>>49666455
i was mostly being crass for effect.
i originally thought we'd get a part 3 too but after looking at the length and cadence of previous volumes i just don't see it happening. frog in a bottle was the last 3-parter we got back in volume 3 4 years ago. getting a 4th 2 part arc is way more likely than a 45+ page part 3 where we would do what, plumb the depths of youkai genesis? i don't think there's enough meat on those nikushi accounts to provide enough material for a large chapter that didn't involve an uncharacteristic amount of character drama (e.g. aya facing any repercussions whatsoever). maybe the Feng article on chinese wikipedia would have enough info to change my mind, but i can't read that. we've never had a one-off so that's not in the cards. the choice of myth was bad so the pacing was bad.

dumb whaletits