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I told y’all.
Den Ri Mi’s hitters were introduced and killed off in 7 chapters.
I didn’t want Hara to kill her off because there’s few enough female characters as is, but the way he went about it was bullshit. Transparent contrivance without the shame of even pretending otherwise. It’s literary cowardice.
Den Ri Mi’s hitters were introduced and killed off in 7 chapters.
I didn’t want Hara to kill her off because there’s few enough female characters as is, but the way he went about it was bullshit. Transparent contrivance without the shame of even pretending otherwise. It’s literary cowardice.
I do find Kanki's weakness disappointing because of how obvious it is
And a man as smart as Kanki should have learned a lot of tactics just from serving a very by the books general like Mougou or watching Ousen.
I liked a lot of the speculation in this thread about his weakness.. https://worstgen.alwaysdata.net/forum/threads/what-is-kankis-weakness.16297/
And a man as smart as Kanki should have learned a lot of tactics just from serving a very by the books general like Mougou or watching Ousen.
I liked a lot of the speculation in this thread about his weakness.. https://worstgen.alwaysdata.net/forum/threads/what-is-kankis-weakness.16297/
Kyou Kai is smart enough to learn and develop strategy through sheer exposure and observation, but Kan Ki, who is much smarter, and spent years amassing an army of bandits and fighting off Qin armies before he became a general, never picked up anything.
He followed Mou Gou to the battlefield to learn nothing, apparently.
I keep telling y’all Hara just contrives bullshit on the fly. He doesn’t put the same amount of thought into Kingdom as he used to.
He followed Mou Gou to the battlefield to learn nothing, apparently.
I keep telling y’all Hara just contrives bullshit on the fly. He doesn’t put the same amount of thought into Kingdom as he used to.
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Rinshoujo is such a shitty character. the Kingdom equivalent of Oden @Elder Lee Hung @MarineHQ
Garyuu and Gyou'Un are awesome though
Garyuu and Gyou'Un are awesome though
Damn. I really went through all that philosophical waffle about "attachment, loss and rejection" only for the weakness to be "lol, Kanki ain't good at basic strategy". 
I swear that the arc drove immediately off a cliff face with that limp reveal.
I swear that the arc drove immediately off a cliff face with that limp reveal.
You know, I think Kyoukai and Kanki have one major thing in common.
Hara absolutely loves them.
I am convinced that these two are by far Hara's two favourite characters. Which is why they are surrounded by such blatantly biased writing.
Anybody here that has seen me criticise Kai knows my problems with her. To summarise, she is an overpowered, perfect specimen that excels in every important way and would singlehandedly dominate the entirety of this manga if she weren't held on a narrative leash that prevents her from destabilising the setting with her mere existence. This anomaly straight up belongs in a different manga. Put her in Naruto and she would fit right in.
Kanki isn't nearly this out of place but likewise he just isn't allowed to look bad or have any kind of genuine weakness. Kanki is a straight up reprehensible, degenerate, debased, depraved monster...... and everybody that meets the guy ends up loving him? What the absolute fuck?
Kanki isn't allowed to even so much as look bad in his conversations. Ei Sei has great debates with Yotanwa, Ouken and most importantly Ryofui. Yet Kanki is the one that stumps him? Likewise, Riboku ends up having a similarly lacklustre conversation with the Bandit and Kochou is just verbally bitch slapped for his trouble.
Likewise in battles, Kanki's opponents have generally ended up looking bad in order to make Kanki look good. Kochou was a colossal disappointment, Keisha was a wasted opportunity that needed Shin to coincidentally kill him in order for Kanki's plan to actually work and Riboku has looked at his most retarded in this arc.
Not to mention how Kanki's victories are generally skin of the teeth, high risk/high reward, retarded gambles that 99% of Kingdom's Generals would consider flat out too insane or too costly to be effective. Yet everyone fellates the bloke's service record anyway even when said victories needed major assistance from the likes of Shin to be effective. Duke Hyou's tactics are recognised for the abhorrent meat grinder that they are but not Kanki's for some reason, his are mysteriously acceptably fine.
Even when Kanki finally loses here, he somehow magically looks better than his opponent Riboku, who verbally sucks Kanki's cock and tells his men to respect Kanki the Rapist's corpse. Same Riboku that was more than happy to unleash Mangoku on the entire population of Qin.
This is why I find Kanki so gratingly irritating and why he is the only one of two characters in Kingdom that I actually dislike.
Hara loves the guy so much that he tries to ram down my throat how so many other characters also want to throat Kanki. Nobody acknowledges any kind of flaw or weakness in Kanki's methods. Hell, the whole "Kanki's weakness" subplot ended up being singlehandedly Riboku's most retarded moment in the entire series and the moment that this arc started going downhill fast.
I am genuinely relieved that Kanki is gone so I don't have to watch him make other characters lose 3/4 of their braincells by being his opponent. Now if only Hara would kill off Kyoukai.
Hara absolutely loves them.
I am convinced that these two are by far Hara's two favourite characters. Which is why they are surrounded by such blatantly biased writing.
Anybody here that has seen me criticise Kai knows my problems with her. To summarise, she is an overpowered, perfect specimen that excels in every important way and would singlehandedly dominate the entirety of this manga if she weren't held on a narrative leash that prevents her from destabilising the setting with her mere existence. This anomaly straight up belongs in a different manga. Put her in Naruto and she would fit right in.
Kanki isn't nearly this out of place but likewise he just isn't allowed to look bad or have any kind of genuine weakness. Kanki is a straight up reprehensible, degenerate, debased, depraved monster...... and everybody that meets the guy ends up loving him? What the absolute fuck?
Kanki isn't allowed to even so much as look bad in his conversations. Ei Sei has great debates with Yotanwa, Ouken and most importantly Ryofui. Yet Kanki is the one that stumps him? Likewise, Riboku ends up having a similarly lacklustre conversation with the Bandit and Kochou is just verbally bitch slapped for his trouble.
Likewise in battles, Kanki's opponents have generally ended up looking bad in order to make Kanki look good. Kochou was a colossal disappointment, Keisha was a wasted opportunity that needed Shin to coincidentally kill him in order for Kanki's plan to actually work and Riboku has looked at his most retarded in this arc.
Not to mention how Kanki's victories are generally skin of the teeth, high risk/high reward, retarded gambles that 99% of Kingdom's Generals would consider flat out too insane or too costly to be effective. Yet everyone fellates the bloke's service record anyway even when said victories needed major assistance from the likes of Shin to be effective. Duke Hyou's tactics are recognised for the abhorrent meat grinder that they are but not Kanki's for some reason, his are mysteriously acceptably fine.
Even when Kanki finally loses here, he somehow magically looks better than his opponent Riboku, who verbally sucks Kanki's cock and tells his men to respect Kanki the Rapist's corpse. Same Riboku that was more than happy to unleash Mangoku on the entire population of Qin.
This is why I find Kanki so gratingly irritating and why he is the only one of two characters in Kingdom that I actually dislike.
Hara loves the guy so much that he tries to ram down my throat how so many other characters also want to throat Kanki. Nobody acknowledges any kind of flaw or weakness in Kanki's methods. Hell, the whole "Kanki's weakness" subplot ended up being singlehandedly Riboku's most retarded moment in the entire series and the moment that this arc started going downhill fast.
I am genuinely relieved that Kanki is gone so I don't have to watch him make other characters lose 3/4 of their braincells by being his opponent. Now if only Hara would kill off Kyoukai.
I would've preferred Kan Ki's weakness to be threefold
a) a compulsion to humiliate the powerful
b) pleasure from cruelty
c) tunnel vision as a result of both
Kan Ki's fucked up life warped him so badly, his anger at the world twisted him into becoming someone who wanted to overpower those who thought themselves powerful - as any general or noble would.
No clearer would that manifest than when Kan Ki would - inevitably - get up close and personal, after a campaign of psychological warfare and terror.
I wanted Ri Boku to defeat him by recognising that Kan Ki developed a sort of tunnel vision when he believed his cruel methods were working.
And to that end, I wanted Ri Boku to win by a ruse that required a convincing performance, i.e. the sacrifice of thousands to lure Kan Ki in a false sense of security.
Of course, for such a task, Ri Boku could only rely on his northern allies, who were no strangers to barbarity. Ri Boku would be sending those closest to him to die horrible deaths, knowing it would be necessary to put Ba Nan Ji or w/e in position.
In the end, victory should've charged Ri Boku a much more bitter price.
a) a compulsion to humiliate the powerful
b) pleasure from cruelty
c) tunnel vision as a result of both
Kan Ki's fucked up life warped him so badly, his anger at the world twisted him into becoming someone who wanted to overpower those who thought themselves powerful - as any general or noble would.
No clearer would that manifest than when Kan Ki would - inevitably - get up close and personal, after a campaign of psychological warfare and terror.
I wanted Ri Boku to defeat him by recognising that Kan Ki developed a sort of tunnel vision when he believed his cruel methods were working.
And to that end, I wanted Ri Boku to win by a ruse that required a convincing performance, i.e. the sacrifice of thousands to lure Kan Ki in a false sense of security.
Of course, for such a task, Ri Boku could only rely on his northern allies, who were no strangers to barbarity. Ri Boku would be sending those closest to him to die horrible deaths, knowing it would be necessary to put Ba Nan Ji or w/e in position.
In the end, victory should've charged Ri Boku a much more bitter price.
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