@KZO Your arguments are super disingenuous. You are trying to use the meta to make an argument that is countered by the meta. You say there wont be any fights so enemies won't dodge, but that's nonsense. The reason she wont use those knock out bottles more is that they wouldnt work, so there will be other ways to avoid fights. That's the actual narrative meta. Nothing has repeated yet or will.
There is reason she needs the others to protect her and get the enemy to the point where she can dream dive in the first place. But as you see Itou doesn't use that device often in the first place. This is the first and only time they had an actual confrontation.
Shamiko has never solved anything on her own. Even in dreams she is a fuck-up who can't do anything without Lilith, Momo, Ogura or Ugallu supporting her. So please, tell me how she solves problems on her own again. lol
@BugDemon Your whole argument boils down to "everything here happened once and only this time under certain conditions, so it's never happening again." which is just pure nonsense, you can't predict this manga, you can't say something can't happen again just because. It makes sense that situations can repeat, but this time without Ogura being there to save Shamiko, or without Momo, or without Mikan, or without anyone, just Shamiko alone. It's called character progression. You are so fixed in this being a 4koma that you are 100% sure character progression can't happen. It can, Shamiko will progress eventually to don't need help of deus ex machinas. I'm not talking about the other chapters translated on /a/, I'm talking about future chapters that don't exist yet.