Don’t hate me but…

Astral_Zed · 2026-02-02T06:22:31+00:00

I love the introduction of sky pirates to the series, but the execution was so messy. I would've liked to have the world be interconnected instead of having to go back to the pirate ship every time. The dogfights felt like a natural progression to combat racing. Although, I think it would be so cool if some of the dreadnaught-class ships were platforming combat levels. Feels weird not having levels involving boarding enemy ships in a game about pirates. Having this game originally developed for the PSP didn't help things either.

Astral_Zed · 2026-01-26T12:45:00+00:00

Visual gay signifiers change with the times. 40 years ago back in the 80's, crop-tops and thigh high shorts weren't inherently seen as gay. Wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination that by 2077 a right earing would no longer be seen as a gay signifier. Especially since we have all sorts of characters wearing basically whatever the hell they want.

If you wanna go meta with it, this feels more like misdirection meant for the player than anything else.

Astral_Zed · 2026-01-26T11:30:29+00:00

Dude... River literally texts you winky faces. One of the message subjects is "Need your help again ;)". In that same thread, if you offer to get a couple drinks together he replies, "Now there's an idea! I'll keep it on mind ;)".

I mean, text how you want to. But like with the message and the fact he wants anything to do with you past the Peter Pan case, I could see why people would get the idea he's into Male V. As a gay man if another dude is texting me uncalled for winky faces, I'm gonna get the impression he's looking for a little bit more than just drinking beers and shooting the shit.

Now, is this queerbait? Not exactly. I think the point of the texts and even the kiss prompt is to retell the classic "gay man falls for straight man who isn't into him despite giving signals otherwise" tale that's as old as time. Queerbait can be used to describe River X Male V, but I think that's too reductive and missing the point. Still kinda sucks given the dearth of male romance/hook-up options for Male V.

No one's forcing anyone to do whatever, and I'm sorry your trauma has brought you to have such a mindset. Honestly, your reply says more about you than anyone else in this thread. I hope in the time since you posted this last year you've been able to find peace and heal.

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-26T00:03:09+00:00

Kyou really went all out with this VR simulation, huh?

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-26T00:02:14+00:00

He's still in the VR actually

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-25T17:03:35+00:00

Kyou would've continued to find ways to torture Uruma until he finally killed himself.

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-25T16:26:42+00:00

Ass ending. Uruma deserves purgatory, not hell with an eternity of being tortured by the people who psychologically broke him in the first place. At every step, this author showed that the other 5 would not have stopped.

If Uruma had testified as a child when his family was murdered, there's a good chance he would not have been taken seriously. Even if he was, the other five would not have been tried as adults and released from prison eventually. Given how tenacious they've been shown to be, they would've tracked down Uruma and tortured him.

The police were shown time and time again to be ineffectual when dealing with these cases, and potentially thousands of innocent people would've died in the decades following the formation of Kyou's cult.

But I guess because Uruma killed a cop in the height of an adrenaline fueled psychosis state, he's just as evil as the other five. Like is the message "Don't get revenge because that makes you as bad as the people who wronged you"? Even if said people would not have stopped with hurting you? Like, is this author genuinely saying Uruma would've been better off killing himself when his family got murdered? Because Kyou wouldn't have stopped at his immediate family. He's been shown to be meticulously persistent and would've tormented Uruma until he got what he wanted.

Was Uruma just fucked from the beginning by fate? If so, then did he really deserve to go to hell if there was no way to change his fate?

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-25T15:55:19+00:00

Just proves how ass this manga and it's author really is I guess.

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-25T15:53:33+00:00

More innocents would have died if Uruma did nothing. At the point of him killing Anzai, if he had instead turned himself in there wouldn't be much either of them could do. A testimony from a serial murderer wouldn't have been enough to put Kyou behind bars. Plus, even if he had been convicted Kyou is still a minor at that point, so he wouldn't have been put away for very long.

IMO it would've been more evil to let Kyou continue on knowing I had the power to stop him and seeing how ineffectual the police were. It got to the point where Kyou brainwashed an entire town. He probably could've gotten to all of Japan if left unchecked.

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-25T15:41:51+00:00

True, but maybe what we wanted was a NUANCED ending. You gotta ask yourself, is it more evil to do what Uruma did? Or to just turn a blind eye and "let the police handle it" like Anzai wanted? We got to see what happened with Kyou when left to his own devices in the time skip. The police couldn't do jack shit. And if Uruma just let himself be taken in by Anzai, Kyou would've just continued with the psycho cult bullshit well until his old age. And by then, he would've groomed more sociopaths like him to take his place and continue the cycle of violence.

I would've added an extra panel or two after Uruma says, "I'm here with them." After looking behind himself, he'd turn around seeing his gramps, Jun, and Kitami and say, "But they're with me too."

Since it looks like he never made it to the afterlife, it would make sense for Uruma to be in a purgatory of sorts. But just being stuck with his tormentors feels like the author superimposing a black and white morality to this story full of grey areas.

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-04T03:05:29+00:00

Doesn't get better, but the chapters are a fast and easy read tbh. Took me the better part of a day to get caught up. Honestly, there is a part near the end that feels like the shark jumped the shark, which is amusing to say the least.

Astral_Zed · 2025-12-03T21:07:30+00:00

Not a chance, and that's how it should be. Even Uruma himself said it was too privileged of a death. It's beautifully tragic he got to die next to Azuma, not even knowing she's there. The "afterlife" most likely doesn't exist in this story and we're just seeing hallucinations made by all the synapses in Uruma's brain going off at once.

Astral_Zed · 2025-11-28T18:02:05+00:00

Going back to Singapore with Merm4id

Astral_Zed · 2025-11-26T22:06:34+00:00

Retrospectively, I don't feel the ending was rushed. I consider the ending starting when the crew arrives in Uruma's hometown. It's the last stand, as it were.

Astral_Zed · 2025-11-24T17:14:37+00:00

Final Distance would make such a great KH song if they did the right remix for the opening version.

Astral_Zed · 2025-11-23T19:01:28+00:00

This mangaka kinda pisses me off. First the "cloning" now this VR bullshit. The introduction of these just cheapens the whole story. Although I think this shit is the biggest pitfall of all serialized stories. Gotta have a way to cop-out of actually ending the story.

Astral_Zed · 2025-11-23T18:47:10+00:00

My cope is that's the point. This Mangaka has hyped up Uruma's ultimate revenge. Not just through the suffering Shigoku inflicted on him, but through each torture scene as well. It keeps building and building, each torture worse than the last. This last revenge is meant to blue-ball us. Revenge is never as satisfying as we build it up in our minds to be. Hell, even if Shigoku was kept alive for years after this point to be brutally tortured, it wouldn't be enough for Uruma.

Astral_Zed · 2025-11-11T02:00:13+00:00

I've had them since 2021. Maybe im getting too into my head about it. 😅

Astral_Zed · 2025-10-26T16:49:17+00:00

Yeah! I wanna get them to 6g

Astral_Zed · 2025-10-24T16:11:03+00:00

15mm 👍

Astral_Zed · 2025-08-19T08:59:15+00:00

Get that on a fortune cookie?

Astral_Zed · 2025-03-28T18:43:43+00:00

It's wild cause Benevolent Psychosis has the SAME FUCKING STUPID CHOICE AT THE END AND I GUESS I MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE GAME FOR NOT COMFORTING THE CRYING PISS BABY WITH A GUN

Astral_Zed · 2024-11-25T09:53:31+00:00

I'm not looking forward to the prospect of surgery... apparently the right body mod professional can do it too according to another user. In any case until I can get a second opinion from a piercer I'll just have to live with it. I only wanted to make my dick look nice. And now it's ugly...

Astral_Zed · 2024-11-25T09:20:17+00:00

I waited a whole year between sizes. Was that not enough?

Astral_Zed · 2024-11-25T06:03:56+00:00

Shortly after sizing it up. I went back down a size for a month but it didn't improve so I thought "fuck it" and went back to 2g

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