When hatred is all you have left, what happens when the thing you hate so much resolves to make amends truly and utterly, what must a man do when Fate asks him to turn his hatred into pity, to turn his rage into Mercy, when your vengeance is no longer Justice, merely violence, what justification can you stand by.

If I'm going off general trends though on average the Korean ones are at least one step above the Chinese ones, like they usually at least pretend to give a s*** about side characters and at least try to have continuity that's not madness, and usually attempt to have foreshadowing and the general plan or any kind of endpoint. Though I will admit it is just biased by the fact that I've read maybe 5 genuinely good Chinese comics out of well over 200, and out of the several hundred Korean ones I've read about half are genuinely good, and the other half usually aren't dog s*** like Chinese ones they're just mediocre, well a couple are dog shit, but those ones are kind of outliers.

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That's why I was confused, I expect that from China, this is Korean usually there is a highly standard of quality from them.

It's the same s*** they pull in revenge stories where a main character can kill any number of minions but it's "too far" to kill the villain. like no, you finish the work, you don't take four steps past the edge of the cliff then look back and walk back like a Looney tune you are more than 30 murders past when this decision should have been made.

I appreciate that they limit his knowledge to things he would have known about in his previous life path, instead of the usual "knowing everything about everyone everywhere that happened in the past" that this genre will usually gives a guy.

Shes got the power but not the mentality or experience for full special rank, would be my guess as to why not.

we all know why

I do believe it's the abbreviation for social networking service.

But he felt bad about it, that made the thousands of casualties and billions in property damage okay.

I spent every chapter after that series ended hoping he would make a cameo or something in this series just because generally most of the characters in that spin-off were stronger than the main series counterparts, and the closest we get is a reference to teleport dudes past. They even had a whole part where they were bringing in the American heroes and they didn't bring in koichi or the flying dude who are both in America at the end of that series it's just disappointment on top of disappointment with this series man.

I would believe choi Han is supposed to be a teenager, because outside of matters of combat he does kind of seem like he's a bit naive to the world, and I imagine kale only doesn't seem like a teenager because he acts like the grown ass man he used to be before he got reincarnated. Tho I will admit going off of looks they could be anywhere from 17 to 28 and I would just believe you.

All fair points, I mostly just appreciate a shounen that's at least trying to avoid things like power creep and ass-pulls and have more complex morality sometimes, that and it has two good arcs, York new city and the Chimera Ant arc, that make me wanna disregard the glaring problems the series has.

Oh no that arc is truly bad you'd think the stupid parts would be fun but the problem is before that Arc that series was genuinely really good like thought-provoking and unique and then mans gets to Modern times, and then suddenly it's about hanging out with a bunch of kids and they're just going to school and suddenly these expressly genocidal villains are supposed to be sympathetic and you're supposed to feel bad about killing them even though they literally came from the afterlife to kill all life like their goal is literally to send everyone back to the afterlife where they came from Death literally means nothing to them, and this centuries-old main character suddenly gets a love interest that is a literal 12-year-old girl, and despite having multiple arcs where he reckoned with life and death and the passage of time and love and loss previously -they just have him do it again this arc but worse, (my man turned into a turtle -Who was somehow already pregnant- to give birth and that's how he understood what love is despite him already knowing what it is by getting a family in a previous arc). MHA went from good shounen To mediocre shounen, that series went from a potential All-timer great to absolute dog s***, and on top of that lengthwise that ark was like a hundred chapters the previous entire series was like 116 so effectively that Arc made half the series actively bad, and the cherry on top is it had a good ending before that ark it literally could have just ended with him going outside and seeing the modern peaceful world he created and it would have been f****** beautiful, instead we got that ark. To explain the emotional crater that Arc was it would be like if berserk came back with a new arc where they left the fairy Island a thousand years passed guts is just hanging out with a bunch of children now there's maybe one interesting fight across the entire Arc and the whole Arc is all the children convincing him that "Griffith and the god hand are just misunderstood, we can all get along, you just don't understand things man you're immature" all while giving him a new 12 year old love interest that is a yandere.

As an aside I don't hate that boat Arc of Hunter x Hunter as much as a lot of people do I will admit that it is just incredibly wordy, like just walls of text but there are at least some interesting concepts and characters. I'd honestly say I dislike greed Island more.

I take this Arc and raise you the Modern Japan Arc from To Your Eternity, at least this Arc had a couple mediocre arcs beforehand so I could see this coming, that s*** was such an abrupt drop in quality that I stopped to Google if the author had died and maybe been replaced.

"No friends no bitches no powers no victory no homies no brothers no family no mother, off to the Afterlife with you"

It's either exhaustion with this whole Arc. tiresomeness at the whole thing ending with the power friendship. disappointment that the final villain fight was ended in literally a conversation and like three punches. or perhaps a subtle ennui as you look back upon the way this series started, maybe the recommendations you got for it as "a Japanese take on Western comic themes" , you see all the potential that this had in the shine of your eyes and you sit here and see that potential was not reached - that this ruined orgasm of an ending is what you got and it leaves you feeling.... Empty somehow, like watching a well beloved pet deteriorate day by day, year by year until you can't even look upon the fond memories anymore as they've been corrupted by the present, they no longer remind you of what was, they're no longer nostalgic, they are misery... they are deep black sadness, all you see when you look back is what is, you can no longer see what was.




Or maybe the ending was just kind of middling and that left you not really feeling anything emotional because a lot of these characters didn't really have good, meaningful arcs and this last Arc had no tension to it due to the constant bouncing between various plot lines and loooooooong stretch.

No this was absolutely going for that Naruto style redemption, where they make you feel real bad about the villain right as they die so that the heroes' good heart can remember them as someone that could have been good and in the villains last moments he makes peace with his grievances accepting his faults and acknowledging that the the heroes were right the whole time, maybe they even look back on them with a smile on their face, and they're redeemed in that way. It's just below "redeeming yourself by sacrificing yourself when you absolutely don't need to" in terms of lazy redemption arcs but it absolutely still counts.

Edit:Like it's redemption but only in that kind of half-assed "penance in the face of judgement" way like a man going to The gallows announcing his conversion to Catholicism. It's some real "it's the thought that counts" type shit.

If it's any consolation the spin-off vigilante is actually pretty good and has an actual decent ending and stakes, and keeps things at a reasonable scale and it doesn't ever have the 'power of friendship' do anything, and all the characters have actual arcs instead of....whatever these people had. And best of all they don't drag it out until it dies of its injuries in the street like this thing did. And they keep the cast to a reasonable and manageable size, and the villains are both sympathetic and interesting while still doing things that make it clear there's no talking it out.