Immediately dives off a cliff after the first two chapters and spoils its premise by doing absolutely nothing with its hook.

Teppei is an aspiring mangaka who couldn’t catch a break. Despite all the blood, sweat, and tears, effort can only take you so far, and a little innate talent is necessary to succeed. On the verge of calling it quits, a freak accident allows a microwave to deliver Shonen Jump issues from 10 years into the future. Can plagiarizing the amazing debut from its pages be the path to success? But what follows after Chapter 2 is just a disappointing series of events and course corrections that leads it to being cancelled after 14 chapters.

The issue isn’t so much that the main character knowingly plagiarizes manga from future issues of Jump and more of an issue of that it never felt earned or justified. It’s no wonder the audience didn’t have anything to gravitate towards. Interesting conflicts that could have arisen are neutered by chapter 3 because the girl he’s stealing from is an absolute ditz with no agency, unable to put together the situation herself. Having realized this, the series bends over backwards scrambling to piece together a new plot twist that sails on male angst and being applauded a white knight when the initial story was already interesting and compelling to begin with.

The second half also spends an unordinarily amount of time trying to say the greatest manga of all time should be bland and without personality instead of being the culmination of different life experiences. And the conclusion is so obvious from miles away it’s excruciating waiting for the punch line. Turns out, you won’t be able to reach anyone if you’re writing something detached.

What you’ll have is something lifeless…just like this manga. What a shame.