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Originally Posted by Blaat
A bump? I thought everyone else moved to the manga fox forums.  |
Perhaps because there are a variety of threads to have discussion in? There is a lot of discussion there, and people here seem to be trying to avoid reading the manga, so I guess we all drifted over there somehow...
sorry, I can go back to posting spoilers here too if you like...
What someone recently posted in the spoiler thread there is interesting:
Spoiler for Chapters115-116 spoilers:
that someone did indeed forfeit the 2nd match in real life, and went on to become the Meijin challenger, so what if the author intends for Harada to win here to follow that model?
Though I'm with you in that the flow of developments leans towards Arata winning... we're seeing Arata in his element again - the last time we saw that being in the high school final against Shinobu. it'd be kind of weird now if he didn't win through here, though I'd be willing for Suetsugu-sensei to surprise me.
Another reveal at I found interesting was that Harada was the Meijin challenger 31 years before, but lost to Wataya Hajime, Arata's grandfather. 31 years ago, Wataya Meijin would probably have been around 40, yet he was still able to defeat the much younger Harada (around 15 years, give or take, I think) by what seems to have been a decent margin (straight losses)... So, despite all the talk and doubt about older players, there are obviously ways for them to continue winning for a while. Though whether the 57-year-old Harada would be able to win is up for debate...