Aug 25, 2025
Author's Commentary #542:
Time to talk about Chapter 542: Yuusuke's wistful weekends.
In just 155 words, I've now made Yuusuke perhaps one of the more tragic characters in the series. We all know he's the whipping boy of the series, but now it's further driven home that the poor guy's got an inferiority complex and feels he's unloved by his mother. His goal of reaching 2200 and candidate master is also revealed.
Yuusuke believes that if he can at least achieve a title and that rating, some of the glares he gets for being a disappointing offspring of the great Hagemi will go away. As shown in Season 8, Hagemi believes he's peaked in the 1900 range. And speaking of which, Season 8 is finally where Yuusuke snapped and decided to take a stand against Hagemi. Where this goes remains to be seen.
Now Utami is the final one for the routine chapters, and then I'll need to cook something else up. Maybe a Side Story either completely original or made from scraps of Pre-6B will be next.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.
