“Dualing Fighters #001” By Shinkoshoto Review

The world is on the brink of extinction due to an ever-expanding disaster called the “Eternal Storm.” However, humanity has a new source of hope in this dying weapons which grant power beyond human understanding—the Ability Armaments. Two boys destined to inspire awe with their splendor set out on a journey. Ability Armaments in hand, they won’t stop until the world is saved!

This comic book gives us glimpses of an intriguing setup and a few sparks of momentum but the way this comic book is executed and presented to us makes this comic book feel like one of many shitty comic book I have read this year. 

This comic book have some good moments throughout. I mostly preferred the moments where the narrative had focused on the straightforward clash which made the comic book pretty interesting. 

At the same time this comic book gives us multiple teasers about rival factions and rules of engagement suggest a framework that could support richer stakes later on which would have been more enjoyable and interesting than this comic book.

In my opinion the characters in this comic book are very flat and shallow. The protagonists and rivals of this comic book feel like archetypes sketched in broad strokes, with motivations that read more like genre defaults than lived-in drives.

The characters in this comic book have also very minimal personalties to them which makes it pretty hard to tell them apart for me personally. 

This comic book has a very uneven pacing. There are long stretches of setup stall the story, then big moments arrive rushed, without the buildup needed to make them land.

The conflicts which are presented to us in this comic book resolve predictably, and the story rarely surprises which are either in plot turns or in how scenes are staged.

For the most part this comic book feels pretty repetitive. Because the training, posturing, and exposition cycles recur without adding new layers, making the middle third feel longer than it is.

I Give This Book 2 / 5

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