@pdonk After how much Ricardo has been built up, and the tremendous amount of narrative that would accompany a Ricardo-Ippo fight, I would be very disappointed if it never materialized
@Tikibo If you read the last page then you'll be able to basically understand the theorem too. If you're not that interested but still curious, then the high level idea of Ramsey's theorem is this: in the given problem there are 17 people + 3 topics and you want to find 3 that share the same...
@mrdarphs The players around him do get better -- middle school and early high school is spent largely with scrubs. The entire story is about him , so yes he also gets better. In the latest chapters he is still in high school but there are very limited number of barriers to him going pro at this...
@victorkok It's not the curve that's the most important part. It's the fact that the pass is perfectly weighted. The best through ball you can receive is one for which you don't need to stop running. Both here and in the original passage of play in Chapter 5, the pass has just the right weight...
@alreadygone I can see where you're coming from. It is only from chap 406 that Kovac has explicitly laid out the goal of getting the childhood feeling back and seeing the center of the ball. We've seen a handful of chapters of them training with that goal in mind but we haven't seen a tremendous...
@tickub Think Ryuu's just asking Sakuraba to make the run that Tatsuhiko made back in the good ol' days. And I wouldn't quite call Tatsuhiko his nemesis, more of a friendly rival