Isterio said:
Sheragin said:
i think Mashima-sensei should just find a really good writer, collaborate with that person to save him from this humiliation, Done. Do it, Mashima-sensei! Do it!
I like your art style but your storytelling is like a junior highschool student's essay. God.
This argument is dumb. Hiro Mashima has explained in several interviews that he´s a mood dependant author. He values his freedom more than anything else and wants to draw what he feels like.
He simply wouldn´t work as a collaborator and as long as his shit sells he´s fine.
There is also the fact that he throws out chapters like no other weekly author and his assistants apparently love the guy.
Probably because he´s paying and treating them well, playing videogames and watching Movies with them.
For comparision, look no further than Mitsutoshi, the author of Toriko who quit his Manga. due to overwork and stress caused by the lack of assistants.
I know I make an impossible statement, but if you lack in something, you must work hard to cover that or you find a partner to cover you for that. But he didn't do that. I'm amaze by the fight scenes, the coloring, the drawing, but not the story, let alone the character. He works hard, but doesn't think enough about the plot.
If he values his freedom and draws what he likes, he should be an illustrator. That'd be the same.
His assistant maybe love him, but we're not his assistant and we don't even know his assistant that well.