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I remember people used to be more positive and be okay with MC struggling and even fun hearted jokes being made with the expectation that the payoff would be great and worth it. Since CSM ended, it feels like the opposite now, people hate when the MC is portrayed as struggling with no joy because they expect the MC to not have a good end. Many in dandadan fandom constantly use the fact that tatsu was an assistant of fujimoto to compare dandadan to CSM and ends up complaining when okarun is losing or suffering. I feel like this wasn't the case before.

On the flip side however, this arc is also one where okarun suffered the most.

idk, im bored

I can't exactly articulate my thoughts and feelings but i don't enjoy dandadan as much anymore. I know you're gonna say its because i only focus on the romance but that's not it. All of these recent fight scenes look cool and epic but i don't enjoy it. It feels too random.

New villains are coming in and they feel random too. They don't have characterization and it feels like stalling for the sake of it because we know almost nothing about the CSG or much about the factions either or how many there are either. Villains just keep popping in randomly.

Tatsu keeps escalating all of these fights but still giving very little information about the overarching plot especially with the antagonist' side and its effecting the enjoyability of the story. I don't feel like there is a reason to care for these fights.

The characters are not driving the story forward anymore and they are only reacting. They feel passive.

The main plotline is paused and put on hold and the fights feels too distant from it and not related. It feels like padding for the sake of it. It isn't fun. There is no structure and its all over the place. It is so random.

Dandadan used to be random before with the villains but it feels different then it is now. Before, it felt like despite being random, there was a means to an end.

The art is still really good and the visual of the fights are great but i find myself to not care about it much.

Feels like tatsu moved dandadan to a more traditional shounen plot which is fine but he isn't doing it right or in an entertaining way.

What are your thoughts ?

In chapter 82, the kur managed to steal okarun's kintama again even when already reattached to him and it still has its supernatural properties enough for the kur to power the warp gate. Does this mean, that currently, something like that is possible, is his kintama not normal now. Am i missing something ? Or did everything become normal when he gave away his powers ?

It is a weird action from okarun, considering she had amnesia and i feel like the manga just brushed past it. No one in the fandom really called him out for it too.

Tatsu is only good with writing romance in the beginning stage, he doesn't really know how to write a long running romance series and he is kind of a one trick pony rehashing the same romance plot beats. It would be fine if this was a shorter series but why did he decided to make it a romcom when he knows this is going to be a longer series and he is pretty bad at it.

The thing is tatsu is really creative and good when it comes to the battle shonen aspect. He is creative with his arts and the design of villains, even has a good choreography. Making dandadan a romcom might had been a bad idea in the long run.

Well, the doubters ended up being right. This explains everything.