MY SON HAVE YOU SEEN MY SON *HOLDS UP FUBUKI*

starting off with this banger from the comic strips on the covers of the manga 🙏 i don't have access to this in english BUT i will translate because it's just so silly:

"japan's national champion, akane delta, has been successfully recruited into bc sol with one of the highest stipends recorded in history! all of his expenses are covered by the club, and a team of maids tends to his every need" (spoiled brat *explodes him*)

"thanks to his ability to design powerful beys, dante koryu was recruited into bc sol as well. he prefers to take care of tasks on his own, despite the club covering his every expense"

delta is on the same level of spoiled as WAKIYA and we need to talk about this more. such a shame this information is exclusive to that manga strip alone and is never brought up ever again... 💔 it helps create even more parallels between delta and dante

next up: the whole ~10 pages he appeared in during the sparking arc. FUBUKI AND DELTA SHOULD'VE BEEN IN SPARKING PASS IT ON!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ anywho - i think these few pages do him a lot of wonders. you can tell delta has completely softened up after the events of gachi. he obviously still has some edge to him, but it's a far cry from what it used to be in the previous volumes. he didn't oppose the idea of helping the asahis and genuinely enjoyed mentoring them in the short time they had together

bonus smiling deltas because we deserve more of that i think 🤲 (and let me know if you want all the pages from the arc!!)

last but not least is this section from the qna section regarding his launch pose. i LOVE bringing up the samulnori fact and i did a whole deep dive on it which you can read right here if you're interested 👀✨ i think it's a really nice reference which ties him in with dante even further