Chapter 336: Agito vs Akoya
>>284761820>>284761863Are we trying to explain why he struggled with half dead Lu tian
>>284761929Akoya is the fastest man alive??
>>284762189He is until the connector decides he wants to be the fastest.
>>284761141i thought akoya got all kinds of fucked up in that fightno scars or burns left?
I just love fighting manga
>>284763027genikasuribros winning as usual
>>284761929>Xia Ji could go toe to toe with Agito and low diff Willem Wu with no trainingMy rat could be top 5 in the verse with a little training.
>>284763365Xia is such an interesting character I wonder what will become of him in the end
>>284763027Fighting manga's are retarded and that's what makes them good
>>284764077where is he now?
>>284761074Obviously it goes without saying that art is shit but this chapter it just felt downright weird. I couldn't figure out if Daro was putting in extra effort or being extra lazy. Agito and Akoya's weird ass face, the launch controls, the random battle cry that seemingly never actually happened, the reactions from Koga and Ryuki, it was all just strange. Not just "bad" like it usually is but weird. >>284761929Remind me again what Akoya's beef with Agito is? What perceived evil did Agito do?
>>284764479What I want is him to be coincidentally hiding in that very island because he figured that'd be the last place anyone would check for him.What is likely is that Sandro already forgot about him.
>>284764479On standby
>>284763365In an better timeline Xia and Yumi would have been the ones who went to train with the mainland Wu in order to unlock their latent potential.
>>284764479>>284764584If Koga defeats you as part of his revenge quest but doesn't kill you then you're sent to the shadow realm, never to return to the story. This is his "special ability", he's so strong he can erase your future. An ability like that can only be wielded by the main character after all.
>>284763027This is technically a victory for kengan Truly a christmas miracle
Why are these characters here? Why do they even exist? How many timeskips, training arcs have been wasted on these retards only for them to still be reduced to this? Just have them fall into a big hole, no one would give a shit.
>>2847659866 more months bro just half a year and he's going to be Shen level please just one more timeskip and he'll unlock his genetic potential
>>284764700pure evil
>>284761107I misswhen people talked about agitos comically large ass
Your timing is off, nonny.
Akoya had one cool moment where he spooked Ryuki and the entire rest of the time he has sucked dick.
>>284761107>>284761141Autistic Retard versus Retarded Autist
>No Ashura dumpCould it be that the dumper has a "life" and is out celebrating "Christmas"...?
>>284763027I still can't get over how R E T A R D E D Muteba chappies were holy FUCKING SHIT.>We can't pursue him... he has TRAPS set up!!!>"Actually i just cut my only trap and admitted there's no more and even if they were both of you outscale assault rifles let alone fucking wooden contraptions.">A wooden logs wit spikes on it is stronger than a principle user and a shenclone>Wood is.... too strong to win>Muteba escapes into some fucking tall grass with the Real Carlos Medal>Shadow silouetthes of our VILLAINS>Repeat but closer this time>Full reveal the next page with nametags and everything>Kazzy shits his pants that Kenganvengers could ever possibly play dirty in an all-out no-holds-barred battle royal contest(where the fate of the world is to be decided based on shunguses involvment.)>Nogi plothexes them into never having betrayed shit because the manga is too toothless to even have fighters try to win anymoreAlso too assed to search through it again but i',m pretty sure there's like 2 instances of Muteba turning around to face someone just so he can turn around again and leave which no one commented on and it made me feel like i was going insane.Like this is just an unfathomably high-level exchange that Agito will clear no problem and it's a bit annoying that Koga and Ryuki don't do anything but Muteba chappies were actually dentheaded.
>>284761863>>284761898>>284761929Interesting powerscalingSo Asura Akoya = Omega Agito
>"He had a peculiar defeated quality hanging over him, and yet, underneath, he did not seem to have given up. A vague and ragged hint of vitality lurked behind the resignation; it seemed to Runciter that Joe most nearly could be accused of feigning spiritual downfall... the real article, however, was not there.">Try reading some classic sci-fi.>Sandro psychically assailts you.I'm going insane.
>>284766875The interesting thing is that when Itagaki does it, it's good.
>>284766880Where is the Sandroism here?
>>284766987Oh right. Hasn't Hanayama's powerlevel been exactly 1:1 the same for the entirety of the manga eer since the end of Maximum Tournament?And he's basically above Pickle baseform in terms of brute strenght.
>>284767098 it seemed to Runciter that Joe most nearly could be accused of feigning spiritual downfall... the real article, HOWEVER, was not there."Get subverted nerd.It also has a character that's "too strong to win" in that she can rewrite her past in any way she wishes at any time but only ever uses that power to show off and orchestrate events that serve as all but a backdrop to the story as a whole.
>>284767153Also arguably an EVIL IS ON THE MOVE ass ending but i won't spoil much.
>>284764700It's a goddamn shame he hasn't defeated Ohma then
>>284767099Hanayama is as strong as he needs to be per fight which mean's he'll always have a good showing but chances of him actually winning are low
>>284767778So he's the Himuro of Baki?
>>284768545No because he actually gets fights and does look cool to the point people are still questioning whether or not he lost against Jack.
>>284767099Hanayama's fight with Spec is my favorite in the series, easily a top 3 fight. HOWEVER I want him to go away now.He's cool and all but him being permanently at the same level as the other top tiers annoys me. He specifically doesn't train because he's naturally strong but if he can still hang with the best without lifting a weight or sparring then why isn't everyone creaming themselves over the Hanayama bloodline instead of the Hanma line?Then there's other stuff too like how he got his own spin off as if we don't have characters and storylines that would have benefited from extra material more than him.It just feels like if Yujiro wasn't cemented as Itagaki's pet the that spot would have went to Hanayama.
Did we get a daily ashura today
>>284761074come on, no one seriously thinks Akoya stands a chance against Kanoh...
>>284761747Shouldve soccer kicked him here.
>>284768904To be fair he kinda did. He doesn't do anything from end of convicts to well after Son of The Ogre with sumo and mushashi. That's 2 fights over the span of 3 serializations. And then he fights Jack in Rahen once.I get your point but he's a fun character which i like. I do agree that every fight he gets is a repeat of "He IGNORED my TECHNIQUE??? B-but-but H-HO-HO-HOW.......!!! HE'S STILL "STANDING"! LIKE S-SOME SORT OF A "STANDING MAN".......... AND JUST WHAT'S WITH HIS BACK TATOO ANYWAY....................................?!!!" And then he either jobs or wins based on Itagaki's whim.
Cosmo's Imai schlong is canonically huge so that's a major weakpoint. You could take out one of the S-tiers of KAT with a nutshot. Meanwhile awakened Ohmer is so asexual and pussyfree i don't think he can even pee standing up.
Hassad soon.
>>284768603Itagaki also has more advanced ways of making fighters look good than Sandro does. Like take the shitmo arc. The main cast all fought jobbers, but that allowed the reader to judge their showing by comparing the difficulty each fighter had with his jobber. With that, Hanayama oneshotting his jobber made him look good without having to fight anyone relevant.
>>284770245I liked the Hanayama Sumoteka AU that was brought up in that arc.
>>284768904>Then there's other stuff too like how he got his own spin off as if we don't have characters and storylines that would have benefited from extra material more than him.I'm still mad that the Chiharu Gaiden spin-off got axed right after his fight with Ron. I thought with Ron and Shunsei's inclusion we were gonna get characters who've been neglected and tossed aside do to Itagaki's limited attention span but the manga just ends after an implied rematch after Chiharu got Ron to acknowledge himBut Hanayama can have 2 whole spin-offs and periodically cameo in Chiharu's spin-off and get his own fight while he's at itAt least Retsu gets to have fun in Isekai Land>>284768545Himuro gets genuinely shit showings despite Sandro wanting him to look good, like getting pulverized by Haruo and only winning because Haruo's fucked knee made him tap out just to then also to get pulverized by Adam in Himuro's next fightHimuro has never gotten an onscreen win
>>284769098You'd be so focused on the nutshot you'd get caught in "The Zone" and by the time you realize it he would've already choked you out by wrapping his shaft around your neck, cutting off your air supply.
>>284761107Must be hard fitting all that cake into that tight bodysuit
>>284770399>and only winning because Haruo's fucked knee made him tap outLmao not even. Haruo still won that fight. The knee injury made him tap out of the TOURNAMENT but Himuro still lost to him.
>>284761277Maybe it's because I've been waning on the series but is it me or is the art for this single page reminiscent of kengan ashura/early omega?
>>284769631I only remember him as Medicine Man’s gay bottom
I hope there a good reason behind the fight because this is unecessaryKoga & Ryuji jumping Ayoka would make more sense
>>284761074Finally some fight I got hook up and it's not even relevant for the plot.
>>284766987No what's worse is when people say Sumo Dou is Good when that was the equivalent of RCT Agito who has scaled the wall not one shotting a normie.
>>284773069The whole arc was weird. We've had the story take weird turns before based on Itagaki's mood at the time like how halfway through the convict arc he turns them into losers but the sumo arc was nothing but a series of whims. If Sandro brought back a fan favorite character so they could job to the new central character only to have the fan favorite stomp the newbie later in the same arc we'd have roasted him for weeks.With Baki though we kind of just chuckle and move on like "that's our Itagaki".I'm not defending Sandro, he deserves to get roasted at every opportunity but it's just odd how Itagaki can basically do whatever he wants and it's still at minimum palatable.Maybe it's down to execution or something idk.
>>284773891The major difference is that Baki doesn't have any real direction it's going in with each of these arcs now. There's no huge stakes and the series makes it very clear it doesn't intend to give you the idea that there are any. There's no villain plots (Baki has almost never had any archetypal villains period) whilst Kengan is pretending to have stakes and hyped up villains but they always flub it. Am I making any sense?
>>284771844No, I can see it. The art doesn't look as sterile as most pages in Omega these days, you can see actual shading and detail put into it. Maybe Daro felt motivated this chapter.
>>284774117>>284771844I can't see it. It looks like several other "high level exchange" pages in Kengan.
>>284774109Yeah, I think he's officially stated that he considers the father/son fight the end of the real plot and anything he writes now is just for fun.
What even is Akoya's goal here? Why does he want to kill Agito now? Did Agito fuck his girl or somethung?
>>284763365>>284764077The funny thing is that Xia would've fit Luohan's villain role way better. He's actually attacked the Kengan Association and they all hate him, and Yan hates him because he's a worthless snake. At the very least he could be a part of Luohan's squad, which would be sensible since they're both exiles of the same group. But, once again, Sandro just loves squandering the potential of his plot.
>>284774911EXECUTING JUSTICE
>>284765986I think Sandro is just too scared to completely cut them off since they were the main characters for the first 50 chapters. Now they exist in a narrative limbo where the story completely ignores them but they are drawn alot in the background to pretend like they matter
>>284763365
Again...
>>284777788I was really confused at this being from Dumbbell or something because of Kure Mom in the second panel, even though the art obviously matches no series Sandro is involved in.
>>284763027Don't forget this one.
>>284761863>struggles with a jobberIt's never been more over for Kanoh
>>284761863Am I going fucking crazy or is this dialogue actually insanely bad? I missed the main thread on Christmas so maybe everyone got their laughs out then but holy shit.>He appears to have regained his former power, but I will not lose!!!Jesus christ sandro this is something i'd write in shitty OC fanfics when I was 12. Kanoh has really lost everything that made him interesting in Ashura
>>284780427Cant speak to how intentional it is but Agito is meant to be a little special. Speaking like a normal human being is just not his thing
>>284761929so fast he got hit first, combo'd twice, and Kanoh got glazed for being le quick
Akoya is going to give Agito more trouble than Rolon did. So Akoya is now on the same level as the man who went undefeated in 400+ matches and fought THE Kuroki to a standstill. Does this mean that "getting your edge back" is better than "scaling the wall"?
>>284782292It seems to me like it's akin to avoiding inflation by putting your funds into previous ore.Everyone else is trying to "outscale" the powercreep, but Akoya managed to remain on par of them by simply "stashing his powerlevel" for later. It's not that Asura Akoya was Kuroki tier, it's that current Kuroki is subject to powercreep inflation. You could say that everyone but Akoya has gotten weaker.That's what "regaining ones edge" is all about.
>>284782964While everyone else was trying to capitalize on the effects of "principles" on the "powerlevel stock market", Akoya simply put his powerlevel in commodities and then entered a coma
>>284766282The initial dump thread was mostly posts about Agito culo.
>>284785121As an enemy to evil and a champion of justice he's well aware of the pitfalls of greed and chasing the infinite growth.
>>284785121Akoya knows that "timing" the "market" can't beat "time in the market"
So... Can taking out an "advance" be defeated by "financial literacy...?
>>284785349Kek
>>284761107Agito's christmas cakes are ready for glazing, godDAYM
>>284761929>>284763027
>>284782964>You could say that everyone but Akoya has gotten weaker."you" have finally "arrived"
>>284788129You forgot the textbox that says Sandro Yamabuki - Creator of "The Tragedy."
>>284785349Shen invested in bitcoin in 2013
>>284761929I-Is that a "C"? Could it be that Akoya stole Agito's technique, "Fontless"?
>>284788145Why didn't Akoya just use Amon's power to vaporize Cosmo? Was he retarded?
>>284761074I can't unsee the fucking frieren pose
>>284780427>Kanoh has really lost everything that made him interesting in AshuraWho the fuck hasn't? Every single fucking character is just a cheap caricature of themselves now. Every. Single. Character.
>>284761141They almost look like siblings.
I still believe in the return of The "Tiger"
>>284793669kek
>>284761141Hold on how the fuck does Agito know about any of that?
>>284796028He used pre-initiative on Akoya's body language to see his memories.
