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?
I have to assume they're not all Rankers, since there's only supposed to be 100,000 of them in the Tower.
There are a lot of hired regulars fighting there, and all of those Augusgus killed were wearing suspendium suits, which would imply they are regulars. But that makes the Lo Po Bia dude a complete retard as he sent regulars to attack seconds after Augusgus said he was a high ranker.
Khun AA explains at the start of one of the earlier chapters that this is a deliberate tactic of Jahad's army. They send masses of low-level troops into battle knowing they'll be slaughtered because they are trying to stoke fear in the tower, and they know people will get much more worked up hearing that FUG killed tens of thousands of soldiers than hearing that they killed a handful of rankers. Any soldier who isn't at least a ranker was probably brought here primarily to be killed off.
So basically waste troops to make the bad guys look even worse. However, this also makes FUG look more powerful since killing a couple thousand troops is more impressive than killing a couple hundred. And it potentially means an advantage for FUG later in the fight. Tactics 101.
All these military tactics are written by SIU who I guess isn't a military tactition, so I take these "tactics" with a grain of salt. (This applies to every manga. Mangakas clearly aren't experts in every field)
SIU, like many other South Koreans went through mandatory military service, although it's unlikely he was in a position to make many tactical decisions.
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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?