Wow... Say what you want about the subject of this manga (plenty of valid criticism to be made) but that ending was beautiful. Melted my heart. Got a problem with that you can bite my ass 🤣
Gonna go ahead and verify that I mean that in a figurative way 🙄 Since they're the types who'd act like that's something lewd when they know every statement that goes "(mouth word) my (body part)" is just a rude version if "I don't like what you just said" 100% of the time 🤦

Yeah, peaceful resolutions are always ideal, but at certain point it's time to switch from "I'm a pacifist" to "I'ma pass a fist across your face" 😆

I also know some people (only one personally) who won't stand up for themselves, but they will for someone else. Weird mindset, but there are definitely weirder ones out there.

Idk, I hope so, because that's what I wanna see, but realistically I don't think he's got the balls. He would definitely dig deep and fuck shit up if he was pushed hard enough, but this may not be enough danger. Aoi's no Hanako, but she ain't a damsel in distress either. You'd be surprised how much just being timid can hold someone back, even with a lot more training than their opponent.

I sparred with a lot of people when I was in a kung-fu class, and even with the gear on and even knowing it was a controlled environment with disciplined people who are not gonna go berserk or fight dirty, they still just aren't as fun as the other people. Even ones who were there way longer than me.

Like they just don't try hard enough. I know they weren't holding back out of discipline either. They may have started that way at first since I had just started at the school, but I would quickly be kicking their ass, so if they were going easy on me, they would've known by that point that they didn't need to.

I know that because there were people there that I underestimated too, like there was a guy in his 50's and also a guy who was really fat who both could move WAY faster than I expected. Like I got hit in my face a few times and was thinking like "Ahh! Holy fucking shit! Yayyy I can cut loose!!!" Fat dude hit like a truck too. I guess carrying all that around must build muscle. Makes sense.

There was also a skinny girl who could hit pretty fucking hard, and you know precision is how small people beat big people, and the gloves and foot pads make your hands and feet bigger, which spreads out the impact, so they're at a disadvantage since hitting vital areas doesn't hurt as much.

Yeah me too. I'm happy for cat boy though. I know he has stronger feelings for Aoi than Saotome does, but he's also younger, and idk if he works out or knows anything about fighting.

We all know the lion symbolizes bravery, but it's easy to be a brave lion. Being a brave mouse is hard.

And I'm not an advocate of toxic masculinity, this ain't about gender. And I've also always had the impression that one of the lessons in this manga is that some guys simply don't have that in them, and that that's okay. Just saying I'd expect Saotome to be more ballsy after training with badasses like Hanako and a her whole dojo.

I wouldn't say I miss the days, I'm happier now, but I miss knowing if I get in legal trouble for fighting, the criminal record won't be permanent.

Plus there's a small newspaper in my city that shows mugshots of all the locals who get charges. The key word there is charges, not convictions, which means it hasn't been proven that they actually did anything. And no details, just the name of the charge.

I have no way of verifying if this is true, but I heard someone got charged with a sex crime when what really happened was they peed on a bush in the middle of the night too close to a school. The legal definition only requires exposure and the school. Doesn't matter if it's not school hours and nobody saw them but a cop🤦

Whoever told me this (it was too long ago) didn't say if they (the story was about someone else) got put in the registry or even convicted, but even if their case got thrown out, anyone who saw the paper would've used their imagination.

Thankfully it's not a small town and afaik that paper is only sold at one little store, but it's still supremely fucked up.

"Potential sex criminal" 🤦 No shit 🤔
We can't punish someone for their thoughts. "Slippery slope" doesn't quite say it. That'd be a 90 degree vertical drop. Whole world would be in prison. Wouldn't be enough people left to run the prison. 🤷
Tell me with a straight face that you've never wanted to do anything violent to anyone in an illegal way, like not self-defense (in a world that has bigotry in it) and I will never trust you again.

Oh hell yeah, you're right, that's what she would do! That vaguely reminds me of Beerus and Whis when Frieza came to Earth 😂

(Shits non-existent pants) "BEERUS!?!? Are you here to stop me!?"

(Looks at backs of fingertips) "Nah. That'd be lazy writing. Characters like me are inherently implausible without some degree of indifference." (picks at a hangnail) "This franchise is pretty old. Plot always slays. Carry on."

I didn't want a pre-established badass to swoop in, I wanted Saotome and Aoi and Shouta to dig deep and bring out their inner badasses together 😤 They were supposed to make an epic memory! 😤😤

Idk if this is normal, but my memories of fights from when I was a kid are absurdly grandeurous for some reason 🤣 I remember them being all implausibly intense like some action movie like Gladiator or something.

*Beats up guy who tried to bully me* "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?"

I'm watching my own memory and talking to myself like "That ain't how it happened m8. We were like 7 years old."

*LION-ESQUE WAR CRY!!*

🤦"Bro we had a voice like a flute. We STILL get mistaken for a woman on the phone like 80% of the time" 🤣😂

You don't need to be helped m8. You're on point 😁🤝

This manga is so fucking cute 🥲

Yuck 🤢 I hope I wouldn't think in such a condescending way in the same situation. I have seen some inexcusably unhealthy mindsets from people who are way older than me, so I have always been determined not to become the "Age is an objective hierarchy" old person, no matter how old I get.

But to be fair, I guess I haven't been around anyone who's that much younger than me in a long time except for people I'm familiar with. Fuck, I swear if I fail to break that stupid cycle I am gonna kick my ass! Well, I'd try. Wouldn't be easy 😅

What the fuck kind of logic is this?? Pick a fucking lane ya psycho 🤦

We take pride in our names because we believe God gave us our names. I reject my name. If I cannot turn back from my path, then I must take everything God gave me, and reject it.

👆 says the guy who's been calling himself an agent of god, and killing alchemists because they're changing things from the way god made them??

Oof. True. One cool thing that could happen though, this has only happened to me I think twice in my life but it was wild. I was just speaking impulsively and said something I didn't even freaking know, then stopped and was like "I didn't understand that until I heard myself say it, but yeah, that's how I feel... That's how I've always felt 😳"

That's one of those things that's so specific that there is probably a proper term for it, but idk what. It's pretty cool how sometimes other languages have a 1-3 word term for something that would take me a paragraph to describe in English.

Oh God yeah, you got the winning idea right there!! His respect for women and his general ballsyness are both doubted, and everyone knows he wants more guy students, so aggressive white knighting at the school's expense would be based af. With Nekomiya being his toughest critic, Aoi and her brother would be the ideal witnesses too.

Anyone in the faculty who heard a complaint would definitely take his side. Best perk of bring a chill person is that when you do get mad, people know it wasn't over nothing.

Like "So what happened? Our tour guide bullied a bunch of middle schoolers and now they're not enrolling? HA! No sale hun. Saotome ain't no hot-headed alpha douche. If he got aggressive, someone ELSE fucked up. Not him. Dismissed 👋"

Except from a lower angle POV. It's weird to see a picture of a girl from eye level like that, because no cis girls are my height. They're either looking up at me if I'm standing, or down if I'm on my knees. I would definitely be on my knees if I met any girl in this manga 😅

Oh boy, character development progress report deadline! Don't be all timid like you are with girls Saotome! Important people are watching! Foot-down time! But don't be the "I'm automatically superior because I'm a tiny bit older" teenager either.

Ngl, I'm high key hoping he loses his cool and overdoes it, and then Kodera backs him up and scares them all out of enrolling. I'm happy to see Nekomiya's brother getting involved but only because I like him. I don't want a bunch of douchebubbles running up in here and throwing the sexy/scrappy ratio out of whack 😤

I really liked that too. It's kinda funny, I clearly remember her appearing to be deep in thought like that even though she was doing something so simple, but I really thought nothing of it. That's out of character for me. I usually overthink shit.

Hmm you've got a good point there. Thanks for pointing it out, I hadn't noticed. Hopefully it'll be more chill again after this. I've forgotten what point in the school year they're at. Or is it summer right now?

Yeah, I was worried about the scanlation team.

One much needed kick-in-the-ass lesson Neon Genesis Evangelion taught me is that if any type of entertainment content suddenly stops coming or drops in quality without an explanation, the correct response is not "Come the fuck on!", it's "I hope nothing bad is happening to the people who make this."

It's embarrassing how freaking old I was at the time when I read what happened to NGE's creator and was like "Oh... So these stories are written by people? People who are in their own constant struggles?? Kinda like me?? And pleasing me isn't the purpose of their existence??? Well shit." 🤦

Big shame, for sure. I almost dropped this manga early, and I'm so glad I didn't!!

I love femdom but hate wimpy main characters, which is an unfortunate set of tastes, so I really gotta be patient sometimes. I know character development can't be done if they don't start out with deep flaws, but sometimes it's just too sad.

I'm really not into tragedy unless it delivers powerful lessons like Tokyo Ghoul or Neon Genesis Evangelion. There's enough senseless tragedy lRL. A story better teach me something that can change/save my life if I'm gonna be tearing up about some shit that's not even really happening 😅 If you hit me in my heart you better hit me in my brain too 😁