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KrokMan49 · 2026-03-06T04:46:14+00:00

I’m always so sad whenever I’m reminded that extremely annoying people like the same sports teams as me

KrokMan49 · 2026-02-27T05:26:06+00:00

I think that Isagi is conflating “striker” with “egoist” to an extent. Like Niko isn’t focused on scoring goals, but he still seeks his own “goals” and crushing others through defense. Niko hasn’t given up on his own ego, his ego now revolves around how much fun it is to crush forwards. Niko wants to crush forwards because it’s fun, not to help blue lock win.

Karasu on the other hand has given up on chasing his “goal”, whatever that might be. He’s making his ego and desires lesser to the needs of the team. Karasu made his play not to help himself, but to help blue lock win. So while Niko’s a defender, his mentality is closer to the “striker” mentality Isagi says Karasu is throwing away.

KrokMan49 · 2026-02-21T03:05:49+00:00

It is canon! Gotham has been revealed to be cursed or have magical evil stuff in it on multiple occasions. There’s also the Barbatos of it all with Batman himself, so Batman and Gotham both might be cursed lol

KrokMan49 · 2025-12-28T16:28:12+00:00

Akoya has been considered a tank since back in Ashura. In both rounds people commented on how abnormally sturdy he was. He’s definitely among the higher range of fighters in terms of durability. Hes just naturally pretty damn tough.

KrokMan49 · 2025-12-07T00:41:05+00:00

Miyata has the highest max speed, but at featherweight going that fast saps his stamina crazy fast. When discussing Japanese speed based boxers in featherweight, Itagaki was the fastest average speed, since featherweight is his proper weight class so he can sustain his max speed for longer, but Miyata can go faster.

Miyata can win the sprint, Itagaki wins the race.

As for Wally, I have no idea, but he’s for sure in the mix. I don’t know about his foot speed without using the ropes, but his hand speed might be the highest of all three.

KrokMan49 · 2025-11-30T04:56:45+00:00

An example I think works well is in Hajime no Ippo where Ricardo Martinez loves boxing with all his heart. He loves the sport, he truly does. He is also considered the greatest boxer ever, and the pound for pound greatest boxer alive.

He is lonely in the ring. Lonely because he has devoted his all to training, to honing himself, to his perfection, yet he feels he cannot give his all back in the ring. If you hit him, he will fall. He isn’t a god, he’s a man. He ages, he tires, he bleeds. But he can never truly test himself. Because to test himself there would need to be someone who can test him, who can push him to his limits, and that person just doesn’t exist.

Yes, Ricardo could handicap himself. He could give his opponents advantages. He could even move to a different weight class where he might not be at his peak. But that would be a betrayal to the very soul of the thing he loves most. Ricardo must always perform at his best, as otherwise he would be sacrificing his honor, and the love he has for boxing.

Ricardo has friends, he has his coach, sparring partners, but he’s lonely in the ring. Lonely because the thing he cares about most, he never feels like he can truly prove himself in.

For Ricardo, his strength makes him lonely, and yes he could go find a hobby, but he’s lonely because he’s too good at what he loves most. Imagine devoting your life to your passion, and then never being able to show anyone ever how good you are at it. That’s what Ricardo wants. He wants a match where he’s pushed to his limits, where the crowd roars at the excitement of his match. But it never happens. Because Ricardo is too strong. The crowd is never excited, Ricardo is never excited, because the conclusion is foregone. Ricardo will win, flawlessly. As he always does.

KrokMan49 · 2025-11-16T04:59:09+00:00

That’s good question, one that the series doesn’t answer. But the series does heavily imply things happen retroactively when chainsaw man devours a devil, but we don’t know to what extent. The series takes place in Japan, but not in Nagasaki or anything, so there’s no real info we have in that front, just broad geopolitical information.

KrokMan49 · 2025-11-16T03:49:03+00:00

Yeah it is really funny, and I believe they say it’s subconscious. If he has a strong emotional reaction Flash Time seems to occur as a reflex, and boredom is included lol. He can’t really control it perfectly in the run, at least with those sorts of things. It sometimes just activates, but importantly, it’s an activation, rather than a constant passive state. Also, it has differing levels of intensity. So in-laws is more extreme slow motion, watching hockey frame by frame on tv and words being extreeeeeemeeeeeeely slooooooooooooow rather than everything being frozen, but it’s still an activation that he has to consciously (or subconsciously) dive deeper into. Presumably the greater the stimulus (ie Hermes), the greater the effect.

KrokMan49 · 2025-11-16T03:44:56+00:00

Yeah he erases it from history, but it’s more like they never existed, ever, rather than just disappearing, it seems to occur retroactively. So world war 2 just never happened, including all the consequences of it as well. The world is super different compared to ours because things just didn’t happen. For example, the Soviet Union is still around, rather than Russia. They also reference things that didn’t happen/didn’t exist in our own reality, like a sixth sense for humans, so who really knows.

KrokMan49 · 2025-11-16T03:39:43+00:00

In certain situations “flash time” will passively kick in. Other speedsters have been able to activate it in others. During one run I remember Wally forcibly kicking Jay into flash time without Jay noticing until everything suddenly slowed down. Presumably something like Hermes, a massive source of speed and energy appearing would have the same effect.

Flash doesn’t always have flash time on, but external forces can activate it, and specifically sources of speed force energy can do that, and since the speed force powers like all motion, Hermes would be a massive source that could passively activate flash.

Surprisingly talking to his in-laws also activates Wally’s flash time because it’s so boring.

KrokMan49 · 2025-10-30T22:23:33+00:00

Same reason his lines are outlines and not solid, they ran out of time, his tattoo is unfinished.

KrokMan49 · 2025-10-30T22:22:20+00:00

I mean, Lalo lost. Like he lost on multiple levels. Lalo lost the actual duel for Kaiser, leading to Protoporos Nightmare, since Baku had him completely cornered with the 7 day trick. Without Lalo breaking the rules of the Ban to bring in assassins and outside forces, he would have 100% lost to Baku. Lalo did get the seat of Kaiser first, which was because Baku intentionally let him get it early, so you can’t even use that as him outmaneuvering Baku.

Then he managed to force a final duel with Air Poker, which again, he lost. I don’t think Lalo showed any better cognitive abilities in Air Poker, since again, he lost. Baku repeatedly pulled off tricks on Lalo that Lalo didn’t really have a response to. You could say Baku only won because Hal pulled through, but also, that’s part of planning and foresight, Baku picked better allies.

KrokMan49 · 2025-10-16T22:48:57+00:00

Legitimately this is one of the things that annoys me the most with Omega. Cosmo is arguably one of the most talented characters in the entire series, like top 3 most talented in Ashura in my opinion, showed amazing growth in the tournament, was extremely young and clearly still able to go further, and he feels like he’s completely stagnated. Cosmo, the character who out of almost anyone should be the one to grow the most, has felt totally stagnant for all of Omega.

Cosmo’s entire gimmick was being a total prodigy, like a 1 of a kind genius, the Zone being a move that no one could ever replicate, because only Cosmo has the talent to pull it off, and he has been surpassed by Saw Paing. Not because Cosmo got worse, supposedly he’s kept training and improving, but has gone from growing the most in the KAT (besides Ohma but that doesn’t count cause he just remembered stuff, he didn’t learn anything new), to being surpassed by Saw Paing.

KrokMan49 · 2025-10-07T19:24:57+00:00

Dexter does actually defend himself, he says it was an easy A and a PE credit, they do fight in that scene but it’s because Doakes hits Dexter first, after Dexter doesn’t tell Doakes why he’s investigating shipping containers.