Recent content by Suben

I thought this chapter was all over the place and not in a good way. This is one of those things where it should have been decompressed and the events of this chapter take place over a few because it's just throwing stuff at the reader. I wanted to see more of her family enjoying the festival...

Maybe I missed some statements/hints somewhere else that already covered this but a lot of the wording in Xan's letter comes off as if her and the princess are lovers.

It doesn't look like he has. In fact he's so obscure that googling his name turns up (ironically) a wrestler with the same one (he rules though, DDT is a great promotion).

That design for Poe looks fucking terrible, jesus. Are all the girls going to be moe'd up in such a half-assed manner that loses all of the dynamism from Yokota's art style while having none of the things that makes moe appealing to people? That said, Yokota is one of my all time favorite...

You expect anything else from manga at this point?

Things like this are pretty common in Japanese wrestling, usually called a trial series or something like that and typically being 5-7 matches. They'll put a young wrestler against a series of established veterans. The point isn't for the younger wrestler to win since everyone knows they're...

Wasn't Argentina under a dictatorship (either Peronists or a junta) at the time this chapter takes place as well? Feels weird to portray it as preferable to or more free than Chile since those Latin America dictatorships were largely the same in their actions and motives.

I appreciate that Fujimaru likes Yu because she can relate to being a dumb violent gorilla.

I think it's playing some things up for kayfabe but a lot of Japanese promotions will send wrestlers overseas on what's called excursions where they'll spend a few months to a year or so as a way of testing them and letting them learn how to work different styles and crowds. In joshi, some...

The thing I've thought is that it's a very adult series and I don't mean because of the sexual stuff. It covers subject matter that in general a lot of people aren't going to grasp or might be a hard sell for people who largely get into manga to read "hype" stuff. Not even just the business or...

I can't say anything for Japanese/Asian fans of the series but at least among the coterie of English fans I would bet the Philippines arc from Section Chief would rank pretty highly up there as I think it includes a lot of what makes the series memorable: business manuevering, soap opera...

You know given that this chapter is about a reunion with some of his old college buddies and all, it makes me wonder what's up with Igarashi? He was one of the more prominent and likable supporting characters back in Section Chief so it's weird he never showed up during this series. Especially...

I'd definitely say release date, especially since I think outside of half of Young Shima Kosaku most of it isn't translated. It's sort of like any prequel where it's likely better to go back to it once you've got a better understading of the stuff that was released first. None of it is really...

Well she is a luchadora so of course she'd have some kind of wacky, complicated pin or submission ready to go.

Goodbye Sik Sik you were... well not a character really. You just kind of came and went. You existed, I suppose, but only technically.