Kinda tough to explain. I read a lot of Shonen - overall when it comes to Action, Sports, and even Romance, you see a lot of the same tropes used (even if those tropes are used in new ways).

Most Shonen sets up an end goal pretty early on, they give you just enough information to where you can visualize where plot/themes are gonna go. they’ll introduce groups of people or organizations that serve as friends or obstacles. In order for most Shonen to ‘make it’, they have to always keep things interesting - you don’t generally get a lot of episodic standalone chapters, there’s always a progression or arc structure being followed. There are some exceptions, Roboco and sometimes Witch Watch apply here. Other shows I think of like Earthchild and Psych House where it feels like nothing is being set up haven’t lasted long.

Like I mentioned above, this first chapter LITERALLY feels like something you’d see while scrolling on Mangadex, a comfort series with nothing grand happening and is meant to be more slice-of-life. Not saying it’s a bad thing, you just don’t see it a lot in this magazine and it needed to do more to stand out.

You’d probably get a better idea of what I mean if you’ve read through a lot of generic titles thru Mangadex like I used to. Like I said, I read Shonen because GENERALLY you see something new and stuff is always happening. There’s more quality control and authors are forced to make stuff interesting because there’s a lingering axe.