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

[annotated_em]

I'm way behind on the manga: what did Amano do this time?

[metisket]

IT COULD ALL BE OKAY! If it turns out that Chrome's just screwing with him.

...which is obviously not going to happen because that would be. Amazing. WHICH CANNOT BE.

But someone...somewhere...did point out that Chrome doesn't have her ring right now because it is a rock. Which at least explains why she's not making her own organs at this time.

It still doesn't explain why she abruptly doesn't seem to KNOW about them. Unless she's screwing with Spade. She is a Mist Guardian, after all, screwing with people is their THING, come on Amano, just this once. ;_; Because that could be great! Mindfuckery could actually be Chrome's secret power, that would even MAKE SENSE, and it's never come up before now--Mukuro is the only genuine mindfucker she knows, and she has no interest in fighting him, so. So!!!

It's never going to happen. I just need to let that idea die quietly before it burns me. Because she's brainwashed now, right? Or something? Can you fake brainwashing? YOU CAN IN FIC. *weeps* This seriiiiiiies.

[chronolith]

This is the reason that I cannot get into KHR.

[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.

[sabriel]

I'm kinda glad I stopped reading Bleach midway through the future arc...

[redfullmoon]

Pretty much what I thought. Amano, a woman, is a total misogynist. =A= I somehow either get the feeling that she might be getting approval from guys this ways--by making the girls in her stories weak to e to the power of infinity. =A=

Contradictions, it seems, is not something I should be surprised by in this manga, even though this DID make me hit my head against the tree bark. The mangaka doesn't seem to be writing this for anything other than gags and an audience of hormonal 12-year-old Japanese boys who don't care about female character development in any sense of the word.

It's no wonder why any of us don't want to read the manga anymore (I know guy friends who hate KHR now because of the lack of awesome female characters and the stupidity of the unreasonableness)...but the problem now is that I have a series that I'm writing for this, which makes it difficult for me to continue. :/