Saike Mata Shite mo - Vol. 11 Ch. 100 - Raison D'etre

[MangaDex]

 

[Okamiana]

Best boy no!!!

 

[Jepi]

Bro moment

 

[KanchouM]

You are the best superhero

 

[NamelessSoldier]

WHAT THE FUCK? HE'S PERMANENTLY BLINDED NOW?

Not a plot twist I saw coming. I thought he would pull out something like styroamifying the chains, but that got nixed quickly.

 

[SomeGuy1]

Guy should be dead. Flails are devastating weapons, a Styrofoam head will still kill you.

 

[RC1138Boss]

Holly shit, i wasn't expecting he to become blind.

 

[Phuocphuc46]

He could’ve turned the balls into styrofoam from the beginning, but waited until he has resolved his resolution. That’s a stupid move but damn is he badass

 

[Iamnormal]

yeah that's pretty heroic of him ngl

 

[kwendy]

Good thing brain damage can only occure as a side effect of some obscure ability.

 

[Oeconomist]

As I noted previously, he could have turned links of the chain to styrofoam. He then could have snapped the balls free without changing them. This episode has been a stupid masochistic fantasy.

 

[Kisato]

...

You're a hero my guy.

 

[ZeeTee]

pls reset things so slanty eyes doesn't lose his eyes

 

[Simpleton]

Luckily there's an oracle dispensing machine (panda) nearby, so someone could gain the ability to heal, but it ain't a certainty.

 

[Undinehunt]

@Oeconomist

He literally tried but got screwed over by the second one my dude. If he knew there were two balls he probably would've done that but not here.

As for head trauma.... well shonen defense?

 

[Oeconomist]

@Undinehunt—

At one point, he certainly seemed as if that were what he were attempting. But, for other parts of the story we see that change must be on contact (which he made) and instantaneous. So, even with the second ball flying at him, he should already have dealt with the first chain (which would snap under the subsequent stress, even if he didn't yank it).

So either he didn't try to change the chain, or the author changed the rules (and then quickly changed them back). One way of another, this chapter was a badly constructed masochistic fantasy.

 

[mage_goo]

@Oeconomist what are you talking about?
he never get to touch the chain until after he melted the balls.

 

[Oeconomist]

@mage_goo—

With the chain that was his target flying as it was, he wouldn't have been pausing during his declaration; and so he would have touched in his declared attempt it even if there had been another ball flying at him as he did so. (And he had ample opportunity before that declared attempt.)

I suppose that one could assert that, as in other manga elsewhere, dialogue somehow suspended the laws of motion; but all such cases are poorly constructed.

 

[mage_goo]

@Oeconomist what? the second ball hit his head, made him freezes and stopped his swing without him ever touching the chain.
there ain't no momentum to speak of when his hand is still behind him when the ball hit him, still in preparation of swinging it down.

 

[Oeconomist]

@mage_goo—

It's not as if the chain were a stationary or slow-moving target. Now maybe the mangaka imagined the character as cocking his arm to strike as the chain was there, hurtling past, but the character's behavior would then be absurd. There's just no way to make this work.