it was mentioned before im pretty sure, but retainers are the 4 strongest, basically the lance equivalent of the other nation. retainers are a sycthes right hand man (or women) and are the strongest just below the sycthes

most likely scared of being replaced, if she doesnt have importance to party 1 thats more time she has to spend studying which she hates, leaving her friends for a different party, and losing benefits of being party 1

scratch that BRIGADE LEADER WAKE UP AND JUMP THIS BASTARD OF A FATHER

JUMP THAT NIGGA MU WON

last? was it confirmed he only had 4 disciples?

blue lock 🤝 Ao Ashi

Making mcs utterly useless for months on end then ending the chapter with hope of them doing something

bros hosting the banquet to cause mayhem like the elite faction just did?

i always pronounced it like zhow fan, the a in fan being a short a (apparently not everyone knows short vs long vowels??????)

all these murim plots are the same, some hidden sect becomes super powerful out of nowhere and infiltrated basically everything in that time, now the orthodox alliance is going to war but will ultimately fail or rely on MC and gang.
Nano machine
Chronicles of heavenly Demon
Return of the Mount Hua sect has some demon invasion plot if I'm not mistaken
Magic Emperor is slightly different where mc IS the hidden "sect"
Legend of the Northern Blade

i was fully expecting MC to cut off the elders head during his speech to the patriarch

i think its been pretty obvious that certain people are better fit to be other positions although everyone's competing as a striker, and its been especially obvious since the u-20 match, chigiri is meant to be a winger, reo to be a CAM, gagamaru to be GK etc.

yea i realized now that amys the one who likes shirone not shirone liking amy

someones pulling something out their ass to win this

i completely forgot about that whole family, but its a common trope for god to appear in the form of someone you know or are fond of so that would make sense, but why not amy if that was the case.

i stopped reading when i caught up fully 2 years ago, it was a little bit after the infamous 4v1 I believe

so the dragon patter/golden core is similar to open heaven realm from martial peak, depending on what core you obtain it determines how far you can cultivate

i dont like this new character art, feels very anime game NPC / 3d wuxia type

based off the kid, i assume that along with a sliver of Mu, there exists a sliver of ink (outside the ink sect ofc, like a personification) in each of the mini worlds that YK is now going through. there were 10 open heaven realm masters so little eleventh being ink makes sense, especially when the group of 10 took ink in when it was just a "baby".

it works with all tiers, like i started reading blue lock before it was animated but couldn't really watch season 1 and now season 2 being the shitshow it is I'm glad, I read the novel for TBATE so when it came back from hiatus I wasn't super excited because I know what happens and it just didn't draw me in the same way. the only exception is anything murim or cultivation based, I hate the 3d animation style of chinese anime and the i cant remember any names in those stories so no way am I reading the LN

yea i agree the recent arc has been terrible, not enough for me to drop but its pretty shit