Teppei Sasaki is a wannabe mangaka who just cant create a hit. Actually forget a hit he cant even land a series. All of his attempts to create manga are bland and unoriginal quickly rejected by his editor but when lightning strikes his house one night he winds up with a copy of Shonen Jump from the future in which a series called White Knight started. He reads it decides its a gift from the heavens thats better than any other manga is or ever could be and then when the Shonen Jump issue disappears assumes it came from his brain and redraws the chapter. When he submits it to Jump its quickly serialized but when the original creator Aino becomes his assistant Sasaki has to face his guilt for stealing the series. First things first Time Paradox Ghostwriter is a series that deals with plagiarism. This was not received well in Japan even though the manga doesnt attempt to pretend plagiarism is acceptable and is actually about Sasaki grappling with the guilt of having plagiarized. Ive seen the argument that the manga attempts to excuse plagiarism but I believe thats just a stupid take. Sasaki is constantly beating himself up for stealing Ainos work and feeling like he needs to do the best he can to try and not demean the series to the point where despite major debts he refuses to use the money he got for White Knight. If anything he tries to make up for plagiarizing rather than pretending it was acceptable. Time Paradox Ghostwriter deserves to be commended for a few unique aspects. First off the main character is not a youthful happygolucky dude like a lot of Jump series. Hes still young but hes been very much beat down by failing so often and hes not talented. Second the series does its best not to step on Bakumans toes and really feels like the author wanted to create something unique. This mayve been an unfortunate decision which Ill touch on in a bit. Third the art is pretty good. Its not unique and its not anything crazy but it looks nice. The main plus for TPGW is that even though the author seems to have realized theyd be quickly axed as early as the sixth chapter they did an incredibly good job wrapping up the story with what time remained. All of the fluff that dominates the first few chapters is tossed out the window in favor of a brilliant wrapup on the character arcs of both Sasaki and Aino and answers to why future Shonen Jump copies were popping up to begin with. Ive read quite a few axed manga and the ending arc for Time Paradox Ghostwriter is the best ending of any of them. Im trying not to spoil the series but Sasaki trying to atone in a way is actually pretty touching to watch in fact the series is quite touching overall. Despite being largely about Sasaki trying to atone for plagiarizing White Knight TPGW is a weirdly wholesome story and the characters have a very youthful shonen feel to them. Now for the issues with the story. I mentioned earlier that the series seems to be trying not to imitate Bakuman and that means that in the early chapters when its focused on manga creation it really doesnt touch the survey system oneshots relationships with editors the difficulties of serialization the mangakas trying to improve or anything of that nature. Unfortunately that means that the chapters that I believe came before the author realized theyd likely be axed are pretty forgettable and just full of Sasaki trying to come to terms with Aino being his assistant and having derailed her future as a manga artist to the point I dont think the series could have had enough content to go for long even if it wasnt axed. Its also of course a pretty controversial idea to make a series with plagiarism as its theme as most people are definitely not okay with that even if the series doesnt endorse it. All in all TPGW is an incredibly neat story for one that got axed. Despite a rough initial few chapters and an interesting relationship with plagiarism the ending was incredible for an axed story and the characters actually felt like they grew. I highly recommend the series.