Remember, this is someone whose reaction to unintentionally getting all of a tribe's women parceled off like property was, "when we cause bad things it's still ultimately good, because the rage gets directed towards the Empire." If you admit to Sitara that you're a potential security risk for...
So basically Sitara's logic is "even if we mess up and get a ton of people hurt it's still a net positive because all the blowback for the mistake hits the Empire." I can see that leading to some crazy places.
I like the characterization of Ogedei as kind of a drunk goofball and Boraqchin as the insanely loyal first wife scheming 24/7 to cripple the competition while he's totally oblivious.
Making Fatima the one who convinces Sorghaghtani to fight is delicious irony.
I get the impression Sae has been a rogue cupid for a while. She's not interested in doing the matchmaking and is instead using the disguise and mind control powers to live it up and mess with people out of boredom.
Who would've expected Toichirovsky of all people to be the one to finally get Sinan? Well done, sir.
A pretty brave ending for what was mostly a comedy series. Most character didn't make it out alive, and it feels like half of those who did don't even get good outcomes. Martina's is pretty...
I'm impressed. I was really expecting an ending with all of them performing together at a final live, only for Arika to jump onstage at the end and symbolically forgive everyone + be reunited with Nana in front of all the fans. But they actually saw it through and made it a (light) indictment of...
Since this is a really recent manga methinks the setting might be inspired by a certain recent conflict where the two sides had a huge technological imbalance, cities were systematically blown up by the occupiers, and there was giant wall penning people in.
Really sideeyeing Ernest at this point. My dude went from being the only one who seemed to realize how messed up it was that they'd recruited a freaking child soldier to now sending her out on the deadliest maneuver because she's one of the veterans now.
Really interested to see how this arc plays out now that pretty much all the interesting Liberation Group members are all dead. They really fell apart as an org right after Livinda was out of the picture.
Oh but if Tolui dies early that means Sorghaghtani, who's already the weakest being the foreign wife of the youngest son, is totally out of the picture right?