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 😁

I'm still chuckling when I see people act like this manga disturbed them 🙄

Gonna act like you didn't know that was coming 😄

That's why you freakin' read it 😆

What, do you think your spy watched you read 20+ chapters but then saw you say it was gross and was like "Oh, nevermind. Thought you might be a bad guy, but you're chill." and then they canceled the raid? 😂

No m8. Your door didn't get broken because you didn't do anything wrong. Stop bowing to sheltered people who whine about petty stuff. They're not your overlords 🤙

There's actual people getting sold in crates like furniture right now. Nobody who has power to mitigate that problem is gonna give a horse's tomato about this art junk 🤦

nuh-nuh-NUHH-nuhhh🎶
nuh-nuh-NUH-NUH-NUHHHH🎶
Nah, I know that's not the exact title, but you reminded me of it. Thank you very much 🙏🤝

I hope you're wrong too... I hasn't considered that possibility... They did mention a few future things that may not have been said if it was gonna end here. Senpai still hasn't gotten first place in his art thing, and hot bunny chick and hot goth chick talked about competing with each other next school year.

That might be all I remember 🤔 But Nagatoro may have mentioned there would be more tournaments in the future. I mean know it's a given that there would be in any universe, but the fact that she mentioned it was hopefully foreshadowing

A guy built like Alex?? Don't hold your breath 😅 I recently found out that not all incels are ugly and/or socially inept. Some are good enough in looks and personality that they could date if they really went for it, but they just basically think nobody's good enough for them.

They phrase it like "these people don't live up to my standards" but like what standard?? Something has to already exist for there to be a standard. How tf are you gonna define a standard when you've never even dated anyone?? Looking like a freaking mutant or having a messed up brain is a tragedy, but a hot fun charming person doing just as bad because of ego is a joke, SO much worse 🤦

You're welcome! I adore character creation. I imagine playing Nagatoro herself. There's even already a homebrew feat called Tentacled that I've used before, it gives you two tentacles and you can grapple with them, among other things. So she could be her creepy shadow person self.

The RP potential is obvious, and I was just thinking of how funny a judo fighter/rogue could be in combat with sneak attack grapples, especially with a Senpai caster in the party 😆

Senpai caster is on high ground shooting at stuff, so a magekiller type enemy runs up on him and is like "Melee range bitch! Where is your god now!? Mwaha-" *THUNK!* sneak attack throw/pin!

Nagatoro: "Only I get to bully Senpai."
Senpai: "Have it your way then, mage killer. Melee range it is." *Shocking Grasp*

Necromancer who got ippon'd by Nagatoro a few sessions ago summons something much bigger than her, like "Throw this one! 😄"
*Senpai uses Enlarge on Nagatoro*
*THUNK!*
Necromancer: "Motherf-... Dammit!" *runs away

Omg, 7 hours?? No freaking wonder your plans didn't last the whole time. How often does that group meet? I don't think I've ever done more than 4. I haven't played in years and my wife has ADHD so she had to dip out early almost every session. Luckily neither of us are great at the RP aspect of the game and I actually prefer using more than 1 character in combat, so it didn't harm the group much.

This was done much better in the anime. He thinks more deeply about how genetics work, and the whole thing is more drawn out, so you get more time to fail at anticipating the twists. Also Mustang doesn't go full double scumbag like that.