“Your UNCLE?!?!” Jeezum crow, Iwatani, you really are making it hard for me not to blame you for your own impending demise. It’s one thing not to specify “we don’t betray family,” but to assassinate someone while calling them family… Iwatani’s motives are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I like the implication on this page that Taro has been told to wait outside till the poison gets drunk, probably because his maniacal grin would give the game away. We knew Persson would die a lot sooner than we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, every single reader knew how this scene was going to go as soon as Iwatani and Taro showed up. Just look at Taro, doing his best to arrange his smile so that it reads as “charmingly boyish” and not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I remember someone remarking how this showed the healthy father-son dynamic between Iwatani and Taro, and even at that point I was like, Oh, yes, extremely healthy, those two, can’t see any conflict brewing on that horizon at all. Still, their dynamic is kind of adorable […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We had to steer a middle course with Iwatani’s narrative here. “Hoo ha, the idiot thinks he’s a prophet, how droll, he’ll never see me coming!” would show hubris that’s more Taro’s bag than his. “Good thing his awesome predictive powers can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
