Ayyy sassy Sakamoto is back, but he's trying to take on Uzuki and his friends on his own, still in his state. Luckily Shin won't let that happen, and he finds the others to come help.
Oooorrr not. What. The. Fuck? Taro, why'd you bait Uzuki into sticking his sword through you? Like...why?
Shin tells Sakamoto's heart to start beating again...and it does? Point 1 to plot armor.
Meanwhile, Shishiba, Osaragi and Kamihate are in hiding, and obvs Nagumo comes to find his friends. A ruffled Shishiba looks too good, I fear I am deceased. Ahh, he's mad because Nagumo infiltrated the HQ and sent the enemies their way so he could do his thing, but that led to Osaragi getting hurt.
Ooh Shishiba vs Nagumo. Wait, ooh I liked that smooth transition to them killing the JAA people outside the room. Very suave. Shishiba is onto the real reason Nagumo wants X's head- for revenge for Akao.
Aww, Osaragi wakes up crying because she lost. Haha Kamihate passing her a tissue with his sniper, I still want to see his face just once lol.
Taro is with Granny, getting patched up. But he's hanging between life and death...and sees Akao.
Meanwhike sneaky Nagumo speaks to Oki, The Order boss. Everything seems eerily casual but really the battle has begun, that's what I like about Nagumo's personality and air around him.
Since the city isn't safe, Sakamoto and the gang are moving to the JCC. They've got a good ICU too for Taro. Heisuke takes one for the team and stops Slur's friends- encountering that woman who killed Hyo in front of him.
the art is insane. a fight in a car and cafe oh my nagumo, ily. lu back in action finallyyy, hey sister. i knew granny miya was that girl. heisuke, you’re amazing, king.
Absolutely loved the Nagumo / Shishiba moments in this. Always here for a Nagumo appearance tbh
I am wondering when Akira is gonna reappear though. Seems like she should be more important, especially now...
I don't care even one iota for these new antagonists. It just feels like they're here to pad out X's group. I want fights in the final arc to be between characters I'm actually invested in 🤞🏻
La de pasar a un momento de risa a un momento de llorar….sí, me la sé. BRO, esos capítulos están heavy y lo único que puedo decir es que NADIE puede morir excepto X y todos sus aliados. No sé qué va a pasar y necesito saber porque no puedo con la image de Taro y Rion en el vagón. Eso me mató. Realmente si alguien del team Sakamoto muere, muero. UGH, odio todo.
I’m glad Sakamoto has lost some of his patience with Kei and found the conviction to point out his mimicry of Rion and by extension Takamura is fake. Suzuki for a while has been drawing Kei’s mimicry as lesser in effect. The aquarium was the most explicit clue. Usually Takamura would split the building as his biggest target area but Kei doesn’t do that, his targets stay small. Also his ability to maim in small spaces is not as effective as Takamura either. In the first JAA invasion, Gaku lost his one ear, one hand and some fingers fighting the old man.
Kei (thankfully) couldn’t even take off Shin’s ear using the same technique. Clearly Kei’s ability to compartmentalize his extreme emotions will run out. I also like Suzuki teasing the tension amongst Kei and his siblings. Will any of them respect when he becomes too disabled to function or his guilt overwhelms him? Tenkyu and especially Gozu seem highly unlikely to sympathize. Collectively, killing Asaki satisfied none of the suffering they experienced in that orphanage and as adults their cynicism has only increased tenfold.
It would be quite tragic and painful for Kei to suffer at the hands of his family for being weak. The exact sort of taunts Asaki once wielded against him.
I enjoy all the mentee and mentor fights: Satoru v Shishiba, Torres v Sakamoto and now Oki v Nagumo. It was a pretty funny juxtaposition watching the car falling with the two squabbling inside as a breakup dinner was happening at the same time. I do enjoy Nagumo’s arrogant attitude though. (He and his mentor are the type of company men whose workload helps them thrive instead of weighing them down like Satoru and Shishiba.)
And finally finally Lu is back in the main action of the story. It was unfortunate that she’d been abandoned for so long. It’s a shame many of the female characters lack the same consideration as their male counterparts. It’s a feature of shounen, a very aggravating feature. 3/5 stars.
A bit better than the previous one. We start of with a huge fight between Sakamoto (and others) and Uzui's gang. I like that we get to focus on other characters other than Sakamoto since they are also interesting. I'm loving Shin's character development for example. Action does not stop as we see Nagumo (one of my all time favorites) fight as well. Towards the end some new characters are introduced. The next volume will be better in my opinion.
I loved the fight between Nagumo and Oki as I have never seen a casual fight as they were trying to kill each other but at the same time having a lunch buisness meeting with each other. They were ordering food while trying to stab each other. It was pretty funny, I do think the series is padding itself out as they introduce another group of assassins trying to kill Sakamoto and his friends and it feels that we should be in the final arc now.
Looks like the group is breaking off for their own battles, which honestly seem pretty imbalanced? And it's crazy how Sakamoto is doing.
I'm actually sort of glad that this series is almost over. It had a nice balance of, like, fun and drama. And I see Volume 28 came out in Japan which is cool.
HERE WE GO. FINAL BATTLE (final battles?? time) need sakamoto to recover tho because its not looking good for the rest. but im so excited to see where this all goes. LU IS BACK IN ACTION. seeing old and newer characters alike. UGH. LETS FUCKING GO.