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Thanks for the chapter, /a/.
That's the problem--the manga has been presenting itself as something to take seriously for dozens of chapters, now; it may not have been via combat alone, but definitely through various kinds of drama.
Cool-sensei is trying to walk that and a number of other things back, now: this arc ends a threat backed by otherworldly, earth-cracking power with the mundane. Tooru is the daughter of the strongest (if I recall correctly) dragon of the chaos faction, but she's now doing combat with some household implement--because, you know, she's a dragonMAID. You're only supposed to pay attention to one part of that. Consequently, she engages takes actions that prove ultimately ineffectual--she's effectively incapacitated, and someone else has to end the fight (which was, BTW, not clearly drawn--it was hard to tell what any of them were doing at first glance). A big, powerful blast is loosed by the final boss, and it's totally negated by office worker Kobayashi's body thrown into it--because, you know, she just doesn't believe in or care about that kind of stuff.
Speaking of, let's say a being with godlike strength chucked a boulder at Kobayashi. She doesn't believe in gods or their power...but the rock is still coming. Does the rock cease to be or otherwise cease to endanger because of her disbelief? Isn't that godlike power? Keep in mind that she requested to be thrown into that blast. Now, you could say what you did--it's a gag manga, and therefore should not be taken seriously--but the stakes were raised as highly as they were already, such that if you're not taking the matter seriously, the characters involved definitely are. Otherwise, there was no reason for any part of this arc to have occurred. The story's already been in serious territory multiple times, from Damocles to Kimun Kamui to Elma's mother (grandmother? Aunt?) and beyond.
And yet, even Cool-sensei is apparently saying what you are: gags and mundanity return to save the day (excepting what "White" and Fafnir were doing after) at the eleventh hour of this battle arc...because "awesome" is not what he wants to depict here--just gags. The utter mundanity of Kobayashi taming the otherworldly power of dragons and others is the main point of the manga, sure, but the execution falls totally flat when those otherworldly powers are presented as serious factors. This is why I largely checked out of this manga for this arc: it's boring, because for all of the writing's intent toward displaying awesome and cool things, Cool-sensei isn't interested in either--just gags like Tooru's stick and Kobayashi totally no-selling the power of the single biggest causative factor behind this arc with indifference just as total.
I'm just waiting for more Lucoa, now--can't get her from her own spinoff, because it's drawn by a fat fetishist that's barely being restrained from turning her into his personal fap material.
That's the problem--the manga has been presenting itself as something to take seriously for dozens of chapters, now; it may not have been via combat alone, but definitely through various kinds of drama.
Cool-sensei is trying to walk that and a number of other things back, now: this arc ends a threat backed by otherworldly, earth-cracking power with the mundane. Tooru is the daughter of the strongest (if I recall correctly) dragon of the chaos faction, but she's now doing combat with some household implement--because, you know, she's a dragonMAID. You're only supposed to pay attention to one part of that. Consequently, she engages takes actions that prove ultimately ineffectual--she's effectively incapacitated, and someone else has to end the fight (which was, BTW, not clearly drawn--it was hard to tell what any of them were doing at first glance). A big, powerful blast is loosed by the final boss, and it's totally negated by office worker Kobayashi's body thrown into it--because, you know, she just doesn't believe in or care about that kind of stuff.
Speaking of, let's say a being with godlike strength chucked a boulder at Kobayashi. She doesn't believe in gods or their power...but the rock is still coming. Does the rock cease to be or otherwise cease to endanger because of her disbelief? Isn't that godlike power? Keep in mind that she requested to be thrown into that blast. Now, you could say what you did--it's a gag manga, and therefore should not be taken seriously--but the stakes were raised as highly as they were already, such that if you're not taking the matter seriously, the characters involved definitely are. Otherwise, there was no reason for any part of this arc to have occurred. The story's already been in serious territory multiple times, from Damocles to Kimun Kamui to Elma's mother (grandmother? Aunt?) and beyond.
And yet, even Cool-sensei is apparently saying what you are: gags and mundanity return to save the day (excepting what "White" and Fafnir were doing after) at the eleventh hour of this battle arc...because "awesome" is not what he wants to depict here--just gags. The utter mundanity of Kobayashi taming the otherworldly power of dragons and others is the main point of the manga, sure, but the execution falls totally flat when those otherworldly powers are presented as serious factors. This is why I largely checked out of this manga for this arc: it's boring, because for all of the writing's intent toward displaying awesome and cool things, Cool-sensei isn't interested in either--just gags like Tooru's stick and Kobayashi totally no-selling the power of the single biggest causative factor behind this arc with indifference just as total.
I'm just waiting for more Lucoa, now--can't get her from her own spinoff, because it's drawn by a fat fetishist that's barely being restrained from turning her into his personal fap material.
