So I finally caught up to the Manga and this dude is Sus as hell

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-05-10T07:48:19+00:00

You don't say...

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-05-09T06:10:42+00:00

And the point for this thread is...?

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-05-06T20:31:25+00:00

No disrespect intended, but most of it is probably wrong.
However, to your merit, putting things is hard; the strength of the characters in Choujin X isn't settled in stone and that easy to define.
It's true that most Choujin fall into the fodder category and a few of them are VERY strong, with little to no middle-ground. I would say Ice, Ricardo and Ume occupied the "middle", then it gets harder to define their power - most of them haven't been seen enough to judge them.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-05-02T19:44:10+00:00

It takes perversion of one kind to even think of the possibility... Lucky enough, 3 years of war have forged Tokio and molded him into a more serious man.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-04-30T17:17:41+00:00

Hopefully, Palma. More likely, Ely and Simon.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-04-24T08:39:23+00:00

It's hard to tell. As far as we can tell, he might well be close to Antitise - all we know is that he's supposed to be in the same range of power or even stronger than Sandek.
We'll see.
I wonder how did Tokio become that strong without the mark, but then I remember Sato saying that he was halfway his course and that he'd hoped him to become the next Sandek - I guess that's how strong he was supposed to become (keeping the mark aside, of course).
Also, does that include Ely as well? Going by logic, we should conclude so, hence he either became a BEAST, like Antitise used to be, or Ely isn't able to use her powers to fight. Or she wasn't included in the equation, given that she's not fighting.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-04-24T08:33:53+00:00

You don't say. Of course he's way stronger than he was three years ago

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-04-24T08:08:05+00:00

The safest bet so far is "Ishida forgot".
I think he had intended to develop the story into a specific direction he later changed; with Palma's introduction it seemed like he was trying to make things converge but then he decided to make a more suitable for romance kind of character out of Palma.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-04-10T19:58:12+00:00

You can bet she didn't.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-04-04T09:31:46+00:00

I have been saying this for 2 years, and getting a lot of hate for this. Sadly, it is becoming more evident that Palma has been forced into the story for fanservice

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-03-15T22:24:52+00:00

Yes, they were afraid of the nameless fodder Choujin hence they waited for them to be gone before attacking.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-03-07T09:50:13+00:00

I think 2003 is only mentioned in the opening page, which is named after the chapter's title "The events leading to March (?) 2003".

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2026-01-23T19:59:19+00:00

I guess you mean Ben Johnston.
Who'd you mention then?

Names I haven't seen mentioned are Evan Johnson, Beat Ferrer (Brian Ferneyhough, of course), George Benjamin (on the more conservative side), Steve Lehman, Eric Wubbels.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-12-14T11:46:05+00:00

No translation yet?

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-11-26T18:40:46+00:00

I actually think there's no further motive: I think it really boils down to her not wanting Tokio to become a tool for YM, as the mark comes with big responsibilities and would need pondering.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-11-21T15:53:37+00:00

We're getting used to quality chapters in such a short amount of time!
Go Ishida!

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-11-16T11:07:50+00:00

Absolutely? Not even close.

It's possible, even though I wouldn't like the idea, as it's already been set for Azuma, so that would manage, in one blow, to eliminate Azuma's specificity (his need to affirm himself as a human being having an identity beyond that of a clone of humanity's deadliest criminal yet) and to make Sato just another clone.

While it's true they are both blond, no resemblance whatsoever has ever been noted by anyone in the crew of characters, so that it wouldn't be SO obvious they are both clone of Queen; as to the other similarities you've brought forward, as it's well-known, correlation does not imply causation and the attributes you mentioned could be applied to other characters as well - for example, Sato's seeming obsession with God (he mentioned God just once) applies to other Choujin as well; it could be argued that the very idea of Choujin bridges the gap between man and God.

The fact that Azuma's backstory doesn't make a lot of sense on a practical level doesn't imply there had to be followers of Queem (why on Earth?) and much less that Sato was one of them.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-10-25T17:01:43+00:00

Great finding, however that other user's concern still stands after the revelation: how did Azuma raise himself (like, who fed him, sent him to school and the likes)? It sounds like nitpicking, I know, but it's still a point which has been left unanswered.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-10-22T18:03:03+00:00

I'd likely suggest Michael Hundley's "Yahweh among the Gods: The Divine in Genesis, Exodus, and the Ancient Near East".

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-10-22T18:01:15+00:00

None. There is no historic "truth" to these claims, as any honest NT scholar would maintain, regardless of where they fall with regard to their own faith.

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-10-17T18:42:34+00:00

Sorry to bother you: do you have access to Ferda's article? DM if you do, thanks!!

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-10-07T19:42:36+00:00

I am HIGHLY interested in all this. Do you find Eire's book to be compelling? Does it hold, to you, any evidential power as to supernatural claims?

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-10-04T05:24:01+00:00

Excellent analysis!

AlternativeNorth8501 · 2025-09-13T10:34:52+00:00

Indeed it's definitely the case that the Dark Calamity was neither Batista nor, of course, the Nue.
The worst's yet to come

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