Well, it would be preferable to have periods where the thread is inactive if it meant consistently substantial discussion.
At the moment there's not a lot to discuss in the manga, but if you wanted some fresh content I could vent my frustration about the heavenly ninja party. People are already scaling the jobber who knocked out Hellfire and Gale to Platinum Sperm level because of confidence scaling.
If Flashy Flash wasn't simply playing with the ninjas in their monsterized state and they actually downscale from him then...
Heavenly Ninja Party randoms > post training Hellfire/Gale (confident they could defeat Flashy despite their previous loss) > Monster Hellfire/Gale < Flashy Flash MA arc < Platinum Sperm, or...
Heavenly Ninja Randoms =~ Platinum Sperm
To be clear, I think Hellfire and Gale were delusional to think they can could handle Flashy and are probably still weaker than their monsterized selves. Still... if the heavenly ninja party are their superiors after training, it stands to reason that
Heavenly Ninja Randoms =~ Monsterized Hellfire/Gale
Now why do these scaling chains bother me? Well I have two pet peeves.
- I hate it when series powercreep just to keep stakes high. Early OPM got my interest by avoiding this
- I hate it when new characters/transformations/whatever rely too much on scaling while being featless themselves. OPM has also done a good job of avoiding this
The heavenly ninja party is going to get on my nerves on both counts if Murata doesn't deliver with the chapter and we see Flashy Flash somewhat struggle with these guys for a couple pages and maybe throw out a statement? Then we're going to have OPM powerscalers filling up their high dragon tier with 15 nameless, nobodies with nothing but wall level feats because they're arguably superior to Sunblade Atomic, Golden Sperm, Elder Centipede, Gouketsu, Darkshine, Homeless by throwaway statement and throwaway statement alone.
I've already seen arguments that they should be blatantly superior to Platinum Sperm and I pray to the Lord above if that's the case, they at least have cool abilities and immense physicals that make for a dynamic fight with Flashy and Sonic.