Noah's notes is another axed Shonen Jump series, and like many of them due to it not being fully translated I cannot comment on the story as a whole. With that out of the way let's begin my review on Noah's Notes! -SPOILERS AT THE VERY END- Story: 7/10 Whilst fairly simple at first the plot of Noah's Notes follows Mirai a gyaru highschooler who is taken by professor Noah an archaeologist due to her finding a a relic from the past. The plot quickly reveals that humanity has existed in it's current state before and at some point 4 years in the future it will endunless our protagonists can find a way to stop it. The mystery is handled really well and coupled with the subject of history especially the way in which Noah sometimes defines how important history is it can be very enjoyable and thought provoking to read. The set up for the looping of humanity is really interesting and differentiates itself from other shounen battle manga, there are still some standard shounen cliche's like a big evil group of shadowy figure's but this time from the get-go they are very interesting tapping into an ideology I've rarely seen in stories that being religion. Overall there's a grand sense of exploration and discovery as a mystery is uncovered but in a more shounen type of way.

Art: 8/10
I love the character designs in the manga from what I've seen, Noah and Mirai as main characters compliment each other very well and look iconic and reflective of their personalities, couldn't ask for much more. The villain character looked very cool, his uniform as well of his eyes reminded me of Gintama characters for some reason which is a good thing. Facial expressions are very varied and unique especially Mirai which leads to some good visual comedy. In general the art is very clean with there being a lot of dark panels and thick lines which really helps it distinguish itself. Action scenes are conveyed well as are the various more echii scenes, nothing looks out of place and it's easy and fun to read with it having fairly standard panel layout, the only gripe here is that the panels where fairly standard and safe nothing crazy was going on, but that's not inherently a bad thing.

Character: 7/10
Mirai is very likable and acts as the more normal character which readers can sympathies with as she witnesses all the crazy events around her. Her original dismissal of history as a subject only to see it's importance once Noah comes into the picture is done really well too as it let's the readers think a bit about the importance of history and let's us understand the changes in Mirai's character. Noah himself is also interesting, being obsessed with history but also heroic in his own way like most shounen heroes, all in all characters are really good and I think that's due to the amount of time they get to develop as there are only about 3 major characters in the first 7 chapters.

Conclusion:
I'm really sad that Noah's Notes got axed it showed real promise, the likable characters, engaging mystery and the message of the importance of history made it very enjoyable for me to read.

Spolers Ahead:

Fortunately I can say that the end of Noah's notes despite it's limited run is such an amazing end for this story. I cannot read Japanese but the general gist of it is that the heroes fail their goal with Mirai writing in a journal for her future cycles self, only for her next iteration to find it ending the chapter with her hugging Noah, it's very bittersweet, extremely clever and the end works so well. I'm saddened to here that this is the authors third failed attempt for a serial in WSJ as this means he likely will not get another proper chance, even though I see this as a great manga that could have been so much more, i'm still very happy with what we got and it's ending.

Why it Failed:
My interpretations on why it didn't succeed in jump would be probably be it's subject matter, from what I've seen most Jump manga usually are heavily battle oriented, either in more fantastical terms like One Piece, sports like Haikyuu!! or something more unorthodox like Bakuman. (There are obvious exceptions). The whole archaeology and history themes probably wouldn't be appealing to everyone especially younger children, and due to it being more niche than other things in Jump it would likely get less votes leading to It's cancellation.

FINAL SCORE: 8/10 - Very Good