Real Chapter 78 Discussion

hoooooooolllyyyyyyyyy shiiiitttttttttttt



one of the best chapters i've ever read. Inoue is the fuckin GOAT

This chapter really brought the feels out of you, especially that wrestling match!



Any thoughts about the series thus far?



I feel a little bit dissapointed, i thought this was going to be a manga where Tomomi would dedicate his life to Natsumi helping her, getting his shit together in the process. You can see this being focused on in the beginning, then Natsumi seems to be just forgotten, and a text is the last thing that is hinted about her right before Tomomi's tryouts.



But then again it doesn't seem that even the author quite knows what direction he wants to go with this. The main focus seeeems to be wheelchair basketball, but i   feel like he is sidetracking a bit too much... After a heavy focus on Tomomi and Natsumi in the beginning, even Tomomi seems to fall off as the main character, then Kiyoharu get's very heavily focused on, and becomes the new main characeter almost, and it would be nice to see more romance between him and Azumi. Since it's clearly there.  Then several sidecharacter gets focused on as main characters in return.



It was really enjoyable to see how all the different characters handled their own accident and overcame their own disabillity, but by making all those sidecharacters main characters, it develops a lot of new questions and speculations! That most will probably go unanswered...



Like what will happen to Tomomi now?

What about his relationship with Natsum? Is there any romance there?

Will the wrestler reconnect with his daughter and wife? Will we see any more of him?  Will we see anything more from the neet mr broomstick?

What has happened to Yamauchi? Is he dead? Cause it seemed like it in one chapter since his bed was empty, but we haven't gotten any clarification.

Takahashi will probably become Kiyoharu's rival. What actually is Azumi's future plans?  



There is a lot of questions still unanswered, these are just some i came up with on the top of my head now, so i hope we will at least get some of them answered in the future, chapter 79 was released in 2014, and no new chapter has been released that i know of after that.



But overall, in the end, despite me being a bit negative on some parts, this is a genius manga, uniqe in many aspects, and really shows you in debth issues that normal people can end up in, how life can take unexpected turns.

this is one of the best chapters i've ever read. from shiratori's opponent telling him to stand up, to takahashi's visual anology about him bottling his trueself up for years while everyone tried to look for the real him, until he finally opened up and with tears in his eyes. made me cry as well ngl, peak chapter.

I was a little disgruntled at first it was purely Shiratori but that didn't last long, another glorious set of chapters from Inoue. No other mangaka manages to channel the emotion Inoue does.

shit did not anticipate that Takahashi is going to join Dreams.

VanishingKira said:
Takahashi finally going to start wheelchair basketball/joined the Dreams!!!

Holy shit that one jar imagery of Takahashi made me nut all over the screen, couldnt edge any further. He's finally found some real friends to open up to, instead of being locked away in a box because of his dickish attitude. Good for him for joining the dreams aswell, its about damn time that he gets into basketball again.



Shiratori's arc is nothing short of amazing. I really dont know what else to say. It proves that nothing (or at least most things) aren't impossible. But yea one of my favorite volumes of this manga so far. The pay-off was just outstanding. Time to wipe my boxers

I get it. I get it now.

Shiratori the god

I just reread this chapter like 15 minutes ago..... WOOWWWWWWWWW what a chapter I did not expect to cry so hard for a chapter like this. Takehiko Inoue one of the best mangakas he is such a GOAT..........  

Incredible chapter, I've reread this chapter more than I can count. 

This chapter will always have a place in my heart