Hi! I hope you don't mind me popping in here, but I saw this post and wanted to say thank you for the very kind words! Fun fact: I've been doing all the sound effects in Ashita no Joe by hand, just like folks did in the 90s! (with a little computer help for fine-tuning, but the fx are all in ink)

I can't say for certain that this was the intent with the design of Cloud's Mom, I haven't read anything about it, but I think it works with the story.

Wish I could just label for spoilers, but the picture is just text.

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Yeah, holding shift for focus mode will let you see the hitbox, which is a small centered red dot. I tend to just draw a mental box around the character and try to just focus on the bullets in that area, and only evade those unless if there is a pattern of fast scattering bullets