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KINO. ASURA DID NOTHING WRONG.
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>>283875895Is it weird that I want to kiss his wounds and lick his blood and tears?
>>283875977>>283875994Yes.
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He doesn't even need the key to deal with regular bullies anymore desu, just bend a metal bar in front of them and they'll scatter.
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>>283876247Done.
Based criminals deleter
>>283876279Otori takes the cover of Vol. 3.
i can't wait until asura gets sent to hell for sending grandma punchers to hell and the mangaka reveals his very fresh and insightful philosophy that uhhhhhh if you punish bad people you're just as bad as them :^)
>>283876375And here are the three character sheets from the volumes. It's MTL with only my basic kana/kanji reading skills to assume it's right, so beware I suppose.
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>>283876485He is not bad at anything?
>>283876116He's a serial killer at this point.
>>283876556>he's only 5'3"What the fuck?
>>283876452no. The mangaka is high IQ and will reveal that asura is not only a cool demon boy but also very based and correct in all that he does. And the grandmother will cook very cool food for Asura and all his new found friends while grandma punchers get tortured in hell for 70 trillion years. And everyone will live happily ever after :)
>>283876761He is a more unhinged Batman.
>>283876375I want to do bad deeds to her
>>283876761>3 people come to your house and try to abduct and kill you with deadly weapons and you kill them>oh my god he's a serial killer!!!
>>283876775He's a 13-14yo nip
>>283875729>>283875868>>283876086>>283876116Holy fuck... Good deeds are strong???
>>283876452He's effectively a net positive on the world.
>>283876882A benevolent serial killer is still a serial killer.
>>283876904japanese never developed utilitarianism all they know is you can't punish bad people or you're also bad (unless you're the gubmint)
>>283876485>>283876514They're so short, I'd want to give them headpats and hugs (not in an evil way).>>283876556Evil Foreigner Blood...
>>283876929It's self defense, in this case.
>>283876929self defense isn't benevolence or serial killing
>>283876452>>283876786The way i see it. The old man who gave the key to asura, just want someone to sent bad guy to hell. To a point that asura now have superhuman strength to accommodate his job. Now, what would happen of asura accidentally sent a good guy? Would hell knew the difference?I honestly can't wait for that. I genuinely don't care about the gay yakuza brocon and the old detective shits.
>>283876086Crackpot theoryThis is a YGO Season 0 or Yu Yu Hakusho first arc type moment and this manga becomes a battle series
>>283876761Legally speaking it was self-defense. The men entered the house and attacked its residents, and even were warned to stop before being send to India (fun fact: in Buddhism Hell is located directly under the Indian subcontinent).
>>283876998>other people with hell's keys show up>there will be tournament where then compete on how many bad guys they can sent to hell>the final boss is a cult leader with heaven's key
>>283877088Can Asura and Raika have hit steamy almost shota sex in the meantime?
>>283876998>Asura is sent to hell by the old man>the key turns into a sword and he becomes a shinigami>the author announces that he has been Kubo all this time and that this is the real beginning of Bleach's hell arc
>>283877191Please God, make this happen, it'd be the funniest shit ever.
>>283876973i think the old key guy has his own supernatural motives, or he just wants to stir up trouble, or he did it just to troll earth and unleashed this ancient demon for no reason in particular. Whether the guys are good or not is ambiguous/irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. It is only the humans (asura, the readers) who pass judgement with regards to that. but hell just wants bodies to torture.maybe hell was running out of bad people because everyone on earth was getting too good, but in my opinion that is gay and i don't care for that. Detectives and yakuza are potentially ok, actually. but so far they have been mostly boring, i agree. i trust that they will become significantly more interesting as this goes on.
>>283875994You want to heal and comfort him, sounds like a good deed to me.
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>>283876860You shouldn't do bad deeds!
>>283876452Asura will go to hell but he'll go as a demon and he'll enjoy torturing sinners for all eternity
>>283877405They won't be bad deeds once she learns to enjoy them
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>>283877748Using your body to help sexually frustrated lonely men is considered a good deed in most places, Asura.
Stop sexualizing him.
>>283875945>jobbed
>>283875945>>283876086>>283876116My mentally ill sonfu is so strong....>>283875994No, not at all
>>283876860> (｡•́ ᴗ •̀｡)
>>283876860she's already used goods, no point
>>283878018Not lewd but this is kind of like an idea I drew (badly) last month>Asura goes on a date with a lonely oji-san to help cheer him up
>>283876452Asura is slowly turning into a Buddhist "asura". They are not part of hell proper but occupy an adjacent layer in Buddhist cosmology. Besides being strong as fuck, Asuras are beings ruled by passions. My bet is that at some point his expressionless smile will break down and he will display strong inner passions.
>>283875853This guy's punishment will definitely be shown, right?
>>283875868>>283876086Does his strength come from using the key or was he always super strong and was just holding back in the past?
>>283879185i think he's getting stronger with each kill
>>283876279the cop plotline here is just weird honestlyit just doesnt work with asura because he doesnt even try to hide what he's doing so there's no cat and mouse dynamic, so having these detective characters just feel weird
>>283875994t. 28 years old OL
>>283879185He gets stronger with each keying. Furthermore, it looks like his strength increases are dependent on how evil the person he keyed was. He got strong enough to bend a crowbar after keying the guy who killed multiple people before (suggested by him being an underaker) but he didn't get much stronger after keying individual delinquents.
>>283879185https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asura_(Buddhism)Asuras are homologous to the Titans of Greek mythology or the giants of Nordic mythology. They are defined among other things by their physical strength.The author has entirely relied on Buddhist notions of hell thus far (including the designs of the demons and the duration of penance) so his version of asuras is probably the Buddhist rather than the Hindu one.
>>283876761He's Dexter Morgan serial killer
>>283879286I wish.How did you guess my age right?
>>283879500>I dunno. I'm pretty sure I read one of the manga with 28 years old OL character at some point. Can't remember the name.
>>283875729Sicko mode incoming
>>283876279Hello all. Did you know that, as of this chapter, our hero Amashiro Asura has committed exactly 0 (zero [this many: ]) bad deeds? That means he has done nothing wrong! Let’s all give our boy a round of applause for making the world a better place with each passing day. Well done, Amashiro!
>>283875853Welp no regrets now
>>283879185It must be part of the pact
>>283875853Ignore the punch, that fall alone is enough to kill an old granny lol
>>283876247Is sending people to hell murder? They're literally physically taken to hell. Maybe it counts as kidnapping and assisted torture.
>>283876145I wonder if he will just kill without the key sooner than later
>>283876279I know he doesn’t care about getting caught or not, but if need be could he just take out the planks here and replace them.
>>283876005Shows a lot of restraint that Asura still gave him the talk a chance to turn himself in even after the dude punched his granny. I'd have just keyed him straight away and I'm only half as crazy as Asura.
>>283879867That would be a bad deed
>>283879858That’s a fair point. Seems like it would be closer to kidnapping, plus in most of these cases he gives people chances until they get overly physical beating him, so his attack with the key stab should really be considered self defense too.
>>283879950He’s just sending them to Hell in a different way
>>283876452The old man is grooming Asura to become the new King Yama so he can retire.
The problem for these detectives is that even if they personally find out, good luck proving anything in court
>>283879185Definitely tied to keying. It even seems like it's currently only his right arm where the mark is.
>>283878676Adorable.I wish Asura was my (boy)friend.
>>283878676Kek but also wholesome
>>283877334Good stuff
>>283876761People committing evil deeds don't have human rights.
I love this sociopathic lil nigga
>>283880210Asura is willing to explain what he did even to violent criminals. He would definitely testify against himself in court. And it would be super easy to catch him keying someone on camera. He doesn't try to hide it (because it is a good deed).
>>283880734ありがとう！
>>283880210the charges, officer?
>>283875853yeah, no. she's dead three times over.
>>283881700You seen how tough Asura is? He got it from her.
>>283881700>>283881913It would be funny if being hit in the head cured her dementia.
Asura should do a good deed by letting me kiss him and sniff his hair
>>283881275i love this lil' nigga like u wouldn't believe
>>283881585A lot of truth here.
Honestly love that the strength enables his naive view because it turns him into a true arbiter. He gives people a chance to renounce their ways so he doesn't (at least so far) take an innocent person. Id be game for the series to just be him endlessly wandering and taking out reprobates.
>>283882712This is not true. One cannot truly expect any of his victims to change their minds in response to his pleas. That is not how it works. His way of changing people's minds is so ineffective as to be null. They never had a chance of escaping the Clutches of Hell; no opportunity to learn the wrongness of the ways which they are set in. Nevertheless, none are innocent among the folk whose lives he claims. But then, who truly is blameless? Is his good friend, Raika, without blame? Doubtful. Raika, like all of Amashiro's victims, would surely also get angry in response to the imperative to do good deeds. Thus, he would also be claimed by the Key. And rightfully so, for none are righteous before Amashiro-Sama.
Another beautiful day of doing absolutely nothing wrong
>>283881314Yeah as long as he’s still a space case about openly revealing himself that will be his biggest problem even if no one can prove anything, he needs some sense of self preservation. But even if the detective got a video of Asura keying someone and a big scary demon grabbing them, the police would think the video is clearly edited because no one in a real world setting would readily believe that at all.
>>283882816They shouldn't be doing bad deeds, simple as.
>>283881314>>283882972The biggest threat comes not from the popo but from vicious thugs like these. Well, these guys got caught offguard, but if they figure out his power beforehand they likely can just kill him, they don't have to prove shit to anyone.
>>283875895>>283875994Me too. Asura looks so sexy there.
>>283883078Good point. All it will take is one thug living to tell the tale and Asura's big strong arm of justic won't be enough to protect him.
>>283883705If I learned anything from pre 2000s ovas, it’s that any monster, demon, or hellspawn can be killed with a well placed bullet between the eyes.
I know one day the consequences of keying people will catch up to him, but I REALLY don't want it to considering that he gave so many chances (in situations that were unfair for him) to the bad guys.
>>283876761>noo you can't kill people who are trying to kill you and are actively killing your grandma
>>283875977Anyone realize that Asura wearing the key around his neck is the same as sheathing his sword here? He was very willing on giving the dude that knocked his grandma a second chance. That's patience running at max speed.
>>283876850More like a competent ghost rider.
EOS Asura keys the earth and sends everyone to hell (still did nothing wrong btw)
The issue with Asura's method is that his victims often didn't take him seriously and failed to realize how fucked up they are as a human. These two fucks were bragging about their job in public with each other.
Irl, how would Japan react if two potential killers entered a kid's home and the kid killed them. Bet Japan will call it excessive force and punished the kid. They will definitely do it if the one killing in self defense was a foreigner instead.
>>283884102Okay? If you don;t understand the woman you are trying to rape has a gun, that just means that you were trying to victimize someone weak. Get fucked idiot, you failed to understand the threats involved with your life.
>>283884187He should have died honorably defending his oba san
>>283884388Your logic is stupid and unrelated since what was being pointed out is that Asura is being too lenient.
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>>283884581He sends them to Buddhist hell. He doesn't deliver them punishment, he sends them to a divine court to serve sentence. They will understand how vile they are because they are being literally sentenced to hell for how terrible they have been.
>>283882712If you send a true innocent to hell, what woulds their sentence be? Fucking nothing? They suffer pain to cleanse their karma, if the karma isn't in need of it at all do they just pop right back?
>>283876279He better put a carpet above the sign.>>283876485>150cmIMAGINE
What if the series is building up to how Asura will become unforgiving until 1 evil person actually repented.
>>283882816Okay? Well then, either listen to the innocent pleas of a child, or get tortured for centuries in hell. If your worst sin is jaywalking, I bet the demons won't have much to work with to cleanse you. Only question is if hell kills you or if once your sentence is over, you just pop back into reality.>alright we branded you because you were really quite cruel to that old woman you pushed by the other day, she twisted her ankle a little>back to samsara you go
>>283884977>Only question is if hell kills you or if once your sentence is over, you just pop back into realityAccording to Buddhism your soul reincarnates as a completely different being in a random period of time, and only being good enough can break the cycle and let you reach enlightment.
>>283879262To its credit the story does seem to be written with this understanding. The case is hard because the mechanics behind it are insane and no sensible human being would ever consider the truth. The detective here is at least open minded enough that he seems to be making his way there quickly as the circumstances get more insane instead of either instantly being the only man who catches on or stumbling around blind until it's forced into his face.
>>283885079It did specify that these people are delivered to hell alive, which is against the norm.
>>283882816>His way of changing people's minds is so ineffective as to be null.I might be dumb but here's my thoughts. What if the person have doubts about their actions initially? Maybe a chance to repent is what they need and Asura could pick up very subtle hints of when a person is troubled. So far, he had been keying people who have no doubts in their actions when presented a chance.
>>283885131(me)Also, he immediately keyed people who doubled down on being evil the moment the chance is presented
>>283883938Before this chapter I thought he was more interested in sending evil doers to hell than potentially reforming them. But now I think he genuinely just wants to people to only do good deeds and would forgive almost anything (maybe not his mother's killer) done prior to that.>>283882816Raika is an example of why the "but no one believes him" excuse doesn't matter. Raika is a rough, tough, and realistic kid. Without seeing the hell gate firsthand he'd never believe it. But if Asura saw him beating up bullies and mistook it for him being the bully and told him to stop doing bad deeds, Raika wouldn't just beat the shit out of Asura. He'd explain what was going on and Asura wouldn't key him. Any decent person would think he's weird but ultimately not do anything that would get them keyed.
>>283885186The work needs to establish the consequences of the key on someone that isn't a hilarious, evil villain. If you key a hero with gleaming deeds, what the fuck emerges? Does a little gaki escape to eat all of his fucking snacks in punishment for the time he absentmindedly littered?
The Buddhist concept of hell is not about being innocent or not. It is about kamma. Every being has good kamma and bad kamma which came about from countless eons of existence in Samsara. Going to hell expends that kamma rather than cleansing it. Once the bad kamma that gave rise to rebirth in Niraya is expended, the being is reborn in another realm. The rebirth process varies depending on the specific rebirth. Devas "pop" into existence, while animals and humans are "born" through a painful process.When Asura keys someone, its just him sending them to expend their bad kamma, but it is not necessarily the specific bad kamma they made from killing Asura's dog or his grandma. It could be from several lifetimes ago. In fact, more likely than not it is. Whichever kamma was most like the conditions that they got themselves keyed in is the kamma that they will be expending in niraya immediately after getting keyed. Although they all seem to be spending exceptionally long times in niraya when they get keyed, which is rather unusual. So maybe the key is a particularly bad condition to find yourself in.
>>283884187From what I can tell, Asura retaliating and killing them would satisfy Japan's standards for self defense even for adults in public. So even without consideration for him being a minor assaulted in his own home and attempting to defend an elderly relative, which would all make prosecution social and political suicide for everyone involved, he would still walk.
>>283885131>>283885158Asura seems very absolutist about keying people as far as I can tell. I don't think he's much into rehabilitation (based, prisons are gay). Either you promise to be a good boy (and you better keep your promise) or you get tortured in hell for 7 Kali Yugas. He's a competetive good boy tryhard.
>>283885418Just be a better person than you are a bad person. It's really easy if you don't torture people for fun and rape elderly women.
>>283885418Asura is substantially more lenient than the place he's sending people. You get trillions of years in Buddhist hell just for butchering animals to eat. Asura was willing to let the guy that may have just fatally injured his only surviving relative go if he just stopped being a violent sociopath.
>>283885457...which of course i would NEVER do...
>>283885565asura might have scared the thug into becoming a good person if he got lucky. Rule of Terror.
I know the manga is pointing out the moral standpoints about how Asura's judgement about what is evil might be biased, but that really falls flat when all the keyed people are literal psychopaths. It's concerning that there are so many psychopaths. Remember that he saved Raika and his Mother twice by keying the buck tooth bully and Raika's father.
>>283885763It's trying, but I think it's failing. It's going to need to make strong, pointed arguments about not removing evil people. Either that, or it goes the lazy route and has Asura start punishing lesser and lesser offenses until they become trivial and you get fifty trillion years in hell becaus you were too harsh with your language.
>>283885813nah i have faith the philosophical commentary will be much more sophisticated. Philosophical grounds never before seen will be laid bare and this will be hailed as a master piece for centuries to come.
>>283885186>would forgive almost anything (maybe not his mother's killer)I hope the killer immediately falls to his knees sobbing and Asura has to deal with his urge to key him.
Imagine if Asura had gotten the Death Note instead of the key.Imagine if /a/ was Asura's only relative and his "uncle Ben".
>>283885298I'm confused, if a person who goes to hell can expend their karma from a different life. Wouldn't their very first trip to hell expend all of their bad karma and any following trips expend their respective life's bad karma?
>>283885264For all we know, the key doesn't even work on good people. Or maybe if the user keys an innocent, the demon grabs the keyer instead. Unless Asura runs into a Buddha that has attained nirvana but hasn't died yet, then anyone he keys will have some karma to burn off. But it wouldn't necessarily be enough to earn them a trip to hell or even a worse than human rebirth. So that is definitely something to be explored.I really want to know what happens if he tries to key a devout Shin Buddhist. Especially if they start chanting the nembutsu as the demon grabs them. Would the Amida Buddha intervene?
>>283885899>hey what's your name>"X will die at 82 peacefully in his sleep of heart failure after a long and fulfilling life of charity work, community outreach, and bringing joy to everyone he met">got you sucker
>>283875752Warned>>283875853Now its time to find out
What if the condition for getting the key is knowing that Asura will use the key knowingly that it will send people to hell + never use it to key good people? Which makes sense for the old man having difficulty to find owners for the key.
>>283876761Its not murder all he did was turn the key.>>283876860That is not good
>>283885763>the manga is pointing out the moral standpoints about how Asura's judgement about what is evil might be biasedIs it? So far I think it's more taking the stance that a child being forced to be the sole arbiter of justice because his society refuses to do anything is a fucked up situation. To whatever extent keying people is naughty, Asura has been left alone to carry the weight of that sin by the authority figures that have failed him and everyone else.Remember, Asura refused the key until he had literally no other choice. And even now he continues to ask each and every person he considers keying to stop what they're doing. Asura is no Light.
>>283879185>Does his strength come from using the key or was he always super strong and was just holding back in the past?Why would you hold back?Plus he is 150 cm tall and skinny, the strength he has is not natural
>>283876485>>283884749We need a weight measurement so I can IMAGINE harder
>>283880210>Get Asura to court>Drag some really bad dude into court>Ask Asura to demonstrate
>>283882816Asura's punishment should dissuade future criminals, why would you risk going to hell?
>>283885924It's complicated. First of all, it is unknown how long a being has been in Samsara. Samsara is without beginning. So the concept of a "first trip" does not apply. Moreover, your pool of both good and bad kamma are so infinitely large that you cannot expend all of it. You can only ever expend infinitesimally small portions. Even a trillion years in Niraya are like nothing. Its not even that you are "expending" kamma, rather, you are simply experiencing the consequences of like causes giving rise to like conditions. So once that has happened, it is on to the next kamma. And so the cycle continues.Rebirth is dictated by your previous kamma and by the conditions immediately before death. If you have good thoughts before death, you will likely be reborn in the Deva realm ("heaven"), even if you have lived a HORRIBLE life. This is because, on the one hand, you have good kamma from some other, previous life - that you have yet to experience the consequences of; and on the other hand, like causes will give rise to like conditions. So whatever you were doing in a previous moment, in part, dictates what is going to happen to you in the next moment. And this also transcends the boundary of death and rebirthBut the problem is that this cannot always be satisfied IMMEDIATELY, so in some cases, the HORRIBLE kamma is simply stored away for a time when the right conditions arise to experience the consequences of that kamma. That could be instantly, or it could be countless eons in the future. But it is all very complicated and cannot fully be explained. Neither does it have to be fully understood mechanistically.But in short: nah.
>>283886147This is a far more useful interpretation of the story. It’s not about redemption, punishing the wrong people, etc. It’s about an innocent kid with a hammer and all the nails that want to kill him. Imagine if the key was just a gun that left as much believable evidence as the key. Instead of going to hell, the target just dies and their body disappears. Would the story meaningfully change? I would say no because in most of these cases, Asura has very little choice in the matter.>I’d like these guys who are nutting on my freshly murdered dog and forcing me to eat it to stop, please and thank you. Hell? Sure. I’ll take it.Place a person in a hopeless situation with exactly one way to fight and they’ll use it. That’s the point of the story thus far.
>>283886402I don't think that this specifically would work. Asura even says in this chapter that he wants the guy that beat up his granny to turn himself in. So if the police bring someone out, Asura wouldn't see a need to key him. And the police can't exactly let a criminal they've caught start doing bad deeds in a courtroom. Not only would that look insane, I'm not even sure that Asura is dumb enough to take that bait and would instead ask why they're letting this happen.The easier way would be to just follow him and record him keying someone. Although that would still end up raising the question of why cops stood by while a kid pleaded with some violent criminal to stop and waited for him to "kill" them. There isn't really a way to legally take down Asura without looking like shit.
>>283886402>"he's already being punished by the law, punishing him twice would be bad :>">case dismissed for being too weird
>>283886754Asura's Paradox
>>283885813> "He put the key in me because I said 'damn' in 1958 when your grandfather was shot in the head by a burglar"
>>283879945>I'm only half as crazy as AsuraDude, you're on 4chan
>>283886754>I don't think that this specifically would work. Asura even says in this chapter that he wants the guy that beat up his granny to turn himself in. So if the police bring someone out, Asura wouldn't see a need to key him. And the police can't exactly let a criminal they've caught start doing bad deeds in a courtroom. Not only would that look insane, I'm not even sure that Asura is dumb enough to take that bait and would instead ask why they're letting this happen.Would Asura still feel that way about a mass murderer?>>283886882What if he is out in a few years?
>>283879262That's what makes it interesting.Detectives would carefully navigate their way around the case, looking for nervous or furtive actions from a suspect, not realising that if they just asked Asura directly he would tell them.
>>283887679>Would Asura still feel that way about a mass murderer?I think so, yes. So far his standard for keying people has been a person's steadfast commitment to a life that will bring grievous harm or death to others. Someone who is already incarcerated can't clear that bar even if they want to.>>283887718He already sort of told them. He didn't say as much to them as to the gang members because they didn't ask. But he did tell them enough that if they just took him at face value they'd know exactly what's going on.
>>283884749>>283886358He's a boy
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/125489532https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/137339889>only R18 art of the manga are pics of Otori being raped/bullied
>>283879262I think the detectives were introduced to break up Kanima's group. We're approaching a three-way encounter between Kanima, the detectives, and Asura. It would feel too cheap if Asura was able to handle Kanima by himself, but it's plausible that the detectives would be able to do this. Maybe Asura will get off scot-free if they pin the blame for the disappearances on the criminals.
>>283875752Weirdly erotic Asura ToT
>check the pixiv tag>only 15 piecesSad.Some are good though. Surprisingly not much porn.
>>283888133>Kanima learns what's happening>the police get to him before he gets to Asura>when questioned about the disappearances he tells the truth>he's assumed to be insane and Asura is exculpated
>>283879262I feel the same. Last time the author had to asspull one of them covering for Asura. Which at least can be explained by being their first meeting and their first appearance. But from here on out Asura has to either become more discreet or the jig is up. Given how competent the detective was shown there is no way to hide it anymore.
>>283888385lel
>>283880210If it ever reached that point I think the old man will intervene. And if he did, it won't be good for Asura.
>>283875853Granny got ultra killed
>>283885763When this manga started it was likened to Death Note but 20 chapters laters and I don't see anything of the sort.Morally, there is nothing to dicuss. Everyone Asura keyed is cartoonishly evil and the only character that offers any kind of resistance is Raika. And even he is hesistant about it. Narratively there is no force opposing Asura or at least something that poses a threat to him. The criminals want him but two of them got off-screened and while the police are being framed as such Asura's personality is too forward to offer any resistance to them.I know DN is a high bar but there should be a bit of conflict going on. At least at some level.
>>283887679If the murderer actually repented, yes. Remember Asura doesn't key people for bad stuff they've done (or at least that's what he tells himself), but because he's convinced that if left alone they will do something worse than what they've already done in the future. People my liken him to Light but Asura's more like the Sybil System in that aspect
>>283888957Maybe the plot is about Asura seeking stronger and stronger evildoers, while getting stronger himself an eventually becoming the {spoiler]HELLlander[/spoiler]
>>283884977>Pop back into realityThat'd be an interesting future arc. Someone Asura sent to hell returns cleansed of sin and seeks him out to repay him for their redemption, maybe right as the police detectives hone in on him, throwing their "murder" suspicions into disarray.
I want to know how the mystery nigga in the park fits into all of this
>>283889424I assume he is the actual boss. Despite how much he likes to swing his dick around, the big brother is still just a stooge.
>>283875706Thanks OP
>>283876761The West was a mistake at this point.
>>283877748Protecc
>>283889496I kinda thought he might be another key holder, but I imagine that would poke a big hole in the the buddhist theme
>>283883855I want to take his place if that happens.
>>283888957I think I'm liking it more than death note. Light being a complete dumbass irritated me the whole way through. Not only is Asura being a dumbass a lot more appropriate, in some ways he isn't even as stupid. Specifically in that he didn't succumb to delusions of grandeur the attosecond he was granted any amount of power.I also prefer the way the supernatural is being handled. I never felt as though death note hit the right balance of incredulity and worldview breaking that would result from magic being introduced in an otherwise mundane world. Literally no one believing anything supernatural is going on unless they've seen a keying firsthand and one of the two witnesses becoming an Asura worshiper strikes me as a lot more believable than a bunch of cops conjecturing about impossible magical shit while barely questioning their sanity or strongly held beliefs.
Will he keyed himself once all people stopped doing bad deeds?
>>283892917He no longer believes that keying people is an evil deed. When no one, mortal or divine, did anything to stop the psycho that was about to make him eat the corpse of his cum stained dog, he realized that his beliefs concerning good and evil deeds were not entirely correct. For evil deeds to be punished he would have to do it himself.
>>283876485>>283876514>>283876556Does this not appear on the english site?
>>283876998>Crackpot theory>This is a YGO Season 0 or Yu Yu Hakusho first arc type moment and this manga becomes a battle series>>283877088>>other people with hell's keys show up>>there will be tournament where then compete on how many bad guys they can sent to hell>>the final boss is a cult leader with heaven's keyThere's actually a series a lot like that, but its a korean manhwa. Hellcraft.https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/jntg6di/hellcraft
>>283875994>>283879500are you a woman? No that doesn't make it less weird, but it is just a cartoon.
>>283875895>>283875920>>283875945>>283876116I wonder if we will see those 2 thugs in hell. We didnt see the demons drag them in and I liked seeing the designs they used.
>>283893989I agree with >>283879132. Granny puncher at least will be shown in hell.
>>283876086GODS STRONGEST SOLDIER
>>283894611Satan*
Asura a cute
>>283889066Well, it's not too late to transistion into battle shounen>>283892133That's a viewpoint, I guess.Asura's problem is that his direct behavior requires someone to bail him out whenever he's about to get caught. Just look at how the cops confrontation was handled. He doesn't seem to develop any signs of self-awareness or survival instinct so far. It would be fine if seeing how he keys people was the highlight and had more creativity to it. But as of now nothing seems to pose any threat to him.
>>283877379<3I love boys with cute hair doodads
>>283888122what a whore
People like this cringe shit here? The protagonist deserves a beating.
Wish I could do good deeds irl too :(
This is bleach level of kino
POST YOUR ASURA'S VERDICT PREDICTIONSWILL IT BE>retooled into a battle manga>axed unceremoniously >go on for far too long OR SOMETHING ELSEJUST REMEMBER THIS WILL ONLY END WITH ASURA GETTING SENT TO HELL
>>283897362Asura is literally a slasher horror movie villain in the making so we'll get a main character switch where he's now the main antagonist.
>>283897362it's giving me the same vibe saike mata shite mo had so I'm expecting it to slowly turn into a battle manga after this arc in the next arc we'll probably get another key holder or someone with a similar power and will be mostly a mystery/thriller arc but there will be action at the end, then the next arcs will dial up the action
>>283897413>BAD DEEDS. YOU'VE DONE IT. I KEYED
He is right, though.
>>283897362I really want to see the day when he has to key somebody who is more morally gray.
>>283897362Asura will not get sent to hell. The old man has that in mind for him, either as a torture demon or as the replacement for the old man himself. But Asura will refuse him. And his accumulated merit from his good deeds will prevent the old man from dragging him forcefully to hell.
>>283877030Huh, it seems that some of it is bubbling over into the surface
>>283875706Girl here, is this yaoi? Does it have rape?
>>283888461Sadly manga series are way less likely to get porn, or any fanart at all
Do we get to see what happens in hell? I want to coom
>>283899405>YaoiPossibly.>rapeDefinitely.
>>283876682Of course not, being bad is something that he cannot do
>>283899455I was expecting AI generated porn actually, but it doesn't even have that which was the surprising part. AI generated stuff has really flooded and ruined pixiv.
>>283899405>is this yaoi?It's a shounen manga, so it will only ever have bait. But it is a sausage fest.>Does it have rape?Only ryona so far. I doubt there will ever be rape, at least of a main character. But there will almost certainly be more beat up Asuras.
>>283879907The thing is that, he himself doesn't think he's doing anything bad, so to his eyes the police have no reason to arrest him and so he sees not reason to cover any of it. He blindly trusts that anyone in the police must be good people, so he doesn't distrust anyone that is supposed to be 'good'.That's why he didn't try to hide anything when the detective questioned him, he's that much of a dumbass.
>>283887988That's what makes it so much better!
Is nonconsensual tickling a bad deed
>>283876775That's like the average for that age in most of the world...
>>283897720That would be character assassination at this point, the more interesting scenario would be him refusing to key somebody because he might not deserve it, even if he's potentially about to do something terrible.
>>283899485The thing about AI is that it cannot do anything truly innovative, so generating pics of character from a manga no one else draws fanart about is very difficult to do.
>>283899749I wonder how he'd deal with behavior that is extremely immoral and destructive but not directly violent. Like a corrupt cop turning a blind eye to a dangerous criminal because of bribery or connections. Obviously he'd tell them to do the right thing. But if they refused would he key them?
>>283899616>averageHe's supposed to be tall.
>>283900488Is he though?I always had the mental image of Raika being an average male student but had the face of a delinquent
>>283877030>in Buddhism Hell is located directly under the Indian subcontinentImagine you managed to climb away from hell and you end up in India
>>283900983And Greek gods live in Greece, funny how it happens
>>283879309I still miss his fun game bros....
>>283900983Wouldn't you just think you're in a different, possibly worse, part of hell?
>>283897362Asura doesn't feel like a particularly long story. The issue with the detectives and the mafia can be solved by letting the cops blame the gangsters for the missing kids, and after that it's just more of Asura keying bad guys and Otori becoming a zealot until they have a conflic between them.
>>283901966I think the detective story will have more to it than that. The older detective seems to have a guilty conscience about something. And I also don't think he's dumb enough to believe the gang are responsible for the disappearances.
>>283899912It feels like we’ll never know the answer to that. The characters seem to be either normal good people, downtrodden victims, or evil incarnate that will be sent to hell. We have yet to see a gray area.
>>283902755This manga has a cool premise with the potential to be interesting, but unfortunately the world is boring as fuck cartoon populated by caricatures.
>>283902797If I thought we were going for that kind of story where we ask “Who is truly deserving of suffering?” then I might agree. However I don’t think that’s the point. Amashiro is an unrealistically good person with rigid morals given only one tool to make the world around him better that just so happens to cause infinite suffering for the victims. That itself is the tragedy, that a good person has no peaceful way to achieve peace.
If the author had anything profound to say, we'd have seen hints of that before the 3rd volume.
>>283903076What this anon >>283902901 is talking about was present from chapter 1.
>>283903076what >>283886625 is cool
>>283902901I don't see how this can be seen as tragedy. This would imply that Asura himself is suffering but he's far from it. He has no issue keying people both in doing it and afterward, his worldview is rewarded, and the people he's doing it to garner no sympathy. Just last chapter he was comedically getting excited at the idea of doing it to the two bully girls.If he himself was facing difficulties doing it or losing something along the way I would agree. But as of now the only thing we have is that something might happen to him in the future.
>>283903404Anon, the gang of criminals targeting him just broke into his house and beat the shit out of his granny. He's been dragged into dealing with shit far beyond him all because no one else would.
>>283903546And he was given super strength to fight with it so great that we don't need to see how he keyed them to believe it. Sure, grandma got socked but I want to see actual reprecussions from that. For him to actually reflect and think a little of what this means. Otherwise he still has no issue keying people either physically or mentally so far.
>>283903613He needs to start keying people who aren't killing puppies every microsecond for this manga to become interesting.
>>283903640I think this arc could be a good point for that to happen. The scope of antagonists is much bigger and the chance for him to fuck up is much larger.I'm also interested in seeing how will he react if he accidently killed someone with his strength instead of sending them to hell.
>>283903613His grandma getting attacked is already a reprecussion. And so is being the target of a gang.Asura has thought about what he's doing. And up until now he's come to the conclusion that what he's doing is the right way of going about things. He hadn't been given a reason to believe otherwise.
>>283904454It means nothing if he kept breezing through any opposition that appear like he's been doing so far. Maybe the rest of the gang will actually offer a challenge but that's something I'll wait to see. Him reacting and realizing the negative fallout of his actions is what I'm asking for.
I can't see this manga ending any other way other than Asura using the key on himself. We have yet to encounter morally grey characters who are aligned good but have no choice but to do "evil" because there's no other alternative. Asura is probably going to come to the realization that people can change over time and using the key so nonchalantly is an extreme overreaction. Asura is evil but he doesn't know it yet.
>>283904552It's the first time the gang has sent anyone after him specifically and already his only family member is going to need to be hospitalized. That seems like an entirely appropriate level of escalation to me.
>>283905050We have yet to see how grandma is doing and how Asura himself will react. I'm not saying that nothing will happen but off-screening them in the same chapter they tried to stop him in isn't reassuring.
>>283904978Actually thinking about it some more there's some butterfly motifs in the previous chapters so Asura is probably going to lose his friends to murder due to a butterfly effect from his actions and he won't be able to cope that it's his fault, also maybe he'll lose the key somewhere down the line and will realize murder really isn't as clean and simple as using the key makes him believe
>>283904978>We have yet to encounter morally grey characters who are aligned good but have no choice but to do "evil" because there's no other alternativeAsura.
>>283879185The likelihood of him having always been strong enough to bend a crowbar to a right angle with one hand is 0%.
>>283899455>Sadly manga series are way less likely to get porn, or any fanart at allwhy is that?
>>283905886don't project your own weakness onto Gigamashiro
>>283906268He's a 4'11' Japanese teenager doing something that would cause roided up Strongman competitors to pop blood vessels trying to do with both hands. It ain't natty.
>>283899485>I was expecting AI generated porn actually, but it doesn't even have that which was the surprising part.Good, why do you fucking coomers infest every thread, no cooming only good deeds here
>>283904978>Asura is evilEvery person he has keyed so far has deserved it. Asura did nothing wrong only good deeds
>>283906806Not saying I wanted it, just what I expected.I was shocked to see a pixiv tag completely devoid of it.
>>283876375fuck she's so rapeable
feels like it's going to be revealed that the mc never was human at all
>>283907306While I don't personally subscribe to this theory, it would make his mom naming him Asura less strange. It could also provide a reason for the extreme belief system she instilled in him.
>>283902480The older detective probably won't, but I can see the younger one jumping to conclusions in order to protect Asura, and the old fox would just agree until he could get more concrete proof.
>>283905936I'm guessing because there are lot more manga than anime in general, so it's lot harder to get you manga noticed by an artist willing to do fanart.Personally I think that moving images and sound are more stimulating to the creative process than still images
>>283906806I mean you're in 4chan...
>>283908842I wouldn't be surprised if the younger detective became a full blown Asura cultist like Otori.
>>283906806Cooming makes me and other people happy, so it's a good deed!
