I knew it was over when he started explaining instead of doing. If he had accomplished it the readers would be taken aback by "it actually worked?"
It's also a bullshit ending.
That "feels to take a life" explanation doesn't work because they're copies. And remember, the Loki copy could give...
It's a real shame we couldn't see all the fights due to the axe but the author did give us a good ending with what he had. You can see how great it would have been if we were given time.
I think that was also my sane exposure, I know at least is as Reding it long before the anime announcement. Similar thoughts as well, this was a very safe cookie cutter story. You can tell when someone is going to get a power up, there's way less death than there should be, fights are determined...
Countries should represent their country (people). What's the point of, say, a team for Britain if most players clearly aren't British? It's another country masquerading and says a nation is purely an arbitrary line in the sand. If Britain wants better members they actually enrich their own...