Can you play online via handheld mode?

Persona 5, baby! Been getting my a$$ mopped since Friday, and I'm loving it! Definitely the most brutal HARD mode in the series.

@King:

This phase does not engender competition though. Anyone that stays above 50 points passes.

Competition was necessary in the first phase because there's not enough resources to accommodate everybody.

Several of those test-takers have trained though. Many are 2nd years.

And again, this is a test. The government is not responsible for making them work together. That's the school's job to make them more cooperative.

Again, this a test. It's not meant to nurture anyone. That's the job of their schools.

People that are intelligent and cooperative enough to work with others are going to pass. Judgement, decision-making, all those things are being judged as well.

It's like you're not reading the chapters at all. Those things are being outright stated and you're ignoring them.

Points are docked. Everybody starts with 100 points. Remaining with 50 points passes. This was explained in this chapter.

Judging is done by the victims (according to rescue methods and teamwork) and the suits in the chairs (according to fighting methods and teamwork).

Please, don't make yourself look dumb. This shit was all explained.

The government itself explains all this in the first page.

You haven't. Your criticism is generic. And your questions are answered in the first pages.

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Remember that Inasa is a different type of person. He has this philosophy, and it was broken.

Plus, it's not like Stain was overreacting either. Killing people because they dared to think about themselves. Never mind that he generalized this view into all heroes, including Ingenium.

Shut him down!!!!!!!!

@Xanegoh:

So I'd say this revelation about Nanao not having her own zan makes everything nimaya said about the importance of the zan complete bullshit.

That is supremely illogical. Yes one character being deficient outweighs the entirety of the series upholding the importance placed on the relationship between shinigami and zanpakutou.

She was unable to produce a zan using the asauchi because her zanpakutou had the legacy of the Ise clan, so she'd INHERIT her zanpakutou, and I'm assuming, ultimately bypass the whole process to begin with.

@Xanegoh:

Wait. How is Nanao's mother able to suppress hollows? The Ancient-Holy-Cursed-Relic sword apparently hurts the wielder, and we were told it was only used for rituals. And how can Nanao have no sword fighting experience? She had gone to the academy and trained with an asauchi.

Bottom two panels. All you gotta do is open your eyes a bit.

@MugiwaraPirate:

It's sad to see how much bleach declined:/ Has it really gotten that bad to the Japanese people? or is it the lack of advertisement and anime? Hmmmmmm

Still edges out stuff like Gintama, even without an anime.

And while it's declined overall, many more of my high school students here enjoy it than I realized.

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Another thing to keep in mind is that while sales are important, something that doesn't get factored into a series popularity are manga rentals, to the best of my knowledge.

Also, the resell culture for used manga is much different when compared to the states and other markets.

Again, open acknowledgement that BLEACH's popularity has obviously declined. But a series is more than just sales, and that goes for any series.

@SpaceCowboy:

Not really, only the extremelly arrogant secondary villains

! Steely Dan, Rubber Soul or ones that sort of need to explain it
! the D´Arbys, Ringo Roadagain [/spoilers].
! I´m pretty sure that that doesn´t happen in around 80% of the Jojo fights.
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! The characters explaining it might actually be reasonable in some situations.
I´ve already said that I think Shunsui needs to explain his because of it´s powers, and I also agree that Lille seem to be a "gentleman" about Shunsui sharing some info and giving his own.
! My problem is how frequent it is, and how it backfires a lot of the times.
It´s like no matter what character we are talking about, the rash one, the calm one, the reasonable one, the tricky one, the smarty one, the cocky one, every single one of these different personalities have one thing in common: The unexplanable need to always explain their fucking power out loud in deadly situations.
! This gets even worse if you consider that one chapter ago the character was moaning about how it didn´t want to use his power because insert reason.
! Also, maybe in Lille´s case, we can´t figure out how to beat him just from that, but in other cases we did: Rose, Shinji (HE ACTUALLY TOLD HIM HOW TO DO IT), Kira (despite the opponent not actually defetaing him and so on and on).
In more simple abilities, like Kira´s for example, saying his power instead of trying to get opponent off guard is just pure suicide.
! Fair and valid points. I don't deny some of the more fail worthy moments. Lol. Thanks for the refresher though. Rose…. damn.

@TLC:

So the super special secret backstory Bakugo has on why he is a ginormous douchenozzle and the reason behind his entire rotten attitude is…he just doesn't like to lose? But he liked All Might a lot when he was a kid!~ That totally justifies his becoming a rotten bully.

For a chapter titled Bakugo: The Origin, it sure was light on the origin part. Can we get the piece of backstory on whe he became an asshole? Did Deku bully him in preschool? Something that could possibly justify his character?

I see what the author is going for her but the execution falls flat. Him finally working with Deku is supposed to be this big moment but it falls flat on its face because the emotional thrust of it is that he hates Deku for no reason to the point that it makes him sick to work with him. And I'm supposed to root for this guy, for this team up? The chapter sure frames it that way. Oh poor Bakugo, look at how much he had to sacrifice, he had to NOT BE AN ASSHOLE TO THIS GUY. What a hero!

And before someone tells me that a good character doesn't have to be likable, I agree, the problem is that Bakugo is not interesting either. He's just this shallow shitheel that the manga keeps putting this emotional weight on without ever following through, at best he's very inconsistently written and at worst, he's just insufferable. Which is a shame because out of context I used to like his over the top antics before I read the whole series from the start and got the context of the character.

All Might was cool, can we get more of him beating the shit out of Bakugo please?

I'm sorry but you're missing a lot of the thrust. It's fine that you like to hold magnifying glasses to things (you have a rep for kind of going overkill with your analysis, which is fine, no harm no foul), but a lot of Bakugou's character is not super developed, a lot of his bullying and hate for Deku comes from the fact that 1. Baku has a superiority complex (the root of which, we don't know, so I agree, seeing that would be great, but even if we don't see it immediately, there's still room for it later on). From chapter one, he hated the fact that "Deku with no individuality/quirk" would even mention himself in the same breadth as Bakugou. From wanting to be a hero, to wanting enter Yuuei, everything about Deku seems to aggravate Bakugou. In the real world, there are people like that, I'm sure you're aware. We're not all mind readers, and not everyone has a reason, let alone a good reason, for being the way they are or doing the things they do. Some people are in fact assholes, caused by a multitude of factors, and were we to have received some simply wrapped present explaining Bakugou's actions, that'd be kind of weak.

Todoroki got a big chunk of solid development that helped carve a pretty damn good character arc thus far. Maybe Horikoshi is still thinking up stuff or waiting to give more background. Seeing the results of this team-up will be more important than the backstory that pre-empted it. If anything, it added some more intrigue as to why Bakugou is the way he is. If HORI does not deliver, then, yes, it will be a missed opportunity but I still have hope.

2. To say that the execution falls flat when the kid is literally crying because he has to admit he needs to rely on Deku…. you're too hung up on things not progressing the way you want to acknowledge how moving that is. Unless you're specifically referring to the origin story and not the chapter as a whole. This is the 2nd time Deku has come to Bakugou's rescue, and that was when Deku didn't have a quirk. To see how much he's improving is more than likely pretty tough for someone with all of the expectations that Bakugou is carrying: living up to his power, idolizing All Might (which is a really nice touch, and more salt in the wound, considering Deku and All Might's relationship), among some other things. I could definitely use a refresher for the series since it's been about a year of serialization, but giving the first two Japanese volumes to several of my students and recommending the series as a whole to many other students to read, has been a refresher of sorts. but those aspects of Bakugou's character are great. Along with the concern he showed for Uraraka during the tournament, and the battle he had against Todoroki.

Someone else may have addressed some of things, I didn't have the time to check the rest of the thread. Just had 2 cents to throw in.

Cool! I feel Billy may be the easiest of the remaining to cast. The others will be the most divisive and more difficult to nail. We'll see what happens though!

I approve! She looks the part.

As for her credits, I have no idea. Amy Jo had some experience though I wouldn't call her the greatest actress to have ever lived. As new Kimberly brings fun and enthusiasm to the part, it'll be great.

I really wanna see the suits!