Im waiting for it too cause I did a quick skim with the last pages and can't find any except snippets from here and someone's mobile translation in Twitter. Though it should be sometime soon within the week (I don't know much what happened to the usual translator but I hope they're doing fine)
Bam, who was alone all his life has entered the tower to chase after his only friend, Rachel, but how will he survive without having any special strength or power?“What do you desire? Money and wealth? Honor and pride? Authority and power? Revenge? Or something that transcends them all? Whatever...
I would speculate the biggest battle he would have ever thought he might be in... taking on fug. Yet he did not bring a gun. Well he will now have opportunities to make up for that as this mission has gone sideways.
AA knows that Baam defeated and absorbed White's power. And that he went on to absorb Leviathan. Despite all this, he still thinks Maschenny is someone that they need to tread carefully around.
And? Point is that AA never saw how baam dominated with white and literally played with him throught the fight. And he didn't know baam didn't even go all out either. Plus AA looked to fight as if baam was losing from the start, which made AA think baam might be weaker than white and just found a opportunity to fight with white on equal grounds.
Even if baam himself says maschenny is much stronger than her, i won't believe it since he said ''Oh sure i'm absolutely no match for you daddy'' to jinsung while he can literally oneshot jinsung since jinsung got beaten quite easily by kallavan. Both baam himself and AA don't know how strong baam is,they are both the worst when it comes to judge baam's power level. I have no doubt aria sees baam a bigger dragon than both white and maschenny little sea can't contain
Baam himself even before pre-leviathan could literally blaze the whole nest except traum if he gone all out,much less little dragon that little sea can't contain
Well,endorsi never had a chance to being favourite of most powerful women(MILF) on tower or being daddy's girl of one of most powerful men on tower. Sorry to disappoint you,sir.
And? Point is that AA never saw how baam dominated with white and literally played with him throught the fight. And he didn't know baam didn't even go all out either. Plus AA looked to fight as if baam was losing from the start, which made AA think baam might be weaker than white and just found a opportunity to fight with white on equal grounds.
Even if baam himself says maschenny is much stronger than her, i won't believe it since he said ''Oh sure i'm absolutely no match for you daddy'' to jinsung while he can literally oneshot jinsung since jinsung got beaten quite easily by kallavan. Both baam himself and AA don't know how strong baam is,they are both the worst when it comes to judge baam's power level. I have no doubt aria sees baam a bigger dragon than both white and maschenny little sea can't contain
Baam himself even before pre-leviathan could literally blaze the whole nest except traum if he gone all out,much less little dragon that little sea can't contain
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I felt lke i gotta correct you
he can't even exchange blows with test ranker(low) much less an advanced ranker. You are giving him too much credit.
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maybe he can't even exchange blows with top B or A rank regulars. much less zahard princess regulars
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Well,endorsi never had a chance to being favourite of most powerful women(MILF) on tower or being daddy's girl of one of most powerful men tower. Sorry to disappoint you,sir.
From what I read Rose and Gladmerry are just Regular, not sure if they gonna be as big deal as Mashenny or Yuri. Baam is speed running the power scale.
It's not us reader that decided that TOG is gonna be dark. SIU is that one who made TOG a harsh place, that climbing claim many lives, that people use any means to climb higher. Even at the start killing was rampant, like Endorsi's group massacred most regulars at her test. SIU changing the atmosphere of TOG by making killing rarer is his mistake. I expected TOG to be more GoT like, more liberal in named characters being killed.
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And I don't mean enemies getting killed, friends or acquittances of Baam being killed. People that readers have emotionally (more or less) invested in getting offed at per the nature of TOG.
Off the top of my head, I think SIU just doesn't (like to) kill people often, whether they are Good Guys or Bad Guys. Rachel who I dislike for instance should have died a long time ago, but she's still around. Another is/was Hell Joe who was a bad guy but SIU saved him, even White is not truly dead.
Speaking for myself I am not eager to have Jinsung dead. He could easily just retire, He could go back and live his hermit style life just like he was before Maschenny went after him.
In summary I disagree with those who say/think that painful deaths are neccesary for character development
If I recall well, the people who have died are Akraptor, Vee, the Hell train conductor, and some with a horn girl that Rachel killed, the chicken person on Hell train, and maybe a few more. Call me a softie, but I like that. I dislike "dark" manga with deaths everywhere.
I remember trying out Attack of Titan, but I dropped it really fast. We all have our preferences and I respect that, but for me I kind of like it light with few deaths. I prefer that the few that do die are really hateful characters and certainly not ones that I have had the chance to develop an empathy for.
In summary I tend to disagree with those who say/think that painful deaths are necessary for character development of a comic book hero.
No one is speaking about painful death , it is a exageration .
But death should definitely be a part of any book where people try to kill each other .
A author don't have to kill people right and left , but they shouldn't hesitate to kill a character when needed .
For example what is Rachel purpose , she feels so forced in the story and we know she will come back as a vilain .
What is Jinsung purpose , i like him but in my opinion he should have died .
Same for prince and Akraptor , the 2 didn't have to die , one was enough , but it was good to one off them at least died .
The problem when no one dies , is that people don't care anymore " conflict " in general .
Why because we know the protagonist and his friend will have no sequence even if they face crazy powerful opponent and who are evil , so the MC will come out off that arc , without being that marked and we the audience in the end can't feel any tension and can't take seriously and end up thinking again another antagonist who think he is the shit , but can't even beat one off the MC fodder friend .
To be honest when it reach that point , i don't care about the fight anymore and only the story matter to me .
In TOG i always liked the story , but also liked the fight but now i don't care anymore .
For example in this arc , i know Rei will end up as a failure and i don't care really about the consequence off this arc , Yas will likely die , Yama will get stronger , same for Baam and they will never pay for facing a irregular , so it make the tension for next irregular next to zero .
Same for SIU giving non stop power up , i don't care anymore about what power Baam get or how strong he is , given how bad the power scaling has been this arc .
A story should make you feel that every thing is hapenning naturally , with few intervention of the author to protect the MC and it's friend sometime but nothing more . If it feel forced there is something .
Well i think you already know my personnal take on this .
She will make a very decent HR , as for top 100 that is something else .
Now if we were to speak about the position off strength between all those regular jahad princess , i think the LPB princess may not really be inferior to Arie rose or hendo .
There has been implication that the workshop or the FY did something to them .
I suspect that they may posses powerful beast or ability .
Well now that i think about it , i definitely wanted a princess arc , where Baam had to crush those princess .
Is Endorsi really 300 years ?
So are all Baam friend century old ? That would be hard to justify given how childish they seem .
From what I read Rose and Gladmerry are just Regular, not sure if they gonna be as big deal as Mashenny or Yuri. Baam is speed running the power scale.
I really die of laughing whenever i see cinera's defence on zahard princess and how powerful they are.
Webtoon states ''He was defeated by a princess in the same family'', it doesn't state Zahard princess who was part of white's generation defeated him. It might be second generation, third, fourth, sixth, tenth, or white's generation. Plus if hagi is responsible, it doesn't prove your point either. Hagi isn't your common princess. She is one of the most talented zahard princess ever(likely to be third) as well as third strongest zahard princess. She might be even more talented than yuri herself, since Arie family is stronger than Ha family.
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Even without soul spell,White would be at the very minimum comparable to common princess and would likely surpass them since he was literally strongest and defeated everyone in his generation except vicente. Being zahard princess doesn't make you most talented, if it was baek, luslec and many of other talented people would have lower rank than every zahard princess.
Let's agree to disagree. I think if a death happens as a natural consequence of a hard fight, especially if the antagonist is truly evil, I have no problem with that. I do think it is rather gory/gruesome to kill off a character when there is no need. I am pleased that HJ survived, and I would like to see him live long enough to witness Bam's success and triumph over his parents' enemies.
I have had a similar discussion with my daughter actually. My stance is that happily ever after is preferable unless the story development demands otherwise. To me it is wasteful and tragic for HJ to die and I see no need for it.
"Most Regular Princesses have a lot higher physical durability than average Rankers. As Quant said in Season 1, Rankers are superior in Shinsu control and technique so they can be overall more powerful than a Princess, but that gap is caught up rather quickly." Vol.2 Ch.213 Blog Post
As mentioned in the webtoon and blogposts, princesses' bodies are much tougher than rankers, even regular princesses. The difference is because of the mastery over shinsu manipulations. You should make difference between these two concepts, physical strength by blood and body reinforcement by shinsu.
I really die of laughing whenever i see cinera's defence on zahard princess and how powerful they are.
Webtoon states ''He was defeated by a princess in the same family'', it doesn't state Zahard princess who was part of white's generation defeated him. It might be second generation, third, fourth, sixth, tenth, or white's generation. Plus if hagi is responsible, it doesn't prove your point either. Hagi isn't your common princess. She is one of the most talented zahard princess ever(likely to be third) as well as third strongest zahard princess. She might be even more talented than yuri herself, since Arie family is stronger than Ha family.
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Even without soul spell,White would be at the very minimum comparable to common princess and would likely surpass them since he was literally strongest and defeated everyone in his generation except vicente. Being zahard princess doesn't make you most talented, if it was baek, luslec and many of other talented people would have lower rank than every zahard princess.
I think most people underestimate how hard it is to get to top 100 . This rank means you are among the 100 strongest people in history who are alive , and given how rare HR death are . That rank is way too hard to achieve .
At regular level , we have 6 zahard princess and thinking all off them would be White , kallavan and jinsung equal seems crazy to me .
The thing is that SIU make a character say that this guy are talented and people think they can reach top 100 .
By this logic mad dog can also reach top 100 and other talent in GF .
Let's agree to disagree. I think if a death happens as a natural consequence of a hard fight, especially if the antagonist is truly evil, I have no problem with that. I do think it is rather gory/gruesome to kill off a character when there is no need. I am pleased that HJ survived, and I would like to see him live long enough to witness Bam's success and triumph over his parents' enemies.
I have had a similar discussion with my daughter actually. My stance is that happily ever after is preferable unless the story development demands otherwise. To me it is wasteful and tragic for HJ to die and I see no need for it.
But nowaday there are no more death when people fight , which make all off this kinda unrealistic . Prince and Akraptor at least changed that to a degree .
I mean if Baam was capable to developp without major death , death wouldn't feel more necessary .
But Baam literally act as if he has the plot armor and he never care about what he does and what he does . He is at level 50 and he still feel has a problem killing random people and need a hug from AA to save his master . He seems to mostly stay a baby in a tower where violence is omnipresent .
All Baam major developement happen when his friend were put in danger and even this arc change , the dark change arrived when Baam learned his friend died .
I doubt we'll see him at all, and it might be several weeks before he shows up again. Probably going to be spending most of the coming chapters with the Cat Tower crew.
Who knows? May be SUI wants to end this chapter soon and while use Bam to save his friends from the Cat Tower.
Holan seems to have consideration to Bam, he can tell him how dire is the situation.
I doubt we'll see him at all, and it might be several weeks before he shows up again. Probably going to be spending most of the coming chapters with the Cat Tower crew.
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