There often aren't many differences to straight up 'strong emotions' but there's usually some noticeable difference between 'calm and contented' and 'filled with adrenaline and ready to do grievous bodily harm'. Likewise there should be something noticeable about it when a number of people are in competition with each other but are playing somewhat different games and a number of goals are not always in line with simply (or even) winning. Too, hesitant awkward sparring and droll irony isn't being on top of the train. So even if a great many people tend to love and hate somebody at the same time, when it's mostly one or the other it's usually pretty easy to notice the situations and behaviors being mostly one or the other.
Now back to Yuki at the CoE in chapter 10
darrin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2018 6:17 pm
I never intended to include Mugi in that group. Yes, she's technically CoE "staff" in some form, but obviously the Sawataris are a whole different kettle of fox. I remember meaning to mention that in my post but evidently forgot; my apologies, and thanks for reminding me of the obvious exception.
Sure, I just wanted to cover those people working/worshiping/helping out/hanging around the CoE, not necessarily that you anyone else was suggesting them all, or as equal to each other. Which brings up a good point about whatever the makeup of those at the CoE, it doesn't seem all that cohesive in a lot of ways. Plus we are missing most any context on anyone. Another thing I wanted to cover was how easily Kenji seemed to just meld into the mindless horde, and that some of the CoE folks were demonstrably of a different cloth. Mostly though, it was that we can't really tell, knowing what little we know. Except they seem to all know a fair bit about Miho (some of which is actually true) in different ways. Whatever even that much tells us.
....{yuki} can yank a RAZ in her wake through spacetime without breaking a sweat. If mundanely being "forceful" and "holding on tight" were sufficient to keep her in place
I think my idea there was she might not have
known she could, or didn't really much want to get away at this point. There was information for her to gather after all. Or even maybe the place has some sort of dampening field? But either way yes, it isn't really fully explained only by him being an adult and some sort of authority figure, or even her inexperience etc. Yet there are at least some clues she wasn't really trying to get away, in which case a stern adult with a heavy hand was at least enough to give the illusion of control. Short of her returning to the subject and explaining it, we probably won't know what if any of that might be the case.
he says "Now, now, none of that", obviously in response to some kind of struggle on Yuki's part.
That does pretty much prove he's got some chops there. Not as much proof that it was physically enough to lock her down, especially if she was "fully determined" to do otherwise. We might guess he wouldn't have been able to what he did (if there were no external forces helping or if she was clued in on what was going on and capable and willing at that time to do what she's done since) unless he had some powers of his own. It's possible he's got anti-magical-girl-powers of some sort, or is some immortal pirate raised from a fictional demise etc. Even though he seemingly blends into the horde so easily later, that is likely more about how powerful Miho is, and doesn't establish he's not more powerful than Yuki regardless.
Is she distraught enough to forget her abilities, and just trying to break away (on foot so to speak)?
Maybe. Or maybe she doesn't know yet she has more. Or she's tired after all she's done today. Or worried (somewhere inside her mind) about Yutaka. I'm guessing some mix of this place, the situation, her youth and inexperience. Probably some large part, consciously or not, was not really wanting to all that much. Or again, as we agree, it could be that he is able to somehow somewhat in some way lock down an MG.
But then there would be no reason for Kenji to mention the "dangerous and hazardous things" she might run into (which he explicitly amplifies in the next strip they're in, 1227, as "stuff hanging from the ceiling").
It was a rather odd thing to point out. Although Yuki kind of seemed to have ignored that. Later on, she's rather acting like she's there more because she wants it rather than they're capable of stopping her. Really, Yuki just mostly does whatever she wants to the whole time she's there, doesn't she?
We might say she gets Kenji to take her to Yutaka, then she's free to do more investigating with nobody looking for her. She's hostile and defiant in 1230, then gets on the laptop as soon as he leaves. Events and plans happen. In 1242/1243 she's certainly not worried about them, and they can't even try and stop her.
And again, nobody else has ever displayed the ability to pin a ninja girl or magical girl in place other than Miho.
Well technically Miho did more than pin in place, Miho first grabbing and stopping Yuki in-flight like that
Is Kenji "exactly the same" as Miho? Almost certainly not, of course. Are his "powers" (whatever they might be) at a comparable level to Miho's? I sincerely doubt it. Is his stopping Yuki here explainable (explained away
) by purely mundane effort? Heck no.
If he powered her down with strength alone, it certainly establishes he's got at least power enough to do that, which isn't a baseline human thing. None of what Yuki did later establishes Kenji didn't somehow himself stop her in 1224 either.