Thread 283048124

Chapter 328: The 64th

>>283048187
NOT A SINGLE DUD

>>283048211
>These "names"
Is it authentic sandoism or is it the "other me" altering the scans ?

>>283048211
Hooded gang members:
Xehanort
Battler Ushiromiya
Agent 47
Colonel Sanders
Kevin Nash
HUNK
El Hermando De Koga
Not sure on 8 and 9 just yet, need to do more "research"

>>283048211
My...villains?

330 chapters of my favorite slop

>>283048297
Number 9 is Big Smoke
Number 8 is Maidan Monkhbat

Couldn't we just have multiple gates sir

>>283048297
You forgot Gaxok

>>283048187
What has Muteba even done after getting knocked around by Tiger Niko?

>>283048297
They are all Hassad.

character likeness has been specially abysmal in the last few chapters

>>283048284
>Oh, that makes more sense
>*laugh track*

Is Tiger Niko still shitting himself is his new best friend holding his hand like he's about to give birth?

>>283048307
that's supposed to be raian...?

>>283048325
budgetary constraints, please understand

>>283048397
HE DID THE THING!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idA7RsiOpqA

>>283048397
Jean Luck looks like Ryuki with shorter blonde hair

How do we restore Tiger Niko's aura?

ENTER

>>283048445
>trying to make 2 of the weakest people look threatening

>>283048397
Who the fuck is Jean Luc.

>>283048504
Please don't waste a chapter on those, just offscreen the jobbers.

>>283048445
>>283048504
Who are these guys again ?

>>283048397
This is such a stupid pointless plotline on top of a myriad of pointless plotlines

>>283048445
I have no clue who the other guy even is??

>>283048504
Kokuro bros what the fuck

>>283048445
>>283048504
who even are these guys

>>283048397
Okay I need a summary.

These two faggots used to be army friends, Nicolas was a schizo though and killed civilians so Jean killed him but he was also a schizo and took his identity and then went into a coma.

But Nicolas never died and he is part worm now? That means our Nicolas was always Liu friend? And the only lying bastard was the niko user?

the art keeps getting worse

>>283048124 (OP)
I think I've skipped at least 2 weeks of this shit
Why are they still not fighting!?

>>283048504
If I was a jobber I would try to take low level fodder so I could claim I helped too.

>>283048504
>Katou and Gaia vs Musashi

My FAKKIN heroes

>>283048504
>next chapter opens up with shen lying beaten and bloddy on the ground
kino?

>>283048504
Shen will only beat them because they grouped up
Individually however...who is to say?

>>283048284
Gilbert doing his best "I gotta take a shit" face.

>>283048463
I still dont understand why there needs to be the coin and battle royal thing.
This tournament was just set up so Shen can fight someone who could beat him, right?
Why all those convoluted rules, just have them out on an island and have them try to beat Shen.
Instead we've got like 4 wasted chapters just to explain the rules and clarify.

What happens if I put the coin up my ass?

>>283048717
You'd have a coin up your ass.

>>283048550
Not to mention it's an absolutely vulgar retcon

>>283048504
It's pretty embarrassing how Sandro is so addicted to shoving cliffhanger at the end of every chapter for engagement he thought Shen facing two random jobbers would be even remotely interesting, or maybe he just ran out of idea

>>283048504
This page is so absolutely atrocious

>>283048504
Why is this even a cliffhanger when we know they'll get folded in a panel?

>>283048784
It's clearly a bait into a subversion but the subversion is so predictable it goes back to being stupid

>>283048784
We won't even see the fight and the last page of next chapter will be Shen lying on the ground unconscious.
The chapter after that it will be revealed that he was sleeping on the ground after being so bored from fighting those nonames.

>>283048695
Sandro is stealing ideas from our World Trigger threads. I unironically think he browses here

>>283048307
WHAT THE FUCK
WHO THE FUCK IS THIS??????
VTCFVGUVUFCYDCSTZYSCUFCUDCDUXYDXSYC8FCUFCUFCUDCUFCUFCUF

>>283048504
>>283048445
This makes me so goddamn sad to see Kokuro turned into this. He was my favorite new character in Omega. I liked him even more than Koga. He had potential to be the best bro character in a long time. But now he's just a joke.

>>283048695
Because Sandro loves Shen too much to let him get beaten despite supposedly being the main villain. That's why Sandro asspulled some more conditions for the good guys to "win" against Shen (the coin and device) without making him look bad

Anyone spotted copy pasted characters this time around?

if csm can make a comeback, omega can too. in sandro i trust

>>283048504
Coughing Baby vs Hydrogen Bomb

>>283048902
That has to be the most retarded thing I've heard across all of Keng/a/n

>>283048397
uuuuuuuh?

>>283048422
Scratching his butt?

>Liu: I am not letting MY LAST LIVING FRIEND fight again >:(
>He's going to fight again
>Liu: Okay...
Fat work that did.

>>283048463
Lose... "what?"
What are you gonna lose by being defeated in this?

Huh?

>>283048422
Sen is first because he's "hatsu"?

>>283048997
>Nicholas dies
>Liu: fuck I am bad at this

>>283049010
Someone post that Liu image where he's just alone in a room.

>>283048948
Jojolion is a story about breaking a curse.

>>283048843
So that's why it's a forest map

>>283048945
What is even going on with Kaiji right now.

>>283048695
They can't beat his ass in a straight fight so the association forced the worm (?) to accept these conditions so they can weasel out a win without having to engage Wu long.

>>283048463
>I've got the coin.

>>283048674
based

>>283049111
That picture was from the Ichijou spinoff. Kaiji is still trying to put 2.4 billions into bank accounts while hiding inside the home he just bought with his Asian friends

>>283049076
Makes me laugh every time.

>>283049076
I still think that room is way to small for being on the payroll of the yakuza.

What I wonder the most is, who will win this whole thing and what will they wish for?
I don't think Shen or Ohma would win, it'd be too predictable. Or not, and they could have Ohma win or Shen but he'd wish for something silly rather than Ryuki's body.
But other than them, who could win and what would they wish for?

>>283048860
Why does no fight manga address the constant pooping that results from the huge amount of food required to maintain those bodies? Professional athletes eat between 4000 to 10000 calories a day. Even if you go for calorie dense food you'll still poop a ridiculous amount.

>>283049146
What happened to my wife Yamiya.

>>283049187
I have the feeling Baki might've mentioned it. KAT Raian might've done that
>Looks over the bathroom stall
>Nice shit bro.

>>283048445
>Yan: Wow, those two are fucking dumb.

>>283048445
>>283048504
>Feeding two early Koga victims to Shen for no reason
kek

>>283048504
Place your bets!
>They want to fight him first because he's the strongest guy and they don't care about gay rules, they just want to prove they are the strongest
or
>They want to fight him because they love Ryuki and Ohma that much and they want to protect them just like everyone else

>>283049202
It ended.

>>283049250
They are on the early Rihito shit of "wouldn't it be awesome if I flipped my reputation just like that"

>>283049271
Did it ever got explained why is she so strong.

>>283048504
Next week we have a duel of the jobbers

>>283049202
They tried to date her and it failed

>>283049271
I think that's just her "part 1" that ended

Next chapter will cut to Tiger Niko shenanigans he gets stuck shitting on the toiliet.

I miss Luohan

>>283049322
Disgusting old men.

>>283049187
(You) are still "green"
At "that level" a fighters body can metabolize every nutrient with perfect efficiency.
"that" is part of "scaling the wall"

>>283048695
Beating Shen will require a massive collaborative effort, which cannot be done in a tournament where one fighter square off against Shen at a time. At least, this BR allows them to gang up on him legally and may be pull out a narrow win with the coin and watches if they failed

>>283048397
What's the point of this subplot? People liked Nicolas for being a personality-shifting identity-stealing schizo, Sandro took that away and now Nicolas is just "Jean" with a contender for one of the most lifeless stares I've ever seen Daro put to paper. All that personality is completely gone for something that's wholly unfamiliar
The real Nicolas is already sticking his god damn tongue out too so Sandro's already telling us not to expect anything from him

>>283048504
>Hanada countered Hanayama's cannonball punch
>Kokuro is about to get fed to Shen for no reason

The way Sandro treats Kokuro and the way Itagaki treats Hanada, two characters who were hyped and then disappeared from the story for years to come back later on, is like night and day

>>283049595
>legally
For someone claimed to be a global threat by every nation on planet Earth, I don't think 9 billion people would care if someone shot Shen with a gun, killing him.

But, apparently, he's just a beloved drunk uncle! WHO WILL KILL YOU! >:(
Psych!
Maybe...

>>283049322
Fukumoto can draw cute girl characters when he needs to

>>283048504
>This connector guy? I'dunno he doesn't really look like a fighter. He looks more like a guy who showed up for the barbeque for the free grill, y'know, how can he be a strong fighter? I mean, look at those two guys, they're way beyond heavyweights, and t's also a 2 vs 1, don't reckon his chances that well.

>>283048260
why does dude got a 'boys love' shirt on?
WAIT... wasn't he the pankrationist too?
he's a GAYreek...

>>283048504
I wonder if this is gonna be the kind of situation where Kokuro and the other guy are so weak and unskilled compared to Shen, that they can notice and do stuff against him that others can't?

>>283048211
she's in...

>>283048504
>Kuroki ducked fighting full health Shen
BUMROKI THE DEVIL FRAUD

>>283048397
>isn't this is a beautiful sunset
>real Nicolas LeBanner
>tongue
what a shitpost of a page

>>283048187
I remember when Muteba used to be cool

>>283048504
they are gonna job so fucking hard it's unreal

>>283048211
>Chopstick Johnny
That's racist.

>>283048307
this has to be AI

Why does the art look even worse?

>>283049737
They might bomb Italy if you did that, Anon. Seriously. Bomb. Italy.
Italy would never recover.
Earth would never recover.
Too much risk!

>>283048398
Raian is on the juice.

>>283048397
It's funny that they're trying to hype up Nicholas when a younger, nonpurgatory experienced, emotionally fucked up having to fight his boyfriend Jean Luc already beat him
Although I genuinely believe his pressure point paralysis fencing with Akoya level reaction time is low-key one of the most broken combinations we've ever seen, he just hasn't fought enough

>>283049829
Shen seeing Kuroki standing at the gate entrance, signaling that the moment Shen steps inside Kuroki will attack, would have been a genuinely hype moment and a neat "subversion" if you will.

>>283050008
I would have loved to see him fight Gaolang.

This board belongs to the FISH Chads, pussies!

>>283049935
What isn’t at this point?

>>283050008
Nicholas clears everyone in the Berserker Brawl, prove me wrong

>>283049935
I'll be lenient and say these are just images filtered to hell and back but it still looks fucking bad.

>>283048211
>Chopsticks Johnny
Fuck I forgot about him

>>283048211
>Chopstick Johnny

Calling it now, he is the one who commited the Bando murders

Chopstick Johnny is my hero.

>>283048463
Ohma of all people winning the coin lottery has got to be the most uninteresting outcome possible.

>>283048571
He was always Worm and him killing people (it was his army buddies) was to cut loose ends

>>283048445
No, seriously, who the fuck is the other guy? Hello?

>>283048463
is this the happiest shen's looked the whole manga?

>>283050435
Richter Belmont

>>283050435
He is....guy who jobbed to Koga in the berserker bowl preliminaries

>>283050435
this is a story about acceptance. when you read it you need to stop questioning things and just accept everything you see. just assume you forgot.

Guys, I've figured it out. Kuroki is one of those robed guys on Shen's team. Sandro wants us to think all 11 of them are random faceless jobbers so the Kuroki reveal with subvert the entire readerbase's expectations

>>283050580
Kuroki was already on the participant list though

>>283050607
However... there was a "second" Kuroki.

>>283050607
My bad, I had already forgotten about the list

>>283050644
We know, Sandro.

>>283050435
He's Kuroki in disguise.

>>283049187
>Shen's biggest challenge in this battle royale is to avoid stepping on the other competitors' shits

>>283048211
Why does this guy wear aviator goggles again?

The two jobbers think they can win by abusing the rules
The grappling jobber is in charge of keeping Shen momentarily still
While the kick jobber is in charge of sniping Shen's bracelet off his wrist

>>283048463
It makes my skin crawl how everyone is putting their lives on the line to save Ohma and Ryukia but Ohma just keeps going waku waku and acting like it's not his problem

>>283050514
>Flashback OG Nicolas had the demeanor of a man who could finally went mask off like it was literal suffering having to keep his urges in
>Present Nicolas is just a smug jackass who already had his ass beat by Jean anyway

I know OG Nicolas was originally just a flashback character that Sandro had no intentions of bringing back at all but Flashback Nicolas had some unhinged interest to him, so it's incredible to see Sandro give a dead character a chance at life and make him as generic and straight forward as possible
Also it's funny that Liu and Jean are one of the only three people who came here for personal business and not to protect Ohma and Jobyuki

>>283050939
>They actually break Shen's watch
>Shen laughs that he is out and will have to wait until the royale is over to fight again
>We are stuck reading 200+ chapters of this arc, knowing it isn't the last

>>283050948
Why does everyone love Ohma? I get why everyone loves Tanjiro from Demon Slayer, Tanjiro is a friendly extroverted guy that helps bring out the best in the people he meets but Ohma is just lowkey friendly with guys not necessarily going out of his way for anyone.

>>283051005
I'll subvert myself off a cliff

>>283049829
Maybe (you) have forgotten, but Kuroki is primarily an assassin.

>>283050008
>low-key one of the most broken combinations
agreed

>>283050198
>Nicholas clears
Lihito would have a chance

>>283051005
Imagine

>>283048504
I dunno guys I think they've got a shot

>>283051051
They like him because he's strong
That's it.

WHY ARE THEY STILL ENTERING
SURE THIS WILL BE THE LAST CHAPTER ABOUT ENTERING RIGHT?

>>283051372
We still need to see the spectators enter their seating area

>>283048364
Piss himself and surrender against Shen and call him a "monster".

>>283051372
We still need to see Luohan, Niko and Hassad sneaking in

This should have ended with Purgatory. Why is Strike it Rich so much better than this? Is it literally just Daro holding Sandro back somehow?

>>283048463
63 fights at Ohma.

>>283048350
Why doesn't shen just kill him right here?

This is going to be like the sukuna raid were we see every literally who fight shen.

>>283051571
>kill
AND BREAK A RULE!?
Shen would NEVER do something like that!!!

Next chapter will be a flashback chapter of Kokuro and Shoot Wrestler guy admiring Koga and training together to get stronger and the final page will have them finally launch an attack on Shen

>>283048397
This stupid ass subplot 100% only exists because Sandro people kept talking about Naidan's warning and this is Sandro's way of showing that everything has been planned out from the start (lol lmao)
What's worst is this retcon completely ruins the "And I killed the protagonist" page aka the only kino moment in Omega

>>283051787
I love flashback beginnings. They always make the plot so clear.

>>283048445
>Those guys... haven't showered...

>>283052037
Those OMINOUS lines really do look like stink lines

>>283048297
8 is Monke to save her sister.
9 is Hassad to save Kengan.

>>283049774
I could take him

>>283049060
QRD on this meme?

>>283051139
So Luohan wants to get strong so everyone would like him too?

>>283048307
The top of this page in particular looks real bad.

>>283050931
They’re Anti subversion goggles, he can see through the bullshit.

>>283052773
Yes, everybody hates Luohan for being a slimy weak bastard. That snake...

>>283052860
>Better looking drawings in the back
>Raian looking like some Deviantart OC

>>283052860
Daro keeps pushing the envelope because the editor doesn't care

>>283048445
>>283048504
Its silly to think that both of them have just been chilling out at the entrance at least since Xia Yan entered the forest if not earlier then that; that also means with the 1 minute delay between entrants they've been waiting for at least 42 minutes while everyone else passes them by.

>>283048870
THIS.

>>283052908
kek, I hope he beats them the same way

>>283048463
Rigged

>>283048445
Wait why are those 2 already beyond the gate? I thought it should only be Yan and Hatsumi?

>>283053587
Wait you're right
>second entrant
>2 guys are already waiting for Shen
?????

cheers to another absolutely abhorrent chapter
see you next week

>>283053587
>>283053616
Yan is 22th, the fuck are you on about

You're telling me that 62/64 people failed the coin gacha before Ohma got it?

>>283053746
rigged competition

>>283049187
What do you mean, here it is >>283048682

>>283048284
>No we got our own explanation
>Oh okay
This was slightly funny to me.

>sandro gave up
>daro doesn't care and has no passion and fully embraced the slop
>story doesn't make sense anymore
>no hype
What happened? I remember the hype for purgatory vs kengan and the theorising and memes...I miss the threads of the time

>>283048307
I wouldn't have known that was the entry gate otherwise

>>283048504
what the fuck is the point of these two fighting shen?

>>283048504
The question now will he just instantly oneshot them or toy with them.

>>283055537
"they" want to "scale" "the wall"

>>283048504

There can't possibly be even one person who thinks the jobbers have a chance here. Aside from just straight up filler - and, wow, the action immediately starts with filler - there's no reason to have this fight happen at all.

>>283055311
I know
>The Heart
when I see him. It's the MCs rival after all.

>>283048504
Here's the million dollar question: If Shen has any amount of trouble with these two bottom level jobbers, will he become a bigger fraud than Tiger Niko in (You)r eyes? Or will that be impossible unless Shen starts freaking out like Niko did?

>>283056236
he just forgot to turn back on his brain circuits after the Mukaku fight

>>283053746
But anon. Yamashita and his associates have zero incentive to cheat. Kaede herself said so!

>>283056264
>Shen takes a bad blow to the back of the head
>suddenly freezes up
>starts talking about how the Earth is telling him to save it, because that blow fixed his brain and reverted his personality
>immediately turns to Yan who's hiding in the woods 100ft away and yells at him to bomb Italy again

>>283053746
>Niko Style: Luck Manipulation

>>283051626
But he's supposed to be the bad guy...

>>283056019
>It's the MCs rival after all.
You mean... Nam Nhat is here???

Hassad soon.

>>283048550
That's Omega in a nutshell. Ashura ended perfectly.

>>283048350
My boyfriend is also a no fun allowed bitch.

>>283049849
That's when he was toxic. They fixed that

>>283048504
Imagine if Toriyama created a cliffhanger ending to a chapter where Krillin and Yamcha were going to challenge Perfect Cell. That's what this is

>>283057184
Not even. Try Yajirobe vs. Buu instead. This are random mooks vs. top of the verse.

>>283048187
>Muteba
I'm betting all my coins on Muteba having scammed Kengan out of their money again, promising them that he'd actually try this time when really he's gonna whiff some punches and let himself get dramatically knocked out so he can go collect the second half of his paycheck and leave

>>283057101
>>283049849
Muteba as a character is completely incompatible with Omega. He thrived on dirty and brutal fighting, the kind of thing Ohma goes:
>NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T DO THAT
With Ryuki for. Eye gouging, ball crushing, heart stabbing, he was all about the quick oneshot which could be agonizingly painful. Omega is too clean for any of that. Now all he could do is some "high level exchanges".

>>283057294
Not even. I care about Yajirobe and would feel bad if he ended up eaten or died. These two guys could drop out of existance and I would feel nothing at all.

>>283048504
I feel so bad for Kokuro.

>>283057184
>first chapter
>Cell explains the rules of the tournament are to defeat him or the world gets destroyed
>second chapter
>Cell explains the rules again, but adds on there's an out of bounds rule, the characters discuss the implications of this
>third chapter
>Cell slowly walks on stage, chapter ends with Bacterian and Giran entering the ring

Sensei...

>>283048284
I like how Sandro almost exclusively make Gilbert as the one doing funny faces.

>>283057497
>"Absolutely not."
>"W-Wait why?!"
>"Now hold on! We have to take into account Giran's gum and Bacterian's smell, both are incredibly deadly, all they need to do is get Cell with it!"
>"Hmmm, you make a good point."
>Huge "aura" effect that look like stink lines for Giran and Bacterian

>>283057184
If it's like tien vs cell maybe they can push him a little bit back (2 seconds) to make time

>>283048504
Atomic bomb vs coughing babies

Why even feed these two to Shen? There’s absolutely no stakes or reputation on the line for them.
Someone like Julius “techniques don’t matter even though I got my ass dog walked” Reinhold would have at least made some sense.

>>283057479
He’s the rising superstar of Kengan you know. Kazzy mentioned that when we first met him.

>>283057574
Keeping Shen occupied is a good plan I bet they’re fighting him to help Ryuki/Ohma

>>283048504
Imagine if they just have a chat and in the next few chapters nobody really fights and there's just exposition about each charater's strategies/tactics and more chit-chat

>>283057497
The "Cell Games" being a gauntlet of jobbers fighting Cell building up to Goku might have been more entertaining than what we actually got, given Goku's sub-par fight with Cell and how much of a non-fight Gohan's battle with him is. Would have been stupid but so was the rest of the arc.

this is the most retarded contrived tournament ive ever seen

>>283056236
>If Shen has any amount of trouble with these two bottom level jobbers, will he become a bigger fraud than Tiger Niko in (You)r eyes?
Unless Shen explicitly says he's going to handcap himself to like 0.1% of his power before fighting them, then yes.

>>283057783
Sandro will probably use the fodders for the Tiger to grow to the Dragon's level

They should have also booby trapped the island with land mines and quicksand.

>>283048445
I actually remembered Yoshiki right off the bat, if only because I remember anons being flummoxed on why Sandro had him being buddy-buddy with Koga after their fight when (iirc) he said losing meant that his fight org/school would have to shut down for good.

>>283057823
>I've Been Beating Up C-Listers for 20 Chapters and Maxed Out My Level

>Org XIII members in this and last chapter
>Shen has a heartless/nobody (or am i misremembering that?)
but who will be the disney princess?

>>283057765
>Shen is a crazy cult leader with split personality disorder
>Shen's cult commits terrorists attacks for seemingly no reason
>Shen's cult created a Gu Ritual Favela, considered it a failure and now people are suffering without any gain
>Shen's cult has killed untold amounts of people
>Shen's cult cloned a bunch of people in the name of Shen achieving true immortality
>Shen's cult nearly killed your nephew, he suffered multiple stab wounds
>"Shen is my friend, Koga :)"

Joji is a really shitty Uncle

>>283048504
This is so dumb it wrapped around into being unfathomably based.

>>283048260
>Ohma's height in the last panel

>>283048843
>Koga is Osamu but written by a retard
checks out, honestly

>>283048307
Good fucking lord man maybe the AI wasn't so bad. Raian looks like ONE drew him. Is the artist ill?

>>283048325
Wait what's stopping when or anyone else who's strong from from just waiting by the g-
>>283048445
Oh literally nothing, cool. These niggas came up with the most convoluted way to do this and didn't consider this lmao

>>283051571
Yan is his friend

>>283048307
>>283048398
>>283058677
>tfw Sandro's name box spam is getting to be useful as Daro's art degrades to the point characters are borderline unrecognizable

>>283048445
>>283048504
This is just unreal

>>283057295
Didn't most of the fighters put themselves forward anyway? I don't imagine Muteba was hired.
He's basically here fighting for the prize unless someone, knowing his track record, actually hired him as their representative so they could gun for the prize money for their company.

okay I skipped almost every chapter from when the fortnite tournament was announced to now. catch me up to speed in 2 lines or less.

>>283050008
He's underrated in the same way that Akoya is.
Their reaction speed is fucking crazy and effectively gives them the means to compete with per-initiative guys with raw speed. Jean Lucolas was tagging Akoya's pressure points with insane accuracy given the speed they were working at. Akoya's a parrygod and Nicolas can somehow reliably tap pressure points at comparable speeds. Even if he doesn't have control over when and for how long he can make someone go numb it's still a wildly useful trick.
Jean really just has a problem with motivation, but he's determined to finish the job here, so he shouldn't be held back like he normally was at Purgatory.

>>283059461
Haruo is fit now, also there's a lot of filler and stalling in those recent chapters.

>>283059461
something something unfathomable

>>283057892
It's no hard feelings. He came to a competition and didn't hold it against his opponent for being better than him. What's worth holding a grudge over there? It was a fair competition.
He may have bitter feelings toward the loss itself and complicated feelings about Koga, but no reason to be a dick.

>>283059461
Literally nothing has happened in that time.

>>283058397
Would you go to your local karate dojo or boxing gym and ask an instructor there to murder some guy he's just gone drinking with a few times when he's never killed anyone before and is generally a law-abiding citizen?
Most people don't want to commit murder and many would have a hard time killing in self-defense. It's not just that Shen is a friend, but that Joji simply isn't a killer.

>>283059461
Extra rules that allow for weird technicality edge case rulings and also an elimination rule.
Haruo is fit now and the reveal was rolled out as one of several unfunny gags.

>>283059926
>Would you go to your local karate dojo or boxing gym and ask an instructor there to murder some guy he's just gone drinking with a few times when he's never killed anyone before and is generally a law-abiding citizen?
In the Kengan universe? Yeah, probably.
>It's not just that Shen is a friend
But he IS Joji's friend, in spite of all the bullshit he's done to Koga and Koga's friends. It's totally fair to say Joji is a dick for still considering Shen a buddy.

>>283059926
If my uncle was a giga strong magic karateman, I might consider asking him to fight the immortal Chinese brain parasite who was out to lobotomize and steal the bodies of my best friend and mentor, yes.
Also I don't get where the killing part comes in, like yes I'm sure the Kengan CEOs and co would rather Shen be dead but from what we've seen from post-chungusification Shen, he wouldn't go back on his word if he just got "defeated" in a match even if he easily could.

Nogi got buff as hell. I hate same body so damn much.

>>283048124 (OP)
Just look at this fucking page. Jesus Christ.

Is this tournament being viewed by normal people? Like a purgatory match would be?

>>283059926
>killing
The premise is wrong.
Right now, Shen is literally participating in a no-killing-allowed battle royale where the winner can just wish for Shen to leave Ohma and Ryuki alone. He's obviously been whitewashed by Sandro enough to be willing to go with it, too.
So no, Joji doesn't need to kill anybody. He could just challenge Shen to a drinking contest, where if Joji wins, Shen will drop the plans and spare Ohma and Ryuki. That's all Joji needs to do.

>>283048124 (OP)
>obviously copypasted bodies littered across the second panel

>>283049737
You'd want to ask Sandro for that. He's treating Shen like some kind of walking disaster that even nukes can't compete, but fists can.

>>283048284
>Last chapter
Even Ohma is nervous! Look at how high the stake is
>This chapter
Ohma is so awesome! He's the only one isn't scared of the Connector.
I'm tired of Sandro wanting to have the cake and eat it

>>283048284
>>283048307
wha-what the fuck? legitimately the first time i ever did a double take on who??

>>283060199
It's a wish 'within reason' granted by the Kengan Association (with all it's money and influence), it's not some magic dragonball wish. The winner can't go 'I wish for Shen to stop his plan' and have Nogi snap his fingers like some genie and go 'done'.
Not that Shen's plan frankly matters, since they already got him to promise he'd drop it if they provide him with a challenging fight. And the time limit they have to do it is measured in the decades.
Seriously, Ohma is already motivated to win a fight against Shen anyway simply because he's the strongest guy around, him keeping his body is basically a bonus. Even if you ignore this entire sham of a tournament, Ohma and Ryuki are pretty much fine because they have literal decades to give Shen a 'fun' fight with no limit to the amount of times they can attempt it.
For fucks sake, Ohma could have already canceled Shen's plan by beating the Tiger, but he was literally 'nah, I want to beat you at your best'. If Ohma himself isn't concerned, I have no idea why other people even care.
That's why all these extra rules are actually kind of hilarious. Because all they need to do is give Shen a single good fight. But apparently the KA plan, as Gaolang put it, is to basically avoid fighting Shen as much as possible by giving alternate paths to victory.

>>283060026
Not even Koga/Ryuki/Ohma care about that stuff anymore. Frankly, Shen is probably Ohma's second closest friend at this point after Kazzy, given how they interact with each other. Top 5 at least, depending on how you want to rank people like Rihito or Koga.
You can rightfully call it bullshit, but it seems clear that Sandro is essentially pushing all the bad stuff the Worm did to the cast in early Kengan Omega onto Xia, and Koga (and Joji too) already got their revenge on him.

>>283048504
This guy mowed through four of Metsudo's bodyguards in a second, unless one of these two brought a gun this is a joke.

>>283048211
Dodo's gotta be a reference to them cloning someone "extinct" right? like a niko clone or some shit. Maybe a deepwater jew.

>>283048397
Thank you for the schizo-tonguepost, Sandro

>>283061232
They might pull the 'Shen is just playing around having a good time instead of making an effort because Yan asked him to take work seriously for once' excuse.

>>283048860
He honestly could have been what rihito was supposed to be in ashura, real shame what they did with him.

>>283057574
Julius will be doing this in about 50 chapters, when we finally get to the "real" Kenganvengers.

>>283048124 (OP)
this page is disgusting lol, they didn't even both to group people up like they're talking, it's just copy pasted npcs with the occasional draft drawing from 2 weeks ago littered in like everyone is in a fentanyl daze 2 metres apart.

>>283061350
Real kenganvengers will 'lose' to out of bounds or broken bracelets after humiliating some worm Sandro introduced a chapter ago

>>283057538
The Danberu girls are so perfect. I would wife any of them so quickly. Especially the fit tomboy or the billionaire muscle fetishist.
I miss my girls.

>>283059926
If you get repeatedly stabbed in a murder attempt by crazy cult members and your Uncle refuses to lend in a hand in dealing with the situation because he's best friends with the guy running the cult then your Uncle's a bitch
Joji is telling Koga under no uncertain terms that he values his friendship with Shen more than he does the well being of his nephew and his friends. Joji doesn't even have to kill Shen, just give him a good fight but for some reason he refuses to do anything other than sit and drink
Not that any of this matters anymore, Ohma doesn't care and treats this shit like a game between Father and Son, Ryuki just goes along with whatever stupid shit his brother and dad are doing and Koga completely forgot about the knife incident

>>283059461
>catch me up to speed in 2 lines or less.

>>283061929
You've got it all wrong

>>283060790
Shen has, eventually, been described as nothing more than "strongest guy who just wants to play." And, you're right; there's no limit to who he can play with, there's no limit to when, where, and there's no limit to how often. Anyone can attempt to fight/play with him, however many times they want to, under any circumstances they want, and Shen actually loves them for it.

The question is, as it always has been; "why?" What reason does Shen get to be the strongest human on planet Earth, and not capitalize on it? What stakes exist to guarantee investment from this man who is basically considered a "messiah" for fighting?
Sandrovich never ever gave us a reason for activity, he's frequently ret-conned explanations as he felt that was fun, there simply has NEVER been a GOAL. There are no goals. For any of this. It's just... a playground.

>Koga: The Worm nearly fucking STABBED me to death Uncle, aren't you going to do something about it?!?!?!
>Joji: Actually Koga, Jackie had an investigation done into that. On that day, the orders Xia Ji received came from a very complex network involving many Worm groups Jackie doesn't even have much control over. It turns out the orders came from Luohan.
>Koga: Oh ok, I've held so much hatred towards the good Worms for that, tell the Connector I said sorry.
>Joji: Tell him yourself, I invited him over!

If Koga wasn't stabbed in chapter 50 he'd already be Shen tier

>>283061903
Okay but Joji (and Kureshi) actually did go out of their way to beat the shit out of Xia who was the guy directly responsible.
Considering that Joji somehow got Shen's personal number, and that his reactions to Koga's questions in the diner were the exact same as Shen's, something like >>283062092
might have actually have happened off screen, where Shen was just 'hey that wasn't me that was all Xia, I didn't have anything to do with that'.

>>283062048
When you put it like that, that just sounds like Yujiro except instead of fucking around to create children to potentially create a future playmate, it's cloning himself to potentially create a future playmate.

>>283061903
>Koga gets stabbed by Worm members
>holds no grudges against The Worm
>Koga gets poked in the liver by Yumi
>Holds a grudge against him for god knows how long and eventually seeks and gets payback

>>283061779
Yeah, especially Mei. Easily the most wife character ever conceived by Sandro.

>>283050008
Akoya is only held back from being S tier by his retarded fighting style. Imagine if had the nikek style or gaoh style instead of le baton and shield bullshit.

>>283062048
Shen's desire for immortality and his generations worth of esoteric Martial arts knowledge seem like two things that are almost unrelated to each other
His biggest goal is immortality or at least it "was" up until current Shen showed up. He's cool with letting Ohma and Ryuki go so does this mean Shen is fine with finally dying off or does he have a backup plan in case the Ohma Ryuki thing falls through. He's strong as shit because it gets him what he wants, he stole a cult, gained resources to study cloning and has men in every important part of society. He wants a good fight but goes about it in the most half-assed way possible by waiting for someone to show up instead of teaching those most promising so they can get to his level


>>283062198
>Okay but Joji (and Kureshi) actually did go out of their way to beat the shit out of Xia who was the guy directly responsible.
Cool, who does Xia Ji work for? Shen is still the one in charge and no amount of "Yea but the other guy did that" is going to change the fact that Shen is completely complicit in whatever his underlings are doing so long as they're not named Luohan

>>283062207
Shen is just a really boring version of Yujiro

>>283062343
thats why he was that style

>>283060098
>>283060199
Hey, Joji's the one who brought up the killing, not me.

>>283061903
If my nephew got shanked by a cartel mob my ass would not be out there in the streets trying to kill their boss even if I new him personally. That's above my pay grade and I'm not a murderer.

>>283062525
>Mukaku went around raiding the Worms
>Erioh and Metsudo were doing it by themselves for some reason and Metsudo can't fight. I don't think it's made clear how they knew about the Worms either
>Luohan was implied to constantly be betraying Shen and Shen only just now tried to kill him maybe 10 chapters ago, then kicking him into a building and changing his mind

Unironically I think you'd be fine considering how Sandro wants to write the Worms these days

>>283062374
>This character would be strong if his style actually complimented his abilities

Lihito is one such victim. He'd be the strongest guy in the room if he mastered a grappling Martial art and wasn't held back by "No-Kill" rules all the time

>>283062350
Shen's immortality goal and his plans for Ohma and Ryuki are technically unrelated to one another.
I assume if Ohma or whoever satisfies Shen's fight autism, Shen will just fuck off back to the mountains, and dropping by a few decades later to grab some orphan to Huishang himself into.
And then a hundred years later, the next Shen will be talking to Koga's grandkid, going 'ah yeah, I remember fighting your grandpa and his best friends, they gave me the best fight of my life'.

>>283048211
>"we" have already "arrived"

>>283062614
>Erioh and Metsudo were doing it by themselves for some reason and Metsudo can't fight.
Worse, they were literally thousands of kilometres away from Japan, possibly implying the duo hopped from country to country, all across the fucking world, taking down Worm bases. They thoroughly skullfucked the Worm so hard that the previous Shen appeared to personally congratulate them before vanishing like a magician amidst the flames.
I'm not sure if Sandro even remembers writing that. It's such a pointless addition to throw in, and it'll likely be forever unacknowledged now that the Worm is a good guy organisation now.

>>283049176
The divine Ohma losing? What are you thinking?

>>283060790
>The winner can't go 'I wish for Shen to stop his plan' and have Nogi snap his fingers like some genie and go 'done'.
I'm sorry, did you just imply the BENEVOLENT Shen would DISREGARD the NOBLE WISH of the royale victor, as if he's some MONGREL like the LARCENOUS L****N?
Himuro Ryo is on his way to your house as we speak. It's too late to beg forgiveness.

>>283048284
Did Ohma not notice them only a few dozen meters away?

>>283048211
>chopstick Johnny
I genuinely laughed.

>>283050542
kek

>>283048504
Thx

>>283048628
ohh

>>283058397
>t. Koga
Not everyone is a psycho hypocrite like you, nephew.

Sandro and Daro are clearly trying to reach levels of shit even they've never channeled before. I for one admire it.

>>283056780
kek, honestly wouldn't be the most ridiculous thing

>>283064329
>t. Yumigahama
The KIND and GENTLE Joji would NEVER use such UNCOUTH LANGUAGE...

>>283048504
OUR FUARKING HEROES toe kick guy and the other dude are about to put up hell of a fight against Shen... I can hardly wait.

>>283048284
>Every single person was totally pissing their pants

>>283048284
>Every single person EXCEPT for OHMA THE GREATEST BEING IN THE WHOLE WIDE UNIVERSE THAT ISN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING AND IS COOLER THAN A CUCUMBER
Fucking barf. It is insane to me how painfully uncharacteristic Ohma is. Like, he obviously has been this lame for almost 300 chapters straight now but it it STILL so fucking painfully bad how vomit inducing he is as a character.

>>283048532
>Sandro
>not wasting time
He's gonna waste at least a few pages on those two. He needs to pad this story out for as long as possible, after all.

>>283048397
Everyone is talking about what a pointless plot line this is without even mentioning the fact that fucking Akoya will get involved as well for no fucking reason whatsoever. Like, it's already an entirely pointless plot point but for whatever ungodly reason Sandro has decided that it needs to be even more plot points tied to it by involving another entirely pointless character.

>>283048124 (OP)
If Sandwich was actually a good storyteller, he'd have these rules be explained with multiple brief yet clever flashbacks organically woven into the story DURING the actual match, instead of using up an entire month's worth of chapters to explain the rules.

>>283049004
Isn't the actual prize basically the freedom of Ohma and Ryuki? If the Kenganchungers win then Shen will leave them alone is I think what the deal is? They were even talking about how everyone is going to band together to save Ohma and Ryuki.
The whole story is so convoluted now that that very well may have been retconed and changed into something else but I'm pretty sure the stakes are Ohma and Ryuki basically. Or at least it used to be Ohma and Ryuki.
On the other hand, Ohma is a battle maniac and just doesn't want to lose fights. That's it.

>>283048463
>Ohma is 63rd and the coin holder
How incredibly boring.

>>283048504
Holy fuck the amount of stalling is unbelievable. The tournament will have officially begun next chapter and it will still be stalling because of shit like this.

>>283064050
Please note the row if trees carefully planted to obscure the view of the bigger group. Of all the things to not forget about, somehow Sandro (or maybe it was just Daro) thought about this particular issue.

>>283065475
Shen wants to teach them how to stop breathing to live longer in order to use them as hosts for his BPD brain. The prize here is making Ohma and Ryuki die faster.

>>283048156
Slutty ankle shower

>>283048124 (OP)
>multiple chapters of FUCKING NOTHING happening while Sandro draws out having to actually do the competition

>>283065635
>The prize here is making Ohma die faster.
For once in Omega I can wholeheartedly cheer Ohma on. Boring cunt cannot die soon enough holy shit.

>>283063105
Should've replace Fu's goggles with the PARTY glasses.

>>283048307
Why does Raian look like he was drawn by Tim Buckley?

>>283048297
Post that pic of Koga fighting the dude from Fate Stay Night with Hunk, Exosqueloteen and Geralt watching the match.

>>283048445
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

Is Blue Ursus any good?

>>283048902
MOGA

Make Omega Great Again

>>283066637
It's Sandroslop, what do you think?

>>283065475
Also why should I care about if Shen hypothetically wins. What's to stop Ohma/Koga/Ryuki from asking him super duper nicely to not and he'll just randomly agree? That's how stakeless this is when you turned Shen from an antagonistic figure to some gay whimsical fairy.
NOBODY on the internet thinks that Tiger Niko is going to kill anyone. Or that Raian is going to lose.

>>283067003
>NOBODY on the internet thinks that Tiger Niko is going to kill anyone. Or that Raian is going to lose.
For whatever reason Sandro thinks that there are people who still think that.
I think it's also time we entertained the possibility that Sandro might have schizophrenia or some sort of bipolar disease. He might actually believe Shen will just cuff Ohma and Ryuki the second he wins and drag them to his cloning dungeon. Even though that's the last thing the character he's been writing will do. Those pages if Ryuki going mental might have actually been a cry for help.

Feels so jarring that every other Kenganvenger is hyped up and excited to protect Ohma and Ryuki yet Ohma is just there being all stoic and friendly chungus with Shen.

>>283048124 (OP)
>MORE rules explanations
>the fighting STILL hasn't started
>next chapter will likely consist of Kokuro and the catch wrestler chatting and quipping with Shen before somebody throws a punch at the final page

>>283067478
>the next, next chapter
>flashback of Kokuro doing toe training or whatever
>reveal of wacky, unorthodox training apparatus (e.g. Kokuro's going to kick an airplane as it lands or something)
>we never see him go through with it
>final page is the punch from last chapter making explosion effects

>>283049595
>and may be pull out a narrow win with the coin and watches if they failed
Which is the dumbest possible resolution. Sandro constantly beats us over the head about how strong Shen is, but a clone win means they don’t even get to beat him. He’ll just agree not to mindrape the Ohmas while still being undefeated. And then what? Another tournament to celebrate?

>>283067730
>but a clone win
coin win*
or point win, either way

>>283061779
sensei is so erotic

Should've been KAT2 with everyone scaling walls and growing closer to Shen's level

>>283048211
Chop-Stick Johnny. Now there's a lad who'll never lose. The cream of the crop, the boy next door, he's a right bloke of a friend to have.

Oh God, I just remembered that Luohan and Pussy Niko are still at large

>>283067730
>but a clone win means they don’t even get to beat him. He’ll just agree not to mindrape the Ohmas while still being undefeated
I think the whole coin gimmick is just there for narrative reasons. As in the characters in-universe don't think Shen will be beatable in a fight so they basically came up with a work around and are hoping that Shen will uphold his end of the deal if he loses the tournament. Us readers know that that kind of win would be lame and very unlikely in a fighting manga where certain characters have been constantly hyped to be scaling walls and shit (unless we get subverted of course). The characters don't really care that Shen wants a good fight, they just want him to lose the tournament and not just lose a fight.

>>283062343
His fighting style isn't really all that bad, it's just limiting in its form. He doesn't have the insane magical MMA flexibility of the Niko Style, but his defensive style suits him well enough.
The more precision-based, harassment style he was showing off against Haruo was also highly effective at dismantling opponents with just insanely exact and brutal fundamentals. He was sort of a mini-Kuroki with crazy reaction speed in R1 with how he was ripping into Haruo and gouging the wounds.
He doubled down on the shield stuff in Omega, but his parries are pretty effective. Nicolas was just a weird matchup for him because he could still hit pressure points even if Akoya diverted the blow. To his credit, he also tried to stick to the rules until Nicolas started cheating his ass off and got his murderboner going with his own.

>>283054927
everyone knows this arc is a meme

>>283054927
Anon, it's been 5 years

>Gilbert is now alone
KWAB

Chopstick Johnny unironically sounds like the name of an Usogui character

>>283069018
>beat the fuck out of every top dog Wu, including his brother who was respected
>"Ummm you aren't awesome as your brother or your old self Eddie. Now you need to beat Raian whom you already beat offscreen if Sandro didn't forgot or we won't follow you."
Why is Gilbert treated so badly as if the universe is against him?

>>283069326
It's because Eddie did the ultimate cardinal sin in the Kenganverse : being directly responsible for a Kenganvenger's death. Even his death couldn't absolve him, which is he why he has to go through several lifetimes of various humiliation rituals until he's considered even with the Sandro Samsara.

>>283069326
Goes to show you that it doesn't matter how good you are at something if you don't have any people skills.

>>283053746
I think the implication is they just gave it to Ohma because Shen wanted to step out last

>>283068587
He doesn't need his swat kung fu to dodge or party. Hell, he has Cosmo's zone on by default, he'd be a better grappler than anyone except maybe Markiplier.

>>283061275
Dodo is a Fei clone. Sandro's brought back every other KvP loser might as well throw in another Fei to.

>>283067730
More like a "tournament for celibates."

>>283069171
I thought the same

>>283068186
He’s just off having fun

>>283070196
Yeah, off having fun in this very island I bet you

>>283069831
Naidanbros... Sandro actually forgot about us...

>>283069771
It's basically just an efficient, defensive style that works for him. It's incredibly simple, but it makes great use of his reaction time because it means he can execute those simple options with extreme efficiency.
It's maybe not the best style he could put together, but it's something easy to settle into. In a way, it's comparable to Agito's Martial Arts™ in that it eschews having tons of options so he just has to think about parry -> bash from various angles. I'd say the main issue, aside from how limiting it is, is that it doesn't really capitalize on his fuckhuge frame and crazy physical specs. He typically lets his opponents come to him when he could just harass most people with his reach.
>he'd be a better grappler than anyone except maybe Markiplier
Honestly, Jurota's grappling is kind of a joke. He's basically only shown off his throwing skills and the one sleeve choke against Agito. Granted, Swing is a good trick and worth building around, but Cosmo and Kureishi come off as more impressive grapplers overall. Akoya is good at pinning and grounded combat though, hence the shield crush, so he really could stand to expand his repertoire from there.

>>283069385
Is Sandro YHVH from Shin Megami Tensei?
>"For the sin of killing a kenganvenger, I will torture thee for eons until I reincarnate thee and torture thy childrens children until the end of time!"

>>283069326
The Wu don't really seem to consider him a new Eddie and just treat him as Eddie's son, which is what he was regarded as for most of his life anyway. He's just a nepobaby who threw a tantrum and carried out a coup d'etat in the street one day.
Most of the Wu already put 0 stock in the whole Huisheng thing at this point, so even if they did buy Gilbert being the second coming of Eddie they would still know that he's just his son that was raised funny in the end.

...

...!

>>283071641
How would Kotomine fare in the Kengan world, barring his mage/Church magic stuff?

>>283066695
Only Omega is bad, and even that was good at one point

>>283071112
>YHVH from Shin Megami Tensei?
No need to bring up this shit. It's just from the Bible mate.

>>283071710
He's taught Rin those Chinese martial arts didin't he? Difficult to tell how good his physical stats actually are barring the buffs, but he should still be pretty good. The really strong one would be Medea's master Kuzuki.

>>283071724
>

>>283071816
No I'm talking about the big yellow head from Megaten. YHVH is a judaistic name anyway.

>>283071943
What I mean is that the
>suffer in hell
>be reborn/reanimated
>suffer again
is from the Bible. Whoever made your little video game simply lifted it from the Bible.

>>283048307
Look, I know the rules of this tournament state that no weapons are allowed.
So, uh, what's the whole point of Otakemaru again? I thought that it was going to be a central part of Raian's combat repertoire from its introduction, and yet here he is without Otakemaru.

>>283071641
Lol, thanks. What's the sauce?

>>283071990
I know it's all biblical threats. I'm not ignorant. The big yellow head man called YHVH simply made the threat that he will personally torture the protagonist in an eternal cycle of torture, death and reincarnation.

>>283048397
Does anyone reading know what the fuck is going on these days

>>283048504
This is the cliffhanger?
Say sikes right now

>>283072046
Already forgotten. Anything in Omega that is older than 5 chapters might as well be considered soft canon.
In-universe, it was always a McGuffin asspulled out of the void to give Raian free principles, but in truth Trenchcoat Raian happened because Sandro read Kouya ni Kemono Doukokusu, saw this character, said "Man, this guy is so cool, I should make Raian like him so he'll be even cooler then he already was" so he gave him his outfit for a chapter. And that's it. Trying to think of anything deeper than this is going to hurt your brain, so don't.

>>283048504
100% sandrovich put it in because he saw the Katou v Baki chapter of rahen

>>283071818
He doesn't usually use magic-based buffs in the VN from what I recall. Aside from his exorcism and spiritual surgery magic he mostly just wails on people with trained martial art skill. At the end of Heaven's Feel, he was completely trouncing Shirou with just mundane skill as he was dying.
He used more buffs in one particular fight in Fate/Zero, but that was more of a one-time thing.
>The really strong one would be Medea's master Kuzuki
Kuzuki would absolutely clean house at first, but he'd probably get the Ryuki treatment where his moves wouldn't be as effective after people saw them once.

>>283072094
No point in arguing with a faggot like you. Wait till you hear about Stands.

>>283072323
We weren't even arguing you retard.

>>283071641
That guy Ohma is tough. But INGURLAND is one scary motherfucker

>>283072232
This. This is exactly how you should think about sandrobitch's "writing".

After finishing the chapter i started laughing for no reason. Not roaring with laughter, obviously, but it was louder than a chuckle. I don't even know what could've provoked such a reaction.

>>283069326
It's funny how we might never see how Raian was defeated and survived. Simply because it means that Raian will have to look bad and Sandro will rather die than even consider the idea.

>>283072232
Isn't this look itself just copying Blade from the 90's movies?

>>283072862
The general look is Blade, but Kodachi + 2cool4school pose with a sheathed sword on shoulder is way more specific.

>>283072862
Blade is more tacticool

>>283071641
Certified Ye Ye classic

>>283048307
Ikemen okubo...

>>283048397
I actually started convulsing the moment I saw the last panel. Fuck this manga

>>283061779
I like the russian

>>283072046
>>283072232
It's very strange that Raian and Gilbert decided to settle their differences in an official tournament with killing banned. They're obviously going to try to murder each other and get disqualified anyway, so there's really no point they had to do it here.

>>283073613
It's to set up Raian killing Gilbert and getting himself DQ'd. There is no way he'll lose the normal way.

>>283073418
See you next week

>>283072697
You broke from waiting 3 weeks to see Kokuro and Kokuro's friend challenge Shen.

>>283072697
congratulations

next week's chapter is gonna be a Kokuro flashback, ending with him knocked out on the floor with Shen walking away mumbling about him being pretty strong for a normal or someshit

>>283051372
>>283051439
No, the combatants still need to enter the forest, and then they need to "enter" the proper mental state for fighting, which includes 30 minutes of warm-up, 1 hour of meditation, the tea ceremony...

>>283071883
Omega was much better at one point, and people /here/ enjoyed it for the most part. If you don't believe me, you can always check the archives yourself.
Don't mix things up.

>>283074165
Next chapter will be a Kokuro interview, post tournament

>>283072697
It's the absurdist laugh of someone who can't make sense of what his life has become. Why does this manga exist? Why am I still reading it?

>>283048297
Here's your next arc bro

>>283074354
All the emphasis on "epithets" can sometimes crack me up or piss me off. Even earlier on in the Street Fighter crossover they're put there to make them seem imposing but there's no real point to it because we all know it's only going to show Ryu and Ohma.

>>283072697
I always laugh whenever I realize that it's a Kengan Wednesday. I'd always giggle with anticipation, not for the chapter, but for the banter and shittalk that would come as a result of whatever Sandwich shits out in the week's chapter.

>>283048649
>Sandro actually does this, to subvert everyone
>Actually it was all a dream
>Rolon wakes up from his premonition

>>283052462
in a fight, right?
Right?

>>283065497
>The tournament will have officially begun next chapter
Not yet, next will be 5 chapters of flashback from shen's childhood

Nezu is out there somewhere enjoying his life with his hot wife and their possibly 4 year old child while everyone else trained their asses off to defend the life of Ohma and Ryuki from the clutches of a cult leader that Ohma is actually pretty cool with, treating this whole debacle like a game and actually his life and his jobber brothers lives aren't in any real danger because of how malleable said cult leader is

>>283075037
Pretty much. I don't deny that the conditioning has broken me.

>>283068767
As an old fag who were here at the start of ashura, I'll always cherish the memes we had. They will stay with me until the end.

>>283051082
Kuroki is an assassin in name only to get paid for professionally murdering people. He's an assassin in the same way the Western Wu/Erioh who were openly engaging with random mafia goons were "assassins"

>>283073656
Raian is likely going to get a killing-DQ to give himself a soft-out. If Raian was kept in though I could imagine him being tossed against Gensai to weaken Gensai for his exit (to give him an out too) in the plot. Gensai isn't losing to Raian. Not because I think he's stronger but because of meta reasons. He'd shit out a few generic "master" sounding generic lines saying how Raian is still too green while setting up how he'd be a badass patriarch in a decade after doing a chungus lance X principles. But by all means Raian should rape him.

>>283075703
>But by all means Raian should rape him.
Why? Raian didn't show anything particularly impressive even as he beat Willem.

>>283073613
Finally the greatest tragedy to ever strike mankind will be avenged

>>283059926
Joji was fine with torturing Xia Ji tho

>>283075369
Literally the smartest guy in the manga.

>>283049176
Koga will win by some technicality of points despite doing nothing relevant the whole time so Sandro can pretend he really is the main character.

>>283078342
But that’s so expected that there must be some subversion planned.

Will Ryuki be the "moral winner" by greatly contributing to shen's defeat or is he going to be sidelined by Sandrobitch?

>>283049176
Karla “forma de Hoodie Worm #3” will ask for Ohma’s hand in marriage.

>>283074354
I’d welcome it

>>283075811
Principles + Kure Style + potential ripping off of Niko magic + Kure biology.

>>283080332
>"Point of force" shit that stops you from moving that doesn't work on things as large as fists
>Garbage style that jobs all the time
>Niko magic that Raian never uses
>Jobber biology that jobs all the time

>>283080501
>>Jobber biology that jobs all the time
Is it really jobbing is you mostly job to yourself?

>>283080578
When does Raian job to himself? It's the Wu's that job and they have the same biology.

>>283072232
That manga was ten times cooler than Omega, by the way

Why is it in a series surrounded by "strong" guys I'm not really feeling any strength emanating from it?

>>283048397
I feel immense fear that SiR writing will degrade in quality and suffer the same fate as Kengan.

>>283080933
It's doing decently well right now but the line is it's a razor thin margin off from going full Omega. Remember when Rei got all that "scary" looking imagery and she started talking about killing? How despite obviously pushing Hina harder than anyone else in the manga she still lost very decisively and Hina was never in any trouble? We already had a tournament of jobbers.

>>283080933
It's already at purgatory vs Kengan level of writing.

>>283080997
The worst SiR plotline is Hina gaining humanity little by little. I don't like that at all. I want her to stay fucked up until the end.

>>283081179
She already had it from the start. She hasn't really changed at all.

>>283081209
If she had some humanity from the beginning then she wouldn't keep all those chemical weapons in her bedroom now would she?

>>283080918
Everybody is an emotionless zombie thanks to Sandro, and somehow appear even more lifeless than that thanks to Daro.
>>283080933
Unfortunately the Ohma issue is already here, and even Ohma didn't get to the point of brutally mogging every other cast member as hard as Hina does until after the Inside when he started doing things like the Five Fiery Humiliation Rituals. But Hina is already at that point since she can just just straight up overpower and pulverize gorillas and ignore weight class, which mysteriously suddenly stops mattering after it was the crux of a fight literally the previous chapter. If FemMeguro is anywhere even close to Riko, then Hina could credibly beat her own organization solo with a little effort.
>but it's because she's actually the villain who they'll have to stop eventually!
No she isn't. Not as long as we have the shadowy villain star child teacher who probably has a cult of devoted jobbers who like to stick their tongues out.
SiR is more enjoyable than current Omega, but it's carried by better presentation and Sandro not being as bored of it yet.

>>283081263
I don't think Sandro could afford ruining SiR. It's basically the only decent ongoing series from him at this point.

>>283081361
He's gonna ruin it (and any other attempt he may make in the future with a different manga) eventually, because he still hasn't addressed one of his biggest flaws as a storyteller, which is that he never plans ahead. He always is adlibbing everything.

>>283081470
What? You mean to tell me you haven't caught on to his real plan?

You know, for a no killing organization, they sure do allow a lot of globally known mass murdering hitmen and psychos compete.

>>283081470
What Sandro does is imo, worse than just not planning ahead and adlibbing everything. He INTENTIONALLY sets up mystery boxes fucking everywhere and continues bringing them up, but always leaves them juuuuuuust open enough to interpretation that no matter what he ultimately puts inside, it isn't a straight up retcon. Readers get to spend literal years sometimes filling in the blanks and creating headcanons better than what Sandro inevitably writes, which often is just "Sandro got bored and doesn't like that idea anymore so it doesn't matter", IE the cyberbrain plotline being discarded(likely as part of the chain reaction caused by him taking away the vessel plotline from Tiger Niko to focus more on his favorite pet, Shen).

>>283062236
>literally off-screened by imaginary katanas
>said imaginary katanas get absolutely destroyed later on, in turn making YOU look even more like a fucking joke
>later on, spar with Ohma and get humiliated
For a Fist of the Seeker character, Jose was uniquely shafted by Sandro.

>>283081986
His favourite pet is Metsudo, actually.

>>283082187
>t. Yumigahama
Don't make me send the Icy Emperor after you...
Actually, whatever, I'm doing it anyway. Too late to beg for mercy, scum...

>>283082223
Himuro can't win a fight on screen, nor can he win against a named character. It could be Kuroki himself, Himuro will push him but he will still lose. With my superman syndrome and mastery of kenjutsu, I'm sure to win.

>>283073613
>>283073656
I'm genuinely wondering, what's the plan here. This is an official tournament where killing is banned. Okay, both of them are both obviously not the type to care about that, but what happens after one of them (Raian) actually goes ahead and breaks that rule and gets disqualified? Is he supposed to just leave on his own to the eliminated player spot? Do they send the bodyguards after him?
This also reminds me of Kengan-Purgatory tournament which also had a no killing rule and Kazzy deciding people like Raian and Akoya were perfect picks.

>>283080332
But all of that won't matter if he can't get the timing right

>>283082187
It’s close, but I think Shen has surpassed him. Metsudo is always wanted when he gets mentioned and had the same ability as Shen to have fucked up things he did/said ignored, but Shen has utterly taken over the entire setting in a way Metsudo didn’t even in Ashura.
>>283082432
When Raian ripped Alan in half he just went “haha looks like I’m disqualified, ref” and left to go chase Eddie, so I assume after he kills Gilbert he’ll just walk out of the area and kick back to watch from the bench so we don’t have to answer the question of what if someone didn’t cooperate like that.

>>283082432
Raian is going to tear Gilbert in two, get disqualified, then peacefully walk off into the sunset. He'll look over his shoulder and smile, saying "You shits got this, the Connector doesn't stand a chance".

>>283082592
Shen took over because he's the "main antagonist", Metsudo was always just some CEO background guy who could never truly partake in the plot that matters. Shen is just working from another position. Metsudo has said "Game on, "Connector"" so we know Shen is going to beaten by Metsudo in the end, narratively speaking.

>>283081986
Everything is gonna come back. Maybe even one of the hooded guys has a cyber brain.

>>283081986
>He INTENTIONALLY sets up mystery boxes fucking everywhere and continues bringing them up, but always leaves them juuuuuuust open enough to interpretation that no matter what he ultimately puts inside, it isn't a straight up retcon.
It's such a cowardly way of writing, and I have to say that the frequency with which he uses this shit as a backup plan actually is an indicator for what kind of a person he is.
He cares just enough about a story's internal logic that he would actually put in these vague spaces that give him a ton of wiggle room to do what he wants in them while being "consistent" (so to speak) with the story and the setting, but can't care enough to plan or even decide in advance what kind of thing he wants to do in these specific vague areas (otherwise, he wouldn't need to actually exploit this ambiguity).
So what does this reveal about him? It reveals that a person like this is essentially an underachiever with an overinflated ego.
He doesn't want to put in effort, and yet is aware of the importance of basic internal logic (instead of just doing blatant retcons), so he cares enough to basically put in measures that basically shut people up and potentially dupe impressionable people into thinking he's some kind of a 5D genius. He doesn't care if more critical readers catch onto his bullshit act, he just only cares if the idiots (like the Comikey paypigs) think he's smart.
And he's self-aware about it too. This translates into his writing in the most insufferable way possible: With constant fourth wall breaks where characters literally address tropes to the reader, as a way of reassuring them that Sandro is aware of these tropes.

>>283082592
Okay but do you see Akoya cooperating like that? What's the plan after he gets his first worm kill?
Or is Sandro just going to have him beeline straight for Koga or Ryuki and get defeated by their new powerups to show how far they came so we can avoid any Akoya kills.

>>283082730
THESE TYPES OF FIGHTERS ARE COMMONLY USED AS JOBBERS IN WORKS OF FICTION

>>283082884
Reading that genuinely made me mad.

>>283082516
That's why I said "by all means" when referencing how a fight with Gensai vs Raian would realistically go with Sandro writing
>Not because I think he's stronger but because of meta reasons. He'd shit out a few generic "master" sounding generic lines saying how Raian is still too green while setting up how he'd be a badass patriarch in a decade after doing a chungus lance X principles

>>283082884
>how the commentator felt after getting on a microphone to loudly call Gaolang and Jurota jobbers

>>283048284
>everyone was scared except Ohma
Even Kuroki was scared?

>>283081263
I'm holding out hope the twist on Hina will be that she's the final villain. If she really is the strongest one of the Star Children I'd like to see her as the one the other fighters in the story have to bring down at the end. She's not portrayed like a straight up good guy the way Ohma and Koga are right now even if she is working with the rest of the main cast for the moment.

I'm sure Sandro will fuck it up eventually the way Ryuki, Agito, and Setsuna's villainous sides eventually got buried and made them all less interesting. But for now it's still fun every week and not making me groan like Omega.

>>283082730
>>283082884
My favorite about that one was that Sandro repeated it a few chapters later because he thought it was so clever the first time I guess.

>>283084376
I feel like the closest comparison for her is going to be Shen but as the main character. Invincible and crazy but doesn't hurt the good guys, and she'll even go and annihilate an antagonist for daring to hurt/threaten her friends just like Shen to Lu*han.
She'll probably just give up the rest of the chemicals in the end and just decide she likes hanging out with everyone and fighting in matches that she doesn't want to destroy the world or whatever anymore. And she's definitely going to oppose the star teacher(after the first star ikemen girl tries to take the teacher down and jobs) whenever that stuff kicks into high gear too.

>>283084242
Fucked up too. It's so unnatural within the story. Imagine if they announced UFC fights like this and Kengan is supposed to be more "raw" than that

>>283084777
>she'll even go and annihilate an antagonist for daring to hurt/threaten her friends

>Gorilla Girl and Jobber Sena sister fight
>Gorilla Girl wins but still beats on the Jobber Sena sister
>Hina gets involved to stop Gorilla Girl and is in the process of killing her
>Is trying to figure out why she's so mad while doing so

We're already there

>>283049800
Maybe he'll get together with Sawada.
I think they'd make a cute couple.

>>283080501
>"Point of force" shit that stops you from moving that doesn't work on things as large as fists
Actually, funny story, i once somehow managed to stop a bowl with vegetables from falling by pinching it between my thumb and index finger and angling it just right. Strictly speaking, i used Principles and saved myself from making a mess. Im closer to Shen than Tiger niko (somehow).

>>283082779
He either won't get a kill, or he gets immediately dealt with afterwards, before the rules can matter.
Like, he kills local Worm member, and then Koga and Ryuki just happen to be there and beat him, so this point won't matter.

>>283058397
there mini gu rituals happening right now in real world.

>>283086280
mukaku was doing this shit with a whole ass neighbourhood btw.

>>283082884
Does Sandro not automatically imagine how awkward it would sound from an announcer in an actual match? I say "automatically" because it shouldn't require any effort, just skimming the draft should immediately make the flaws of this clear.
We know Sandro attends pro-wrestling events; we know he wrote Kengan Asura. He should already have the experience he needs in order to write good announcer dialogue. This is a "level" "beyond" phoning it in; somehow Sandro feels no discomfort from how ass his own writing is. He might not have pride as a writer proper. He truly, TRULY only cares about it from the angle of people thinking he is smart or something. What a unfathomable monster...

>>283048284
>Sandro wrote that Raian is scared of Shen Wulong
I doubt it's intentional; still funny though.

>>283081103
Do you have any idea how much better Kengan Vs. Purgatory was than current Omega? There were actual fights there! A plot tried to happen!! Lolong moved!!!
And above all it was fun. Absurd, but fun. Daro was still trying without the use of AI, and Sayaka was still alive.
It had many lows, it didn't make sense at times, but it was an expressive story worthy reading with everyone here. Omega is now dead, and it pales in comparison to what it once was.

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>>283085410
Your "vegetables" are still "green" , anon

>>283086419
He'll even show his ass if it means victory.
Not even "he" could go that far

>>283081361
>decent
LMAO
You guys should really learn that 4chan opinions are not reflective of sales. Omega is his many maker. Ashura carries his name and his series that were made after it. He can do whatever the fuck he wants with his other works.

>>283086984
What is this?

>>283086564
KvP is absolutely where the cracks started to show in terms of the fights themselves when our last Kengan tournament was the KAT in comparison, but even average Purgatory matches are a massive cut above slop like the Real Timer's Tournament. If only we knew how bad things really would be.
The only thing along the lines of a current Omega fight was the joke of a Fangbowl, and even then at least then there was a bit of effort put into the art when Misasa finished Yumi off and the like, compared to the second Yumi humiliation ritual.

>>283075100
yes and then the tragedy happens

How angry are you knowing Fei would have lived if he was just introduced into KAT like what was originally planned?
Because Sandro was not trying to kill the majority of his characters in the super duper death match tournament where killing is allowed
>Bando survived the disease Hanafusa injected into him
>Hanafusa survived Bando dislocating half his spine
>Mokichi survived getting his neck snapped and head slammed into the ground
>Nikaido had his heart twisted by Setsuna and then simply had it untwisted and he survived
>Setsuna twisted his heart in a direction from Kuroki's Devil Lance in a flashback
>Meguro was killed but he lives on through his normal clone and the schizo ramblings of a Judo practitioner

Fei would have lived

>>283087062
This
People here think Omega is dogshit boring and to a lesser extent think SiR is poorly written but I've seen nothing but hype and praise from anywhere else
Anons here couldn't give less of a shit about Blue Ursus if they tried and most think the main character is an off-looking Gorilla but outside these threads people were drooling over her design when the MC was introduced. It doesn't matter to you how people outside the threads feel about Sandro's work but Sandro can keep coasting because he's appealing to a niche that barely gets any love, that being cute girls beating each other with Martial Arts. He's not pressed to do better because he knows he doesn't have too and he loves it. He's living the Hack Writer dream

>>283087062
Nigger we're not talking about sales you stupid fuck

>>283087375
Blue Ursus is a funny case because I barely see any hype for it anywhere. It even got the SiR collab for its first volume, very early for it. I should check whether or not it debuted in shoseki
>because he's appealing to a niche that barely gets any love, that being cute girls beating each other with Martial Arts
Unless you are an established author or really lean into ecchi you don't have a lot of chances to survive with that genre. There are spokon but that's a different thing
>>283087388
>I don't think Sandro could afford ruining SiR
>Not talking about sales
Sure buddy

>>283087375
I could see Sandro MAYBE killing Fei anyway to further build up the stakes of Ohma using the advance by showing someone else actually die from it onscreen, because he'd be classified as an evil outsider trying to intrude on the sacred tournament like the white suits who also got to die. But Sandro morality is hard to predict at the best of times.

>>283057706
>Goku's sub-par fight with Cell
Huh? You're right that Gohan vs Cell was a beatdown rather than a fight, but Goku vs Cell was quite good.