and it all accumulates into a crippling porn addiction by 18 <3

Dirty energy and him being smug is inline with what we know.

I mean that's not really a direction change, moreso we don't have any major or overarching plot going on right now, so in general the story and pacing has toned down a lot

I definitely liked the previous edge the last art style gave, and although this is more generic I still picked it up for the basic premise, ain't gonna drop out now

the power of binging is that art styles are a vague memory until like chapter 100~

well it doesn't make senes a kid gets a knife through all that skin and muscle, him falling over was infinitely more realistic.

sauce?

Was gonna consider saying that but it's quite possible, even if they are pirating novel transcripts and quite likely aren't looking at full on pictures, that the novel included illustrations...

I mean a quick search revealed that Cordelia did infact have a bulbous chest (at least on the cover), so the only argument is if somehow while pirating the Novel he saw and followed along with the story specifically with author approved consistent and periodic illustrations of Cordelia as she grew, and of those took keen interest in her chest area; thereby ruining his immersion since the manwha adaptation (by some god unlucky or controllable chance, right?) doesn't follow along those exact periodic illustrations.

Or he's trying to use realism as a guise in a fantasy setting, because it does not take that huge of a subversion to imagine a 17 year old growthspurting in puberty.

Like we talk about Cordelia's chest but Prince Bayer is like a giant rn, bro grew in every regard istg lol.

horny starts at like age 10 wdym

How the ever loving hell are we complaining about visuals in a visual adaptation

I could maybe understand it if the quality was being worn down, but it's like you're upset their artistic interpretations of the story differs from yours; all stemming from the main lead Cordelier's boob size??? Are you serious bro??????

The manwha is running perfectly fine dude, and everyone else is laughing at the now noticeable size increase. Unecessary statements aside however, jabbing at unofficial translations on a pirate site is so wild to me it's insane. Novel readers really are the next stage of "source material x was better".

Narratively, this also explained why he needed to orchestrate his death. Although he could for the time being ensure neither side has a major advantage, it's only a matter of time before someone takes a huge risk (calculatively), which Najin can't guarantee he can put a stop to (especially while also guaranteeing no major losses incurred to any faction, remember there's dragons, generals, dragon descendants, fake dragons, knights, squires AND a hero here!). The only way to completely diffuse the situation realistically is to give both of them the option to back off without casualty. In that case, a dragon can leave inconspicuously if he kills his target of vengeance, a goblin can do whatever the hell he wants to with that information, the knights can retreat knowing the descendants and generals have taken a major blow (guarantee safety and no real reason for encounter anymore truly), the descendants and generals should retreat since they're a man down, etc etc.


Although, what I'm saying above is still ultra vague and leaves out alot of nuance. Why not capitalise on the sudden change in situation, did qixing realize Najin's intent or something? What would the dragon gain from defecting from the descendants' and generals' intentions, how would the general react to a now useless body? How does he escape inconpsicuously? illusion + dragon teleport? that would go noticed by the goblin no? Or the descendant, he had clear and thought out motives didn't he???
So there are alot of questions, but the purpose of the tech is still there.

He's an enigma. The very sort of variable he was talking about, or rather someone as influential as those kinds of variables.

From any given side, or individual's perspective; Najin's perspective drastically changes the understanding and approach to the situation.

For the Goblin there's precaution, for the dragon some sort of control/ mutual understanding. For the generals they appointed him as tempoerary midbattle strategist, meaning they work under his commands in the moment. For the knights an ex-companion, still teetering between designation of true betrayal. For hippo, not a knight but not a general, a bystander? An associate, but of both groups?


From a fighting standpoint too, the generals have to be aware if Najin may have any connection with the knights still. On his own with no physical prowess he backed someone on the dragon's side into a corner (figuratively and literally), with the knight's support they might be completely overwhelmed. This is even moreso true for our knights side, Najin to them looks like a beast, because they still think it's his brother, no? This man is godly, repelled white elephant, approaches kngiht level AND also has the strategic mind of agenius. You could say another quarter of their hearts are praying he's on their side and waiting to give him the chance to defect or something.

The goblin and dragon being enemies means they both have to worry about how Najin reacts to them aswell, thankfully dragon can communicate mentally so he's good.

This hasn't even begun to take into consideration the fact that he effectively wields that ancient weapon thing, which could screw up anyone there given the "correct circumstances" (something Najin is especially well versed in directing towards).

Overall his true everything is still a mystery to everyone in-universe, just not to us. That's why everyone has conscern for Najin even slightly, and why they can't fight completely irrelevant of that fact.
Then, Najin can use the fact that EVERYONE has to take him into consideration before acting to manipulate the fight in his favour.
And anyone smart enough to realize this is also smart enough to realize how screwed they COULD be. It's like knowing someone has a blank tile in scrabble, so everyone's wary to allow branch words for 3x or 2x spots (I love bad analogies)
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I think MK translations are very severely behind (im not sure, bot don't hate me not dissing I swear)

so SURELY it comes off hiatus soon enough
was wondering why ember knight was no longer front page on bookmarks

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so tbf I actually completely see where you're coming from idk what I was smoking 7 days ago, my apologies good sire
I think with aka's writing even if the exposition is excusable, it becomes indistinguishable with regular "normal" instances of exposition which majorly furthers the frequency and tiresomeness of it.
Because every chapter you get panda bear and other explaining some cool psychology party trick for the stand-in mc's to utilise, right? That's okay.
But ontop of that they'r explaining the standin's reactions, motives, drives, correlations, and then further explaining what everything means. I don't even think they've ever repeated themselves but is sure as hell feels like they should have.
That could also possibly be my lack of depth in the "field" (I am a mangakatana commenter) but im tired of writing and wont comment on how that affect things.
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TL;DR (too long, do not read)

Characters express ideas both with and without exposition. More specific topics like the "concept of a keto diet" only serves as a connection to a real world, not for any deeper outsource of information. It has no narrative or thematic relevance. As far as I know that was the only major info dump he did this chapter.

I don't mean to offend but from what I remember (at least here) the exposition was not on note for a topic that necessitated "subtle implication".

In that case, it's very much completely okay for him to vomit out the information. Does aka do it much more than normal? Or is extremely direct and explicit? Yes, I acknowledged that already.

But avatars in the first place ARE meant to mouth off ideas, and DO serve as a form of author - audience communication, which is why this is acceptable. The exposition isn't detrimental to the plot anyways because as I said before topics covered hold little relevance besides setting in the cases I can remember.
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Ignoring all that, it is very true that sometimes the moral summary of arcs is "briefly" detailed by aka's characters in almost every one of their works. There's a very unique feel to aka exposition it's like an "okay I guess that's how the characters see it", and I have to agree in hindsight it falls in line with what you said however obvious that should have been,

Every character feels like they occasionally just take a completely out-of-world, objective and all encompassing take on an in-universe identified conflict as IF they were the audience themselves trying to descript their issues, and while I love self-aware characters I get what you mean. It does feel tiring understanding something, consciously or subconsciously, but then having it repeated. Or regurgitated in a lesser form, or a form with more complexity. It also makes interpretations of the story very rigid after conclusion, since you practically know exactly everything about anyone (since author's words are so clearly inseparable from character's words sometimes).

a conglomerate of nothingness in this passage tbf...
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double looking back at it with something as complex and abstract as love being a heavy theme for the story as a whole having various characters do various takes on their understanding of the topic is ultra self sabatoge. It makes it easier to read but sucks them dry. I do not think I needed like 10 people to tell me seki-kun or whatever his name was is trying to understand the mindset of his crush by joining a group, nor do I think the characters needed to be told that directly, and that isn't even scratching the surface (almost every panel with our love agency main characters, explaining every little motive and purpose is niche and cool sometimes and exhausting other times, I shouldn't have to be put on a timer for getting themes, and if I get them instantly I don't need to be told that (again, excluding niche and nuanced areas)

Not gonna lie I would too.

No dose necessary.

There's extra flare that way.

we've just been cultured by long romance manga before

surely the relationship turns out well

welp, that's all folks
mari-who? the female and male lead got together in the romance manga 33 chapters in, new record

it was a great run

shit the music made this one hit hard

unlike the twincest

RIP Pon bro feel so bad for the dude

Mari fr fumbled the bag

Moral of the story: women are the #1 opp

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His characters act as avatars to mouth off his ideas?

Nigha that is LITERALLY what literature is, what are you smoking bro?

Yap fest is an insane description for regular verbal communication btw, if you want to see them JUST exist that's fine, and maybe he makes his points too explicit sometimes, but then again the plot has to move somehow.