Zipman!!

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 2

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 2, 2019 to Apr 6, 2020

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Theme: Mecha

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Authors: Shibata, Yuusaku (Story & Art)

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Score: 5.32¹ (scored by 2,596 users)

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Ranked: #21859²

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Popularity: #4623

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Zipman!!

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Zip up and get your robot on! A new type of robot-action series! World-famous handsome mechanical engineer Koshiro Tatara and scary-looking musclehead Kaname, these polar opposite twins both fell in love with the same girl's smile. Since then, they compete daily to see which of them can make her smile more. But one day, tragedy suddenly strikes Koshiro... A new robot battle action manga with a totally unlikely duo from Yusaku Shibata, creator of Yoakemono!

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Zipman!! was simulpub in English through MANGA Plus. The volumes were published digitally by VIZ Media under the Shonen Jump imprint on March 23, 2021.

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Jun 7, 2020

MajinJew

Recommended

Zipman doesn't deserve a 10, it's just that it deserves a better score and reputation than it's been given by other reviews and its general score. I wanted to give it a small bump so that others could give it a shot.

If you like the art and impactful moments of My Hero Academia, you'll absolutely love the first handful of chapters, and maybe a few moments sprinkled throughout the rest of this short-lived manga. The creator worked under MHA's creator, and the inspiration is clearly there.

What you should expect is to really love it at first, then realize that the last 75% of the manga ...

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Oct 11, 2020

ElinIsHere

Mixed Feelings

First of all I love the first chapter, it's an amazing start. It tells you what you need to know in an entertaining way as well as jumping quickly into the plot. You don't feel confused and everything is clear from the start. It's entertaining and makes you want to continue reading. I am someone who tends to find first chapters to be either boring or confusing, so seeing how great it started just made me confused as to how this didn't get popular.

The mangaka Yusaku Shibata was an assistant for both One Piece and My Hero Academia, this was pretty obvious from looking ...

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Feb 22, 2021

Zerockman

Not Recommended

Zipman!! is a weird case of cancellation. I don't know what happened with the series, but it feels like the author was notified that the manga was going to be axed only 5 or so chapters in, which is unusual even for WSJ's standards. It's not unusual for WSJ series to get axed 17 or so chapters in, just like Zipman!!, but what happened with this particular series makes it feel like it was doomed from the very start.

Zipman!! imo had a very good first 5 chapters, the pacing was just right, the art was appealing and the plot was also interesting. Unfortunately, with ... the turn from chapter 5 to 6 everything changed. The manga suddenly got super rushed and the entire evil organization of the story attacked the MC at the same time. A different villain was defeated every single chapter and then at the end of this arc the story got into a time skip and the pacing just got even faster. The plot gets even more confusing going forward, and there was a new group of villains that the heroes were supposed to fight, but they just fought one and then skipped right to the final boss, probably because the cancellation was imminent.

The only interesting villain in the manga, imo, was the villain in chapters 2, 3 and 4, that was a guy crossdressing as a robotic girl and wanted to forcefully tell society to change their preconception towards his and others' similar habits. That was a pretty fresh take for a battle shonen manga, unfortunately that was about where the manga lost its interest for me. All other subsequent villains neither had a proper introduction nor a backstory or explanation to their motivations/goals. They were essentialy just fodder for the MC to shine while defeating them.

One interesting gimmick from the series was how the robotic suit of the MC could take powers from his opponents, kind of like Mega Man. But then they just threw that out of the window and started giving random power-ups to Zipman just so that he could defeat the villains.

The plot just gets worse from here on out, with a bunch of asspulss, confusing and unexplained events and a random final villain that we the readers never got a proper introduction from. I'm pretty sure even his name is not known, he just does evil things for no reason and no explanation.

Zipman!! was a manga that had a lot of potential imo. It was really unfortunate that it got axed so early but at the same time it's no surprise since the manga was only really interesting for 5 chapters. I hope the author can come back one day with something better, because not only is his art very good but he also has shown to have good writing skills, at least for the initial part of this manga.

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