This is kind of underwhelming. For how much I thought Brothers Karamazov was consistently interesting, this book is for at least 40% of it consists of aristocrat NPC side-characters like Lembke's wife and narrator's long-winded meandering and descriptions of what happened and what the town's reaction to something was or will be. It feels like reading two different books simultaneously when it's a scene involving Stavrogin and Kirillov and when it's about everything else. I'll hold my thought though.

Other litfags, has anyone priced how similar the current arc is -in relation to the rest of Togashi’s works - to Demons in Dostevskys catalog?

Both start with tons of convoluted slow, long setup not told in an exactly linear way with multiple character and POVs that aren’t necessarily sympathetic . Demons is Dostevsky at his most Dostevsky, in a way you can argue Succession war is Togashi at his most Togashi.
And if anyone’s read Demons, they know the last 400 pages is arguably Dostevsky Best piece of writing.

I’m not even trying to be pretentious but it’s insane how similar it is