Hungry Marie

What went wrong ?
What will be Tamura's next move ?

Wow I hadn't even known it already died. Figures.

>gender bender
it was dead on arrival

The Game

The fuck, it already did?

Honestly? It was boring. He made a gender bender shounen series but did almost nothing with the gb aspect so gender bender fans lost interest and while it had fights they were so spaced out and lackluster that fans of those got bored too. And overall it took way too long to set up the main plot. It also didn't help that a lot of the designs feel recycled from Beezlebub.

Apparently, I was looking in the archives for the thread announcing its death but could not find it.

This, can't stand the series because of it.
Marie isn't even some bad ass, she's like a heroine and annoying dumb slut at the same time yet takes over the MC's body it's just dumb.

My thought exactly.
I mean, fuck, even shit like U-19 (chapters) and Demon's plan got them.

It was just nonchalantly said in the WSJ thread that it was end. I figured we would at least have a bonfire of its corpse.

I thought the first chapter was pretty good.

When they started introducing delinquents and it became a romance/ fighting shounen mix is when it started to go down.

Also the characters where really flat and had no personality whatsoever.

I really like Marie's design. Too bad the body sharing non-sense ruined it for it. And for the 10 or so chapters I read the author someone didn't even keep it consistent.

He took a gamble and lost. He definitely wanted to do gender bender manga since his other one-shot one featured a similar character but it didn't resonate with the audience. What made Beelzebub funny was that the gags were over-the-top slap-and-stick comedy that played well with a decent cast while in Hungry Marie, it drew too much attention to solely Marie. The other characters and even the Taiga himself is just a nicer version of Oga, nothing more. The later cast were forgetable and Taiga's romantic interest Anna isn't anything but mediocre, in fact her role was redundant that if you just gave that role to Marie not much would change.

The premise was somewhat interesting but since he made the two protagonists into one entity it crippled the plot by only having one of the two present in the story instead of having them both out simultaneously. He tried to remedy this by making exceptions to the rule by separating their bodies so they can both be together in the same setting but it was already too late. It's a shame that Beelzebub wouldn't likely be picked up again since it tried it's best to wrap things up in a spin-off that lasted less than 10 chapters. Who knows what he has in store for the future if he decides to continue drawing manga but hopefully he picks up something that can play into his strengths and that's turning serious implications into funny gags.

What the actual fuck. When did this manga start? Why did it got cancelled? I thought it began just four month ago, was it THAT bad? I kinda wanted to give it a chance.

>What went wrong ?
Tried to switch up the setting too much and couldn't settle on anything. We could've had something great if it had just continued with the genderbender + martial arts.

I have no idea, I liked it. A lot.

Like really a lot.


From what I've read, people either felt the pacing was way too slow or that characters were basically Beelzebub-copies. I never read Beelzebub, so I didn't care, but people were fixed on that and were unable to look past that.

Maybe he comes up with some other main character design, than the exact one copy pasted from Beelzebub.

>This design was wasted
>Twice
>Fuckin twice
>This design was wasted twice
Goddammit Tamura

Visually I don't care if stuff is copied between series, but this MC had zero personality compared to Oga.

>Visually I don't care
I wouldn't care if a manga suffers from same face syndrom, because in the end all shounen have that, but this one isn't even subtle about it and not only Oga but Hilda as well.

>same face syndrom, because in the end all shounen have that,
Sameface within a series isn't the same thing as reusing designs across multiple series, though. Even guys like Urasawa do that, it's artistically not a problem because they're separate works.

I actually enjoy the rememberance to Beelzebub.

You're the only one who apparently liked it that much, I wanted to like it but the plot and themes were so inconsistent that I stopped caring about it.

It was a terribly executed gender bender.

maybe if he focused on romance instead of literally rehashing the school of delinquents formula then it could've been able to survive.

>TSF with martial arts
>Could've been the modern Ranma
>DOA
Fuck this gay earth.

I probably am.

Shit.

>>Could've been the modern Ranma
I wanted this so bad.

I wanted it to be good because as a frog I wanted to see what would be his take on the French Revolution and maybe see some French characters, but outside of the flashback there wasn't much.

Did they ever do anything with Marie's necromancy powers again?

I enjoyed it enough to read the raws once the TL'd chapters ran out. That said it kind of lost pace and Marie just wasn't interesting enough of a character to be the deutragonist, and the extended entourage she gets in the modern day didn't help much.

how does it end?

I only read the raws that were available at the time, it was a while back. I never got around to catching up after, didn't even know it had been cancelled until this thread.

Beelzebub was at its best when it was a delinquent gag/sol though

Marie kills him.

It's kinda sad, I had high hopes since I loved Beelzebub and I really like Marie's design. If he makes anything else it will probably stick to more successful tropes. Honestly, I'd love it if he made another Hilda. Loved her design and personality.

I'd like this scene more if I didn't know it was actually a girl in his body.

Thinking about this now is upsetting.

Cheeky

He nerfed Marie's tits hard.

I miss Beelzebub, I hope Tamura doesn't give up because of this and comes back hard and improved eventually

I don't think the gender bender shenanigans ruined it, I think it's more that it was handled in a boring way in general
Looking at the success of Your Name, I don't think gender bender is to blame for Hungry Marie's failure

It's pretty depressing. I guess there's only so much you can do with that kind of premise before you drive it into the ground like Ranma or go off the deep end like Futaba-kun Change, but at least those got some decent mileage out of the idea before ending.
It's a shame too since there hasn't been a series like it in years (Kampfer, Twintails, etc. really don't count). Maybe someone will pull it off again soon.

Not just the genderbending, but I was really ready for some good old fashioned kung fu.

So was Tamura, I think, but it failed to take off.

For good.