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Retsu (multiple-time loser of fights and currently dead after losing a fight): "WE NEVER LOST IN 2600 YEARS! (Except the big chinese tournament where half the entrants weren't even chinese, completely clowned on our squad of jobbers, and our oldest and most venerated warrior only survived the...

I honestly don't think this series is taking particularly strange turns, by the standards of a series with a mystery element not even close. We're "only" in chapter 24, which outside of a short-running series would probably be around where you leave the tutorial arc that establishes the world...

Chii has to endure being compared to the rest of the cast precisely because her arc is so similar. And where everyone else supports and uplifts each other, tries to empathize with their partner, recognizes their faults and works on them, Chii is the complete opposite. She revels in her flaws...

You're completely correct, but you're forgetting a critical aspect to this whole thing: Teenagers are really, really fucking annoying. Chii is the archetype of the eternal manchild (or whatever the female equivalent is), the person who can't let go of the past, who's all talk and big dreams but...

Collectively mocking the lengths these types of manga will go to in order to prolong their existence is half the fun of reading them. I mean, we're almost on chapter 250, already have an entire harem, at the dedicated harem school, the titular heroine barely features in her own manga anymore...

This manga keeps doing this with the Momos. They will present you the most cruel, manipulative, bloodthirsty villain you've ever seen, but please understand his sad backstory. The writing is doing this dissonant split between wanting Momos to be these unrepentant Oni terminators who think of...

The core conceit of this manga is the most dumbass shit in the world, but it's being treated like it's this serious, realistic issue. How the hell no one at any point goes "but she's not an idol, she's under no obligation to act like one, or hold to any of the insane rules idols have to follow...

I don't think the story is all that convoluted, the only mysterious element is Lily and his motivations. Is he lying about his twin, why is he so loyal to Seiran as to start murdering indiscriminately, why is he so nonchalant about Seiran killing aliens? As an aside, I don't think Lily is dead...

It's not tiny, it's just far away!

Is that a "this is Sparta" joke? What year is this, 2006?

Crackpot theory: The killer is several versions of their son from different parallel timelines. Somehow, the son inherited an even more aggressive/powerful/uncontrollable version of the time travel disease, to the point where it's impossible for him to live anything resembling a normal life. So...

By the time Ippo gets back in the ring to face Ricardo, the dude will have had a bout with the entire rest of the cast and be pushed up to the ring in a wheelchair.

Oh god, the back of it is even worse than the front. It's just a string.

It's definitely taking its time giving the reader something to figure out. That being said, we're only about a quarter of the way through (chapter 12 of 40), so pacing-wise this is the point where the mystery and the central players are established, which seems to be true, even if we don't know...

This is definitely an ending to something that meets all the criteria required to be called a manga. I forget, but did Tsuruko ever hear about the actual reason Nekokado went to the cafe in the first place? I vaguely remember that his sister mentored Tsuruko, but did she ever actually make that...