I fell in love with the anime, nuff said. Aria is a curious case for me because it shouldn't have things I normally seek from one, whether its action, or fanservice, or thriller, or whatever. I mean, it's just girls, and they usually wear uniform most of the time, rowing basically boat around artificial Venice in Mars acting as tour guide. That's it. And while they are supposedly competitors, there's rarely competition happening. But the anime is one where a series become animated has big big influence on how it gets presented. With soothing music and beautiful animation, the world become alive and what a captivating world it was. Add to that an MC that is curious about everything and it's almost like a dreamy adventure, just without monsters or magic and a world to conquer. Just an every day life to enjoy new things that comes from unexplored places, meeting new people, and doing simplest things.

I want MC and the girl get together but it looks like, and honestly I feel like I can relate to his behavior too. So basically he has interest in the girl but he also feel/ think he's not worth? Somehow. Idk, honestly I want to see them together, but I can see also why it may not be so easy. I kinda like this when it started, and I think I want to follow it a bit more. There's part of MC that I can relate to, the worry, fear, also negativity. I kinda root for him to get out of his shell and embrace the relationship. Every couple has their own stories, and it doesn't necessarily all rosy and sunny. But each are precious in their own way. Each people has their own way to happiness, and this one I really hope is walking towards such ending, which is not guaranteed, but I want to hope.

I thought at first XuQing wouldn't get baited to eat that, as he survived the gum trap few chapters ago, but I guess even the all knowing dude has his weakness.

ikr. pretty sure XuQing in the past was mentioned to be unruly as well.

I think Sendo will wake up and fight to the bitter end, but the two downs he took in 2nd round will be too huge disadvantage and in the end Ricardo wins. or Idk. Someone talk about how Sendo need to lose for Ippo to unretire, but if Ricardo struggle here against Sendo, he wouldn't look so appetizing for Ippo to challenge.

I can't believe Ikezawa actually realize that. Such a wholesome moment :)

I think growth is more important for Jiwoo than "winning", as long as he survives, he will grow through these kind of experience. It's like losing a battle to win a war kind of thing.

I mean if they want to it can be pretty amazing experience.

this guy is obviously delusional, no wonder Psyger 100 is having headache facing him.

The author really have fun with this, they really just make the most absurd things here and the amazing thing is that it works. I admit I was drawn by the fanservice early on, but there were very scarce and few of those instances going forward. Instead, it's proper tussle between the ever expanding protagonist cast with various either supernatural or alien entities. Love it. In world dominated by isekai and other overused troupe, it definitely is a breathe of fresh air.

prolly the only manga where I can accept such occurence.

somtimes it's hard to write anything wo getting reminded of being single here

man at least this got proper ending. Now that I think about it, this kinda reminding me of Freezing, just without all the fanservices. Idk, I always feel as a monster series it really lacks the terror of the monsters to me, and it still doesn't make me feel like that to the very end. I want to say it's art factor, but also definitely plot because while the scene of terror is poorly depicted, no major character died apart from the commander. Also another missed opportunity is that there is not connection between #8 and Kafka, not until very last moment. I feel it can be better if they can communicate, we can get monster intel/ education while also building emotional relationship between the two.

I mean even if you see Kayden fights very little about strategic is there because he pretty much brute force everyone. But I like to think Jiwoo will lose and perhaps Jiyoung would put a stop into the fight. Or maybe the trio join in. Not that they will make big difference but they were there for a reason right. Should be.

I have always think Drive Knight was suspicious. And how One put Metal Knight seemingly cold character in place is brilliant. Genious are often misunderstood and some are know to not be fond of socializing as how normal people would. Still the way Bofoi refer to him as the man is as if we have seen or known the perpretrator for a long time. Drive Knight is an obvious candidate, but some people mention Kuseno. Idk, I don't feel Kuseno is related to all this. It's gonna take a huge matching for it to work: Kuseno was never shown to have any relation to anyone in Hero Organization, let alone DK or MK. He has on some occasion also tried to tell Genos off his revenge (ofc you can call it masterstroke reverse psychology because you know Genos wouldn't put off his revenge, but still). The only thing that makes him anything remotely suspicous is Genos: how a person with ability to create a sophisticated android body enough to have power level of an S class hero just exist. Idk I can't say for certain he is not more than we have shown he is, but for him to be villain it also needs many things to be explained. There's also thing about Neo heroes, and if we think they are also related to all this, it means the perpretrator must also have ties to Neo in some capacity. I mean, I like how this develop. Few chapters ago, I was almost sure it was Metal Knight's doing, but yeah.

they both are. I mean perfect couple

was it that bad?

man I feel like skipping ippo for the next 3-4 months.The wait is unbearable

I picked this up during the Barcelona game and now it's ofer :/ Honestly I don't feel as emotional many of long time readers, but I just wanna say I like that it has many positives for future.

a lot of reference to good old classic rpg. I think it's kinda brilliant. This plays a lot on: 1. how silly some game mechanic would be IF it is a real life situation, 2. how silly bugs can be IF again it's a real life situation. and 3. really feeds into how classic gamer love to benefit from those bugs, which is pulled to the extreme because of speedrunning. Well this kind of isekai variation has been used in various way, but this speedrunning gimmick is rare and this one pulled it out beautifully. Love it.