Except the manga since the very start has never portrayed him as being nerfed nor did it intend to, regardless of his inability to use music, like what is this projection of yours about? Quite the opposite, in fact, the manga has made it abundantly clear that he is very much a neck above anyone that wasn't the elf girl and the other guy from the same clan thanks to his superior physical prowess, battle senses, the ability to "smell" magic and his no-nonsense mindset.

Must I remind you of how he foiled the blindfold girl's attempt at probing into him, twice, once by flicking a coin so hard it shattered the glass of water she was holding? Or that he straight up murdered a guy from the same continent as his, even from the same warband, who's supposedly his longest friend because he was being a threat to the witch girl?

As for the "interrogation" fight, even if we assumed the guy he used as a club to be of teen age, he's still an adventurer so some muscles are to be expected on top of all the equipment he was wearing, so that's ~65 + 10 = ~75kg Zig was swinging around without breaking a sweat. And again, just because he can't use magic doesn't mean he'd be a bad match against it. For one thing my man can literally "smell" magic and predict exactly when a spell is going to go off, that's how he was able to win against the witch girl in the first place. She lacks combat experience but as evident with the stampede her magic dwarfed everyone else in term of both scale and power.

Yet in spite of all that, your mind still arrived at the assumption that "he's supposed to be the underdog" when the manga has never made any attempt to portray him as such?

You're complaining about what's believable and what's not in a world with magic and giant magical beasts. A reminder that Zig is from an entirely different continent, one constantly plagued with war and conflict so it's safe to assume his body has to grow to adapt to such harsh environment and end up much tougher than the people over in this continent with all the fancy things magic can do. Also in the next, next chapter you can see just how much he eats and that was just his breakfast so it could be that his muscle is a lot denser, more tightly packed compared to what his build let on.

Then Invasion! Squid girl, Atsumare! Fushigi kenkyu-bu, Rare marriage: how to grill our love, Gabriel Dropout, Yotsubato, heck even Doraemon or Crayon Shin-chan just to name a few are all problematic in your book because of said "lack of progress towards the plot", but need I remind you that all of those, this series included, are called "slice-of-life"? They're not meant to have a plot, or more precisely the everyday happening is their plot.

There's an overarching story, but as far as a super important endgame goal they have none. There's no demon king to be defeated, no world-ending threat where you need to gather all the heroes in one place to resolve it, no great treasure to be found, etc etc. Basically there's no greater good for the characters to work toward to beside their own agenda, it's literally just what is happening in their daily life.

Also that is just a figure of speech. Majority of the time it's not up to the author whether a manga continues or gets wrapped up, even though it's their own creation. Just look at how Bleach ended.

1. Maybe if you wanna complain, go and do so in the author's twitter DM and not, y'know, in a manga pirating site's comment section where neither side will ever know that the other exists.

2. It's funny you're complaining about lack of progress and the drawn-out length on this manga of all things, considering each chapter is half the number of pages compared to other series of the same type (slice-of-life with action theme).

3. Also funny considering Komi-san and that dumpster fire Rent-a-Garbage is still going strong, but it's this manga that got your ire.

Really made a clown of himself on that one.

I don't think molting is supposed to turn a mantis into a stick bug. Remember during the stampede, these bugs were found with a parasitic flower at their nape so this could be that but a fully grown one.

He was strong enough to held back the pincer attack of the mantis beast during the stampede with just his forearms. Yes, the claws cut into his armor but the fact remains that he stopped them dead in their track.also considering that legs are the more powerful limb compared to arms, I'd say it's believable.

Best not to argue with that retard, friend. Dude been going around to every newly updated manga and comment in the most trollish and stupid way about how he will drop a series for... whatever reason.

And this is exactly why I said what I said. You don't care about the process, you preferred to have the result just spoon fed to you, hence "ADHD-rotted tiktok brain", and in that case you might as well never read anything ever again because not every manga out there is in Oneshot format where the start and the end is packed into one single chapter.


Edit: lmao little bitch boy got called out for his bs and immediately resorted to the Block button.

You read the first chapter then immediately jumped to the latest one because you can't be an ass to actually "read" and would rather just ask people for a tl;dr instead. Like there ain't much to fucking "read again" from your comment, my guy. Every word spewed is surface level, let's not pretend it's Tolkien where every sentence needs a 3 pages analysis or some shit.

I mean, if this is how you're to read any manga at all you might as well just not waste your time reading anything ever. Kids these days with their ADHD-rotted tiktok brain, I swear.

The end result, yes. The reason leading up to it, no. In this history Nobunaga virtually has already unified the realm. There are still opposition but with Kennyo joining him, their army is not only the strongest in all of Japan, but even stronger than the real history. And with his talent for diplomacy and innovative mind, preparing Japan against foreign enemy is childplay.

Because Akechi wasn't told about Nobunaga's intention of shifting "war" from the battlefield to the table for diplomacy, what with Nobunaga being a cryptic with his words as always, he thought Nobunaga meant it literally when he wanted to wage war against the Ming and that's what really got him shaken in his boots, leading us to this current situation.

She laughs at all his stupid jokes. She's a keeper.

No, what Akechi feared now is that Nobunaga's ambition has reached even beyond Japan. Couple dozen chapters back, after the conversation with Valignano, Nobunaga has set his sight to Ming, China, and lands beyond to rub it in the Portuguese face for thinking Japan is just another footnote in their history. With the level of logistics of this time period, waging war in a foreign country is simply impossible even with the backing of an entire nation.

Akechi's fear was that should Nobunaga's campaign on the Ming failed, which it very much will (in actual history, Akechi inherited Nobunaga's dream of conquering Ming after the latter's death, but his force didn't even make it through Korea) then history will only remember him as a tyrant blinded by greed, thus his honor forever smeared, that's why he decided before that happens he will kill Nobunaga in order to retain his honor.

That and how she's always doing this, regardless of the dishes. Like you don't tell me that whole-ass flambe was only for slightly grilling the damn mochi, bruh.

The school nurse.

Just don't lose your head over this chapter, got it?

He could control it to a certain degree, but mostly he doesn't want anyone to know that he's the reincarnation of Abe-no-Seimei since because he's afraid it would cause a rift between him and the students. Right now only the principal knows of this since, well, he's Ashiya Douman, the rival of Abe-no-Seimei.

Different religion. She's a blasphemy to God, not to Kami.

We have a ninja rabbit girl who's deemed "heretic" by a girl who can mind control a stadium worth of people and MC's mom being a vampire is what you're concerned about?