Hello everyone, originally I was gonna do a "read a long" type of a video and just put it on youtube where I would break down the Hango arc as we're going through the chapters, but that was gonna end up being like 30 mins - 1 hour long. So figured I'd just make a thread on WorstGen regarding it as well. I have read a lot of the posts regarding the war, and how the arc is being perceived. After having reread it about 4 times now from start to end, this is my analysis on what led to Qin's biggest loss. It's essentially the "Blame game" and explaining who deserves the biggest blame from the Qin side and of course what the Zhao did superbly. If you guys would like I will be more than happy to do audio recordings of these giant threads in the future as well, if it's easier for y'all.
Yotanwa Army vs Ganmon Army:
I want to get this part of the war out of the way first. The armies of Yotanwa & Ganmon were pretty much even. If you combine SSJ & Bananji together you're easily getting a commander who is on high end Qin6/Zhao 3 tier, if not better. So Yotanwa being held up by them is not a disrespect to her by any means. Rather we even get direct hype from Ousen himself in regards to the Ganmon armies being powerful. This battlefield was essentially a wash. Yotanwa was in absolutely no situation to help out Ousen or any other battlefield at all while dealing with Ganmon armies, as she was also dealing with a 20k numerical disadvantage.
MAIN BATTLE:
The first thing that really needs to be established regarding the main battle is that it was not Ousen vs Riboku nor was it Shibashou vs Ousen, both of these would be extremely disingenuous. Rather it was Riboku & Shibashou vs Ousen.
We'll start first by taking a look at the positions, take note of where Akou is positioned relative to the HSU & Ousen:
Ousen had positioned Ouhon as a reserve so he could assist in whichever battlefield needed the help. While for the HSU, and particularly Shin he was expecting to show up immensely.
The first mistake:
After the Hi Shin Unit had started their charge and the mountain armies were also engaged in battle. The middle was in a standstill, until Akou had decided to move forward. In counter to Akou's charge, Gakushou decided to move his army and was matching the position of Akou's army. Once in good distance, Akou was about to give the order to charge, but he notices an army to his side. And after a closer look he realizes that it was Riboku.
Ousen also sees that there's an army to the side that had appeared and immediately hopes to himself that Akou doesn't take the bait. However, Akou in his overconfident, recognized that it was a trap... but believed he would be able to overcome the trap set up by Riboku.
From the fact that Akou fell for the trap, Ousen deduced that it was Riboku. Now as Akou is charging at Riboku, Fuuon's unit comes charging at Akou. And then followed by the Gakushou army. After being trapped by both, Akou was in a really bad position. But his lord Ousen showed something that I think is an overlooked character development moment. Ousen showed complete overconfidence in his subordinate, this ends up being an issue for rest of the war as well. Now tbf to Ousen, there really wasn't much he could do at that point outside of moving the rest of his armies to rescue Akou, which could be even more risky due to the unknown factor of the Seika army. Playing it cautiously, his bet was just to believe that Akou could pull it off.
After this, Futei comes in as well and deals a pretty big hit on Akou. After which Akou has a powerboost Ousen Flashback, that then leads to him being able to pushback the likes of the Fuuon & Futei back. Riboku calls a retreat, which then leads Akou to chase him and send a message to the HSU to block Riboku's escape path.
So the very first mistake made by the Qin is by General Akou falling for the obvious trap due to either underestimating Riboku or simple overconfidence in himself. This mistake essentially has Ousen's #1 subordinate general and his army removed from the battlefield. With Akou not being able to give any injury to Futei or Fuuon, but only a decent injury to Gakushou in that dumbass plot Horse 360 event after having his spine cut up. Now let's head over to the 2nd mistake made by the Qin.
The 2nd mistake:
Following the orders of General Akou, Hi Shin Unit led by Shin decides to chase down Riboku. After Riboku escapes Shin's initial charge at him, Shin decides to commit to a full down chase of Riboku. This then leads to Shin being completely removed from the Hango area.:
This is an independent decision that Shin took himself. After Riboku had escaped his initial charge, he had the choice to not chase him. But nope, he with full on confident decides to chase Riboku out of Hango, which effectively put him out of the reach from the Ousen army. But you see it doesn't just end there, after having been baited by Riboku to come outside of Hango, Shin then sees a mud fortress in which Riboku hides. And what does the captain and the strategist of the Hi Shin Unit do after seeing a mud fortress in the middle of nowhere? They decide to commit to a siege.
So the 1st mistake essentially took out Akou & his army from being of much relevance in the war. The 2nd mistake made by Shin effectively led to him & Karyo Ten being removed from the main battlefield, while also eliminating any possibility or chances of Ouhon being able to assist Ousen.
Riboku's genius in the two mistakes committed by Qin:
Bro it astonishes me the shit Riboku can pull off bruh. He knows the personality of Akou so he set himself up as a bait. After realizing that Akou was essentially done for and could be handled by Gakushou and Fuuon, along with it nearing the time for the other seika armies to start moving. But you see the trap for Akou was part of a bigger fucking trap for the HSU. Before the other Seika armies could move, he completely removes the HSU and indirectly Ouhon as pieces for Ousen to use against Shibashou. He even designed the fortress, to give the perception that it would be easy to take with a small/mid-sized army so that the HSU would get baited further by it and waste time... And that is also when the main Seika army of Jiaga/Kansaro/SBS starts moving.
This dude Riboku a year in advance had made 18 other mud fortresses just to remove the HSU as a factor from Ousen. To him it didn't fucking matter whether HSU was in the middle or even on Yotanwa's wing, this mofo was gone remove em from being a factor to Ousen.
And why did he prepare so thoroughly to remove HSU as a factor? So he could make it as easy as he could for Seika.
In order to set the stage for Seika's domination, Riboku removes Akou & his army AND HSU + Ouhon as pieces for Ousen to use against Seika. And the sad thing is... none of that had to do with Ousen.
The 3rd mistake:
The above two mistakes essentially set the stage for Ousen to lose, there's just nothing he could do at that point strategically due to not being able to use his biggest pieces. However, it is the 3rd mistake that results in Qin facing their biggest loss in the unification campaign. The 3rd mistake being done by Ousen himself. His over confidence in his underlings that resulted in him not calling the retreat earlier.
After seeing Akou and his army get fucked up & Then Denrimi's army get fucked up + Not being able to use Ouhon & HSU to help him out (Remember these two were specifically positioned the way they were so Ousen could use them to assist the center if needed) - He still chose not to call a retreat despite seeing the martial might of Jiaga/Kansaro/SBS.
Then after seeing even Shiryou, his arguably strongest/2nd strongest martial person get fucked up after killing Jiaga - He still chose not to call a retreat.
This man relied on a fucked up Akou & Sou'ou to deal with Shibashou. This is the same man who when he saw Bananji tear up his HQ... decided he wanted not part of that. But now he believed a fucked up Akou and Sou'ou could lead him to victory.
And this mistake really highlighted for me a part of Ousen that we just had never seen, which is unquestionable faith in his underlings. Ousen holds his underlings in VERY high regard, even if they're not of that caliber. This is even displayed when he outright tells Denrimi to not go do reckless shit and instead come escape with him. But this was also his fatal mistake. He didn't want to admit that his underlings just weren't that good against Seika.
I really applaud Hara for giving Ousen this sort of character development, it was very well done and add a new dimension to Ousen's character.
And this essentially lead to them getting so many damn casualties. Had he called the retreat sooner, he could've saved a good portion of the army and his commanders.
The Factor of the Unknown:
Now with all of that said, I specifically titled my thread "what led to Qin's biggest loss" for a reason instead of titling it "Why qin lost". Because in my opinion, Qin was bound to lose this war regardless. When we look at the major campaigns of the series, in particular Bayou & Sanyou for example. The reason the respective generals that lost those wars.... is the factor of the unknown.
Bayou war: Ouki's loss didn't happen because Moubu decide to fall for a trap. Ouki could've won even with that. The only thing Moubu falling for the trap did was make sure that Ouki would've died. Because general Ouki was going to lose regardless of Moubu falling for the trap or not... why? Because Riboku was going to come in with a 40k fresh army in a battle that was already highly intense. The unknown factor of Riboku and his 40k army is what led to Ouki's loss, there's nothing Ouki could've done about that.
Sanyou war: The primary reason that Renpa lost was the unkown factors of Ousen & Kanki. The man had absolutely 0 idea about their prowess outside of Ouki's hype for them. The man was going to lose this war regardless, when you have 6 unknown Qin 6 level factors. And of course the unknown youth who rose to the stage, Shin, taking out Rinko in the center army.
This factor of the unknown is so damn important that it was constantly stressed in this war. Then it was also even stressed in the Shukai Plains. Where Riboku's strategy was fine when he was making strategies against people whose prowess he knew of. But what fucked up his strategies? The unknown factor that was brought in by Shin & Ouhon's awakenings + Mouten's showing up as a general. So do I blame Ousen for not having a scouting report on the Seika army? I'm pretty sure had he known about the Seika army's strength, the way he would've gone about this campaign would've been completely different. Which leads me to....
The Blame Game + Riboku vs Ousen:
I have seen a lot of ESPN narratives being taken since Shukai. ESPN narratives are where you talk about a team sport and the players in that team... and you judge the players based on the results provided by the entire team. You're judging how good player 1 is whether he wins or not in a team game. Without acknowledging that player 1 could be better than player 2 and still his team could get his ass whooped. And this is the primary reason I personally don't want to /like having arguments with people who judge generals and their capabilities off of Wins & Loss records. There are too many factors outside of the general's own prowess that play a role in them losing and winning the war. For example, if you think Hakuki is top 1, you're more than welcomed to think that. However, if your basis of having him above Ouki/Gakuki/Koshou/etc is the fact he never lost...I think you're just being a casual.
The reason I say this is because Ousen is getting dogged on like he's garbage compared to Riboku... like no. The gap between him & Riboku is the same as it was in Shukai. This war didn't add anything new to it in terms of their capabilties as generals. I made giant posts about Riboku post-Shukai, trying to show people how there was still a gap between Riboku & Ousen. But people what's funny to me is that people who use the "but Ousen beat Riboku so he bettaaa," don't wanna now admit Riboku better but instead go to that idiotic non-sensical bullshit of "ugghhhh he needa shibashou, hhee needdd houken". So yea, absolutely nothing changed when it comes to Riboku vs Ousen except for in-verse narratives. The things that put Ousen in the mud to even have a chance in this war, were all done by Shin & Akou, independently. And Ousen getting blamed like he's meant to pull magic out of his ass...like bro wtf are we doing? I'm seeing shit about this mf needing to have the ability to send light speed messengers to stop Akou from charging at Riboku, then to somehow send messengers to stop the HSU from charging. Like fuck the actual distance and lay out of the armies, which Hara constantly shows us.
What this war did showcase or rather cement was that Riboku is just built different as an entity, he again out did Shouheikun. First it was the info lockdown with the Xiongnu war, where he was able to create an unknown factor which led to Ouki's loss. And now he pulled out Seika army, and making them the unknown factor which led to Ousen's defeat. And the reason I'm saying Shouheikun is because SHK has the intelligence network of entire Qin under him. Riboku's ability to be a top tier general + top tier Chief of Military + top tier politician... is unprecedented. And that is what really adds the scary factor when it comes to Riboku. You will have generals of same tier as Riboku or even better later down the line... However, none of them are gonna match Riboku as an entity.
All in all, there's really nobody to blame except just say: Zhao was betta. It's really that simple. Even if Akou/HSU had remained as factors, no matter the Qin were not pulling off a win, when there's a whole 100k army with a giant ???? for their prowess on the opposite side.
Rating of the Arc.
To me the arc was a solid 8/10. It achieved the purpose of reestablishing Zhao being able to defend itself properly. It created immense tension for the Qin now as well, with the unification's fate becoming mysterious (if you don't read historical shit especially). It was kept short and to the point. The reason it's not a 9 (10/10 is reserved for WZI & Coalition), is because of the few plot moments related to combat that just pissed me off.
- Fuuon & Gakushou, ganging up on Akou... then leaving him alone to stand and stare at each other... then not being able to see a fucked up Akou come at them. Like bro.... tf y'all doing? Finish him off.
- Shiryou & Jiaga bullshit with the sword and Jiaga going blind or Shiryou attaining instant speed in getting her attack off.
- Akou's horse doing a 360 to hit Gakushou after getting his spine fucked up.
These moments were crucial combat moments, that could've changed the war/did change the war and impact on other characters. They were just done terrible.
Things I did like highly were:
1. Ousen's character development with his underlings
2. Kansaro & Jiaga backstory, and Kansaro in general just becoming the best written Seika general. (Dude is my 2nd fav subordinate general after Bananji easily)
3. Riboku trolling the fuck outta the HSU and straight up clowning on Shin, which I hope leads to some growth for not only Shin, but also a big moment of growth for Karyo Ten.
Other than that.. the arc was about 20 chapters, to the point and kept shit moving, so not really a whole lot for me to say.
Yotanwa Army vs Ganmon Army:
I want to get this part of the war out of the way first. The armies of Yotanwa & Ganmon were pretty much even. If you combine SSJ & Bananji together you're easily getting a commander who is on high end Qin6/Zhao 3 tier, if not better. So Yotanwa being held up by them is not a disrespect to her by any means. Rather we even get direct hype from Ousen himself in regards to the Ganmon armies being powerful. This battlefield was essentially a wash. Yotanwa was in absolutely no situation to help out Ousen or any other battlefield at all while dealing with Ganmon armies, as she was also dealing with a 20k numerical disadvantage.
MAIN BATTLE:
The first thing that really needs to be established regarding the main battle is that it was not Ousen vs Riboku nor was it Shibashou vs Ousen, both of these would be extremely disingenuous. Rather it was Riboku & Shibashou vs Ousen.
We'll start first by taking a look at the positions, take note of where Akou is positioned relative to the HSU & Ousen:
Ousen had positioned Ouhon as a reserve so he could assist in whichever battlefield needed the help. While for the HSU, and particularly Shin he was expecting to show up immensely.
The first mistake:
After the Hi Shin Unit had started their charge and the mountain armies were also engaged in battle. The middle was in a standstill, until Akou had decided to move forward. In counter to Akou's charge, Gakushou decided to move his army and was matching the position of Akou's army. Once in good distance, Akou was about to give the order to charge, but he notices an army to his side. And after a closer look he realizes that it was Riboku.
Ousen also sees that there's an army to the side that had appeared and immediately hopes to himself that Akou doesn't take the bait. However, Akou in his overconfident, recognized that it was a trap... but believed he would be able to overcome the trap set up by Riboku.
From the fact that Akou fell for the trap, Ousen deduced that it was Riboku. Now as Akou is charging at Riboku, Fuuon's unit comes charging at Akou. And then followed by the Gakushou army. After being trapped by both, Akou was in a really bad position. But his lord Ousen showed something that I think is an overlooked character development moment. Ousen showed complete overconfidence in his subordinate, this ends up being an issue for rest of the war as well. Now tbf to Ousen, there really wasn't much he could do at that point outside of moving the rest of his armies to rescue Akou, which could be even more risky due to the unknown factor of the Seika army. Playing it cautiously, his bet was just to believe that Akou could pull it off.
After this, Futei comes in as well and deals a pretty big hit on Akou. After which Akou has a powerboost Ousen Flashback, that then leads to him being able to pushback the likes of the Fuuon & Futei back. Riboku calls a retreat, which then leads Akou to chase him and send a message to the HSU to block Riboku's escape path.
So the very first mistake made by the Qin is by General Akou falling for the obvious trap due to either underestimating Riboku or simple overconfidence in himself. This mistake essentially has Ousen's #1 subordinate general and his army removed from the battlefield. With Akou not being able to give any injury to Futei or Fuuon, but only a decent injury to Gakushou in that dumbass plot Horse 360 event after having his spine cut up. Now let's head over to the 2nd mistake made by the Qin.
The 2nd mistake:
Following the orders of General Akou, Hi Shin Unit led by Shin decides to chase down Riboku. After Riboku escapes Shin's initial charge at him, Shin decides to commit to a full down chase of Riboku. This then leads to Shin being completely removed from the Hango area.:
This is an independent decision that Shin took himself. After Riboku had escaped his initial charge, he had the choice to not chase him. But nope, he with full on confident decides to chase Riboku out of Hango, which effectively put him out of the reach from the Ousen army. But you see it doesn't just end there, after having been baited by Riboku to come outside of Hango, Shin then sees a mud fortress in which Riboku hides. And what does the captain and the strategist of the Hi Shin Unit do after seeing a mud fortress in the middle of nowhere? They decide to commit to a siege.
So the 1st mistake essentially took out Akou & his army from being of much relevance in the war. The 2nd mistake made by Shin effectively led to him & Karyo Ten being removed from the main battlefield, while also eliminating any possibility or chances of Ouhon being able to assist Ousen.
Riboku's genius in the two mistakes committed by Qin:
Bro it astonishes me the shit Riboku can pull off bruh. He knows the personality of Akou so he set himself up as a bait. After realizing that Akou was essentially done for and could be handled by Gakushou and Fuuon, along with it nearing the time for the other seika armies to start moving. But you see the trap for Akou was part of a bigger fucking trap for the HSU. Before the other Seika armies could move, he completely removes the HSU and indirectly Ouhon as pieces for Ousen to use against Shibashou. He even designed the fortress, to give the perception that it would be easy to take with a small/mid-sized army so that the HSU would get baited further by it and waste time... And that is also when the main Seika army of Jiaga/Kansaro/SBS starts moving.
This dude Riboku a year in advance had made 18 other mud fortresses just to remove the HSU as a factor from Ousen. To him it didn't fucking matter whether HSU was in the middle or even on Yotanwa's wing, this mofo was gone remove em from being a factor to Ousen.
And why did he prepare so thoroughly to remove HSU as a factor? So he could make it as easy as he could for Seika.
In order to set the stage for Seika's domination, Riboku removes Akou & his army AND HSU + Ouhon as pieces for Ousen to use against Seika. And the sad thing is... none of that had to do with Ousen.
The 3rd mistake:
The above two mistakes essentially set the stage for Ousen to lose, there's just nothing he could do at that point strategically due to not being able to use his biggest pieces. However, it is the 3rd mistake that results in Qin facing their biggest loss in the unification campaign. The 3rd mistake being done by Ousen himself. His over confidence in his underlings that resulted in him not calling the retreat earlier.
After seeing Akou and his army get fucked up & Then Denrimi's army get fucked up + Not being able to use Ouhon & HSU to help him out (Remember these two were specifically positioned the way they were so Ousen could use them to assist the center if needed) - He still chose not to call a retreat despite seeing the martial might of Jiaga/Kansaro/SBS.
Then after seeing even Shiryou, his arguably strongest/2nd strongest martial person get fucked up after killing Jiaga - He still chose not to call a retreat.
This man relied on a fucked up Akou & Sou'ou to deal with Shibashou. This is the same man who when he saw Bananji tear up his HQ... decided he wanted not part of that. But now he believed a fucked up Akou and Sou'ou could lead him to victory.
And this mistake really highlighted for me a part of Ousen that we just had never seen, which is unquestionable faith in his underlings. Ousen holds his underlings in VERY high regard, even if they're not of that caliber. This is even displayed when he outright tells Denrimi to not go do reckless shit and instead come escape with him. But this was also his fatal mistake. He didn't want to admit that his underlings just weren't that good against Seika.
I really applaud Hara for giving Ousen this sort of character development, it was very well done and add a new dimension to Ousen's character.
And this essentially lead to them getting so many damn casualties. Had he called the retreat sooner, he could've saved a good portion of the army and his commanders.
The Factor of the Unknown:
Now with all of that said, I specifically titled my thread "what led to Qin's biggest loss" for a reason instead of titling it "Why qin lost". Because in my opinion, Qin was bound to lose this war regardless. When we look at the major campaigns of the series, in particular Bayou & Sanyou for example. The reason the respective generals that lost those wars.... is the factor of the unknown.
Bayou war: Ouki's loss didn't happen because Moubu decide to fall for a trap. Ouki could've won even with that. The only thing Moubu falling for the trap did was make sure that Ouki would've died. Because general Ouki was going to lose regardless of Moubu falling for the trap or not... why? Because Riboku was going to come in with a 40k fresh army in a battle that was already highly intense. The unknown factor of Riboku and his 40k army is what led to Ouki's loss, there's nothing Ouki could've done about that.
Sanyou war: The primary reason that Renpa lost was the unkown factors of Ousen & Kanki. The man had absolutely 0 idea about their prowess outside of Ouki's hype for them. The man was going to lose this war regardless, when you have 6 unknown Qin 6 level factors. And of course the unknown youth who rose to the stage, Shin, taking out Rinko in the center army.
This factor of the unknown is so damn important that it was constantly stressed in this war. Then it was also even stressed in the Shukai Plains. Where Riboku's strategy was fine when he was making strategies against people whose prowess he knew of. But what fucked up his strategies? The unknown factor that was brought in by Shin & Ouhon's awakenings + Mouten's showing up as a general. So do I blame Ousen for not having a scouting report on the Seika army? I'm pretty sure had he known about the Seika army's strength, the way he would've gone about this campaign would've been completely different. Which leads me to....
The Blame Game + Riboku vs Ousen:
I have seen a lot of ESPN narratives being taken since Shukai. ESPN narratives are where you talk about a team sport and the players in that team... and you judge the players based on the results provided by the entire team. You're judging how good player 1 is whether he wins or not in a team game. Without acknowledging that player 1 could be better than player 2 and still his team could get his ass whooped. And this is the primary reason I personally don't want to /like having arguments with people who judge generals and their capabilities off of Wins & Loss records. There are too many factors outside of the general's own prowess that play a role in them losing and winning the war. For example, if you think Hakuki is top 1, you're more than welcomed to think that. However, if your basis of having him above Ouki/Gakuki/Koshou/etc is the fact he never lost...I think you're just being a casual.
The reason I say this is because Ousen is getting dogged on like he's garbage compared to Riboku... like no. The gap between him & Riboku is the same as it was in Shukai. This war didn't add anything new to it in terms of their capabilties as generals. I made giant posts about Riboku post-Shukai, trying to show people how there was still a gap between Riboku & Ousen. But people what's funny to me is that people who use the "but Ousen beat Riboku so he bettaaa," don't wanna now admit Riboku better but instead go to that idiotic non-sensical bullshit of "ugghhhh he needa shibashou, hhee needdd houken". So yea, absolutely nothing changed when it comes to Riboku vs Ousen except for in-verse narratives. The things that put Ousen in the mud to even have a chance in this war, were all done by Shin & Akou, independently. And Ousen getting blamed like he's meant to pull magic out of his ass...like bro wtf are we doing? I'm seeing shit about this mf needing to have the ability to send light speed messengers to stop Akou from charging at Riboku, then to somehow send messengers to stop the HSU from charging. Like fuck the actual distance and lay out of the armies, which Hara constantly shows us.
What this war did showcase or rather cement was that Riboku is just built different as an entity, he again out did Shouheikun. First it was the info lockdown with the Xiongnu war, where he was able to create an unknown factor which led to Ouki's loss. And now he pulled out Seika army, and making them the unknown factor which led to Ousen's defeat. And the reason I'm saying Shouheikun is because SHK has the intelligence network of entire Qin under him. Riboku's ability to be a top tier general + top tier Chief of Military + top tier politician... is unprecedented. And that is what really adds the scary factor when it comes to Riboku. You will have generals of same tier as Riboku or even better later down the line... However, none of them are gonna match Riboku as an entity.
All in all, there's really nobody to blame except just say: Zhao was betta. It's really that simple. Even if Akou/HSU had remained as factors, no matter the Qin were not pulling off a win, when there's a whole 100k army with a giant ???? for their prowess on the opposite side.
Rating of the Arc.
To me the arc was a solid 8/10. It achieved the purpose of reestablishing Zhao being able to defend itself properly. It created immense tension for the Qin now as well, with the unification's fate becoming mysterious (if you don't read historical shit especially). It was kept short and to the point. The reason it's not a 9 (10/10 is reserved for WZI & Coalition), is because of the few plot moments related to combat that just pissed me off.
- Fuuon & Gakushou, ganging up on Akou... then leaving him alone to stand and stare at each other... then not being able to see a fucked up Akou come at them. Like bro.... tf y'all doing? Finish him off.
- Shiryou & Jiaga bullshit with the sword and Jiaga going blind or Shiryou attaining instant speed in getting her attack off.
- Akou's horse doing a 360 to hit Gakushou after getting his spine fucked up.
These moments were crucial combat moments, that could've changed the war/did change the war and impact on other characters. They were just done terrible.
Things I did like highly were:
1. Ousen's character development with his underlings
2. Kansaro & Jiaga backstory, and Kansaro in general just becoming the best written Seika general. (Dude is my 2nd fav subordinate general after Bananji easily)
3. Riboku trolling the fuck outta the HSU and straight up clowning on Shin, which I hope leads to some growth for not only Shin, but also a big moment of growth for Karyo Ten.
Other than that.. the arc was about 20 chapters, to the point and kept shit moving, so not really a whole lot for me to say.
