Chapters 57 and 58 are out, dumping
>>286190955I’m miffed that after Jin demolished that Gate brat, we’re back to Gate bullshit. Also another katana winner, lame.Aren’t you gonna dump the next chapter?
Chapter 58
Kenganichi fell offAt least the art is still good
>>286190913>>286190923Subtle reference
>>286191715I hope it's going to be a timeskip and not waste any chapters on training arcs.
>>286192089Same
What went wrong?
>>286190923he should have just kept this smile and not went through vizipop
>>286191492wow so battle damage doens't matter anymore and everyone gets a gate huh?
>>286191715i feel like this timeskip is only happening to make oni guy jobbing not feel like completly bullshit
>>286191575>>286191595/ourguy/
>>286192311Willy got denied his 2nd wind
>>286191288They’ve all started to scale “The Wall”
Now that was an entirely pointless round.
>>286190934>4,000 years of history>Gone
>>286191288>now that they "know", they too can begin to climb the "wall" and reach new heightsI swear Kengan Omega has ruined most fighting shonen manga for me, god damnit
>>286192864At least he didn't Dirk Dance.
>>286191327The most reserved smile I’ve seen from him.
>>286191508>>286191520>>286192482I'm going to give the writers props for this call because a 6 month timeskip (we maybe will cover some of this from Musashi's POV) is a pretty smart move. Gives everyone a chance to come up with new levels of stuff to add to their arsenal without making it total bullshit of everyone awakening stuff a couple days later. I'm still sold on Tenkaichi overall even with some of the more egregious jobber matchups.
>>286191477>>286191492Training arc huh?
Uhh how were the gates demonstrated now when we had a perfectly fine gate demonstration with the old man earlier?
>>286192986I guess now it’s shown that you don’t have to be that old and enlightened to do it.
>>286193026Well, the whole thing with the spear kid earlier was that he was doing it at a young age..
>>286192986Gates is just becoming a catch-all term for characters demonstrating superhuman feats or abilities. The blind guy that could sense his entire surrounding through vibrations, heat, etc? Gates. Hanzo's ability to "thread the needle" and see weaknesses in his opponents? Also a gate. 4000 years of Kung Fu being able to mold his body into whatever form he needed? Also gates. All the old man did was progress to a point where his mastery bordered on the divine. Nobody else has reached that depth yet which is now seen as a goal for at least one fighter.
>>286193041Man you reminded me of how good Kamizumi fight was. I loved it so much.
>>286192913Dirk Dance with the Gate would have been unstoppable
>>286192948>not to mention a possible excuse for Sasaki or another character to rejoin the tournament, on the grounds of one of the remaining participants dying during these six months
>>286193058It's arguably the best fight in the fist round. The only one I would dare to put in front of it is Jiinsuke vs Inshun
>>286192895It lives on in Isekai
>>286193097>The only one I would dare to put in front of it is Jiinsuke vs InshunReally? I mean I liked it quite a bit but people around here were kinda shitting on the fight while it was happening.
If this weren't a relatively grounded manga, I'd suspect Nobunaga wants to steal the body of the tournament winner
>>286192089I feel like they have to show us something of that time, at least 2 chapters or 1 long chapter.
>>286193186Kek, you know what, I’d fully welcome it.
>>286193163I was loving it the whole time. It's a really good fight and has some of the best art of round 1 as well as a good story between the fighters and fight choreography. Which is also what made the Kamizumi fight so good as well. I'm not worried about how other people felt at the time, it holds up then as much as it does now.
>>286193097I really enjoyed Kotaro vs Toda, I think it stuck a good contrast between the two fighters and had a good balance of flashback and the fight, and I liked both of their backstories.
>>286193367I like this fight as well. But I do think there's some things lacking between Toda and Kotaro to elevate it to the realm of best fight in the series. It all came together in the end though. One of the best closing moments when Toda came back from death for one final action.
>>286193285So your tastes us just that bad
>>286193041>Nobody else has reached that depth yet which is now seen as a goal for at least one fighter.Isn't practically everyone now aiming for that?Nips love to run concepts to the ground. Choko being able to open them out of innocence and talent was cool but now everyone will come back with the "gates" at "different" "levels".
>>286191674my boywife Sasaki looking cute as ever
>>286190855>>286190872>lol2fast4u>cuhrayzee grinMy bad for not dropping this earlier.
>>286192948It's the only sensible thing to do.Otherwise, you'd have people complaining about their favorite fighter losing due to injuries from prior matches.
>>286190955I dont think anyone expected the inflatable jobber not to lose this one
>>286190955>Have a whole fight about how "Training can overcome natural Talent" so Gate Users wouldn't dominate each fight>Next fight have the guy with probably the most extensive training lose to a guy who's whole thing is apparently "lol Gates amirite"Never thought for a minute that 4000 YEARS was going to win this but it's a shame it lost to the infinitely less interesting characterDude got embarrassed the whole way through by a dude pretending to struggle before whipping out the Gate boost and JUST FUCKING WINNING
I still dont get why Nagaharu was called "Shadow" and Ito "Single Sword".Nothing in the fight hinted at those monikers.
>>286195596They're sorta making shit up as they go, same way Adam appeared well dressed, refined, had some katana's and then when it was his time to fight he was a CUH-RAZY RAPIST man with a very specific fighting style that used a small knife just to get diced up by an even CUH-RAZIER guy with zero fanfare
>>286195596It's been a while so I forgot, was William Adams a Brit?
>>286196173Some type of Euro yeah.
>>286190727why don't they just fight him at night
>>286192895>GoneNo such thing.
>>286192514He can't beat Munenori, guy's too OP.
>>286192311>>286191281Well, the author is liking the ubisoft nonsense, ans there are also less appearances of Fuma Kotaro, so of course tenkaichi went downhill.>>286191242Finally, tenkaichi wasn't supposed to be a g*y manga.
>>286192311The team behind Tenkaichi can't mask their disinterest in certain characters very well and that effects how fights play out>Adam getting cut to shreds the resident cuh-razy man while not being afforded a second wind>The Togo vs Yasuke fight where both characters are displayed very boringly>Ogasawara vs Ito fight feeling like a weird longer retread of the Adam fightAdams fight feels like filler, it's just there to hype up Yagyu and failing imo and rushed so we can get to the next fight that introduces Celestial Gates. Like as if they just came up with Gates just before the match and reworked the Adam fight so they could get a move on as quickly as possible to introduce itOgasaware is just the Adam fight but with a different kind of disdain/boredom for the guy who's gonna lose, so the fight ends up boiling down to a what is essentially the Chinaman of the tournament flailing around while the super cool Nippon Swordsman is super chill and totally in control even when he takes superficial damage
>>286191305>stand proud, Nagaharu>you were strong
>>286197762Remember Anon, everyone could be the protagonist!
>>286190834Well that's asinine. It's be one thing if he managed to split the spear or something, using the newfound weakness in the shaft to deflect the blade, but this is a TERRIBLE guard.
I'm still miffed about katana autist losing to the glorified pet and now we get LE CUHRAYZEEEEE old man with even more focus on O MY GATESWhoever is writing this shit needs a good slap on his ass, even fucking AI wouldn't fumble a good beginning this hardfuck i'm mad
>>286191343>Musashi vs Kotaro>Edge-kun vs ChokoI'm pissed off at how obvious these seem.
>>286190923>>286192438I have no idea why the writer/artist thought it would be a good idea to have him turn into a Hazbin Hotel Kure OC while fighting. The whole tournament is full of crazyface psychos, making him more subtly fucked up would have been a change of pace. >>286191492>six month training arc so Ohmasashi can regenerate his ribs and oneshot Kotaro after mastering the gateslop offscreenAt least Hanzo now has a chance in his match now since he won't be a complete walking corpse, Sekiro arm soon after all maybe.
>>286198920>I have no idea why the writer/artist thought it would be a good idea to have him turn into a Hazbin Hotel Kure OC while fightingThis turned him from one of the coolest characters to just a shittier Munemori. He is lame and boring now, and we're probably stuck with him until the final round.
>>286198711i hate that choko is gonna lose to fucking le crazy face
>>286198711Musashi is winning but the author wouldn't toss out the only pair of tits this manga has so she's not dyingChoko is gonna get served up to CUHRAZY Katanafaggot for another feeding so everyone gets a reminder of how cool and dangerous Yagyu is because raping Adam objectively wasn't enough
>>286192311Same thing we say every time.>William's jobbing ruining the illusion of everyone being treated equally>gates>blatant writing favoritism/disdain, losers get to survive their loss if the author feels like, some people get humiliation ritual butchery like 4000 years manI genuinely don't understand this round. Ultra hyped up historical figure who's always jacked off in a series like this, set up against a literally who who proceeded to stack virtually every battle manga jobber flag in existence in the span of like two chapters. Literally anybody who understands hype/setup could figure out who wins even if they never picked up a tournament manga before.Then there's just no twist, just months of him flailing around with weird gimmicky attacks as Ittosai goes "haha almost got me that time :)" until he gets bored and slaughters him. There's an art to making effective jobbers, they need to at least FEEL strong in their own right to make the guy they're putting over seem threatening, and both William and 4000 years man failed.>>286191327Nothing about this fight feels like it justifies this, because just like William, it feels like Nagaharu being weak more than Ittosai being strong. It doesn't feel like any other fighters would lose to him either(besides William lol), because Ittosai just fucked around the whole time and Nagaharu never felt like he even had a moment where he could have won.>>286198711>protagonist vs kotaroThe only thing up in the air here is if the writer spares her to not kill off fanart.>Choko vs edgy sugoi katanaman who didn't have to even try in round onelol>Hanzo vs YasukeLiterally the only interesting match of round 2, outcome-wise, since neither is blatantly plot armored and both are arguably the most sane/"nice" of the fighters, with both their camps framed with protagonist vibes in their round one fights.>Ittosai vs JinsukeI'll be rooting for Jinsuke again, but man.
>>286199578I'd say Ittosai vs Jinsuke is up in the air too, hell, slightly higher chance for the latter. Plenty loser flags for Itto in this chapter.
Ittosai and Yagyu are basically the same fucking character except one is perpetually smug posting and the other is perpetually Linkin Park posting
>>286190834Literally just magic.>>286191227>>286195577>Have a whole fight about how "Training can overcome natural Talent" so Gate Users wouldn't dominate each fightDon't go forgetting now that Ittosai also decided to retcon Jinsuke into a latent gate user who just didn't realize it too lol
>>286200718Jinsuke will probably give Ittosai a harder time than 4000 years did with an added backhand to those 4000 years at the same time, it will be insufferable when it happens
>>286197975No, he was in fact NOT strong and they literary said it.
>>286198711You forgot Jinsuke vs Itosai, that seems another set in stone HOWEVER Jinsuke could, maybe, probably, with a miracle, underdog his way into a victory.Yamato damashii Jinsuke! Pump oxygen! There is still more left in you! Yamato damashii
>>286202036Nah, they're setting it up for Ittosai to lose. You could argue Jinsuke wouldn't be fitting to beat him, but either of his possible opponents for the next rounds are even less fitting.
Does anyone like the author's other series, Gamaran? First one was pretty good, but the sequel was disappointing. Still waiting for the last translations, by the way.
Come to think of it, none in group B is last fight material. I bet either the tournament gets interrupted or Kojiro steals a spot.
>>286191305>>286191316>Kotaro acknowledging how badly she has been surpassedDon't give up you can do it
>>286193163People were preemptively shitting on it because they thought Jinsuke was going to lose. This was before Ito said everything was GATES so the assumption was he would job to the meta.
>>286198711Despite people swearing Musasahi is the protag he is disappears for great lengths and isn't really relevant. I wouldn't completely count out Kotaro. However Yagyu is fucking everywhere and talks more than most of the cast combined That nigga is the protagonist.
>>286202444Yeah that’s what I remember as well
I don't see how Choko not winning could possibly not look like an asspull against edgy boy. He held his own against and made fucking Kamizumi go truly all-out to (still not) win while rapidly opening several levels of his own gates during the fight.No fucking way that can realistically be topped.
>>286190780>He went limpIt's over, chinaboy won.
>>286190834Shouldn't his knee be fucking shattered?
>>286204487why do reddit ashura troons think we want their memes here?
>>286204224Edgy-McGee will asspull the DEMONIC GATES and savage Choko with his katana that almost seems like it's consuming his blood with every cut
>>286204224>I don't see how Choko not winning could possibly not look like an asspull against edgy boy.Sumo is WEAK
>>286204224Yagyu has been at every fight so far and personally commented on every fighter and it is only now with Ito that he has claimed that someone might be too strong for him to beat.
>>286191430Schizo theory: Ran is ventriloquizing Nobunaga here.
>>286204695Good thing then that Choko pledged to master the sword by taking Kamizumi's
>>286191492>Giving Musashi an entire arc where he can unlock his MC powers for realKoutaroubros... it's over.
>>286204224He will come back with all the gates™ opened and make another cuhrazy face.
>>286204695Choko will at least blind him or rip his legs off.
>>286204975He also needed it because he currently is still missing a part of the side of his chest, if any remembers, it’s been a while.
>>286202296>Hanzo makes the finals missing all his limbs
>>286202296I’m still waiting to see if they mix up roster for round 2.
>>286204892Now that you say that, the page looks a lot more suspicious.
>>286205788>>286204892I'm still convinced he's alive because his eyes are still able to focus at times like in the last panel of >>286191477 when he seems to get more coherent as he winds himself up.
>>286195596Some of them were almost certainly changed from what was originally planned, or at least sketched out. Yasuke's carrying multiple sticks instead of a shield, for example, and William's changes are obvious.
>>286198711>Protagsashi vs KotaroMusashi's all but guaranteed to win, but Kotaro may survive if she has some level of character development.>Yagyu vs ChokoSafe bet is Yagyu, but I think Choko could provide an upset; at the very least he won't be a total pushover. Frankly I was surprised a sumo even survived the first round.>Hanzo vs YasukeThe only real toss-up next round, and interestingly they seem the furthest from Gatemaxing. Hanzo will probably get a Sekiro arm for more gadgets and trickery, which I think will be more exciting to watch than Yasuke's parryslop.>Jinsuke vs ItoJinsuke can only win with another miracle; I was not expecting him to beat Inshun to begin with and Ito's a monster. If Ito does win, he's making it to the finals.
Why the heck no one think they're going to switch up the matchup in the second round. We could have samurai mcrapeface vs samurai ntrglasses as the first fight for all we know.
>>286207142I could see them doing Musashi vs Choko
>>286198711i actually like characters with y'know character
>>286204224The author cleverly avoided making him have to try in his fight, so now he can just autoscale to whatever level he needs to be and it won't be a retcon(and of course now we have the timeskip so any fighter can do that technically).
