@zdarkbrz_816 Is it cruel? Kugimiya does bear some culpability in Tatara's injury, and as the older dancer of the pair who had to go through potentially permanently ruining his dancing abilities, he's the best to keep Tatara from trying to dance in Sendai at the permanent risk of his future.
@iamagaroze Nah, the anime ended right here. There's some minor, but significant differences between the anime and manga, but the manga has officially caught up to the anime.
@elbichoraro
I think what’s going on is that Mako never fully got over her inferiority complex, and she’s already stated when talking with Chinatsu that one day she believes she won’t be able to keep up with Gaju. Seeing how well Tatara and Chinatsu performed, and how different Tatara is for...
@0takuDragonSlayer
Right now I think Maria is the most interesting character. All the other characters just feel like add-ins, in a slice of life style way. I agree though, Jiu-tae needs to be a better character for the story to get better.
@0takudragonslayer
I don’t think its wrong to prefer characters over the main character. I just think it’ll be hard for the story to progress if the mc gets no development, considering how the premise was laid out.
@0takuDragonSlayer
Ha ha no problem. I don't think the story is going that approach, but it does seem like the main characters are going to get more focus soon so that's really good.
@0takuDragonSlayer
This kind of gets into "fanfiction" territory so forgive me if I inject my biases into these statements, but some steps I think that would help to develop Jiu-tae's character would be:
1.) Make Jiu-tae a more active character. So far events happen to Jiu-tae, he doesn't...
@0takuDragonSlayer
Ippo loses his first sparring match but shows great heart, no? That’s what I was getting at. You can develop the main character through losing.
Regardless if Horikoshi, is a good writer, my point in bringing him up was to show that it’s possible to keep focus on your main...
@OtakuDragonSlayer
We can actually assume anything, since its something that's not been elaborated on and, though relatively minor, can be a potential plot hole if left unexplained; which is why the topic bothered me.
Its possible his mom did try to protect him from entering Martial Arts, I...