And i still dont see how the clown thing with Killik fit at all into the salvage arc. It still doesn't add up, because he did nothing in the goddamn fight either.

TBF, that was giving Kirikou a moment for the sake of giving Kirikou a moment. See, it's nice to see the characters that you like being awesome regardless of whether their side-story is part of the larger plot or not.

Liz and Patti have yet to do anything as awesome as what Kirikou and Jackie and Ox have done. And that's sad.

And now after reading Not! its blatantly clear to me that Ohkubo would much rather draw stupid girls doing stupid things than a badass shonen series.

Aw come on now, I loved Not!