@Thousand:
I was unimpressed by this chapter. Tip for Ohba in writing 101, in order for a "till we meet next time" scene to work, the rival must have put up a decent fight to prove himself as a formidable foe and not totally have knocked himself out the entire way making him come off as an arrogant douche you can't take seriously.
Got to agree with TLS here.
Nanamine has been in the manga for barely over 10 chapters, most of which he wasn't even pictured during. It's hard to take his big "I'll be back" speech seriously when pretty much each chapter since his inclusion he was doing at least one major thing to shoot himself in the foot. It didn't at all help matters that Ashirogi's contributions to being better than him were never really pictured beyond saying "well naturally their shit is superior, reader, you know this," because although it's easy to extrapolate that Nanamine's idea would fall apart under its own weight, really all that was done was talking about how that was going to happen, and watching the guy and Nakai scramble around being disgusting, foolish, and pretty unredeemable.
Actually - the more I think about it, the more unimpressed I get, especially if they dragged Nakai out of the bleachers just to torpedo an already sinking ship. It's not even like he had some revelation about his downward spiral and sought to restore himself; he just wanted to keep his cushy pizza harem fantasy job. I can't exactly guess at the long view of such a short plotline unless it's to bring Nakai back into the cast, but just… I feel the "confrontation" could have been done better. We could have seen panels from out of Nanamine's manga versus panels from out of PCP, in the chapter where they ran the same idea! To see the difference rather than hear about it.
The plot started with a bang and deflated just as quickly, for me. Nanamine was surprisingly stupid for someone so apparently calculating.
What else can I say? If this is it, I was bored.