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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.

Yeah the English release died out at volume 10. The guy who had been doing the scanlation seems to have basically dropped off the face of the Earth. He had been active on Reddit but seems to have stopped posting there around the time Dance Dance Danseur was airing.

Seijo kind of gets hosed a little bit by the fact that their introduction is losing to Aobanishi.

Miu is one of my favorites, even went to a show I otherwise had no real interest in purely because she was going to be on it and I missed my chance at seeing the WM weekend show in 2020. But being a lovably dumb musclehead is part of her thing. It's kind of interesting reading this series in...

If you want an indication of what Takamine's archetype in these chapters would be IRL (idol who's strong as an ox and twice as dumb) then look up current TJPW wrestler Miu Watanabe. Lilia I assume is mostly a mash up of wrestlers like Cutie Suzuki and Takako Inoue. Also kind of funny because...

Shudan cameo was in the last one, the guy Ibuchi hangs out with is one of the MCs from that series and it also reveals that Nadeshiko is the cousin of another character from there. Sesuji was during the cultural festival when Shou and Akiko's rivals showed up.

Like I said, the issue is mostly that this was Tasaki's thing while the imoutos had their own thing going but now they're all lumped into it which kind of takes away the thing Tasaki had (beyond being pretty cool and laid back I guess). I'd be more interested in her and Reiko's goofy rivalry...

While I enjoy the manga club I really wish that plotline would have just been Tasaki's thing. The idea of Kikuka making romance fiction about her brother is just weird and creepy and it's made any chapter about her and the other first years into meta humor which was already Tasaki and...

The next tournament, just from having looked at the raws way back when, definitely is one of my favorites in the series.