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Jesus Christ guys, what's with the overreactions to a chapter which hasn't even been translated yet. Calm the fuck down and wait until you can actually read the chapter, then think about whether it's really as bad as you thought it was.
This isn't Nishio "trolling", it's just proper story development. How would Emukae stand a chance against the strongest Suitor in the entire group? What has the Joker group been doing all this time? When would Nishio move this arc away from its current blatantly artificial standard shounen setup? These obvious questions/plotholes Nishio introduced into the story are now being answered, at pretty much just the right timing.
After all, Zenkichi and Naze, up to Emukae, are all characters people have been following for a while and have thus gotten invested in, but you didn't seriously think that even Wanizuka and Torai would get their own individual, stretched out battles did you? As an entertainer Nishio knows how to mix things up and keep things interesting; that's what he's doing right now.
Is Emukae a minor character? Hell no, she's Zenkichi's most prominent alternate love interest, right after Medaka. Practically all her continuing development, and further relevance within the series, will be centred around that theme. However, you can't expect the story to focus exclusively on that when we're right in the middle of a major arc. Who are the Kurakami clan subfamilies, and what are their goals and abilities that would allow them to take down even the most overpowered group of Medaka Box characters we have seen so far? These are the actual primary questions right now, and it'd be best not to lose sight of them, no matter how we're going through the arc.
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