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Long-Arm and Long-Leg creep me out extra in the anime (as a lot of folks have also commented) so I'll focus on other things, but I continue to be intrigued by this perhaps unintentional habit of giving Left more of potentially Right's lines?

This sort of happened in Episode 3, though the manga makes it a bit more ambiguous about who's talking (while it's implied, at least in English, that it's Right). Here, it's very obvious that Right is the one talking (in the manga). You could argue the hair is colored in because we're looking at the person talking from the back, but that right arm (and part of his shirt) is very obviously Right's. I'm not upset about the change, I just find the change interesting. It means they share more dialogue, I guess, though I haven't done any checks to see if one of them talks more than the other one.

But speaking again about this, folks have suggested the Seal user who helped seal Long-Arm and Long-Leg is the current holder of Seal, but we don't know what they look like. The idea being a past user of Seal is still alive, hence why future Seal users die and stay dead trying to obtain the power (e.g., Yataro). The manga and anime only show the monk. Perhaps the Seal user dressed as a monk and that's actually the Seal user, who knows? I do appreciate that Left and Right leave it unclear if the monk is still alive or not. As they note elsewhere in re: Yamaha's age, they don't really understand human lifespans, so it's quite possible the monk died at some point and either they didn't know about it or haven't thought too hard about the age issue. It's also possible that, given we know Minase can Seal ages, the Seal user of the past sealed the monk's lifespan. Also possible the monk and Seal user are still hanging out for some reason. Lovers? Family? Platonic companions? Remains to be seen O.o Regardless, the monk is a possible future contact with information on the only known past Seal user (given Yataro never obtained Seal, and Minase "suddenly gained a portion of Seal's power" - Volume 10, Chapter 39: Ambition and Impatience). Or maybe the monk trained someone who trained someone else etc., or left records about it. I imagine an arc where Yuru, rather than deciding to die to obtain Seal (if he thinks it's a possibility) tries to trace down previous records of Seal users. Maybe he thinks something is off about Yataro's death besides the Everything Else about that situation.

It's the way Dera pays attention to Yuru here that gets me. He cares about his foster son/charge.

The fight's good as usual because it's, you know, Studio Bones. Seriously, if you haven't watched Sword of the Stranger, you are doing yourself a disservice.

And we finally get to see Yozakura! (And Asagiri's eyes alkjdlaj)

I wonder if Asuma got his ears pierced to take after Gonzo, or if Gonzo took him. Gonzo has his ears pierced when he first meets Iori, so it wasn't him and Asuma getting them pierced together, though maybe Gonzo took him for it. That'd be cute. I don't think it's mentioned in the manga but at this point I don't remember.

I'm sure this came up in Silver Spoon in some form, given the subject matter, but I didn't get far in that. So -insert Izumi Curtis laughing-

I want to know more about Dera's life as a mercenary O.o Probably means not good things, considering what mercenaries usually do, but it is curious, given what we see of him in YNT. I want to know what his daemons were like, what his mother was like... Yes, I want Gabby's story, but we still have basically just tidbits about Dera!!! What was Roei like when Dera was little!!!

Imagining poor Ken terrified while Yuru and the daemons run all over the Lost House.

Arakawa's art is wonderful as usual, but I like how the anime emphasizes what's happening here. Yuru is definitely losing that eye if he ever gets Seal.

I also still love Yuru's trick here. He's so smart. Terrifyingly so.

And the tragedy of the villains dying strikes again. Arakawa always so painful with that angst.

Overall it was another decent episode. And next ep is Ken at last :3 He's in so much of the preview, best boy :3

Other thoughts:

Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5, Episode 6, Episode 7, Episodes 8-9, Episode 10 (you are here)

An Ivan/Asuma fanfic

Read the manga by Hiromu Arakawa as tankobon, individual chapters are on Manga Up

Website for the series

I was joking before the episode that Byunghcul might pass before Okja, and thankfully that didn't happen, but it looks like he's not doing too well, either. Glad Jaekyung is still visiting him, though :3

Compliments from foster Dad :3 Byungchul loves Jaekyung, really :3

Soft Dan smiles :3 He likes this old man who loves Jaekyung :3

Byungchul likes Dan but does not understand what a nice boy like Dan sees in Jaekyung alkjdlaj He's too good for Jaekyung. Extra funny when Byungchul and Jaekyung have similar expressions in the same panel aldjaj

Byungchul loves Jaekyung and wants him to be happy T-T Dan happy smiling while they bow to Byungchul because he agrees that Jaekyung deserves to be happy :3 He is member #1 of the Jaekyung deserves to be happy fan club.

Seeing the ring on Dan's finger as he holds Okja's hand, I wonder how the ring conversation between Dan and Jaekyung went :3 I've written it a couple times now, but I want to knowwww. Wonder if, if we get side stories, which I assume we will, we'll get flashbacks about it :3

Okja giving her boys head pats T-T Happy Jaekyung is supporting her babe.

I know people are saying, "They're married" but same-sex marriage is not currently legal in South Korea. Nor does the South Korean government recognize such marriages, so the loophole in some countries of getting married abroad and returning so the government recognizes the union as a result is not a thing (so far as I can tell, other than a few specific cases for diplomats, which is not either Dan or Jaekyung). That does not mean that queer couples do not have ways of showing their relationship publicly, e.g., through wearing rings or paired earrings. While I would not be surprised if Jaekyung, after hearing Dan's answer, immediately flew them somewhere where it's legal for same-sex couples to get married. But Jaekyung's comment, "people in a... relationship like ours" I think speaks volumes, especially given he seemingly expected the possibility of Dan dropping him, which you'd think wouldn't happen if they were married even somewhere else. Dan clearly views Jaekyung as part of his family, hence the armband during the funeral. I don't know what legal loopholes they would have had to jump through for that, but I doubt it was that difficult to just say, "I need an armband for an extended male family member" and maybe, if necessary, lie that Jaekyung was a cousin or something. Funeral stuff like that is usually more low-key. And given neither Dan nor Jaekyung have any known extended family who might interfere (I doubt Jaekyung's mother, assuming she's still alive, knows), there wouldn't have been much issue with people arguing against it.

I'm glad they were there for each other in this time. Jaekyung doesn't like Okja just because of Dan: he clearly cares about her as a person. And Dan has strong support. Not just from Jaekyung, but also from Team Black.

Their soft conversation by the shore just T-T Hugs, smiles, kiss, so cute. Love them. More of the odd English translation, but well, they're allowed to be a bit corny. Jinx has always been very tropey XD

I like the idea of Mingwa sort of doing a mirrored ending to the opening. The manhwa opened on Dan, but closes on Jaekyung (also starts with Dan going in to meet Jaekyung, while the manhwa ends with Jaekyung going out from Dan to fight). It's part of why I wrote my post-episode fanfic the way I did, to mirror Dan inviting Jaekyung into the shower rather than Jaekyung pulling Dan in.

I genuinely wonder if Team Black were so clueless that they didn't know about Jaekyung and Dan's relationship until the funeral. It's still unclear how much Namwook knows (though he probably just forgot). At least Yosep got the memo, though.

Jaekyung waiting by the toilet for his bae XD

All the Jaedan snuggles :3 Dan hugs canonically healing :3

I've gotten weird comments on a lot of my fanfics about this, including the most recent one, but I continue to not understand why people don't think Dan is assertive. Because yes, Jaekyung is being more respectful of him and trying to get Dan more involved in sex decision making, and they haven't had locker room make-outs in a long time. But I don't see how we get to the conversation where Jaekyung awkwardly asks if they can do more than hugs later, with Dan saying, "You'll have to wait until we get home" without Dan putting his foot down about it. I just don't. I shouldn't be surprised that folks are just not reading the same manhwa I am even to the end of it, but that's just how it is.

I love them so much.

Jaekyung's ring being so large it fits Dan's thumb aldkjlaj Also, Dan using Jaekyung's first name :3 Progressss :3

All in all, it's a good main story ending :3 I still believe that, given how BJ Alex got side stories, and Jinx had the Heesung x Yoon-gu extra story, and Mingwa has been decently active on twitter with extra Jinx art and AUs, we're going to get side stories of some kind. But we'll have to see when the review comes out :3

I read Jinx early in 2025 largely because I was annoyed with people being so weird about it for years, often relating it negatively to ENNEAD (e.g., "both these comics are gross and disgusting and everything bad about BL/BL manhwa/manhwa in general"), warning me off it in very obvious anti ways, and I was curious about what the big deal was. And it near-immediately became one of my favorite comics, any genre, particularly for BL. And it's gotten me through some rough times in the past year plus. 38 published fics later, and it's been a trip XD Here's to seeing where it and Mingwa go next :3 I just want a physical release and ebooks so I can keep this forever T-T

My Jinx fanfics if you’d like some

Other Jinx thoughts:

Episode 63, Episode 64, Episode 65, Episode 66, Episode 67, Episode 68, Episode 69, Episodes 70-71, Episode 72, Episode 73, Episode 74, Episode 75, Episode 76, Episode 77, Episode 78, Episode 79, Episode 80, Episode 81, Episode 82, Episode 83, Episode 84, Episode 85, Episode 86, Episode 87, Episode 88, Episode 89, Episode 90, Episode 91, Episode 92, Episode 93, Episode 94, Episode 95, Episode 96, Episode 97, Episode 98, Episode 99, Episode 100, Episode 101, Episode 102 (you are here)

Read the manhwa:

KR : www.lezhin.com/ko/comic/jinx

US : https://www.lezhinus.com/en/comic/jinx_en

JP : www.lezhin.jp/ja/comic/jinx

beltoon(JP) : www.beltoon.jp/detail/jinx

ES : www.lezhin.es/detail/jinx

TH : www.boomtoon.com/detail/jinx

TW : www.bomtoon.tw/detail/jinx

FR : https://www.bontoon.com/detail/bt_1110970