#i love the ''filler chapters'' i'm just sad i can't see mukuro or chrome

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I’m usually on the “filler chapters in KHR aren’t bad” side, but

I have to admit, when you’re actually paying for the books, if you buy the first five books, by the end of the fifth one there is still no serious plot happening and it doesn’t exactly encourage you to keep reading. Especially considering each book costs nearly 7€: that’s 35€ and still no sight of the ring battle or even just the Kokuyo gang. It just goes like: “new secondary character is introduced”, “filler stuff”, “filler stuff”, “filler stuff”, “new secondary character is introduced”, “filler stuff”, “filler stuff”, and so on.

I love what it does for showing the characterization, it’s great to see them do normal stuff instead of the story being 95% fight and heavy plot, and it’s also nice to see cameos of characters who wouldn’t have that much “screen time” otherwise, like Dino or I-pin, but if you’re not already into it it’ll probably just feel really slow.

What I think is amazing though, is how she buried the foreshadowing of some future stuff in these early chapters. Like Shoichi? He appears in chapter 13 but good luck remembering that little terrified kid when they mention someone called Irie Shoichi who is supposed to be the big bad villain of the Future Arc. Another one, which I actually hadn’t noticed until I read the manga, is that during the Zoo visit, they mention the animal who would fit Tsuna the best is a lion (and guess what animal is Natsu?).