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I think its the ever present, ever possible, ever unpredictable nature of Kenichi. How many masters, even super-class masters, has he attacked throughout the manga? Kenichi seems like one of those...

@kick: fix your post, dude. "Akira was superior to Akira" ? He could school Hongo? Isn't his name Akira Hongo?
And if y'all wanna talk about previous chapters head to the proper thread....

Wow Matsuena-sensei doesn't disappoint. Here we all are saying "wow the kenichi-berserker fight is gonna be awesome!" "Miu's gonna go nuts!" "Ryuuto Asamiya secrets incoming!" And what's Matsuena...

Actually I would be surprised if this fight did continue. Sure Ogata is crazy but I don't see him throwing away disciple for no reason. If it is indeed Sei do gyo that Rimi is asking for (and judging...

@kkck: Have you ever heard the expression: "Beating a dead horse"?

@kick: I'll leave your first argument alone since I think we're saying the same thing.
as to your second point we haven't yet seen the dangers of sei ki. What would lead a person like Kushinada...

Actually ki or qi is defined as the life energy of all things and is used in a variety of things from martial arts to traditional Chinese medicine, to acupuncture to feng shui. As such I don't think...

Now that is an interesting idea. I had always thought he had already released it somehow before ki had been an issue. But if his masters are just waiting for the right time that neatly avoids the...

@BASED Shinigami: So you complain first that Kenichi isn't getting enough attention then you complain second that its focusing too much on Kenichi and its getting repetitive? You can't have it both...

So am I the only one who saw KENICHI do something amazing in the chapter? He executed Ryuusui Seikuken perfectly on BERSERKER of all people. Y'all remember him right? The fighting prodigy that taught...

Well that flight's over. Whatever fight is next I wonder : where is Tsutomu Tanaka? He did sorta swear eternal revenge for the murderer of his master. And lo and behold! And here he is, Ogata...

Yes but its incomplete. He has poor control of it. Its "shallow" and inconsistent. And dude you are completely missing my point. I don't care about fully released ki. If having access to large...

@kkck
Wow there is so much wrong with your argument I don't really know where to start.


So basically what you're saying is that one doesn't have to use Sei ki in the most extreme form of sei....

@kkck
You are correct it has never been stated outright by a master that Kenichi has great control of his ki. But lets look at the evidence. First, from the outset Kenichi always, ALWAYS keeps to...

Um...guys have y'all forgotten that kenichi already released his sei ki, like 200-300 chapters ago? Possibly during his match against Odin in the first arc. Very likely against during the first dual...

For shits and giggles lets say that not only does Hongou Akira survive but he WINS, too.
Yes, he's in a bad situation. Yes, the Elder struggled against Jenezad in the past. And yes, he's probably...

All excellent points. I believe you won this round.

[Heh]So what's that make Kenichi then? A naked kid with a monkey tale and an extend-o-rama pole?

I'd call it a draw or more precisely a stalemate. All arguments about the impossibility of this match aside, even if they did fight they wouldn't be able to do so effectively. Miu is a speed-,...

@Lectro Volpi: valid points except that aside from a brief mention every hundred chapters or so we never see them training. Maybe I should have used the word "elaboration" rather than "explanation"....

@blackmidnight: as I've stated so many times before its sort of wearying; just because he has ascended out of the disciple-class (which is a classification of his strength relative to other...

See the Tsutomu Tanaka sparring match. Koetsuji basically says that Kenichi has begun to enter the expert class. But just barely. Koetsuji says something like: "In your case it just makes you...

"Hongou is out-matched." "Things are looking bad for Hongou" "Hongou's gonna be defeated." "Jenazad is gonna kill him." "You can clearly see the difference in skill between them."
Yknow, y'all sound...

I like your thinking here. How about this as a developement?: Silcardo Jenezad makes his move to snatch Miu at the end of the Sakaki-Hongo master-fight. But the One Shadow, being a master on the...

except he no longer has weak legs. His legs and hips are considered by most masters to be the most powerful part of his kung-fu.

What you are all missing is that Sakaki has choosen the Katsujin-ken and Katsujin-ken's principles are "Do not kill" and "Do not allow yourself to be killed." To Sakaki death of any kind on the...

Philosophically I don't agree with Hongo at all. Sakaki wanted Suzuki to live a long life helping others. In other words living according to the teaching of the Katsujin-ken. Sakaki wasn't being...

wait doesn't his name translate to roughly fist (ken) one (ichi)? or rearranged to (since japanese has a different subject-adjective order than english): first (ichi) fist (ken)?

Hey I know this arc seems to be all about Sakaki and Hongo and their past/present fights with a smattering of Kenichi and Miu but don't forget that this whole thing started off with Silcardo Jenezad...

While he hasn't yet learned any techniques from Shigure, she has definitely given him some of her style's broader teachings (like the fear detector and how to fight armed opponents while being...

Band-aid fist (cause of the band-aid obviously)
Undying fist or the thousand hit king (because you hit him and hit him and hit him and he always stands up)
Master of the five styles (Jiu-Jutsu,...

Y'know what would be really cool/interesting? If Hongo uses that Nejirinukite on Sakaki and Sakaki uses the Shinken Shirahama Tori that Kenichi invented (on the fly) and used to stop Kano Shou. How...

It kinda looked like halfway through Suzuki was kick-starting his own heart. Maybe he had a weak heart? (I mean literally not figuratively.) I don't think that his illness weakened him and thats why...

Nejirinukite: the Torsion Overarm Stroke.
A note: That is the same move that Kano Shou used several times in the D of D. Once almost killing Takeda, one (less powerful version) that Kenichi caught,...

Fixed! Heh heh heh
I still haven't forgotten that .0002% Combination Technique. Even with that insignificant fraction of his strength and his eyes closed he could litterally blow both Miu and...

In many ways tho this manga is somewhat stereo-typical. Maybe the Elder won't die or be defeated but Kenichi learns a techinique or does something that even the Elder couldn't and this qualifies as...

hey I know this doesn't have anything to do with recent chapters but it occurred to me as I reread some old chapters (its summer and I got nothing to do).
Why do y'all think that Matsuena decided to...

Someone has been reading too much Naruto[/QUOTE]
Seconded.

hey I know this doesn't have anything to do with recent chapters but it occurred to me as I reread some old chapters (its summer and I got nothing to do).
Why do y'all think that Matsuena decided to...

Actually thats not quite what Sakaki said. The scar is a memento of their last fight when Akira "defeated" him. But he never says that it was Hongo that gave it two him. A considering the 3-way...

Actually I think the problem is that it works a little too well and Kenichi looks into her heart too much and is simply overcome by... ecchii thoughts. The one time he tried using it on her the Elder...

Y'know this weeks manga kinda tells me something about Kenichi. He's a little bit of a monster himself isn't he? Gaining an increased "power of sight" just from watching Sakaki and Hongo (sort of...

@Franckie:
That's not what we're saying. The issue is that a "disciple" is defined as someone who is training under a master who can be at varying levels of strength. But the "disciple-class" is a...

Because neither of them are Kenichi's masters and are thus un-informed about his true abilities. From your own example, Agaard registers surprise at what Kenichi can do so he incorrectly labels him...

Wrong. He is referred to as a disciple (which he is) not a disciple-class fighter (which he isn't). Please don't confuse the two.
As I've said before, his level as a martial artist is Expert-class...

Couldn't it be like this?:
The One Shadow Nine Fists all have had [something]-fist nicknames and got together and said "Hey, we're the Nine Fists!" Then Saiga said "I am the One Shadow. Join me!"...

Thank you for pointing that out it needed to be said. He has been present during such high level master class fights before, like between Agaard and Apachai but since he was in the middle of a fight...

This is a question that has long plagued me (and it seems Kenichi-kun too): when will Kenichi catch up to Miu-san?

It seems like an important but oft over looked element of HSDK. Kenichi-kun is so...

Two things I'd never thought I'd see in a non-h shounen manga: scat play and yarai with a boner (see page 4).

shiho-sunsengnim was a bitch but on shioon's side.
this new girl is not...which can be bad news i think

btw...how in the hell do you have a shounen fighting manga in which the main character...