Looks like I got the "timing" right.
Other Volumeshttps://pastebin.com/9HGt1efZVolume 28 1/2>>291262288Volume 28 2/2>>291284885
>>291304235Great coverr
>>291304272M-MASAKA
I literally just caught up with the previous dump. Lucky me
>>291304272Reach for higer heights you ally of justice
>>291304272LET THE VOICE OF LOVE TAKE YOU HIIIIGHER
>>291304316When I got my friend to read Usogui, he figured out Gackt didn't press the square center enough the first second he saw the page
>>291304235What did Baku see?
>>291304349What the actual fuck
>>291304345Did you fall for him?
>>291304345Did he eat a kariume?
Something something about timing
>>291304345>>291304349OP also noticed it, but he didn't figure out the reason.
>>291304367>>291304383This really is a slick trick.
Hola Gamblers
This trick is also obvious if, at the start, the controls let you choose the direction the submarine is facing.There'd be no point to it otherwise.
>>291304402Mon ami jobiste
>>291304473>I'll hit it with all my mightGackt...phrasing...
>everyone compliment hexing GacktI have a bad feeling...
TOP RIIIGHTTTTT YEAAHHH IT HAS TO BE
>>291304513kino
OH SHIT! MY TONGUE!
>>291304557>What is evil?>Looking away is evilKino
>>291304506Wrong meta, this is the "I figured it out" post victory explanation.
>>291304603GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKT!!!!
>>291304583>>291304603THE DRAGON SHOT
>>291304587>>291304603YOU'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG!
THAT BITCH
GAAACKT YOU NEED TO DO A LITTLE JUMPJUMP TO MAKE SURE YOU REACH GACKT GAAAACCCKKKTTTT
>>291304603>Gakt fags thought he was that guyThis whole match shows that while admirable, he’s not built to gamble. He’s unable to see the dirty ways people cheat and is too prideful to cheat himself
Justice... Jobbed?!
lets goooo so excited for the end of the goomble>>291304235happy baku makes me happy as well :D
>>291304652Lacy the dementia patient...
>>291304652He's so off his rocker he can't even remember stuff he did half a second ago. Gackt broke him.
>>291304651Neither is Marco but he's still an MVP. Hachina struck gold with Gakuto.
>>291304664>>291304670He was so panicked he touched the remote without even realizing it
>>291304699The most powerful SHYEEEAAAAH known to man, Gackt didn't even have the time to do what the referee told him to do...
The Pastebin now includes the previous three threads.Enjoy the storytime everyone!
>>291304678>do you expect me to be impartial or something?
>>291304751Necktie time baby!
>>291304751kek he's going full gobbo mode now that he can get back to murdering him
>>291304751Oh no...
>>291304729Gakuto deserved to lose, he was cheating just as much as Lacy and even got help from Kaji. He had 1000IQ leader on his side and still refused to capitalise on that by destroying his method of communication. He got outplayed and had no one to blame but himself
CINEMA i fucking love Gackt
>>291304751looks like a Toriko enemy now
>>291304786Judo... strong?
>>291304786Nice one Gackt!
>>291304786LET'S FUCKING GO BOYS
>>291304786AINT GOIN' DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT
>has Hachina>has Kaji>has the ref for a free night>had a volley>had the I do it by myself buff>had made his opponent shit himself>still jobbedWas he too lucky to win or it's just a KWAB?! Or compliment hexing is just that strong even if it's not the same "meta"?
>>291304786Imagine if Gackt knew Sumo...
Why are you saying Gackt lost? He's clearly the winner here.Are you saying he lost because he lost the gamble? You are still "green", aren't you?
>>291304816>loses the match>procede to beat up Lacy like nothing happenedI would say BASED
>>291304851gakuto has basically ran the entire gamut of facial expressions this gamble lol
>>291304829Gackt has become a cryptid
>>291304829Remember to be nice anons or the JUSTICE GOBLIN might pay you a visit!
>>291304829>>291304851>>291304868>>291304887Whoah he's like Akoya but cool instead of lame...
>>291304786BEAST
>>291304751>Immediately puts on his goober face and gets his necktie implements
>>291304907Why did Stacy free them? It's not their job.
>>291304926KAJI WON
>>291304937It literally says on the next page
>>291304951Kaji's rapeful ways entrance another innocent victim...
>>291304926>Kaji’s high IQ deduction made her hornyBased
>>291304951>Kaji heals a lesbian
>>291304984That's my hero
>>291304844You are the "green" here, "me". In a gamble you can use "anything" as long it's in the "rules" and the main "rule" is was "no violence" but the rest was left open to interpretation. Lucy used the "gap between the rules" to win, staying to your principles is "useless" in a gamble. Gackt wanted to do this on his own terms, that's why he lost, he was unable to "step" in the world of gamblers. You need more "data" about the "Usogui meta" to "evolve" your understanding. Over and out, me.
>>291304984SAVAGE JUSTICE
>>291304970>Chin angle
>>291304994We're missing "Shyeeah" and "clunk" from the list of brainrot Sandroisms in this post
>>291304994Still thinking within the terms of the "gamble"? You're on a razor thin margin.ButMAN
>>291305028Sink that boat Gackt! You can do it!
>>291305028Justice-Man is foid-pilled
>>291305044Bros... I just lost the game.
>>291305044>jobs
>>291305044KWAB
She lacks discernment..
>>291305092If leader revealed himself right now, how horny would she get?
>>291305111There is only one person who can tell a referee what to do after all...
>>291305111Given how secretive the whole deal about Leader missing is she'd have no clue but then again Leader doesn't know that she has no clue so he wouldn't even dare reveal himself.
>>291305113Does the average kakerou referee not know what der fuhrer looks like, or is he supposed to have fantomas-tier disguise skills?
>>291305061cute ankles
>>291305151Could Nanpou take her in a race?We know Kadokura could, but hard to do that when you are dead.
>>291305163They know, but none of the members know where he is right now, she really has no reason to think it could be him aside from thinking he's vaguely intriguing
>>291305135 extreme irony here
>>291305189Nanpou is a jobber, Mogami low diffs him.
>>291305037No, "we" have been thinking with the "Usogui meta" because "we" have "adapted". The "fights" are "gambles". You are probably thinking in terms of "psychology", "characters" or maybe "favoritism". Gackt may have "won" the spiritual battle, but he didn't in the most important aspect of this manga; he didn't wanted to cheat and have every weapon at this belt unlike Lucy. Again, you need to "adapt" and "evolve" past the "gaps of the rules". Over and out, "we".
>>291305163Well think of it a few ways here>Japanese guy easily identified with his forehead mole and the ahoge strand>Hair is wet, hat down>In a very un-businessmanlike sailor uniformIt's a good disguise
>>291305235>WantedIs this part of the Sandroisms or is it a spelling-jobbing?
>>291305235Gackt didn't act out of a principled stance against cheating. He broke the phone because he didn't want to endanger Hachina.
>>291304383I wonder if you could also put 2 submarines into the same squareor a sub and the top of another ship
>>291305270I... Jobbed...
>>291305275This, he even sent a message for Hachina to run.
>>291305309ENTER MYSTERIOUS INDIVIDUAL
>>291305333Honestly it's no surprise he went schizo after seeing his wife drown his daughter
>>291305384That is not what did it
>>291304786This is the scenario that Baku wanted to avoid when he won, nothing is stopping the loser from stabbing you and taking everything anyways
>>291305407That's why you need a Marco, for that.
Man... This is... Man...
>>291305433That wouldn't even be necessary had he set the rules of the bet more cautiously.
>>291304804Wow kekakerous duplicity is complete nowThey let Gackt lose, so that fell outside of my expectations But BIG SURPRISE THE SITUATION WAS RIGGED SO GACKT ACTUALLY WON
>>291305505And that's their problem how..?
>>291305505Lacy won though? Are you retarded?
>>291305505Gackt didn't get to bring Lacy or the boat to justice.The ladies didn't even bring him out if the boat, just dumped him into a cabin.
Wait.. Gackt was in that ship too...
>leader killed dozens of crew membersSurely some of them were innocent, right? I keep forgetting he’s the antagonist and leader of a ruthless organisation
>>291305599Uhh they kidnapped people, raped+killed them and smuggled weapons..
>>291305599>Surely some of them were innocent, right?No lol
>>291304663>>291304678>>291304699>>291304712This is some bullshit. Justice for Gakht!
>>291305599You unironically think there were innocent crew members on a ship where at least some crewmen routinely kidnapped random people in port and used them as toilets?
>>291305617That's nothing compared to OUR Kaji, lol
>>291304349Lacy is such a prick
>>291305555>unidentified presumably japanese corpseGackt...
>>291305527Pay attention retard, leader just dumped the swim bladder the boat won't survive 1 hour >>291305552T-thats true.... but kekakerou still ultimately profited from this
>>291305674And? Lacy won the gamble and the boat departed as agreed
>>291304583>>291304603Has anything in any of the gambles infuriated you more than this?
>>291305674Have you ever heard the phrase "house always wins"?
Soooooooo... About of the 50B?
>>291305686Oh wow he doesn't know about leader's condition
>>291305658Gentlemen, need I even say it?
>>291304751Goblin mode
>>291305658A sort of "nutrient" if you will
>>291305705Ideal has it safely stored, don't worry.
>>291304786>played collage ball you know!
>>291305740>souichi’s face suddenly becomes gayer when thinking about BakuWhy is he drawn so feminine and soft here?
>>291304829Punished Gackt, a lawfag denied his mogamussy
>>291305719Nobody knows except for a few referees and Baku
>>291304918He's not really anything like Akoya.
>>291304926LESBOCONVERTERS CAN'T STOP WINNING!
>>291304367Jesus thats a powerful compliment hex its over
>>291304918Screw you, I like Akoya.
>>291304984This is what justice looks like, this is pure law right here
>>291305770To make mpreg fanfics.
>>291305044If he didn't switch priorities he could have finished Lacy off, not that it would change much.
>>291305658>Really? Then, never mind.Leader is such a nice guy
>>291305151Where's your helmet bitch!
>>291305770You really can't read faces huh? This is why having female anons never ends well.even if he doesn't remember right now, his body still knows that not knowing Baku is a sad thing because they were friends
>>291305309Lil Voja a cute
>>291305768What the fuck is his problem with the diamonds again? Does he just have a fetish for murdering people who are wearing them?
>>291305395>>291305413>when the tism hits
>>291305873It's make him... Diamonds.
>>291305451Could Voja have been fixed at this point, theoretically?
>>291305873He makes diamonds out of his decesead underlings and considers them basically the same as when they were alive. That said it's not explained why he has it in for ALL diamonds
>>291305832I think he just doesn't see the point in wasting energy arguing about pointless info
What a nice guy
>>291305904Alien leader would've gone through with it
>>291305864Bee is a softie
>>291305918I think it's way funnier to frame it as him being polite and respectful to the other party's feelings
>>291305923This is gayer than two men having gay sex
>>291305923Awwww
>>291305911I remember that part but why the fuck does he want Hachina to wear them lol
>>291305923Oh my...
>>291305957Gives him an excuse to shank him on the spot
>>291305957He hates when people wear diamonds so it'd give him an excuse to kill him
Did Hachina and Gakt even spend time together before the mountain meeting?
>>291304729MY FAURKING HERO
>>291305923Nothing bonds two men together than escaping a life threatening gamble just look at Karl and Kaji.
>>291305952ENTER! the old bookstore
I am reading a shojo or what?
>>291305979Always were.
>>291304786Lmao based
>>291305970They have a working relationship as far as Hachinas public life goes.
>>291305979There's no women though
>>291305923Is this gayer than Baku and Kaji’s dynamic
>>291305952This is an extremely comfy mini-arc, get your blankeys everyone
>>291305370Lindsay Clancy...
>>291304816Gakt is too much of a responsible adult to be good at gambling. Gambling belongs to manchildren and crazy people
>>291305895Given what she did at the orphanage, I very much doubt it.
>>291304849Very Lalo-esque
>>291306013kek
>>291306022>Leader, if you lose your memory, you must visit this bookstore and solve my riddles three!what
>>291304868What a beast
>>291306056It's not a riddle, it's just convoluted so it's harder for someone that doesn't know about it to do it.
>>291304984>mfw its time to deliver justice
>>291305957Same logic as Tatsuki making Yakou number 0 (at least the superficial reason).
>>291305395Is the able to recognize part translated right? It's not supposed to be unable?
>>291306233why is he going full aura mode to walk down a bookstore aisle
The path from me to you that led,Untrodden long, with grass is grown,Mute carpet that his lieges spreadBefore the Prince OblivionWhen he goes visiting the dead.
And who are they but who forget?You, who my coming could surmiseEre any hint of me as yetWarned other ears and other eyes,See the path blurred without regret.
God I wish this arc was longer, these two make such a cool duo
>>291306265RE ENTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
But when I trace its windings sweetWith saddened steps, at every spotThat feels the memory in my feet,Each grass-blade turns forget-me-not,Where murmuring bees your name repeat.Estrangement- James Russell Lowell
>>291306265Haven't seen this guy in a while
I have returned from my long slumber and remember everything!!!AlsoThat's it for the first half of Volume 29!Thanks for reading and dont be a liar anon or devour of the Kariumes will come for you!See you tomorrow for the second half of Volume 29!Tomorrowcoin game gambleBye
>>291306110This fucking head angle
OP YOU FOOL YOU FORGOT THE PAGE
>>291306110This Hachina somehow feels more indian
>>291306320Get back here and finish the dump!
>>291306265my favorite gamble in the whole story comingme and my brother used to do the same thing while at church
>>291306265>>291306285Love the contrast between old and current Baku.
>>291306320Thanks OP
>>291306369Look for expensive books?
>>291305785You call THAT a pelvic thrust?
>>291306285Oh ok this is the last page, OP got me confused with his farewell message
>>291305686Interesting how Lalo is speaking just like Kiruma here
>>291306510we don't know his name yet
That was an excellent volume
>>291306285Cool eyepatch
What did you guys think of the battleship arc?
What the fuck happened to the mangaka
>>291305384Just postpartum depression bro, he should give her a million bucks for that
>>291306250>>291306265>>291306285Im too much of a ESL in English literature.What does this mean
>>291306575I love it when Sako does retard vs retard gambles, this one especially is my favorite non Baku gamble
>>291306606Why exactly do you think it's okay to post spoilers about the paralell world arc where everyones sexes are flipped?
>>291306575One of my favorite gambles, although brought down by a few bits in the middle. Not much though
>>291306575Kino, I really enjoy these chaotic gambles with both sides scrambling to win. The back and forth was insane leaving you on edge through the whole match.
>>291306391use the hymnal to flip through pages and predict where the page lands
>>291306575The gamble itself is good, but I always thought Voja and Lacy's backstory is needlessly grim
>>291306141Honestly given the whole thing about similar people loathing the ever loving shit out of each other out of some weird instinct of not wanting their niche encroached upon it could be either.
Mogami's justification are pure bullshit. Referees have their own peculiarities, but even Kadokura would rush to Baku once he found out the flooded room, and would help Baku dealing with Minowa because he wants to attack Baku when he lost the M-time.Mogami would allowed Minowa to attack Baku because of her retarded logic. It's okay to cheat but what's the point of having a gamble if anything goes. It's like saying having turns doesn't matter and they can keep pressing how many panels they want. It breaks the purpose of having a gamble.The only way to redeem her is showing she got pregnant with Gakuto's child at the end of the series.
>>291306141Pretty sure that's correct, Lalo's whole deal is wanting to be the only person who can recognize the value of "diamonds"
>>291305713Oh damn he couldn't even remember being leader.
>>291306890Ah, ok
>>291307113They established the anything goes rule early on didn't they?
>>291305923Oh right he still got a pickaxe to the leg lmao
>>291306088I really loved the way the author handled the transition for this flashback arc with the same events playing out again yet them not being the exact same.
>>291307185His memories went back to when Tatsuki was leader, though I guess breathing in the ashes back then helped him accept the reality quickly
>>291307113You are like a child who refuses to learn the rules and cries when the rules matter.
>>291307113Dont be sillyOn Kadokura's gamble, he explicitly states that violence outside M time is strictly forbidden. And on M-time, only the winner can dish out violence. The loser can only dodge or take it to the face
>>291307113Referees have their own biases regardless of how unbiased they wish they could be.
>>291306575Good arc, I think it's my favorite so farSako's art got better too
>>291305151>tfw your boss leaves on her cool bike while your and your friends are forced to take a taxi back home
>>291307074I liked itEspecially that it's a parallel where Lacy is a lawfag that had a really bad day
>>291305658Majin Buu looking fucker
>>291305713Leader is acting as if he just dropped in the middle of the storytime
>>2913065759/10 for me. Only things I don't really like about it are the Voya/Hachina fight and how convenient the diamonds subplot is.
>>291306575It's my third favourite arc, and it was as good as I remember.
>>291304651>implying Lacy acting like a bitch (and then getting curbstomped like one) makes Gackt look badSorry, he IS that guy. You're trying too hard.
>>291304786J U S T I C E
>>291307475Yeah you could say it's a Joker situation but in reality he doesn't even go crazy from that one bad day. He just slowly gets used to the madness that is living with Voja
>>291305658>Then, why?>I'll never tell!>Okay, never mind then>FUCK, FINE, SINCE YOU INSIST. Ahem. I was born in a small village...
>>291306606That was when he was still doing a very girly manga but his style is back on track right now.
>>291307942WOAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
>>291307456It's a scooter, it's not that cool
>>291307581He kind of did
Kaji was pretty close to aquiring if not the 50yen then at least the shiny rocks required to force a game for it.His biggest failing as usual is his impulsive need to be like Baku and getting himself into trouble trying to do what Baku does with imperfect knowledge of how Baku goes about doing things.This is all well and good, even shows that Kaji manages to grow while still being a fuck up. But would Baku really be fine with Kaji dying trying to get back that 50yen?
>>291304984awesome.Sako took Billy from me, but at least he gave me Gackt
>>291308187You'll see later. Spoilers; he has a compulsive and self-destructive need to latch onto others and try to be "useful" to them for fear of abandonment
>>291305004Guys, Lacy is sounding like such a WINNER here. As a gacktchad, I'm so devasted. I swear I'm not snickering at all.
>>291308187Thank you for the analysis, Marco.
Why did Baku even get Kaji a membership again?
>>291308345Marco has been reading this bee book Baku-niichan brought home. Very educational.But don't think you can escape with flattery, you did not answer Marcos question.
>>291308378Didn't he need it to play Sadakuni?
>>291308378Because at the time Baku didn't known about the police coverup system yet. The second he knew he scrapped the Kaji vs Leader plan.
>>291308378For fun
>>291308378He didn't want Yakou as his referee.
>>291308558What an ingrate.
>>291308452baku was the one who started the police coverup system. i think sako originally had a different direction in mind for kaji and it changed as the story went along
>>291308585Planting the seeds isn't the same as knowing they bore fruit. He still didn't know if the system had been established before the moneyless gamble rumor came out.
>>291308585Not exactly, the commissioner got the idea from a Baku gamble but I don't think he had a hand in it directly.
>>291306088Cycles… Sometimes a small discrepancy in a recurring cycle… leads to calamity…
>>291305923Hachina has speedrun his bromance with Gackt when compared to Baku and Kaji. He has shown his vulnerable side much faster.
>>291308759That's what makes Leader inferior to the eldritch goombler known as Usogui.
>>291308585He didn't really know it would end up like that, his strategy was literally "do whatever and see if anything cool happens"
>>291305511I wonder will he be okay or just die after Voja died
>>291308924Nvm >>291305534
>>291305895Likely by the time Ideal -kun found her she was gone beyond redemption
>>291305505Gackt explicitly was prevented from taking Lacy's winnings though
>>291308585While I agree that certain plot points were dropped or changed, Lalo being the biggest victim of this as he stays a dark figure for way longer than is neccessary.I think Baku giving the membership to Kaji was just him stacking another plan. Kaji acting as the face makes it easier to avoid his life being collected before he can aquire enough capital and/or dirt on the cops to force them to fork over all the juicy karamete info.This changed when Leader barged into Kajis hangman game and Baku was forced to test out if Leader will actually collect his life. After surviving that Baku then instantly starts to gather low value gambles to get a "natural" introduction to the police alibi gamble.I'm pretty sure Kajis place in the plot never changed, Baku picked him up precisely because he could tell from how he told Baku about the machine having a big win coming up that he would be an extremely loyal ally. Baku however could not predict that just by giving Kaji a (relatively) less toxic enviroment to grow and nurture his skills that he could actually at the end of the manga stand shoulder to shoulder with Baku.That is to say in short Kaji is my 3rd favorite character
>>291305895>>291308951I choose to believe she was lost when she realized her mom didn't even recognize her
>>291305628>Pure schizophrenic mental conjuring
>>291305713I found it surprise Lalo just say everything here even though he thought Leader aware of all of this
>>291304367this is plain stupid.
>>291309038Since when were you under the impression this was actually an official copy of Battleship and not a homebrew game similar to Battleship?
>>291305770 let's just say he remembered something important
>>291305911 the wearing diamonds bit was only because Voja was essentially worn and discarded by Lacy's wife. He dislikes people who value diamonds artificially but not intimately, and I assume he wanted to test leader.
>>291305923Extremely gay panel
>>291309031Lalo is a chatterbox who loves the sound of his own voice. He can only keep quiet in situations in which speaking would mean losing assets or dying. Accidentally providing information the other party doesn't have is a price he's willing to pay if he can ramble for a bit.
>>291309031It's partly plot convenience, but I think he's trying to convince Leader to have a gamble with Baku for the right to StL so he snitches everything he understood from his PoV
>>291309054>homebrew ruski version is vidya-junki guess this makes sense... but it's still stupid.
>>291309038And yet it's hinted at starting from Lacy's very first turn where he's painstakingly trying to hit the center
>>291306248Traumatic reminiscing
>>291306265E N T E R peak piyong player
>>291306639It explains the emotional distance and alienation that develops between individuals, often reflecting the broader human condition of isolation.So yesh it fits
>>291306320Got so excited that forgot to Thanke OP.Welcome back "me"
>>291309193He can't actually remember being there.
>>291307074>Russian Law-fagIt was over from the start
>>291309222And yet he knows it must have happened before
>>291304729i was cheering for the drunk ruskie but between the dumb center trick and the ref not doing her job i cant be happy about the outcome.
>>291308378If Baku tried to get a Kakerou membership himself after failing STL, he would be purged by his ref
>>291309257>dumb center trickI can sort of give you that, if it wasn't so well foreshadowed or if it was the only thing.>ref not doing her jobPlease give a single example
>>291309003I like this theory
>>291308759Kaji literally met Baku while he's jobbing in pachinko
>>291309127I like how this seemingly random bullshit page or Gackt's off-center first point actually mattered
>>291309301>Please give a single exampleshe came so far as saying you could push for another one and it would be fair because no violence is the only rule. but kakerou refs never been so strict and obtuse up this far, just go back to previous matches and you will find many examples about them discussing rules and what would be fair while the duel is on. she's just a lazy bitch.
>>291309054This is, after all, why he explicitly explained the rules one by one instead of "you know Battleship? Let's play that". He's describing a game very similar to, but not quite, Battleship, and preying on the assumption that it works like Battleship.
>>291309354That's on Gackt for not asking for clarification, he had every possibility to ask for it at any point. Usually rules get hashed out because the players ask for it and the job of the referee is to facilitate the gamble in a way that both players accept.
>>291309320>The gambler that keeps on winning...
>>291309354>>291309384It's worth pointing out Kaji is the only one here who actually knows about Kakerou, so both Lacy and Gackt were kind of just flying by the seat of their pants regarding making the rules for the game or how they could win until Kaji was allowed back in
>>291304794I was thinking the same thing too
>>291309384the refs dont just facilitate gambles, they ensure it's fair, they often suggest rules and they rediscussed them in the middle of the duels before. she's not doing her job, plain and simple.
>>291306575I think it sits comfortably at 7.5/10 for me. I didn't quite like it as much as Kaji and Karl's Bulltastic adventure, but i still enjoyed it. Gackt grew on me, his sense of duty was contagious, he did have a neat bromance with Hachina. Also think there were some neat implications about the future of where the story will go, mostly with Mystery Nigga Diamonds. Overall, yeah, i liked it.
>>291309120It's the same reason why they play all those bootleg games like hangman + joker or Binary. The guy proposing or making the game has an advantage in terms of familiarity or rules
>>291308759>He has shown his vulnerable side much faster.But has Hachina shared a porn video with Gackt? I don't think so
>>291304951>cheating on bakukaji needs correction.
>>291309444That's completely up to the personal, subjective opinion of the referee. Personal bias is HUGE with referees in more ways than one. However, they are still generally fair and do their jobs within their bounds.
>>291304970looks like Gackt's giving insane head
>>291309444I don't think there's anything to suggest they're there to "keep it fair", even in Baku's flashback with Kyara, Kyara only broke his finger because they other guy protested even though he noticed his cheating.There was no "no cheating" rule so he probably wouldn't have done anything if nobody protested.
>>291309444No, referees make sure that both players accept the rules and the bets.They then enforce those rules to the letter and make sure the bets are paid out exactly as promised.
>>291309586To add on to the Kyara example, Kyara and Yakou allowed for Usogui to take an unfair gamble and then setup several extremely unfair games to clean a guy out, and nevermind that the original Kakerou gamble we see (abandoned building) is anything BUT fair. Kakerou refs are simply about ensuring that the game, rules, equipment, and pot are all as discussed
>>291309594oh please, you have baku discussing about the rules all the times amid the match.
>>291309696Such as?
>>291309705first two matches, with marco's father and sadakuni.
>>291309743>>291309696I know you think it's funny to pretend to be retarded, but Marco would think you are a drooling retard at this point.
>>291306265>>291306285We'll get actual baku lore?!?! Anyway thanks for the dump, OP and welcome back.
>>291306320thanks op.
>>291309586Kyara also ignored the fact that the other guy cheated by preparing multiple acid vials even when he got splashed with one, since Baku didn't protest.
>>291309696>>291309743I'll bite>Marco's fatherThat wasn't formal ruling, it was guy-guy communication to make it more exciting, as it was Marco's dad who got off on murdering guys in his building>SadakuniAny and all rule changes were a result of ALIEN-san deciding it was too boring and to get on with it, no actual rules were change during the game, just a bit of clarification.Ultimately, it's up to the referee. Mogami is unironically one of the most impartial refs here for being a cunt to both of them instead of being a slightly sarcastic cunt to only one of them (The Fair and NEUTRAL Kadokura)
>>291309586gakuto did protest though.
>>291310040>That wasn't formal rulingbig cope.>just a bit of clarificationanother big cope.
>>291310062It's up to the referee's judgment
>>291310113mogami avoided a proper and fair judgement, with kyara instead doing his job. all past examples, all past duels are against her.
>>291306606Midara looks actually so disgusting in the spinoff I hate it
>>291310150So true, here I fixed the panel so it's more accurate to the evident truth
>>291310290So true king.
>>291310290Just needs an edit to make him into anon the 99th referee.
Remember this discussion for when Lalo tried to stall to drown Baku
Maybe if we setup a referee who was really strict about refereeing...
>>291310566Referees for referees...genius...we'll call it...KEKAROO...
>>291305698nope. Lacy deserves like 1000 times Sadakuni torture because of this shit he pulled. MY NIGGA GACKT GOT THE WIN
>>291304926rapist >>> lesbian???
this volume to when the thing gets posted might be my favorite part of the manga
>>291310558What funny is Nowa (male referee) literally said Lalo's breaking the rules even if they never discussed anything regarding that and would have wanted to come down and purge him.
Sako probably should have used a different example instead of this >>291304678 or just make Gakuto lost the gamble in another way.
>>291306141Yeah.ダイヤモンドに価値を見出す人間Person who notices value in diamonds.を許せないYou should know this one.
>>291306575Sako kills off cool villains with an almost Sandro-like urgency.
>>291310113You dont say...
>>291311392Not even close, but someone dumb might make that mistake. Someone like Sandro while copying Usogui maybe...
>>291304603Fucking bullshit, what?
>>291304786Kek, just throw down.
>>291304829Kaji the rapist rubbed on the lawful man, how horrible...
>>291304926Can't beat the cock...?
>>291311392i think he regrets some of themthere's a guy with with minowa's mannerisms in Genikasuri and they often show up in his bonus scribbles
>>291305923Homo.
>>291305923if i was a women i would definitely be a flagrant fujo
>>291306606It's ok, males actually look male again in his new manga
I know ha-ha Marco dumb as a insult to others but you know what I'm gonna give Marco his dues. He knows his limits, he tries to be tactical in fighting, he doesn't whine and when Leo betrayed him he never sits around and whines about it. He also has enough degrees of self awareness to know what he doesn't know and accepts that imbalance. The latter of which, funnily enough, is also a small difference between Leader and Baku. >>291306575I think it's the only arc that hasn't improved for me on a re-read. I don't care for Voja/Hachina's fight, Gackt was doing a lot of heavy lifting and Lacy's art is the real pillar for me. I remember being really trailing off when I first read this arc and I feel like I'm gonna do the same again. >>291312191You know I sometimes like a good little ship if I feel it has a certain romanticism to it and weirdly I've never been taken by Baku/Leader though. They're really complimentary though. Color wise, design wise, hell they even got the "one is all eyes / one is a big mouth" kinda archetypal stuff going on. Sometimes a pair feels closer to some sort of deep reincarnated rivalry than a relationship.>>291312353I love the men in Geni. Sako did good job with the designs for me, All the boxers sell their styles in their appearance and the Coaches all take the classical Usogui fashion storytelling (which makes things like Coach Dan's chimp out really cool).
>>291312482>trailing off right before the manga starts firing on all cylinders
>>291312482Is your big problem really just that the focus is on women and middle aged men instead of young or old men and the fighting is very light?Do you just look at the pretty pages?
>>291312482it doesn't help that a lot of baku/leader's interactions are baku taking advantage of his disability. even if he's extremely capable leader feels like a lost child. although it doesn't get much page time baku/kyara feels better for me, especially how baku crashes out after what happens and it opens up a side of him we hadn't seen before
>>291312524I meant more I remember just sort of breezing through the chapters not dropping it.>>291312576No?!! I like Mogami and still don't quite understand that one Anon that was chimping out about her through the entire fucking arc. I feel Voja was wasted on Hachina, also systema sucks and even worse when it's half hearted so the fighting is the weakest part for me here. I just don't like the execution, forgive me. And fwiw, I like my men around 35-40, and in suits. >>291312605That's a nice way of putting it. Baku's always had that predatory side but he never does display the honor/trust with Leader that he does with Kaji or Kyara. Kyara also is a sort of underlying heart to a lot of other characters with Baku, almost like a pin in reminded Baku of those he does try play around with and his own fuckups. I suppose he's not typically handsome, I noticed the korean artists tend to draw him closer to Leo, buwah.
>>2913065758/10!
>>291304235Bakumerican Psycho
>>291304345That's crazy.
>>291304513Good character read.
>>291304729Mogami did nothing wrong.
>>291305407Yep.
>>291304967Induction ackshually because deduction requires an>assumption
>>291304603oh no no no lawkeks??
>>291305211How so?
>>291305266I guess this is about Lacy's father-in-law sending Voja away to an orphanage.
>>291305431Lalo likes making neckties too huh.
>>291305601artistic bossu
>>291305628Cool page and callback to 243 chapters ago or so.
>>291305713Leader didn't put that together until now...>>291305740Great face.>>291305851Yep.
>>291305838>>291305864>>291305885Well there Hachina lays it all out.>>291305923Though he changed his mind. Cute.>>291305932It's possible.
>>291305923Yes yes gay and all that but it's also nice to see that Leader / Souichi / Hachina is a person to that maybe doesn't want to have all that responsibility all the time, or just have someone he can be open with.
>>291306005>>291305939Aww yess all the mini-arcs in Usogui are so good. Sako could make an awesome anthology series even though he already excels at long intricate plots.
>>291306009ENTER the book that started the entire plot of Usogui.
>>291306073>>291306088Nice.
>>291306143>Hachina enters a bookstore
>>291306162I had a GBC. Very comfy handheld.
>>291306248kek
>>291306265>>291306285KinoNice and very fitting poem OP.
>>291306320Thanks OP. Congrats on your recovery.>>291306575Unironically best arc so far 8/10. Hachina and Gackt are both very enjoyable characters, the antagonists are interesting too especially Voja and her fight was great, and the gamble was super hype. It's just a well paced arc without flaws.
>>291191872Catching up on the story again right now. I am incredibly confused why that one old referee was so desperate for them to resuscitate the leader... only for them to cremate him alive anyway. Is this some sort of fucked up ritual that they do for some reason? I don't get it.
>>291314330Tatsuki was not cremated alive. We saw his spirit in that chapter but his body was really dead in the chest.
>>291314360Really? I did not get that at all.
>>291314492Anon he literally kept talking after he burnt to ashes and flow away to Souichi
>>291305895It comes down to if Voja became messed up, or if she always was, right? Voja herself says that when she saw her mother's eyes as she drowned Voja, she realized that she had no value.>>291305333And wonder why Nadia tried to drown Voja? Nadia apparently repeated "this child is no good..." as she did so. Did Nadia simply have no love for her child and didn't want to be a mother? Or did she feel that Voja was off somehow? That's a reach of course, just hypothesizing..
>>291314045 because Leader is constantly in flux as a person, Mogami has no chance of meeting this version of leader. Additionally, by the time Mogami has her next meeting with leader... well... The events of the story had already happened since she isn't in the island
>>291312353Still hasn't some Batuquesque feminine focus on lips and less le ogre tier musculature but I find that Geni is a nice middle ground, much more palatable than before and the Gaiden
>>291312524One could say Protoporos is the arc that separates people who like Usogui and people who "get" Usogui As always, the Gamble-manga with thematic consistently and constant stakes can exist I like that Protoporos goes too outright death gambles from Usogui's earlier "gambles that could be deadly but don't quite end when the gambler dies" feels like a good progression
>>291312605Well Baku is a man who takes things by gambling yet Hachina is someone he can never take by gambling half-heartedly like he did with Kaji
>>291304621I just realized, Captain Lacy's final bullshit move would have been a lot more "tasteful" and ambiguously legal if he had simply used the main controls to cause the entire ship to suddenly rock to the side (perhaps by bumping against the port), leading to the same outcome of Gakuto not pressing the cell where he wants. Lacy wouldn't have touched the "game system" but tilted the entire environment instead. Is THIS illegal? It can be argued that Mogami's judgment goes against all previous gambles when Lacy moved the screen, but what if Lacy moved the entire ship? The ship belongs to him and he has been allowed to press the control buttons, why couldn't he tilt it? That would be like winning a gamble on land by detonating explosives to cause a brief mini-earthquake which shakes the whole game environment. Now that's ambiguously illegal.
>>291305534Does this give Hachina the highest known kill count of any character we've meet so far?
>>291314932Wouldn't that damage the ship's hull and risking a delayed voyage?
>>291309284But he literally gets a membership before the labyrinth gamble
>>291309564Lmao
>>291310290Kek
>>291315520Probably.Maybe Yakou's kill count is higher? With him being a debt collector.
>>291314539>wonder why Nadia tried to drown Voja?Woman moment
>>291315767That's why I added "known", as in kills we know for a fact they did and aren't just implied as part of their history
>>291315767All those dudes said that his coffee was shit and made a hate club.
>>291315520Good question. Martin had killed some 80+ people or something so he's a top contender, I'm not sure if that cargo ship had that many people. Especially since it's an illegal ship crewed with Lacy's personal psychofreaks, it probably has a smaller crew than normal for secrecy.
Reminder that "today" is the "day", me. I expect "you" in the azure "skies" soon.
>>291316280>open Ura Baito storytime thread>kenganposting>open Usogui storytime thread>kenganposting>go to my gacha general on veegee>I see thisYou guys are everywhere.
>>291315783I know what he's saying but uhhh no, Sako Usogui is simply more well written and drawn than almost any other manga.Then again there are works that are really amateurish overall but they really shine because of that "sense" and well crafted works that lack it and are not as interesting.
>>291316549Truly this was our "cosmos" in the "lost belt"
>>291306575Pretty solid. Gackt was enjoyable. Unfortunate about Voja and Lacy. And if I understand this correctly Lacy and Gackt were alike once. But Lacy lost himself trying to sate his daughter’s madness and got the bad end?Also some of you are so bad at hiding what is obviously a spoiler. Some “vets” aren’t even trying to conceal things with spoilers. There ARE newfags here. >t. Newfag who can use context clues
>>291316549All storytimes lead to kengan
>>291317851>if I understand this correctly Lacy and Gackt were alike once. But Lacy lost himself trying to sate his daughter’s madness and got the bad end?Yeah. The country Lacy believed in didn't exist anymore, and he needs something to cling on to or devote himself to. Now having nothing else, Lacy devoted himself to his daughter.
>>291314330It’s a poetic and figurative way of expressing his soul moving on to the afterlife. Roller-blade ref died and bled to death after the fight. His soul as free as he is moving would rather be free than stuck in an urn. Even in death he is free. Just like carcal and the plane/plane-attendant
>>291317851It's mainly one or two fags who insist on actually spoiling things, but aside from them I do agree that some people think they are more clever than they are.
>>291305923A gambling manga without moe... does not exist
I cant wait for THAT arcThat is the most unbelievable thing than anything elseMoreso than Chinese Magic Ki Bullshit or Female with Mustache
>>291319392Bro doesn't know about Frida Kahlo
