What is /a/ opinion on History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi?

>>159516140
good mango
stupid but consistent in it's logic
ending was shit

>>159516140
good hype stuff, good fights, characters, sometimes too much fanservice when its not needed in parts but it is what it is.

Shame it got canceled so the author had to hurry up and wrap everything up, Most of the bad guys didn't even got defeated.

>>159516140

It had potential, but after the tournament arc it just sort of meandered a bit (Outside of the Salary Man's arc) until the author got the call to wrap it up within a a ridiculously short time period.

>>159516140
Shame it got axed, I really wanted a china arc with the sect of the chinese master and more development for Kenichi´s comrades

I heard not only Kenichi, but all veteran manga from Sunday (except Detective Conan I think) got axed then because editors wanted some new manga? What the fuck? That sounds like a terrible plan.

>>159516140
i liked it a lot
but fanservice got really bad near the end
it's like the editors stopped caring about nipples being shown every panel

>>159516140
I thought it was a pretty great shonen fighting series for the first 250 chapters, but after that it went downhill, but still had the odd good moment here and there

The fanservice became a little repetative and trite after a while, but insofar as martial arts manga are concerned it has one of my favorite kind of story at its heart. Most of the characters were great but as other ITT have said it fell flat and had a rushed ending.

I don't get why he turned the fanservice to the 11.

>>159518104
I think an editor or someone wanted them to launch a bunch of new series for their anniversary

>>159516140
I feel like it was the baki for kids in its fighting.
people complain about the fanservice but I don't see how it took anything away from the story.
an actual developing romance that had actual results.the mc not staying as a complete faggot white knight about not hitting women in a fighting manga.

now the bad, fucking swordsman version of superman coming out of nowhere.hyping up the plot about mius dad being evil but nope two masters. probably between 10-15 chapters towards the ending, that felt like a mess.

>>159516140
dragged out shit, shit ending

>>159516140
Should have ended after he fought feather earring guy. At that point he had fulfilled all his promises to get stronger and Protect Miu. He'd gotten her and her grandfather's recognition and things could have wrapped up from there instead of going into the next insane arc.

In my view it went from a neat premise to something completely fucked up. When it was all about Kenichi, a weakling, growing strong via legit real life training methods and the masters were comic relief characters it was nice.

But then the author got it into his head that the masters - these superhuman, incincible characters - getting into fights in which fucking nothing would be resolved would be awsome rather than tedious. Again, these characters regularly pull off superhuman feats, and every time they get into a fight against characters who aren't on their level we were suppposed to be excited. Then there's the idea that Kenichi could one day be more powerful than these characters just by training hard which is patently absurd (one of the characters honest to god raises dead bodies from their grave at the end, and that's still supposed to be (((martial arts))), christ). No fucking wonder the very end was a time skip.

Shit could have been mitigated id the art and the action was better, but it wasn't. The fight choreography was always middling at best (nowhere close to the balls to the wall perfection of Change 123 or the stone cold grit of Holyland), and the art in these action scenes tended to have so many speed lines that there were times that you legit couldn't fucking tell what the fuck was going on. And of course characters were capable of excecuting feats of strength and speed and recovering from injuries that are completely impossible in real life so it stopped matrerring who wom because at that point there's no real difference of spirit to show between the characters, it's just a matter of what the author can come up with.

The girl characters were the only thing this manga had going for it. People will tell you that this manga got cancelled, but the guy who made it was out of ideas for a couple hundrd chapters by that point.

It was nice, then it sucked.

I mostly enjoyed it except for the Miu abduction arc (the final fight was great thought) and the rushed ending.

I hope we'll get some kind of continuation or even just a few side stories now that the authors new manga has ended.

Sigfried was best boy

>>159523487
i like the way he spins

I was reading this while it was still serialized. Dropped it hard around the time Kenichi fought the Muay Thai kid. Was too predictable and absurd

>>159523487
His interactions with Niijima were great. Too bad we never got to see his home where he lives with his cats and dogs.

I like to fap to Shigure

>>159516140
Every chick in the manga was worth busting a nut over and the ending was shit.

>>159516140
First 300 chapters were good, after that is pretty hit or miss, and the ending was rushed

I fapped to that picture of Miyu in a bikini so many times. You know, the one where they were all at horinji island.

>>159526430
post it

>>159516140
Anime was great, manga was good until the fight against Kanou. Then it waned but sort of kept the quality until Apachai's "death". After that it became meh. When the armed division appeared, it became obvious the author had run out of ideas.

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>>159527578
I assume anon means pic related.
>>159526430
It's Fuurinji island, not horinji.

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>>159528730
or this one

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>>159516140
it has a long name.
and I like the blond chick.

>>159516140
boring and bad

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>>159528789
It's interesting how much the artstyle has changed over the years.

It just got really boring after a while. Girls are hot but I can only see the same fanservice shots over and over again for hundres of chapters until I get tired of it it's not like there was much else going on most of the time.

>>159528961
worst offense was turning kenichis sister from young teen with a normal body into a chibi troll

>>159516140
I actually started to get annoyed at the fanservice by the end. It was so forced

>>159530071
She didn't behave like a young teenager at all, right? I wonder how much damage she has caused.

>>159516140
Valkyries orbiting Thor surprised me. Same with Ukita, Freya and Kisara. Not used to supporters getting their own background harems/triangles.

It was a dumb but enjoyable manga I read for the fightan.

>>159528961
to be honest, I think I liked the art best about halfway through

>>159528789
Ye that one

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>>159516140
It's nice that he impregnated Miu in the end and had a cute daughter. Other than the everything near the end before it got axed was a shitshow. It's like the author had no clue what to do so he just went all out on the tits and ass. Not that I'm complaining, but it got repetitive after a while.

>>159531767
I would have liked to see some more interaction between the Elder and his son. Instead we got to see him going on a date with that yami master.

>>159516140
Shigure was best girl.

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>>159520873
I believe you know why. Search your feelings. You know it to be true

>>159521373
baki is already for kids

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>>159526122
>I like to fap to Shigure
fine taste

>>159518104
Wow that pretty fucked up. Manga need to know where they are going and not go on forever so that the pacing does not turn into shit.

>>159533242
This series has some god tier hentai made of it it's how I found out about it

>>159516140
terrible shit, annoying characters

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Kisara was underrated sexiest girl.

Still annoyed we never got to see the Marmaduke fight.

I want to fuck Miu

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Friendly reminder that pic related was the last great arc in the series.

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I can't count how many faps I had to all of the waifus in this series. Even the side characters like Kenichi's mom were amazing.

>>159542619
I'd loved it if his thrust into his own hand had got the eye of kensei.

>>159542773
>tfw no oyakodon with Kenichi's imouto

>>159516252
>Most of the bad guys didn't even got defeated

Glad to know the story at least somewhat reflects reality.

>>159518104
IIRC detective conan it's the only good selling manga, so not suprised

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China tits where best tits but the MC was to stuck on the boring retard heroine to notice

>>159550907
>Chinese but speaks Japanese

My favorite mango up until they told the writer to hurry up and end it, it honestly could've gone to the 1000 chapters easily, the skill gap between disciples experts and masters was really well executed and really fucking huge. The ending was garbage but you know it is what it is.

>>159551032

She was IN Japan

Really pissed me off how the author never took the leap like Yabuki did.

I honestly stopped paying attention to the story after they started trying to focus on characters besides Kenichi though. Hate series that do this unless they do so from the start.

>>159550907
renka really had the lewdest panels

>>159523487
out of all the disciples, I felt like he had the most potential to become a Master. and it would be all self-taught, too.

Glad to see so much love for this series, or at least respect for what it once was. Up through Ragnarok it's some god-tier shonen, and if you wanna read it up to that point and then read the very last chapter, I don't think you'd be missing much.

>>159552260
you gotta read the disciples tournament too, plus the muai thai deathmatch.

>>159551515
but the side characters were the best part. Kenichi was a boring protagonist, so's Miu. All the side girls and guys were more interesting. The problem was when it dropped focus on THEM, to focus on the stupidly-strong masters instead.

>>159552630
eh, I mainly remember being pissed the whole tournament arc about Kanou Shou being a fuccboi trying to steal Miu, and then Okinawa was ruined by Apachai living anyway.

>>159550907
She should've been the main girl.

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Still miss best girl.

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>>159552734
the amount of lolis, especially brown lolis, increased dramatically as the series went along. Not complaining, but.

>>159516140
Shit axed ending!

>>159552698
agreed and agreed, but gotta read em those fights are cool.

>>159516140
Main girl was super annoying.
Especialy how despite making tons of useless and retarded moves they always said she is like a feather.
Basically all others girls in the story were better than her and she really made it fucking easy for them, despite that she got the most service.

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>>159553140
I suppose. I remember thinking at the time that this panel alone has more power, impact, and emotional weight in it than anything going on in the recent arc of Bleach. Which I think was still in the middle of the Deicide shit at the time?

Maybe I should re-read it some day, now that I know where to adjust my expectations I could probably just enjoy the fights and tits.

>>159542773
I always waited for the big reveal that the mother is also some kind of master especially after they revealed the gun master and the fact that his little sis was basically shitting in games on everyone.

>>159553422
she was a sex master

>>159521809

damn, Change 123...haven't read that in a while

did that get a real ending?

>>159552979
Yeah, literally visit Nepal and other Asian countries.

>>159553390
Holy shit, I don't remember what happens the next page, didn't he tank it and launch an attack?

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