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If you look at the generals and great generals you will soon realize that many of them don't have any children or even a confirmed partner. Here's a list of generals and great generals where we know for certain that they don't have any children:

• Shin
• Mouten
• Ouki
• Tou
• Riboku
• Yotanwa
• Kanki
• Heki
• Duke Hyou
• Earl Shi

Then there are ones where we don't know for sure, but I believe that they don't have any children either:

• Renpa
• Karin
• Gohoumei
• Shibashou
• Shunsuiju
• and many others

As you can see, Shin is hardly unique in focusing on battle and other things instead of founding a family with Kyoukai. If anything, those who do that seem to be the exception here.

I know that Riboku and his people aren't popular here, that's for sure, but how are they viewed in Japan?

I know that Qin was absolutely dominating in the official popularity poll back in 2020. Riboku reached a mediocre 18th spot, which didn't even make him the second most popular character of Zhao at the time. Rinko (15th) and Shika (17th) were both more popular than him. The other Zhao guys didn't make the top 20, so they sure weren't really popular in Japan either back then. How did the situation change since then? I assume that Riboku and his guys should be even less popular in Japan these days and I don't think he would make the top 20 if a popularity poll was happening right now.

Btw, Yotanwa, Kanki and Tou are absolutely mogging Ousen and Moubu in terms of popularity in Japan. That makes me pretty happy, because I also vastly prefer them to Ousen and Moubu and I'm glad that most people at least in Japan think like me in this regard.

I hate to say this, but like I'm starting to feel like Karyo Ten only gets hate from y'all cause she's a girl or something. She does her job well enough. When Riboku gets his plot powers and decimates Qin forces why are none of you guys shitting on Ousen and Shouheikun? Instead, you are saying Goatsen and Goatheikun. These MFS have dedicated their lives to warfare long before Kyoukai was even born, and they both failed miserably in a worse way than Ten, but no SHE'S useless LOL. Aight bro LOL. Ten is borderline middle management, she delegates where the Hi Shin Unit members should be and multiple times her and all the other smart mfs in the series are agreeing on what should be done, but somehow, she's slow and useless?????????

It's either what I said earlier or y'all truly lack even the bare minimum reading comprehension skills to enjoy Kingdom, tbh.

By soon I mean at chapter 300, which Me & Roboco should reach in a few months. I have two reasons why I think that’s the case. Firstly, the author mentioned recently that he wants to reach 30 volumes, which in the case of Me & Roboco would equate to around 300 chapters, since the chapters of this manga are shorter than usual.

The other reason is, that I don't think that editorial wants to keep Me & Roboco around for much longer. There really isn’t any reason for it to stay around for much longer. The sales of Me & Roboco are frankly abysmal for any series of its length, in fact Me & Roboco is by far the least successful WSJ series with 25+ volumes in the entire history of the magazine. It also doesn't have any potential for growth or recovery anymore, since the anime came and went with no hope for a sequel and even the movie was a huge bomb in the box office.

All things considered, reaching 300 chapters and 30 volumes would be a huge milestone for a series like Me & Roboco anyway. In the entire history of Weekly Shonen Jump only 25 series have reached this milestone. Me & Roboco is pretty up there in terms of chapter count already. It has already surpassed Jujutsu Kaisen and Slam Dunk in terms of chapter count and soon it will even beat Shaman King and Sket Dance. Should Me & Roboco end at chapter 300 it would be on the 26th position in terms of chapter count, above The Gutsy Frog with 296 chapters and below Charge!! Men's School with 313 chapters. I think that's a good position to end on. What do you guys think?

Bell is the biggest problem of the story.

Let me explain:

It's because of Bell that so many characters like Ryuu or Hestia get flanderized and that happens for one reason - plot. Most characters will eventually be reduced to what favours Bell like for example Wiene being revived or Ryuu joining the Hestia familia. Hestia and Freya are also Bell's victims in this regard. Ais will also get reduced to a girl for Bell to save, so he can be the hero. I'm sure of that.

His powers are also a huge issue to me. Think about it, we have 5 basic stats which help us categorizing the adventurers in power-. magic- or speed-based ones. However, with Bell we might as well have 2 basic stats: physical and magical. There's also the fact that Long Chant Magic is supposed to be stronger than Short Chant Magic. However, even high level 4 Ryuu with Skill and Long Chant Magic could not overcome 1 level. Yet we have a new level 2 Bell one shot a level 5 Goliath overcoming 3 levels! We also had level 3 Bell fight against level 6+ Asterius as well. Sure, we might try to rationalize these feats with Limit Off or Asterius being weakened. But honestly, if anybody else did it regardless of the reason, we would have called out how bad it is.

Now most important characters are getting ridiculous level+ boosts simply because the story has a time limit of 1 year because of Bell's Liaris Freese. Bell isn't entirely to blame for this however, since the Zeus and Hera familias with their level 8 & 9 adventurers messed the scaling up quite badly as well. We used to have a universe where level 5 was considered a peak that outside of Orario was nearly impossible to reach. We only had two level 7s. But everything went south because of Bell, the Zeus- and the Hera familias.

Everyone has to get significantly stronger during this ridiculously small time period. We can't even properly explore the Danmachi world and its dungeon in the main series because of this stupid time limit. We didn't get to explore the Xenos and the other creatures much or why people outside of Orario react to monsters differently. Now Bell who barely has any life experience and who hasn't even explored a fraction of the world has to become the hero who saves the entire world just because of a crush. I find that really lame.

Without Bell Freya, Hestia, Wiene, Haruhime, Bete, Ryuu and Finn would have been far better characters and that's why I don't want other characters interacting with him much, because most characters who do are likely to be doomed for his development.

Do you prefer generals and great generals who tend to stay behind the lines or at headquarters devising strategies and letting their subordinates execute them like for example Ousen, Riboku, Gohoumei, Karin, Shunsuiju, Kochou and Kanki to an extent? Or do you prefer the type that actively engages in combat themselves like for example Moubu, Yotanwa, Tou, Renpa, Duke Hyou, Shin, Ouhon or Shibashou?

Personally I prefer the latter, because they are more entertaining to me and they tend to have a higher winrate.