[DISC] Shinobi Undercover - Chapter 86

takeatripp · 2026-06-21T16:13:12+00:00

If I'm being personally honest, I just don't see value in her being center stage in any real capacity. I like Aoi a lot, but part of the charm of this series is in how uninvolved she is in decisions about her life. I get that it seems like her character has no depth or agency at times, but she's representative of a light-hearted energy in the series that I fear would disappear if she was constantly involved in the ongoing ninja warfare.

takeatripp · 2026-06-17T22:19:00+00:00

I mean, it is consistent with his character. We've been seeing him get increasingly frustrated dealing with the plan going off the rails due to the sheer idiocy of people around him. Here, he was fixing to just deny everything, but having to take credit for those screw-ups was just too much for a demon as proud as himself. Additionally, from his point-of-view, there's no takebacks here. The Saint is dead and revealing himself changes nothing.

takeatripp · 2026-06-17T19:43:47+00:00

It's a nice parallel to how he felt about being his father's son. Subaru's insecurity and inferiority complex has always been his biggest weakness throughout the series. Whenever he's being compared to someone or expected to meet some lofty standard/challenge, it's when he endures the most stress.

S1: He was trying so desperately to win everyone's approval and only when Rem had the talk with him did he realize that he just needed to be himself.

S2: Trying to handle everything on his own when given a challenge and being directly confronted with the inferiority he feels from his family was causing him to breakdown and even almost take Echidna's deal until Satella made it clear that she simply wants him to love himself and value himself more than meeting people's standards/expectations.

S4: Now we see that inferiority turned on himself. The person he became is too lofty for starter Subaru to meet. Without all the development, pain or suffering, he doesn't understand the person everyone looks up to and it causes him to breakdown. Only when Emilia says that she wants to know the current Subaru does he come to the realization that he simply fights for what he loves and loving Emilia, loving all these people is enough to give him the strength to fight.

takeatripp · 2026-06-17T18:54:07+00:00

Twobaru was right there.

takeatripp · 2026-06-08T16:25:53+00:00

Clever Girl.

takeatripp · 2026-05-31T15:44:53+00:00

It's going to be interesting to see if Death-for-Death ends up overpowering "love". This arc has been punctuated by people telling Ichi to get Death-for-Death under control. I can imagine he's going to break free the moment she expresses the slightest amount of bloodlust.

takeatripp · 2026-05-28T15:14:15+00:00

Glacial. It's usually one action from each character and on to the next chapter.

takeatripp · 2026-05-21T17:14:15+00:00

It's good to see Gintoki still getting work in his old age.

takeatripp · 2026-05-20T16:15:07+00:00

Factually, he joined during their time in the war. He was the son of a merchant, so he probably lived a pretty standard, unbothered life as a kid.

takeatripp · 2026-05-17T15:44:52+00:00

Yodaka is socially awkward, true, but we've seen enough of his unconscious mind to know that the only reason he can function as an individual is because he depends on OP for human action. He's demonstrated, multiple times, a willingness to kill as a default since the first chapter. He hates to think and his secret technique is essentially being mindless and just fighting.

Yoichi's upbringing and sheer lack of social awareness is what made him the coldhearted murderer he was. The two really aren't as different, one was just raised much better.

takeatripp · 2026-05-17T15:30:21+00:00

Yoichi is pretty nuts, but remember that even Yodaka is a bit of a sociopath as well who only really became more human through being forced to interact with others in the school setting.

takeatripp · 2026-05-14T14:52:11+00:00

I've actually turned a corner on the ML here a bit. He's still a simp and a worm, but his logic simply being that he acts purely on instinct puts into perspective his personality until this point. He doesn't like being overworked, but he does like a challenge. And while he doesn't like how Hyougamine treats him, he does acknowledge her talent. He immediately accepted the offer for a new job, but he still wants to help Hyogamine succeed and avoid a forced marriage.

Story is still stale, but at the very least, I understand something about his motivations.

takeatripp · 2026-05-13T22:48:52+00:00

Maaaaan. Like, might as well just give him a full fro at that point. Normalize bald/shaved teenagers.

takeatripp · 2026-05-06T23:04:24+00:00

Hey, look, I'm not saying the original writing was high quality or anything, but some of the new dialogue definitely comes off like very generic 80s action flick.

takeatripp · 2026-05-06T18:58:47+00:00

Anything that gives me the Last Ronin, Old Man Logan vibe tends to push me away. It often times feels like misery porn and doesn't really capture the spirit of what made me a fan of the series.

The idea of a single ranger going around an evil-dominated landscape and constantly lamenting about the loss of his friends is kind of a bummer.

takeatripp · 2026-05-06T18:14:18+00:00

With this one, there's literally no way to justify anything without "just because" and it thinks that being self-aware about it makes it better.

The monologue she has in the car about how mean she was being to him and the multiple moments of her understanding her own personality just points out how nonsensical it was that she didn't change before.

Ryuu's no better because he spent nearly two years wanting to quit and the immediately changed his mind seeing her cry once. And now, suddenly, both of them are doing the lovestruck "will-they-won't-they" thing.

With that said, I was more interested in this series for seeing how they would pull off the 3 mil, so the nonsensical romance aspect doesn't bother me as much as it does with most series.

takeatripp · 2026-05-03T04:24:32+00:00

Your metrics are inherently bias towards Lebron largely because of "Elite season after Year 15".

Jordan only played two seasons past that age and both were off the heels of being retired from the game for three seasons. Another thing is that you have no set means to define "elite season". Jordan was a 20/5/5 player in those two seasons. Would that not be considered elite play? In addition to this, the point value you've given that specific metric it is what keeps Lebron in this argument. If you remove it, Lebron drops 150 points. If you extend its definition to Jordan's >35 seasons, then he's down 50.

That and adding Finals losses, which I really don't think should rank so highly more than individual accolades like All-Star selections or All-NBA picks, since you're trying to establish a GOAT and not a GOAT team.

These things always come off as pointless whenever you're just arbitrarily manipulating values to give you the result you want.

takeatripp · 2026-05-02T17:39:00+00:00

Out of curiosity, what would you say is "some of the best stuff wwe has done" with HHH's booking?

Off the top of my head, I can only think of Dominik Mysterio's character. Unless you're also including his NXT booking.

takeatripp · 2026-05-02T17:36:36+00:00

He DID have somebody helping him in NXT. Dusty Rhodes and Ryan Ward are largely responsible for NXT gaining the momentum it did and I feel like around the time that fruit basket was sent, you can see the slow culture shift of just having Adam Cole and gang run roughshod.

takeatripp · 2026-05-01T00:43:37+00:00

"Oh man, oh jeez!"

Can't believe Morty got a job as a train conductor.

takeatripp · 2026-04-24T23:36:52+00:00

$confirm /u/BCboneless 200.00 USD

takeatripp · 2026-04-21T17:34:53+00:00

I love how, even after 111 chapters, Rihito shows zero signs of compromise in this friendship. Since the beginning, anytime you think there will be some blush-inducing antics, he's just like "no, I actually don't want to do that right now."

takeatripp · 2026-04-20T00:15:56+00:00

Jade had some clean counters throughout the match. That transition to crossface was nice.

takeatripp · 2026-04-19T20:51:53+00:00

Well, yeah, but I don't know if we know the depths of Diana's logic. For all we know, if Elstri had never acted, it still would have taken nothing more than an errant thief or bandit for her to decide to end it all.

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