I told myself not to, I told myself after the ippo bitchslap arc that I can't keep being fooled into following arcs as they happened, I told myself to only read this manga once a year.
But this was different, my brain forced me to believe, this time it's not trudging along with Ippo and his band of rejects, this time it was the king, this time it was our boy Takamura's time to have an arc.
And thus now I have to suffer probably until July or August to see what the end of this fight brings.
Sometimes I wish George was an awful artists and writer because he's turned this manga into a soap opera and I wish I could just stop caring but I care about these characters too much.