Battle Studies - Vol. 13 Ch. 133 - Days In Obscurity

[MangaDex]

 

[boldmonkey]

They're skipping too much story.

 

[redmokou]

This chapter really cemented the fact that DL really was blinded by their traditions and missed so much opportunity by not following up with the times/adapting like the other schools. So many 1st years and 2nd years have made their mark in this years Koshien including Kano, and I wouldn't have been surprised if Karasuma's generation have won Senbatsu or Koshien in their prior years if they weren't bounded by the 3rd years.

 

[someone2795]

They look like ghouls lmao.

 

[orsinial]

they hella ran up that score though

 

[HCO]

They're skipping too much story.

It's a pretty daring choice to timeskip the entire duration of the penalty, but there's still plenty of material for the author to work with. Those first 100 chapters were like 2 months. I am a bit surprised he skipped the potential "2nd years accepting Shotaro" arc, but it's also pretty smart given that you can see all the problems with the situation from the outset (why did we suffer this much just to have a 1st year captain, where's the respect we will eventually be owed) and resolving them is just a matter of following the path to its logical conclusion (I still want to play baseball so I'll stick around, Kano's not a bad captain, the fact we were even in that situation to begin with was the real problem).

Would it add that much to the narrative to have it all play out? Dunno. Lots of writing is a compromise, and if you're going to compromise on a part of the writing in a sports manga it might as well be the bit where they're not doing anything.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Can always be flashbacked later.