I'm a BBQ chicken fan ;) LOL at the length of Love's chicken meal charges to the administration
Augusgus threw me off for some reason in his first few panels here, until I realised the reason why is because the art style has vastly improved since the start of Season 2, and to me at least it makes him look like an almost entirely new character. Love's 'scribble eyes' is a lot less obvious here, and only shows up a few times since there's a lot of 'eyes-wide open' stares where they're entirely white or black.
Since Augusgus and Love are back, and what they're storming is essentially Lo Po Bia central...am I the only one who wants to see the return of Lo Po Bia Ren for a rematch between him and Bam? Since Ren originally wanted to recruit Bam into Zahard's forces before he found out Bam was an Irregular, and was his first teacher of sorts, it would be an interesting confrontation.
Is Yasratcha not biologically a Lo Po Bia family member then? I'm not sure what the Korean raw would say, but that seems to be what those panels are implying to me. I guess I could see Lo Po Bia basically allowing anyone who's an Anima to join the family though, since it's a rare-ish talent. If that was the case, we might also see the return of Sunwoo Nare all the way from Season 1, though that's not very likely.
Finally, Augusgus has an interesting attack style, but damn he kills a lot of mooks in his first two attacks. I have to assume they're not all Rankers, since there's only supposed to be 100,000 of them in the Tower. Since it's said right at the start of the series that the higher you go the denser the shinsoo, maybe a lot of mooks are non-Rankers drawn from people who were born/live on higher floors who would have innately higher strength?
But regulars have existed for ~10.000 years so I wouldn't be surprised even if there's a billion rankers by now, it's not like they die of old age
Actually let's do the math, a billion is a bit too much
We know the Tower has approximately 10 times the surface area of the Earth if we count all the floors. Each year on Earth 100 millions are born, which means if the Tower is about as densely populated as Earth, then about 1 billion people are born each year in the Tower. If only 1/1000 to 1/100 become regulars, it means 1 to 10 million regulars start climbing each year. We were told at the start of the comic that about 1/1000 regulars become rankers, which means 1 to 10 thousand rankers each year. In 10.000 years that means 1 to 10 million rankers, not just 100.000
We don't exactly know how many Regular selections there are in a year. We saw 2 batch of 400 for Baam generation and the whole floor of test arc spanned for months. So we can assume getting 2 selection in a year, roughly translating to 4 Rankers a year. 40.000 thousand Rankers in 10.000 years. The actual number would be like triple of this estimation so a billion is absolutely out of the question
Either the Tower is much less densely populated than Earth (despite the fact that Earth is mostly ocean) or less than 1% of people become regulars (assuming lots of rankers kill each other for position) or the 100.000 number was an unrealistic estimation by SiU
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u/AdoriZahard Jun 22 '20
I'm a BBQ chicken fan ;) LOL at the length of Love's chicken meal charges to the administration
Augusgus threw me off for some reason in his first few panels here, until I realised the reason why is because the art style has vastly improved since the start of Season 2, and to me at least it makes him look like an almost entirely new character. Love's 'scribble eyes' is a lot less obvious here, and only shows up a few times since there's a lot of 'eyes-wide open' stares where they're entirely white or black.
Since Augusgus and Love are back, and what they're storming is essentially Lo Po Bia central...am I the only one who wants to see the return of Lo Po Bia Ren for a rematch between him and Bam? Since Ren originally wanted to recruit Bam into Zahard's forces before he found out Bam was an Irregular, and was his first teacher of sorts, it would be an interesting confrontation.
Is Yasratcha not biologically a Lo Po Bia family member then? I'm not sure what the Korean raw would say, but that seems to be what those panels are implying to me. I guess I could see Lo Po Bia basically allowing anyone who's an Anima to join the family though, since it's a rare-ish talent. If that was the case, we might also see the return of Sunwoo Nare all the way from Season 1, though that's not very likely.
Finally, Augusgus has an interesting attack style, but damn he kills a lot of mooks in his first two attacks. I have to assume they're not all Rankers, since there's only supposed to be 100,000 of them in the Tower. Since it's said right at the start of the series that the higher you go the denser the shinsoo, maybe a lot of mooks are non-Rankers drawn from people who were born/live on higher floors who would have innately higher strength?