This manga is still the only place where I ever saw a player physically dive for the shuttlecock or sit or lie on the court. The guy who writes this must play some wild games.
And here we go with the trump card again. It's badminton. Not poker.
And there we go portraying dark-haired girls as if they can't fight their own battles and come up with solutions for their own problems again. I never saw Connie or that "Shindou" girl ever consult with their trainer. And that's because the mangaka wants to portray blonde girls as readymade successful people who can take on any problem on their own, while he wants to portray dark-haired girls as people for whom every obstacle is an uphill-battle that they can't find on their own.
"So don't lose!" Meanwhile everyone else is wondering when intervals started to last multiple minutes.
Ah... The match that doesn't hold a single surprise. The match nobody cares about.
As expected, the mangaka is starting to get anxious to portray dark-haired girls getting humiliated by blonde girls again. We got two great chapters out of this match, but this one and the previous one have been almost non-stop nonsense. At least we got the two chapters. It's more than I expected but far less than we deserve after all the nonsense I've read in this manga since the start of the preliminaries.