters.
