Talk:Yōko Katori (chapter)/@comment-3104099-20160520113027

I think this is the worst chapter of the series yet as it served no purpose. It was superfluous and unnecessary. People might say, it's necessary because it gave us Katori's background, but a counter is that it did not need to take up one full chapter. More than that, Ashihara lost his priority in this chapter. First he ruined the climax build-up from previous chapter, secondly now we know more about a minor character (who for all we know might disappear or will not appear much after the match) than the major characters (Tamakoma first, Jin, Osamu, etc. to name a few). Third, this match was supposedly meant to give us glimpse behind T2's individual growth (Chika and Osamu to be exact), yet he has focused more on the other teams than T2 themselves.

And what was worst is that if Ashihara wanted to place a flashback back during the first invasion, he could've atleast given us some glimpse of the attack itself. Yet, nothing of that sort happened because it basically told us what we already knew i.e the invasion caused mass destruction.

I would not be surprised if we get a Teruya flashback next. He seems to be wanting to stall this match for some unknown reason.

The only good thing about this chapter IMO was that now we know Katori's been naturally pompous. So more reason to not feel sympathy towards her. Also if Ashihara wanted to contrast her "Geniuses will always win, whereas dead-lasts will not" with Osamu's skill, he failed to do so yet IMO, unless Osamu defeats her next chapter (which is very unlikely to happen).