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>>20564909
>honestly it's starting to get on my nerves how painfully slow the main plot crawls forward.
To address that and the other things you've mentioned, volumes 2 and 3 and an anomaly in TWI as they don't actually have proper story per se, in comparison to every other volume. Volume 4 is basically the end of the prologue to TWI, some minor stuff gets set up, the story hits its stride. Then with Volume 5 TWI proper begins. You might think I'm exaggerating, but you really haven't started TWI yet, at all.

Those six Flos chapters are known as 'Flos Wall of Volume 4,' it might appear extremely unappealing, but this is where people generally start liking the Chandrar plotline. I personally am not a fan of these six chapters as a whole, but the last two provide some great character moments, the end especially is one of my favourite scenes.


>>20565042
Good to hear you finished Volume 4, Anon, you are past all of the hiccups of the earlier volumes, and now you can fully enjoy Volume 5 where the true Kino begins. However, you are wrong about the inaccuracy of volume format. Volumes 2 and 3 are an anomaly in that they are a bit aimless, every other volume starting with V4 tells its own story, it has of course a lot of other plotlines, but the core mostly stays the same for the entire volume.

Also, the monthly break between volumes and a weekly break every month started around Volume 7, before that Pirateaba WASN'T getting any rest at all.