Yeah, I let out a little whoop when I realized that Arakawa wasn't going to end the series at 100 chapters like she originally planned--of course, by that point it was more, "if she doesn't, the series will be given the fuzzy end of the lollipop!" But yeah, most shounen series end up with crazy long stories that don't go anywhere for about twenty chapters (hi Bleach augh). And shounen (and some super popular shoujo) series are definitely more of an investment than seinen ones, which tend to run shorter. Thank god.
Haha, bad-to-mediocre art's never stopped me before! Claymore's the first series that made me go, "... the artist is competent, but everything's so ugly!" though.
In the action seinen branch, I loved Black Lagoon, which has a lot of badass women: from undercover CIA agent to the soldier-turned-mafia-boss (http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6153/balalaika2ev4.jpg) to the unhinged Chinese-American New Yorker who likes her guns a lot. Although this is a very action-oriented series where the focus is more on supreme acts of wtf-badassery.
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Haha, bad-to-mediocre art's never stopped me before! Claymore's the first series that made me go, "... the artist is competent, but everything's so ugly!" though.
In the action seinen branch, I loved Black Lagoon, which has a lot of badass women: from undercover CIA agent to the soldier-turned-mafia-boss (http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6153/balalaika2ev4.jpg) to the unhinged Chinese-American New Yorker who likes her guns a lot. Although this is a very action-oriented series where the focus is more on supreme acts of wtf-badassery.