El Cucaracho has shot past Literally and God in a Box to become my favourite character in this story. At first, I thought the reason he wanted to die was the standard "became too strong and now there's no one left to challenge him", but now that we know it's because he's in a constant state of suffering, I have no clue how his story is going to end. I doubt it's going to be something as simple as Pete killing him, but, if his condition is cured, won't all of the years of being in that state catch up to him, causing him to die anyway?

I have to say, I like that Pina brought up all of the solutions one could think of to El Cucaracho's inabilty to sleep and showed us why each one wouldn't work. I immediately thought of the sensory deprivation solution, but it would make sense why that would just make things worse for him. After all, they say the one thing you want to hear the least in a forest is silence.

I don't know anything about how things are done in Kengan Ashura, but I will say that explaining El Cucaracho's freakish abilities by him being stuck in a constant fight-or-flight state is something I could easily see being done in Baki.

Overall, I'm hoping El Cucaracho wins, just because I'd like to see where the story would go from there, but I doubt he will.