I've checked the novel, it reaaaaaally drags out the number 2 thing for as long as possible.
Comikey here too? I don't mind supporting the authors but it feels too little too late, and most of these were out long before. Just feels bad man.
That you think it died back then is optimistic, the story never really got actual stakes and never got to live past him 'suddenly' discovering all his capabilities.
Then again it was never that sort of story to begin with, even in the novel everything was trivial and for comedy.