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[Comadrin]

Well, I have to admit that "Freddy Senpai" was fairly impressive, seeing what he was before.  It's good for a character be something other than just comedy relief.  It kind of makes them more real when I'm reading it.   

[svines85]

Well, I have to admit that "Freddy Senpai" was fairly impressive, seeing what he was before.  It's good for a character be something other than just comedy relief.  It kind of makes them more real when I'm reading it.   

 

You're right, it really was much more realistic..........I mean c'mon, he was almost a caricature before this.  

[svines85]

Wow, that was the most exciting stuff we've had in quite a while, very cool.

[Comadrin]

Well now.  With the new chapter (62), we seem to get a hint why Hinako's cousin, the great Ore-Sama, is such a creep.  Mama's a real winner.  I noticed the family dynamic was pretty ghastly in the earlier chapter when Hinako cut short her visit to her Uncle's house, but that possessive maniac of a mother is something else.

Edited by Comadrin, 08 February 2015 - 09:53 AM.

[Comadrin]

Just read chapter 65.  I had assumed Eichi was the one with the trauma in his past and Tomo was the strong one, but now we're seeing him in a whole new light.  A lot of the characters in this manga have pasts that they have to overcome, and it's written in a very realistic style, without trumped-up, unrealistic emotions just to further the plot.  The emotions that Rui, Hinako, Eichi, and now Tomo are feeling seem quite natural given their circumstances.  I have to hand it to the author for putting together a story that has drama and a certain amount of angst, but doesn't wallow in it, or make it contrived and phony.  

[svines85]

Just read chapter 65.  I had assumed Eichi was the one with the trauma in his past and Tomo was the strong one, but now we're seeing him in a whole new light.  A lot of the characters in this manga have pasts that they have to overcome, and it's written in a very realistic style, without trumped-up, unrealistic emotions just to further the plot.  The emotions that Rui, Hinako, Eichi, and now Tomo are feeling seem quite natural given their circumstances.  I have to hand it to the author for putting together a story that has drama and a certain amount of angst, but doesn't wallow in it, or make it contrived and phony.  

 

Yeah, really. The more we get of this title the more it seems literally everyone has some sort of trauma/hardship in their past.......except for Ide, thank goodness he's one of those happy-go-lucky idiots  

[Comadrin]

A rather late post on chapter 67 (I was working out in the middle of nowhere, and didn't read it for some time).  It's kind of a cliche, or it would be if it didn't happen so tragically often (I did it myself on more than one occasion), where Ide is injured and keeps on fighting (while destroying the tendons in his ankle with each step).  Unfortunately, that's how American High Schoolers end up with brain damage from untreated concussions in football games, destroyed joints in soccer games, etc, etc.  I remember pitching in High School, and getting smacked by a line drive in what Kipling called "the essential guts."  I was projectile vomiting while rolling around on the ground (as a run scored), and all the coach said was, "Get that p*ssy off my infield."  While I could barely stand, I was begging him to put me back in the game, and all he did was call me names, and blame me for losing the game.  

 

At my advanced age, if I was the coach, I would snatch Ide off the court so fast that no one would notice his departure for five minutes.  Anything less than losing a pivotal battle against the forces of evil doesn't matter jack s@$t against worsening a permanent injury to a teenager (try telling them that!).  Tendon injuries (sprains) are some of the worst to come back and haunt you in later years (I know ALL about that, too, and it was even more stupid on my part than begging my sociopathic coach to put me back in the game), and any decent coach would notice the injury and end up forfeiting the game.  (A pity so few coaches care more for their players [students] than for winning.)  

 

At the same time, Rui seems to have noticed what happened, and it seems to have unlocked his bad-ass-mode.  As a passionate manga reader, as opposed to a "responsible" ? middle aged man, I'm looking forward to him going b*lls to the wall and scaring every competitor from Tokyo to Minsk.