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Someone better pick up the phone, because I fuckin' called it.

Ha. I see where Morikawa is going with Shinoda stumbling over the name of the Dragon Fish Blow by reversing it: rather than a left body shot setting up for an overhand, it's going to inspire Kimura to set the body blow up with the overhand. Cute.

There's something about Kohta Hirano's work that reminds me of Jack Kirby. There's the same sense of relentless forward momentum, the same manic progression from action sequence to stylish, energetic action sequence without caring overmuch for things like character development or fridge logic or...

@Junpaku I'm sort of on the fence about that one in that I genuinely don't know how this story is trying to present the main character's fantasy racism. They're not being treated as 'the sensible one' or 'the one sane man' for hating youkai or anything like that- she's pretty clearly mentally...

@alsila Vinland Saga has been very patient with its storytelling. It has spent whole chapters on one-off minor characters, never to be seen again. It has lovingly given attention to secondary characters, gradually developing them and their relationships over time. It has slowly, carefully...

Somebody pick up that phone, because I fuckin' called it!

@thatguythere03 Page 20 looks vaguely like he headbutted the incoming punch, which is a thing that can happen in bareknuckle and lightly gloved rulesets- - and it comes right after the line 'use your head!' Furthermore a few of the blocks can be interpreted as attempts to attack the fist or...

Good Lord, who are these MMA randos and why should we care about whether they lose or win?

Isutoshi isn't really a plot person.

Prediction: the ultimate conclusion to this arc will have Hecatia *succeeding*, bringing fairies back to Hell to make it livelier...and then she reveals that fairies will regen the way they always do from it, just a little bit slower.

Not only is the plot actually going somewhere, but the author is getting better at drawing weird, intimidating spirit-monsters and juxtapoxing them with mundane, adorable shit, like taking a selfie and fetching a lost dog. And also notes of pathos and seriousness, like the bit with her father...

It's reasonable speculation, given the awkward acceleration of the pace in the last arc.

LOL at the EX-Rank Tsukkomi skill being on the heroine's character sheet when Greed uses Analyze on her in Chap. 5.

...wait, did the author mistranslate 'dove' to 'pidgeon'?

Cute. They split Ohma into two characters: one with his appearance and fighting style, and one with his temperament.

Did Okemura do other stuff that just hasn't been translated, or did they just do this one thing and then just stop?

Bwahahaha. Time to lower the stakes a bit, I guess.

Everything from 2-7 onwards is really strange. Aikido?

...they totally learned that they'd been murdering dudes that could've been cured in the last chapter, and everyone's just 'yay! cute family reconciliation!' Also, what makes this a shared universe with GATE? I didn't see anything.

@SunSun: It's not just a this-manga thing, 'Okinawan Marines are brutal animals' is a trope among anyone who is even vaguely political and even vaguely leftist in Japan. And it's a perception that is fueled by decades of real and serious misbehavior by troops there...