Red Sprite - Sequel to Bleach (?)

Red Sprite (in Japanese, Redo Sprito) is a manga that started in Shonen Jump (SJ) right after Bleach ended, on August 29. By this, people had high hopes for this series and had hoped that Red Sprite (as a title) would become a regular series in the magazine. That didn't happen and so it ended in 15 chapters. Instead of a great/epic series (as main shonen series are supposed to be), what came to the readers was a series that was desperate for the spotlight and didn't realize its full potential.

The beginning of it all happens pretty much as other shounen titles, which is promising. Our main character Tatsu Frampt, a young boy who lives in an orphanage nowhere near the city, dreams that one day he will be the captain of his own airship and travel around the world alongside his friends, and this is all you need to know. And I know that there is a lack of new shounen adventure manga out there but this is not a good example, as something good enough to be reading inside that genre. I say this because this series wanted to catch the attention of the readers by adding fight scenes early on without any sort of character development and that's a great mistake (as being an error). Because this series was canceled, many characters were not developed or memorable, making it kinda edgy. I must say that the art was something decent but there's nothing special about it. The reader doesn't even recognize the author, even by other works done by itself (I didn't read Iron Knight so I don't count it). Without that, Red Sprite is even worst than we thought it would be.

You can tell that the author got pressure when making this manga and this is the result of a bad planning. As this manga didn't get a badass story, badass character, badass main character or even an ending who is not very explanatory this justify why it gets zero hype. It got axed and people knew this was coming so it's not a big of a deal now.

Story: 3 | Art: 4 | Character: 3 | Enjoyment: 3
Score: 3

Personal Note: I try many times to complete this manga and I didn't when it came out. Eight months later I finally did it but it was not my fault.