#won't someone PLEASE notice little liebe omggggg

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i’m thinking how zenon’s flashback could’ve been a little longer and showed us more about the zogratis because it’s not like we have much about them anyway i mean like the last time they interacted was at that table meeting before the attack

so was little zenon unable to control his magic? because i don’t know... like imagine a panel (one box panel) of little zenon looking at his reflection (a mirror or window) and thinking “oh no they’re sticking out again...” before he gets beat up

like idk did vanica and dante know about allen? consider allen waving outside the zogratis house, little zenon smiles (by the way there was no smile from zenon at all in the flashback), and then vanica leans in like “when did you make a friend? ....k, maybe you’ll stop being a little weirdo. see you later i guess” and she just walks away. or says she’ll tell big brother/mom/dad that he’s out with a friend (which could tell us if mom/dad were around or not too)

or like little zenon going up to his big brother and saying “look, i have better control of my magic now :D”, “that’s very good zenon, i’m sure you’ll make a fine devil host when you’re older” and little zenon clams up because he’s already been reconsidering the whole devil host thing but he’s too small and awkward to bring it up yet

and idk maybe dante or vanica are pushing big bro’s wheelchair too

also actually seeing the three zogratis near each other to get a better idea of their age differences because with that one panel of dante and vanica (and vanica making that face) it’s still hard to establish an idea of that

and idk maybe after allen dies, dante (already in his bored depressed state of mind) puts a hand on zenon’s shoulder (maybe he’s looking at allen’s grave) and says something like “the weak and reckless die first. that’s reality. if you want to survive in the self-defense force, get stronger” and walks away

i’ve seen it pointed out that this flashback gave allen no individual character, and it is pretty much banking on the audience transplanting asta onto him. i’ve already heard allen called “discount asta”, “walmart asta”, “asta wannabe” and there isn’t anything shown or told to differentiate him from asta

zora’s flashback about his dad, and liebe’s flashback about licita, included some inner thoughts about what they thought about zara and licita, and even had little montages of what they did together. we didn’t get that in the last chapter for allen, just like one panel of them training together (the others were training alone)

idk maybe some little zenon and little allen playing, like a snowball fight or roasting food idk. show them being cute, and some bits of allen’s self. like was he wittier than asta? just as dumb? angrier? (note that the boys beating up little zenon apparently knew about allen) friendlier? weirder? quieter? louder? equal volume? i don’t know! we don’t know! we’ve got nothing to work with to make him different from asta besides like fire magic and that he died

and now with this flashback we’re definitely not gonna see what happened during all those mystery minutes where zenon somehow didn’t slash and stab the fuck outta yuno and langris. i mean nothing about this flashback says that he’ll “betray the other siblings” it just showed (part of?) his reason to become a devil host, and now that he’s about to make a deal with beezelbub for more power (probably) doesn’t that suggest that he was seriously trying to kill yuno and langris?

zenon what happened?! you’re a better killer than this! where’s eternal fangs!? portals + bones!? why are you only using the bone tails!? bro the flashback called you a genius with bone magic! where is that?!! i like yuno but i was disappointed to see how unharmed he was. just two scratches on the face? really? what, did zenon suddenly get the other two’s habit of fucking around in fights?? at least some clothing damage damn

for the record the golden dawn attack was under the tabata/iwasaki combo. i mean i had alotta questions about the timeskip but at least this combo brought that yuno angst and light murder

p.s. as of volume 26 the editor is fukuda. admittedly i haven’t found the blank brigade pages for vol.29 yet to confirm if he still is, but for now i gotta assume it’s still fukuda. also the shots of noelle’s whole ass out does suggest it’s still probably the same editor (yes, volume 26 is the start of noelle somehow ending up naked even though valkyrie armor has a history of keeping her clothes when the spell is released). now to be fair, idk if this fanservice is the result of meddling or if it’s because he’s not putting his food down and saying “no” - i’m just saying that there was a change in staff around when this started to happen