Yeah, that sounds more useful for Rin than sword classes. He's getting beaten by someone not known to be a specialist in hand-to-hand combat. Osceola could probably wipe the floor with Rin.
Osceola teaching Rin would be interesting. I want to see that now. x)
I think that was a combo of pulling Rin's hair and pointing the gun at Rin. Rin instinctively jerks away whenever the Armumahel gun is pointed at him, and that's what broke the hold. The only time Yukio could hit Rin with the bullets was after guiding Rin to an area where it was physically impossible to dodge.
Yeah, it's true the gun helped too.
Though whether it's the hair and the gun or a german suplex, none of these techniques are techniques that break holds/grabs, they are techniques that make the other let go of the hold/grab mainly through pain and/or fear and/or becoming incapacitated. Truly breaking a hold/grab usually involve leverage of the other's body parts with some of your own body parts. But that's just semantics, don't mind me.
Ah, the missing pronouns strike again.
Tbh I think it works more strongly if Yukio is trying to attribute all his friends as "Rin's friends & home", as a justification for why Rin needs to kill him. But I agree, he does care about the willingness of his friends to save him, particularly Bon, Shura, and Shiemi.
Oh, sorry, no, not this time. Grammatically, it was clear.
Yukio said "Nii-san (brother) no ('s) sekkaku (finally) dekita (made) taisetsuna (important) ibasho (home) mo (and) tomodachi (friends) mo (too) zenbu (all of them) kietenakunatte (will diseapear) shimau (in the end) kamoshirenai (maybe) nda (because of what was previously mentioned) yo (I'm telling/informing you)"
What I meant is, when someone is talking about someone else, but really they're talking about themselves. You know what I mean?
Yukio somehow thinks he lost his friends and his home. But he finds solace in thinking that they are now Rin's friends and home. And now he seems to be warning Rin to not lose them as well.
Of course Rin isn't in that list. But that is because he views Rin trying to save him as an assertion of his own weakness. These chapters seem to be proving him right. Both Rin and Yukio had defined roles in their family unit. Rin was the protector of the family unit, but also stupid and malfunctioning in society. Yukio was the success story who'd go on to do something, but also weak and needing protection. Yukio broke the social contract when he proved he could walk all over Rin (literally), and that's why Rin keeps repeating how Yukio is actually "strong". Rin's now protecting the family unit by pushing Yukio back in line. So Yukio thinks he's strong now? Bullshit.
The story has deconstructed the whole "declarations of protection" trope. Both twins decided to protect each other, but that's all been shown to be based on their own need for identity in the family unit. Rin embraced his role as the strong one and accepted/internalized his stupidity. Yukio challenged his role as the weak one, and Rin will not accept that. This isn't a loving sib dynamic -- this is a protector-victim dynamic.
I don't disagree with you, except that I don't think there's no love. I think they love each other and that's part of why they want to protect each other. But there's also competition between them. And pretty much everyone, not just those two, want to have a role, to be useful, in a relationship; pretty much no one wants to feel like dead weight. That's something Shiemi struggled with a lot too.
Regarding Yukio, hopefully he will begin to be honest with his want for help after this confrontation. If Toudou's foreshadowing is any indicator (and so far it's been the most reliable one), Yukio will eventually drop the pretense and manipulation. But I doubt it'll be a good thing at first.
Well, I think that prediction already started to happen a few chapters back.
No way that is Demon!Rin at the end. It is probably just regular old Rin acting as his demon self trying to beat some sence into Yukio. I mean, look at the horns and speech bubble.
Good eye. I didn't notice the font change. The eyes look round too.
Also, I just noticed Rin is kneeing Yukio's back while he's on the ground, that's also a banned move in most combat sports, because that's a brutal move.
