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

Type a man to take the left turn at Albuquerque.

Oh geez

Well I know a general reason might be that the Azure Dragon Squad is a semi-staple of Murim stories, though usually they're either the squad the main character was a part of before he dies and reincarnates, or before the whole squad gets wiped leaving just him, or who ultimately betrays him leaving him for dead, or who finally wins the Great war or previously won the Great war. These murim stories often times are a big grab bag of names so I just assumed that was the reason.

Of course the most perfect of all of hell's demons, The Capitalist.

https://i.postimg.cc/Kzc5RMbS/i.jpg

Just to suffer.

Yeah I could feel it, the chapter was very long and it both solidified a threat and set out to completely resolve said threat.