Preface: Mangaka Taizan5 debut in our beloved Weekly Shnen Jump was received with high expectations. The young author began his career with A Story After Everything Went Well a oneshot published in 2020 and soon afterwards published two other good oneshotsHero Complex and Kiss Shitai Otoko. But it was in 2021 that he achieved his first success in his very first serialization the excellent Takopii no Genzai. His fantastic art style together with his engaging narrative ensured the young authors initial success and his new publication in Japans biggest comics magazine was a sure bet by Jumps editorial staff who seemed to have found an outstanding talent it was unlikely to turn out wrong. Unfortunately thats what ended up happening. Due his incapacity in some aspects in others because of external circumstances beyond his control. What went wrong with Taizansans new work and why did it go wrong? Is Taizan a deceptive fraud and its stories were never any good? Was Ichinose Family a horrible shitty work that past the damn time to be canceled? Perhaps editorial and public pressure has hampered the progress which has been treated unfairly? I dont know maybe well find out. And before you the spoiled and immature reader who treats your favorite story as a personality trait feel offended Im going to give you a trigger warning: I DONT LIKE Ichinoseke no Taizai. I have several problems with its narrative and I intend to elaborate on them in the following paragraphs. So if youre someone who gets frustrated at discovering that other people dont share your tastes and can only absorb positive things in your life as a poor helpless little baby avoid reading what I have to say. Now if you dont like Ichinose Family here youll find refuge come with me on this fun and enjoyable adventure that is to be a hater. The First Sin Overdrama 550https://i.ur.com/WcJ7DFo.jpg You see my life is already a drama. Its extremely dramatic I dont have any money I dont have a car no bitches I havent finished college yet Im not 1.90 Im not famous and I was born Brazilian its not easy. I dont need more drama than necessary. Everyone loves a good dramatic and engaging story that you feel compelled to continue chapter after chapter and Ichinoses debut delivered just that a promising world art with personality and an interesting mystery to be solved. We see from the very first chapter that this closeknit family isnt all that closeknit and that even before the accident and the loss of their collective memory they already had a ton of problems and were far from being a happy family. And knowing Taizansans former work it was nothing new to expect heavy themes and a family drama in the middle of this whole mess. And thats fine despite the drama of my life I still have more room to appreciate the drama of other lives I love stories with heavy drama everyone does. Now theres a limit to everything just as my personal drama is supported by my routine I couldnt bear to see my problems tripled and repeated again and again without interruption. What I dont want for my life I dont want for my stories and its a narrative waste to destroy an entire dramatic construction by delivering one problem after another without pause and with more and more layers of problems interspersed. 550https://i.ur.com/CvgIBW3.jpg I UNDERSTOOD I must be sad Ichinoseke no Taizai Im supposed to cry at this point Im supposed to be shocked YES SHIT I didnt expect a story that delivers a different Plot Twist in EVERY chapter and escalates the protagonists problems nonstop to deliver another Plot Twist and another problem in the next chapter youve really got me with my pants down this time. The biggest crime that an unpredictable story can commit is to become predictable to naturalize the unexpected in such a way that everything becomes absurdly obvious. You know that nothing matters because every discovery is going to be emptied soon after by a different problem you dont have time to breathe and internalize the problems that the story solves because as soon as its over youre faced with a new problem even worse more abrupt and even more confusing and thats not the problem in itself the problem is knowing that this new problem which was the amplification of the past problem will become outdated in 7 days with the release of a new chapter which will make the urgency of this new situation pointless because now I have another concern in front of me which will also soon lose its validity in another 7 days. 500https://i.ur.com/ay8wePC.jpg See that character? His life is sad you have to care See this situation? Look how bad it gets look how bad it gets in the next chapter Look at the incessant artificial and infinite suffering imposed on our suffering and poor protagonist our 2d poor soul suffer with him I beg you pleaseee. Thats what Ichinoseke no Taizai tries to do every single chapter. Its not going to happen bud. Im like a spoiled child who only does the opposite of whats asked if you try to convey a message through insistence it gets lost due to annoyance. I learned this when I was blocked by my exgirlfriend who couldnt stand receiving anymore of my messages saying that I miss her. The Second Sin Overplottwist 500https://i.ur.com/7wWBwIS.jpg We understand Ichinoses first major problem the destruction of all immersion and empathy for the characters through overdrama which stupidly naturalizes problems in such an idiotic way that any conflict delivered becomes extremely predictable and with no impact. Now lets discuss an aggravating factor the overplottwist. As if it wasnt enough to annoy me by pushing dramas with no weight on a weekly basis Ichinose likes to spice things up with another annoyance his twists. 550https://i.ur.com/fxJJVNI.jpg Okay now I dont have my memory okay my brother is behind all this no no its actually my grandmother no shes doing it only for my grandfather its my mother whos behind it no no its actually none of those its someone else okay now Im actually dreaming and Im in a coma ok now Im out of the coma but actually my coma was shared with the dreams of my life and everything was real ok now I know that someone is manipulating my coma and my familys memories ok my brother actually has another family oops this family is fake and they split up lets go back to our real Souta family. STOP LET ME BREATHE. My man writes as if his life were on the line racing against time afraid of being axed and that fear will catch up to him. I cant keep up with you Ichinose the story and the character my CPU cant process information at this speed its old I no longer know what to be surprised by because there are too many surprises my birthday has passed and I keep getting presents nonstop it used to be fun to be surprised but its become inconvenient I dont want to anymore. What I DO know is what NOT to be surprised by and thats this story. Once the whole mystery thing is trivialized once the unexpected becomes routine why in the hell should I care? It doesnt matter anymore. The Final Sin Taizan Himself 500https://i.ur.com/aphY38u.jpg It had so much potential to discuss interesting things about what family really is but it gets lost worrying too much about creating crazy things every single chapter. Shame. The same man who produced Takopis Original Sin produced Ichinosekun. Everything he managed to do well and with quality in his previous story which by the way was published in Jump+ was only possible because of the more flexible structure in terms of publication and pages that the author was given a much healthier format for both authors and readers. Theres no doubt that countless successes have been produced in the weekly format the examples are endless you cant just blame the format or the magazine Shonen Jump but this clearly wasnt the case for Taizan he didnt make it work in the new conditions presented to him so maybe he should rethink what worked and what didnt in his career. This review has been written taking into account the first 40 chapters and ending with those 40 chapters the show is still at enormous risk of being canceled and has a good chance of ending before it even reaches the oneyear mark. If that doesnt turn out to be the case and the story improves from here on it I dont care im not reading and i doubt it. A team that loses the first 30 games of the season only to win the last 8 games continues to be relegated. this part was written months ago with the story still in publication 40th cap. Im reuploading it now without editing anything to show my incredible analytical superiority. I already knew the obvious a long time ago not that hard. Taizan has already demonstrated his competence he has a fantastic artistic style capable of carrying a story on its own but its a pity that this time it wasnt enough. May the author return soon enough with a new story this time treating me less like a complacent ultraempathetic idiot and for his own sake i hope that he can free himself from the shackles of the damned butcher named weekly serialization. 500https://i.ur.com/jZMDQ8k.jpg