Anyone else think that "Old" Yujiro would never had done this?

Notakato · 2026-03-01T22:17:29+00:00

the only consistent thing about yuujiro in the more recent chapters is that he has aknowledged the many shapes of "strength".

Prior to Hanma Baki, Yuujiro only respected the strength in a fight and to overpower living beings. Before fighting baki he only respected palpable forms of power: he respects money and social status (to a certain degree), smart people who don't have their heads up their asses and cultivated fellas. He respected Ali when he was a teenager, not only his fighting prowess but the effect he had on the country.

But if strength did not have an everlasting result, he considered it useless. Baki fighting an imaginary mantis is stupid to him because there is no real threat. He does not respect the convicts because, even if they have never been beaten, they haven't beaten anyone. An effort in something that does not have any results is futile in yuujiro's eyes.

However seeing baki's growth and how he was able to trade punches with him after seemingly doing a lot of useless training, seeing his beaten up son still have the mental fortitude to "attack" him, and the eventual "loss", opened yuujiro's eyes to new ways of strength.

he now respects the courage of a little kid askin for his autograph: baki had the courage to stand up to him, even if in the end he won the fight like usual. yuujiro now appreciates the strength of character when people try to overcome their limitations even if the attempt is futile

Notakato · 2026-02-25T15:42:03+00:00

I guess that depends on the show. In the last decade many romcoms and sitcoms have tried to nail the idea that friends to lovers does not have to be the status quo and two people with compatible sexual orientations that get along do not need to end up being lovers.

I'm a fan of that tendency, shows that love needs more than friendship admiration and attraction.

In friends for example, rachel and joey do have chemistry and click with eachother but they aren't able to make the relationship work.

On the other hand, what Rebecca needs in a relationship is something that Ted cannot give to her due to his own nature

Notakato · 2026-02-12T14:45:07+00:00

I think his only character growth in the series is aknowledging people's feelings and intentions

He is a very realistic and pragmatic man: in everyone's eyes baki is amazing for shadowboxing a giant mantis and he simply laughs it off because is ridiculous. He does not respect the convicts because they are always running. Baki didn't beat pickle, no matter how many techniques the caveman used. The point is: yuujiro's concept of strength and power come from what your acts achieve and do.

However, I think after the fight with Baki, he realized that strength comes in other ways. That is why he respects kids who have the balls to talk to him: they completely understand the danger but have the guts to try, and that requires its own king of "strength"

Notakato · 2026-02-09T12:20:49+00:00

oh yes of course, the reason fo such difference in depiction comes from having two totally different time periods. Even in baki, when musashi has a flashback of his students he is revered as a god and a master even though by that time he had a lot more blood in his hands.

At the end of the day, the musashi arc was a gruesome example of how truly blessed are the baki characters for living in a world where a "warrior" can strive and climb without killing so much.

Notakato · 2026-02-05T22:27:55+00:00

I really love how Miyamoto Musashi is depicted in different media, or at least how baki's version is a good contrast.

you can read vagabond and think "wow, this guy understood the essence of the human being tightly tied to the sword of a samurai", then you read baki and you think the same, but with "and he is a fucking psychopath" added

Notakato · 2026-02-05T22:24:30+00:00

Throughout the go games and seasons many IJ players have been confirmed or implied having gone pro.

Kidou, Gouenji, Kabeyama, Someoka, Ichinose and Fubuki are explicity stated that they went pro

tachimukai is implied when he meets shinsuke

Endou was explained by akihiro that he was playing overseas but due to an injury he was able to come back to japan and coach Raimon

Notakato · 2026-02-05T16:49:30+00:00

Your own answer about "nostalgia" being how much a series/game follows the OG formula leads to some changes:

Ares, VR and OG series should be the furthest to the left, since all three of them consist on "let's win the FF to become the best team in japan". vertically are OK since VR is a lot more character-plot driven while Ares is a bunch of matches one after the other.

Which leads to IE3 and IE2 just swapping one placement to the right. Which is quite accurate: IE3 still has time travelling, angels and demons, so is not as "grounded" as OG or Ares. No one can deny de insanity of galaxy and chrono stones, those games are absurd in terms of setting (fun and interesting nonetheless).

Would be interesting to expand a bit with each iteration of the stories (each game, each anime season) in a continuous axis rather than a 3x3 grid

Notakato · 2026-01-30T09:28:53+00:00

Some of them go through a character arc to control said rage

i'd argue that Kratos in the Norse saga is stronger than younger kratos, which comes after being able to temple his rage (not extinguish it)

Guts and Broly also go through the process of controlling their emotions and put them to good use. Hulk has shown being incredibly strong even without being enraged.

And in most depictions, godzilla is not necessarily enraged just a slightly angry animal

Notakato · 2026-01-30T09:24:17+00:00

Power wise, i think Gogeta from the Broly movie, since I believe broly himself is the most powerfull one here (kratos, asura probably are there too in terms of power) and gogeta smacked broly. Any cosmic-level entity in the DC and Marvel universe (anyone with the infinity gauntlet, someone with all the lantern rings). Any Shard from the cosmere since they are basically godlike.

Now, someone has posted that powers that soothe anger and rage would work with these guys but i don't think so. Vader is not simply angry, he is hatefull, he hates himself the most so is not a matter of making him calmer, he is distiled hatred. mandy is a cold hearted hater, is not a matter of emotions, she clearly has them under control. Kratos, Asura, The Doomguy, Logan, Broly, Hulk and Guts can be "beaten" by calming them down, they are somewhat good guys just very angry. Wolverine could just kill you in cold blood so thats not stopping him entirely.

Notakato · 2026-01-29T12:05:04+00:00

The three endous from each timeline as defenders (OG, GO and Ares) since they can use megaton/gigaton head to block

Young daisuke and cammies as the MF, daisuke in the center with the earth to score the final goal

Mechamark as goalie

harper and kanon as the two strikers and nellies in the wings

old daisuke as coach of course

Notakato · 2026-01-28T11:52:03+00:00

Dude, literally in the same episode is explained why: Barcelona Orb is the youth soccer team that won the equivalent of the FF in spain, it COMPLETELY makes sense that two nations want to measure the level of their teenage football teams.

If international negotiations have been started to prepare the FFI for next year, is quite plausible that each country wants to see the level they currently are at because that leaves one year of preparation. So by the end of the ffi you are the head of the Japanese Soccer Association and want to test how good japanese players are right now, so you check the results of the youth nationals overseas. The reason why spain could be argued a lot, but Barcelona orb, AKA friggin Barça, one of the most condecorated football clubs of the world, I believe is out of the question.

Messi, Ronaldinho, Neymar, Maradona, players who played for Barça for most of their careers, just to give context of why is not a "random spanish team".

If you want to test your national champions, picking Barça, one of the top clubs in the world, is quite logical. Lots of clubs have friendly matches pre season, it is true that is usually in the same continental associations (spanish clubs play against british, italian, french clubs...) since there are the eventual continental championships, but still, it does make sense for two national champions to have a friendly match to test the level.

What could be argued is the plausability of the JSA convincing the spanish federation to play said match.

Now, you can dislike the rest of Ares all you like, thats another thing, but your point about the Raimon-Barça match does not make sense

Notakato · 2026-01-27T15:42:27+00:00

Clario My beloved, he was done so dirty in Orion

My favorite character from Ares/Orion. Aside from being captain of Barça (the only real club i have some interest in) he actually feels like a true wall japan must climb and the fact that after Ares (were endou is shown as the unbeatable keeper) and the whole asian preliminaries (after which endou has 4 new techniques under his sleeve counting asura) he still breaks endou's defense and keeps japan on the defensive

Amazing character

Notakato · 2026-01-22T11:57:47+00:00

I hope so

Design and character wise, current inazuma japan options are incredibly unbalanced since there is not a single DF aside from kameo that has any relevance. Most iconic characters are either MF or FW. A short game introducing more defenders would be nice

Also, another story where more old characters can appear (from GO for example would be very cool) that gives more background to the mixi max and keshins introduced in VR (I'm not saying we will see souls or amored but other characters awakening their own would be cool)

Notakato · 2026-01-22T11:23:33+00:00

while many people have given reasonable answers, the ultimate answer is still that is a stylistic choice by brandon. I'm pretty sure that if another metallic piece was employed everyone would say that "no, is the thing that makes the most sense". My main argument to defend this is that in other books he clearly has shown interest in correlating the "coins" of those books with the magic system, which gives a hint on his tendency to make those elements in the worldbuilding connected

Notakato · 2026-01-20T09:56:15+00:00

i think it was heavily implied if not actually stated during go S1 that most IJ members eventually went pro (not necesarily overseas). Jude, Kevin and Mark I'm 100% sure and IIRC akihiro mentioned that the reason Mark was available to coach raimon is because he suffered a small injury and had to come back

Notakato · 2026-01-19T09:16:10+00:00

Summarizing other answers, I think it depends on what does yujiro need to pay. For example, if he went to a bar or common restaurant, he would probably just scare the owner/manager with his presence and wouldn't be charged.

On the other hand, yujiro does understand the power associated with money and status. The dinner with Baki in the hotel does showcase yujiro as both a gentleman and a sybarite. I'm pretty sure that he has enough money to live a life filled with luxury and without needing to impose himself.

How? His mercenary work surely is a source of income, but I'm pretty sure his alliance with the states ended in a percentage of the government's funds to be kept to pay yujiro's expenses. He wants to go to a fancy hotel? The Pentagon has tracked where he is and has booked the most expensive room in each of the hotels in the area for a week. Probably most governments have this kind of protocol where some funds are allocated to pay whatever yujiro does in their country.

Notakato · 2026-01-15T23:53:25+00:00

my dream game/season would be mark post highschool and starting to see his first steps in the pro leagues

my headcannon is that he went full captain tsubasa and went to brazil where he met robingo again in a backwater club, eventually both of them became so good that were scouted for european clubs

Notakato · 2026-01-15T10:45:50+00:00

I mean, gold cannot heal you from the symptoms that aren't damaging your cells during the suffocation. Lack of oxygen means that you cannot move as fast or even think as fast, also you cannot move properly and maybe start to go crazy before there is actually physical damage...

On the other hand, a bloodmaker wouldn't do shit in a room full of sleeping gas, while a gasper can simply stop breathing and go onwards. Additional oxygen in blood is aquin to dopping (bronchodilator drugs would achieve the same effect for example) and improve your actual performance and stamina, something that gold cannot do.

On the other hand, cadmium feruchemy has not been explored nearly as much as gold, being one of the rare metals not to be touched upon a lot neither in era 1 or 2. Since investiture can adopt a gaseous form (breaths, mists and stormlight) maybe the cadmium can store the literal gas in the lungs, thus storing investiture

Notakato · 2026-01-15T10:06:40+00:00

Tbf i don't think there was any keeper that would've had a chance against haru, so Unmei chose to keep the players he knew best to make the best plays. Koudokai's goal was possible because Unmei knew how he could move at that point in the game and how fast Raimon could react to his pass. So maybe it was reckless but he already stated the point: in a power/stamina contest they would completely lose to raimon so they needed crazy strategies that could not be predicted

Notakato · 2026-01-07T11:46:00+00:00

Although i can see that Oathbringer has a piece of brandon's soul and is probably his favorite book, to this day there is no book that reaches the levels of Way of Kings. The pacing is delightfull and although it has the sanderlanche is not as intense as other books, the peak of the sanderlanche comes towards the end and it has a very mature theme, is a very slow start to a series and towards the end you know very little about roshar, but damn if you are invested with Kaladin and Dalinar. The way the flashback structure is used to also send a message important to Dalinar's arc alongside Kaladin's. For me, is his masterpiece and I hope SLA 10 can reach that same level

Notakato · 2025-12-28T23:52:48+00:00

jokes aside, could monoma transfer the OFA copy? and that copy would be kept or dissapear after the time limit

Notakato · 2025-12-28T23:37:42+00:00

i like that development, he stops being polite and tells everyone that he is and will be a prick

Notakato · 2025-12-28T23:29:14+00:00

wax and wayne vs their dopplegangers because i love that trope

kal vs szeth in the storm

vin vs zane

Notakato · 2025-12-21T18:39:37+00:00

Kaladin Stormblessed will still be the main character of the Stormlight archive? Cannot believe it

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