By: James

James — Thu, 12 May 2022 14:23:09 +0000

I felt the same way when making certain other predictions back in 2016…

By: Kammon

Kammon — Wed, 11 May 2022 16:33:21 +0000

I remember my first view of this scene. The sudden silence from Her Grace meant that she was off, and I was sure another character was about to die… and yet I was sure as sure it was going to be Taro. Because… Taro had already shot his bolt for relevance as a character, hadn’t he? As Misa even stated in this panel, Taro never learned and always acted too rashly. And there was no way that Iwatania, ink barely dry on that name, would survive past His Grace without any time for his successor to establish even the most tenuous of legitimacy. So surely it would be Taro here acting too rashly again, and in the next page to start gloating, only for Misa to have ‘Uno reversed’ his food-gambit and for Taro to be the second figure to collapse, thus revealing at least one of Iwatini’s children might have been taking notes of his lessons, and would stand ready to be an actor at his side through whatever final showdown occurred toward the final defeat of him and his nation.

Because there was no way that a bloodthirsty incompetent like Taro could really have any credibility as King and a fitting ‘Final Showdown’ for the five, was there?

…I am terrible at predictions.

By: Kamino Neko

Kamino Neko — Wed, 11 May 2022 04:16:00 +0000

His Grave [typo, but it’s appropriate, so I’ll leave it] at least gets to go out on a fairly good joke.

(I know this isn’t technically his last line, but it’s close enough.)

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