redpanther I remember your comment at Jesus Chapter about this Sarin Attack and you was goddamn right. In this afterword, the mangaka literally acknowledged what you wrote then and how hard it was when such stories become similar to reality...
Well, it's kind of a retcon in the sense that the author definitely didn't have Ash in mind when he wrote the original manga, but if you think about it, why not? Jesus is far from being Mido's first mission, so it's not hard to believe that she was doing this mission from the last chapter some...
Hahaha cmon Jesus prefers girls his own age :p Chapter 13 is a proof. + Mizutani still is waiting for him somewhere out there in a distant sandy land... ;)
100% there was no point in developing characters like Falcon so close to the final only to end up with that rushed ending. I also had a feeling that the story was planning a longer and grander confrontation involving the King... But we have what we have. At least we got a sequel, although to be...
Oh, actually in the afterword of this volume the author says that Yijian was supposed to be the protagonist of another manga that Nanatsuki Kyoichi had in mind. But in the end, this manga didn't go beyond the idea, and the author got the green light for Aegis' story, but the character was not...
Well, its depending on what you considering sequel...
The chronological order will be:
Jesus => Aegis in the Dark => Aegis in the Dawn => Jesus Sajin Kouro/UDDUP
The crossover situation is: The main events (there are also several flashback chapters that take place right after the Jesus manga) of...
Honestly I didn't really like Aegis in the Dark that much. Tate looks like some weird Japanese Batman... But still, this is also part of story, so yeah guess I cannot ignore it...