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Final volume
Final Ride
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>>286369305
Ahh I remember this cocktease
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Thanks OP
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Fuck my heart
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Kana’s family dynamic is cute
Glad to see she’s always the way she is even with them
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That’s awful presumptuous of you to figure he’d just be right there in your school too, Kana.
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Does she even know who Clouseau is? Even in DVMC I don’t think they ever interact
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Always a sucker for this
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Oh wow it was only 4 years ago from current time? I was under the impression it was a lot longer ago
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>>286371527
It's not really presumptuous since the TARTAROS is capable of rewriting history according to your ideals. Even if Sophia is just going to immediately destroy modern civilization with a worldwide nuclear bombardment to prevent anyone else from building another TARTAROS.
Also, Chidori and Clouseau are on deck together in DVMC when Sousuke announces his plan for Tessa's midair rescue. I think you're right that they never have an interaction, but she at least knows of him and presumably understands that he's Sousuke's superior officer.
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Four years is a pretty long time for a teenager.
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I guess they were both on deck for the last of the boat scenes; maybe I thought it was still Kurz. Alright yeah, there was enough that we didn’t see when Sousuke was airborne where they could’ve at least acknowledged each other.
>Four years is a pretty long time for a teenager
…True…Been awhile for me (and a fair few others in these threads) Do the novels detail Chidori’s family situation more so than here in Sigma? In the epilogue chapter she tries/plans to reconcile with her father and sister in New York; I just find that the more details I learn about her, the more I like her as the main heroine
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If you are here, did you sell this
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=8f5V9BjZk6c&list=RD8f5V9BjZk6c&start_radio =1&pp=ygUVemFjayByeWRlciB0aGVtZSBzb 25noAcB
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This is unironically the payoff for this arc
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"I think this is lame and weak." -Jason Newsted
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>Manga's hard carry is BACK
Shitty romance last chapter is completely FORGIVEN. Kurzbros we. are. so. b---
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--ACK!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujRo1kFa06o
A small flower is blooming in my heart
A flower you gave me that never withers
I've become strong enough
That I'm no longer afraid to believe in myself
I was happy to have met you
And proud of my hand holding yours
Even though we look up to different skies now
Look, I can walk on my own now
I laugh more during sad times
To hide the pain I feel inside
But you hugged me without saying a thing
It felt like a frozen door was gently opening
I was happy to have met you
Even if I only shared my loneliness
Even though we're separated now
I still feel that we're connected somehow under this sky
I never said "thank you"
I couldn't even make a promise
But if the wind blows like it did on that day
Then I know we'll surely meet again
I was happy to have met you
And proud of my hand holding yours
Even though we look up to different skies now
Look, I can walk on my own now
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Yeah, gotta work the crowd
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She's a big girl.
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>>286393941
>make Tessa intentionally petite
>Nami has a bit of figure but she’s skinny as fuck
Really stacked the deck for the main girl huh
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I guess if Kurz isn't going to do anything else I should post the sheet for his mech. The Shadow is the newest model from the Soviets, their third-generation answer to the Gernsback.
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Looks like a few show up in chapter 74 to get taken out by Sabina and Fowler.
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/286049811/#286064303
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Ahhh there they are, and quickly obliterated. Not even a whole lot of them either.
>two weeks ago
Damn, time really flies. I was reading that chapter lounging outside Katsucon in the 50(!) degree weather. Still kinda miffed I couldn’t find that Tessa in the Dealers Hall
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Mardukas' scene got shortchanged.“Ah...” Tessa said faintly, knowing that there was no place to hide. Then there came a sudden series of shots from close range... They hit the incoming enemies, who collapsed one after another from shots to the back.
The last of the three turned around to return fire but instead shouted in surprise as Mardukas, of all people, appeared from around the corner. He slammed the enemy with his gun stock again and again, putting all of his strength into the beating. Then he kicked his staggering enemy to the ground and emptied his submachine gun into him.
“Mar—” But before Tessa could even cry his name, Mardukas whipped around to reload with a shockingly smooth motion. Then he turned his fire on the enemies in the other direction.
“Get down!” he shouted, just as the enemy threw something at them. It was a grenade, and it fell between Mardukas and Tessa before rolling along the floor. Tessa thought about scooping it up, but quickly reconsidered as she wouldn’t have time to throw it back. Her only option was to throw herself on top of it to save those around her.
But before she could do so, Mardukas moved into action. He didn’t throw himself on the grenade, though. “Hah!” He just lifted it up to chest-level with his foot like a soccer player juggling a ball, then batted it back at the enemy with a swing of his gunstock.
A roar rang out down the hall as the grenade exploded, leaving their allies completely unscathed. Not only Tessa, but everyone present was stunned by the incredible feat that Mardukas had just performed.
“What are you staring at?” Mardukas shouted. “Charge!” He fired again to snap his subordinates out of their daze, and they plunged forward into the smoke to rush at their disordered enemies.
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Me too bud
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>>286413512
Hell yeah
https://youtu.be/2kL13ZpRPRw
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Who would have thought that working with a Russian would end up like this.
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There’s a pic I want to post that’s related to this chapter but for the love of fuck I can’t find it, so have this Sosky instead
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Fucker jobbed the worst of all. And even considering this faggot >>286412390
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Absolute waste of ALL THAT BUILD UP. Incredible.
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>less than 55 pages to go
>Rushed shit in this chapter and still low on space
Better be 10 pages of Kurz in the finale or will be underwhelming
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>Not It has to be this way
One fucking job...
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There, I found it
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T_T
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Al was truly a human
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>FUCK NAMI
I will, thank you
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Ow my heart
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See? It's perfect.
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>Literal Armstrong tier dialogue
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>Sosky is back
gay, weak, lame.
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Tessa is reserved for the old men of her crew
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Should we tell him about Ronny?
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My HEROES
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For being rushed it was quite a well done final chapter, saccharine shit aside.
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5/10. It's mid, clearly suffers from much stuff and the source material being superior in every way but that shit is a novel so lol lmao. I never really liked the art change, the original run was already perfect
Lots of wasted potential and not properly used characters like Kalinin. Not enough Clusseau, Kurz and mecha fights. The whole Lambda driver thing was retarded (but I do appreciate the attempt of explanation) and was always on the verge of jumping the shark using the "quantum" meme several times. Kind of sad how Kalinin and Tessa after her development weren't explored more; they were solid gold.
This shit really peaked with Fumoffu and it shows. Seems like all the fondness to it comes fron nostalgia tbqdesu
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Plap plap plap plap plap plap
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Callback to the original first volume cover
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Cue the legally distinct A-Team theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Fpc8QqVqk
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Please ignore the translator note, they have no idea what they're talking about.
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>>286457870
Chids outlasts us all
I mean look at her
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Massive props to OP, that was 4 months of devotion and I thank ya for all that.
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>>286459555
Yeah, I got waylaid for a bit. Although that covers it for the story illustrations there's still more to go since the fan translations also include a number of bonus illustrations that aren't in the official English release.
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I’m always up for some free arts, you’ve posted a lot of stuff I didn’t have yet
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I thought reposting Mao would be redundant, but I guess this is slightly larger.
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>>286460657
I didn’t even consider that that Mao was part of the final illustrations when I posted it, so I appreciate a better version. Honestly anything you got from the LN files clears whatever I saved from tumblr 3 years ago. Cheers anon
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They’re so damned cute I can’t stand it.
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>Daily chapters start a few days after game 7 of the World Series
>main story wraps up right on time for the WBC & Spring Training
It wasn’t intentional, I’m sure, but that’s pretty damn cool
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Did you really? What team?
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One more bump from me for the slow poke readers
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after 20 years
they are back
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>>286473344
jesusfuck, what happened to the art? It looks like those shitty run of the mill tacky hentai artists now...
>>286473888IT EVEN HAS MOSAICS LIKE ONE!!
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To be honestthat's a model family tbqh
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Callback to Sousuke's weirdly chosen musical preferences in the first LN. Probably even weirder now that SMAP is defunct. Hiroshi Itsuki is sort of akin to a lounge singing crooner, and SMAP was a 90s J-pop boy band.
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The short story "The Turnabout Drunkards" established Kaname who gets drunk fairly easily and becomes more openly affectionate under the influence.
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>>286477486
Yeah Kaname seems like she’d be a fun drunk, I’m sure Sousuke could be too, but you gotta get him there first
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Hell yeah indeed, USA lineup gonna do damage this year, and that rotation is godlikeJapan might still win it all
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Damn….youre right
Whoaaaaa buddyyyyy
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you will never know that ive been dumping another series for the last month, yes, that OP is me and ive been larping for the last entire month
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Thanks for the good times, these threads motivated me to go back and take another look at different parts of the franchise.
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>>286485203
I need to get my hands on a scanner so I can contribute some more art when we have future threads. And steal/borrow those two doujins my friend found
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>>286484259I have no idea which daily that is.
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