Time Paradox Ghost Writer

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Des alternatives: English: Time Paradox Ghostwriter
Japanese: タイムパラドクスゴーストライター
Auteur: Date, Tsunehiro
Taper: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapitres: 15
Statut: Finished
Publier: 2020-05-18 to 2020-08-31
Sérialisation: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

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Des alternatives: English: Time Paradox Ghostwriter
Japanese: タイムパラドクスゴーストライター
Auteur: Date, Tsunehiro
Taper: Manga
Volumes: 2
Chapitres: 15
Statut: Finished
Publier: 2020-05-18 to 2020-08-31
Sérialisation: Shounen Jump (Weekly)
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Rookie manga artist Teppei Sasaki has worked tirelessly to become serialized in the pages of Weekly Shounen Jump only to be rejected again and again. When the latest one-shot he placed all his hopes in is dismissed, Teppei resolves that after four long years, he should just quit. But just as he makes the decision, lightning strikes his apartment, fusing his microwave and fridge together. As he inspects the mess, the microwave miraculously spits out a magazine: an issue of Shounen Jump from 10 years in the future.

Frontlining this issue is a new serialization titled "White Knight" by Itsuki Aino, a debut so flawless that it moves Teppei deeply. When the issue disappears thereafter, Teppei believes that the idea came from his own imagination and quickly works to copy it down as a one-shot. Submitting it to Shounen Jump, the editors are amazed and decide that the work is good enough to run as a series. With his dreams finally realized, Teppei works to refine the one-shot and it debuts soon after. Meanwhile, elsewhere, a 17-year-old Itsuki Aino opens the latest issue of Shounen Jump to find her fledgling story within its pages, a truth that will soon come crashing down upon Teppei.

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Ro-ro3314
Apr 11, 2021
Time Paradox Ghost Writer — a wonderful idea that could not satisfy many.

Story [6/10]

I loved the new concept that was introduced in this manga. It's perhaps the very first time I'm reading something like this, so I was very keen to learn more about it. As you have probably read the Synopsis, this story starts with a Weekly Shounen Jump from 10 years in the future and revolves around the mega-hit series, The White Knight.

While the protagonist is shown adapting to his new life, it isn't much enjoyable. He's deliberately made as a paranoid person and always wonders on how to continue the story further. I believe it could have been handled a bit better. And if it did, then we would likely be blessed with 5-6 more volumes.

Art [10/10]

The best part of this manga is the artwork, which is superb. One of the reasons why I continued reading this manga is mainly because of it. It is simply mesmerizing and if this manga had continued, then it would have surely become a favorite in many user's lists.

Character [5/10]

The main characters are Itsuki Aino and Sasaki Teppei. While Aino has been written has a wonderful character with a lot of smile and motivation, Sasaki on the other hand is always paranoid and is full of anxiety. The main issue that leads to the downfall of this manga is Sasaki. If only the authors took their time to develop Sasaki in a way that the audience likes, then it might have been successful.

Enjoyment [4/10]

The main thing to enjoy is the curiosity to know what will happen next. Aside from that, I don't think there is enough to enjoy since it is a short series.

Overall [6/10]

4 points for the incredible art and 2 points for the original idea. Though the story has references to other manga, the overall plot is amazing. I will probably recommend this manga to others since I like it, and might also buy its volume whenever it comes out.
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coop5212
Apr 11, 2021
Microwave time machine, what does it remind you of? Yes that's right, the blindly praised anime "steins;fate" another anime I'm not particularly fond of, but I won't get into that.



- SPOILERS AHEAD -
The main character wants to be a mangaka, but it seems he is not able to create something original that would get him an SJ serialisation, so with the time machine ass pull- or should I say, a thunder completely randomly hits his house, completely randomly accurately hits his microwave, which completely randomly seemed to have a robot toy next to it, now the microwave is not a microwave anymore but it's a time machine, to our surprise, there was banana jelly no excuse me, a shounen jump issue from 10 years into the future, featuring "white Knight" on the cover, which sounds like a shit isekai and they are treating it like peak fiction, but this is not a review of a manga in another manga.

Wait though, it sounds like a plot twist right? A crazy plot twist, the one who is responsible for the time machine will actually prove to be himself from the future (not happened but it's basically what it's building up from what we saw in the latest chapter). Now back to the main character, he wants to create a manga for all humanity to enjoy, not very shounen MC of him, so he rips off the manga from the future that he read and found amazing. He gets himself a good start with a one shot, and gets high places several times in the actual serialisation, but the mangaka he ripped off happened to be a dumb cute highschool girl who noticed that the white Knight our mc (don't remember his name) was writing was similar to hers, but of course it could hardly be that they happened to have the same idea so she quit school and moved to tokyo to meet him, you know basic real everyday life things, she became his assistant and like the good guy our mc is felt like he either had to tell her the truth, which would probably shatter her dreams, or rip off her future manga till the end and influence her from his timeline to become an even better mangaka in the future. Well, the shounen jump issues in the microwave stop arriving and it is revealed that the itsuki aino the original mangaka of white Knight actually died and now the mc had to stop her from dying, not like makise kurisu at all, I know.




Well you can catch up in half an hour so I guess as long as you can keep up with this garbage weekly, you should read it
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mdauben5
Apr 11, 2021
I'm heartbroken this manga didn't make it past two volumes.

This, hands down, has to be one of the most unique and interesting plots I've ever seen. And normally, I'd be the critical guy, here... because what makes a manga good (or any story, for that matter), isn't its ideas, but how it presents them. It's clear in the very fabric of Time Paradox Ghostwriter that the series got axed right out the door, but even so, the mangaka were able to wrap it up in a way that I still found worthwhile.

It's no surprise that people took offense to the plagiarism element of this manga, because people can find a reason to be offended by anything. In my opinion (and I'm stating this for the sake of the review, here) everyone should be able to understand that stories have always explored topics that cross social taboos, and finding ideas "offensive" or "insensitive" are not meaningful ways of interacting with media. Ever. Period. Doesn't matter where you come from or what topics you balk at. Boundaries are superficial, cultural, and very fluid. Everyone has different lines, and they will always be crossed somewhere.

With that out of the way, I think Time Paradox Ghostwriter was a fantastic story with wonderful art, and an intricate, unique setup that uses this element of social taboo in its very premise. We get to see a protagonist who does something quite pathetic out of some tangible desperation, in a workplace setting and sci-fi time travel story that I would never have been able to conceive myself. The genius of this is that the main character is constantly drilled with the idea of making a manga that isn't "hollow," a manga that only HE could make, something unique, original, personal. With a message, too. That's exactly the manga itself! It's wholly unique, original, and personal -- but unfortunately, it had to bumrush its message.

If given enough time, the weight of his plagiarism, the passion he feels for his work, and the lives of he and the heroine could have been explored in quite a beautiful way. For what we got, though, I'd say the managaka did very well.
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EeIl14
Apr 11, 2021
When I read the first chapters I had the following thoughts: "This is a unique and interesting story, however can this be 100+ chapters long? Or at least 50?" And as you see, with a total number of 14 chapters, it couldn't. But why was it determined to be short, and still be felt complete? To answer this question let's start with this review.

Story 6/10
As I mentioned, the story starts very interesting and unique. It is a kinda sci-fi Bakuman, and I like bakuman a lot. But right at the start you also get the feeling of emptiness or not well thought out story. Maybe It was never mean to be a long manga, but that would be strange if you want to serialized your work. But what was the problem? The main plot was interesting, of course, but when I read a chapter at the end I had this feeling of "was that all?", and not in a good way. While Bakuman was relatively fast paced, it still felt full of comedy, drama, romance and what else, and kept the readers hooked. In this work, you had this "timetravel manga writing" plot, but mostly the story was just filled with amazing art, and not a deep story. The timetravel was just for shine, all the manga work process was mostly just skipped, and character developments wasn't even there. So for example, you got maybe 2-4 (cheap) lines of plot, but the rest was just art. And yes, you can tell a good story with just art... for a battle/action manga, but not for a complex sci-fi drama, what it has supposed to be.
So at the end, I gave the most points for the exciting idea. In addition, it rushed it's own main story. So yeah, the story writer completed his story (in 14 chapters), but he sacrificed a lot of potential and side stories.

Art 8/10
The only outstanding thing in this manga was probably the art. It was really detailrich and the character designed envolved paralel to the story. However, there was just 2 real characters and was just running for 3 month, so he didn't have to come up with new designs, attacks or places. For example (again) in Bakuman, the artist had to draw a pair of manga styles within his own art style. So sometimes it was a clash of styles which was really exciting. While here you get this one style, for this manga, and the 2-3 mangas within the story. So even it was amazing and detailrich, and maybe it was due to its shortness, it had just this one style for all.

Character 4/10
The biggest problem for a short manga is everytime the character development and/or the variaty of characters. In this work, you get 2 and a half character (the half was the "timetravel"... which you will understand if you read it). Their development was also so damn fast, one of the two just got its full story in just one chapter... While the main character was a kinda a workaholic masochist with almost no reason. We got a bit of explanation, but like the whole story, it felt empty and not well thought out...

Enjoyment 5/10
I really enjoyed the art and the base plot. But as I told you before, at the same time it was too fast paced, it lacked of character and it really felt empty. If the mangaka did not start with this speed story telling, he may could put more story and character development in it. Than it may catched or hooked more readers and would be more enjoyable.

Overall 6/10
Overall you get a fast paced, but complete story. However, it was supposed to be a complex sci-fi drama about manga creating, but failed completely. The art is definitely the strongest point in this work and I hope for more artwork from the drawer. The storywriter had a excellent idea, but he maybe need more experiance for a story like that.
I would recommend this manga, if you want a short unique timetravel manga story with nice art. However, if you really want a story about the manga working process Bakuman is a way better option. Also you will find a way better timetravel sci-fi stories than this. (I never read one... I just heard a lot about Steins:Gate, so I can't recommend any like that. For Anime, I just know a few like 'Island' or 'Punch Line' where the main plot is time travel, but none of them are truly sci-fi)
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Cherri_Blxssom2
Apr 11, 2021
"Has potential" means "has not yet lived up to it". That's the lesson I hope people that were all over hyping Time Paradox Ghostwriter get out of this because that's certainly how I ended up feeling. I can't blame people for getting excited over a series like this as it seemed like this series would be Bakuman minus the stock romance + Stein;s Gate, a cool seeming idea that had some interesting questions to ask about creative writing, particularly whether or not it's truly possible for a different writer to take up someone else's beloved intellectual property without losing the intrinsic value that made the work so special in the first place. It's a question that the protagonist, the failing wannabe mangaka Teppei, finds himself having to answer with his own belabored effort when he receives a piece of the future from his microwave in the form of an issue of Weekly Shounen Jump featuring the debut of White Knight, a series set to make waves when it debuts in 10 years, but does not exist in the present. Teppei takes it upon himself to steal the manga wholesale and uses the weekly magazines he would receive henceforth as drafts for his own redrawn version to pass off to the public as an original work. Add into the equation the real creator of White Knight, a teenage girl named Itsuki Aino, has already conceptualized the story and is herself currently trying to break into the manga scene as an assistant, and you've got one spicy set up full of potentially rich and fulfilling avenues. There will be spoilers, but given how this series is set to be axed with next issues as of the time of writing, it shouldn't matter.

Of which the series takes absolutely none. It's kind of hard to say why. How much of it has to do with incompetence on the part of the writer and how much with how poorly Japan's reader base took to the idea of following the exploits of a shameless plagiarist (to the point to which all mentions of words "plagiarism, or plagiarist had to be replaced with synonyms for the first poorly-selling volume release), I can't say. But what I can tell you is that what we got as a result is confused, poorly paced mess that bulldozes all of it's oppurtunities for sudden time skips or just lazy storytelling. Did you want to see how Teppei would force himself to evolve as a writer to match the higher bar set by the Future Aino? Sorry. Were you wondering how Present Aino would approach the man profiting off of ideas so similar to hers they far exceed being called uncanny similarity? Well she befriends him immediately and shows, showing not even a hint of suspicion and even starts another smash hit manga soon after (a feat her future counterpart wouldn't accomplish until nearly a decade later).

The problem with this accelerated approach to storytelling is that it doesn't give any of the questions raised in the first chapter answers with any room to breath. What is it that makes White Knight so good to begin with? It just is. How does Teppei fill such big shoes when the issues from the future stop appearing? He just does. I brought up my positive comparison to the series Bakuman, a work that showed far more interest in showing what it truly meant to be a manga artist. The specific writing techniques Muto Ashirogi had to adopt when tackling different genres in there struggle to find something that would stick as a multi media franchise, the weekly grind to hit the top survey rankings and the resulting rivalries. It's because of our witnessing of the grueling routine of these starting artists that each of their victories and failures feel all the more uplifting and devastating respectively. TGPW beyond the first few chapters likes to tell you that all that struggle really did happen, for real just trust us, but taking shortcuts just makes everything about the story ring as empty and what's this all in service of?

Well I also did compare this series to Stein;s Gate, and while that comparison is a bit more tenuous, both works undergo a sudden shift into a "save the girl" type narrative via time travel. The shift really did feel like the manga equivalent of a "rating trap" but at this point the manga's fate was likely already sealed, and I already had checked out. Too many narrative opportunities and I could smell the axe coming a month ahead of people who are only now surprised to know this series didn't do too hot. These past few chapters feel as though they might have worked better for a final volume for a much longer series in which the relationship between Teppei and Aino would have felt far better realized, but that level of investment was left behind in one of the timeskips. So what we're left with is nothing more than the skeleton of what seemed to be a great story that died too soon and was picked to the bone before it had the chance to be told.
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cakewizard_Chan14
Apr 11, 2021
the time paradox ghost writer is a manga that heavily copies 2 shows; steins;gate and bakuman
a combination between the goat and a great show/manga will result in a great manga right?

WRONG!

the problems with it are the exact same problem the editor tells mr.maincharacter in the first chapter, nothing is bad, but nothing is good either there is nothing to be found in it, it's worthless, empty.

what would you like to see in a manga? the answer is most likely not in the time paradox ghost writer.

the characters are as plain as it gets, what even drives the main character to do whatever he does? we never know, he just does it, there is hardly any conflict and thus hardly any story
until the "main plot" starts.

the characters are also like the characters in his manga, they are just energetic without any substances, it really does feel like the manga is criticizing itself.

someone might say that s;g was like that too, but the difference is that s;g was building up the world, the plot and the characters.

the time paradox ghost writer doesn't build up anything, nothing at all, and thus when the BIG PLOT TWIST (that they totally didn't copy from s;g) kicks in, i simply have no reason to care.

the characters are the same characters you will see everywhere else, if you watch anime you have seen them many times before

the story goes exactly where you think it will go, a battle manga between the mangakas, but we already saw that in bakuman, the fact that there is a life on the line doesn't add any tension, tension is created by being attached to the characters, not by having something big on the line.

but to be fair to the show, the art is pretty solid, it is probably the only good thing you will see in this manga.

overall rating: 2/10 (but i guess you already know)
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ModusOperandi9
Apr 11, 2021
Weekly Shounen Jump is the most famous manga magazine in the world, with series like Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, Yugi-Oh, Bleach and Yaiba, just to name very few. It’s a magazine that always seems to have a hit title on their sleeves, and this can give people the idea that Jump spends a lot of time curating their manga, making sure that only the best of the best are published, but this is actually far from what really happens.
On the contrary, Weekly Shounen Jump has a new batch of manga every three or so months, and each batch comes with two to four brand new manga. And every time a new manga starts, another ends. This creates a magazine where most manga that debut ends at around four or five months after they start. Only the manga that managed to create a core audience and have decent sales in their first volumes survive. It’s important for a manga to have an initial buzz.

And Time Paradox Ghostwriter had that buzz. It had the luck of starting the exact same issue that Kimetsu no Yaiba ended, so people point at it as if it was the manga that came to take the place of one of the best selling manga of recent times. And while, yes, it was the manga that came to take Yaiba’s literal spot in the magazine, it was just another one of a batch that happened to start when Yaiba ended. But that didn’t matter, people were reading the first chapter and talking about it.

The first chapter is about Teppei Sasaki, a mangaka that is trying his best to get published in Shounen Jump, but keeps getting rejected, because, despite writing decent manga, they always feel generic. The editor asked him to write a manga that only he could write, but he fails every time.
After many tries, Sasaki is ready to give up, but during that night a lightning strikes his house, burning his microwave and this somehow puts an issue of Shounen Jump inside it. Not any issue, but an issue from 2030, ten years into the future. The magazine has a lot of manga that Sasaki does not recognize, but most importantly, it features the very first chapter of White Knight, a manga that according to him is literally the best thing to ever exist ever and your favourite manga is dumb and stupid when compared to it, and you if you don’t rate it the objective 10 out a 10, I’m blocking you. When Sasaki wakes up the next day he realizes that the issue is gone, so he concludes what any sane person would, he was dreaming. But in that dream he read a fantastic manga, one that he could now put into paper. He adapts it to a one-shot and everyone in Jump loves and publishes it. But when he comes back home he has the issue of Chapter 2 of White Knight waiting in his microwave. He was not dreaming, and worse, he just stole someone’s work.

This is the premise, and it wasn’t too long for people to point out similarities to Bakuman and Steins;Gate, which I think helped getting more buzz, but the manga is incredibly unique as is. Sure there are elements, being a manga about mangaka in Jump, it would of course have some similarities with Bakuman, which talks about the exact same thing, but the story itself is very fresh. This, together with the fact that the art is incredibly solid, clean and gorgeous, making it one of the best in the magazine, made people be sure that this wasn’t just another manga to be axed soon. Time Paradox Ghostwriter had potential and it could be one of the next pillars of Shounen Jump. And as the next couple of chapters came out more people seemed to get into it. Looking at Anilist and Myanimelist rankings, TPGW was easily one of the highest ranking debuts in the magazine this year. It seemed like TPGW was set to be a success with a solid fanbase…

OR WAS IT?

Sorry… I… I like Vsauce, I wanted to do that.
But this was just the reality of the western audiences, the reality in Japan couldn’t be further apart. See, remember when I said that Sasaki just stole a work? Turns out that Japanese audiences didn’t particularly enjoy a shounen main character doing that, and they let it know.
And I understand, but I think the way the manga tackled it was interesting, the mangaka showed remorse when he realized he stole a work and, yes, he continued to do so, even after meeting the original writer of White Knight on his timeline (who eventually becomes his assistant), but he did had his reasons. The main one being that by having the one-shot be published he destroyed any chances of Itsuki Aino (the original mangaka) to write it in the future. So only he could do it in his timeline.
It doesn’t completely excuse him, but he never seems to be doing it out of spite, and the story never really tries to pretend that plagiarism is good. Over the course of the story you can catch glimpses of Sasaki slowly making White Knight his own work.

It didn’t matter though, the Japanese people, you know, the ones that actually buy the magazine and the volumes, didn’t like the premise and they made sure to let it know, especially on the internet. To the point that the first volume tried to remove any mention of plagiarism. Which… I haven’t read the volume version, just the mangaplus weekly translations, but I don’t see how you can do that on a manga where it’s part of the core premise…
Either way, even with this, the volume got bad reviews and bad sales, although, surprisingly, not the worse Jump volume of that month, because thank God that Guardian of the Witch exists, and thank God more that it’s axed already.

This pressure to appease the audiences and gain some fanbase wasn’t present just on the volume version of the manga. The chapters started suffering too. You could tell that the mangaka was trying very hard to go through the plagiarism “arc” of the story as fast as he could, so he could potentially deliver something that the audiences could relate more to, but the result was an atrocious pacing. Each chapter started to spawn months of the story’s timeline and things just happened, and then moved onto the next thing that should happen.
In one example, we are finally introduced to a chapter that Sasaki will have to write completely on his own, a chapter that he has 7 weeks left to write. It is a big deal and we spend about a chapter and a half exploring the fact that he’s going to that, just for the manga to then skip months ahead and not mention this INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT POINT TO THE STORY ever again. It seems that almost every plot point that is introduced in the middle part of the story lacked a proper build-up and a proper conclusion.

It didn’t save it, of course. The manga was scheduled to be cancelled on it’s 14th chapter, which is incredibly early, even for early cancelations and the earliest I personally remember seeing.
When a manga gets axed, I’m not expecting a perfect ending. The mangaka was not able to tell the story he wanted to tell and they probably set up plot point that will not be resolved. They can either go for an open ending or a rushed one… but TPGW’s ending… it was good. It was really fucking good.

Maybe because the manga was rushed in the middle, when the fourth to last chapter starts to wrap-up the things, it doesn’t feel like it came out of nowhere, and maybe because the mangaka has nothing else to lose, the pacing goes back to normal, and you feel like the story can breathe again. The following chapter is probably my favourite and the mangaka even manages to throw a small remark at the fact that he didn’t had the time to tell the story he wanted to. It was probably the best ending he could go for, it was a fantastic read, it was emotional and it was more than I could ask for.

I did want to give this manga a better rating. Or rather, I’d like this manga to have had the time it needed to tell the story it wanted the way it wanted. There’s a lot of axed manga in Jump that are cancelled because they are too generic, or have too many flaws, and sometimes because they are too niche. But Time Paradox Ghostwriter was rejected because people didn’t want to accept it’s slightly morally grey character, even though they will openly accept Light’s murdering ways in Death Note. It was never that TPGW couldn’t tell a good story, Hell, I think the last four chapters show a capability to do just that, but it never was given that chance, and that is sad. The start and the ending are solid, but sadly the middle has too many problems for me to raise the score higher than the one I’m giving it.
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Animewolfguy15
Apr 11, 2021
Wait, that's it? After just over a dozen chapters it's over? We had such a good thing going! I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but chapter 14 had "Final Chapter" printed at the beginning and "The End" printed on the last page. So, here's a review of what we got.

"Time Paradox Ghost Writer" got off to a great start following our MC as he struggled to create great art with his limited talent and various sci-fi shenanigans kept interfering, but it seems almost pointless to grade the 'STORY' section since the last few chapters rush through so much to force some kind of proper ending. This situation has "early cancellation" written all over it. It's a shame, I thought there was great potential here, but it must not have caught on with other readers.

The art is nice and polished, but aesthetically it's exactly what I'd expect from such a mainstream publication- it looks like a Shonen Jump manga through and through. The characters didn't have any time to develop beyond their initial 'hook', which is a shame because while I'd say they didn't look like they were ever going to make it to my All Time Favorites list even if the series had a full run, there was potential and they were more than serviceable.

As for 'Enjoyment', I was hooked on this one. "Ghostwriter" set itself up as a cross between "Steins;Gate" and "Bakuman"- two series I enjoy. The mystery started out strong and I was eagerly awaiting every new chapter. Then Chapter 13 felt off somehow, and then BAM! Chapter 14 ends it.

It's hard to recommend this series due to the abrupt ending, if you get hooked you'll just be disappointed by the finale that comes as suddenly and gracefully as a car crash. Oh, what might have been.
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