March Comes in Like a Lion - Ch. 217

[MangaDex]

 

[Everblaster]

When the Leeroy Jenkins strategy somehow succeeds...

 

[K_Takuya]

I missed the previous couple chapters
Is it too much if I ask you guys to upload 217 and 218?

 

[dragons06]

Wow I’m shocked Rei won, also it was so awesome how his school friends are keeping up with his matches. I love how Hina has kind of become his strength, man I wonder what happened in this match that caused Rei to win.

 

[hippotank]

Hooray? I'll die a little inside if this becomes a "Kiriyama gets dragged for 'winning by accident'" arc though...

 

[jipowap]

Attrition is also a viable strategy.

 

[ddulz]

Rei almost called it? But win instead? How come?

 

[sssr]

A single session in a pro shogi game averages 100 moves, so it isn't really attrition that got Tsujii to surrender (127 moves is long but not exceptionally so). I think what happened is that Rei was just fighting on blindly so he lost track of the forward moves, but Tsujii never did, so while Rei didn't realize he was about to win, Tsujii did and resigned mere seconds before Rei could.

 

[OmantapoNinja]

Hey guys, how many chapters are left?

 

[Labucay_san]

Shimada match: a bunch chapters and a couple of years of suspence.
This aho: surrenders in a chapter.

 

[faaresemo]

dang, just had to hold on three more seconds

 

[Orenji-kun]

A single session in a pro shogi game averages 100 moves, so it isn't really attrition that got Tsujii to surrender (127 moves is long but not exceptionally so). I think what happened is that Rei was just fighting on blindly so he lost track of the forward moves, but Tsujii never did, so while Rei didn't realize he was about to win, Tsujii did and resigned mere seconds before Rei could.

One of the lines that stuck with me the most is how in a real high level shogi match, the winner comes out more exhausted than the loser. This feels like a perfect example of how that happens

 

[Finiraldi]

Hey guys, how many chapters are left?

This is the latest serialized release and I don't think the exact final chapter number has been announced anywhere yet.

Though IF Chica Umino manages to stick with her intended plan to end with the 19th volume and its length is roughly the same amount of chapters as the previous two, I'm guessing it'd end in about 4 or 5 chapters. At the very most less than 10 as the most generous estimate.

Edit: Just now learned how some of the shorter chapters are sometimes combined in the volume release, so that estimate is immediately thrown off. Explains why some of the linked comment threads in some of the chapters in Vol. 18 and some of the non-volumed chapters don't line up with what's actually in the chapter...

 

[rnjbexe]

Big picture metaphor for the end?

 

[slwwwpppnam]

this reminds of shimada's match against soya where soya had a chance of losing but shimada never saw it, the only difference is soya wasn't panicking like rei here
now I wonder if any of the spectator saw through it like rei did?

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Wait a minute . . . isn't this the guy that's shown up once or twice, who has like bad days and good days, and on his good days he's unstoppable? Did Rei just beat this guy on a good day?!

Although I'm imagining Rei saying "Resign? What do you mean you resign?! You had this! Sit back down and beat me properly!"

 

[Gschoener]

Come on dude. He cannot be winning games by luck at this point in the story. It's all been downhill since he met and played against Souya and I'm really not liking where the story's going :/ It's like he's going to either stagnate or retire completely because he's satisfied with his life now and that's just stupid as hell.

 

[chronoreverse]

He didn't win by just luck. You're only shown Rei's perspective but the result just means Tsujii has been feeling the same way too. Both of them had been cutting off the options of their opponent by wracking their brains and doing everything they can come up with. But Tsujii reached the zero point just a bit before Rei decided he's run out of options.

 

[aa11bb]

Aren't you a four-eyed too student?

 

[Dennis-aka-Denji]

Wow I’m shocked Rei won, also it was so awesome how his school friends are keeping up with his matches. I love how Hina has kind of become his strength, man I wonder what happened in this match that caused Rei to win.

Chatgpt is that you?