
this is pretty good. for anyone else who’s interested in sports/soccer themes Bluelock is a hella good soccer manga. it’s like survival games but make it soccer lol

AAAAAAHHHHHHH--- Thanks so much for the rec! I've had Bluelock on my to-read list for ages, so I think I'll actually pick it up now thanks to you. Sports manga is a tough nut to follow as a reader...they tend to be one/two out of three things: 1. They suck for the various usual reasons (Like, I enjoyed Eyeshield 21, watched it 2 or 3 times...but it stays pretty shallow and everything is predictable to an extreme) 2. They've been ongoing for foreevveerrrr (Hajime no Ippo, Giant Killing, Tennis no oujisama franchise, etc., looking atchu) 3. Or they're forced to/end up rushing the ending/just fucking killing the story, making us all despair and scarred for life (Like...they SAY The Breaker franchise is gonna continue...). Haikyuu!! is really kinda an outlier for its finished status and for the majority of its fans being legitimately happy with the story upon its completion...hopefully it'll be a trendsetter...but probably noooot ╥﹏╥

hey for people who have read the novel. does dokja ever get strong enough to rival joohyuk? or does he still mainly stay relatively weaker than him?

It was hard to tell because there's a time when Dokja has much more advantage in power when it comes to YJH but he can't truly fight him because he didn't want to hurt him. In combat power, of course YJH is on lead. But when it comes to intelligence, Dokja is smarter.
But there's a scene when he punched YJH for the sake of a mission and the poor protagonist fainted because of it.

i hate how these stories always paint the ml as such a horrible and disgusting human beings with no remorse and then go around a say “jk lolz” and give them those redemption period like for fucks sake can we get a story where the fl doesn’t not forgive them and shiii i don’t know maybe they become the empress instead i fw that more.
i’m still gonna read though cause i’m curious how they gonna try to let the ml redeem himself.
almost wasnt gonna continue cause i thought the nano machine made him too op for me. like cmon dude can memorize, scan, and gain FULL understanding of martial arts with just a glance and not only that he barely has to train his physical body cause of the muscle transfer. i was like “what’s the point” but it’s actually really interesting so far and i can’t wait
It's actually pretty balanced considering he does still need experience fighting to actually put those muscles, knowledge and insight to use. He has to actually have muscle memory and brain to use all of that to win a fight.