Honestly it's 100% because he just doesn't want to get more involved with royalty than he has to and he can't avoid her because he goes to school with her but he can prevent his situation from getting more entangled. If he shows up in that disguise and tells her he has to go hide she's going to insist that she can hide him better or put a tail on him that he will not be able to shake, honestly the whole situation is FUBAR.

This man's out here playing Hitman.

The horrible and beautiful miracle of childbirth healing.

Going by the conversation he's about to gather a bunch of people into one area so he can heal them all at once.

I think it's cuz he's always talking about how he's about to run outta mana, at this point I need like a visual representation of it cuz he said he was low on mana used like eight more spells and then said s*** I'm low on mana again. That and he's technically underpowered as s***, and they are currently being jumped and they're usually being jumped.

I like the character interactions but I can't get over the fact that her "hair" is octopus tentacles because I'm just imagining them in real world context like - what is that texture like? how does it connect to her head? What does the musculature of that look like? How strong was her neck be to handle that much weight? She has regular hair too where do the follicles end? Do they have to be semi-wet like an octopus or they dry up? Are they more like a snakes body where they can be dry? If they grow out of the side can they not be corralled into a back ponytail to prevent it from blocking her ears? Is there a smell? Is it like octopus meat in there more like human meat in the shape of octopus? I shouldn't be thinking this deep but something about that design is deeply uncanny to me like if her head was just a tentacles with no hair I wouldn't have the questions. Once again the writings pretty good and wholesome but my reaction to her character design can only be described as "visceral" (like anytime i think about the fact that most cat girl character designs ear placement would mean that their ear holes are on top of their fuckin skulls)

I like that in a way the story was about new generations dealing with the sins and ramifications of the actions of the past, and forging ways to move forward that may leave less work for the people that come after them. I like the fact that despite all the s*** they've gone through they're still able to smile and laugh and joke, the cruelty of the world will not break them, it will not ruin them and they'll carry the lessons they learn from it but they aim not to let that cruelty grow. I even like that it kind of starts the way it ended, responding to a low-level curse. Even if they go through something Life changing it doesn't always mean all the little things change too. It's not a perfect ending it's not going to leave everyone satisfied it's not a setup for a sequel, it's not some big glorious group up or a massive party at the end, or some big threat they can blitz through at the end to show how much physically stronger they've gotten since the start, it's just a quiet little return to the work they started with. Like a movie about a detective hunting a serial killer ending with him just responding to a another case of breaking and entering. If any of y'all don't like it I'm not going to convince you otherwise but me personally... I like it.

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.