Chapter 261 - Mortal EnemiesArchive:https://desuarchive.org/a/search/subject/daily%20kengan/start/2025-12-14/order/asc/
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>>289493242"I" have finally got the "timing" right.
>>289493305>judo style: concentrate
Chapter 262: Always Wanted
It is "time" to "time".
>>289493471What stops Gaolang from starting with Muay Thai again?
>>289493507Contractual obligation to only start using Muay Thai when he reaches 50% HP, but his in-universe theme gets latin vocals when that happens so it's not that bad of a deal.
>>289493337>hexing him into using a specific, predictable punch to beat himIs this the highest level spell we've seen so far? It seems very strong
>>289493337idk mr. thrower, if i was Kaolang I'd just beat you black and blue from a safe distanceBut of course *actually* this is rpg game mechanics based, and his punches simply deal 0 damage. >>289493471it only unlocks in the second phase of the boss
>>289493540razor thin margin...
>>289493320CAN I MAKE IT ANYMOORE OBVIOUUS?!
An interesting match. I like that is framed as a battle of opposites, where Gaolang can outbox as much as he wants but he cannot outlast Jurota's sturdy build, leaving him open to losing his advantage thanks to a single, well-timed throw. A true clash of masters, so to speak.
>>289493369God damn this Lolong has an anvil for a chin
>>289493597>>289493605>Lolong and Agito chaining their hexes to rig the results
>>289493403It's over.
>>289493605you were arashiyama
>>289493540>fighting grappler playersGod how I hate them
>>289493491"Me" and "I" when someone asks why don't "we" just drop the manga
Kaolan finally won?And Arashiyama beat Agito only to lose to Kaolan?
Chapter 263: It's Showtime
>>289493641I'm okay with this.
>>289493632>>289493641big brain kaolan>>289493650good page>>289493663can i say something without everyone getting mad
>>289493682Jesus fucking Christ, Raimi.
>>289493437Thank you for informing us that their HP bars are about equal now, Sandro.
>>289493663Daro what the fuck man you're not even trying to hide it
>>289493242God I love the Grappler v Striker Tournament almost as much as the five nights at ohmas arc
>>289493641Impressive
>>289493711>toughest guys around the worldWhy doesn't Shen look there?
>>289493369Lolong... said someone else shouldn't move?!
>>289493460What a shitty knockoff of that iconic Gaolang panel.>>289493350>blocking a punch simply holding your hand in front of your faceThis was already making me foam at the mouth with rage when Agito was doing it in Ashura.It was already
>>289493694I really preferred Daro's draft over this weird cartoon face that they landed on instead.
>>289493779I can't wait for the American arc following the Inside underground arc
>>289493540i can't think of a single fit that has the "one hit could end this" gimmick that wasn't dragged down by it
>>289493804>It was alreadyHe was gone so young...
>>289493757KIM JANGGI!IT'S FUCKING KIM JANGGI!
>>289493664It's not like Kengan works on hard power-levels. Kanoh and Gaolang and Jurota are all on a similar level and one clever move or situational moment can decide the victor. Shen (and Omega Kuroki I guess) is the only blatant exception.
DONEI missed spain's goal for this dump...
>>289493480>>289493471Jurota having a tulpa is a little charming, I'll admit.
>>289493448This is so stupid.>If you can't predict them because they block you from doing what you need(?), just use a lesser prediction model
Ok, but what is the point of any of this?
>>289492880Thank you Kenga/a/n. THANK YOU SANDROArgentina, you were awesome, top 2 final we won
>>289493471
>>289493491I get it now, having a kenganvenger in your head gives you kenganvenger powers.
>>289493856Gu ritual. Next question.
>>289493779Sandro, you just said all of this like 6 pages ago...
>>289493682>Tags: Gay, Dark Skin, Mindbreak, Humiliation, Race Play
>>289493540I hate this because just about half the cast if not more has hits that by all mean should do as much damage as a throw yet fighters just take multiple of those.
>>289493650The constant glazing is unbearable
>>289493632Arashiyama lost to the same move twice
>>289493480>>289493491「Drowning Pool」
>>289493856The fighters need the "experience" in order to "level up"
>>289493869Can't believe that worked
>>289493668>Other>All other stylesT-thanks
>>289493837dont worry, the complete destruction of VARgentina is all that really mattered
>>289493632
>>289493856The chemistry of the "strong
>>289493337>Hehe my defense is higher than your attack so you do no damage and you need to activate "that" skillSandro is truly a RPG master
>foresight>pre-initiative>foresight killer>sight>pre-post-initiative>backsight>inception of pre-post-pre-post-pre-pre-post intent>near farsight
>>289493912You're better off thinking of Jurota's throws as 'super throws' that do more damage because he's Jurota.
>>289493403>Buddy, I'm gonna have to stop you right there.
>>289494011Ah yes, the Dragon's Dogma experience
>>289493668OTHERbros, what are your styles?
I feel like it should be refreshing watching 2 new fighters who have nothing to do with the KA or the Worm. But my goodwill has dwindled quite a bit.
>>289493540does this mean toa is the most durable character in the series since he survived like 50 fucking throws frok jurota
>>289493779That's why Adam was the strongest fighter McBurger could find, right?It's a scary thought that Sandro puts out an "America is unfathomable" mention in here.
>>289493796ENTERTHE KOREAN
that's IT?lmaoall that arashiyama glazing for him to get taken down by Kaolan?What was the point of agito vs arashiyama?
>>289494031The most powerful skill is pre-hindsight, where you imagine yourself in the future thinking back on the things you could've done better and then do those things in the present.
>>289493320It begins.
>>289494068The ground was just really soft where they were fighting
>>289493796>>289493810>The Ise Dragons rep, The Bounty Hunter Sakigake Hiraku!>The Bounty Hunter Sakigake Hiraku>It's Sakigake Hiraku, the rep of Ise Dragons!Kill me now.
>>289493379>that fist
>>289494050But he didn't set himself on fire and climb on his opponent's back
>>289494087Jurota's going to continue to be relevant for a long time going forward. This was just giving Gaolang his dues because Sandro realized he's on a losing streak.
>>289494152>The Ise Dragons rep, The Bounty Hunter Sakigake Hiraku!>The Bounty Hunter Sakigake Hiraku>It's Sakigake Hiraku, the rep of Ise Dragons!
>>289494180Gaolang is a true warrior main
>>289493379How do we feel about this?
>>289494040I know that's how it's written because Omega gets less and less logical by the chapter, but if there was any shred of reason left the fact that the Swing is activated with minimal contact should mean his throws are less powerful than if he was doing proper ones and the advantage is that he can spam them easily.
>>289494278Who is the Magick Archer main of Kengan?
>>289493822>bottom left panel5'11" vs 6'0"
>>289494319Throw damage scales off the enemy's agility stat.
>>289493576IS THAT A>THROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWF-F-F-FROM>JUROOOOOOOOOOOOOOTA
>>289493530No matter how bad Kengan gets Sandro hasn't ruined Gaolang's theme for me
Is Justin going to die? He seems like he's having too much fun and the Korean looking guy seems like he's gonna turn out to be a twisted psycho who makes crazy faces.
>>289494222>Right. The fighter specifically for Justin.
>>289494410>the Korean looking guy seems like he's gonna turn out to be a twisted psycho who makes crazy facesThat's how you know Justin is safe. No jobber of such a high level could ever pose a threat.
Dumping Vol. 25's extras, the Eddie gaiden + profiles.
>>289494323Raian I guess if you take Removal as self-immolation
>>289493403fucking lol
>>289494457
>>289494457>Eddie humiliation ritual: Extended edition I HATE IT
>>289494457Please don't.
>>289493448>anorexic lolong
>>289493837There's something seriously wrong here.
>>289494481
>>289494292"We" don't feel much of anything anymore.
>>289494481Edward looking out for the oldheads.
>>289494506>>289494490>>289494491"We" will reach higher heights through the suffering.
>>289494292I've become so numb
>>289493523gaolang culo....
>>289494481>holding a knifeThe old man intervenes just in time to avoid the worst-case scenario.
>>289494545Erioh kakoi- Uh Eddie Gaiden, done.
>>289494456But Justin is a new character, so his plot armor isn't "hardened". He could accidentally hex himself before the unassuming guy goes full sicko mode. Then he can become fodder in the next fight.
>>289493437There it is, this is the arc where even the final cope of "JUST TURN YOUR LE BRAIN OFF AND ENJOY THE EPIC HYPE FIGHTS BRO" died. Endless strikers vs timers, inconsistent cosmetic damage where the observers have to tell us how hurt someone supposedly is, nightmarishly bad repetitive choreography, the works.
>>289493779This is the second chapter that has had a bulk of its information repeated to us within a few pages of one another in a single batch. Is there just no editor anymore?
>>289494481>>289494506So fucking weird to imagine Eddie even marginally caring about the well-being of someone else.
>>289494556so much more aware
>>289493605s-subverted!?
>>289494572Doesn't this infer that Edward was seething about Erioh all along? For it to be a big deal to Gilbert must mean Edward was bitching about it heavily during the huisheng process.
>Edward Gaiden>The entire chapter is shitting on him
>>289494572Why did this need to even exist.Eddie humiliation ritual?
>>289493682>>289493711>America revealed to be unfathomable out of nowhereProbably sequel baiting.
>>289494572Character profiles for Gilbert Wu and Tiger Niko.
>>289494582>So fucking weird to imagine The King of Mercy even marginally caring about the well-being of someone else.Really now?
>>289493663agito culo...
>>289493460waku.....waku
>>289493460Lol, so they fixed it later? I remember that HnG somehow initially translated this the complete opposite as Gaolang in his thoughts saying that Jurota should be honored to be fortunate enough to fight him.
>>289494614Character profiles for Willem Wu and Sean Wu. :^(
>>289494614>Which will be explored later in the story
>>289494581>Is there just no editor anymore?The role of the editor is to help the mangaka achieve popularity and hopefully good sales figures. With a readership made of braindead paypigs who'll happily slurp anything sandro shits out, an editor is all but redundant.
>>289494614Tiger Niko felt taller than that. The idea of him being a manlet next to Gilbert is funny.
>>289494614The fuck? Fabio and Solomon were Eddies too, and he was gonna kill them?
>>289494668Don't bother, you'll give yourself a headache.
>>289494545>>289494572I thought the old man was just talking shit but this is a massive retroactive Eddie downscale. Fucking 80 year old erioh was on Edward's level and in his prime he would definitely beat him. Is the fucking principles sword that strong? Would it literally kill sandro to have a villain thats way stronger than the rest of the cast?
>>289494643So Willem has a dwarf scottish accent lmaooooo
>>289493480
>>289494481Edward didnt sound like a bad guy back here
>>289494614>>289494643How long has it been since a fighter has been said to be less than 190cm tall and 110kg? At some point it feels kind of stupid for everyone to be so huge.
>>289494693Edward might've gotten a lot stronger after that point. Maybe seething over Erioh made him train hard.
>>289494614>Fabio and SolomonWait, why the fuck would Eddie need Gilbert to take out Fabio and Solomon who were total fucking jobbers and seemingly completely subordinate to him? Why would he throw Alan to the meat grinder known as Rain for shits and giggles if another loyal him was so important?
>>289494719Wouldn't it be dumber for them to be short? Height and weight mean a lot in martial arts, and we're presently dealing with the best in the world.
>>289494614>create Gilbert to eliminate Fabio, SolomonWhy would he even need to do it? They're so much weaker than him. They died easily to the Kure while Eddie was toying with them.
>>289493837Hiraku is as built as Brock Lesnar by the way.
>>289494581>anymoreWhen was the last time we had any proof of the editor directly interfering with the story? Sometime during Asura?
>>289494614>Every single answer to this
>>289494643>posseses both Superman Syndrome and 100% Guihun>he falls short compared to Wakatsuki, who gained his strength through a combination of Superman Syndrome and trainingSo 100% Guihun is weaker than just training?>Or Julius Reinhold, who obtained his power through special dopingDrugs are more powerful than freak genetics and technique, confirmed
>>289494774Jackbros we fucking won
>>289494770This is meme is really going off the rails
>>289493576>slams him down on the back of his head, without the ability to magically negate 90% of the damage by putting his arm there>impact is hard enough to crack the ground>>289493615>zero damage lol
>>289494572>hey son, lemme tell you about when I got humiliated badly by this old man
>>289493808Justin looks like he came straight out of a Minstrel Show and was given a modern "touch up" with the dreadsHis pupils being these two big black dots is distracting
>>289493576He's throooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg
>>289494767I'm pretty sure an anon posted stuff they were working on together in chapters at the start of Omega but just filling pages with useless information and then repeating it makes it seem like we're just buying time but for what I honestly don't know.
>>289494572>Hmm my readers really seem to like Edward>I'll make a side story pandering to them>It will be about...Gilbert seething over that time Erioh saved his live, the fans will love the Erioh glaze!Genuinely concerning how Sandro keeps shitting on his audience. He is completely lacking in awareness.
>>289493675>>289493682
>>289494749On one hand it's true, but at this point it feels a bit too mechanical; every new character, even the dumb faggots in this tournament, are fuckhuge. To the point it sometimes clashes with their design, like the korean twink being somehow bigger than Kiozan. Besides, it's not so simple as "bigger = stronger", if you look at open weight champions.
>>289494774>So 100% Guihun is weaker than just training?Doesn't watasuki have the most powerful superman syndrome on earth (never explained what makes his so special btw, his muscles are extra dense even compaired to other people with superman syndrome?????) i dont think anyone can match him no matter what you do.
>>289493837I thought Hiraku's gay as shit comments were in this chapter, but it's the next batch, kek. Thanks.
>>289493641ImpressiveWhat does he mean by more anyways?
>>289494693More like Erioh upscaleEddie himself said that Erioh could have beaten him in his younger days.
>>289494818Daro is expertly riding the line of "Is this a racist Japanese caricature, or an earnest depiction?"
>>289494889Some might say he has super-superman syndrome. Superman Syndrome 2, in other words.
>>289494889There are different levels to superman syndrome. Yan and Ji are only two times stronger than the average man, Willem is probably around that level too, Waka's multiplier is in the double digits.
>>289493501>Kazzy at the bottom rightDamn, how could I have figured out from looking at the top 2 panels that he was throwing a crazy number of punches at insane speeds? I mean, it's not like I have eyes.
>>289493668Okubo is smart
>>289493369Our protagonist up to his old tricks.
How much longer until longlong starts fighting?
>>289493682Okubo has a silly buddy now
>>289494069None of the stronger fighters were willing to lower themselves to fight in a baby tournament like the KAT.
>>289493491i like how jurota isn't even evil or particularly sadistic or nothing he's just got a creepypasta tulpa of a random college student he lost to once because he was holding back too hard
>>289493403I actually like this.Everything surrounding it is a joke but it's cool to take a moment to emphasize that the guy everyone glazes for his grappling has now got a grip on him.
>>289494069Didn't burgerman just find Adam beating up one of his guys?
>>289493737>>289493747>the only fighter in this shit tournament with an actual personality
>>289493822>all the initial speculation about what this meant>lmao
>>289493895Please understand. He couldn't figure out how to fill up the week's page quota, so he just repeated what he already wrote.
Discussion of 'whose the most physically powerful' is kind of meaningless in a post-principles world. Wakatsuki and Julius and Willem could all punch Shen at once and he'd effortlessly redirect all three into a ditch via principles. Raian probably would too thanks to "unbalanced otakemaru".
>>289493605nice surprise>>289493601Honestly it's not THAT bad. My fellow "non green" anons will claim otherwise, but the biggest issue with this fight is the trend it starts rather than the fight itself.>>289493680>can i say something without everyone getting maddozo
>>289493925Agreed. I like the fight overall but this feels less earned than the Asura praises
>>289493663do u think agito ever clenches his asscheeks really hard to make them clap whenever he wants to get someone's attention
>>289493437>I want them to have an intense battle to kick off the tournament with a bang>hmm but I can't have them be too hurt because one will need to continue on to the next round>oh I can't injure the eventual loser either because then the audience will know the ending too early>I know! I'll just have them take light cosmetic damage from all the catastrophic blows!
>>289494643>Guihun means ghost in chineseHuh, so that's why going 100% Guihun turns you 100% into a dead man.
>>289493779Future tournament
>>289494481THAT FUCKING SCUMBAG MONSTER, BEING SLIGHTLY BRUSQUE WHILE SHOWING CONCERN FOR THE ELDERLY IN A LIFE AND DEATH SITUATIONREINCARNATED SUFFERING IN ETERNAL SAMSARA FOR HIS HUBRIS
>>289493513Looks familiar.
>>289493641Raise an impressive cry you impressive champion.
>>289494930Reminds me of when Jerry's dialogue was all Nigga-Speak during his introduction before they completely dropped most of it
>>289493770At least the Okubo Justin comedy duo is endearing? Kinda
>>289493796>>289493810>2 pages of exactly the same thing repeated over and over again. >>289493747>>289493675>repeating info about Justin's backstory >>289493711>>289493779>repeating the same infodump about American underground martial arts>>289493791>>289493822Kazzy wasting panels just vagueposting to pad out space and get people HYYYYYPEED about HirakuAnd there are people who still think that Sandro spends any more than 5 minutes writing this shit out every week.
>>289493403>>289493418I fucking hate Jurota's OFFSCREEN JUDO so much. It's fucking stupid and instantly ruins any fight he's in.
>>289495214To be fair to Sandro that was also during Adam's prime so he probably thought Americans are just like that
>>289494087>What was the point of agito vs arashiyama?"What made the ultimate difference was the experience of defeat"
>>289493337God, the fucking hexagons
>>289494457>Eddie gaiden is actually an Erioh gaiden
>>289494614I love how Sandro goes out of his way to even make his past writing dumber. So he wanted to get rid of Fabio and Solomon, but he sent Alan out in the match instead? Even if Solomon/Fabio won, they still could have gotten hurt and made them an easy target in the aftermath. And he needed them dead so he could "control the clan" despite already being the head of it?I'm also so glad we got this retroactive lore about Alan, and how he didn't know Gilbert was a clone. Very important to know, he's such a relevant presence in the story these days.
>>289495250Lolong losing to Ohma? Doesn't matter. IIRC Lolong vs Ohma never even got brought up in this arc
>>289493837>only three of your eight participants are new>immediately have two of them fight each other>don't give them an established character first so that we can get a clearer understanding of their strengthTired doesn't begin to describe.
>>289494614>Gilbert is somehow taller than Julius and Toa
>>289493379AND THEN COMES THE GIANT FIST
>>289494770I... have scaled the wall
>>289495290At minimum, you could have included an aside that some Kenganvenger came to knock over their org for a spot in this tournament like the rest of these, and lost to them instead.But Sandro is too psychotically protective of them to ever dream of throwing one of his babies under the bus like that.
>>289494582He's literally the most merciful character in this manga.
>>289494806>>289494770Can I get a QRD on this smug guy?
>>289494572I prefer to imagine this is a hallucination of Gilbert's in an attempt to downplay Eddie's strength so he can keep telling himself he's actually way stronger than him.
>>289495064Jurota's not a bad guy but I still kinda hate his ass. Feels wrong
>>289494614>positioning him as an equal in the future, which will be explored later in the story
>>289495344I will leave that open to interpretation.It'll be funnier once we get to it.
>>289495344Wait for a month
>>289495262He's both improvising everything while also trying to create this illusion that everything was deeply planned and interconnected. He's just not good at either of these things.
>>289493480The levels of foresight are killing me
>>289493480>Lolong coins the term Foresight Killer>Jurota's tulpa learns about itI love the mindreading in this manga.
Spain has ''scaled'' the ''wall''
>>289494643Sean, my Canadian hero.....
>>289494643>Willem's Henchmanlmao, Sandro just couldn't be bothered to spend even 10 seconds to come up with a mildly interesting epithet for Sean Wu like, I dunno, The Blade Demon or The Canadian Oni or something. This man is just phoning EVERYTHING in. Why even write a bio for Sean in the first place when you can't be bothered to take the time to use this bio to flesh him out? His bio text doesn't contain much of anything either.But hey, at least we know his weight! That surely is more important than anything else! Oh, and his birthday too! Very important for his character! Much more important than a proper respectful epithet!
>>289495231Don't worry his on screen judo which he unlocks later is even worse
>>289493605KWAB>>289493632Second time he got fucked by this
>>289493379STAR PLATINUMOOOURA
>>289494770>>289494770>French>named Nicolas>looks smugOHHHHHHHH I get it now! How the fuck did you even know this guy existed?
>>289494572Not only does this shit on Eddie retroactively it's also a considerable indirect upscale of Shen and by extension Kuroki.Eddie was the strongest person Shen fought in this country and an old Erioh was evidently leagues beyond a young Eddie. Shen's presence made a prime Erioh piss and shit himself back when he and Metsudo nearly crushed the worm. So Shen was still in zero danger when fighting Eddie despite him being the toughest opponent. HOWEVER, Kuroki is the closest to an equal Shen has faced therefore Kuroki would have felted prime Erioh. HOWEVER Agito was the strongest fang ever, therefore he is also stronger than the strongest person Shen ever fought.I lost 4000 orphaned brain cells trying to wrap my head around the MC Escher esque structure of who is stronger than who while making this shitpost.
>>289495286it will never stop being funny to me that everyone else just starts unlocking straight up magic powers this arc thanks to "wall scaling" and longlong just gets a better invisible elbow
>>289493682kek
>>289494643>people trying to make sense of Willem's physical strength vs the othersKenganvenger>non Kenganvenger, simple as. Don't bother thinking too hard about how somehow 100% removal on top of superman syndrome in a 220kg body and Wu genetics is weaker than those two, because nothing but the Kenganvenger status really matters.I also like the implication that Willem doesn't train, even though he clearly said he did in order to hit 100% release in the past few years.
>>289494614Please tell me the humiliation and demotion of Niko to Luohan's VR Chat sidekick was not the "exploration" mentioned here...
>>289493711Oh yeah the American underground martial arts marketCan't wait to see that along with all the underground levels of "the inside"
>>289495234>Omega Jerry retired and gives bland boring commentary, he's not nearly as insightful as he used to be where he new random chinese technique lore>Omega Adam say's fuck a lotHe's certainly trimmed them down a bit, at least Adam has his moments
>>289494643Hard to believe, huh?Willem had superman syndrome and everything.
>>289493869>I just checked just in case>The time this was posted was when they were still 0-0 mere minutes before Spain took the leadYou absolute MONSTER "me", you took the kengan hexes out of the kenganverse. You...."connected" "us" to "them"
Question about Sandro other mangas like Strike it Rich, do they all have similar dialogues and insane abilities like Kengan or they luck out from crazy bullshit?
>>289495554Thats why he is my HERO unlike all these other fraud wizards
>>289493770Finally Okubo has someone that won't stonewall his comedy routine
>>289494643Wait if Willem is from Scotland why did the worm bomb Glasgow?
>>289493779Sandro is clearly stalling by just repeating shit from previous pages
>>289495642Mother earth made the call on that one it would have happened eventually no matter what.
>>289493253
>>289495553The only thing Sandro was thinking about when he wrote that Eddie was the strongest person Shen fought in this country was "Heh, this is surely gonna get people talking!". That's all he cares about. He doesn't give a single fuck about logical in-universe consistency, so why do you even bother trying to make sense of any of this? The man is an opportunist and a troll.
>>289493796ENTER, YET ANOTHER HOMOSEXUAL
>>289495642smug frenchman.jpg
>>289493837"We" thank you for your sacrifice
>>289493274
>>289495286Lolong and Ohma haven't said even a single word to each other since their fight. No interactions. Not even them in the same panel standing side by side looking stoic.
>>289494643Why doesn't wakatsuki start doping like julius then so he can defeat shen by blast core'ing in his general vicinity in order to create a small black hole?
>>289493294
>>289495290>>only three of your eight participants are new>>immediately have two of them fight each othernot gonna lie, it's better than them immediately getting fed to kenganvengers and losing in round 1
>>289493337>outbox him for x amount of timeooooh my liver hurty*loses*what about this is unfeasiblewhy does "he" need to use "that" "specific" "punch"
>>289493369
>>289494572What if you did a huisheng but ommited all the gay stupid shit that makes you look like a faggot
>>289493379No giga punch in the drafts.
>>289495553Eddie was called the strongest current Shen fought though, while Kuroki was only the strongest he fought in Japan.
>>289495122The opposite of "green" is "ripe" btw
>>289493393>SSHHHHHHHEEYAAAAA
>>289495773>Daro, give him a hulk fist in this panel!
>>289493650I love the pages where a character who lost is complemented and you can see the TBI set in
>>289495691Taking the nonsensical writing to it's logical conclusion in order to ridicule it is the only pleasure I get from reading this any more, don't deprive me of this.
>>289495791Truly I have "ascended". I have all the "English" I need.
>>289493403Different touch
>>289493418Different throw
>>289495745Jurota's defense stat is too high, so jabs only deal 1hp damage and can't bring him below 1hp total himself.
>>289495816I never liked the bottom right panel.Gaolang was the original stoic face, it's weird to see him emote like that even if he's about to get his shit rocked.Looks more like an expression Xia Ji would have as Eddie unzips.
>>289493437Gaolang is bleeding a lot more.
>>289493682Jesus Fucking Christ Okubo c'mon man
>>289495856Lol sandro genuinely veto'd the battle damage.Evidently the lack of injuries after devastating blows was intentional.
>>289493460Still bleeding more than in the final version.
>>289495044Is Justin ever seen again after this tournament?
>>289493471Meguro is more subtle and he is crying.
>>289493507epeen
>>289495918He’s in the battle royale
>>289493682what the fuck?? I forgot about this lmao
>>289495855Gaolang was surprisingly expressive in the Agito fight after he got into it.
>>289493747Man this dude would have been amazing pre Ch 50 or even pre KvP
>>289495856Not only they do these dumb English insertions, they write it vertically and rotating the letters sideways. The script isn't made for this, this is psychotic
>>289495856>>289495894>read the text>he literally didAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE IS THAT MY KENGANVENGER BLEEDING????? CHANGE IT DARO CHANGE IT RIGHT NOW
>>289494050And Gothic experience.
>>289493403If Jurota touch your balls, would he be able to use his swing to twist it really hard
>>289494614>>289494643>Gilbert's bio is just Sandro trying to save face by making shit up about past events so they seem deeper and more well thought out than they actually are, none of these revelations about DEAD characters matter since they've haven't been and will never ever be referenced outside this bio>Tiger Niko's bio is something you'd think would be long and comprehensive because TN's been here since Ashura but it's actually just some bullshit which is halfway some shit about KvP because Sandro can't admit he uplifted TN's story and motivation and gave it to Shen>Willem's is just "Yeah he's strong but not STRONG like my FUARKING HEROS" and also he's one of the few people who knows Gilbert is a clone as if that matters in the narrative>Sean's bio is another "Yea he's strong too bad he died :^) he was also totally there with the other characters you just didn't see him :^))))"Sandro insults me every chapter release. I really do not think he believes his audience is smart
>>289493641Impressive anon, you deserve more than to be subverted
>>289493480Jurota has a mini head.
>>289495011>ohma>koga>ryuki>lolong>luohanHow many protagonists can we have?
>>289493379The whole point of pre initiative is that you don't have to be faster because you can predict what your opponent will do.
>>289493501Jurota is having no trouble dealing with Gaolang's punches in the draft version of this page.
>>289495068Yeah he's got a kind of touch of death element to him
>>289495856See, now that would've sold the "They're even now!" claim. It's crazy how Daro consistently shows better instincts and Sandro has to curb them.
>>289495437It's possible Lolong had coined the term before and talked about it with his former colleague, but telepathy is funnier.>>289495635Strike It Rich has a girl from the Inside who killed a bear with just an axe and got most of her bones replaced with titanium afterwards. She shows up once and jobs. The main girl has super tendons that let her charge up punches, her bff can dislocate her arm joints to use her arms like whips, the protagonist(?) has Koga's eyes, and the current arc's villain has instant hypnosis. But it also has a girl whose special move is wobbling her elbow while throwing a punch and somehow she's not wholly irrelevant yet.
>>289493379>>289496049Kuroki was able to use pre-initiative to block/dodge overclocked love mode Rei, who was so fast that none of the fighters could even perceive his movements normally, but now you can just be too fast for literal prediction according to Sandro.
>>289495961I didn't believe you but yeah you're right.It's so weird to include him and not the other new champions. Ramon in particular is oddly popular but he didn't make the cut.
>>289493513
>>289493814In kengan or in general?
>>289493576DOOOOOOOSH
>>289493523
>>289493641very impressive "me"
>>289493320a THROOWER you say?
>>289494614I think the theory that Edward wanted to kill the other Wus was older than this bio. Anons came up with it because nothing about Edward's actions during KVP make sense unless he was cool with the other Wu Heis dying.If Sandro really does read these threads then he stole the theory to cover his ass, of course there are still plenty of holes in the story like nothing implying Fabio and Solomon have a poor relationship with Edward or Alan "Weakest among us" Wu getting sent as fodder for the tournament despite apparently being Edward's best friend.
>>289493641Rama is saying he's earned the D
>>289496034Much like how five Wu Hei's can exist concurrently, "they" are all the "protagonist's vessel".
>>289494770>picNo fucking way
>>289493533Gaolang actually looks exhausted here, not just sweaty.
>>289496111He's the most Kenganvenger aligned of them due to Okubo, so I guess it makes "sense", nobody else is there besides Kengan/Purgatory and worms. But the roster choice is weird overall, with characters like the jobbernovas or the fucking pankration guy making it in, while even Kenganvengers like Mokichi and Gozo got left out.
>>289494040They need to nerf Jurota's meter gain, why is the character allowed to spam Command Grab supers like that.I can understand hit confirming into super, but Jurota's trait letting him take the other character's hit confirm and transition it into his own command grab super as long as he still has guard meter is just completely broken game design.
when and why did "we" start using gaolangs as a unit of time, anyways?
>>289493837The two new big deals in Kengan are an>Hot blooded, heavy American MMA guy>Cool speedy Asian martial arts guyThis is just Luke and Jamie, when did SF6 get announced and this chapter drop
>>289493779Remember when the point of the kengan matches was that because they had corporate assets at stake their pay, and consequently caliber of fighters, was beyond any other?
>>289496092>but telepathy is funnier.Its actual telepathy and the characters just magically know what eachother are thinking as you will see later in this arc
>>289496154Rama has big top energy.
>>289495290Well you see if Daro made them both fight established characters he'd have to make them both lose round one, this way one of them gets to move on
>>289496151One major purpose of these bios is for Sandro to do damage control. I wouldn't be surprised if JP readers were also coming up with the same cope theories we were coming up with, and Sandro stumbled upon those theories and just ran with them as if it was always keikaku dori.
>>289493540Jurota is PISSED!
>>289496165>"they" are all the "protagonist's vessel""I" have "arrived"
>>289493856Sounds like the kind of question a worm would ask, someone call the kure to murder this man
So Justin is a student of Okubo who in turn should be level below at least half the people in this lineup, some "tournament of the strongest" you have here
Rihito and Jurota are trapped in a narrative "spider-web" where a single move could end any fight but that makes them too strong to win.
>>289494582Funnily enough I don't find that unreasonable, I just find it weird that he has none of his bravado. I know he's young but I mean that's often when bravado is at it's height
>>289496211I'm well aware, just this particular early instance of it could be excused otherwise. By the present chapters Sandro has regressed below theory of mind.
>>289496151Sandro already vaguely alluded to it in Edward's bio, giving one of his vagueposting half questions of "Hmm, why did Edward let his backup die so easily..."But then again, he also claimed that Edward had some big grand keikaku "party" in mind in the bio that we'd eventually see, and so far there's no sign of that.
>>289494572Oh fuck you sandro
>>289496191There was fanart of Gaolang holding up his hand like Frieza's famous five minutes until Namek blows up pose, so "we" began using it to refer to five minute time increments in the same vein. Sometime back during Ashura's run, if I recall.
I still don't get how Razor's Edge works.
>>289493480>my opponent was too fast too predict>so instead I predicted him anyway and grabbed him anyway
>>289493558This is completely different. Gaolang's God Glow didn't even hit him.
>>289494614Reading the explanation of Eddie's plan made me cough up blood
>>289495078KAT gave me the impression that most CEO's were dumb and only sought basic over the top violence and strength and gimmicks instead of looking for guys like Hatsumi and Cosmo who could deliver a finishing blow with only half the HP and Stats of their opponentsAdam's strong and all but he didn't have any business being in a tournament full of Stat Checkers, Techniquefags and people with superior gimmicks over his weird back shit. If he fought Inaba he's getting whipped the fuck up and if he fought Chiba he's getting styled on with all the techniques Chiba copied and if he fought Koizan it's fucking over.Nezu is a non-factor here because we don't know how he fights
>>289493393>>289493403>>289493418Enjoy these pagesThey're the best in this entire tournament
>>289493568Look at how calm and clean Jurota is here!
>>289493576
>>289496335We briefly see Nezu fighting during the uprising or whatever it was called.
>>289495164I was gonna make a connection between how guihun means ghost and advance's proper name is possessing spirit, but then I realized that Tiger learned the former from Eddie but the latter from Mukaku, so it's not like he learned guihun and then made possessing spirit based on it.
>>289496104Kuroki blocked a fucking bullet with pre-initiative
>>289496382It was like one panel with a goofy named technique where he punched someone, I think that's all we get from himBest you can say is that he's a fast precised kicker with a mean right hook
>>289493632kino
>>289493582
>>289493507He's one of those "prove you have the right to face my full power types"
>>289493597
>>289496335I think Adam would do alright against Chiba actually because he'd be too unga bunga to be psyched out by his performance and would just go "SHUT UP LETS FIGHT FAGGOT" and rush him. It's hard to say exactly how impressive Chiba was back then in real skill because of how inconsistent Sen was/is in turn.
>>289493605I hate this. It's like Sandro decided Jurota should lose no matter what.
>>289496404Sometimes I think Sandro regrets that particular feat considering when he had Ohma doing it in Omega he went out of his way to clarify the guns weren't loaded with actual bullets.
>>289496335>if he fought Koizan
>>289494572>the "memories of humiliation"
>>289496460looks better here
>>289496025>Tiger Niko's bio is something you'd think would be long and comprehensive because TN's been here since Ashura but it's actually just some bullshit which is halfway some shit about KvP because Sandro can't admit he uplifted TN's story and motivation and gave it to ShenPeople lament what could have been with Fei and Eddie, but the damage Sandro did to Tiger Niko is easily the worst. He very, very clearly was supposed to be the final boss. Shen wasn't even an idea in Sandro's brain until Omega.
>>289493620At least it looked like Gaolang went through a hard fought battle in the drafts. He made it look easy in the actual finished manga!
Hassad soon.
>>289496308I thought it was hours
>>289496460>No Daro. That doesn't look humiliating enough.
>>289493576Gaoran is fucking dead Juroota fucking killed him
>>289493650Jurota...
>>289494643>Willem is taller than Julius
>>289496619Of course he is, he has superman syndrome and everything
>>289496619Julius is a manlet confirmed.
>>289493619what are you talking about, you can clearly see him drooling in the first panel of >>289493582
>>289493675>mom got last name rightsgood for herwhy can't he just be full black or half some nationality OTHER than Japanese?
>>289496025>" I really do not think">the man who is constantly telling readers how to feel about what they see and who doesn't trust readers to even remember the names of main characters like Ohma and Kazzy and resorts to placing their nametags every chapter doesn't believe his audience is smartYou think? Really?
>>289496687since he was able to win a single fight in this tournament that means he is STRONG and must be JAPANESE
>>289496687well why else would he go to Japan instead of AMERICA FUCK YEAH
>>289493675This draft Justin is now closer to the final version, but there are still some big changes as you can see here.You will see in the other drafts his beard was completely removed and he was made to look more silly overall.
>>289493682
>>289496546>Shen wasn't even an idea in Sandro's brain until Omega.Since the Worms are some vague mystery nigga shit back in Asura I get the sense that Shen was an extremely underdeveloped vague idea Sandro had in mind back then but it wasn't until Omega did he start working on what "Shen" was suppose to beBut he must have realized bringing back Ohma was a massive fuck up that needed addressing so he made made Shen two dudes sharing a body and took TN's motivation and gave it to Shen to make up for it>>289496459Chiba can Copy and Adam has freak strength. KAT had this "Technique over bullshit" thing going on and Chiba's the one with the technique so he'd win
>>289493582>>289493597>Jurota loses in the exact same way he lost to Masaki>also he was gimped of his best technique this entire fightCome on.
>>289493694
>>289493711
>>289496776>Daro, make him look more like a thug-ass hood nigga>>289496797>Daro, make him look more like a clown-ass house nigga
>>289493726His demeanor is completely different too
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>>289493779
>>289493337Wait a minute...HEX-agons?
>>289496892>>289496916>>289496932It's insane how much the beard helps carry the design here. He looks like an adult and not some off-putting black guy that could be vaguely racist depending on the person
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>>289493837
>>289493403The way this is framed gives it the feeling like time has stopped.I can practically hear the>It was at this moment he knew, he fucked up.Shockingly good composition for Daro in his AI era.
>>289497028The hexagons being noticed is proof we can always keep scaling the wall
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>>289497130
>>289493796Where does this guy rank in the twink power-bottom rankings?I'd probably put him somewhere between Xing and Nikaido.
>>289493711Yeah because Adam is in the top of the kenganverngers tier list
>>289497155Was Daro trying to make a 3D model for Justin's hair, but failed? Would he have used it for every Justin panel if he got it right?
>>289495064It's such a funny gimmick for a character.I'd hate it if I was still taking Omega seriously, but I love it now that I've accepted it as a comedy manga.
>>289494953Maybe because Kazzy has superhuman kengan eyes, he has a poor grasp on the average person's eyesight and just assumes everyone else is virtually blind.
>>289497195Done.Jurota should have won.
>>289497190They're not sending their best!
>>289497195>I tried creating Justin's hairstyle in 3D to save myself some trouble, but it turned out to be unusable...
>>289497190>Adam Dudley was the weakest among us Dallas Stars. I am the only "Celestial" we need
>>289493619>hexing works after the match already ended This is a huge discovery.
>>289497270Daro is so lazy...
>>289497307ive spent some time 3d modelling for fun and hair has been something that took a lot of effort to get right unless its very heavily stylized, so his attempt to take a shortcut probably was more effort than just doing another pass of sketches
>>289497033Shame he lost it, Kengan needs more beardos
>>289497195Looks like udon noodles
>>289496619Heavier too
>>289493632Sometime the swing is instant, sometime it's not. I don't fucking know.
>>289497578The "Swing" isn't a technique of "martial arts" it is a the "metaphysical" technique of throwing an opponent "between panels" ("Off-screening" them)Countering the "Swing" required "getting the timing right" so that the throw happens "on-screen"It truly came down to "razor thin margin"
>>289494481Eddie was a nice young man, wtf happened?
>>289497028There is no way to directly inflict physical damage in kengan so everyone either tries to mark eachother with metaphysical hexes or sigil hex-agons which do the actual damage. Jurota seems to have very high resistance to sigil hexes, no matter how many you put on him, he wont go down
>>289498337>Luohan's hexagon patterned suit is meant to redirected the hexes sigil into them and away from his body.
>>289498503High-tech technology!
>>289496104Rei could only attack in a straight line, one hit at a time. Gaolang can throw a flurry almost as fast, at multiple targets and in different ways.
>>289493403>>289493491I don't care, I really like Jurota. His throooowing gimmick is bullshit but in an Asura way where it isn't breaking the settings rules, and his Meguro tulpa (that acts nothing like Meguro, sane or insane) is funny.
>>289495064It is very funny. Jurota is just a secret schizophrenic that never does anything particularly evil or nasty and no one would ever clock him for it. He just hallucinates some random much younger man all the time.
>>289496025>I really do not think he believes his audience is smartHe'd be right. Why else would "we" be reading this manga otherwise?
>>289493620>>289493632>jurota loses the same way twiceThat is humiliating.
>Even the "animal kingdom" is "scaling the wall"Tell me, what is there stopping an animal from learning martial arts?>They don't have human anatomySo they can make their own styles of martial arts. Why can't an elephant become literally kuroki?
>>289498741Holy shit... He went for a Grapple!
>>289493682He was better as a hood nigga.
>>289498741"LOOK" AT THAT "LEGLOCK""PRINCIPLES" "?" "!"
>>289493403>>289493418>>289493427Any fight bros here who can actually explain the mechanics of judo throws? I know the basis of using your opponents energy against them and using it to follow through with the throw. Logically it seems like every motion the opponent might make would have its own sort of follow through > throw and you’d need to react in the right way. Is there absolutely any realistic foundation to this “they’re on the ground now” type thing we see in kengan?
>>289493779Does Sandrovich really intend to write a sequel to this manga where that is involved or is this just throwing out random loose threads in case he ever needs them somehow/someway?
>>289498741What if Shengus used Huisheng on a random literal chimp
>>289498818The chimp would "evolve" into "man". Think 2001 A Space Odyssey
>>289498635Kuroki was styling on Rei's hyperfast flurries of blows too, not just his one punch rushes.
>>289493837I can't believe people actually thought Hiraku was going to win this fight.
>>289498799>I know the basis of using your opponents energy against themWtf jurota knows principles?
>>289498810>be Sandro at an Oda party or whatever the fuck those mangakas go to>try and throw some money on the 12 year old stripper>"fuck I'm outta pocket cash">"alright let's see..." *throws dart at board with ideas*>"Kengan... America... with 200x more poorly written slop... alright sounds good!"coming soon to a reality near you
>>289494457>>289494481Erioh didn't look that small in his flashback with Metsudo. I guess he shrunk early.
>>289498847How is that a surprise? Hiraku was a stoic bishonen, while Justin acted like a meathead by comparison and we just saw how Jurota's facetanking shtick failed with Gaolang.
>>289498810Every manga Sandro writes is set in the same universe. He's tossing out bullshit for whatever other thing he gets to make down the line. To be fair Purgatory was introduced already in the first half of Ashura.
>>289498741Animals don't need to learn martial arts.They're born with martial arts already ingrained in their instincts.
>>289494693>>289495553Are you thick? A sub-20 year old Edward is not his "prime".
>>289498897SHHHYYYYEEAAAAAAAA- NANI?
>>289498897But which one is the Niko cat? Did one of them go limp to disperse the other cats damage, or did the other one simply flip the other with redirection kata?
>>289498741Many parts of the animal kingdom are starting to prepare for their "ascent."
>>289494868>korean twinkManwha protags are often huge.
>>289498866He probably intends to fully automate the process by that point.
>>289498944>The "zoo"... an "unscalable" "wall" for the "animals" that reside within "it"...>There is no "training" to be had, for these "beasts" have their "natural instinct" "supressed".BUT
>>289498879Hiraku's whole thing of beauty first is antithetical to the style and philosophy of Kengan.
>>289499081would have been more interesting if his le beauty actually made him le strong and he was le powerful
>>289498996>>289498944Have you ever heard about an orangutan named Ken Allen "The Escape Artist" who would repeatedly escape the zoo? He had "scaled the wall" and did not bother to fight the weaklings around him as they were too weak, he would only attack THAT BASTARD Otis, by throwing rocks at him. You recall how "man" had learned to "scale the wall" by using rocks to hunt? The animal kingdom has begun to "scale that very same wall" as well...
>>289493837>spoilerWhy do people care about that shit?
>>289499149>remember>before the "wall" man scaled was each other...>it was the beasts of nature>upon "scaling the wall", they shall become our "walls" once more
>>289498741She's going to ge the old "Kazzy special"
>>289498879Because Hiraku stacked like half the possible jobber flags.>the muh aesthetics thing like the other anon said, every Sandro character with a distaste for grueling training is a jobber >made a snide remark about GLORIOUS TRADITIONAL KARATE>all the stuff about "I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS DUDE, HE IS LE DANGEROUS" from KazuoPlus it doesn't hurt that Justin was a Kenganvenger's apprentice.
>>289498071>throwing an opponent "between panels" ("Off-screening" them)You mean something like gaps in consciousness?
>>289498934Both of them.All cats are natural practitioners of the Niko style.
>>289498741Impossible.An elephant's tusks are simply nature's knives.
>>289495715>I got too many people waiting for a rematch>keep fighting people he hasn't fought >go train with Rihito and Kuroki and none of them seems interestedI guess he sparred with Seki once if that counts
>>289494577>There it is, this is the arc where even the final cope of "JUST TURN YOUR LE BRAIN OFF AND ENJOY THE EPIC HYPE FIGHTS BRO" died.pretty sure that was kvp lol
>>289498897Isnt this Long Clan Technique Dragon's Maw
>>289498897Neko Ryuki!
>>289499405I HATE THE NEKO STYLE
>>289499489I don't disagree, just that this is when you stopped even seeing that cope used because even the defenders couldn't argue that the fights were good enough bread and circuses anymore kek.
>>289493675So the Y/N Alliance style
>>289499150Why do people care about anything?
>>289498944Could Rolon Donaire have taken him?
>>289498955Yep, just look at how huge this one is -->
>>289499150>this anon is just now learning other people aren't actually him
>>289495791its actually "brown" which is why the true kengan omega only revealed itself to us when it accidentally got dumped for a full chapter in spanish
>>289499426>An elephant's tusks are simply nature's knives.don't you know, "me"? that "wall" has already begun to be "scaled" by "evolution"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048336907/elephants-tuskless-ivory-poaching-africa
>>289494572>>289496531They really gotta stop trying to implant hundreds of years worth of terrible memories into people.
>>289496797>Draft has him holding a bucket of chicken with BFC on the sideWhat does the B stand for?
>>289499747Because it's of quality or worth?
>>289496322Jurota grabbing fighters by the boob is always funny
>>289500491Isn't Spain full of white-looking dudes? Brown is for the Mexicans, as far as I know.
>>289493480Why exactly is Meguro, a R2 jobber who got killed by Mutemba so prevalent?
>>289500667Remember, you're never safe from someone uploading cuck memories into you
>>289501035Jurota's personal potential man
>>289500910No, because they like it.Slop content is liked by many people, and not because it's "objectively" good."of quality or worth"What a bullshit thing to expect. Do you think we humans are all noble and dignified? All perfect and aligned? Clean and organized? Synchronized in what we think is good and what is bad? "We" are a fucking mess. "We" like whatever electrocutes our "insides".
>>289501083Visiting Dragon Ball threads be like
4 chapters down21 more to go until this shit is over with.And then it's the homeless abuse gaiden arc
>>289501188I forgot that fight
>+500
>>289499373Even "deeper," it is a "gap" in reality itself - one where action can "occur" without "observation"That is what it means to "off-screen"
>>289501149Liking something gives it "worth", it's a joke so chill. I just don't want to hear about some dumb ball game when I'm on /a/
>>289496892>Make him looks more stupidSANDROOOOOOOOOOO
>>289502255Did he really say that? No way, right?
>>289502255>>289502409バカっぽく
>>289494643Wakatsukibros, Juliusbros... We're safe from the downscale...
>>289502484SANDROOOOOOOOOOOO
>>289494868>the korean twink being somehow bigger than KiozanHe's actually 1 cm shorter than Kiozan
>>289494643I'm surprised Willem is 28, I just assumed all the zoomer Wus were in their early 20s>>289495164kek
>>289494774Note that Superman Syndrome has degreesXia Ji and Xia Yan have 2x higher density while Waka had 52x higher densitySandro deliberately didn't mention how dense Willem's muscles are to keep readers in the dark
>>289501193I remembered the moment Koga's friend showed up
>Page 10"We" have "arrived"
>>289496025FUCK YOU GON!
>>289496892>>289502255>>289502484What the FUCK is this sleazeball retard's problem?
>>289503072*raughs*
>>289503072Non-Kenganvenger must look like a joke
>>289498741Puprinciples are strong?!
i forget, what's left? o mighty champion finale, monke bullying, kure training, five nights at ohma's, luohan+kitty niko sissy hypno session, reject clone fodder, battle royale, have i missed anything?
>>289503734I guess there's Ohma little spars with the SJPW, if that counts for anything.
>>289503734I count Luohan's battle and Hushen as things to look forward to
>>289503734If the sissy hypno bit includes the shounen stuff, then that
