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Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.
I support the use of nekomimi for the ring girls.


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His goddam face, lol.

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AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

we are gonna lose the tourney for some reason and our boy still ends up chairman of the association because all the other corps back him or something.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


poor bastard

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
this would be a good av imo

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 21:45 on May 4, 2017

The Lord of Hats
Aug 22, 2010

Hello, yes! Is being very good day for posting, no?
Thoughts:
Yay, Mokichi's alive!
Yay, Kazuo's still poor!
Wow, that is one hell of a bone that Setsuna's rocking there!

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

flip it so its facing the post but this is real good

Sindai
Jan 24, 2007
i want to achieve immortality through not dying
Nobody, woman or man, can resist Ohma's shorts.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Sindai posted:

Nobody, woman or man, can resist Ohma's shorts.

BravestOfTheLamps
Oct 12, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Lipstick Apathy

Jose posted:

flip it so its facing the post but this is real good

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Good luck Karla

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




When did the doctor first appear? I don't remember him at all before part 62.

McTimmy
Feb 29, 2008

RareAcumen posted:

When did the doctor first appear? I don't remember him at all before part 62.

Chapter 39. Which also contains like half of the fighters' debuts.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




McTimmy posted:

Chapter 39. Which also contains like half of the fighters' debuts.

Well that's helpful. I can't even remember which murderer won the fight to be considered.

Rangpur
Dec 31, 2008

My favorite quick joke of this fight was the panel of Yohei (convicted murderer) and Muteba (tattooed merc) pondering what a shocking technique it is to use your own hair as a weapon. They're both totally bald. :v:

It seems beyond obvious to mention it now, but establishing most of the fighters are just there to do a job turned out to be a smart move. Reading about this bag of mixed nutcases bouncing off each other between fights is one of my favorite parts of the series.

Mary Annette
Jun 24, 2005

Jose posted:

this would be a good av imo



In all fairness, this is a really cool line, and probably could've gotten Kazuo a consolation lay from the CEO lady if he hadn't looked like he was about to die when he said it.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


i want to see kazuo accidentally get put into one of the fights

Kanos
Sep 6, 2006

was there a time when speedwagon didn't get trolled

Rangpur posted:

My favorite quick joke of this fight was the panel of Yohei (convicted murderer) and Muteba (tattooed merc) pondering what a shocking technique it is to use your own hair as a weapon. They're both totally bald. :v:

It seems beyond obvious to mention it now, but establishing most of the fighters are just there to do a job turned out to be a smart move. Reading about this bag of mixed nutcases bouncing off each other between fights is one of my favorite parts of the series.

Yeah, it's pretty great. Even Ohma, who definitely just likes fighting dudes, is basically completely chill outside the arena.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

where the red fern gropes posted:

i want to see kazuo accidentally get put into one of the fights

He will awaken his secret power.

Cirina
Feb 15, 2013

Operation complete.

Ytlaya posted:

He will awaken his secret power.

He'll be so pitiable his opponent surrenders to spare the poor guy, in the process this will only further convince those who have misread him of his power.

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




where the red fern gropes posted:

i want to see kazuo accidentally get put into one of the fights

He will fight the Fang of Metsudo and win because you can't kill a man who's already dead inside.

Literally, it can't be done. It's like trying to kill a zombie by making it OD on pills.

Applebee123
Oct 9, 2007

That's 10$ for the spinefund.

where the red fern gropes posted:

i want to see kazuo accidentally get put into one of the fights

They could go with the "overestimating him" plotline. I.E A fighter could overhear that he is a specialist in counter attacking when actually talking about someone else. Later that fighter darts around him at top speed waiting for a punch but never is attacked because Kazuo cant see him because he's moving too fast. When he goes in to attack Kazuo doesnt move, and the fighter assumes Kazuo is in the perfect position for a counter attack, thus why he doesn't move and never completes the attack to avoid being hit by a counter.

Eventually the fighter collapses from exhaustion and remarks that Kazuo's defense was impenetrable and he has never met a fighter with such incredible positioning/stances/bravery etc etc.

Applebee123 fucked around with this message at 16:32 on May 6, 2017

JosephWongKS
Apr 4, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo

AtomikKrab posted:

we are gonna lose the tourney for some reason and our boy still ends up chairman of the association because all the other corps back him or something.

He does already have a fair number of friends and admirers among the CEOs:

He's friends with Kenny (the Ginokuniya CEO) - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-003-Ch-023?id=265402#7

Nogi (the Nogi CEO) sees something in Yamashita and isn't just treating him as a stooge - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-004-Ch-029?id=308975#20

Ohta (the puppet leader of Undermount Inc) fears and respects Yamashita - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-006-Ch-041?id=329976#18

Kenzo (the shadow leader of Undermount Inc) is the son of Yamashita and therefore shares blood ties with him - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-004-Ch-025?id=269632#3

Katahara Metsudo (the Kengan Chairman), Nishihonji Akira (the CEO of Nishihonji Security Services) and Furumi Heihachi (the CEO of Furumi Pharmaceuticals) were all impressed by Yamashita's astute pick of Slot 4 during the tournament match-up selection ceremony - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-006-Ch-042?id=332964#17

Urita (the Penasonic CEO) owes Yamashita a giant favour for renouncing Yamashita's claim to the Penasonic shares he won from the bet - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-008-Ch-062?id=365235#13

Suoh Mihono (the young lady CEO who saved her company with her winnings from betting on Ohma) is grateful to Yamashita - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-008-Ch-062?id=365235#16

Even Petin and Mobama have their eyes on Yamashita - http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Kengan-Ashua/Vol-006-Ch-043?id=335717#4

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Cirina
Feb 15, 2013

Operation complete.
I'm not expecting that blow to have actually ended the match after all that build up, but I think it'd be pretty neat if it did. Also I wonder what the information the announcer girl left out was.

JosephWongKS
Apr 4, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
New chapter - http://bato.to/reader#f82c537f67472ce5

bman in 2288
Apr 21, 2010
Really digging the humanizing of most of the fighters. Just makes them that much more interesting.

Gonna be honest. Wish that this fight would be done in one punch, if only for the sheer ridiculousness of it.

Rangpur
Dec 31, 2008

The fight itself may very well be over. Note that there are 3 chapters left in volume 8, titled 'Tiger,' 'Monster,' and 'Rage,' respectively. Coincidentally, the first couple of those titles also match the nicknames of the favorite in this bout, and the next. We'll likely get a chapter of denouement before Sawada jobs to The Most Muscular Man in History but Goro is almost certainly down for the count--incapable of continuing if not outright KO'd/dead.

If there are any matches that end in a single blow, Watatsuki, Julius and The Fang would be the ones to bet on. I'd expect the next chapter to cover Goro's discovery of the Kengan matches, how their first clash went from Watatsuki's perspective, and whatever error made it's way into his pre-fight bio. (FWIW, I resisted the temptation to look at the raws thus far so don't bother mentioning whether I have it right.)

JosephWongKS
Apr 4, 2009

by Nyc_Tattoo
Seems like "the guy who loses the match is the one who gets a backstory / flashback first" is holding true.

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

It seems perfectly appropriate for this fight to end in one punch. We already know Watatsuki is gonna be a major player, and this other guy doesn't know martial arts. It demonstrates how much of a monster both of them are without revealing Watatsuki's secret techniques or whatever.

Piriwi
Feb 20, 2006

Rangpur posted:

If there are any matches that end in a single blow, Watatsuki, Julius and The Fang would be the ones to bet on. I'd expect the next chapter to cover Goro's discovery of the Kengan matches, how their first clash went from Watatsuki's perspective, and whatever error made it's way into his pre-fight bio. (FWIW, I resisted the temptation to look at the raws thus far so don't bother mentioning whether I have it right.)

Regarding the error, there is this one page where it obviously shows how similar they are in terms of body type. I went back and checked; the announcer skips his weight/height. I'm guessing the light-haired fighter is much heavier than the other guy because of denser ( = stronger ) muscles.

where the red fern gropes
Aug 24, 2011


im just wondering why the fang is matched against someone who was not placed last

they voluntarily chose to go against him first?

verbal enema
May 23, 2009

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RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!

where the red fern gropes posted:

im just wondering why the fang is matched against someone who was not placed last

they voluntarily chose to go against him first?

Yeah if you look at the order in the lottery they were like #6 so they chose that spot because they wanted to fight Fang.

vvv We're over 100 chapters behind.

Cirina
Feb 15, 2013

Operation complete.
So how many chapters are the scanlations behind by, and why are they sticking to a 1/week schedule when they're not even close to caught up anyway?

Begemot
Oct 14, 2012

The One True Oden

Eopia posted:

So how many chapters are the scanlations behind by, and why are they sticking to a 1/week schedule when they're not even close to caught up anyway?

We're like a hundred chapters behind, and presumably because they have other projects and a regular schedule keeps people visiting their site or donating or whatever.

Hopefully some inane person will come along and catch us up some day, like what happened with Kingdom or HELCK.

Cirina
Feb 15, 2013

Operation complete.

Begemot posted:

We're like a hundred chapters behind, and presumably because they have other projects and a regular schedule keeps people visiting their site or donating or whatever.

Hopefully some inane person will come along and catch us up some day, like what happened with Kingdom or HELCK.

Speaking of Kingdom does it ever get better? I gave up on it around the time the kid whose dream was to become the best general ever literally could not think of a tactic more complicated than CHARGE and has to find someone else to do the thinking for them.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Eopia posted:

Speaking of Kingdom does it ever get better? I gave up on it around the time the kid whose dream was to become the best general ever literally could not think of a tactic more complicated than CHARGE and has to find someone else to do the thinking for them.

Dumbass

HenryEx
Mar 25, 2009

...your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call "a body"...
Grimey Drawer

A harsh, but valid description for the main character

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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

HenryEx posted:

A harsh, but valid description for the main character

Shin is going to become the Greatest General Under Heaven and has recently learned the martial art of Wielding a Really Big loving Glaive

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