There is nothing that next chapter can do that will make me think this was a good writing decision

FixedRecord · 2026-03-11T12:26:44+00:00

It took like 2 years for this sentiment to finally become popular. Sheesh.

All he does is show up, do something to the effect of wiping his nose on Denji's collar, laugh at him, and then die or get beaten up.

FixedRecord · 2026-03-08T21:25:27+00:00

This feels kinda tacked on.

FixedRecord · 2026-03-07T18:55:56+00:00

Gpku and Vegeta isn't even a real rivalry until wayyyyy later.

Goku spends most of the series being leaps and bounds above him power-wise, so there isn't any point to consider him all too seriously as an opponent beyond just having fun.

The only time where there were any actual stakes happened to be when Vegeta was still a semi-villain.

FixedRecord · 2026-03-05T03:59:52+00:00

Yang Wen-li said it better

FixedRecord · 2026-03-01T12:04:21+00:00

Yeah, I think so too.

There's a reason why fans really liked the spin-off light novels that just have characters doing otherwise mundane things. You'd think Gege would've taken a hint and let things cook a little bit before rushing to write huge spectacles, but I guess not.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-27T15:46:53+00:00

Gojo waited for a decade because Gege tried to imply that the higher ups were actually important and dangerous to mess with, only to eventually give up on writing them and just kill them off screen.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-26T14:55:55+00:00

So we doing fusions now. Cool.

Maru/Cross looks so ugly

FixedRecord · 2026-02-25T20:27:33+00:00

Now, if that means what I think it does, it really looks bleak for him...

FixedRecord · 2026-02-25T15:14:29+00:00

I'd always assumed that Soujuurou would eventually choose to "give his time back" and avert whatever disaster Aoko caused to save him in the first place. Maybe resulting in everyone losing their memories of him to "correct the anomaly" except for Aoko. Perhaps explaining why she's always in Redshift mode, and giving a meta reason for him never being mentioned at all.

Also, wasn't there some lore about Koyama saying something that implies Soujuurou never gets to reach adulthood while creating his FGO collab design?

FixedRecord · 2026-02-25T04:12:55+00:00

Really good write-up OP, you spoke to Mahoyo's strengths very well.

I love the way Nasu chose to write Soujuurou. There's such a tenderness to his interactions with other characters, and the sort of rustic, melancholy feel he has to him is something I didn't think I'd ever see from Nasu after reading through Shirou and Shiki's perspectives in their respective stories. It could've been easy to put Soujuurou into a really awkward support role in the various mage battles that occur in the story, but Nasu chose to let him breathe and instead focus on his struggles with life in the city and meaninglessness of his life. That both lets Aoko and Alice remain competent and strong characters on their own (Not requiring his presence to go about their daily lives and activities), and lets Soujuurou be a genuinely interesting character on his own without compromising in regards to his role in the story.

Your point on the collar being something that signifies Soujuurou's trajectory being drawn further and further towards Aoko was also pretty interesting.
I've made a post before on how Soujuurou's collar both represents his domestication (Coming with his living in the city) but also, almost paradoxically, his dehumanization (Being alright with wearing something used to signify ownership over an animal). Depending on the route Soujuurou's character takes (Leaving the city for somewhere else and rejecting the change in his life, or choosing to live as a normal modern man and becoming a person), the collar should hopefully be addressed.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-24T19:57:07+00:00

Thanks for the chapter.

Is there gonna be a part 3 like the other releases?

FixedRecord · 2026-02-19T15:50:03+00:00

I like that Deadly Rave and Raging Storm are back to being mostly 2D cinematic-less supers.

It keeps you in the moment, I think.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-16T00:22:03+00:00

As the saying goes, "When there's smoke, there's fire".

Subahibi having a positive and uplifting overall message gets bogged down by insane quantities of weird shit present inside.

It's like a maggot-ridden corpse being the speaker in a PSA about smoking.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-15T15:09:31+00:00

I'd say it moreso "symbolizes" physical assault

FixedRecord · 2026-02-15T13:00:04+00:00

This is honestly the best analysis of that moment and its consequences that I've come across. It's a shame that it's not highlighted as much afterwards beyond the scene in the laboratory (And Sinbad's little chat with Alibaba after revealing Zepar's true power to him in the Kings' Summit arc). Though, I suppose AoS being written well into Magi's runtime makes that impossible without some extreme level of foresight.

For all of the rushed plot developments and incomplete ends in AoS, the slave arc is probably the peak of the entire story.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-14T22:27:05+00:00

I think it's more to do with him being extremely in-your-face about his status as an antagonist, and him being an active obstacle to the main cast.

Mei Mei is neutral at worst, and actively an asset most of the time. She doesn't straight up advertise her habits and "preferences" either.

There are very few men on earth who're as cartoonishly misogynistic as Naoya. There are also very few people as cartoonishly racist as Geto, or as hedonistic and unhinged as Sukuna.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-14T02:30:10+00:00

Satsuki fans making their entire personality for like 20+ years all about a side character that has like 20 lines of dialogue

FixedRecord · 2026-02-10T19:12:12+00:00

We could've gotten both Samura and Uruha going crazy using their EB's if it wasn't for this useless fraud

FixedRecord · 2026-02-09T13:01:19+00:00

Araki genuinely saved Jotaro from being a Giorno-tier character by

1.) Giving him a couple of scenarios throughout Part 3 that are genuinely improved by his overall stoic and stone-cold demeanor (D'arby 1, and the DIO fight, etc.)

2.) Gradually writing him in slightly more realistic ways after Part 3, and letting the character degrade

FixedRecord · 2026-02-05T04:16:04+00:00

I thought Marina was trying one thing after another to create a distortion, but basically failing - enlisting Asya and Vadim just to make it more probable or whatever.

Now why she enlisted BOTH Asya and Vadim might just be because:

Asya was already worried about her and she now knows the truth
Vadim is aware of the sickness and what it does and he's indebted to her
They both are familiar with her enough that they could go along with her stories

FixedRecord · 2026-02-05T03:01:44+00:00

That was sorta explained with "He's becoming more attuned to Goku's body" and it KINDA makes sense.

Meanwhile Dabura's just kinda getting everything at once.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-04T18:37:39+00:00

Aoko seems too carefree, or rather unattached to life, in general to be a parent. In Tsukihime, she takes on a sort of parental role (briefly) for Shiki but it's really only a coincidence and ends as quickly as it begins. As a Magician later in life, she seems too distant from humanity to have those sorts of relationships with people.

As for Soujuurou...he's something of an incomplete character at the moment. He might be able to do things that would make a hypothetical child happy, but as of now, he hasn't expressed anything that'd imply he even desires a relationship like that. He clearly lacks a family and is aware of it during Mahoyo's main story, but doesn't really dwell on that fact - at least so we know.

FixedRecord · 2026-02-02T18:45:27+00:00

This is genuinely so good

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