Wow, this is a true throwback to the early days of scanlation. The watermarks on every page are certainly a bold choice considering I doubt your translations are especially accurate as well. What a loathsome group you are
It happened before that, honestly. The shift really started in the arc before all the Haniel stuff threw a wrench into the series, and it's really difficult to point to one specific thing.
Basically the manga went from a weekly/biweekly schedule to a monthly schedule without any significant...
This is basically an entirely different manga from what everyone here liked in the beginning, really highlighting how important having a good editor is to serialized authors. Unfortunately, this series does not seem to have a good editor, so here we are.
It's not apples to apples. It's mostly just a reference point to other longwinded, seemingly endless arc where nothing much really happens. Using DBZ as that reference is because that is easily understood by most people.
I also take umbridge with the idea that this manga being monthly somehow...
I had to make sure that I wasn't crazy, so I went back and read through a bunch of older chapters. The coffin game arc started in chapter 72. Technically it started in chapter 71, but 72 being the start of a new volume helps keep things uncomplicated. That chapter came out 2 YEARS AGO and since...