Let's rant about Izana's fate (Manga ending spoilers obviously)

MrBeast said:
Well i would like to start with this premise, Nihei is most definitely not a good writer, this is coming from a fan, i liked Sidonia for the first 20 chapters but after sometime and especially towards the end you can see the true colors of this series, Sidonia is made more out of self satisfaction than to tell a "good story".
The premise of Sidonia in fact was interesting and it felt like Nihei had passion for this little setting he created but you can see by the middle of story that things happens for no reason or purpose look for example at Nagate's harem, even a robot girl was in the middle of it, for no reason at all it din't add anything to the story, as you were saying Izana and Nagate were the best couple not because Izana is likable but because there was actual development indicating that was going to happens and the infamous ending was a result of Nihei probably trying to satisfy his ego.
"Explain wtf was that giant cheese containing the Kabi blades doing there in the middle of nowhere? Who were the Gauna and what was their point? Why did the immortal commitee refused to fight head on and had to be killed by Ochiai's clone? too many unanswered questions." exactly what i was thinking by the end of the series, these questions were't answered in a science fiction setting none the lass, the big problem about Nihei is that he is inconsistent especially regarding to the setting, same guy that wrote Blame (and although i like it) a series with almost no explanation as to what is happening and you either have a action scene or some people walking and no context.
Look at things like character development, Nagate is a dense prick, he has the same personality from begging to end and doesn't know whats happening in his surroundings when it comes to relationships, the only motive he's important to the narrative is as a pilot, he feel like a character from any harem show, he's just what i like to call a "functional lucky idiot", funny thing is that there were other characters that were more interesting and got some type of character development that i much rather had as a main protagonist.

nearbaskara said:


I agree that Sidonia is full of disappointment, but I disagree about 'Nihei is not a good writer'. He is a good writer but in this manga, he failed, and that's how writing a story goes, sometimes it works or it doesn't.

If you read Blame (probably you already did)(it's nihei's), you will see his awesomeness. It has a little dialogue, but the way he makes it, pretty epic. It is a pure sci-fi//cyber-punk genre, not like Sidonia "sci-fi but mostly romance comedy".

In my opinion, Nihei just tried a new genre to his manga to attract more people since romance/comedy is pretty popular, and cyber-punk now days is nearly a dead genre
(examples of good cyberpunk anime: Ghost in Shell, Ergo Proxy, Psycho Pass Season 1 (season 2 and the movie are craps in my opinion))

MrBeast said:


About Nihei not being a good writer, he's good in visuals presentation but when it comes to dramatic structure, dialog and a consistent plot he's not very good, Blame is one of my favorite manga of all time because of it's visual presentation and the extensive "you need to read in between the lines" type of lore and thought provoking concepts (the dystopian futuristic endless labyrinth resulted from men's desires of expansion, the use of robotics/humans hybrids that almost breaks the line of what humans are) but when it comes to the story (of blame) is freaking confusing to the point that you can only understand to a decent degree after reading it twice and using a lot of angles to understand the text Nihei was trying to push.
If you look at his one-shots like sabrina and death heads for example you see that he doesn't have a idea of what he's trying to do, the difference between these two is that sabrina lacks even the style or interesting ideas that blame had while death heads has part of it but unlucky wasn't published.
Most probably he's the type of writer that goes with the flow and that's the worst option to begin the writing process, usually a writer had everything in mind (or at lest some idea) before they put a word in the paper (having sort of a beginning,middle and end).
With all that being said, he can do something coherent maintaining his style, Biomega (and i still din't finished but...) to what i have read of it was intelligible there was structure, there was a introduction to each characters conflict, you understand who are these people what they trying to stop and what is actually happening. It wasn't a thousand action scenes with nice angles or people walking with no direction arriving in pretty convenient plot points ( and i'm really not trying to insult blame here).
In conclusion i don't think he's a bad writer per se, maybe i would retract my statement what i think is that he can be decent at best and to be honest i wouldn't care if he does something like sidonia again (as even sidonia had nice moments and ideas in it's core) the good thing about Nihei is that he always maintained his style in some way, one of the good thing about his writing is the darker grim elements that even are present in something like sidonia (chapter 57 of sidonia was amazing and i wished there was more of that)