Donten Prism Solar Car 9 [Completed]
Everything’s ending – Oriko, SolCar, Light Wing… sigh. This is why I shouldn’t post about bad manga…
What else can I say – Shouta pulls through and wins the Suzuka Cup.
I guess I was wrong about this ending: “Where this manga is going to go in the future is anyone’s guess […] so then what is it going to do? End at 12 chapters?” It ended at /nine/ chapters. Totally anticlimatic, but it makes sense – after all, their goal at the start was to win the Cup, and that’s exactly what they did.
This manga is worth a reread to see how everything is just wrapped up like this. Since this was sponsored by some Japanese Engineering School, you can’t expect it to be very long – they must have decided on this 9-chapter-length very early on. For some reason, they still decide to split nine chapters into /two/ volumes, but oh well. There’s no filler chapters in the manga, and they don’t show you the boring parts of solar car racing (e.g. building the car) – just the exciting parts, like sitting in a solar car running at 5 km/h for three hours. Oh my did I say exciting
There are so many unimportant people in this manga to try to make the ending more dramatic – for some reason, people seem to think that seeing other people cry will make us cry too, sorta like the yawning thing. The sad thing is that they’re right, no matter how short the stories were. On objective thought, the ending really didn’t say much.
What else can I say – Donten Prism Solar Car is just that, a sponsored manga. You can hardly expect those to be any good, and this was actually better than I thought it’d be.
Eh, nice read.
Overall Rating: 4/10 (Good)
Donten Prism Solar Car 8
Contrary to popular belief, Donten Prism Solar Car is actually about the more culinary aspects of life…
Donten Prism Solar Car 7
[Also, here’s those chapters that you haven’t seen cause I released them so late. Chapter 3, 4, 5, and 6. Don’t actually read all of them, gosh]
Donten Prism Solar Car 5
Shouta splits up from the Solar Car team to live with Matsu (^), but only cause he needs to get into college.
He passes.
Oh, and other things happen too, but.
Donten Prism Solar Car 4
SPEED REISA
I have no idea who Hata-kun is. But whoever he is, he almost killed everybody while on the road. Junko reveals that his dad’s death is all her fault – she was feeling sick, so her dad turned around to give her a sick bag, but then CRASH BANG BOOM four years in prison, boo hoo.
His dad’s now a delivery-person or something, and Shouta meets him, but gets so ANGERED BY HIS SOVIET FACE that he rides away in anger.
Solar Car’s actually serialized not in Weekly Jump, but monthly. No wonder each release had so many pages >_>
Donten Prism Solar Car 3
The students’ design for their Solar Car can go up to EIGHTY EIGHT MILES AN HOUR
Well, it’s actually 100 kilometres. WHICH IS MORE THAN EIGHTY EIGHT
Donten Prism Solar Car 2
Day Amelikan fulie day puhlains
Fractale’s getting an anime in Winter, so I’m not gonna manga-review it.
Why am I doing this when I have so many more things to post? I don’t know. I just know this is better than SWOT.
Shouta meets Saeki Kenjirou, the director of the Solar Car Project. He proposes that he’ll teach Shouta for one day every week, as well as pay him a part-time wage, as long as he aids in helping the university students make their solar car.
Mulling over this with a new manual of how to build a Solar Car, Shouta heads back home, when suddenly the Solar Car gets OUT OF CONTROL
He courageously throws everyone away.
I mean, away from the path of the car. Not into the recycle bin.
Unfortunately, while emptying the garbage doing this very courageous task, he gets electrocuted.
“Don’t worry, I’m just a chronic smoker”
While being electrocuted he goes to heaven and meets his dad, who tells him he’s a useless noob and that other people are more important than him.
Yazaki Junko, the only girl in the club who I should’ve introduced during the MAFIA but didn’t because it’s abbreviated for a reason, reveals that her father wrote the Solar Car manual Shouta’s reading. Yazaki Shouichi was forced to take blame for a large mistake eight years ago, and since then, the Solar Car Project has been halted.
Nevertheless, Junko somehow manages to persuade Shouta to drive a test drive in the Solar Car – their prospects already lightening up, the group prepares for ANOTHER CHAPTER WHY AM I SO BEHIND ALWAYS EVERY SINGLE DAY I’M ALWAYS BEHIND DAMMIT ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS
I do find it weird Jump would allow Solcar (which is what it shall be referred to from now on) 50 pages, even on a non-first chapter. That’s pretty odd; chapter 3 also has around 48 pages, it seems.
This also means it has far more content, and thus, far more potential to be reviewed weekly.
Though, right now, I’m pretty stressed – having just found out that key skill to survival known as ‘organization’, I suppose I’m off to another Organizational Voyage, albeit the previous one supposedly ended already.
Time to delete Youtube subscriptions, Twitter followings, and Google Reader blogs, I guess…
“THOSE FUCKING VELOCIRAPTORS”
2010 October Manga Abbreviated First Impressions Agglomerate
Huh? You want me to make a post on something like this…?
OK, EVERYBODY TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SO I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN EVERYTHING IN THIS POST IN CAPS LOCK, EXCEPT I DON’T ACTUALLY USE CAPS LOCK AND MY FINGER’S STILL BROKEN SO HOLDING THE SHIFT KEY REALLY HURTS.
Anyways, the Manga Abbreviated First Impressions Agglomerate (MAFIA) is the mango version of animu’s first impressions. Here, I’ll clump all of October’s new (somewhat decent) series into one post.
Also, some minor other bits – as manga typically goes much slower than anime, I’ll be writing posts every 13 chapters; a Manga Quarterly Review. If I’ve blogged a series already, but stopped after a while (such as Angel Beats: Heaven’s Door, which is now at Chapter 7), I’ll wait until the 13th chapter for an overall review.
However, if the manga’s already past the 30th chapter, I’ll just wait until it ends, instead of blogging stupidly long reviews (cough cough Bleach). It’ll just be a manga completed post.
Why would I do Manga Quarterly Reviews for some, while not for others? An example of this would be SWOT, versus the obviously much better Tower of God.
One thing to note is content – whereas SWOT typically has 19 pages every week, Tower of God has what, 3 – 5 pages a week? Also, the scheduling may suddenly change; SWOT’s serialized on a large magazine, whereas Tower of God is merely a webcomic. Finally, laziness; I’m not going to blog everything! Well, not everything every time a new chapter comes out.
Anywho, the five in my line-up today are Fractale, Donten Prism Solar Car, To-Love-Ru Darkness, Steins;Gate, and Steins;Gate Boukan no Rebellion. I can’t even imagine saying that out loud…
Fractale
Just washin’ my face here, nothin’ suspicious at all…
In the 22nd century, technology has made it possible to create a VIRTUAL WORLD. Almost everybody now uses ‘doppels’ as their real-life ‘avatar’, but that has nothing to do with the story at hand.
Anywho, Krein’s just an ordinary guy, listening to moosic on his not-yet-outdated iPod Nano while exclaiming that 64 GB data cards are excellent, 100 centuries in the future. Suddenly, a GIANT EVIL ALIEN SPACE MOTHERSHIP appears chasing some girl on a HOVERCRAFT ROCKET-POWERED SCOOTER. Then for some reason, the HOVERCRAFT SCOOTER EXPLODES so Krein has to take the girl, Phryne, home because hospitals don’t exist, y’know.
MOORE WAS WRONG – ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE FUTURE 64GB CHIPS WILL BE ART OF THE STATES
Apparently some EVIL SMILING PEOPLE WITH FANGS AND WITHOUT EYES were chasing her, so she had to see someone smile or something. Then she goes all crazy and suddenly some nurse appears downstairs and Krein’s parents mysteriously disappear.
What?
I’ve no idea what’s gonna happen now, but it seems that it’s quite a good manga (getting an anime adaption Winter 2010, IIRC). I get a lot of .hack/Yureka vibes from it; everyone’s using digital avatars of themselves now, some lone guy has to save the world or something, etc.
However, the pacing here really threw me off. It’s not a oneshot; why’s everything presented so… quickly? Maybe you needed the main characters to appear, sure, but why end it on a cliffhanger so early? I’d much rather have the cliffhanger occur after Phryne falls from her HOVER-ROCKETTED KRAFT-POWERED DINNER, but that’s just me and my isolationist tendencies.
I do hope though that they achieve a mix between fantasy and sci-fi; hopefully, they won’t go into some long and obviously false explanation about how so-and-so is possible (cough cough Bankara – LIGHTNING HIT HIM SO NOW HE CAN CONTROL ELECTRICITY cough cough), yet still retaining some amounts of realism (cough cough I HOLD THE POWER TO DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD WITH THE PRESS OF A BUTTON… and it isn’t nuclear cough cough).
Though a twilight manga would be original… WAIT WHAT
Donten Prism Solar Car
Next is Donten Prism Solar Car – a new Jump-serialized manga. Might as well switch this with SWOT after another quarter or so, because it definitely looks far more interesting.
Solcar (cause that sounds so much cooler, and I don’t need to type as much) deals with Kaneda Shouta (by no means from Taiyou no Shisha Tetsujin 28 Gou), whose first/last name I don’t know because of lack of a scanlator naming convention. His dad died in a car accident when he was ten, so he had to work in some iron corporation owned by his uncle, aiming to save up enough money to eventually go to college.
I’m lovin’ it.
SUDDENLY four EVIL MEAN people BARGE INTO his warehouse with a GIANT TWUCK. They have names but it DOESN’T MATTER cause this ain’t the SECOND CHAPTER and anyways they just CHATTERED while Shouta GOT A LADDER and they got SADDER while he got MADDER and then he hit them on the head with the LADDER like a RABBIT
They’re from the Touyou College of Engineering and are using the warehouse to build a SOLAR CAR. They want to win the SUZUKA DREAM CUP, a large SOLAR CAR race.
Proudly sponsored by Yotsuba.
Twenty pages later, Shouta’s had enough of these SPOILED RICH KID BRATS taking up his warehouse to build a CAR, which KILLED HIS DAD. He explodes on them and then it ends, leaving us to guess as to where this will now go.
It’s pretty obvious though, isn’t it? They somehow convince them to help them, they lose the first Suzuka Dream Cup and are convinced to try harder, Shouta goes into college or something and everything’s resolved until a major accident happens just before the cup, but he recovers in time to win and it ends (or continues, with evil hell aliens invading the earth and only their solar car can stop them).
Though, this isn’t like most sports manga; not like most sci-fi manga; not at all like most Jump manga. This… well, let’s just say that this has great potential. I’m definitely looking forward to it; as long as those pesky aliens don’t appear again :V
To LOVE-Ru Darkness
Hrmm… I don’t know… lemme see… FIVE DAYS MAYBE :W
Maybe fueled by the latest Motto animu adaption, To-Love-Ru begins anew!
WELL NOT REALLY BECAUSE IT’S EXACTLY THE SAME AS BEFORE
She also mentions that her ultimate goal is to build a harem, but that picture isn’t that… y’know, worksafe :V
Except this time Momo FINALLY breaks that damned fourth wall.
Oh, and zombies attack too. Totally not related to that Kurosaki Mea person. Nope de doop, not at all.
I’m from another dimension, where an evil spirit has ruled the world! His name is Aizen and I need your help to defea*shot*
Seriously, am I even going to blog this? Probably not. It’s the exact same as the last one except it’s even worse, because now they want to make something called a ‘plot’ or something. A plot? I’m sure the author’s never heard of the term! Unless he studied English in high school, which he probably did.
These things are so unlikely that’s it’s stupidly funny now – I can’t even begin to describe the stupidity of this manga, which is why I probably will begin to describe that sometime in the faraway future (e.g. 2101 AD). I’ll probably finish sometime between the estimated time of the Big Crunch, according to a closed-universe hypothesis, or heat death, from an open-universe perspective. Either way, prepare for it, because it’s going to crash your computer just from loading it.
YOU HAVE A TAIL AND NOBODY’S NOTICING IT THAT’S WHAT’S GOING ON
(I couldn’t add more emphasis without the improper usage of vulgar words)
Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate was originally a visual novel (extremely similar to ChäoS;HEAd), but became a manga… a year ago. THIS ISN’T FIRST IMPRESSIONS WHY IS THIS HEAR HUH WHAT WHERE HOW WHO YEAH WHY WHAT
Unfortunately, I have not played the game, so all I can tell you now is that this plot is /extremely confusing/.
Extremely. Confusing.
(almost as confusing as whether that was just regular italicized writing or a caption of a blank image that failed to load due to some time machine crashing into my computer)
“CURSE YOU SUWAKO! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO SEND ME TO THE HUMAN WORLD?!”
In Akihabara, Okabe Rintarou is attending a press conference of the successful invention of a time machine. He bumps into Makise Kurisu (who happens to also have DETACHED SLEEVES) after shouting that the invention was directly copied off John Titor, a supposed ‘time traveller’ who appeared on internet chatrooms (read: 2ch) in the year 2000.
He dials his phone, and suddenly, everyone in Akihabara disappears. A satellite crashes straight into the building he was just in.
Shiina Mayuri, a childhood friend, doesn’t disappear, and tells Rintarou that there were never anybody there in the first place.
He meets Itaru Hashida, a fat otaku guy, when suddenly Kurisu appears again. Apparently, the conference was cancelled due to the satellite crash that Rintarou attended.
They didn’t ignore you; see, one even offered constructive advice for you!
He goes home, and… Titor appears on 2ch again, but ten years later. Apparently, nobody remembers him, and everything people wrote about him also disappeared; Rintarou is the only person who actually knows about Titor.
…Then, they discover that their microwave has turned into a time machine…
This… this is excellent. By far, judging from just the first 4 chapters, the best of this month, or maybe even year. Science, drama, confusion, mystery – Steins;Gate is so awesome that I DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND IT.
Seriously, if you’re too busy/lazy/hate to-love-ru too much to read anything else, read Steins;Gate. I can assure you that you won’t be disappointed.
…Hopefully ._.
I think you’ve…
gone bananas.
Steins;Gate Boukan no Rebellion
The second side of Steins;Gate is from Amane Suzuha’s point of view – she’s a time traveller from 2036 to 2010 to change the world.
After CERN invented a time machine, world peace was created, at the cost of human liberty (1984 anyone? War is peace). So, Suzuha wants to stop this, but THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE HA HA HA.
PLOT CROSSOVER WARNING WARNING
Suzuha had to shoot people, but failed at the last second because her heart’s not made out of steel. Because of that, all her friends died. TWICE.
Then, it’s revealed – Suzuha’s dad, who travelled into the past before, is John Titor. He created an almost fully functional time machine, with one main fault – it couldn’t go forward in time…
Sandwich Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire?
Yes, yes, and yes. I’ve read only two chapters of this so far but definitely loving it. It’s like Durarara, with more on the stakes, less improbable Dullahans, and more confusing storylines.
Anyways, here it is; the MAFIA for October, 2010. These are all still being published; whereas there were some that were just scanlated, they were finished already; and there may be some that are still being published, but aren’t scanlated. If you’re looking for something to do, these four manga might just be right for you.
Of course, that’s discounting To-Love-Ru because it is THAT MOTHERFUCKING HORRIBLE
And if you don’t have time for all; just read Steins;Gate. It’s the only manga that’s actually made me want to get the game it was based on; because it just seems that awesome (seems, but hopefully it will be).
…Actually, now if you’ll excuse me…
O-New 
