World Trigger Storytime Finale/Discussion - /a/ (#281146717) [Archived: 160 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:35:34 AM No.281146717
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Since the last thread reached bump limit before the last chapter I have, we're capping things off with this long meta-commentary epilogue to the Jackson Saga
>>281139696

Previous Volume:: >>281113455

Chapter 248: Rokuro Wakamura: Part 4
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:37:17 AM No.281146762
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:39:24 AM No.281146816
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:40:27 AM No.281146846
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:40:52 AM No.281146850
>>281146816
Rokuro took that beating like a champ
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:40:54 AM No.281146851
>>281146717 (OP)
Is this the last chapter of the series?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:41:28 AM No.281146862
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:43:23 AM No.281146916
>>281146816
Arafune mightโ€™ve come off as half-hearted there, but his goal is to be able to elevate the level of basically everyone in the organization. He trusts in Hanzakiโ€™s skills, so if someone like him couldnโ€™t do it in the hour allotted, someone with much less experience certainly couldnโ€™t. Itโ€™s like how some professors take a test to ensure itโ€™s reasonably completable in the time allowed. If the class is 40 minutes, and it takes them 35 minutes to properly complete a test theyโ€™ve made, then itโ€™s too hard, and needs to be adjusted.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:44:22 AM No.281146937
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>>281146851
It's the last compiled onto the nyaa dump I have. It's a couple chapters short of the latest, so we could technically go one more day, but I'm a little exhausted from doing this, and feel like this is a good stopping point
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:44:30 AM No.281146942
>>281146762
Hanzaki's face on the bottom left panel is hilarious
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:45:25 AM No.281146968
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:45:29 AM No.281146969
>>281146916
Yup, Arafune is testing his sniper manuals on Hanazaki, so they are work in progress and adjustments are a given.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:46:27 AM No.281146989
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:46:32 AM No.281146994
>>281146816
Jackson the Handsome...
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:46:59 AM No.281147004
>>281146968
Mikumo is NOT qualified to be a captain.
Replies: >>281147515 >>281161838
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:47:00 AM No.281147005
>>281146762
>can't get it done in an hour
>still does it until the end
>comes out how long it took him
Hanazaki is a treasure
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:47:28 AM No.281147017
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Replies: >>281147283 >>281149904 >>281153315
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:47:38 AM No.281147019
>>281146968
I'd work under Captain Kon
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:47:53 AM No.281147023
>>281146937
Ashihara-anon, we understand. Hiatuses and breaks are part of the complete WT experience. Take your time and rest after all these dumps.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:48:29 AM No.281147040
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:49:31 AM No.281147063
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:50:32 AM No.281147086
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:50:51 AM No.281147095
>>281146862
Based Hisato has already earned Hyuse's trust
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:51:33 AM No.281147119
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Replies: >>281147243 >>281172913
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:52:35 AM No.281147138
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:53:33 AM No.281147150
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>>281146717 (OP)
Hey OP, do you want to try Story Time for Sanda in October? is a complete work with 16 Volumes, The SANDA Anime Airs October 3, so you will get anons attention after the first episode of the anime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dwQ3nqU6M
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:53:36 AM No.281147152
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Replies: >>281147303 >>281155032 >>281172913
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:54:10 AM No.281147170
>>281147138
STFU Kako, Wakamura had been clueless for months, somebody had to finally say it to his face.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:54:28 AM No.281147172
>>281147150
Let poor OP rest and don't post images during the dump
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:54:37 AM No.281147177
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:55:07 AM No.281147190
>>281147138
The A-ranks are pulling their punches now, but they'll be going on Borderchan and anonymously shitting on Jackson later.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:55:37 AM No.281147196
>>281146846
>>281146862
Hanzaki's almost to nice to be real.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:55:44 AM No.281147200
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Replies: >>281147303 >>281150396 >>281172913
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:56:15 AM No.281147212
>>281147138
Kako and Touma are both correct. In a way, Hyuse is enabling Wakamuraโ€™s personality by telling him straight up what his issues are. On the other hand, Inukai probably let him fester a bit too much, itโ€™s clear that approach wasnโ€™t exactly working. Hyuse is an outsider by all means, Wakamura should have enough awareness that Hyuse isnโ€™t looking for a โ€˜correctโ€™ answer, they donโ€™t know each other that well. So in a way, Wakamura may be able to push himself that he wouldnโ€™t have been able to do if Inukai gave the exact same spiel.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:56:45 AM No.281147223
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:57:31 AM No.281147243
>>281147119
Shame, you could've really give him some of those double-raygust strats.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:57:46 AM No.281147247
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:58:20 AM No.281147262
>>281147223
Uno finally speaks (in text)!
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:58:47 AM No.281147274
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:59:06 AM No.281147283
>>281147017
Osamu bros, we're not unreamarkable as a side character anymore...
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:59:48 AM No.281147300
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Replies: >>281147335 >>281147935 >>281150452 >>281150888 >>281154318 >>281155158
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 12:59:58 AM No.281147303
>>281147138
>>281147152
>>281147177
>>281147200
>>281147223
I love how this is just as controversial in-universe as it is out-of-universe.
The A rankers are already covering most of what the afterparty would have been.
Replies: >>281147646
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:00:49 AM No.281147320
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Replies: >>281147415
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:00:54 AM No.281147322
>>281147138
Jin, amo can see powerlevels. There's no sugarcoating that.
Replies: >>281147366
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:01:30 AM No.281147335
>>281147300
Articulate and motivational creatura.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:01:43 AM No.281147341
>>281147177
Maki isnโ€™t wrong with her first comment, but I feel the 2nd is out of line. However, itโ€™s very true there are plenty of people who can get advice and then fall into the same rut. I bet people in these threads read these past few chapters when they released, were inspired, and went back into their own bad habits. Including me.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:01:50 AM No.281147345
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:02:39 AM No.281147366
>>281147322
Actually yes. If Amo says he is shit, he is.
Replies: >>281147382
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:02:50 AM No.281147373
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Replies: >>281152519
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:02:53 AM No.281147375
>>281147177
Another pair that needs to resolve their disagreements in bed.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:03:27 AM No.281147382
>>281147366
He would say Osamu is shit too
Replies: >>281147489 >>281147553
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:03:52 AM No.281147394
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:04:25 AM No.281147404
>>281147251
Your tunnel-vision focus on his fumble on Inukai's routine is the issue here.
I understand your point anon, and you are right about most people, but you are wrong to think that an above-average person is immune to be trapped into Inuakai's training under the right circusntances.
And all of the circunstances are right here, Jackson is not an NPC, he got himself trapped.
>Lack of confidence
>Lack of information
>Lack of experience
>Lack of proper guidance.
Those can trap intelligent people too anon.
Replies: >>281147488 >>281147564
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:04:52 AM No.281147415
>>281147320
Suddenly back to vidya discussion
Replies: >>281154042
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:04:58 AM No.281147417
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Replies: >>281150129 >>281152519
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:05:59 AM No.281147440
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:07:00 AM No.281147456
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:08:01 AM No.281147478
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:08:27 AM No.281147488
>>281147404
My dear farm animal
>Well reality is more cruel than this
>This statement alone means all I said after doesn't apply to him
you are still unable to comprehend the magic of these two lines, don't get yourself involved with higher matters.
Replies: >>281147600
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:08:29 AM No.281147489
>>281147382
Osamu would probably change color depending on the situation, given the drastic difference in performance on his own vs in a team.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:08:42 AM No.281147497
>>281140818
I don't think I've seen anyone saying he wants to fuck that so far.
Replies: >>281147526
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:09:03 AM No.281147504
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:09:32 AM No.281147515
>>281147004
to be fair, he would most likely be dogshit if assigned as a captain outside of his usual squad. Moreso in this test where he has very little prep time and no one to mentor him.
Replies: >>281147805
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:10:04 AM No.281147526
>>281147497
We know she is a fat fuck under the cat suit, maybe someone is into that.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:10:04 AM No.281147527
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Replies: >>281147658 >>281148817 >>281150205
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:10:21 AM No.281147533
>>281147456
>unbothered. moisturized. happy. in my lane. focused. flourishing.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:10:29 AM No.281147537
>>281140933
>(Canadian)
Kek, Ashihara's a shitposter isn't he?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:11:05 AM No.281147551
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:11:11 AM No.281147553
>>281147382
I hope we will get Amo's comments on the whole T2 gang.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:11:24 AM No.281147557
>>281147478
Hah yes, i know this feel.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:11:40 AM No.281147564
>>281147404
Frankly I feel like rokuro doesn't even watch logs, or at least he can't digest them. How can he be so clueless at playing support gunner is stunning really. He can't even recognize patterns or cause and effect.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:12:06 AM No.281147580
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:13:05 AM No.281147600
>>281147488
You chose a bad example, and started your argument with an incorrect statement about Jackson himself.
That's all there is to it.
You've changed your stance on it as the discussion went on but being unable to admit a mistake while painting yourself as superior sounds jewish af.
>Gradually, I began to hate them.
Replies: >>281147879
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:13:07 AM No.281147602
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:13:12 AM No.281147606
>>281147564
You can't git gud at fighting games by watching pros if you don't have the basics down.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:14:08 AM No.281147627
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End of Chapter

This is the end of the available chapters I can grab off nyaa, so thus ends this month-long storytime of World Trigger. Thanks for reading along, and see you next month for the new chapter. For all the new readers, and people coming back, what are your thoughts?
Replies: >>281147659 >>281148005 >>281148094 >>281148372 >>281150226 >>281152873 >>281154142 >>281165288 >>281167121
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:14:27 AM No.281147634
>>281147602
man the translator really loves the "duck in a row" idiom, with "nothing to sneeze at" probably coming second
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:14:38 AM No.281147639
>>281147564
There are plenty of people who play competitive games (Fighting, MOBA, etc) who want to improve, but are allergic to watching VODs of their own matches, win or lose. Or like when I was a kid, I never learned Chess openings and I rarely notated my matches, despite the fact they surely wouldโ€™ve improved my game.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:15:10 AM No.281147646
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Now excuse me while I dump these shitposts I've been holding in for weeks

>>281147303
In the end, I think this is what makes World Trigger one of my favorite series. It's something that allows it to be both introspective and analytical of its plot and characters, and through that show the thoughts and feelings of those characters. It makes everything feel more considered because it literally IS being considered in front of you
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:15:47 AM No.281147658
>>281147527
I wonder if anyone other than me would be interested in a data book all about the autistic minutia of how triggers work.
Or if Ashihara even considered that minutia or his autism lies purely in tactics.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:15:51 AM No.281147659
>>281147627
Looking back at these threads I'm further convinced a general would have been a really bad idea
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:16:11 AM No.281147669
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:16:23 AM No.281147675
>>281141161
>creepy looking things that look like alien nests or corruption devices in movies
>>281141287
>fucking baits
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:16:46 AM No.281147682
I donโ€™t think it would be that hard for me to dump the rest of the chapters available, if you all would like that. Feels a bit weak to quit before the end, for me at least. Donโ€™t remember how many more chapters there are though.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:17:11 AM No.281147692
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:18:12 AM No.281147715
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>>281147682
Latest chapter is 256, so 8 chapters, more or less another volume's worth
Replies: >>281147792
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:19:14 AM No.281147739
literate
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:20:12 AM No.281147761
>>281147682
I'd like the storytime to catch up to the latest chapter. There's a lot of interesting things worth discussing at the end
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:20:15 AM No.281147763
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:20:23 AM No.281147772
>>281147682
I think people are better off digesting this volume.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:20:41 AM No.281147781
>>281141408
Taichifags? I thought this is his time to shine?
>the Ikoma's poop but now with a flower on top
Kek, he didn't even change the base shape.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:21:29 AM No.281147792
>>281147715
Hmm, since we're already getting some other stuff posted, I'll try to remember tomorrow. It's the weekend, so there shouldn't be any issue. Maybe like 15-18 hours from now.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:22:00 AM No.281147805
>>281147515
I wouldn't think so, he deligently tries to lesrn the strenghts of his teammates and get the best out of his team. I'm sure he wasn't selevted as a provisional captain because leadership wasn't sure how he would perform as a rank a file agent obeying orders (will he go maverick to execute some outlandish plan?) instead of being in control of his team.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:24:41 AM No.281147879
>>281147600
My fist post, that started the discussion was this
>>281145804
as you can see my very first line was
>Well reality is more cruel than this
magic words what do they mean
Replies: >>281148211
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:25:27 AM No.281147893
>>281147564
Note how yuma watched the logs, but ALSO understood that it wasn't enough; experiencing it for himself often made all the difference.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:26:07 AM No.281147908
>>281147682
Rest well you glorious motherfucker and thank you for your hard work
Replies: >>281147955
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:27:29 AM No.281147935
>>281147300
Very insightful cat...thing
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:27:31 AM No.281147938
>>281142017
I guess Oji made that one with Ikoma's goggles.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:28:13 AM No.281147953
Pray-for-Ashihara2
Pray-for-Ashihara2
md5: 9b6220fde7577b5f9addb44da712ca89๐Ÿ”
>>281147682
That'd be great. It feels kinda wrong to short of catching up.

>>281146873
Here, how's this? It's easy to tweak at the moment while I've still got it open in the editor.
Replies: >>281148095 >>281149935
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:28:22 AM No.281147955
>>281147908
Iโ€™m not OP to be clear, he indicated he was burnt out, and I knew it wouldnโ€™t be hard for me to get the files, so I could just do it.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:28:58 AM No.281147970
>>281142149
>Oki's Extra Mobile Iko
There it is.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:30:24 AM No.281148005
>>281147627
Thanks OP
A third read did well to nail down some of the characters I tended to forget, besides the less relevant operators. I feel WT has pretty tight writing overall, with proper set up and foreshadowing, established rules being kept but used creatively, characters used effectively despite the large cast. It's just good shit
Now excuse me while I pray for Ashihara
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:33:54 AM No.281148094
>>281147627
Thanks for the Dump OP, WT is a real unique series. I've followed the series from the start, but WT was a series that grew on me the more time passed. I liked it's main cast, but even the side characters grew a lot on me.It's one of the rare few series that can not only handle a large cast, but thrive with one. This storytime was a good reminder of that, as anons would point out fun details of the cast. Honestly outside of the occasional autists, it's a very fun series to discuss here.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:33:55 AM No.281148095
>>281147953
thank you, perfect for me
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:35:19 AM No.281148139
>>281142632
>speedy Bamster
That sounds terrifying.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:37:28 AM No.281148191
>>281142765
>>281142798
>>281142855
Fucking hyakkiyakou niggas.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:38:04 AM No.281148211
>>281147879
>Well reality is more cruel than this, guys like Jackson actually never change
Then we are shown later in the chapter that Jackson had legitimally reasons to be stuck in a rut and irl it can happen to anyone.
Rephrase it too:
>Well, reality is more cruel than this and most people aren't like Jackson, they can never actually change.
What do they mean indeed.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:42:06 AM No.281148331
>>281143259
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:42:34 AM No.281148345
As much as I love WT I'm kinda glad the storytime is over, these threads went to complete shit once Katori Squad was introduced.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:43:10 AM No.281148358
>>281147646
>>281148005
>>281148094
Lesser writers would have made a character that expresses their own views inside a story made to confirm them. Ashihara spreads bits and pieces of his own experiences into several characters, and tries to imagine the different ways they would be dealt with.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:43:44 AM No.281148372
>>281147627
Thank you for dumping WT, it's a really good manga, and it helped me revisit the squads and appreciate the craft.
Hyuse did the right thing with Jackson. He's useless as an agent and will never learn by himself. You see plenty of characters here who are striving to get better, and there's no magical powerup, only better strats and a good deal of thinking involved. As an A-rank anon, I'm on team Jackson. He will make it, even if he ends up as an instructor while Osamu saves the hood.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:44:57 AM No.281148406
>>281147247
I've actually stumbled across this kind of philosophy myself, though partially from considering the adage of "don't let perfection be the enemy of the good." Goals, or ideals, are lighthouses to guide you through turbulent waters. But you're not actually meant to land at the lighthouse.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:45:28 AM No.281148415
>>281147682
Yes please. The whole point was to see how we would feel about the homework arc when read all in one go.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:48:01 AM No.281148490
>>281147564
Because everytime he tried to enact anything in combat, their team still won. He kept encountering problems he couldn't solve, but the consequences were minimal because Katori's capability made them moot. It's all well and good to tell someone, or for them to even intuit, how things should be, but if reality keeps making a different argument, what are they meant to do?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:48:14 AM No.281148497
c9f4cc8d3ab2f7d39ca9499cdce10312-3810859512
c9f4cc8d3ab2f7d39ca9499cdce10312-3810859512
md5: 16f30e87b87be2ba8a6ca7a182b86ff0๐Ÿ”
>>281148406
>But you're not actually meant to land at the lighthouse.
and that's a good thing
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:48:28 AM No.281148503
>>281148211
Checked and true.
I like these discussions because usually the more arrogant and condescending side loses.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:53:59 AM No.281148635
>Re: Inukai's training
I think Inukai makes the same mistake as Waka but from the other side. People who have a skill struggle to imagine what it's like not to have it. Things that were major revelations at the time become obvious in hindsight, while dozens of small steps are forgotten entirely. Studies have shown that people with a skill consistently underestimate how long it took to acquire.

For Wakamura to understand Inukai's training he would need to make a huge mental leap. To Inukai it's obvious, of course the role of a gunner is to tactically control the battlefield and for that you need to split your attention, but Inukai thinks he's there to learn how to shoot.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:54:35 AM No.281148647
>>281142798
>*garbled radio sounds*
>ALIEN ACTIVITY
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:56:05 AM No.281148692
>>281144091
>ah, don't spoil the answer please. I'd like to come up with it myself.
I finally get why I dislike this girl now. She's the kind of overachiever who will tell the teacher about a homework he forgot and ask if there's going to be a homework at the end of lectures.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:57:50 AM No.281148724
>>281148692
She doesn't seem that socially tactless.
She'd probably just pick out problems to do herself.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:58:44 AM No.281148746
>>281144236
Gloves is a fucking machine, what the fuck.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:01:01 AM No.281148806
>>281148635
The power of hindsight is truly a marvelous thing.
>Why didn't people X it's so simple?!
Thinking for himself is not enough for Waka, the real issue here is that he doesn't have the confidence to think for himself, since his skill disparity is so high he's terrified that the truth is that he's truly incompetent, but the actual truth is that he's a C-Ranker who got shot straight into Top-B without a chance to properly prepare.

No wonder his self-evaluation is in tatters.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:01:33 AM No.281148817
>>281147527
Hanzaki still in deer-in-headlights mode
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:01:42 AM No.281148823
1725790739013986
1725790739013986
md5: 08593bc0e4f17f79ed7164aeed65dd8c๐Ÿ”
>>281144259
>when someone's speedreading
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:02:38 AM No.281148850
>>281146937
You've done a great job anon, thank you.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:04:07 AM No.281148895
>>281148806
How old is he anyway? 15? 16?
If anything he's the most human-like character in border.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:05:24 AM No.281148922
>>281143259
>>281143279
Ema has good taste. Much better than Ninomiya's.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:05:45 AM No.281148938
>>281148692
Border should accept only unintelligent females like Kunichika and Nire
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:06:49 AM No.281148970
>>281144609
Holy projection.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:11:05 AM No.281149092
>>281146717 (OP)

This is >>281145804 a very dangerous mentality for "smart" people to have. I've seen highly intelligent and competent individuals get destroyed multiple times by so-called "dumb" people, and the best part? The "dumb" ones never did it on purpose.

This Simpson episode explains it the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHoy0hnQy8
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:11:58 AM No.281149113
1751034160004831
1751034160004831
md5: cf84d33bd1c47f204fabdf4062eb3105๐Ÿ”
There are Jackson's stats, so his lack of results are mostly because of his self-doubt and insecurities?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:12:38 AM No.281149132
>>281144700
It's the drive between the glasses, isn't it? Osamu asked about learning shooter techniques and other stuff, he's eager to learn because his time is limited. Rokuro is just waiting for Inu to spoonfeed him, if I'm to guess.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:13:06 AM No.281149151
>>281147580
Top Panel: Two nukes talking to each other.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:13:48 AM No.281149177
>>281149113
I mean, he's pretty decent in solo.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:14:15 AM No.281149190
wt sicp
wt sicp
md5: 81c99a01cb3a21cac25b6582de40ee65๐Ÿ”
Replies: >>281149475
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:14:16 AM No.281149191
>>281148635
That's basically Hyuse's point to Sasamori. Inukai is one of those who is too talented to be a good instructor, or at the very least he's not a good match as a mentor for Wakamura.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:14:36 AM No.281149201
>>281144856
>there should be a solid balance between thinking for oneself and seeking outside knowledge
I like that sentence.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:18:23 AM No.281149297
Suggestion: increase Homework Arc page count
Suggestion: increase Homework Arc page count
md5: afeb4d4b48d638ebec51feb8121bf364๐Ÿ”
>>281148692
Replies: >>281149347
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:18:36 AM No.281149306
>>281149113
>so his lack of results are mostly because of his self-doubt and insecurities
No, it's a pure skill issue. The explicit example is when confronted with the chaos of the battlefield, his mind fills with worries and concerns, rather than tactics or solutions. The less explicit example is him not yet grasping how to remain situationally aware on the battlefield either.

These things he can learn to do. But when the opponent is so far beyond him, there's no actual way to practice on the battlefield. He's constantly confronted with high tier obstacles with no time to contemplate them because the enemy is already on the next step.

That's why going down to C-Rank and working his way back up is the way to go. Because his opponents will be on his level and working through the same issues and so he will have the time and obstacles more appropriate to his skill level to practice on.

His lack of confidence was resulting in him refusing to see this was the problem, because it would mean confronting his incompetence. Acknowledging it would open the door to the abyss that his incompetence is insurmountable, especially because he still believed he should be capable of dealing with even low B-Rank battles already. He needs to development fundamental skills, but is also afraid he can't even do that since he hasn't yet (due to being propelled into more difficult situations).
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:19:26 AM No.281149332
>>281144977
>>281145005
This kind of shit is what's throwing me off sometimes. They're talking like some old-war-veteran who'd die of age when they're fucking 17 or something. Also, is he setting up a death flag for himself?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:20:05 AM No.281149347
1749080940187
1749080940187
md5: 99eb862954277e8a48490e3366eefd62๐Ÿ”
>>281149297
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:20:39 AM No.281149369
>>281148211
No I stand by what I said, no need to change it in any way. If my dear Jackson wasn't a character but an actual human he would be a complete unfixable dimwit. You see there are red flags in behavior that when displayed are like stage 5 cancer. If you see them well bye bye. Inukai was it. You probably think that
>well a few months is nothing
a day. Issues started on the first day. If Jackson was human he would have asked when will he learn things that he actually wants to learn, like running with a gun up or doing fast target swap while moving, doing those long back jumps or even smiling mischievously at all times. He would have things he wanted to learn and they would naturally be the reason why he picked Inukai as his mentor.
If he was indeed in a "rut" meaning he was masturbating 24/7 to Hana because he wasn't doing shit otherwise, then after lets be generous, 2 months of training, when his performance in rank wars didn't improve even by 1%, why didn't he ask Inukai about it? why didn't he ask someone else about it?
See problem solving is a funny thing, how do you determine if you solved a problem?
Jackson thought he had issues with his performance he couldn't solve himself
So he found a mentor to fix it
problem solved
was it though?
Person who not only actively ignores a clearly harmful (doesn't provide a benefit, wastes time, gives an illusion that they are making progress) routine but is in fact convinced it is helping him is never getting better. Its brain doesn't function properly to recognize what they are doing and why. In the best case when brain damage is not that severe they succumb to a stimulae they resonate with the most be it social pressure or desires of their flesh and act accordingly but they will never be a proper human. Not even close.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:22:15 AM No.281149417
>>281145159
>spider trigger
>Yuma's speedy taiyaki
>Chika's gigantic taiyaki
Amusing panel.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:22:19 AM No.281149418
>>281149113
Not exactly. He has been criticizing Katori for her decisions but he only has a Command of 3. In solo terms he is a good agent but he has been assuming that his leadership and strategy are better than they really are.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:22:40 AM No.281149426
>>281147682
Based, I have enjoyed these threads so far, I'm down to discuss the remaining ones and shitpost.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:23:30 AM No.281149450
>>281149369
And how can we be sure (You) are a proper human and should be trusted on this matter?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:23:59 AM No.281149466
>>281149113
Someone came up with a mental block when in team battles, basically his brain turns off when enemies are >1. It feels like the best and only explanation for these stats.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:24:23 AM No.281149475
>>281149190
This is fucking gold. Good for /g/
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:25:02 AM No.281149487
>>281149466
Makes sense, it would explain a lot about his other habits too.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:25:10 AM No.281149491
>>281149113
That and a lack of initiative and lack of teamwork skills.

>>281149132
It's a bit more than a time limit. After they joined Tamakoma, but before the invasion, Osamu approached Shiori for help training to be able to beat a marmot 1v1. He had accomplished that goal by the invasion. Likewise I'm fairly sure he approached Torimaru about getting a ranged weapon and the gunner vs shooter conversation took place before then. So even before he had a time limit, Osamu was taking the initiative and setting concrete goals for his training. And as hard as I've been on Torimaru in the past, he had better advice for Osamu than Inukai did for Rokuro.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:25:27 AM No.281149500
>>281149450
You read what I wrote and make a judgement call.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:25:45 AM No.281149507
Yoshito uses zoomerspeak in these translations, can any anon confirm if he does the same in the raws?
t. zero moonrune reading skills
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:25:47 AM No.281149508
>>281149332
>First of the chain of events was an invasion where many people died and lost their homes
>Most of old Border died in a war in the neighborhood
>Endora killed Border staff then proceeded to die himself (reincarnated later due to horn tech)
>Many Border agents kidnapped
They're in war nigga
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:26:26 AM No.281149530
>>281145367
>just don't move the goalpost, you cocksucker
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:26:34 AM No.281149532
>>281149500
Not even trying, huh
Replies: >>281149652
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:29:48 AM No.281149602
>>281147138
Kazama could've completely obliterated him, lmao
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:31:32 AM No.281149647
>>281149418
I don't think he assumes that. He obviously wasn't expecting Katori to ask him to take charge in the last round, nor did it seem like he really wanted to. He felt that Katori wasn't making enough effort outside of the matches, especially since he couldn't seem to break the walls she did with seeming ease.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:31:38 AM No.281149652
>>281149532
Its not possible to convince a person who doesn't want to be convinced, you can only give them information that could given proper circumstance bear fruit xxxxx hours down the line. and it is completely impossible to convince a dimwit.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:33:09 AM No.281149688
I enjoyed the A-ranks commenting on Wakamura's situation, it truly felt like a real life comment section. I hope Ashihara keeps showing us more /borderchan/ moments.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:34:33 AM No.281149720
>>281149369
Wow, you completely ignore the circumstances that lead to the mindset that he should just listen to Inukai.
Very "human" of you.
Also his solo rank isn't bad so that's probably improving bit by bit.
It isn't easy to isolate your performance in a team battle because duh, it's a team battle and everyone's performance fluctuates and affects the outcome.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:34:53 AM No.281149728
>>281146001
>>281146028
AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:35:13 AM No.281149743
>>281149491
The best example of that is the lead up to round 4 of the rank wars and the wall snipe. Osamu went to karasuma for tips on being a better shooter, karasuma refused him and warned him that learning those tricks without mastering the fundamentals would make him lose focus, but when osamu insisted he understood that osamu could not accept what he was saying and had to learn it the hard way.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:37:39 AM No.281149812
Hyuse is a bit too dismissive of Tamakoma. They have a very high teacher to student ratio, so all of T2 got to have extended conversations about the basics. Osamu would be a very different man if Torimaru hadn't explained the role of a Gunner, or how Shooters were different. He got to B rank in the first place because Jin pulled the strings.

Remember, Osamu started with Raygust for apparently no reason, spent months doing nothing, talked to Torimaru, decided to switch to Gunner, and got convinced to be a Shooter.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:39:16 AM No.281149848
>>281146862
Kek, look at him cheering the other dude after that Canadian beatdown.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:41:15 AM No.281149888
>>281149812
Hyuse is an imperfect judge, and he will get his own shit called out when we reach Aftokrator. He gets overly emotional whenever his master is mentioned, so I expect a catastrophic meltdown once he confronts Hyrein about the betrayal.
Replies: >>281150193
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:42:11 AM No.281149904
>>281147017
>think up a bunch of cheese tactics to annoy the enemy into submission
Sekuhara...
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:42:27 AM No.281149912
>>281144649
>splitting up the team
He didn't. He made it look like he was splitting up, but Tsuji was still guarding him.
>a pointless risk
If he doesn't go full attack he can't bait in Osamu for Tsuji to kill him.
Going off the information at hand, which was that Chika could not shoot to kill, that was a very solid strategy. Izumi sort of blamed himself for teaching Ninomiya to think, assuming a more brute force strategy would have been better. But I'm not convinced.
That confrontation started with them fighting like that, all sticking together in a strong defensive formation to wear T-2 down with overwhelming firepower. But they weren't really winning. They were taking damage just fending off the shit Yuma and Osamu were throwing at them while having to be constantly wary of the threat of Chika's lead sniping. Could they have won that way? Yes. But they also could have lost. On the other hand, if Chika can't shoot to kill, the strategy Ninomiya went with would have resulted in a guaranteed total victory.
Osamu's big brain did not win that match. Ninomiya outplayed him. That match was won by Chika defying expectations.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:42:49 AM No.281149919
>>281149720
This anon seems completely convinced that Waka only ever trained under Inukai and tried nothing else.
They are also convinced Waka did not show any progress from that training.

But here is what actually happened:
>Man, I suck
>No matter what I try, I still suck
>I should be B-Rank at least, why every time I try something I fail?
>Inukai, how do I not suck?
>Let's practice, Waka
>'kay
>Okay, my parallel processing and aiming are improving now
>But damn, I still suck
>Oh god... Maybe, I just suck and that's it.
>No, Inukai's trying to help me, I need to put in the effort.

He went to Inukai specifically to improve, and that is exactly what he tought they were focused on.
The first time he managed to work up the courage to ask the real question

>DUDE WHY TF DO I SUCK SO MUCH?

Was with Hyuse.
Inukai had been hoping Waka would ask him instead, but honestly, it was only a matter of time, because sooner or later the situation for Jackson would be unbearable, the breaking point arrived earlier since he was put under stress, asking that question demanded courage from him and he overwhelmed by the fear of being completely incompetent, because he was being a coward.

It has more to do it with his emotional state than with this ability to think like a person.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:43:23 AM No.281149927
Waitโ€ฆ.just waitโ€ฆ.the challenge Border is facing is that they needโ€ฆ.INSTRUCTORS? The combat organization in which most agents are trainees doesnโ€™t have INSTRUCTORS? Is this for real? No, it canโ€™t be. Translation issue? Like, a specialized superstar sort of instructor who can elevate a trainee who would otherwise not be able to handle it? Because just having an instructor corps seems like it would be one of the very first things Border would have prioritized building up.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:43:43 AM No.281149935
>>281147953
if i were good at editing, ill remove the dining wares and replace it with jump sq mag at the center (one with wt character on it)..
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:44:13 AM No.281149943
>>281149927
Agent Instructors*
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:44:59 AM No.281149958
>>281149927
Border isn't even a decade old and its run by civilians
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:45:05 AM No.281149959
>>281149332
A lot of these teens were around for the first large invasion four years prior so it's more than just an abstract concept. Inukai in particular has a fairly ruthless thought process and tends to take things to a logical conclusion (meanwhile Kage tends to act in the moment and doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about the consequences of his actions).

On the other end, Wakamura is a more typical portrait of a teen. All of the horrible cringe moments are like a distillation of various points of growing up and (hopefully) getting over oneself. It's easy to forget that most of the named characters are already abnormally talented, and there is an even greater number of C rank and lower B rank agents who likely have not achieved such clarity yet themselves either.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:47:44 AM No.281150006
>>281149332
6 people died 30 were kidnapped and their fate is unknown, a lot of border agents lost their family members during the first invasion. In this case its most likely Hatohara's fault though. Since she escaped into the canada and left Ema behind.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:50:20 AM No.281150053
>>281149927
Pray for Arafune, Azuma, and Jackson
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:51:39 AM No.281150073
>>281147456
MORE! I WANT MORE KITORA FRUSTRATION! YUMA'S RIGHT, THERE'S NO CONTEST BETWEEN OSAMU AND KITORA!
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:54:34 AM No.281150129
>>281147417
>Kitora & Okudera understood
>Yuta & Rokuta didn't
cowlicks will come through
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:54:38 AM No.281150131
>>281146937
I've only been in a few of these threads but thanks anon, surprisingly a lot of knowledgeable discussion ITT.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:54:53 AM No.281150140
>>281149927
They have limited ressources overall, and those have to be managed properly. Instructors who can train and prepare the future agents, who are kids btw, and who you don't need to deploy in rank wars or on the field are essential.
There's a new generation to raise, sparring a few agents to make instructors isn't a bad move at all. You can have all the trion you want, it doesn't mean shit if you can't explain the hood and its wonders to your local youth.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:55:57 AM No.281150166
>>281149927
Maybe you can interpretate the issue as that Border just doesnโ€™t know how to elevate these average agents, these C-Ranks. It seems like Border really struggles to make them usable in any meaningful way.

But if Jackson manages to find a way to become useful, then he could pass that on to the other C-Rank agents.
That would be the breakthrough they're hoping for.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:57:08 AM No.281150193
>>281149888
According to the character notes Hyuse believes that P.O.W.s should maintain a good poker face at all times. He's been trying to mask pretty much all of his emotions as a sort of professionalism as long as he's stuck with Border.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:57:30 AM No.281150205
>>281147527
I really love how Mario puts her hand on her chest, such a feminine gesture.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:58:14 AM No.281150226
>>281147627
Thanks for dumping, this manga is one of my favorites now. The characters are great and it's obvious Ashihara is putting a lot of thought and effort on them. I'd be bored with this last arc from how much text there is if I don't like the characters.
>the end of the available chapters I can grab off nyaa
There's more I can read somewhere else?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:58:35 AM No.281150231
>>281149927
Border was founded by the eight surviving members of a secret society, who decided that if they wanted to have real impact they needed to grow and grow fast. Despite appearances, it's very immature organisation.

Hell, old man Azuma, the first sniper, who's guided several teams to A rank and leads their sniper program, is 25.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:59:17 AM No.281150246
>>281147682
Do that tomorrow if you have the time.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:59:56 AM No.281150260
>>281149113
His Command is the problem. He doesn't understand shit.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:00:17 AM No.281150265
>>281149927
It worked for when they were still small time. Mentor-mentee system made a lot of strong and young agents, and that was probably enough to overshadow the forever-stuck-in-c agents. Then they expanded really fast and just weren't able to keep up, so now they need to have standard training.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:01:09 AM No.281150282
>>281149912
inukai still went after chika, so the team was split up; he went from a 3 v 2 to a 1 v 2 (or a 2v2, according to you). They had just taken a huge chunk out of yuma, so yes they were practically guaranteed victory unless amatori decided to snipe all three (so splitting up the team doesn't work as a big brained way to force chika to shoot, either).

Baiting mikumo to shoot is also unnecessary given that tsuji would destroy osamu regardless if he was ready or not. The only reason ninomiya insisted on full attack is because he wanted to finish yuma 1v1 while tsuji finished osamu 1v1 and inukai finished chika 1v1, so no ninomiya didn't suceed at tactics; he did try, but was sucessfully baited and the tactics he chose set himself for failure.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:02:21 AM No.281150300
>>281149927
Border as an organization is effectively only four years old. Old Border worked on a mentorship system, with older members teaching one or two newer members and using their training programs. New Border started off using a mix of what Old Border used, but has grown beyond the point that's effective. They have too many recruits for everyone to naturally find a mentor to get instruction beyond their existing basic training.

There's a limit to their ability to make new instructors as well. They can't bring in people from the outside because they need people experienced in using trion bodies, and experienced agents are needed as either active agents(their main combat force) or as executive staff.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:06:18 AM No.281150382
>>281145925
>there is no person who doesn't study but gets an A unless the teacher was paid or its an art class
I did. People who just get things, sometimes only certain things, really quickly do exist. And we have explicit canonical confirmation that Katori is one such person. Ashihara laid it on super think with the omni-penchant thing.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:07:36 AM No.281150396
>>281147177
>>281147200
>>281147223
These strong A-rankers donโ€™t understand peopleโ€™s heart
I understand why the higher ups want an instructor like Wakamura
These OP niggas canโ€™t teach anything to others
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:09:35 AM No.281150434
1727928945192868
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md5: 6291272c5601795c8590d74449b928e9๐Ÿ”
>>281146717 (OP)
Jacksonbros...
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:10:59 AM No.281150452
>>281147300
I love that creature
Replies: >>281150530
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:15:27 AM No.281150529
>>281147456
YES
EAT SHIT, KITORA
TORIMARU WILL NEVER FUCK YOU
Replies: >>281150601
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:15:28 AM No.281150530
>>281150452
Don't bully Raizo by calling him a "creature" just because he's a tubby fatass.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:17:29 AM No.281150566
>>281150282
>according to you
No, according to objective reality. If you refuse to accept what is right there on the page then there's no point in you even giving your opinion.
>They had just taken a huge chunk out of yuma
Inukai took as much damage as Yuma did.
>unless amatori decided to snipe all three
Which is exactly what she would do if no one went after her. If they make it clear that they aren't going to answer her shots by sending someone to kill her then she has zero reason to not literally fill them full of lead. They have to respond to her or they will 100% guaranteed lose without any question or doubt. That part was non-negotiable even without the full attack bait.
>tsuji would destroy osamu regardless
No he wouldn't. He would defeat him eventually if they were left to 1v1 without any interference from anyone. But that's not the situation they were in. If Tsuji attacks an aware Osamu, he defends himself and buys time for interference from one or both of Chika and Yuma. Baiting the full attack instead turns it into a guaranteed instant death with no potential for a reversal.
Ninomiya picked a strategy that would guarantee victory based on the belief that Chika could not shoot to kill. And he was defeated by that not being true.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:17:48 AM No.281150573
>>281150300
Canโ€™t they just hire some instructors from a friendly Neighbor, and from there grow the instructor corps as institutional experience is built up? Why isnโ€™t this obvious solution not discussed?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:18:43 AM No.281150585
>>281150382
With that analogy, Katori would be
>those who listen diligently in class picking up everything they need from there
just replace the class with the battlefield. Katori's main strength seems to be her adapting quickly to the battles, whereas she can't be assed to learn outside of battles. To put it kindly, she's a very physical learner. Thinking about it, the way T2 practiced against Inukai by having Karasuma emulate him would actually be a good way to get Katori ready against the other squads. Making her body learn what's needed would seem to work a lot better than making her watch some videos.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:19:24 AM No.281150601
>>281150529
>Kitora: I'll help you if you say "please".
>Katori: I'll help you if I get to grind my crotch on your mentor.
Kitora had the same chance but she didn't play her cards right.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:22:08 AM No.281150653
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md5: 5c04fa97bc8bf8b445b534bf0f412ec0๐Ÿ”
>this thing is following you in the middle of the night when you're walking back from the convenience store
What do?
Replies: >>281150764
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:23:24 AM No.281150681
>>281150573
Their relationship with friendly Neighbours broke down somehow, we still don't know the details. One of their allies was destroyed, but the other two just haven't appeared. Whatever happened, they decided they had to go it alone.
Replies: >>281150905
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:23:29 AM No.281150685
If Jackson left the squad, would Katori go to the neighborhood if Torimaru went? This is assuming that she passes, of course.
Replies: >>281150863 >>281151359 >>281170082
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:24:08 AM No.281150709
>>281147456
Kitora seething she got out thought and didn't even realizing what they were doing before Kodera figured it out. I wonder if she realizes how much of that was Osamu, or if she's coping by thinking the good ideas were Suwa or Katori.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:26:46 AM No.281150764
>>281150653
Drop a protein bar and escape while it's distracted.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:27:53 AM No.281150790
>>281145101
No, this is retarded. This logic could be used to dismiss all teaching of any kind ever. You don't toss a kid a pair of keys without explanation because one day they'll have to drive without you.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:29:14 AM No.281150815
>>281150790
>You don't toss a kid a pair of keys without explanation because one day they'll have to drive without you.
But he teach him how to drive
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:31:34 AM No.281150863
>>281150685
I don't think Katori's going.
She got too much focus this arc.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:32:52 AM No.281150888
>>281147300
The fat cat is too good for this world
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:33:48 AM No.281150905
>>281150681
I don't think that the connections broke down between the other 2 nations, at least the way Rindo talked about it didn't make it seem that way.
I just don't think that they would want to mentor people who were built upon a dislike of neighbors. But I'm sure they'd help Tamakoma Branch.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:34:43 AM No.281150920
>>281150573
Partially a matter of using different triggers than Neighbors. So Neighbor instructors wouldn't be as effective.
Partially because anti-Neighbor propaganda is one of their main recruitment tools. The vast majority of people joining them are people that hate Neighbors for dead or kidnapped family members or at least lost/destroyed homes; or people who think Neighbors are a threat that needs to be defended against. That makes it infeasible to explain to the majority that some Neighbors are good and these good Neighbors will be your instructor. While hiding that for more than one or two people is risky. As it stands they get away with hiding Kronin, Yuma, and Kyuse by virtue of them all being at Tamakoma branch, which was the original Border HQ and the staff there being mostly original Border members.
And all that's assuming they've got anyone to recruit from the Neighborhood. Old Border's little alliance basically lost the war with one of their allies being outright destroyed. We don't know what became of the other two, but presumably they were either conquered or broke the alliance rather than help Border defend Medeen from the first invasion. So Border's fresh out of Neighbor allies other than Kronin and two children.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:35:20 AM No.281150933
>>281150566
The strategy that guarantees victory if chika does not shoot to kill was staying together, as you pointed out: "she has zero reason to not fill them with lead"

That argument out of the way, splitting the team works if, and ONLY if, ninomiya doesn't deploy full attack vs yuma until tsuji eliminates osamu or keeps osamu occupied. Osamu being occupied is already a win condition since nino now has the freedom to full attack yuma and probably win like he did in round 4, given the advantage in range, trion and lack of internal damage. Stay with your own opinion if you want, but nino's decision just reduced his chances of victory.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:36:38 AM No.281150965
>>281150863
She has to.
There's no other b-rank female agent to fill her shoes.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:38:50 AM No.281151004
>>281150382
Quote the full thing, it most likely means you listened well in class, I will add another possibility since it does exist. In some cases if you have a particularity good grey matter it is possible to discern what is coming from what was already learned, so studying well in year 2 for example can allow you to snooze through year 3 with straight As. This however doesn't last, by year 5 you will drop off hard if you don't study, at least under the normal curriculum.
Completely new information doesn't teleport into the head by itself, it must come from some external source. Different people will sublimate it with different speed and quality but this one thing doesn't change. Even if you thought that you didn't study you still did and if everything else is fair that A would be a direct poof of it.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:39:33 AM No.281151021
>>281150933
And before you think i didn't get you were talking about lead bullets, the only reason they took a hit from a lead bullet was to locate amatori. Any sniping after that could be blocked with rubble since they already know her rough position.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:39:55 AM No.281151030
>>281150231
>experienced, wise
>visibly older than much of the cast
>below 30
God Iโ€™m old
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:42:03 AM No.281151069
>>281145233
>cursing one's misfortune will do no good
does not logically lead to
>luck reflects capability
That's even more true in actual war than rank wars. At least in rank wars you get an aggregate of results to look at and so the factor of luck gets washed out over a sufficiently large sample size.
In real war, both highly trained elite soldiers and barely sentient fodder can both be instantly killed by attacks they could not perceive or defense against with no opportunity for do overs. But you would never assess them as being equally capable on those grounds and entrust them with the same responsibilities.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:50:11 AM No.281151217
>>281150933
Why would Yuma fight Ninomiya while Tsuji is fighting Osamu? Especially since, like you said, he knows Ninomiya can stop his approach in a 1v1.
He's the most mobile combatant on the field. He would back up Osamu, they would eliminate the exposed Tsuji, and then have an actual 2v1 vs Ninomiya.
>>281151021
The blocking with rubble thing works when you need to tank one shot during a vulnerable maneuver like what Teruya did and what Tsuji attempted to do. If you're just trying to camp out in the open tanking her shots then she's going to be laying down too much fire for you to defend yourself. And that defense would also take all of their attention while Yuma and Osamu and right there ready to pounce on them.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:50:47 AM No.281151232
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md5: 7eae796a8a300663c01153806a2790d3๐Ÿ”
>>281149927
Border got over 100 new recruits after the invasion, they are probably growing beyond their expectations and realize they need a better way to train up all those new agents up to b level aside from solo wars
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:56:34 AM No.281151359
>>281150685
>>281150863
Somehow Katori going seems more likely to me than Torimaru going. I have the feeling that Tamakoma-1 will be staying on defense duty.
That said, I still doubt Katori will go just because she doesn't seem interested. But I wonder if she might change her mind should Wakamura announce that he's leaving the squad.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:57:07 AM No.281151365
Having a goal really does help. Osamu did literally nothing for at least half a year after he became a C rank - didn't become more skillful, and didn't even turn on this brain (since we know what he is capable of). But after getting an actual goal everything change. A lot of C and B rank guys see the whole Border thing as just a neat hobby, and they're honestly correct, but then it's no wonder that they don't really get much better.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:58:20 AM No.281151387
>>281151004
>Different people will sublimate it with different speed and quality
This is explicitly what I was talking about. No, you can't just magically know things with zero exposure to them. Although some really clever people can figure some things out on their own surprisingly well. But the point is that there are people who learn things much quicker than others. And Katori is absolutely one such person. Even bullet genius Izumi was surprised at how quickly Katori adapted to the wires.
Jackson isn't "believing bullshit". He's describing a quality of hers that is consistently corroborated by the rest of the manga and acknowledged by other characters within it.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:59:35 AM No.281151410
>>281151365
about 3 months give or take
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:01:05 AM No.281151442
Honestly, Inukai's teaching style is just fucking retarded.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:07:31 AM No.281151563
>>281151387
No he is believing bullshit. His statement was
>you know how some people just wing it no studying not training and get straight As
Even if person just sits through the class and then gets A they still did study, they simply have higher learning capacity and got the material faster. They don't need extra lessons or homework since they already understand the material.
If Katori tried to just wing it ancient Chinese she wouldn't achieve shit. But if she watched some Ching chong write his ming xings she could probably imitate it, even if she didn't know what she was writing.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:09:02 AM No.281151584
>>281151442
Inukai is just in a complicated position. Jackson can't be given the answer, at least not from him, and his reasoning that Jackson needs to come around to find an answer on his own without being prompted is not far-fetched.
Sure, he's given the answer by Hyuse here, but the fact is that he asked Hyuse on his own accord, rather than being told to do so.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:10:22 AM No.281151599
>>281151584
>Jackson can't be given the answer
No, he totally can. The answer is extremely basic and should be part of the actual teaching.
Replies: >>281151633 >>281151947 >>281152122
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:12:10 AM No.281151633
>>281151442
>>281151599
Inukai is the teacher for 10/10 students, and Waka is the everyone's teacher
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:16:10 AM No.281151699
>>281148345
I'm gonna miss having an active borderchan for a month, but I'm not gonna miss getting up early to keep up with the storytime.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:17:48 AM No.281151725
>>281147646
It's not often you get a series where you're thinking about loop holes or alternatives to the scenario that has been presented, then the characters address what you're thinking and more the very next page
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:21:59 AM No.281151777
Did any of the Gunners give Wakamura negative points for that whole interaction?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:27:02 AM No.281151855
>>281151563
Someone absorbing information with no active effort is not considered studying by anyone. And again, Katori's insanely quick learning is such a well known feature of hers that it was programmed into the game. And Hyuse did not rebuke him on that. Instead he criticized his ineffectual training. But even if his training had been effective, he would still be different from Katori. No one is ever going to add an omni-penchant skill to his units.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:29:58 AM No.281151923
>>281151725
>It's not often you get a series where you're thinking about loop holes or alternatives to the scenario that has been presented, then the characters address what you're thinking and more the very next page
Because the author does not like Twist, that is very rare
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:31:15 AM No.281151947
>>281151599
>at least not from him
Inukai literally lays out why Jackson won't learn anything if Inukai told him. Fact is, the reason why it hits Jackson as hard as it does now is exactly because he spent a whole 6 months marching in place. Despite being trained by an elite agent, he had nothing to show for it.
Combined with being one-upped by Osamu who, by his logic, should be hovering around the same level as him, on top of his own poor performance as captain, is what really wakes him up to the realization that he has now.
Given Jackson's personality, he would have been another braindead goon with a gun, who would just wait to given another answer, and another, and another. What Inukai wanted was for him to break out of that and find them on his own.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:34:00 AM No.281152005
>>281151947
>Despite being trained by an elite agent, he had nothing to show for it.
I'll say it again, because the training was dogshit and boiled down to Inukai talking to him while he hit targets.
>b-but it was for-
Results matter. Inukai should've stopped after a few weeks when it was obvious his retarded tactic was not working. I think a big part of Jackson not learning anything was that he was convinced he was doing the correct thing because an A-rank agent was "teaching" him, when it was in fact total bullshit.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:37:46 AM No.281152069
>>281151855
It is and yes it is coincided studying, that A is a literal physical proof a document that confirms the fact of studying. Average kids get anywhere from 50 to 90% of their knowledge straight from the class and textbook exercises.
Believing in the opposite makes him draw wrong conclusions from his outcomes. Hard work isn't good, it just means you lack the capacity to do it normally.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:39:52 AM No.281152122
>>281151584
>>281151599
I don't know how to feel about the idea of giving Jackson an answer.
I'm tempted to compare it to Kitora's teaching of Osamu after the Wall Snipeโ„ข. She taught him the basics of how to use Spider, and he intuited on his own how it could play to his strengths without her needing to tell him anything but "It sticks around after you die".
Osamu's strength being that he's good at cornering his opponents and putting them in lose-lose situations where they have to deal with Yuma and Chika.
And he was doing that even before Spider. Cornering Kazama with trion cubes, choosing a sniper-friendly battlefield in round 2 so that the other squads would gang up on the sniper squad, blowing up the bridge in round 3 to cut the battle into manageable chunks...
Rather than making predictions, he forces opponents to adhere to his predictions.
But still, Kitora recognized that strength of Osamu's before even Osamu recognized it in himself, and she walked him through the answer.

The problem is that I don't know if Jackson has a forte like that because we never actually see an example of Katori Squad winning a Rank War, let alone Jackson contributing to that win.
So I don't know if Inukai even has any material to work with like Kitora did.
Replies: >>281152266 >>281156689
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:46:25 AM No.281152266
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>>281152122
its all Katori's fault, she is killing half the map by her lonesome so they don't get to fight anyone
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:49:31 AM No.281152321
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
>>281145634
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:53:44 AM No.281152393
>>281147580
Jin must've seen Wakamura's results, right?
Replies: >>281152488
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:59:12 AM No.281152488
>>281152393
More like he saw a bunch of possible results, and could tell that they had a good chance of doing well.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:59:23 AM No.281152490
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>>281152005
>when it was obvious his retarded tactic was not working
Problem was that it isn't obvious. We don't know Jackson's own rank as a Gunner, but given that Miura has 7k+ points as an Attacker, he's probably more or less around that, which isn't a bad score.
>Results matter
Katori Squad was in the top tier of B-rank. Problem is that was mostly due to Katori, and Jackson was too biased against her to the point he couldn't see the obvious >>281152266 .
Had Inukai told him
>ackshually, you're still shit
Jackson wouldn't be able to digest it. Inukai wanted to focus on Jackson's biggest problem, his inability to think for himself.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:01:35 AM No.281152519
>>281147345
>>281147373
>>281147394
>>281147417
>>281147440
>>281147456
>>281147478
>>281147504
Kodera's squad is all in on that steady growth.
They all lacked edge, though, except for maybe Kitora.
However, even Kitora seemed to realize that conventional tactics had their limits.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:03:39 AM No.281152564
1753738875571353
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md5: 624599fd6510eafb1049b798f2b2ab97๐Ÿ”
>>281146717 (OP)
>All this time i thought i was a Mikumo, but then i realized i was actually a Jackson...
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:04:36 AM No.281152589
Jackson void
Jackson void
md5: a0a46f5e4b7e778ffe6929732964e7ff๐Ÿ”
>>281152564
We're all Jackson here
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:04:42 AM No.281152591
Yoneya avoiding the N word made me chuckle
I wonder how many time A-rankers had to hold back in front of Miwa
Replies: >>281154328
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:17:39 AM No.281152857
>Yukimaru still didn't check Tamakoma's logs despite what Katagiri said (that they have to check new rank war logs)
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:18:38 AM No.281152873
>>281147627
Thanks, OP.
This was my first time re-reading the whole thing after getting deep enough into the away mission arc to start learning who most of the side characters are. It gave me a better appreciation for the groundwork being laid for them along the way.
I was already really looking forward to the combat phase. But that was mostly due to Yuma withdrawals. Now there's even more characters whose contributions I'm excited to see.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:25:09 AM No.281152988
120304164_p0_
120304164_p0_
md5: a4c846a8cf254e2488201e31f4ecc251๐Ÿ”
>>281152564
Osamu is a bigger bomb than Kage and a complete mental case on top of that. He gets beaten down and bullied and doesn't even care about it the next day. He breaks into the military base on a whim and befriends a potential enemy while warning said enemy about it. The distance from fight/fight to the death is non existent in his head. Four eyes doesn't have any shame and doesn't care about what others think of him.
If you thought you were anywhere close to this motherfucker you had to be a speed reader.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:28:18 AM No.281153044
>>281149113
>only 1 less than Yuma in special tactics
That's the one stat I can't wrap my head around.
Replies: >>281153107
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:29:26 AM No.281153058
>>281152988
The fact that 4eyes isn't limited by trion soldier cost in phase 2 will definitely come in handy
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:32:32 AM No.281153103
>>281149418
He was criticizing her for not taking things seriously. And she wasn't. They're both flawed.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:32:45 AM No.281153104
Hiyami is the only normally competent Ninomiya squad member
Replies: >>281153119
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:32:58 AM No.281153107
>>281153044
>watch Katori kill everyone
counts as special tactics
Replies: >>281153716
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:34:14 AM No.281153118
>>281153058
I'm also interested in what Kuga and Hyuse end up cooking. This topic is right in their field of expertise
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:34:14 AM No.281153119
>>281153104
rude, Tsuji is a good kid and he is doing well
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:43:30 AM No.281153251
>>281151947
>Inukai literally lays out why Jackson won't learn anything if Inukai told him.
That doesn't mean he was right. I'm going to go with Hyuse on this one; capability is about results. Inukai mentored someone for six months with zero results. He isn't a capable teacher.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:48:11 AM No.281153315
>>281152069
No it isn't. Seriously, just go ask some people. Do a survey. Ask people if they think showing up to class counts as studying. The answer will apparently surprise you.
And again, Katori is exceptional. This is not Jackson's opinion. Every shred of available evidence supports him. Hyuse did not hesitate to rebuke him when he was actually wrong. But he did not disagree with that specific statement about Katori. In fact, he endorsed it when talking to Sasamori >>281147017.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:51:25 AM No.281153367
>>281152857
They've been busy. Their schedule is judging this test, defense duty, and sleep with no downtime. And before that they were off recruiting.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:55:42 AM No.281153436
>>281146717 (OP)
>Finale
This was the last story time?
Replies: >>281153464 >>281153494
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:56:43 AM No.281153455
menacing
menacing
md5: 891d6cff378346a068cd15e7585cb5ad๐Ÿ”
Replies: >>281153515
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:57:08 AM No.281153464
>>281153436
some other dude might dump the remaining chapters.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:58:35 AM No.281153483
Pray-for-Ashihara
Pray-for-Ashihara
md5: d56482acfdd6c0639d7639364ba41a94๐Ÿ”
>>281146717 (OP)
daily reminder
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:59:18 AM No.281153494
>>281153436
Dump anon is considering posting Chapters 249 to 256 (current) tomorrow. We will see in around 14-16 hours.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:00:18 AM No.281153509
>>281153058
The trion soldiers contribute to the provisional squads biggest advantage which is their raw numbers.
They already have 15 more agents and as a whole the provisional squads have an extra 1.8 of an A-rank squad's worth of cost in trion soldiers.

So already there's an advantage they could potentially try to take use of by using their numbers to force the A ranks to spread thinner by threatening more terminals and then launch more concentrated attacks on the thinned lines.
In which case soldier specialized at eliminating other trion soldiers or at breaking terminals might be what we see.

Though the A ranks, knowing they have the numbers disadvantage, could intentionally give up a few terminals early in exchange for chipping away at the provisional squads numbers to try and snowball on from there after removing the numbers advantage.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:00:39 AM No.281153515
>>281153455
New /a/ banner dropped.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:02:43 AM No.281153538
>>281144991
It's time to buy, then
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:07:29 AM No.281153596
>>281144977
Where you going, Inukai?
Replies: >>281153621 >>281153770
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:09:51 AM No.281153621
>>281153596
He's going to become a black trigger.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:13:04 AM No.281153657
>>281153251
Results were that Katori Squad got into the top tier of B-rank. We have no idea about Jackson's individual rank as a Gunner, but it should be somewhat okay if we were to assume that he's more or less equivalent to Miura's Attacker score.
Fact is, Jackson didn't see anything wrong with his own performance, as a team member, up until he had to be the one to issue orders. Even then, he only fully realized it when he asked Hyuse to come at him without holding back. It's fully an attitude problem that was holding him back, his inability to think on his own.
Replies: >>281153975 >>281156733
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:17:46 AM No.281153716
>>281153107
I meant in general.
Futaba was so basic and predictable that Yomi countered her on her second attack and she was able to get herself killed trying the same thing again until Kitora stopped her. Special tactics 6.
Arafune is a sniper. But he also uses a sword. Azuma is an operator raping, wall sniping, trap laying menace. Both special tactics 5. And Pokari and Hanzaki too, for some reason.
Yuma is far and away the most innovative attacker we've seen. Izumi is the master of all shooter tactics and, if I'm not mistaken, is even the progenitor of composite bullets. Both special tactics 4. Below fucking Sasamori.
Replies: >>281153909
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:18:15 AM No.281153720
1732909451326131
1732909451326131
md5: 591bcfe9f068204042e8bbaef621ddff๐Ÿ”
>>281108785

Round 3

>Pre-Match: Team Nasu Analysis

Team Nasu opens Round 3 by reviewing the Riverside A map under heavy rain and storm conditions. Just like in canon they'll keep the same strat of grouping up and blowing up the bridge to divide the other teams using the heavy weather conditions that heavily reduces sniper effectiveness. Nasu's squad is familiar with Suzunar-1st, but Suwa-7 is a new opponent and according to Nasu their Speed Blitz formation relies heavily on Oki, who anchors the team by providing constant mid-range support to Katori or Suwa until either can arrive to finish engagements. On a stormy map that hinders snipers, Suwa-7โ€™s central pillar loses much of its value. Kumagai asks about Mikumo but Nasu notes him as a non-factor in direct combat; as he appears to be more of an support or strategist, especially since this time they were lucky to have the choice of map.

>The Fight

The battle begins similarly to canon, but with some deviations. Nasu, unconcerned with Amatori this time, advances directly north toward the bridge, causing an early engagement with Mikumo. Oki attempts to reposition but refrains from revealing himself due to the threat from Kuruma and Taichi, with Osamu retreating for his life against Nasu and Taichi tries to find some angles for a shot.

On the other front, Kumagai and Akane move toward the bridge. Kou arrives as Kumagai reaches the crossing, and the fight erupts. Kumagai tells Akane to hold. Katori then appears, opening fire with dual pistols, Hounds and Asteroids toward both fighters, they raise their shields to absorb the shots while Akane lines up a countershot at Katori.

Suwa then teleports behind Kumagai and Ko, firing a shotgun blast at each. Ko narrowly dodges with Raygust thruster, but Kumagai is struck and takes heavy damage. At the same time, Katori uses Grasshopper to evade Akaneโ€™s fire, mimicking Yumaโ€™s movement from the canonical match, and leaps toward Akane.

[continue?]
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:21:36 AM No.281153770
>>281153596
Probably off to get a real job.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:23:03 AM No.281153794
1750352712796761
1750352712796761
md5: 7d609d85aacab32d47c55558787b2824๐Ÿ”
>>281146001
>get my ducks in a row
Hey I remember this phrase
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:24:37 AM No.281153813
1732211164291013
1732211164291013
md5: def8bf62cf565e8bbf515c9906283117๐Ÿ”
Is this true, canadians?
Replies: >>281153922
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:27:40 AM No.281153843
>>281146142
Thank you, Hyuse-sensei
Replies: >>281154149
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:31:32 AM No.281153909
>>281153716
Taichi is special tactics 2, so it's not about using the terrain or map either. Maybe check the original japanese term?

>>281153720
Sure.
Replies: >>281154648 >>281154814
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:32:35 AM No.281153922
>>281153813
There's the Canadian Shield that basically covers half the country and is just rock. Not a mountain, but still hard to travel on.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:33:21 AM No.281153931
>>281147138
>S-rank pair
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:35:41 AM No.281153975
>>281153657
Inukai himself acknowledged that Wakamura wasn't making the progress he'd hoped he would and was about to tell him. But he waited six months to get to that point.
Hyuse was dealing with Jackson, so he's focused on his failures. And he did fail to realize what Inukai was trying to teach him. That's on him.
But Inukai failed too. He wanted Jackson to start thinking for himself? That's great. But this attempt didn't work and it was long past time for him to try something else.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:39:03 AM No.281154042
>>281147415
I want more self reflection arc!
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:43:03 AM No.281154109
>>281145953
How to subdivide my goal to get a gf bros
Replies: >>281154144
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:44:04 AM No.281154124
>>281149151
>fujin
>nukes
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:45:05 AM No.281154142
>>281147627
Thank you dumpanon
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:45:10 AM No.281154144
>>281154109
Step 1. Go outside
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:45:15 AM No.281154149
Gnboa6KaEAEbq_Q
Gnboa6KaEAEbq_Q
md5: 3b16c1eac251d5bf578be1e8c494aac4๐Ÿ”
>>281153843
Now grab his book
https://x.com/W_Trigger_off/status/1906859054703505469?t=W2Wcs1rc5GF0uIwyUGVA5A&s=19
Replies: >>281154447 >>281154740
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:48:10 AM No.281154187
>>281149177
How much is his gunner points again?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:53:41 AM No.281154269
>>281149943
>>281150140
>>281150300
Can't they just hire professional military or kendo/sword instructors to teach the kids?
Sure, they don't have experience using trion weapons, but the fundamentals are all the same.
Remember how Reiji trained Chika and Osamu to train their bodies first?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:55:29 AM No.281154304
>>281151777
#1 Gunner gave him a + point
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:56:30 AM No.281154317
>>281152988
What do the moonrunes say
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:56:30 AM No.281154318
>>281147247
>>281147274
>>281147300
I like the inclusion of this after the Rokuro beatdown. It's an answer for people who are too blackpilled even for Hyuse's advice.
As always, Tokieda is the best.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:57:30 AM No.281154328
>>281152591
Does Miwa not know he's an N?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:59:17 AM No.281154343
>>281154328
It depends on if Miwa knows Kronin is a neighbor. I assume he does and Yosuke just didn't want to piss him off.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:00:14 AM No.281154361
>>281154328
I don't even know how it'd be possible for him not to know.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:04:18 AM No.281154414
>>281154269
>fundamentals are the same
Not really? With how athletic their bodies are, and with the equipment they use, there's no point in teaching them 'the fundamentals'. It'd probably do more harm than good. How are they supposed to teach to move like/respond to a Grasshopper-abusing Yuma, Ninomiya's or Nasu's overwhelming offense, Ikoma's Whirlwind, etc? It's way too different to ordinary modern equipment/tactics.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:06:23 AM No.281154447
>>281154149
>The Art of Growth by Hyuse Cronin
Fucking kek even the social media interns were shitposting throughout this arc.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:09:46 AM No.281154522
>>281154414
excluding shooters Border Triggers are extremely similar to real life counterparts. Hyuse was quickly able to pick up Kogetsu BECAUSE Viza taught him how to use a sword.
> How are they supposed to teach to move like/respond to a Grasshopper-abusing Yuma, Ninomiya's or Nasu's overwhelming offense, Ikoma's Whirlwind, etc?
This is advanced stuff, and is stuff Rank Wars is meant to teach, which is at a level where you should know the basics.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:12:33 AM No.281154585
>>281154328
Chances we see a Burger King moment on the away ship between Miwa and Hyuse?
Replies: >>281154665
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:12:38 AM No.281154588
>>281154414
>there's no point in teaching them 'the fundamentals'
Yes there is. Not only did Reiji outright say so, but the more athletic agents are able to move better in their trion bodies. And we even know that Ikoma's senku was made possible because of his grandfather teaching him iaido. So that's pretty concrete evidence that outside training could help. Marksmanship training would be similarly helpful.
The biggest issue would be managing the information and security clearances for all the outside parties. And this sort of training would only be effective for the fundamentals. Combat with trion bodies differs substantially from combat in flesh and blood bodies, so they couldn't delve into actual tactics without learning wrong habits.
Replies: >>281154842
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:15:43 AM No.281154648
1744915751177747
1744915751177747
md5: e3ba46bd984903deb956f02215cd88f1๐Ÿ”
>>281153720
>>281153909
As Kumagai bails out,Suwa remains to engage Ko in close quarters . Ko questions Suwa if leaving the gunner alone against an attacker is smart, but Suwa comments he can barely rein Katori in and that he is a close-range gunner anyway.

Back at the girls, Akane has set her Meteor traps as in canon. She detonates both buildings at each side to line up an Ibis shot toward Katori in the middle. There's no way that Katori is cutting off her own arm like Kuga did, but she does have another tool for the job, her hounds.
Firing directly at Akaneโ€™s face to force a shield. and using the momentum, she dodges with Grasshopper and closes the distance to cut Akane down, poor Akane. Not being as good of a distraction as Kuga arm strat (but still a pretty good one since Akane has to shield her face from hounds) Katori ends up losing an arm up to the shoulder from the Ibis shot, suffering major trion loss. She laments that losing an arm is becoming a habit while Oki thanks her over the comms for bringing Akane down, as he can never bring himself to shoot cute little girls.

On the other side, Nasu has to rack points up herselff but now faces four combat agents, since Oki is not Chika and he will open fire on her her. The fight is harder, but she can still handle most of them, probably still taking out Taichi, Kuruma, and Mikomu before going down.

Meanwhile, Suwa is getting shredded. Katori manages to catch up, and together they can likely bring Ko down, but even if they fail to finish him, they would surely to inflict enough damage that'll allows Oki to secure the elimination, especially since Ko isn't the type of attacker who has enough mobility to chase Oki down.

Round 3 concludes with Suwa-7 winning by a score of 5-3-1.

After the match Katori and Oki would have a discussion about him not shooting cute girls but having no problem shooting her down on trainings.

Got a little lazy at the end, went with possibilities instead.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:16:39 AM No.281154665
>>281154585
>Burger King moment
a what?
Replies: >>281154671
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:16:59 AM No.281154671
>>281154665
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XK8l9ssSYk
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:21:48 AM No.281154740
GnXVkTfaUAA0LZG
GnXVkTfaUAA0LZG
md5: 00c63ae08cd3c9936f2e68a3f02377ff๐Ÿ”
>>281154149
Don't buy Ninomiya's book
It was a scam
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:23:20 AM No.281154759
>>281147223
Isn't that Kronin commenting at the bottom?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:26:56 AM No.281154814
>>281153909
็‰นๆฎŠๆˆฆ่ก“
I can't read runes. Google translate just gives me "special tactics". An image search gives pictures of soldiers and some dragon mech.
I don't know what to make of it. There's no rhyme or reason to it. I thought maybe it was influenced by the squad since all of Kazama squad are 8, Futaba's 6 is close to Kako's 7, and both Osamu and Yuma are 4. But no. Fuyushima is 10 and Toma is 2. Kitazoe is only 3 while Kageura is 5. And Arashiyama, Kitora, and Ken are all 4 but Tokieda is somehow only 2.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:27:54 AM No.281154829
>>281154269
Reiji's just training basic fitness as a way to train their basic movement in trion bodies. Beyond that, while firearms have some overlap with gunner triggers, and swords have some overlap with attacker triggers, there are a lot of differences as well. Kendo's basically a sword sport, with a bunch of rules irrelevant to actual combat, and even if you get someone who knows proper historical swordmanship, their guidelines don't really account for stuff like twenty meter slashes, or weapons that transmogrify between a shield and sword and have a jetpack installed in them, let alone being able to pop a blade of arbitrary shape out of any part of your body. Similarly military experts aren't really set up for homing bullets, bullets that can make instant arbitrary turns, or guns that can blow apart buildings in short order. Not to mention opponents being able to create bullet stopping shields, and recreate them if they take damage.

So while there might be some use for such people down at the basic C-rank training level that gets glossed over, it becomes of somewhat dubious value as far as training agents who can utilize their full capabilities.

Plus it's probably hard to find suitable experts to recruit. They need people who're not only capable but who won't be a security risk, and it's probably difficult to impossible to find someone military or ex-military who'd keep Border secrets from the military.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:29:14 AM No.281154842
>>281154522
I don't think Viza-Hyuse is a good example, that was probably 1) a trion sword and 2) Viza is the furthest thing away from a typical military instructor.
Sure, Kogetsu and Raygust are a pretty typical sword and shield, but there's stuff like Scorpion that doesn't exactly have an equivalent. And excluding Shooters don't mean much. Asteroid, sure, typical straightforward projectiles.
But stuff like Hound, Meteor and Viper still exist, which again, don't really modern equivalents. Only difference with a Shooter is that they can send their whole load at once. All these are basic triggers.

>>281154588
I'll have to re-read the Reiji stuff, but Ikoma isn't a good example. Yes, its a normal skill that Ikoma brought into and amplified to 11. But not everyone can be raised as the grandson of some iaido master. Usable, but can it be mass-produced? Doubtful, but I'll concede somewhat and say that kenjutsu masters could probably raise the bar on the typical Whirlwind. Also not sure on your point on marksmanship training, aren't they already that?
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:31:44 AM No.281154884
>>281154814
Well the ๆˆฆ่ก“ part is just "tactics". However the ็‰นๆฎŠ part is "special; particular; peculiar; unique ".
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:32:56 AM No.281154904
034
034
md5: 97ead0c685cb95ec31c03b3158c74bfb๐Ÿ”
>>281154884
Here's the page from the databook with the Japanese descriptions if that illuminates things any further.
Replies: >>281155079
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:35:12 AM No.281154933
>>281153720
>>281154648
Would Nasu's squad really choose the same map and strat with no Chika cannon tough? Especially since Suwa-7 has now four players?
Replies: >>281155030
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:39:44 AM No.281155030
>>281154933
Most likely, they chose that strat against Chika even though they should've now that there was a possibility of Chika blowing up the bridge, and as I mentioned that's still a good way to neutralize Suwa-7 central piece which is Oki.
I don't think they would care about Suwa-7 having 4 members either, since at this point, Mikumo would probably look like a freebie.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:39:56 AM No.281155032
>>281147152
Fucking Saeki kek
Replies: >>281155072
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:42:05 AM No.281155067
>>281154842
>aren't they already that?
They do, yes. But, if I'm remembering correctly, not even Azuma, who is most likely responsible for putting together all their sniper training, has real world sniper combat experience outside of border. And considering this is Japan, there's going to be little, if any, firearms experience from anyone who wasn't former police or military.
Virtually every gunner and sniper they recruit has never touched a gun before and they're being trained by people who had also touched a gun for the first time within the last five years.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:42:21 AM No.281155072
>>281155032
Saeki is probably not good with the harsh type considering the way he interacts with Saki
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:43:06 AM No.281155079
>>281154904
Okay, the definition they're using(็‹ฌ่‡ชใฎๆˆฆๆณ•ใฎใƒฌใƒ™ใƒซใ€ไฝฟ็”จใ™ใ‚‹้ ปๅบฆ) roughly translates to:
>Level of unique tactics, frequency of use
according to deepl, or
>The level of unique tactics and how often they are used
according to google.

With the keywords probably being ็‹ฌ่‡ช which is "original; unique; distinctive; characteristic; peculiar " and ้ ปๅบฆ which is just "frequency".

So for example Futaba probably has a 6 because she's got two prototype option triggers and appears to spam the hell out of them judging by the one time we've seen her in a fight. While Kazama squad has 8s because they all use chameleon and utilize Kikuchihara's side effect.
Replies: >>281155168
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:49:09 AM No.281155158
>>281147300
>le heckin chonky kot is suprisingly DEEP, INSIGHTFUL, and PHILOSOPHICAL!
ashihara's unfortunately one of those reddit pseuds too. blech *puke*
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:49:54 AM No.281155168
>>281155079
So is Jackson's 3 just because he uses chameleon or something? And Kageura is higher than Yuma because he spams almost nothing but mantis while Yuma does fight normally sometimes? And Kitazoe is only a 3 because he does all his crafty stuff with normal triggers?
Some of them still don't make sense, though. How are any of the Arafune squad snipers 5? None of them using any weird triggers or even use their triggers in weird ways. If just fighting as a squad of three snipers is enough to bump you up to 5 then surely Yuba's unique gunner technique and Shun's pinball are worth more than 2s.
Replies: >>281156750
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:04:14 AM No.281155372
Osamu's color will be pathetic since Amo can easily demolish him even without using his BT. As an individual fighter, Mikumo is a bigger shitter compared with Jackson.
Replies: >>281156115
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:09:22 AM No.281155433
>>281145699
This was something I think really stood out in the rank war against T2 on a reread. As much as people like to meme on the simp Miura was actually doing a fairly solid job at the "support the ace so she can get kills" strategy, he essentially bailed out Katori's ass twice during the match. It was Waka who really felt like a complete dead weight on the team even if neither of them actually score many points.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:16:59 AM No.281155539
>>281155067
Trion is a hell of a thing, they don't need to think much about being affected by recoil, wind speed, or gravity. That being said, I don't really know much about the details of real-life marksmanship or tactics, so I'll admit to being ignorant on what other aspects it can be beneficial/applicable in.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:27:58 AM No.281155680
>>281146942
He was this close to punch that face.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:56:31 AM No.281156013
>>281155067
To add more, Azuma also studied military stuff in his free time (he focuses on trion research in university) and trion weapon doesn't work like our weapons.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:02:31 AM No.281156081
>>281147564
He does and was even reprimanding Yoko for not doing so.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:04:27 AM No.281156101
>>281147564
He watches, but he doesn't understand.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:06:24 AM No.281156115
>>281155372
>As an individual fighter, Mikumo is a bigger shitter compared with Jackson.
Not necessarily seeing as Osamu is 1:0 vs Wakamura. A pretty clean 1v1 kill too. Wakamura ran right into a trap Osamu set, stumbled, Osamu charged in with his thruster and pinned him with the raygust. Wakamura counter attacked and missed him at basically pointblank range, and Osamu finished him off with bullets.
That doesn't really bode well for Wakamura's chances of coming out ahead in a rank wars set. It doesn't help that the raygust is basically designed to hard counter a gunner like Wakamura. He'll basically need to use his chameleon, bagworm, and hound to get surprise attacks in on Osamu, and from what we've seen he's not that great at positioning or chameleon and hound usage.
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Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:13:50 AM No.281156160
It's pretty wild that the doujin of this series is split between straight and gay in a ratio of 50:50.
Replies: >>281156172
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:15:34 AM No.281156172
>>281156115
People put way way way way too much emphasis on that fight when assessing these two. Osamu is not setting up a wire zone with planted bullets with a sniper watching over him in solo rank wars.
And it is so strange to see people talk about him missing as if being at that range would make hitting Osamu easier. Unless you're gut shotting someone with a handgun, shooting someone who is literally on top of you is harder than if they're dozens of yards away from you.
>>281156160
The overall audience is split 50/50 too.
Replies: >>281156219
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:21:02 AM No.281156219
>>281156172
>Osamu is not setting up a wire zone with planted bullets with a sniper watching over him in solo rank wars.
He doesn't need a sniper watching his back to do that in solo rank wars where he has just the one opponent to worry about. And he doesn't need to do that to defeat Wakamura the same way that he got a draw with Kazama.
Replies: >>281156275
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:29:07 AM No.281156275
>>281156219
He's not doing that even with a sniper watching his back in solo rank wars. He's not setting up any of that period.
>he doesn't need to do that to defeat Wakamura
To defeat him ever? No. To defeat him with any amount of consistency? Yes he does.
>he got a draw with Kazama
While using a technique that only works with the infinite trion setting on that isn't used in rank wars.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:38:26 AM No.281156344
How valuable would Osamu be to a Neighbor military? Would they look at his Trion measurements and throw him in with the fodder or at least recognize his talents / potential? DOES he have potential?
Replies: >>281156369 >>281156615
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:41:55 AM No.281156369
>>281156344
Would he even be able to even survive? You need trion for everything there, even to pay for food.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:44:01 AM No.281156391
>>281147564

Digesting VOD:s is really hard. You can easily let your own biases attribute incorrect cause and effects. For instance:
>I missed, that means my aim was bad
>My positioning was good though, I'm good at positioning
You easily trick yourself by focusing on what you think. You can also get caught up in over-analyzing when really you just gambled and got unlucky.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:08:38 AM No.281156615
>>281156344
He would get harvested.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:17:14 AM No.281156689
>>281152122
He clearly is unbothered by monotomy, is that a skill? Maybe he should be more of a Yuba and just create a pure muscle memory alpha strike of death.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:21:30 AM No.281156733
>>281153657
He's probably 7kish since people clearly hit a wall here.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:23:47 AM No.281156750
>>281155168

The stats given to us suffer from an "unreliable narrator", since I believe they are actually official Border estimates of its agents. This means that the stats rely only on what the person making the estimates know. This means that "soft" values might be over or underestimated.

A special attribute of Yuma's special tactics is that they are hidden tactics, so Yuma would reasonably underscore on this stat because the person doing the rankings is yet to see the full depths of his stat (and the scores are lagging behind the latest rank war results).

Likewise, Osamu's command score is underrated because people have a hard time believing he is the one calling the shots.
Replies: >>281157272
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:28:37 AM No.281156793
>>281156115
>Wakamura counter attacked and missed him at basically pointblank range
He shouldn't have bothered really. I think the best action there was to accept death and shoot hounds at Yuma.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:11:24 AM No.281157272
>>281156750
That would explain the major inconsistencies. I was kind of thinking you could view it as an assessment of their mentality more so than anything they specifically did. A higher score being representative of someone who is more interested in trying out different things vs someone sticking to tried and true methods. And that works for the most part.
It justifies the sniper squad being so high, since that's a very unconventional way to try and fight. And guys like Yuba and Tokieda being so low since they come across as very by the books types. But there was a Taichi sized hole in that idea. He's not a by the books type at all, pretty much the opposite. But of all the people I could see having an inaccurate assessment in-universe, it's him being written off as simply retarded rather than an unconventional thinker.
Replies: >>281157322
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:16:21 AM No.281157322
>>281157272
>it's him being written off as simply retarded rather than an unconventional thinker.
Suggesting poising the competition is full retard. He could have suggested they rape them in a dark alley too, that would have been very unconventional. It's doubtful they'd be able to perform at their best after.
Replies: >>281157444
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:26:53 AM No.281157444
>>281157322
His mind goes places where others' don't. Some of those happen to be bad places.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:14:06 PM No.281158509
1616301825817
1616301825817
md5: 3385a594fc6fe54d6fe8896bf6010d26๐Ÿ”
>>281151232
I can't believe it. All this homework is thanks to Osamu.
He maybe takes press conference like a champ but because of his lack of trion he always need the support of a strong woman.
Teruya is in the bag. Poor Zaki.
Replies: >>281158842
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:42:59 PM No.281158830
>>281150396
Yeah a of of them are being too hard on him I think. Wakamura has a lot of faults, but they are acting like this outburst is a sign he's already given up when it's the opposite. Jackson's frustration comes from not knowing where he needs to improve, it's just a fundamental lack of understanding his own faults. The way he's going he could keep trying to improve forever and yet never get better, he desperately needed a talk like this to be able to reassess his knowledge about himself. If he didn't get this out here and now he'd just continue wallowing in his own despair and never grow, he made the right decision to come out about it here and now and doesn't need a demerit for it even if it looks painful and clunky to an outsider.
Replies: >>281158910
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:44:18 PM No.281158842
>>281158509
Did they ever met before?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:50:35 PM No.281158896
>>281150790
>>281150815
It's not necessarily a bad teaching tactic, but he kept it going for waaaaay too long. That's the kinda thing you for a month and then when you see there's no reaction you ask him what they think this training was about. I think if Rokuro was told directly after a month with Inukai that he was expected to butt in by now that would've already been a valuable lesson to expose one of his own flaws to him. Then they could've gone from there.
Spending half a year on what's essentially just lesson one is fucking insane.
Replies: >>281158955
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:51:40 PM No.281158908
IMG_4765
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md5: ea77626e3efa1f0052c1a876434fd75c๐Ÿ”
the fact that they specifically mentioned the agents could change their loadout makes me think Osamu will change some triggers to fit with Suwaโ€™s squad 7
Replies: >>281158969 >>281158985 >>281159845
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:51:52 PM No.281158910
>>281158830
I always felt the barrage of in universe minus points he got was genuinely retarded
>character wants to improve
>genuinely doesn't understand what's wrong
>asks someone else, even with the "I'll skin you alive" warning
>takes it like a champ and is still acting ok the very next day
Somehow, his peers go
>he's whiny as shit
>he wasted inukai's time
>he should have figured it out himself or drop out
Genuinely never liked how it was written because it feels like these a ranks haven't struggled and needed help. Especially Amo comes off as a huge cunt when he's like
>but he's a mess inside why is he still acting fine?
Replies: >>281158983 >>281158985 >>281159823
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:56:50 PM No.281158955
>>281158896
Ashihara fucked up there, he should have made it like s couple months long, tops, which would have coincided with the current season.
>maybe one day hell get it if we keep going on and on and on
Isn't a teaching tactic. I agree inukai should have come clean and the excuse they give him is flimsy at best. You don't do these for half a year, eventually you realize either he's dumb as shit and won't ever get it OR that he has some kind of huge mental block and will never get it, and tell him straight.
Inukai isn't fit to teach "slow" kids.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:58:17 PM No.281158969
>>281158908
Katori will force double Raygust on him like in sims.
Replies: >>281159259 >>281159845
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:59:03 PM No.281158983
>>281158910
Because A-rankers really didnโ€™t need help
They are a bunch of talented assholes who never the struggles of jobbers
Even Kitora was a battle genius despite being a trionlet
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 1:59:23 PM No.281158985
>>281158908
I think so too. He reached his current trigger setup to contribute to T-2. But this is a different squad with different tools and needs.
>>281158910
I agree with your overall point, but I interpreted Amo's later comment as essentially a repudiation of him and the other A ranks that were shitting on him. It's showing that his opinions about Jackson are based on assumptions about him that are most likely incorrect.
Replies: >>281159222
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:02:01 PM No.281159018
>>281147177
These sort of back-and-forth +1 -1 as a means of turning the scoring system into a chat server is really silly.
Replies: >>281159081
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:06:57 PM No.281159081
>>281159018
Most of them are still in their teens, what did you expect.
Replies: >>281159206
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:17:16 PM No.281159206
>>281159081
It's really more of an issue with how the feedback system is designed. It encourages them to do that. Which is probably intentional since the A ranks are being judged too.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:18:18 PM No.281159222
>>281158985
Can't wait.
It will give me ideas on how this squad would operate if it was in the rank wars.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:20:58 PM No.281159259
>>281158969
It wouldn't work as well. Unlike the sim, they are no more than one Osamu.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:46:04 PM No.281159637
>>281150863
Hyuse got a bunch of focus before him joining T2 came up, so I don't think that proves anything.
Replies: >>281159876
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:56:55 PM No.281159823
>>281158910
Taken in isolation, he his taking away his teammates valuable time to deal with his own personal crisis and possibly bring everyone's mood down with his issues while they are still hanging in last place. He ONLY got plus points because there is the potential for him to improve, and we don't see the points allocated in the next day, but considering his A-rank evaluation i can guess that most of them rewarded him for coming back from that breakdown focused on the work that needs to be done.
Replies: >>281160020
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 2:58:12 PM No.281159845
>>281158908
If they get access to A-rank addons and can slap Miwa's lead bullet on Katori its a no brainer. Standard lead bullet seems like a gamble but because it is Katori it might still work. Teleporter on Suwa would be hype.
>>281158969
Trion too low to just add another trigger meaning he would be swapping something out to fit in second set of truster/raygust.
Its a poor idea in general. Osamu is a shooter first and foremost, his melee skills are subpar and he would be completely useless in his own wire zone. Four eyes cannot effectively traverse his wires but because he is a shooter it doesn't matter. He can take it slow, lay down a trap and be effective from range.
With double raygusts he would have to resort to aerial maneuvers to do anything inside the web. If Osamu dumps spider too then Katori synergy goes bust and he would have to rely on his melee which is bottom b-tier if not worse. Not happening.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:00:23 PM No.281159876
42038873_p0
42038873_p0
md5: 3f9f35964e60074cec226a1e427ba64f๐Ÿ”
>>281159637
Two of the three original main characters barely show up anymore as it is. Katori better not be getting added on top of that.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:08:34 PM No.281160020
>>281159823
The issue is that no one punished him for that, it was all personal attacks due to an absolute lack of empathy.
Replies: >>281160131
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:10:59 PM No.281160067
133369424
133369424
md5: 64cc26cdcce7da3f30aa00f3364d3283๐Ÿ”
I think Phase 2 will be when the prophecy comes true.
Remove Bail Out.
That will earn them the victory, but he will be removed from the expedition team due to his lack of self-restraint.
Replies: >>281160087 >>281160101 >>281160188 >>281160237
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:12:31 PM No.281160087
1000020144
1000020144
md5: 7840f66c4d3631b5ec6a0aa4c9cbc812๐Ÿ”
>>281160067
Is there any rule that says he can't?
Replies: >>281160094 >>281160204
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:13:04 PM No.281160094
>>281160087
My heroes.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:13:27 PM No.281160101
>>281160067
Yes, please. Osamu needs to learn the Neighbor way by hitching a ride with Galo
Replies: >>281160146
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:15:04 PM No.281160131
>>281160020
A ranks were nothing if sympathetic, even Maki held back from burying him completely
>useless retard wasting time and stressing people with his personal drama -10
would be the normal reaction
>we should conciser kicking this thing out of border before it causes damage -20
would be lack of empathy
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:15:54 PM No.281160146
>>281160101
That would be the wildest development in the series and I'd love to see it would also give the rata comment some credibility
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:18:30 PM No.281160188
>>281160067
Bailout isn't a trigger option. He cannot remove it like that, it would take him pulling apart the trigger and taking out the chip responsible for bailout if not outright making a custom trigger without bailout when just removing it isn't an option.
Replies: >>281160209 >>281160248
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:19:18 PM No.281160204
>>281160087
>rule
No, that's just how I feel.
Strategically, it might be a sound move for the expedition team, especially since I doubt they would want to be found immediately in the Neighborhood by Bail Out's rather eye-catching escape.
However, Border seems reluctant to push their 'agents' into total war mode. So, I don't think they would view him favorably for making death more likely.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:19:25 PM No.281160209
>>281160188
>it would take him pulling apart the trigger and taking out the chip responsible for bailout
Well, and what kind of trion homework did they just did?
Replies: >>281160248 >>281160294 >>281160387
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:20:57 PM No.281160237
>>281160067
>off screen away mission
>season 2 ranked war in new team
I'm in,
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:21:34 PM No.281160248
>>281160188
Since their opponents were A-rank squads and Suwa was mature enough to make such a decision, I honestly think they could do that.
And this >>281160209 anon make a good point.
Replies: >>281160306 >>281160377
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:24:47 PM No.281160294
>>281160209
Furthermore within 36 hours its more beneficial for Osamu to die and come back with fresh trion in 2 hours than getting 30 extra shots ONCE.
Bailout gives Osamu full trion refill per death, with his timer being around 2~ he could have a magnitude more combat trion even with bailout tax. Overall the combat trion he has access to scales with deaths and it scales fast. Without bailout he gets a small benefit once.
Its simply worse. The only situation when its better is last stand scenario when he doesn't have those 2 hours.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:25:37 PM No.281160306
>>281160248
I wonder if Suwa would agree.
If shit goes south, mikumo would die in a war situation.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:29:21 PM No.281160377
>>281160248
5 deaths = 2 x 5 = 10 trion. wires stay on death.
2.5 ONCE < 10
its such a dumbfuck move that it would be comparable to Osamu equipping Yuma's loadout and ruining at Tachikawa. In fact it would be a better strategy.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:30:01 PM No.281160387
>>281160209
You guys are too obsessed with this stupid idea. It's not going to happen.
Replies: >>281160416 >>281160846
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:30:38 PM No.281160393
Doesn't trion regenerate on its own anyway?
Replies: >>281160980
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:31:55 PM No.281160416
>>281160387
No I imagine it probably will happen. Not in this phase, but somewhere. Assuming Ashihara manages to finish his manga.
Replies: >>281160957
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:35:07 PM No.281160466
With the 2-hours cooldown strategy, where would he spawn?
Can he decide?
Would it be randomized?
Can everyone see him coming in?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 3:56:54 PM No.281160846
>>281160387
I am just shitposting whenever I talk about Osamu replacing Bailout, dunno about other people
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:02:37 PM No.281160957
>>281160416
WT not getting finished is my greatest fear
Replies: >>281160978
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:03:43 PM No.281160978
>>281160957
I wish he gave up and accepted an artist to draw it for him.
He'd still need to do the storyboards but it's way less work.
Replies: >>281161094 >>281161232
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:03:45 PM No.281160980
>>281160393
not when you are in a trion body, the only exception is Yuma when he is using his civilian trion body, that one is special
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:08:33 PM No.281161094
>>281160978
Yeah, I do actually like Ashihara's art, it's very clean and easy to read, but while it would be a shame, the benefits of just being able to progress consistently outweighs the loss
Replies: >>281161232
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:15:39 PM No.281161232
>>281160978
>>281161094
Never happening, he is Japanese
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:18:35 PM No.281161283
Which characters plainly do not belong in their rank?
Replies: >>281161314 >>281161336 >>281161377 >>281161405
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:20:05 PM No.281161314
>>281161283
Yuiga
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:21:23 PM No.281161336
>>281161283
I used to say Osamu but he is at least in lower B tier now
Replies: >>281161384
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:23:14 PM No.281161377
>>281161283
Hyuse, Yuma, NIno & his whole team, Kage & his whole team, Azuma
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:23:29 PM No.281161384
>>281161336
>Osamu
Iโ€™d think thereโ€™d be more agents willing to tell him that heโ€™s useless without his boyfriend simps.
Replies: >>281161434 >>281161435 >>281161510 >>281161588
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:24:17 PM No.281161405
>>281161283
Taichi
He will join Engineering
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:25:33 PM No.281161434
>>281161384
The story shows that his ideas work even without trion monsters or canadian combat vets around?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:25:35 PM No.281161435
>>281161384
No one who's checked his rank wars videos would think he doesn't belong in b rank.
Quick thinking and good at strategizing.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:29:04 PM No.281161510
>>281161384
Osamu is self-aware enough that they donโ€™t need to do so
Remember how he readily agreed with Kikuchi after the match with Nasu and Suzunari-1?
Also, Osamu is fucking shameless. Do you seriously think he would feel hurt just from that? Kitora made him kowtow after telling him he sucks and the only thing he thought was that he was very grateful to her
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:30:30 PM No.281161541
Last batch of chapters incoming

>>281161490
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:32:57 PM No.281161588
>>281161384
Osamu has incredible positioning and he draws attention to himself the moment he can use raygust effectively he will become a menace for everyone in the b-rank including the aces. With his tendency to setup situations for his teammates to capitalize on he would be welcomed addition in almost any team lacking members and the moment he fixes his mobility issue, in any team.
Replies: >>281161625
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:33:41 PM No.281161601
>>281108785
>>281153720
>>281154648
That anon stating that it would be impossible for Suwa-7 to reach top 2 is delusional.

>Round 1
Just as good
>Round 2
May perform better.
>Round 3
High chance of better performance.
>Round 4
Can't get any worse and there's a high possibility of Suwa/Katori/Oki racking some extra points on Koala/Obanai/Inukai/Tsuji and even a KS on Zoe.
>Round 5
Just as good.
>Round 6
High chance of better peformance.
>Round 7
Here's the first one they probably wouldn't perform as good.
>Round 8
Not as good of a performance but still doable to trick Nino.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:34:33 PM No.281161625
>>281161588
>the moment he fixes his mobility issue, in any team.
Speaking of which, Reiji seriously needs to whip him into shape
Heโ€™s physically weaker than Chika for fuckโ€™s sake
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:34:49 PM No.281161637
So, basically, Osamu is the Deku of WT?
Replies: >>281161661 >>281161710 >>281161724 >>281161754 >>281167680
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:36:11 PM No.281161661
>>281161637
Erm, Osamu didn't get an OP power.
Replies: >>281161736
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:38:51 PM No.281161710
>>281161637
Osamu has bigger balls than Dekuโ€™s
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:39:06 PM No.281161724
>>281161637
if anything he is closer to friendly neighbor cruller
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:39:48 PM No.281161736
>>281161661
Imagine if Kuga dies in battle and his BT passes on to Osamu. Would there be a civil war in Border to take it away from him, ie, hell itself would freeze over before theyโ€™d let a BT be wasted on such a shitter?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:40:38 PM No.281161754
>>281161637
I don't think Jin passed Osamu the Fujin or his side effect. As a MHA analogy it would be like Still quirkless. Deku failed the hero exam but All Might pulled some strings and made him pass.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:44:07 PM No.281161838
>>281147004
Yeah no shit his experience in team fights amounts to 8 rank wars matches
Still border management decided they don't need to test him as a captain in the away mission test
Replies: >>281161960 >>281165369
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 4:49:13 PM No.281161960
>>281161838
I hope the away mission ends up in a total fucking disaster. This manga lives by plot armor too much, it would be great for the Border management to be forced to look at themselves hard in the mirror. โ€œWere we subconsciously treating this mission like a ranking test?โ€
Replies: >>281165369
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 5:35:35 PM No.281163686
>>281146717 (OP)
very nice discussion
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:15:27 PM No.281165288
>>281147627
Thanks OP it was nice to read with you
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:17:45 PM No.281165369
1753398012582618
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md5: df9037eb4d0ae4ab85ba3b46fad8fe6a๐Ÿ”
>>281161838
>>281161960
I'm really curious as to how it's gonna play out. They need to go out there to find missing people, fight aftokrator's forces, plus whatever allies or trion soldiers they'll find in their way. To be honest I don't see how that's supposed to go well since it's not about destruction or kidnappings.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:25:05 PM No.281165627
>>281152988
I don't think I fully thought it through until you put it like this, but you're right. Osamu has been a loose cannon from day one, but it's been masked by the fact that he's personally very upright and his personal code happens to coincide with most of the official rules and laws of society and Border. But he won't hesitate to break the rules if he feels something is wrong.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 6:43:01 PM No.281166352
>>281146717 (OP)
dont cap it
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:01:31 PM No.281167121
>>281147627
Gotta say: Homework arc held up wonderfully on a re-read IMO

I enjoyed all the interactions while reading montly, but by the end of the arc i adimit i was tired. But it's great to see that the story flows a lot better reading by volume, not boring at all

also it's actually not that long it only felt that way because of the montly release schedule
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:03:05 PM No.281167196
>>281149113
42 total is pretty good actually, solid B rank material - he only need to get his shit together
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:14:12 PM No.281167680
>>281161637
If Osamu got a Black Trigger with the powers of 7 other Black Triggers and turned into a Trion monster, then he'd be the Deku of WT.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:38:04 PM No.281168589
See you again, world anons.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:39:10 PM No.281168633
>>281146851
good chance it is
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 7:59:12 PM No.281169390
>>281146937
Good to know.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:01:52 PM No.281169472
>>281149113
These stats don't make any sense. Usually defense correlates with experience. And all his stats are rather high. But in real combat he sucks at everything he got a high stat in.
Replies: >>281169507
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:02:43 PM No.281169507
>>281169472
He sucks at team-fighting.
Replies: >>281169958
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:08:39 PM No.281169690
>>281149306
The level you talk about is low to mid b-rank where likes of chano and ebina squads fight, and he could take on squads up to kakizaki, maybe suwa. He would learn nothing in c-rank.
Replies: >>281171510
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:13:20 PM No.281169840
>>281150231
And out of these 8 Rindo, Jin and Reiji decided to fuck off snd do their own thing
I'm amazed how this organization didn't collapse and it's a mystery how they got all these a rank squads wbo do the mentoring and teach snipers at least
Replies: >>281170675
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:16:59 PM No.281169958
>>281169507
If he was good at solo why hasn't he broke the master wall?
Replies: >>281169981
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:17:43 PM No.281169981
>>281169958
Look at his stats, he's average, not good.
Replies: >>281170108 >>281170341
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:20:35 PM No.281170082
>>281150685
Jackson doesn't need to leave the squad. Katori will go as individual and Jackson will take her place as a captain. I'm not sure how does Ashihara plan to sideline Miura who has a crash on Katori though, maybe he'll go as well and the squad will be disbanded
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:21:22 PM No.281170108
>>281169981
Katori is 46
Replies: >>281170141
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:22:31 PM No.281170141
>>281170108
So he's almost there.
Replies: >>281174300
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:23:15 PM No.281170169
>>281149113
Honestly, he's way underperforming his stats. It has to be a mental block or something.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:28:37 PM No.281170341
>>281169981
His 5 core stats are 6 and above, that's well above average
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 8:38:42 PM No.281170675
>>281169840
Technically it was Kinda Kidou and Shinoda fucking off and doing their own thing. Looking at old Border, what seems to have happened is that Mogami and Umesaki were the leadership and they turned themselves into black triggers during the war. After that leadership devolved onto Rindo, Kido, and Shinoda. They disagreed over the future direction of the organization, and eventually came to a compromise. Namely that Kido and Shinoda would get the mother trigger and the princess to build a base and start recruiting, while Rindo would get the newborn prince and the crown trigger and keep old Border's spirit going. Kiriyama opted to join Kido and Shinoda, while Yuri, Reiji, Konami, and Jin opted to stay with Rindo. With the two groups agreeing to maintain cooperation for the greater good and to have a unified public face.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:04:20 PM No.281171510
>>281169690
I more meant busted down to C-Rank but then immediately begins fighting lower B-Rank. That might even be preferable even if he's slightly beyond them, cause they'd only be slightly below him, so he can both gain some confidence doing stuff he should be capable of doing and the upper C-Rank/lower B-Ranks can face an opponent that's only just beyond them.
Replies: >>281173581
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 9:52:51 PM No.281172913
>>281147119
>>281147138
>>281147152
>>281147177
>>281147200
>>281147223
One step closer to borderchan
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:14:50 PM No.281173556
I guess this is the afterparty thread no matter what. I'm excited to see the inventors of Raygust and Scorpion duke it out, and also show us the maximum potential of Raygust (we've already seen enough what Scorpion can do).
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:15:22 PM No.281173581
>>281171510
He should make a low b rank team with Osamu and Taichi.
Osamu as attacker, he as gunner and taichi as sniper.
IMAGINE the terror in the lower ranks.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:29:20 PM No.281174014
>>281172066
Raizo was a top kogetsu user before he got fat. From his stats he's very skilled but nothing game changing.

Cronin is the royal guard of a Neighbour country. We don't have his stats, but he's probably very strong. I'd be surprised if he's weaker than the other old timers.
Replies: >>281174694 >>281175659 >>281176028
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:39:01 PM No.281174300
>>281170141
Katori is way beyond master level in single combat. I'd rate her almost at Yuma's level.
Replies: >>281175894
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:39:50 PM No.281174317
>>281161756
Why does this man hate Chika?
Replies: >>281174359
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:41:26 PM No.281174359
>>281174317
>make a game about soliders
>how do I balance a walking nuke?
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 10:52:59 PM No.281174694
>>281174014
Can't wait to see Cronin in action. Every neighbor has his/her own quirky approach to using triggers. Kuga is an unstoppable fast aggresive killer, Hyuse is a solid all-rounder with a solid tactics and strategies.
Replies: >>281176028
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:10:21 PM No.281175323
>>281146717 (OP)
Thanks for this, OP. Definitely not what I'd been expecting given the opening premise, what with all the wargaming, and minimal greeblies for out of space and time battles.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:22:25 PM No.281175659
>>281174014
>From his stats he's very skilled but nothing game changing.
He's one of the chief engineers. He's going to bring at least 4 experimental triggers and all of them will be OP in some way.
Replies: >>281176059
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:30:27 PM No.281175894
>>281174300
Serious Katori probably is around that level, her stats are just reflecting that she's inconsistent.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:34:40 PM No.281176019
Thinking on it, I'm pretty sure that while the long term combat phase technically has win conditions for the examinees, that the pass fail criteria is going to have more to do with their actions during the test. Who earns points and how. Who survives the whole time and how. Who comes up with successful strategies and tactics. The points and win conditions are just there to provide a goal to work towards, with the terminals serving partially to emulate defending the away ship or attacking Neighbor installations.
Replies: >>281176341 >>281176413
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:35:04 PM No.281176028
Kronin
Kronin
md5: 7a35a9afb8acc0e4db2c40bcb931da25๐Ÿ”
>>281174014
>>281174694
Cronin has some options available to him and can probably pull off some nutty stuff. Even his shields are probably annoyingly crafty.
Replies: >>281176109
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:36:15 PM No.281176059
>>281175659
He's gonna show us the extent of Raygust's capabilities and I'm hyped for it. He probably has very creative ways to use it.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:36:17 PM No.281176061
I'm tired of the Osamu wank, he needs another humbling
Replies: >>281176116 >>281176333 >>281176519
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:37:37 PM No.281176109
>>281176028
I don't wanna see any neighbor discrimination when this guy is a god damn gamer
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:37:56 PM No.281176116
>>281176061
This was the one arc he could excel at, scummy tactics that didn't require fighting progress.
Next arc is the fight one AND he's easy to kill.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:44:54 PM No.281176333
1734764734230497
1734764734230497
md5: fbf1ae7259ed2fed09be536bfc28ac88๐Ÿ”
>>281176061
>t.
Replies: >>281176451 >>281176837 >>281177150
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:45:09 PM No.281176341
>>281176019
>The points and win conditions are just there to provide a goal to work towards
That seems to be the case. I'm also a fan of that other anon's theory that they'll drop in Amo at some point. Agents that panic or give up at that point should obviously not go on an away mission.
Replies: >>281176378
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:46:36 PM No.281176378
>>281176341
The issue with this test is that most don't want to and they can't force them anyway.
At one point they will need to settle.
Replies: >>281176497
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:48:07 PM No.281176413
>>281176019
Yeah, Oji is bang on here. I mean, its obvious. If the B ranks lose they're not going to say "Oh, no B ranks on the mission everyone go home. We wanted to take Azuma but Taichi died fifty times so Azuma needs to stay home."
Replies: >>281176452
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:49:42 PM No.281176451
>>281176333
>Putting a bunch of teenagers together in confined spaces
>Sending a bunch of teenagers together into alien missions in a confined space
What is Border's endgame?
Replies: >>281176483 >>281176548 >>281177128
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:49:43 PM No.281176452
>>281176413
Oji's insights regarding the test are eerily accurate, when he gives a shit.
Replies: >>281176597
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:50:48 PM No.281176483
>>281176451
>their trion bodies don't have genitals so it's SAFE
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:51:28 PM No.281176497
>>281176378
With all the new recruits they're getting I think eventually they'll want to offer separate career paths, one for defense and one for away missions.
For now it still serves as a test of what the current agents are capable of, not just physically but also mentally, which is still useful data.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:52:08 PM No.281176519
>>281176061
I feel this way about Suwa-7 in general. Not even Mizukami's squad got wanked as hard. And, at least in my estimation, they're set up decently well for the combat phase, only being surpassed by squads that did notably worse in the sealed environment phase. So I don't see them being humbled particularly hard there, either.
Replies: >>281176593
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:53:10 PM No.281176548
1739348086189211
1739348086189211
md5: 674eb5bb99a284a8322c69d37ae2c5bf๐Ÿ”
>>281176451
Raise Meeden fertility rates
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:54:42 PM No.281176593
>>281176519
As this arc said, having a specific goal you want to achieve and actually taking the steps to achieve it is important.
The top three teams?
>I want to have my team set for the next phase
>I want to be number one
>we want to send this crafty sack of shit in an away mission
Everyone else genuinely lacked determination.
Replies: >>281176693
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:54:51 PM No.281176597
>>281176452
He's like those people who figured things out a long time ago but don't give a shit, he basically wants to have fun and shitpost IRL. When he's focused he's scary.
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:56:03 PM No.281176625
>Chika blasting
>Nino defending against snipe
>Ema And Azuma counter snipe
>have to go through wire hell to melee her
How do you counter this?
Replies: >>281176681 >>281176749
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:58:27 PM No.281176681
>>281176625
>Konami, reiji, torimaru
Anonymous
8/3/2025, 11:58:55 PM No.281176693
>>281176593
>I want to have my team set for the next phase
>I want to be number one
These are extremely weak motivations compared to any squad with someone who wants to go on the away mission. Especially one like Ninomiya squad where multiple people do.
Replies: >>281176738
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:00:32 AM No.281176738
>>281176693
Nino knows he's going, 100%, as rank 1 shooter.
Everyone else wants to kind of help their teammates but no one actually tried nearly as hard as mizukami and kodera.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:00:52 AM No.281176749
>>281176625
Chika as a sniper is beatable in that team
now, Chika on foot, being guarded by Ninomiya? Yeah, fuck that.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:03:41 AM No.281176832
I have genuinely no idea who's going on the away mission. Will Katori and Wakamura go, after getting so much development in the exam? Will Hana? Kitora doesn't want to go but she's practically a main character now.

I can see both Ema and Kageura getting in, but if they go it's weird to leave Kitazoe behind. Maybe he'll start his own squad, and that's why they're testing him as a captain?
Replies: >>281176861 >>281176898 >>281176951 >>281176958 >>281177607 >>281178024 >>281178219 >>281178528
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:03:55 AM No.281176837
>>281176333
Jesus christ, that hairstyle is pure unfiltered sex.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:04:57 AM No.281176861
>>281176832
Same.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:06:21 AM No.281176898
>>281176832
Wakamura will probably convince Katori to go, he takes care of the squad with Miura and Hana in the meantime.
Ema is going.
Kage too.
Zoe, as you said, will probably make his own team.
Nino's whole squad is going.
Ko, Ikoma too I feel.
Replies: >>281176923 >>281177078
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:07:27 AM No.281176923
>>281176898
No.
No.
Yes.
Yes.
No.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:08:28 AM No.281176951
>>281176832
>Kitora doesn't want to go but she's practically a main character now.

Is she? Why?
Replies: >>281177592
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:08:45 AM No.281176958
>>281176832
Yes, some agents will start their own teams. One pressing issue for Border is to handle the excessive amount of C-rankers that cannot reach B-rank by themselves (shitters), so now they will be using these agents to speed that process up.

One interesting result that may possible happen would be the cast expanding even more lmao.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:12:52 AM No.281177078
>>281176898
Ko is Suzunari's Konami. Not going to happen.
Ikoma doesn't give a shit towards the whole thing.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:14:33 AM No.281177128
>>281176451
Flooding the neighbourhood with soldiers in ~19 years.
Replies: >>281177154
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:15:36 AM No.281177150
>>281176333
Kitora would never partake in such a lewd display, she'd just rape someone if she needed a fuck.
Replies: >>281177209
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:15:41 AM No.281177154
>>281177128
It's nice knowing medeen has already won the war and everyone else isn't aware it's just a matter of time.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:16:47 AM No.281177182
>>281170494
I think they're going to use the uniforms their chibis did during the sims.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:17:35 AM No.281177209
1725742976633311
1725742976633311
md5: 2940d437cd38d7264f71e80c2a4b4959๐Ÿ”
>>281177150
What about Katori?
Replies: >>281177511
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:29:29 AM No.281177481
Everyone acts like the B ranks are totally fucked, but I don't think it's that bad.
WT has always made it clear that teamwork trumps individual strength. None of the monsters on the A rank side are unstoppable. And the B ranks have their own monsters too. And between their greater numbers, access to custom trion soldiers, and the advantage in trion monsters they have more flexibility in strategic options than the A ranks do.
They're at a disadvantage to be sure. But it's still doable.
Replies: >>281177577 >>281177735
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:31:24 AM No.281177511
>>281177209
do border agents really?
Replies: >>281177605
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:34:40 AM No.281177577
>>281177481
That's the thing anon, like I was talking about in thread.
It's teamwork that the A-Teams excel at.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:35:23 AM No.281177592
>>281176951
We've already spent 50 chapters with her, and we're probably going to spend another 30 or so. We've had her backstory, her motivations, we've seen her potential and what's holding her back.
Replies: >>281177636
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:35:57 AM No.281177605
>>281177511
It fosters collaboration and strengthens relationships among fellow agents.
I'm waiting for a Nono/Taichi doujin.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:36:05 AM No.281177607
>>281176832
>Katori
Almost certainly.
>Jackson
No, he'll stay behind and be relevant on defense.
>Ema
Yes, he'll be convincing in the combat phase and earn his spot so he can protect his chicken.
>Kage
Could go either way, I think him staying is slightly more likely so he can work on his non-combat skills.
Replies: >>281177781
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:37:40 AM No.281177636
1728826764076787
1728826764076787
md5: 143b14d095ed5ab97224995dd1105053๐Ÿ”
>>281177592
Thank god we didn't tho.
Replies: >>281177700 >>281177850
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:40:24 AM No.281177700
>>281177636
I see what I did now. I have no idea what Kitora is doing. Honestly, I don't get why she's not with Arashiyama squad.
Replies: >>281177807
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:41:53 AM No.281177735
>>281177481
The problem is that B-ranks are not with their actual teams, so the dynamics are going to be kind of wack for them to roll with
However, I can only imagine that the custom trion soldiers are going to be important. The earnest types will probably supply more straightforward fighters while I assume the more creative amongst them will find some alternative uses for trion soldiers like Taichi's mounts that will give them a leg up
Replies: >>281177923
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:44:16 AM No.281177781
>>281177607
>Katori
>Almost certainly.
I don't see it, most of you keep saying that but have you tought about why?
Seems like just wishful-thinking desu.

Ema is not going either, first, he is too young, second, Border won't trust him because of Hatohara, third, his results were pretty bad and I don't see him overturning it on the battle phase like Katori (low points annoyance) or Taichi (crazy idea guy for the trion soldiers).
Replies: >>281178107 >>281178169 >>281178207 >>281178378
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:45:47 AM No.281177807
>>281177700
Border saw an opportunity in her to be either a instructor or a captain, or both.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:47:39 AM No.281177850
>>281177636
Kitora's not going either.
PR girl and low on trion, Border already has a trionlet on board to deal with.

I always tought the Cat had a thing for Kitora and would maybe force her to go, but maybe it was just my impression.
Replies: >>281177942 >>281178187
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:50:48 AM No.281177923
>>281177735
Them not being with their normal teams is a double edged sword. They'll be less used to working together. But they'll also be putting together novel strategies that will make them less predictable even before considering the addition of trion soldiers. And it has been shown that border agents in general, A and B ranks, are able to work well together even outside their squads during both neighbor attacks. I think the only ones that will struggle significantly on that front are the ones with specific personality clashes or weak operators.
The trion soldiers should be a huge deal. The B ranks know exactly what they can be facing and, other than the potential for cubing rabbits, none of the options are all that impressive. The B ranks have the elements of surprise, versatility, and specialization on their side.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:51:56 AM No.281177942
>>281177850
It'd be weird if Border made a big show out of the Away Mission but didn't send their PR squad. There are risks if something goes wrong, but they can always just be assigned to less dangerous stuff like guarding the ship.
Replies: >>281177965 >>281178107 >>281178187 >>281178497
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:53:08 AM No.281177965
>>281177942
Hmm, good point, forget the detail that Border is making a show of this away mission.

Kitora would be a bad choice though, but maybe the cat just want to have her on board.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 12:56:53 AM No.281178024
>>281176832
Wonder if there's a bet going on.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:00:42 AM No.281178107
>>281177781
I don't see Katori going either, she's straight up denied it, and I doubt she'd change her mind even if Wakamura told her he's leaving her squad.
I disagree with Ema though. At the very least I don't see any evidence that Border distrusts him, they even gave Ninomiya permission to tell him the truth. Kageura is the one with discipline problems, and frankly I think Kage is still worth the risk. He offers a strong counter against Hyrein.
>>281177942
This take I don't understand at all. Border definitely still wants to keep as much secrets as they can about the Neighborhood. They aren't going to make tapes about it to show the public.
Replies: >>281178380 >>281179832
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:03:52 AM No.281178169
>>281177781
>have you tought about why?
I agree there's several in-universe reasons for her not to go. From a meta view I think it's likely that her squad will split up, and from there I expect her to choose to go on the away mission.
It's also possible that the payoff for the focus on her squad is them finally becoming functional, in which case she'd stay.

>Ema
Fair points honestly, you could be right. As for Taichi, at this point it seems obvious that he'll switch careers into engineering.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:04:27 AM No.281178187
>>281177850
Well, as I recall Kitora appearance was based on a character that was in the earlier drafts, so Ashihara probably has some attachment to her based on that. But the reality is that her initial role in the series was as the minor antagonist of a truncated "hide Yuma from Border" arc, and her relevance has fallen off as we get to the bigger picture of Border, and with it her popularity. So I don't think he'll try and force more relevance for her.

>>281177942
Maybe, but if they're sending the PR squad, it's kind of odd she's the only one in with the testing group seeing as far as we know, Arashiyama squad has never qualified for the away mission, and Kitora shouldn't be more or less qualified for an away mission than her squadmates.

So I think the question to answer first is "For what purpose did the administration put Kitora in among the B-ranks for the test?"
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:04:59 AM No.281178207
>>281177781
>he is too young
Border is OK with using child soldiers. And he's older than Chika, who is guaranteed going.
>Border won't trust him because of Hatohara
That would affect Ninomiya more than Ema. Yuzuru cares about her, but that's not why he wants to go. He just wants to protect Chika, which is perfectly in line with their overall objective considering she is their ship's battery who they will be relying on to get home.
>his results were pretty bad and I don't see him overturning it on the battle phase
Ninomiya's squad should logically be the key to the B ranks' success during the combat phase. And the A ranks would know that, so they'll also be heavily targeted. All of its members should have ample opportunity to show their worth.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:05:41 AM No.281178219
>>281176832
>Azuma
>Ema
>Katori
>Kitora
Those are my bets.
Replies: >>281178395
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:12:09 AM No.281178378
>>281177781
>Ema
Keep in mind, Ema is a former A-rank, and his sniper skills aren't anything to sneer at seeing as he was doing the same thing as Toma during target practice and drawing on the target with his shots rather than make a point of getting a high score. For that matter, the only reason that all of Kageura squad isn't A-rank at the moment is that Kageura absolutely decked Netsuki and they had to punish the squad. Both Ninomiya squad and Kageura squads are effectively A-rank squads in B-rank purely because of administrative reasons. It would absolutely make sense for Border to bring both squads as a whole along the away mission unless they had a specific reason to exclude someone.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:12:19 AM No.281178380
>>281178107
>They aren't going to make tapes about it to show the public.
Not real ones. I could see Netsuki throwing together some fake propaganda videos, though. They could keep the rest of Arashiyama squad at home for their regular PR duties and then send Kitora on the away mission to then star in the fake vids when she gets back.
Replies: >>281178497
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:13:09 AM No.281178395
>>281178219
My reasons:
>Azuma
Mangas with teenagers need a mentor figure and there's none aboard that I know of.
>Ema
His whole sub-plot which has being going on for ages, it's stupid for it to have no pay-off.
>Katori/Kitora
The Cat likes both of them and no editor will let an arc go on without some Tsundere energy, at least one of them is going to TsunTsun Mikumo you can screenshot this shit. Katori, like Ema also has a subplot going on but Kitora has been a long time away from the spotlight. The biggest twist would be both going.

Kikushihara is also a safe bet, given his side-effect and his dynamics with the other characters.
Replies: >>281178471 >>281178604 >>281178740 >>281178800
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:16:45 AM No.281178471
>>281178395
I really hope Katori doesn't go. I'm already tired of her and the battle phase hasn't even started yet.
Replies: >>281178567 >>281178740
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:17:47 AM No.281178497
>>281177942
>>281178380
Netsuki can also take this opportunity to push Chano squad a bit more. For being a PR team sure as hell they are forgettable.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:19:02 AM No.281178528
>>281176832
Grok told me it is Kumagai, Iko and Miwa.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:20:57 AM No.281178567
1747960704520381
1747960704520381
md5: f5699ff58065b1dc35a85ae1a8adce23๐Ÿ”
>>281178471
You are not tired of her, you're tired of anons who won't shup up about her like me
Pic unrelated.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:23:01 AM No.281178604
>>281178395
Everyone's sleeping on Ko.
Replies: >>281178646 >>281179361
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:25:09 AM No.281178646
>>281178604
Ko seems like prime stay and defend Meeden material to me.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:29:46 AM No.281178740
>>281178395
>>281178471
After the whole "Jackson should leave Katori Squad" spiel, not splitting those two up for the next arc would be a mistake and I can't see Jackson going
Replies: >>281178783
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:32:09 AM No.281178783
>>281178740
They can split up on Meeden. I don't want either of them going.
Replies: >>281178866 >>281178878
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:32:57 AM No.281178800
>>281178395
>Kikushihara is also a safe bet
Huh? Kikuchihara isn't a "safe bet" he's guaranteed to be going because he's a member of Kazama squad and was part of the last away mission. He's one of the A-rank agents in among the B-ranks for the test for unclear reasons beyond fully filling out all teams to four people.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:36:10 AM No.281178866
>>281178783
I don't actually see them splitting up, it's way too easy to jump back into familiar patterns even if they're bad for you. They have to be forced apart.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:37:02 AM No.281178878
>>281178783
Don't worry, she's not goingsadly only worst Ktr.
It doesn't make a lick of sense to put an agent that no one wants to deal with in a mission like this anyway.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:43:10 AM No.281178969
>>281178878
Yep, sorry guys, I know she's awesome and all but no amount of sick plays on the battle to come will make the A-Ranks suddenly go
>"Oh! I want to be in the away ship with her now!!"
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:46:42 AM No.281179016
>>281178969
Really sound argument.
Katorifags your rebuttal?
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 1:56:26 AM No.281179169
>>281178866
The Canadian therapy session was pretty intense. I could definitely see Jackson taking it to heart and insisting that he needs to leave the squad for everyone's benefit including his own.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:07:36 AM No.281179361
>>281167501
>>281167753
Wait so operators are intangible AND can use their own triggers? This sounds silly overpowered in the sense you could get a regular agent to hide and block all damage to the laptop while the unstoppable operator eventually kills any enemy in sight. Just claiming " well but this won't break the test and it's okay because operators have no battle experience" is silly because they are still invencible. It's obviously only done to allow the few operators that quit as agents some time in the limelight.


>>281178604
His squad performance in phase 1 is way too high from what they've shown, there's no way they would be able to complete so many assignments while putting so much thought into the special sims.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:11:45 AM No.281179440
>>281179169
I don't think Katori would just accept Jackson saying he's leaving the squad, she would absolutely throw a tantrum and try to get her way. Katori's personality issues haven't actually been dealt with, she was just offered Karasuma dick to get it together and it worked.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:15:37 AM No.281179515
>>281179361
Also the idea that agents that refuse shooting (operator) girls should be accomodated at all in an away mission is also incredibly nonsensical; for example if miwa had refused to shoot mira because she was a girl osamu would have definitely died and chika probably captured as well. And the sheer irony of rejecting hatohara for refusing to shoot people but being okay with guys that won't shoot girls is palpable.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:18:00 AM No.281179560
>>281179361
not really, assuming that they still consume trion from triggers and stuff and excluding the 2 or 3 operators with decent, they are all trionlets with a value of 1-2 with little to no combat experience. If they actually try to fight they'll sooner bail out from trion usage. And the sooner they bail out the faster the team is without communication to other teams.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:24:36 AM No.281179689
>>281179361
Since their laptop is essentially their trion body, their regular body would be a sort of trion projection from it. So it's unlikely that they can get too far from the laptop. And even if they can, if they're going around fighting, then their squad doesn't have an operator, which would be a huge nerf that's not really worth getting an intangible trionlet that doesn't know how to fight. The laptop is also probably pretty fragile. A regular trion body can get shot through with some bullets and still function just fine. I don't see that being the case for the laptops.
So not only is this not really overpowered for this test, it's also not a good option to try with actual combatants, either. It makes some sense for the operators since they'd have to protect the laptop anyway and aren't good at defending themselves. But for anyone else it would be worse than just having a regular trion body.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:31:19 AM No.281179832
>>281178107
>taking a tsundere at her word
lol
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:32:23 AM No.281179853
>>281179515
>Also the idea that agents that refuse shooting (operator) girls should be accomodated at all in an away mission is also incredibly nonsensical
That's just Oki's thoughts on the matter. Oki has trouble shooting girls. That doesn't mean it's Border's actual reason.
Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:38:18 AM No.281179964
>>281178969
The A ranks aren't responsible for making the decision on who makes the cut.
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Anonymous
8/4/2025, 2:41:12 AM No.281180017
>>281179964
Their opinions have a significant influence on that decision. And it's not like their issues are something management would disagree with. Just the fact that she had to be bribed to be able to perform at all is probably the biggest mark against her. There's no way to be confident that you could motivate her on an away mission.