Finished Assassination Classroom. Too tired to give an overall opinion or anything right now, but the important thing is, even though Nagisa has cut his hair, he is still as tiny as ever(and his hair isn't THAT short), so all's well that ends well. It kind of pisses me off how Kayano doesn't look like she's interested in putting that much effort into their relationship but I guess they both have busy work lives to deal with...
I also think it's utter BS how they returned so much of the reward money, but oh well.
oh yeah. I forgot to post about AC here.
It was a tear-filled/emotional last few chapters. Overall, I really liked the ending and how it wasn't rushed, even if it wasn't quite perfect for me nor was it that surprising (and the characters didn't look that much older, though that's probably at least in part due to the art style, haha...)
From when I started reading it, the manga had this great mix of action, comedy, intensity, light-heartedness... and... I dunno, it was just really enjoyable. I ended up getting attached to the characters through the small moments and I felt like they were handled relatively nicely. Whatever flaws were present were very minor and beside the point to me. Like, yeah, outside of a certain character's death and such, nothing really all that "bad" or "sad" happens, yeah it was kinda predictable, but it's not trying to be a super dark manga or whatever. It went out to do something and it handled both the "assasination" and "classroom" parts very well, creating an exciting, emotional, hilarious rollercoaster of a manga.
I believe it's one of the few manga I have read from start to finish, especially that is longer than like 50 chapters, and it's definitely one of the best manga I've read of all-time (I recall at some points I was so impressed with it I actually thought it was as good as One Piece, or better than it in a way or two!), and I will look back on it fondly for years to come.
That and I might import the 3DS game that just came out or whatever and maybe get some other stuff to show my appreciation for what I thought was a great manga.
(Also, thankfully we at least have the anime for a bit, though then again... I'm not sure my heart can handle it lol)
if I had been them I'd have taken all the money tbh. Mostly because I'm a greedy bastard that knows life is easy when you're loaded, but also because they kinda earned it. Hell they made government agents look like a joke on command, removed a corrupt official turned terrorist from society, and on top of that managed to learn a touching lesson about living up to your own best self... Or something.
I may have taken it but if I did I'd probably donate it. More importantly than that though it's a manga so I think having them go for the tougher but more ideal take on it and not accepting all the money and doing what Koro-sensei would probably want them to do was a good thing. In a way it's honoring Koro-sensei both with what he taught/his ideals (as partially explained in the manga) and also showing that by the end of it, they weren't in it for the money, their "assassination classroom" was much more than them trying to collect a bounty.
It takes a lot of strength and heart to follow an ideal and not just go "well ideals are worthless, we have all this freaking money, let's be smart and use it", so while real people might not have that strength and would just take it, I really admire that the characters in this manga do have that strength--and it speaks volumes about their teacher, Koro-sensei, IMO. I'm sure it hurt them too but they've already received so many gifts from Koro-sensei, and like they realized, it's more worthwhile to work hard and achieve something in the end than just having it handed to you. There's no strength in that, and it would make their "blades" grow dull.
From that perspective, accepting the money would have gone against the entire idea of the manga and what Koro-sensei taught and would have been pretty stupid. Ideals, morals, honor, they might seem worthless to a straight-laced person or a rational thinker or the like, but they do have meaning to those who carry them, even if that meaning, that value, that importance, seems artificial or pointless to outside eyes.
Don't tell Blazer but I finally started One Piece again, this time I will make it past the time skip!
oh man, you've missed out on sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. you better actually make it past the time-skip, preferably to where we are now, lol. I'm gonna be upset if you don't . I've had like, no one to discuss OP with lately too, so QQ