The Only Flaw: Hara's WritingGGG translation is out. Dumping (like Hara is taking a dump on this manga).
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>>288786280Kind of a kino moment, the corpse wall (albeit a bit silly). Still not over the last two chapters' bullshit though.
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>>288786294I don't mind the corpse wall, but all of them going "Yippiiie, I don't mind being part of the corpse wall" is a bit off-putting, at least show some struggleShin not reacting to everyone sacrificing themselves due to his two brain cells freezing up comes off as weird as well, like at least make a shocked face>>288786264 his "my bad" panel here has big yeah... sorry energy>>288786280 and here the text is okay, but he just looks slightly annoyedI dunno, something felt a bit off about that part of the chapter
>>288786401ENTER: The gayer version of Shi Ryou. I think this sekrit bznz is gonna come back to bite Reebok in the ass, too, though. Like if those troops are royal ones he didn't get explicit permission to take beyond the walls.>>288786416Could've waited till I was done dumping, dweeb.
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>>288786471And that's all, folks.Again, less of a turd than the last two chapters but still kinda ... eh.
>>288786479Will Kaine bother sparing Ten?
>>288786479>mfw when all my carefully raised veteran units in LOTR: BFME get pulped>>288786697Evidently not.
>ten will definitely come up with somethingkuhahahaha
>>288786831>mfw whenSmh head. I'm just gonna pretend this was intentional.
O MY TELEPORTING ARMIES
>>288786401Kinda surprised another Bushin didn't come out here just to really seal the deal
>>288756072>high ranking Zhao officialKinda goofy to leave it that unspecified. Was this ever clarified?>>288756391>her existence is one of the things that could be thought as to why Shin's muh instincts are not being developedI get some of the criticism towards her (or rather: Hara's dogshit characterization of her). But that's just moronic. Her existence is the *sole* reason Shin even got to where he is. Remember, before her arrival Shin got his ass kicked every single battle, pissing away troops like nobody's business, and it was hinted that he'd be relieved of command if he didn't shape up. This retarded slave would've never even made it to general without her, his "muh instincts" would've had to kick in way earlier for this so that he could've stood on his own before the capital got sick of his incompetence and demoted him.
>>288786904This one actually did make sense though. Like seriously, as far as Reebok Tactics goes, this one is not bullshit and the story at least has established beforehand that he has plenty of support among a bunch of big shots in the court. So this guy using his pull to rock out with an army makes sense.
>>288786842the GREAT strategist surely won't just leave her men hanging while having a mental breakdown, as her men are literally forming meatwalls to stall the enemies
>completely surrounded with 10 to 1 numbersWhat bullshit asspull with save Shin and Ten? How many named characters die?>>288786260Good page.
>>288786479holy shit... Tonkaku is... dead...>>288786697sex with kainé!!! push through any "obstacles" in the way! uwooooah!!
>>288786939>This one actually did make sense though.Eh, kinda. Depends on whose army that is. You'd think that Reebok would already have pulled any troops that he can directly commandeer to the front as Kantan itself with its massive royal guard presence was basically unassailable anyhow so it'd make little sense to hold anyone back (and the Qin breakthrough proves he could've done with more troops to prevent shit like that). So my assumption here is that those are troops he didn't actually have the authority to use in this manner. But who knows, at this point Hara is just fucking shitting at the wall to see what drips (pic related, a single chapter apart).
>>288786910That's for next chapter.>>288786952They're sorry guys alright, kek. Imagine having to serve under people that inept.>>288786997>How many named characters die?See >>288787008. >1. It'll be interesting to see if it's actually gonna be any OGs like Bihei though (unlikely, I bet he's saving him for Shin's Chu-terloo) as anything less would feel wack.
>>288787181>they managed to hide most of the army so that they can ambush RibokuGenius
>>288787181Well it said Royal Army, that shit is presumably supposed to be with the king rather than be like the other armies.> those are troops he didn't actually have the authority to use in this manner. Pretty sure that's the point, that's why he had to keep it in secret.
>>288787181Wow. Didn't notice this until just know but Hara/his assistants can't even keep Kantan's fucking size the same from one chapter to the next. I count eleven "bastions" - the parts jutting out from the wall with a building on top - in the first panel (unevenly spaced by the way, lol), with more potentially hidden by Cute-kai. In the second one it's suddenly only ten of them. Did Reebok teleport those, too?But seriously, has Hara just given up by now and is phoning it in? Or are those kind of egregious continuity errors (the elephant in the room aside for the moment) everywhere and I merely never paid enough attention to notice?
>>288787220I hope you're shitposting but the time to ambush would've been *before* they fully deployed. Not like it's working out for her now either. And regardless, this is so fucking bad. Not only should she (and Shin) have them them coming from literal miles away, at the very least she could've sent riders to warn them since she was in the prime position to see them pull up.Just terrible writing all around.
>>288787363This thing is at what, 80 volumes? Nobody has the creative juices to go that long. Dude's definitely blown his loads years ago.
>>288787410I get it but in that case the man should take longer breaks. The masochism of mangaka is something else, man, kinda reminds me of MDs in that sense. But hey, if nothing else the art as such is stellar for a weekly manga ... horses aside, haha.I wonder how much of this is also to blame on Nipland's outdated practices. Seeing Togashi show the process on Tw*tter blew my mind. No wonder they still use faxes if that's how they work. Might as well at that point.
>>288787264I know, hence my comment here: >>288786431.
>>288787404*seen them
>>288787404Nah man the great strategist Ka Ryo Ten must have build her own warp gate. Just wait.
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>>288787517Riboku should be a tragic antagonist who tries his best to defend his own country against overwhelming odds only to be betrayed by his own king. But Hara can't write so he gives him magic powers and massive armies.
>>288769490The contrast between that and her heart-felt declaration of love for Shin was so fucking funny.
>>288773453I mean for Kingdom this arc is moving at breakneck speed. We're, what, barely 30 chapters in? And already moving towards the endgame, it seems.
>>288787552>>288787517it's annoying when Hara goes to great lengths to show you Sei getting a full census and being able to conscript literally everyone, how grueling of a process that was, and Riboku just teleports in new armies of 300,000. Of course followed by a flashback in post to him speaking privately with said army's leader, a hidden legend in the far north of Zhao, who pledges his life to him just because. The difference in presentation is what gets me, it makes Zhao just look retarded at times, having 12 million people who can steamroll the continent and they're in cryofreeze until Reebok visits.
>>288787878Historical Riboku was much smarter than Hara. Zhao military force was spent after Hakuki and Riboku basically won most of his battles through gorilla tactics, attrition and grassroots support which is much more impressive than muh bushin/teleporting armies. Qin was basically Chu in the manga, so powerful a coalition couldn't bring it down.
Not gonna lie, Ten's mindbroken faces might awaken a new fetish in me. Hara brought his A game here.
>>288787210Was Hannibal the Mediterranean Riboku?>genius strategist>beloved by his troops/people>dabbed on enemy generals tactically all the time>basically never lost>screwed over/not properly supported by the ruling elite (the Carthaginian senate in Hannibal's case)>exiled/dismissed at the end of his life due to internal politics before then dying a dog's death
>>288788118I like how she (mostly) kept her loli physique from early on. What a fuckable petite lil' cutie-patootie.
>Supposedly this is the best historical military manga.I doubt there any other historical manga that could even come close to how Kingdom devotes itself to several chapters detailing military campaigns down to every last battle, tactic and individual might.
>>288788118he knew
>>288788236What are the odds that at some point towards the end Ten ends up dead with some Chinese hyper torture to kick the salt in?
>>288788169See >>288787210, this is the closest other example I know of.
>>288788282she can't die before shin tells her one last time that he loves her... like a little sister
>>288788122Not really. He wasn't just cut off because the elites were assholes, but because they were running out of money and he couldn't get any actual results that forced the Romans to surrender even after years of warfare. All while his armies starved too death. Crossing the Alps was retarded as well since it lost him more men that just fighting the Romans would have.
I don't like seeing En cry...
>>288788364i'm pretty sure his loss to scipio africanus was undisputed anyway, and
>>288788394>semites got him
walls? Corpsesweapons? Corpsesarmor? Corpsesartillery? Flinging corpseshousing? Corpses5 million corpses and another 50 million on the way
>>288788282If that happens, Shin is gonna become the next Kanki for real. Then he will commit the biggest genocide yet and butcher as many civilians as he can to quell his rage.
So what bullshit could they possibly make to have Shin escape? Is it just gonna be the #493949th "Shin unit sacrifices itself so Shin can break out of the encirclement"?
>>288789297Death on both sides until the bodies form an escape tunnel
>>288786460>they're coming out of all gatesWhat is Hara writing, the only way for Shin to survive this is some of the biggest BS he's done in the series.
>>288789321>Shin breaks through and reaches Riboku in a last ditch attack>duels Riboku >Riboku has to withdraw behind his troops to save his own life>this gives them time to withdraw> the king sees it and accuses Riboku of treason and cowardiceStill bullshit, but with the current level of writing I could see it happening
>>288788376Nyagger kot!>>288789178No, he wouldn't. He's too gay and shounen-pilled for that.
>>288789321>Qin dogs stealing glorious Reebok's secret tunnel techSasuga.
Instead of making a lame normal ladder why dont they just stack dead bodies up until they can climb the pile to reach the top?
What could Shin even still do? his army has been split up by the people form the back, and the wall has collapsed, at this point the only believable way he survives is if someone comes to save him, and even then most of his army should still die. Like Ten said in the chapter concentrating the army in one place would be the only way for them to do anything, but now they are completely split and surrounded into many small sections, LIKE WHAT CAN SHIN DO, what order can he give?
Yoko Yoko is my final cope!
Ok but seriously how is Shin going to get out of this and most importantly how is he going to get away with not being punished for this fuck up?
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it was mouten's fault
>>288790554Yeah.
>>288786479We love uselessten here
Honestly If they can just trap Riboku in Kantan, it's a big win, because then he can't go to the other battlefields. Although, knowing Riboku sama, he probably has some secret tunnel to teleport out anyways, probably how he'll fake his death and escape to live out in the country side as well.
>>288790637>Since when were you under the impression there was only one Riboku?
>>288790726Hara... I kneel...
>>288790726>we're not Riboku, but Ribokutachi!
Futariboku
>>288790726>after Zhao falls each state gets its own Riboku
>>288788357Only Kyoukai can get her and shin to screw, by pulling her nacked to their bed.
>>288791008Why would Kyoukai share her man with that runt?
Why hasn't Shin joined Yontanwa's harem yet?
>>288789666I guess he can still try to somehow sneak into the city and then try to capture the king as hostage. The author has truly done Shin a huge huge disservice. He has to get out of this mess by his own ability. Waiting for any miracle or BS plot armor to save his ass will make him beyond redeemable as a potential great general and as a main character at this point.
>>288786479womp womp
Riboku will be pincered by the Ousen army who has broken through the defensive lines because everyone and their mother went after the Hi Shin Unit.
Qrd on Riboku latest asspull?
>>288786479TONKAKU NOOOOOOOOOO…!!!!
>>288786294How did they manage to build a wall of corpses so fast ? im sure there are people still alive in that pile. This is really one of the most brutal scenes in he serie and it only covers some small panels.
>>288788122They actually do have a similar vibe. And since only Reebok-sama can take down Reebok-sama,>>288788122 the Rome Hannibal was fighting was countering him with giant new armies and great generals of the week out of nowhere.
>>288791535There is zero logic to anything going on and the scale of it all makes no sense
>>288791535Don't question anything going on in this arc, anon. It's not worth it.
>>288789612Not enough bodies.>>288789666Pretty much nothing. Hara's shit writing has brought him to this point and he'll need even shittier writing to get him out of it again.
We just need Ousen to teleport armies of his own.
>>288791524Reebok teleports (see >>288787181) 80% of the armies that were broken through to Kantan without anyone noticing until it was too late (rearguarding Mouten&pals apparently somehow thinking the 20% remainder was all).
>>288786196The Only Flaw here are Riboku's abilities to conjure armies out of thin air and teleport them around as he pleases.
>>288791851And Shin even attacking the capital in the first place.
>>288787878It's hilarious.>Zhao loses five times in a row>Zhao clone factories are still running at full>Qin loses once>AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE IT'S OVER WE'RE FINISHED WE HAVE NO MORE SOLDIERS SHOUHEIKUN PLEASE THINK SOMETHINGEven after the conscription AND absorbing Han's armies... Zhao somehow still has comparable forces.Hara's Qin underdog fetish unironically ruined this manga.
>>288792063I’ts like Sun Tzu once said,“Niggas aboutta die finna wreck theyselves, niggas on the fly better check theyselves.”
>>288792097I don't think Sun Tzu was that much into ebonics.
>>288792165Chinese written tradition is full of later generations writing forewords, appendiums and of course changing the actual text too as time goes.If you want the lowest hanging fruit good example would be later folk heroes finding their way into Romance of Three Kingdoms.
>>288792225Yes, but I still don't think Kong Ming was a rapper.
>>288792320Well the whole text is "someone said someone said Kong Ming said this". Add one layer of hood niggas to the mix and you get "AYOOO steal ur opps weed, then you have double he has none" or "if you 100% real gonna murk your opp don't front it"
>>288792443Anon you could just say that a lot of chinese history is made up bullshit.
>>288792552Are you telling me that the progenitor of all humanity were not in fact a snakeman and his sister wife whom he shared a body with??
>>288790360it could be that it's all part of ousen's keikaku so they won't fault shin for being shin, it was all within the calculations
>>288792644No, clearly it was some greek cunt playing with mud. Or are you retarded enough to believe some jew tale about making foids out of dude ribs?
>>288786294They are using magic of their own to counter Reebok's cheating! Instant corpse wall! Still more balanced than cloning and teleportation though.
>>288791524>teleports to every kingdom in China simultaneously>gathers a 6 gorrilion strong (secret) coalition army in 7 hours>sneaks them into Shin's tent, cleverly hiding them behind a potted plant>when Shin is about to win brings his army in from behind the plant>"By the way Shin, I don't think you've met the newest member of the Zhao Great Heavens: Touken the bushin!">uses the chinknado formation, killing Rokuomi>"SASUGA RIBOSOME-SAMA TRULY THE GREATEST GENERAL IN CHINESE HISTORY!!!">loses 95% of his army to Kyoukai
>>288789178Would be kino. But I don't believe that one bit, he's too much of a moralfag.
>>288793083Wow wow calm down chinaman.
>>288790726He used the cloning device on himself... it's over Qinbros...>>288790795Kek.
Unless there's a rescue, I can only see rushing inside the capital while the gates are open as the only way out.
>>288793797>leave the gate open>leave no guardsNo way Hara would have to be a moron to write tha...he is going to do that isn't he?
https://tsumanne.net/my/data/2026/06/18/1721526/https://tsumanne.net/my/data/2026/06/18/1721691/Japanese reaction.
>>288787363They have the same number, the smaller center gate towers just lack their tops in the second image. I suspect that is a mistake but could be just battle damage too.
No matter what happens it'll feel unsatisfying.>Shin just "awakens" (again) and unga bungas out>Shin gets rescued by someone else army>Shin gets saved by BDSM King In all three rebook looks like a bum.In two and three, Shin looks like a bum who needs rescuing and saving despite being a supposed general.First makes Shin look "good" but it's super lame and it's just a literal asspull.Hara dropped the ball here. Simple as.He tried to wank his baby so hard he didn't realize he'll look like a bum at the end because his gigawank has to end in failure at the end of the day.
>>288792063Qin could lose a war or two and be fine but it would (at least in story) break the back of their unification ambitions. Zhao when it's losing is actually losing ground and cities, if Qin lost 3 wars now they wouldn't be any worse off than they started out with but they would no longer have the strength to conquer everyone else.Zhaos infinite manpower is more of a surprise but then again they are putting their everything into this, Qin has armies on all their other fronts too. I think it would be interesting to see Yan make a play again on Zhao now that the last hidden general that stopped them is away, which would show this all in nature of their force allocations. Then again I bet mighty Ribbit sama has prepared yet another secret army with another secret discipline houken in training just for such an occasion.
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>>288794987Even nips hate Ten lmao
>>288795310Jesus, nevermind. I posted this too soon.Like half the thrads are people shitting on Ten.It's funny seeing nips complain about teleporting armies too. I guess we are the same after all at the end of the day.
>>288795357To be fair, Hara is kicking you in the head with the WARP
>>288794129Logically there are only 3 real choicesa) reinforcements arrive on the same teleporters Riboku just used Yoko Yoko and Mouten or maybe Ousen could theoretically show up, then they fight to break out using their assistanceb) the Kantan army does a bit of civil war and hits Riboku instead in an attempt to arrest then, Shin breaks out in the confusionc) Hi Shin break out by breaking into the cityI think C is technically most interesting in the short term, it's by far the most "strategy" which is what I would expect when they hype up Ten. I think B is also likely and my personal favorite. A is just too played out, they could make parallels with how Ouki and Moubu did things except survived this time (fancy that was also a trap by teleporting Riboku army) but the odds just seem far too stacked against Hi Shin in this position, like even if the allies are just around the corner it doesn't seem like Shin could hold out even few more minutes like this so the solution has to be more or less immediate.>>288795443It really does look like he is just summoning the army because it literally just appears while Ribs is just standing there alone on a plain.
>>288795498See >>288787181 as well. He actually summoned them out of thin air.
>>288795310she's just fun to bullyI hope she doesn't die though because then the humiliations will end
>>288795226What about both 1 and 2? Shin gets rescued, and then unga bungas on Riboku by leading the reinforcements
I think Shin's true wife Yontanwa will have to come and rescue him. First of all I don't see why he bothered introducing the strategist clan if he wasn't gonna have them pull some bullshit, also mountain tribes are the only ones other than Riboku who could use his secret paths teleportation techniques.
>>288794987これ、海外のネットスラングでは truth nuke、 つまり、 真実核爆弾って言うんだ
>>288786249shin better fuck ten after this
>>288796340Shin will NEVER fuck Ten.
If Reeboku can teleport armies why cant Kanki come back to life?
>>288796400He doesn't want to
Why did Reebok in his 200 iq mind gamble it all on crushing the Hi Shin Unit when that doesn't even mean winning the war
>>288796934He has a hard-on for Shin and it wouldn't surprise me if it's the weakness Ousen was talking about
>>288796400Kanki doesn't have access to elven magic like Riboku does.
>>288797026What if hes revived as Kanki the white?
>>288796934Honestly leaving the front to crush some small brigade of shitters that I still dont get how the fuck they were supposed to siege the capital seems wildly retarded.Like you are supposed to be in charge dipshit why the fuck are you here?
>>288797113Definitely feels like the troops inside should've been more than enough to handle Shin's shitty attempt to conquer the city with a couple of ladders.
>>288796934>>288797113Defeat in detail i guess? i really don't want to defend ribo here because I agree that this whole scenario is stupid, Shin should have just wheeled around to the north or south and pincered one of the other Zhao armies,
>>288797266>Shin should have just wheeled around to the north or south and pincered one of the other Zhao armies,Shin should have scoured the countryside and made one of these behind Zhaos army
>>288786401one armed commander opening the capital gates right in front of a desperate Shin army seems like a really bad idea.
>>288797303Vgh, we really need to go back
>HURRY WE NEED A WALL OF CORPSES>OF FUCK WERE GETTING FLANKED>ANOTHER WALL OF CORPSES FAST HAJAIholy fucking kek
>>288791831He just needs to monitor the situation for a while longer, you must understand anon
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>>288786479>Shin rallies the troops and pushes into the capital
>>288786196OK, so given the chapter title and even Ten pointing it out, this is obviously gonna be resolved (at least in part) due to the king interfering. But how exactly? Others have already speculated that these royal troops aren't actually gonna mop up the Hi Shin Unit (just stomp over them 'cause they're in the way) but are gonna drag Rebook into Kantan instead. Yet I don't really see that happening with One Eyed Joe being the one leading them. So ... what? A second detachment of royal troops? Or instead those weirdo royal guards with their lobotomizer ice picks relaying an order to that effect? Something else entirely? Either way, I can't really see a way this would happen mid-battle and make sense. Like, imagine Rebook got yoinked outta there right this second, what would that change? He could still go "Oh, yeah, while I'm gone, finish them off, will ya?". Speaking of which, historically this moment shouldn't already be the immediate subjugation of Zhao yet so how is this arc actually gonna end? Qin has to at least still be stalled here but how's that gonna work when the remaining armies oughta have a much easier time right now and this was portrayed as something close to Zhao's final stand? Ousen alone should be able to outright defeat Shibashou with Reebok and all these troops gone.Alas, I foresee even more bad writing to address (or not) all this.
>>288786479You better be, you no-scouts-posting, not-Riboku-expecting, retarded-siege-approving dunce.
>>288798404>Yeah, bros, let's just push through the gates that already have tons of troops pouring out *while* we're literally getting stabbed in the back. I mean it's not like they could immediately counter that by just closing the gates again, effectively cutting our troops in half (those already inside and those still outside), thereby making it even easier to defeat us piecemeal. Ten, this strategy shit actually ain't all that hard, is it?
>>288798445It would be absolutely insane for then to walk past enemy troops sieging the city, just to arrest Riboku. There should be a limit to the stupidity.
>>288798657>There should be a limit to the stupidity.Yeah, well, about that ...
>>288798445>>288798657>>288798803We're already seeing the city troops attacking and killing Hi Shin people. Riboku's not getting pulled back nor getting attacked by Kantan's troops at this point. My bet is on the earthquake that should have happened but was skipped for whatever disturbing the battlefield enough for Shin to find a hole through his meme instinct magically awakening because of mother nature's call or whatever. That way Hara can also cope in that it was no failure on Riboku's side but that Riboku is just SO good only the world itself trying to cuck him can stop him.
>>288791106because she cares
>>288788169Wolfsmund is the best imo but it is too short and has too much goreporn for my taste
>>288799304The earthquake will be Houken’s ghost.
This chapter feels so cathartic with all of them dying and crying. God fuck Shin and his dumb ass army. Get fucked by Riboku-sama.
>>288800367I wonder who could be behind this post.
>>288789666checked. Mouten, Yoko Yoko, and Rhakua Shou will save him.
>>288797743Are any of Kanki’s clan with Shin right now?
>>288786479Thank you for posting.
