The funny thing is that power dispersal is literally what Black clover did and I'm having a much more enjoyable time with Black clover and it's final Arc, because while that series is generally kind of a generic shounen, it knows what it is and has fun with it and doesn't pretend like it's going to be something better or different before just defaulting back to the genre tropes.
And man it is wild how Vigilantes is so much better than this series, how often is it that the spin-off just craters the main series in terms of quality.
It's also wild how this series has managed to either ruin or waste every single villain they've had, say what you will about Naruto's talk no jutsu but some people just caught those hands, no ass pulls no wasted potential just ass beatings. But no this series going out of its way to have even the literal most fucked guy that has killed hundreds- perhaps thousands for decades get hit with the "he only did it cuz he was lonely😭" this felt like if the OG Freiza fight ended with Goku giving him energy, him saying "help me up, you know I only committed genocide because my brother didn't love me enough" and then them flying off on a ship while he dies from his wounds redeemed in his last moments. Why can't a piece of shit just be a piece of shit sometimes bro. hell Demon Slayer was the king of "let's hit you with a sad backstory so you feel bad about these demons becoming these monsters" and even they were like "nah Muzan is just scum"

it's like if the great ninja War Arc Decided to follow EVERY named character all at once, and the madara fight was just a flashback, a conversation, and Two punches.

yeah you get the general vibe, but without the spin-off backstory it's bizarre how they just recognize him as this former classmate without ANY mention of who this classmate is, how well they knew him and why he died or even when really beforehand, like they're paying off a setup you don't get to see. It would be like if Obito's Backstory in naruto was only revealed in that rock lee spinoff but then abruptly kakashi just knows who this villain is, like It's not something that needs a reveal or really matters without the backstory.

Someone Reread this last Arc all in one go so we can find out if it's as bad in one lump as it was week by week, Because I think if you would read it all at once you'd be significantly less bothered by how drawn out it is, and how erratic the pacing is and how much it jumps around because you can at least experience it all in one go. Nothing fixing the lack of stakes and... to say it in a word.... strange character arcs, or just bizarre things like "suddenly, racism exists" or "oh no it's the super great American hero they're so goo-they're dead", or the emo deku ark, or the fact that by far the best part of this Arc( Mecha allmight versus all for one) doesn't involve the current main villain or main character and instead involves the previous generations one. Or the suddenly "it was me Barry" followed by him getting near immediately defeated. On second thought remembering this Arc is kind of pissing me off.

If you told them one year ago that yuji would have ANY major input in the final fight, they'd clown about him not really being the main character.

The only way he can fuckup the victory lap would be if he had all for one get reincarnated or something like Majin Buu.

In hindsight it is weird that the teleporting dude is kind of as important as he is in this Arc and they only offered his backstory in the spin-off, like if you didn't read that you don't really have a clear view for why it is that boom mic and eraser head care about him so much, just vague hints

I think the feeling came entirely from that chapter that had essentially an entire war take place over the course of a single chapter right after introducing the threat, that doesn't always mean something's getting axed maybe it just means a pivot in the story, but some people here have read enough series that do that and then get canceled to be rightfully paranoid about it.

He took everything but his neck.

It felt like a literal slap in the face, "like oh s*** progress is about to be Ma- God damn it"

I think he is sad but he's not used to feeling this emotion so he's surprised by the fact that he's sad, like his humanity bewilders him.

though Riboku does have good strategy that's still been on display even in this Arc, the problem is the follow-through of the strategy is visually and textually manifested entirely by steamroll McGee the man with the strongest spear of all time who's also twice the size of every person he's encountered, it's like every fight is strategy until generals get involved and then they function like martial artist in Baki or something where they're just kind of bullshit.

Like is this how people felt reading the great ninja war when out of nowhere and with no meaningful foreshadowing they reveal that no it wasn't actually Madara all along it was THE MOTHER OF ALL CHAKRA all along THE TOTALLY NOT BULLSHIT character that was TOTALLY PLANNED FROM THE START WE SWEAR.

It is still just a wild to me that this last arcs plot is essentially the entire ending of Blood Lad but with mostly one note characters and very little character development instead of well-written ones like in blood lad.
No like Dead ass let me run down the list - the last arcs villain is a powerful villain from the previous generation of fighters, who has made a long game strategy based on possessing the modified and upgraded body of the first arcs major villain that is revealed to have been molded and forged by said final Villian.
One of the main powers the upgrade Gives him is heavy regeneration and the ability to turn more of his attacks into AOE attacks.
The main characters realize they can't physically overpower said final Villian, even with the Grand Tag team match calling in everybody that they've made friends with along the way, so they appeal to the original owner of said possessed body, he has more willpower than the villain originally imagined and it's been resisting being possessed he whole time, original possessor didn't necessarily have to be evil and basically had little choice to.
Except With that everything was set up significantly better, The villains all had charm and charisma, they took time to develop every side character so by the time it's a big brawl you like the side characters and want them to win instead of mostly not caring, power scaling and range of strength is much clearer in that series, there are no ass-pulls or power of friendship, the range of effect the villains have had on the world is much more distinctly established, and just like with this series The art was really good and the character designs were all very distinct and memorable. On top of all that the pacing wasn't a complete f****** mess like this and it actually managed to maintain tension and hype. And the final villain reveal wasn't a reveal, it was A build-up and payoff instead of this "it was me Barry" bullshit.

My only point in this long thing is to say that there was absolutely a way to do this exact arc and a story line without fumbling it because I've seen it done already years ago, which might contribute to why I'm so harsh on this s***. That and the fact that series had like 90 chapters and pulled that off and this had nearly 500.

I can at least say with Naruto I cared at least a bit why this equivalent point in that series and the villain had charisma.(Up until the point we brought in the mother of all chakra with little to no prior setup or foreshadowing, like the series really should have just ended with them beating Madara and then fighting each other.)

scared the life outta me right there

christ!

Well I Believe Uke and Seme are essentially Japanese for Top(Giver) and bottom(receiver) In the Male Homosexual context, don't know which is which but given context I'd say Seme is probably Top.

They might pop out on the other side of the globe at this point.

Zoro with cataracts