#chapter 60

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I'm catching up on When The Third Wheel Strikes Back mamhwa while at work and I didn't realize we were getting a marriage arc /silly /j

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KAIJUU NO.8 MANGA SPOILERS

(INCLUDING CHAPTERS FROM 54 TO 109)

Iharu chasing Reno like Kafka chases Mina is such a cool detail.

Iharu and Kafka are older, they were supposed to be the leaders, they were supposed to protect!!! Instead, Reno and Mina ended up being on the spotlight as some of the strongest prodigies of their generations.

Reno and Mina's responsibility sense is so strong it is tearing them apart: they think every death and failure is their fault. Mina from chapter 102 to 109, Reno in chapters 59 to 64... It hurts me sooo bad to see the truth they are hiding. No one can shoulder so much alone— and in the end, that's why Iharu ends up becoming like Kafka (or in one more parallel, what Jugo wanted to be for Hikari).

Just like Kafka and Jugo, Iharu struggles with the fact he won't be the person he envisioned he'll be within the Defense Corps. It started as motivation in the form of a rivalry, but the more the prodigies grew and left them behind, the more they realized it was no longer children's play. Hikari is the living example of it: she burned out, sacrificed herself to stop a monster and left Jugo struggling with the survivor guilt.

It drives one of my favorite themes of Kaiju No.8: rivalries that turn into unyielding support for the other, because they won't allow anyone to stay behind / they can't continue if one of them can't keep moving forward.

Kafka and Iharu had to understand that they still had a chance, that Mina and Reno wouldn't leave them alone deliberately because they didn't want to be alone. No one wants that, if they have a say in the matter. Unlike Jugo, who can't do anything else now that Hikari is dead, the new generation can aspire to support their way to victory.

So, really. It's simply cute that we see Kafka and Mina being such an influence to the new gen. The whole "I need to be by her side" and "I'll wait for you to reach me" is an amazing driving force for a story about people fighting a Kaiju apocalypse.

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[Wind and Truth: Chapter 60]

All the moral philosophizing and cosmere building in my mind goes away when I see "Adolin". What a refreshing sight.

Hey this first paragraph might be about numbers and words, but I'm choosing to read this as him being attracted to all women ever and also Kaladin

I'm awful with names, he can do it for me

He's literally Edgedancing. The coin says "I will remember". Nahel bond? No. But maybe something else with Maya.

Oh my god I just remembered the Azish battlefield is a dome. And they'll have Stormform in there. It's literally the Azish Thunderdome

god he's so hot such a nice person

Yooo Azimir said trans rights again. As did Brandon, noting Sarqqin as a man out of dialogue too. We already have a Radiant who Stormlight healed into the body they should be, but I wonder if we'll get someone without the physical changes that aren't everyone's experience

Wait why can't he pronounce things? He's been Connected. Do names not work?

Nobody better take Zabra's story as a fake trans thing. She was lying, clearly, to fight. She doesn't want papers. It's literally Mulan.

Four tones... Maybe greatshells just have four voices and can't sing all the rhythms of Roshar. Maybe it's Stone, Sky, Night, Day.

Yo chasmfiends warding off Stormstriders is the force of nature kind of stuff that really makes humans look small. Speaking of, they're lightningspren, right?

Siah Aimians?

Ohh shit fourth moon lore. Before the new gods. Adonalsium era stuff. Something about the not-stone at Narak caused issues, and Honor destroyed the place.

Aharietiam was at the same time? But that's far before the Recreance. So I guess Feverstone was elsewhere. But why would Honor destroy Narak then? It may be the event that shattered Honor, or related, since a broken bond is important in that.

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As We Fall, Chapter 60 "With You" is Posted!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40227708/chapters/158878513

(sorry about the link, it isn't working for me like it usually does).

And It took me a while to write this chapter because I was having a hard time getting it just right, to my tastes. But I think I got it where I wanted it to be!

Grateful for you all for your patience, and loving my story as much I do <3