Aoi will be crucial here, not because he can defend, but because he is now the only person who can reach Akutsu in this weird state. I assume he will wrench it out of him.
must be a death in the family.
this was a huge moment for both Akutsu and Aoi. Aoi has suddenly understood a missing piece of his game, and it's that he's never used his full talent in defending. and Akutsu is completely right! we only see Aoi's bird's eye when he's attacking.
Akutsu actually...
Aoi needs to properly learn defense. He has learned well, for a while, but he is slow to return to attack and slow to properly use his teammates well on attack when he loses himself.
Right now, I think he's learning WHEN to use that switch of his, by first grilling defense so much that he will...
being skilled and being strong aren't always equivalent. here, they used that adversity and created strength.
thanks for the chapter, gin! please stop murdering the commenters. lmao
it went all sorts of directions and it got weird and it got odd and it got funny and sometimes it meandered and got strange and nonsensical
but in a lot of ways i found that to be part of the story's charm. the fact it couldn't stay perfectly focused sort of mirrors how nonsense reality can be...
Between Akutsu feeling some responsibility for not properly directing Aoi for a moment there, to his insane drive to win and his quiet appreciation for Taira, I feel like my appreciation for Akutsu is actually at an all time high.
Tripone is super fucking cool and I hope when we see more of the...
this seems like a surprisingly tactful way for a manga like this to tackle a pretty sensitive subject like racism in japan to be honest.
tripone is fucking cool, too. we didn't have any context for him and he seemed almost a caricature, but giving him this speech really fleshed him out a bit...
I actually think he legit just didn't "see"—he might've known where he was, but in this mind it wasn't the picture he saw.. He looked confused for a moment when Kuribayashi said it and had to reevaluate like
"Wait, oh, shit"
Like it didn't even occur to him that where Kobayakawa was located...