The Last Saiyuki Chapter 5

The Last Saiyuki, since it launched in Weekly Shonen Jump, has been excellently done. My biggest issue with it is that the number of adaptations and interpretations of the story it’s adapting are already so numerous at the outset. Even Akira Toriyama’s most famous franchise globally borrowed ideas from it. Needless to say there’s some reluctance and fatigue attached to this project for some readers. It really doesn’t help how irresponsible and just plain rude one of the main characters is. The protagonist’s father often times is reprehensible yet has yet to face any consequences for his reckless endangerment of his child. This is accompanied without so much as an explanation until afterwards. The protagonist is tasked by his father with tending to a younger girl as a care aid brother figure. Earlier on, it is revealed the girl’s imagination could literally manifest itself and destroy the world. Again, not explained to the protagonist until after his dad literally hurls them into a shed. No consequences ever come of this at least not so far. There’s odd moral framing choices in the work which coupled with fatigue of many of the concepts make this something I honestly cannot recommend to anyone no matter how well it’s executed its ideas so far. Frankly there are far better monster of the week manga running in Jump at the moment to read. This one is an easy pass.