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In each volume it comes with a reference to a movie, the back of volume 3 contains a reference to the movie Pulp Fiction from 1994.

In each volume it comes with a reference to a movie, the back of volume 2 contains a reference to the movie Léon: The Professional from 1994.

In each volume it comes with a reference to a movie, the back of volume 1 contains a reference to the movie It's Tough Being a Man from 1969.

Feel free to add more, if you want.

Is Hinata really the Yamcha of Tensura?

No we know one thing for certain. The officially least popular character in all of One Piece is ... Minoruba!!! That deserves a round of applause, everyone!

If Loid Forger and Ryo Saeba (from City Hunter) were triyng to kill each other, who would come out on top?

I honestly think that they were not all that before they got their bodies for one simple reason: The powerscaling in Tensura is all out of whack. In this story the age, status and experience of the characters don't really matter all that much. The only thing that matters is if you are either on Rimuru's side or on the main villain's side. If you are on either side then you get all the powerups you want while the rest is simply stagnating for millennia (i. e. the true dragons, Milim, the Primordials, etc.).

That's why characters who are supposed to be very, very powerful aren't actually all that and the same should be true for the primordial demons as well. I don't really think that the three demonesses are crazy powerful and I actually believe that they were weaker than Benimaru, Shion, Yuuki and Hinata before they were named and that they would be handily defeated by all of them.

Their servants should be even less impressive and would probably lose against the likes of Gabiru, Geld and Hakuro. In other words, Tempest would be able to deal with the unnamed primordial ladies even without Rimuru and Veldora's help. That's what I believe at least.

Even if you want to claim otherwise, good female protagonists can and do work out really well with any audience and they can be just as popular and beloved as their male counterparts if not more so. Just look at the examples I've provided:

Sousou no Frieren is literally the most popular and most highly rated shounen series of this decade and it's not even close. Frieren herself might also be the most iconic animanga character that was introduced in this decade and her popularity with every type of audience speaks for itself.

The Apothecary Diaries though it's not a battle series is also immensely popular with male audiences. It also happens to be one of the most successful light novel titles ever made. Just like Frieren, Maomao is a huge hit with any type of audience

Umamusume has proven itself to be a super successful franchise with multiple anime and manga adaptations of which all of them have been massively successful. Umamusume: Cinderella Gray in particular is one of the highest rated sports series of all time and pretty much everyone loves Oguri Cap as a character and as a protagonist.

All of these examples are just from the last few years, but I think that they clearly show that good female protagonists are actually a good thing and there really is no excuse for Shounen Jump or any other magazine to dismiss them, because the editors assume that they might not be popular with the young male readership, which is clearly BS.