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I'm laughing because I've been thinking of writing something like that except it was set after the cruise ship arc, and toto wakes up as a different person with amnesia and ron has to beg and yearn for toto because he needs him by his side, but Toto has different priorities now.

Hahahaha idk if I'll ever write it though but saying this with a pfp like this is actually funny ikyk but hahah im just rambling, I'm so sorry....

I know that it will come soon. But this ? I am shocked, everyone.

The Reichenbach Falls, but instead of Ron (SH) it is Toto (JW).

There is nothing new under the sun.

Toto what is with you and your suicidal tendencies ?

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I've been rewatching this for god knows how many times and i still can't get over how Haruka was going to kill Kokuto in broad daylight in front of a lot of witnesses for calling Kei unfunny. Poor Yamada 😂😂😂😂

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Sometimes i really feel like this manga is close to ending but I'm lowkey deluding myself that most mangaka announce if their manga is ending soon. Surely, she's gonna say something if it's close to ending

I think

She could practically extend the lifespan of this manga forever if she wants 😂

It's not like it's selling badly. I think it's still top 15 in J+ in terms of physical sales. Reading J+ comments also seems like they're not TOO mad

I feel unwell. Maybe I should let the chapters pile up before reading again.. I had the same issue in God of Highschool back then

I love this series. I seriously do, but alice what the hell is that logic. 😭

She's just as delusional i guess and that's on purpose I feel

But im going to laugh if they all just died and this is the end

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I might be dumb but I don't think AA wants to write this series anymore.

If it's true then this actually is peak situational comedy (not with respects to the plot of the manga, but in terms of here in the real world, AA making this decision and the readers having to accept it). I don't know of another Sherlock Holmes-inspired story writer (except for the original) that got so sick of writing the damn stories that they actually went through with trying to kill the main characters so they wouldn't have to write them anymore.

(For the uninitiated, that is exactly what happened with ACD and Reichenbach Falls. He was actually trying to end the Sherlock Holmes stories right there because he was sick of writing them. He was forced to go back on this and write a way that SH survived the situation due to aggressive public outcry - Absolutely do not take this detail as me suggesting that we harass AA about the way this story is written. If AA wants to go crazy with the plot that is their business and I think we should leave them to it, no matter how much we hate what we end up reading.)

Okay. Back from that tangent. My point is, if this is what AA is doing it's actually funny as hell that they're going nuclear with it. AA wont just kill Ron and/or Toto (history shows that this would ultimately fail to end the series and they'd be forced to start writing it again), AA's killing everyone - every single plot relevant individual - in one go. There will be no one left for us to force them to write stories about.

Of course I could be reading this situation entirely wrong. Perhaps AA has intentions to keep writing the series. Perhaps AA thinks they're really cooking with the current arc. I would be a little disappointed if that were the case at this point.

We've been reading a plot far outside the realm of anything that's remotely made sense for the last 15 Ch. And now we are expecting every single one of our main characters to die by some kind of asteroid or missile..... I'm sorry but they aren't making it out of this one in any way that makes sense.

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At least ron was not a dick this time

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Really this oblivion battery brainrot just came from Aji-san taking a picture from Jump anniv thing so I guess i found it somehow because of RKDD LMAO. I also listened to Mrs. GREEN APPLE's Lilac for an unholy number of times.

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Another Oblivion Battery Babble

Kiyomine Haruka is someone who is seen as a monster by the people who had played against him. With Kei's leads, he he has shattered the hopes and dreams of a lot of players. When I first started Oblivion Battery, I thought that his relationship with Kei was kinda toxic. They have that codependency thing going. I was wondering why Haruka was so devoted to Kei.

To me, Haruka was the personification of devotion everlasting.

I mean, following your best friend to a no name public school without a baseball team, when the only thing in your mind is your friend and baseball?! Insisting that you'll only ever pitch to your best friend no matter what? Yeah. He is so devoted to Kei, and Kei is equally devoted to him... So much so that they almost stopped treating each other like a regular person and placed each other in a pedestal.

So when Kei developed "amnesia", Haruka still maintained the same devotion to his childhood friend. I was talking to a friend that he probably has deluded himself that he could live with that. This Kei doesn't remember him, or baseball. But he could live with that. After all, Kei was the reason why he has something to put all his passion into.

So long as Kei is still there, he is still is light.

Kei was once determined to make Haruka shine the brightest. Kei devoted his entire childhood and adolescence to Haruka. Haruka did the same.

At first, i was like... Kei has to apologize to Haruka for isolating him like that, but as I read on, things were really not what it seems on the surface. Haruka has the tendency to worry about others, even his enemy. So Kei told him to forget all about it, taking up all that burden on himself.

Until all the mental strain of everything took a toll on Kei, and Kei was not the same again. Haruka wanted to keep holding on to his light, so he told himself that he could live with all this. So long as he's there, and he's accepted Kei as a whole no matter what.

So if anyone comes along and reads this, please, please read Oblivion Battery.

It's a good mix of gag and angst that hits like a truck when you least expect it.

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When the funniest oblivion battery discussions turns depressing always. 😭 Ik there are not a lot of bouba people in here but i just want to leave this here.

Kei Kaname's observation skills are top notch even after the amnesia. He knows how other people feel so he knows the best way to hurt others. Mamo-chan even notes this. That he liked that Kei understands others very well. I swear, mamo-chan was just being funny earlier 😭 he was like "I'm not that much of an idiot. I don't have amnesia. But i will not stop until i make the other person laugh (lol)"

But i ended up spiraling on that one sentence when Mamoru Miyano said that Kei understands people well.

Kei has devoted his entire being to Haruka. He threw away all the fun things, junk food, gaming and the like.

He practiced, he studied and most of all, he tried his damnedest to push down the guilt of "killing" people, and putting Haruka up to it. He even ended up isolating Haruka in the process.

He knew more than anyone that he's really not up to Haruka's level and when that was finally proven to him, he just can't go on anymore.

The worst thing about all this is Haruka is just as devoted as Kei was to him too. He would follow Kei to the end of the world if it came to that. Haruka was right there but he just knew. He knew that he's never gonna be his equal. As untrue as that was, because Haruka needed him. Kei was his light.

If self-loathing was an Olympic sport, Kaname Kei is one of the gold medalists in that, both his chishou alter and his current self.

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A bit of a long rkdd spiel.

I still haven't forgiven Ron a bit after all that shit. It's not just bc im a rontoto shipper, dude. He's being an asshole for no reason. Both to Toto and Amamiya. Ron has always been a selfish bastard. I mean, I guess that's his character flaw but even this is too much. I've invested way too many feelings on this so I'm seeing this through for sure but good lord. I guess a lot of this is for the shock value. But it's so hard to look at your faves either getting sidelined or being a dick 😂

And as other people mentioned, the element of luck is way too strong. I wheezed when someone was like "If they hadn't pressed the switch and waited, Ron would have died but he said with a smug face that he didn't lose" on Jump + 😂😂😂😂

Also, is his sickness back or not? But i guess if mofu could cure it, she could do it again. It just didn't activate because Ronpapa didn't kill anyone.

Nakakagago lang talaga.

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I rewatched a bit of lord el melloi II case files for no reason

And i love best daughter 😭

It's really not a mystery anime in a sense. Because there's no way for you to solve the mystery yourself but it functions more as an explanation to the inner politics of the clock tower and the elements of different types of magecraft. They also skipped vol 1 to 3 for some reason wheeze. But I still like it. Gray is cute and i love Reines sm.

Waver is pining for 10 years but it's nice to see his growth so much.

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I was thinking exactly of this too. I am so angry for toto. He even injured himself in the process. No proper apology from Ron either. Hell, even Amamiya deserved a little something after being trapped in a death island for him. Sure, Ron has always been a little selfish but this is clocked up to eleven. Like dude, just tell her. she should have figured it out.. 😭

As much as this is a throwaway line, it still sucks. Girl, you're a candidate for the next superintendent. Afaik.

I swear to god, Ron if i still see no apology from you 😭😭😭

Toto was probably just meant to be a self-insert for the readers at this point. Which is probably why we don't know shit about him. Still, I invested way too many feelings in this manga so i guess I'll see it through the end.

why did ron not confide in toto when he realized his dad is alive like genuinely what was the reason he left toto in the dark when he usually always includes toto he is the first person ron talks to when he makes a solve so why did he leave toto behind this time was it just for dramatic effect was it so we could see toto run through the rain hopelessly thinking more people had died just why what was the point of excluding him why would you do that to him i am really at a loss because i cannot think of a single good reason

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The angel that you are, Haruka

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「もう少しだけ このまぶたに載ってて

いつだってそう 映るのは一人だけ」

-魔法鏡, RADWIMPS

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I did this one time and people looked at me like im crazy.

Pro tip: make stressful situations at work more fun by suddenly talking about a crazy scientific or philosophical concept like you're a character from Zero Escape.

Not only will it get you out of actually solving the situation, others will respect you for how calm you remain under stress

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I will never forget how ass Broken Blade's ending was. I get the author just want to finish the story because he's sick most of the time so he just axed it, but I'm so sad. I was so invested in the political drama. I suddenly remembered this bc i saw a picture of rygart randomly and i had war flashbacks. Hey at least he finished the story right?

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In re: the latest rkdd chapter...

No, seriously, AA likes writing awful parents for their MCs because she has pulled this shit before with Iemitsu and Nana.

Nana practically told her son that Iemitsu is fucking dead, only for it to be treated like a joke when he comes back to tell him, "yeah there's this sort trial now and you need to participate.

And his mom was like "you believed your father was dead? Omg what a silly boy"

Nana is your typical shounen manga mother. She might as well be dead because she's done nothing tangible.

There's no surprise that Tsuna resented Iemitsu. It's one of the few times he used a derogatory word in referring to someone, the kind soul that he is.

It would be so off if Ron didn't at least resent his own father because of him being suddenly alive like this.

Also, whenever I remember the way Kyoko and Haru were treated in Reborn, i fear more for Amamiya's fate. I don't think Amano gives a shit about her when even after 160 chapters, she doesn't even have a first name.

Kyoko and Haru were like trinket characters.. They do nothing except get protected and cook and do chores lmao.

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Ah well, for the last part, i think the reason why it mirrors the auberge deaths is to let Ron know that it IS Eliot.

But you're right about it being lowkey a lazy plot device but if it's that, Alice would have figured out that Eliot must have been trying to communicate with Ron with these style of murders. (idk if I'm making sense)

A part of me wants to pretend that this manga ended in chapter 95. 😂

I'm joking ofc but i am so, so sad.

i knew it. i knew in my heart deep down this whole time that that this case would be a big fuck you to the entirety of auberge fire case and what it meant for ron as a character because now what? elliot isn't dead. so what does this mean? that he, too, stood by right alongside romi holmes as ron was targeted in the bloody field trip case? why didn't he intervene back then if he was keeping tabs on ron? and he let his kid believe he was brutally murdered in front of him at age six and just never bothered to tell ron he was alive this whole time? that's psychotic. and don't tell me it's for a reason like him being away would've made ron safer because ron has never been safe from the moriarty family regardless of whether elliot was there or not. and did elliot actually kill all the people on the island to protect ron because that would still make him a murderer. so the whole thing we saw in auberge case where ron learned that his father changed his ways after he met his mom just goes up in flames. elliot telling ron to choose his own path, all of it. what was the point? the new chapter did excel at being shocking. don't get me wrong. it's a huge twist. and it's left me reeling. but i feel disappointed that it essentially renders previously established events in the story obsolete because the weight of the truths ron learns during the auberge fire case is now severely undercut.

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After marinating it for a bit, I've arrived to the same sentiments as all of you. Honestly, ever since the Chimera arc, I've been wanting to drop this because of the how Toto is being treated. He's the deuteragonist ffs. Will he always remain as Ron's accessory? Ron says he needs Toto but he has done very little to show that he means it. I was hoping that he'd have developed some sort of detective skills at this point.

However, I have invested way too much emotions on this. A part of me wants to believe that Elliot tried to stay dead just so the M Family would stop coming after Ron but clearly that isn't the case either because he should have known, out of all people, that the M Family won't stop until Ron was either dead or a criminal.

Romi has always struck me as an awful parent since her only action when Ron was suffering was to tell him "Boy, go recuperate back in Japan alone"

Ah well, Amano always liked writing awful dads. Just look at that motherfucker Iemitsu Sawada

his wife is also pretty much useless too. Like his son almost got killed in a war with a mafia boss that has practically control over multiple parallel universes and he's done nothing to help because he's a stupid absentee father.

If this is the reborn reference we're gonna get I dont want it, man.

That aside, I really really really hate how toto is treated lately and I almost felt insulted when they like skipped the death explanations. I mean... Sure they could have been acting with the "Fuck yeah I killed all of them so what?" from Cesar/Eliot because they're probably not actually dead but when I first read it I was like "What the fuck?? That's a big middle finger to the readers of your mystery manga"

I feel unwell. It looks like toto is never gonna get a proper arc at this point before the series ends.

i knew it. i knew in my heart deep down this whole time that that this case would be a big fuck you to the entirety of auberge fire case and what it meant for ron as a character because now what? elliot isn't dead. so what does this mean? that he, too, stood by right alongside romi holmes as ron was targeted in the bloody field trip case? why didn't he intervene back then if he was keeping tabs on ron? and he let his kid believe he was brutally murdered in front of him at age six and just never bothered to tell ron he was alive this whole time? that's psychotic. and don't tell me it's for a reason like him being away would've made ron safer because ron has never been safe from the moriarty family regardless of whether elliot was there or not. and did elliot actually kill all the people on the island to protect ron because that would still make him a murderer. so the whole thing we saw in auberge case where ron learned that his father changed his ways after he met his mom just goes up in flames. elliot telling ron to choose his own path, all of it. what was the point? the new chapter did excel at being shocking. don't get me wrong. it's a huge twist. and it's left me reeling. but i feel disappointed that it essentially renders previously established events in the story obsolete because the weight of the truths ron learns during the auberge fire case is now severely undercut.