OH MY GOD, AMANO, YOU PATHETIC FUCK

[branchandroot]

*howling with absolute disbelief*

AMANO, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK, YOU GOATSUCKING HACK?!

*breathing hard*

I had already realized, well before this thank you, that Amano is dedicated to making her women useless frills, to handicapping even the few who are allowed to fight, to portraying the ones who are actually reasonably strong as absolute psychopaths, to making sure that they lose to the men every goddamn time. And I had realized, well before this also, that she has rolled back character development to nearly Issue 60 levels. And it was clear that Chrome was going to be the especial victim of both these trends, for the present arc.

BUT THIS! SHE HAS ACTUALLY CONTRADICTED HER OWN ESTABLISHED FACTS. HER OWN DAMN FACTS FROM THE LAST DAMN ARC WHERE THEY WERE REALLY DAMN CRITICAL TO THE PLOT! SHE CHANGED THE FACTS TO A DEGREE THAT IS FLATLY IMPOSSIBLE TO RECONCILE WITH PREVIOUS ACTION!

I don't believe this. Even though it's Amano I'm-a-flaming-misogynist Continuity-what's-that Akira, I still can't quite believe she actually just did that!

The only bright side I can wrest out of this pathetic clusterfuck is that the present arc is now clearly and canonically AU to the rest of the manga, and I therefore have a bulletproof reason to completely ignore it.

Right. There needs to be fic. Something where Chrome meets the first Mist, one way or another, and kicks his goddamn ass.


ETA: Spoilers for most recent issue in the comments.

Comments

[slippy]

Hi there. I'm jumping in off random journal-surfing, hope you don't mind. o/

Part of the problem here, I think, is that Binktopia/Meangastream's scanlation is rather a mess (they often are. They were the ones who decided that Giotto goes around talking about "My beloved G".). I was deeply confused that Chrome suddenly didn't know that Mukuro provides her organs, but in the I Eat Manga translation, Chrome's response to Julie telling her about the organ-story is "You even know that..."

Aside from that, she used the Vongola ring to get power to supply her own organs in the Millefiore Arc, and the ring has been shattered and the upgraded version is ... perhaps with Tsuna and the gang, or with Talbot, or something, and thus she doesn't have the power boost to continue making her own organs.

[branchandroot]

*sighs* Well, that doesn't in the least change the fact that Amano slaughters her female characters right and left in a completely unpardonable way, but at least it isn't a /total/ reversal of canon.

...at which point I have to kind of wonder what the scanlators were thinking, but so it goes.

The Rings don't supply power, though, that's what always pisses me off about the thing with Chrome. The Future arc indicated that pretty strongly, if nothing else, that the rings of all kinds channel power, shape and perhaps sustain it, and the Vongola/Mare/presumably-Shimon-too channel it with exceptional purity and help shape in in particular ways, but if someone doesn't have the oomph to light them up, well nothing doing. As Hibari pointed out, it was about time for Chrome to do this with her /own/ power. But no, that would be to independent and non-frill for Amano to let go on! Yet more character-development-rollback, I'm really hating Amano a /whole lot/ for that in particular, on everyone's behalf not just Chrome's. *glares at the manga some more* It was starting to /get/ somewhere, and now the whole lot of them are back at square-bloody-one in personal development terms.

[slippy]

Ha, that was why I said "part of the problem". And I gave up on Mangastream scanlations when they didn't realise, at one point, that they were supposed to have the translation reading "Mukuro" instead of "corpse". The translator probably doesn't follow the series, which leads to some missing nuance.

but if someone doesn't have the oomph to light them up, well nothing doing.
...Oh hay, good point. I didn't think of it that way. One could argue that she's not used to doing it without that channel, and thus automatically let (what she thought was) Mukuro take care of it, but the fact that she already has the power does cast a more unsatisfying light on that whole scene. And Spade/Julie is unsatisfying (read: disgusting) enough as it is.

But I am tentatively happy about where the characters are going. It was nearly unforgivable how much they reversed at the start of this arc, but Tsuna's development is looking really promising, Lambo's being allowed to have goals, and it's increasingly apparent that Gokudera's actually able to make sense out of himself and others by now.

[branchandroot]

Yeah, I was a lot happier with Gokudera's fight than I thought I would be. He's been the comic relief so much lately I was really cringing, but that was a really good couple issues for him.