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the appeal is spending an entire month autisticly theorizing about whether a character is showing up in an upcoming battle due to individually counting the numbers of participant and noticing they're one short, and then be vindicated as the characters use that exact same reasoning to come to the same conclusion, and then get blindsided by a side character showing a compelling new side to them that lets you rereading the entire series to see the signs that allude to that newly-shown side
this shit fucking rules, man