I like the parallels between sukuna and gojo both being the strongest of their generation, one accepting that though society was crooked, dirty and often shameful that doesn't mean they should turn their back on it just because they can as that leaves all the people that can't out in the lurch. while the other acknowledges that society is crooked , dirty and shameful and that it didn't want him to exist alongside it so he decided he would destroy it all only to accept in reflection and defeat that though he's the strongest he made some mistakes, he lived his life as if there was only one path because he refused to accept the paths that couldn't feed his anger, and as a result he was left alone in the end with nothing but that anger and that anger didn't give him victory or satisfaction all the same. I like that both of them impart a lesson onto itadori and informed his actions going forward. one being that there's all sorts of ways to get strong, to be strong and to live your life and there's no reason to limit yourself to the ones people had before. And the other imparting that you don't owe society your life, you deserve to live your life even if it's a little crooked and dirty, you should have a choice and a chance to straighten yourself out to pursue what you want, to be happy. I even like the fact that the soul curse if just stuck on the path to reincarnation unable to learn his lesson because unlike sakuna he didn't have a reason for his hatred - he didn't have a reason for his cruelty, his actions weren't born of the way the world treated him or the way he saw the world they were born simply of his desire for destruction in itself, he didn't want to make people like him he simply wanted to break them and when itadori became a reflection of himself he feared it, he's a creature incapable of reflection and incapable of accepting why it is people want creatures like him to die. I like the fact that this ends with a lower stakes situation truly highlighting that the situation with sakuna the high-level curses and even gojo's involvement were exceptional, they were not and should not be the norm, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.

In kengan's case the Dumbell series started before the original series ended, and star started like 80 chapters into the sequel so those feel less like interim series and more like their own thing that happens to contribute to world building.

Not to mention that if that wall ever comes down oh boy we're going to have some real race wars on our hands. And if he fucks up and does that to a country that's dependent on trade he is going to completely cripple them.

Fair enough, I was kind of going off of how it dealt with the demons it encounter.

I like it.

He guides others to a treasure he cannot possess.

This man can't catch a f****** break it's like watching Johnny bravo all over again.

It's more like the robots have a massive disadvantage some of the more powerful threats don't, in that they don't actually have power in reserve - they can only get strong by taking time and encountering strong things, A lot of other threats start at S-tier with the capacity to go SSS- tier or higher when needed and the adaptability to raise their base rank to SS- tier in short order, while the robots started somewhere around low B- tier and can only get higher by encountering things that are a little bit above them in strength, adapting, and then encountering more things that are a little bit higher in strength. They theoretically got the highest level cap but they have some of the worse starting stats and experience curve. Like they actually have a good matchup with most of the threats but a terrible matchup with the pure power type threats that can just completely wipe them out before they can adapt like the aliens.

You know when I started a series with this name and this premise I was not expecting it to have a harsh and Frank look at the reality of growing up in a less than amicable divorced household. I like it though.

There's generally one of three ways the week survive the strong, subservience - which is pretty much out for most of these threats, absolute avoidance -which will have a limited effectiveness, and Superior strategy - which will also have limited effectiveness, (there's four if you count negotiation - but that's not f****** happening except for maybe the mad Max humans) so far the mix of two and three has worked a bit and if they can refine both of their pretty much good.

I think of it more like the "law of conservation of ninjutsu". It's like in a kung fu movie - they can tell you every single ninja is equally as well trained as the main character and if he's in a one-on-one it's a hard fight, but if he's fighting 30 dudes they all die in two Hits. This excludes the existential threats though, like disease world, curse world, parasite world, nature world, anything where instead of having to confront an enemy you're just being beat down by the New world order, those are probably honestly gonna provide good mix-up to make sure it doesn't just become a pecking order. Similar to how individual elite seem to ignore the law of ninjutsu by virtue of not counting towards their races' numbers for the sake of the law but instead counting as an individual new number. (Like demon Kings only counts towards the Demon King headcount not the total demon head count so they're as strong as they have to be for having just a couple dozen or so of them instead of how weak they would be if they were thousands of them like the regular demons.) on top of this though compatibility becomes an issue, though I'm also realizing if all the threats have some kind of reserve level of power like the demon's aliens and Giants seem to that Kaiju is by and large the greatest potential threat on a destruction level, saved only by the fact that it is seemingly not particularly intelligent or actively malicious it's essentially a T-Rex lost in Detroit.

It's wild how he had that fake beard but didn't bother to get one that matches his hair color.

Well that was f****** heartbreaking.

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It's kind of where I'm at with this series, because I started this one because I thought it was going to be like a "hidden identities fight the threats" type story, but ever since he got revealed it's just sort of been default shounen it took a while to accept that and lower my expectations a bit..

My theory is that how busted any individual member of a threat is is based on how many of them there are vs how strong there respective humans are.

Truly all of us are Stallonehttps://i.postimg.cc/W15Y3dPg/i.jpg

As someone that started reading this when it first came out because the premise seemed interesting:story gets a little bit less interesting after he reveals that he's part Kaiju, and then kind of just becomes a standard shounen story the moment the big bad villain is introduced, the characters are interesting enough...though few of them are particularly outstanding, with their character designs being memorable but having a lot of overlap (due to the fact that they're literally wearing uniforms) the pacing reading this if you're caught up is kind of bad, in any given chapter there's usually very little progression, with a piece of one specific Arc being outright infuriating because of this combined with its bi-weekly release schedule. It's a solid series but I doubt I'll remember much of it once it's complete. If you've yet to start this, watch the anime and then maybe read 10 chapters at a time, forget it exists for months on end, and binge read the released chapters. I'd give it a solid 7 out of 10, it's not bad by any means but there's nothing really about it other than the initial premise that's particularly outstanding or unique so the mileage you'll get on this is based on how charming you find it.

Why are people saying "new enemy" in the comments it's the same f****** thing they've been fighting for like 30 chapters he just got to transformation going. again.

I think it's the pacing of having to wait for each chapter (with some chapters having very little progression) combined with the fact that this Arc has been a little long interspersed with several flashbacks, it's a little formulaic, and that a lot of people finally thought the ark was reaching its conclusion only to get hit with another last second villain transformation followed by a "teamwork will do it group fight" which was kind of the entire Arc already. Like it's not bad but it is certainly starting to feel a little cyclical.