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Well, things are finally coming to a head

Spoiler for 76:

Miwa vs Hyrein started out in favor of Miwa, thanks to him already being knowledgeable enough (and willing) to kill any neighbor he might come across, and even Hyrein is finding him hard to deal with in a one to one fight. I don't think the fight will continue to play out with Miwa having the upper hand, since whatever Osamu did before leaving leads me to think it will ultimately save Miwa (a delayed trigger reaction?)

Mira and Osamu is something that I think will be hard to figure out how it will unfold though. The logical thing to happen now is that Osamu will be teleported to the Aftokrator ship and Chika along with him, but after that ... what, does he manage to escape?

Yuma vs Visa seems to be like an interesting battle since it is one of the few one we had in a long while where Yuma had really been pushed to a corner and has no choice but going all out. Looking forward to how it ends.

Originally Posted by Esclair

Look at the other battle shonens they've been testing out recently. Every single one pretty much dived right in, introducing way too many concepts way too fast. In the end they fizzle out after a few months because the readers lose interest and don't get invested into the world and the characters. World Trigger is the only battle shonen that didn't make this mistake and through a combination of luck and pull somehow didn't get canceled after 2 months.

I agree largely with what you wrote, but I think that the bold is where you really hit the mark on why World Trigger managed to become this engaging. I don't necessarily think that it excuses the awkward and slow pacing of the first chapters, but it certainly did help set up the necessary ground work for the series to later on build upon and make it stand comfortably when it kicked into gear during the first major arc.

When we factor in that the series was originally intended to be a sports series rather than a Sci-Fi one, it makes a lot of sense that the early chapters where intended to be the ones where the team is brought together and get to know each other (while the team dynamics are being set), when they joined border being the preliminary round to the main event (the current invasion).

Originally Posted by Esclair

Once Naruto ends World Trigger world trigger might have a chance to jump in and fill the vacuum.

I wouldn't be so sure early on. The series is doing well now but still has a long way to go to reach that level of popularity and we never know what the future might hold.

Originally Posted by Esclair

No scanlations make it pretty hard for most of the western audience to follow.

That and Viz for some reason continues to not attempt to capitalize fully on the series (releasing the series weekly in only 6 countries, volumes 1 and 2 only coming out 2 years after the Japanese release) leading to cutting the size of the potential readership for the series.

Originally Posted by Triok123

apparently Miwa is doing rather well, so i'm impresed since i expected him to kicked the bucket fast

Miwa was always strong, even when he and Yuma fought all the way back he managed to really prove troubling without a Black Trigger vs Yuma who had one, and he was never taken out during the battle between his and Arashiyama's squad, so it isn't really that surprising to see that he is able to be this good against Hyrein. Jin didn't offer him the Fujin for no reason afterall.

Plus he gets a positive modifier against any opponent who is a Neighbor due to his intense hatred

Originally Posted by Triok123

and Osamu seem to be as fuck as done(he got a Mira in front of him... my dream of a MC being killed may come true)

Yup, that sure looks like the end of the line for Osamu ...

But seriously, while it looks like Mira is about to turn Osamu into Shish Kebab, with 3 minutes to go anything can happen at this point. I'm almost lead to believe that they will manage to overcome the worst possible outcome from Jin vision (Chika being captured by Aftokrator, Osamu being killed by Mira) but maybe what Karasuma did might have affected things so who knows ...

Originally Posted by Triok123

in other side Yuma don't seem to do be doing good neither (according to Replica VIza is probably the Afrokator's strongest warrior), and Black trigger don't have bailout

Viza vs Yuma is turning out to be amusing. I did like how Replica told Yuma that Osamu is fine despite him being filled with hole thanks to Mira : and in general Viza is having a trickster side to him is really fun.

I do think he will manage to defeat him, but I do want to know what is the deal with him not having any Trion Horns ...