It's like fighting magneto, as a swordsman, the moment you realize what you're facing you just give up hope.

Don't know why but this just made me picture a "samurai warriors but bleach" game being a regular guy and coming across that in the middle of the battlefield.

Yeah, that's why I figure the connection to the spin-off will be something like that.

Guess I'll finally have to take the dive myself then, all I know is that the sudden setup for that sequel basically ruined the ending of the original series, (kind of like how the mother of all chakra just sort of showing up at the very end of naruto as set up for all that alien bullshit in boruto felt kind of abrupt and out of nowhere to me.)

It's more likely that some of the fighters from this will show up in that, or they're going to randomly reveal that some character from that has been affiliated with somebody from this the whole time.

While we're here did anybody read that seven deadly sins sequel?

It's okay, it definitely leans more towards " overpowered from the start, he worked for it in past life that you don't get to see - so it's not unearned we swear" then "actually trains hard to earn his power" it's got a few cliches (well a lot of cliches) but the art is clean and of good quality, and as of chapter 5 nothing completely stupid or outright awful has happened, right now I'd say it's a 6.5/10, it's nothing outstanding but it's just above mid. It's something to blow through if you got nothing else to read. Edit: caught up, 7

I think he chose this path because it gives him space and time to train to become strong enough to be able to do whatever the f*** he wants, otherwise he'd probably just take his mother and leave.

Yes and no, her only fault is that she chose to - (along with the rest of the clan, because she wasn't the leader she was just an exceptional member that the clan could have chose to roll out to the outside at any time but they chose to stand with her) - fight back against an outside force that was behaving aggressively, to blame just her is scapegoating which they probably chose to do cuz it's easier to do that than accept the fact that they choose Honor over prosperity and maybe they regret it.
If I were them I would probably blame my Ally families that chose to do jack s*** instead of helping because they thought we might lose and then proceeded to not help us anyways after we won.

Oh hey it's those niwa guys from the spin-off

https://i.postimg.cc/50TQg9t2/i.jpg

I think it's because a lot of the time flashbacks are only used to set up villains or plot, but in this series flashbacks are used entirely as opportunities for character. Learning about his past with tang bo doesn't really tell us about an upcoming threat or something urgent in the plot, it just lets us understand his complex emotions towards the Tang clan and some of the past of this man that has constantly chosen to look forward, it lets us know that yes, he's the overpowered reincarnated protagonist, but he's also just a person that suffered and lost things and grew and fell short and feels a bit bitter about the past even if he tries to keep positive, they just sort of make him more human.

Those house rules have you playing spades with Uno cards.

I knew it Victor's going to be his brother's playma-err rival rival is what I meant and always said.

A thought occurs, I wonder when they're going to bring in a love interest if at all cuz some series like this don't really bother to but the way this is going it feels like once he gets s*** settled a bit a female characters going to show up that's actually viable love interest.

"But sir he committed a murder..""Oh no it's cool the guy he killed was gross, it's fine to kill a guy if he's gross everybody knows that, let everybody know that he sucks and hang his battered body on the walls as a lesson to everyone not to suck as bad as that guy" the way this world works is so fun.

Well that's not where my thoughts went ...but I guess you aren't wrong

Why does that last panel make me think they're walking off into heaven.

He is running game on that dwarf bro

Oh right that's why.