Honestly, seeing her passing out on the stairwell and about to fall backwards was pretty frightening, a very real and dramatic sort of fear. Props to this mangaka.
People are weird, but then again, the main draw of this comic series is thicc monster girls, so this fill-in arc would be outside people's expectations by a wide margin.
I think I can recognize bits of her various flashback images in that picture, very interesting, extremely surreal. Feels like... Something a robot would make. Nice.
@justanothermanganerd I guess the trope is most for reader benefit, to let us know what's going on. I do wonder why they don't just think this to themselves too. In Saike's case here, saying it out loud will also benefit whoever has to take his place, if he's KO'd.
@planofinaction I see this trope of "Hey, did you watch that show last night?" Often enough in Manga that I have to wonder if Japanese students are all secretly full of espers, pop culture experts, or if they have an extremely limited amount of channels.
Personally I'm banking on Esper, I mean...