Well this isn't Japanese so I don't think the Loli thing is going to happen, but this is Korean so the odds of him getting a pet that's just sort of there is high.

At this point the only way this is going to stop getting sad is after a named character dies, my money's on berkman.

My mileage on that trope depends entirely upon how well it is weaved into the story, like if it's an established group in some way or expressly talked about at the very start of the series or something I'm usually fine with it, but whenever they have the "secret cult that can use technology above everyone else" or "secret cult that seemingly came out of nowhere but is responsible for even the petty thugs that the characters have had to fight" I hate it

It is a murim story after all, the only options are "low action, comedic slice of Life" , "get ourselves together figure out every bad thing that's happened was secretly the results of an evil organization" and last but most certainly least "edge Lord revenge fantasy" you can of course mix and match any of the three but the results become unpredictable.
I will note these three only apply when a martial arts is the main genre and not the subgenre, when it becomes the sub genre shit gets real loosey-goosey.

To Kneel so hard your vertical, it's like boa Hancock's pose inverted.

Bruh it's been so long I forgot Xiao yu even existed.

I curse you for making me notice, now it's all I see as well.

It's wild that they think a rich person not paying taxes in America using legal rigmarole and "Charity" donations is something that would make the news and not something most of them do quite often. It just makes me remember that time Google had a meeting somewhere and the guy said "we pay all our taxes" and the entire crowd laughed at him

This has such a bizarre and specific energy to it like someone saw one of those weird horny Loli manga and said "I want to make the exact same thing but with taste and logic" so is undoubtedly still has a weird energy but it works.

" but officers she looked 16...". "You're 28 scumbag!"

I didn't even notice till you pointed it out yeah that sword looks really fucked up.

You are right about My hero academia's failings in this regard though, like one could argue even the worst of scum in Naruto never thought that maybe killing innocents is bad, cuz for most of them when they started killing it was a survival matter. But my hero is set in a modern world with modern moral standards but expects us to essentially feel bad for toga, who's a serial killer, because she shows Love by making people bleed - as if a single person would hold sympathy for her if she wasn't a cute anime girl. Or expect us to feel bad for the man that literally razed a country because he was sad as a child and his powers accidentally killed his family and then when that doesn't seem to work just say "well he was tricked into it" as if there's not a single point in all of his life where he couldn't have realized what he was doing was wrong on his own. Or how Dabi's whole ark kind of became a giant Jerry Springer episode with a massive body count by the end. Like one could argue the series is largely inspired by Western comics but in Western comics when there's an outlandish stakes or threat they either give it an equally outlandish motivation OR write the characters in such a way that it's clear why they'd arrive at doing what they're doing where you never stop to question it. Like Magneto's doing what he's doing because he's a genocide survivor and is paranoid that it might happen to him again and aims to get them before they get him. Or Thanos is doing what he's doing because he wants death to love him because he views death as the only thing that's capable of loving someone like him truly because death embraces all things equally which happened because he was born too big ,too strong, too ugly for anyone on his home world to love him. Or simpler ones - reverse flash f**** with flash because he just hates him that much. But the biggest point is Western comics are keyed in on who you should and shouldn't try to make sympathetic. They never asked you to feel sad for reverse flash they know he's a piece of s***, they might tell you to look at Thanos as a pitiful creature a man so broken that this is how he thinks but they never ask you to agree with him or get in his head or think he's right or even entertain the thought. This series feels deeply like someone who likes Naruto, maybe missed the some of the points in Naruto, liked Spider-Man and said "I can do both"

See I didn't remember the King emma thing though, I mostly remembered that conversation he had with Morro in the ark before granola where morro was taunting him about how he's probably still going to hell for who he was and he basically explained that he doesn't care, even if morro is probably right, cuz this is who he is now.

Morals wise you're right about Naruto, but there was only so many times I could read an arc and have it end with the villain having a sad backstory about why they're a villain before it started to feel silly that we're doing this every single time especially when sometimes it doesn't really explain why they think what they're doing now is right, it just explains that they were sad so I guess that's why they sort of became bad ( looking at you sasori!) like there's only so many times you can pull the same trick before it stops working on an emotional level, especially when, as the genre mandates, stakes have to keep getting raised and threats have to keep getting more severe. Like asking me to feel bad for zabuza way back when wasn't a big ask, especially when kakashi also specifically mentioned that he's just doing what they're doing but for an individual Master instead of a village. But by the time you get to people literally just straight up attacking large civilian centers to get one guy or to prove an arbitrary point, I might still understand them but I don't really care if they're redeemed anymore, like there's only so much mileage a sad backstory can get you, when you're like a 37-year-old man in your edge Lord phase telling everyone to feel your pain and then erasing an entire town to prove a point. I kind of argue fullmetal alchemist did the same thing but more effectively, because even when they had a character be a certain way and explain that there is a reason they're that way, if they crossed the moral event horizon they wouldn't treat them like a victim of circumstances anymore cuz there's only so far you can go along that reasoning before you're choosing to do awful things mostly of your own free will. (Like sloth is viewed as a pitiful creature, greed is viewed sympathetically cuz he actively changed, but there's very little sympathy for envy or lust because though they did similarly awful things they took active pleasure in them often and showed less remorse, like when given chances for self-reflection they actively refuse to change while still being selfish enough to get angry for one of their own dying without seeing any irony in the fact, like how that dude in the white suit that scar killed had no sympathy given to him for similar reasons.) ( As an aside it is still weird that they just sort of let Orochimaru go at the end because like yeah he helped once but he was still kidnapping people for like a decade to experiment on, a lot of them children.)

Man I'm rereading this and I forgot about the dogs.

Honestly I think the two biggest marks against this author has become his unwillingness to have consequences and his unwillingness to commit to someone he wants to be likeable being a bad person or irredeemable in some way . Like shit man people clown on dragon Ball for trivializing death but even up to this day they will have Vegeta acknowledge that he's going to hell for all the sins he's committed- even though he's been a redeemed character. Meanwhile this series waivers between sort of doing that occasionally and doing what Naruto did which is making you feel bad for every single villain every single time regardless of the awful things they've done.( with the only exception being that immortal dude in naruto and the muscle dude in this) and both series had a unquestionably f***** up evil villain that they immediately try to get you to sympathize with by introducing a secret big bad that explains that they didn't actually choose any actual character choices, they aren't actually a character they're two dimensional puppets on strings, they can't make their own choices.

( That and how sometimes it feels like the world building gets sloppy like how we knew how all the different weapons and items in the hero world are manufactured but they never once mentioned that racism was a thing that existed in this world towards people with physical quirks until it conveniently mattered for this last Arc.)
If it's any consolation this is still many times better than that modern times Arc in To you, the immortal if you want to talk about tanking a series you don't get much lower than that.

As someone who read the spin-off, there are multiple times reading the main series where I was confused as to why they brought up stuff from the spin-off without explaining them like the teleporting dudes whole back story was in the spin-off, a chunk of stains backstory was in the spinoff, also the spin-off is better written, better concluded, less dragged out and all around a better story than the main one.

From what I've gathered: because he understood the magic behind that dragon exploding at the very start, the mana from that dragon's body sort of shunted into him and yeeted him into the past, and it's the reason he can use dragon tongue(by converting part of his soul into that of a dragons'?) I'm not 100% sure on anything else though.

Man the phrasing on this confused me, cuz usually for this it would be "God May forgive you, but I won't" this version feels like somebody jumbled up the words and just rolled with it.

I know ghouls as a general rule are souless, but in this specific setting they never mentioned them lacking the soul they simply state they are "creatures who lost their place to return to" and that they keep being made because the world tree isn't working and they established that the world tree helped with recycling souls and passing on the Dead, they also formed a flesh golem that was made from unrested corpses but is made stronger by resentment, to have said resentment you have to have some sort of soul or ego in there. Given these facts the cause of ghouls in this world can be stated as a person dies horribly, their soul can't rest, attempts to go back to their body but their body is dead so they can't properly resurrect thus they become a ghoul. Hell the soulkiller sword makes perfect sense too since he's able to actually properly kill them using said sword when it was shown other people using weapons could damage them but they would just ignore it.(Like in the previous chapter where they reveal how the ritual works and he stabbed it through the heart and the other guys cut off its arms but they just sort of put it back in the box. Or how they dispose of them by just tossing them in the sewers since it seems to be incredibly hard to kill ghouls.