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She is coming back SOONin the anime
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>>287477111
>She is coming back SOON
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>>287477111
did we really need another one? i think most people just logged off to wait for leaks
i mean, it still beats being on wsj with "him"
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How long do you think itll take for a game to come out
I'm willing to bet theyll put out some gacha that adds characters from each weeks episode pretty quick
Wouldn't be shocked if that's part of why it took so long
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Tomorrow
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>>287480281
anon, I haven't played gacha either, but if you're a millennial/gen x you'll understand it better like this. It's the same sink trap and concept of collector/card games. They are graded by rarity like Common, Normal, Rare, Ultra Rare, Premium, or whatever name they want to call them. Obviously rarer cards are highly sought after because they have better stats, skills, or popular characters, or because they only made a set number of them or are only available for a certain amount of time, or because they have special characteristics.
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Hakuri is SHIT
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Seems leaks are on time today.
Starting.
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Awesome
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>>287487601
HORY SHITTO
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>>287487636
Soga family (male)'s sorcery, kurotsuchi (empty/void earth/ground)
It says it's very hard for a male to manifest the bloodline's sorcery.
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>>287487663
And hiroto is the only Soga who has currently achieved it.
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>>287487704
I guess this chapter is for the people who really wanted a mikaboshi chapter, holy shit.
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>>287487729
>they (its protectors) can extract the true realm of the datenseki
>(the power of their progenitor in the previous page)
Sumika
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>>287487682
>truth-seeking ball
Okay Hokazono, we get it
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>>287487738
is he drinking a literal kodoku
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>>287487636
Wait, did Mashiro actually get donuted, or was it some weird illusion thing with the water? I can't tell if he still has a hole through him in the later pages
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>>287487745
AIEEEEEEEE SAVE ME KUNISHIGE
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>>287487745
>he needs to drink a bunch of bugs and take on the prayers of all his people to their giant datenseki idol to do this
>akemura can just do it casually with his sword
What the fuck did Kunishige put in Magatsumi
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>>287487704
the first female islander we've seen
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>>287487745
>white centipede
Get the fuck out of my head
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>>287487729
these six look like they have unique designs, these will be the minibosses for each sword bearer to fight
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>>287488030
looks female enough, claimed. can't wait to see lolibaba rape her
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>>287488033
These two? Pretty sure they're brothers
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>>287487729
How many bugs had Akemura eaten by this point to replicate this
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>>287487577
now this is actual rising sun iconography lol, overtly with the datenseki as the center of it. the cult rituals the mikaboshi practice lay it on extra thick too
the ukiyo style of these panels that he’s been doing lately have been kino overall
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>>287487663
>same orb behind hiroto and ukimi
Damn, the Soga literally pushed the Mikaboshi under the sea
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>YOU VILL EAT ZE BUGS
>YOU VILL LIVE IN ZE UNDERWATER POD
>YOU VILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY
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I miss her....
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>>287488030
THERE'S GONNA BE A SHOWDOWN
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>>287488189
I’m looking forward to seeing him the most this arc honestly. Hokazono has been holding back from going too in-depth with his character in a way that feels very deliberate for things to come; really want to see him fight no holds barred with the mindset we saw at the Kamunabi HQ
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>>287487552
Eyyy. Thanks for dumping, anon.
>Irishima Talks 3
>Blurb: History!
>Prince-kun thoughts: Long ago, the Mikaboshi, our ancestors governed the land known as Japan.
>Prince-kun thoughts: But one day, they were cast down by a rebellion centered around the Soga clan.
>Prince-kun thoughts: And the Mikaboshi and their retainers made their escape to an island
>Prince-kun thoughts: where they found that stone.
>Prince-kun thoughts: Fervorently,
>Prince-kun thoughts: seeking eternal peace for their clan,
>Prince-kun thoughts: they prayed to it.
>Prince-kun thoughts: Right until the moments just before
>Prince-kun thoughts: the island was destroyed by Soga Ukizane, "the hero of Soga".
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>Prince-kun thoughts: As they sank into the sea, the holy stone answered
>Prince-kun thoughts: to the Mikaboshi king.
>Prince-kun thoughts: With the power granted to him,
>Prince-kun thoughts: On the seafloor - in the darkness,
>Prince-kun thoughts: the king built a country that was just for us.
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>>287488275
dudes are certainly dying, i like that instead of 1 chapter annihilation we get just a bit more time with them. the despair is still felt with switching perspective towards scary bug drinking, plus dude literally came to live in their eyes and will use centipede next chapter. well and mashiro donut. i didn't expect him to be the first one to get rekd
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>>287488443
I mean, it sounds like Soga literally crushed the island they'd escaped to straight into the sea using his sorcery, I think the expectation was that they'd drown or implode
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>Prince-kun thoughts: Long ago, the Mikaboshi, our ancestors governed the land known as Japan.
>Prince-kun thoughts: But one day, they were cast down by a rebellion centered around the Soga clan.
Was it a justified rebellion or were the Soga filthy traitors?
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>Natsuki
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>>287487601
Right page
>Prince-kun thoughts: The holy stone his us from our "enemies",
>Prince-kun thoughts: Those overland - the Soga, and the peoples who flourished under them.
>Shiba: Now then,
>Shiba: All that is left is just you....
>OldMan-san: You there.... You are "Soga".
>Hiroto: ....
>Hiroto: What of it?
>OldMan-san: The man you cut the throat of just now is
>OldMan-san: Ariu Mikaboshi
亜利雨A-ri-uu. 亜 is used as abnormal. 利 is profit, advantage. 雨 is rain.
Kind of interesting that the Mikaboshi naming structure is backwards for Japan. Its Western styled with the given name first, and the family name second.
OldMan-san: He is my son, and the First Prince of the Mikaboshi.
>Shiba: You had already killed two Japanese people, and on top of that,
>Shiba: he ignored our very obviously murderous warning.
>Shiba: All we did was protect ourselves.s
>Negotiator-san: Eek....
>Shiba: But we don't want anymore death,
>Shiba: For either of us.
>Shiba thoughts: In any case, we need to have him return safely.
>Shiba: If he is the prince and your son. ...Does that mean you are the king?
>OldMan-san: There is nothing else to talk about.
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>Shiba: What?
>OldMan-san: I am
>OldMan-san: just here to bear witness.
>TheGang: !!?
>Shiba: Mashi....
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>Mashiro: What a waste to use the ambush on me.
>Yoshinojo thoughts: Tough...
>Mashiro thoughts: He can still move through this....!!
>Shiba: Get some rest.
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>Shiba thoughts: He was definitely killed by Hiroto-san...
>Shiba thoughts: The ambush just now... Just what is---....
>Hiroto: Kurotsuchi.
嘘地Kurotsuchi. 嘘is lies, 地 is land.
嘘地 might be a reference to the irl Chinese phrase 嘘嘘地, which is the sound of wind blasting through something, or the sound of a person's ragged breath.
>Ariu: !!
>Narrator-kun: Sorcery is usually
>Narrator-kun: manifested through the foundation of a trained body.
>Narrator-kun: But the sorcery that is passed down through sons of the Soga
>Narrator-kun: has such a high bar and is so difficult to manifest compared to to other sorcery,
>Narrator-kun: that it is said to only reside in those who have mastered swordsmanship and hand-to-hand.
>Ariu thoughts: This gravity... And
>Ariu thoughts: that black ball behind him.
>Ariu: This is the power that sunk my ancestors....
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>>287488701
>that black ball behind him.
Hokazono...
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Incredible paneling
>>287487636
>gets fucking donuted
>surprised then serious
>then counter attacks
I take it back mashiro, you are on the team
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>Narrator-kun: But the sorcery that is passed down through sons of the Soga
>Narrator-kun: has such a high bar and is so difficult to manifest compared to to other sorcery,
>Narrator-kun: that it is said to only reside in those who have mastered swordsmanship and hand-to-hand.
Chihiro...a disgrace to the Soga...
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>嘘地Kurotsuchi. 嘘is lies, 地 is land.
>嘘地 might be a reference to the irl Chinese phrase 嘘嘘地, which is the sound of wind blasting through something, or the sound of a person's ragged breath.
Watch camellia translate to something lame like "deep breath"
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Wasted quads
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>>287487704
>talks after decapitated
Yukisada confirmed to be an islander?
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>Narrator-kun: Soga Hiroto --- Right now, he is the one and only
>Narrator-kun: user of the sorcery "Kurotsuchi".
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>Goon: We
>Goon: must not starve.
>Goon: We cannot allow
>Goon: the stone to pass to the enemy.
>Goon: "They" made a promise.
>Ariu thoughts: The enemy
>Ariu thoughts: are the Soga, and the people who flourish under them.
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>Narrator-kun: "We must not starve."
>Narrator-kun: "We cannot allow the stone to pass to the enemy."
>Narrator-kun: A civilization built upon the power of the datenseki.
>Narrator-kun: The people of the Mikaboshi who are born here,
>Narrator-kun: are born with a suitability for the datenseki.
>Narrator-kun: From within them,
>Narrator-kun: Six guardians are chosen among the pureblood Mikaboshi.
>Narrator-kun: Through blood and prayer,
>Narrator-kun: they inherit "First Power" that the Mikaboshi king once wielded.
Its 始まりの力 which is "the power of the beginning" "the power that began it all".
>Narrator-kun: "Reconstructing the environment".
>Narrator-kun: A divine ability that recreated
>Narrator-kun: an environment without light or air into something humans could live in.
>Narrator-kun: Something that surpasses the levle of simple strengthening, and touches onto the laws and principles of reality.
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>Narrator-kun: The Guardians can draw out
>Narrator-kun: the "true realm" of the datenseki.
>Ariu: "Sumika".
栖sumika. It means "nest, den, rookery, hive, etc". Essentially, its "home". The power that built their home is named "Home".
>Blurb: This extraordinary power is----
There we go. Cheers, buds.
P.S. These guys really mindbroke Akemura. He even stole the spiraling dots for his Caterpillar attack. lmfao
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Mikaboshis are so fucking cool I hope arc is actually 60+ chapters long so we see fleshed out characters and a decent amount of fighting with them. Just enough to get a taste before not seeing them again. Mikaboshi survivor in the present time is stupid bullshit and anyone hoping to see them as the final villain is a faggot
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So the power is basically terraformation? Holy
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Hokazono...
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>>287488931
>six guardians
bring on the 6v6
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>>287488081
While Magatsumi powers being a direct giga-nuke version of their sorcery, are amazing, I really hope the other sword powers aren't just a direct steal from them. It would make sense, of course, but I really liked the early theory that they somehow reflected Kunishige’s mindset and thoughts at the time, imbued with meaning and later channeled with the wielder too. It would make each sword creation more interesting than just stealing and making them taste their own medicine. Also I just realized I may be a faggot who misread what you said, and you just meant that they’re the equivalent as their opponents. gomen
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>>287489022
Considering they were on a standstill, I feel only Akemura started murdering the six.
>people thought this arc would be like 2 volumes long
>this volume will end with the consequences of the irishima conference
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>Chihiro new blade will allow him to keep his sorcery
How? The "you cant use your sorcery" is not a design of the blade, is a by product of the human body not being able to have 2 type of sorcery outside of some weird outliners like Hakuri
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>two seconds after the royals are killed
>FUCK NOT ALLOWING THE STONE TO PASS TO THE ENEMY LETS MAKE PEACE
Akemura was just honoring the royals' wishes
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>Akemura might have one more bug in the bag
We were told he has infinite tech.
If I understood it right, he only has 1 ability. Leechj
All his techniques is just raw application of that infinite Black Spiritual Energy pool.
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Fuck me. I'm a blind dumb idiot moron dipshit.
I can't believe I made such an obvious mistake.
Okay, ignore >>287488701
>嘘地Kurotsuchi. 嘘is lies, 地 is land.
>嘘地 might be a reference to the irl Chinese phrase 嘘嘘地, which is the sound of wind blasting through something, or the sound of a person's ragged breath.
all this nonsense.
虚 is the void, emptiness. So its "Void Land" "Empty Land". Probably just a basic reference to the max power of the gravity ball - black hole that destroys the land.
Feh.
FEH.
FEH I SAY.
I was kind of digging 嘘地, in the "your breathing is ragged while under the increased gravity of my power" sort of thing. Maaaaaaan.
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Imagine making THESE >>287487577 mad
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I really love the sad deadpan look of Ariu. He had one even before getting his throat cut, but blood only adds to it. Wonder if we’ll know why he’s like this, considering how much Hokazono loves adding some quirky shit to his villains (not bad), or he’s just like this. Maybe it’s to highlight the difference and eeriness of Mikaboshi’s, grandpa is also scarily reserved.
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Kind of. It sounds like a limited form of reality warping, going by the laws/principles of reality bit. Sounds like its not working through matter and energy, but rules/concepts that govern reality.
Which is insane.
And there are five more of these motherfuckers.
Yeesh.
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Seething internally
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By quirky shit I meant gap moe btw. Worded stupidly. The major villain with the least of it is Kyora but his really emotional moments as an auctioneer also make a contrast with the reserved schemer. So I was wondering if he’ll do this for Ariu
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>>287488482
>not only will i have you portrayed as the demonic chud and myself as the heroic chad, i will also include a depiction of you and your people being sent straight to the ocean with my gravity powers
The Soga didn't even try to hide that shit, they wrote the genocide into the history books
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>>287488030
BALDIE MIKABOSHI
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I'll say it again, ukiyoe version of pic related
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>all that powers just to get bodied like a bitch by pussymura and urugay
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>>287489294
He's senile
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You're sort of correct. 失脚 does refer to losing your power due to losing a power struggle, being overthrown, or blackmailed out of it, whatever - forced out.
But it also refers to people who lose their position due to things like scandals. Willingly stepping down due to whatever shameful and/or reputation destroying reason.
So it doesn't necessarily mean the royals lost their power/position because they were overthrown. It could be that losing the war destroyed their political hold over the Mikaboshi. Ruined their reputation, the same way losing WW2 destroyed the Imperial family's divine standing.
We see in this chapter how deeply the goon believes in Ariu and the Guardians' promise - keep the people fed and living, keep the datenseki away from the enemy. And the royals were failing in both.
I can totally see it being the ruin of the royal family in the eyes of the Mikaboshi peoples.
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>get in a stalemate
yeah, with the help of their 9,999 datenseki special force
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>>287489302
Chihiro is gonna have keep the family tradiion
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>men and women from the same bloodline inheriting different sorceries
Unlike the Soga, the Sazanami do not believe in gender roles
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>>287489320
I like to imagine his ENTER in the current arc being saving kunishige by kicking the head off a goon, kind of like when naruto kicked one of madara's black balls before transforming into >>287488736
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Wielders... Assemble!
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>>287488931
>Narrator-kun: Soga Hiroto --- Right now, he is the one and only
>Narrator-kun: user of the sorcery "Kurotsuchi".
Yoshibros...we got mogged...
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>>287489433
Sorry, this is an ikemen manga
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>>287489423
why is she the only one to have uncovered eyes
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>he's that strong without a sorcery
A prime candidate for an EB...
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Sauce?
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>>287489399
Violence
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Kinda makes Yoshinojo even more impressive. Means he's standing here in the strongest squad without any sorcery, assuming Soga males only get the one sorcery type, like how all Sazanami have Isou.
Yoshinojo is balling out with just his raw sword skills.
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Duh? They have clothes with finely crafted metal. Came on a weird bug looking boat. They have rope.
You need infrastructure to make what they came up with.
The whole "we shall not starve" promise indicates its not like they have farms and a jungle of life to plunder, though. They are clearly still relying heavily on the datenseki for food. The Six Guardians might be living food generators. Having to warp the environment to keep producing food for the people. They might play the role of Soulcasters in Stormlight Archive. I dunno.
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it seems to me like they were just an influential clan, obviously important and powerful but not ruling outright like the mikaboshi
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>>287489662
Kind of.
They rule the underworld, the sorcerers in a way. After they defeated the Mikaboshi, they enforced the sorcerers stay hidden from the regular people for over a thousand years. And the Soga are the ones who bridge the government with the sorcerer clans.
I think its less they rule as kings of the underworld, and more like, they "rule" like a 500lb gorilla rules. You stay out of its way, if you don't want it to crush you under its fist. The Soga are nuclear deterrents, more like. "Don't fuck around too much, or we'll black hole your ass."
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I guess it depends on what you mean by "full blown". But yeah, its an undersesa society. We saw buildings on the island way back when, iirc. When we saw the Kodoku rape the island. Makes sense they have all sorts of infrastructure.
The guys lived there for over a thousand years. Always having six guys who can warp the environment as they needed.
Doesn't seem weird to me at all.
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>1000 years of folded bug jar jutsu just to counter one dude's gravity magic
>a goofball swordmaking autist and muggle swordswinging autist steal all of it and ends your entire clan in one strike
Could you imagine the seethe from that. Also, is this implying that what Kunishige made was basically a shortcut to let anyone reach peak Datenseki true realm?
Oh incidentally if anyone didn't vote last sunday here's the poll again:
https://strawpoll.com/eNg6vBWmRgA
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>Gets donuted
>Locks in afterward
Damn, these guys were built different compared the jobbers of current Kamunabi.
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Yeah, I thought that was obvious. Turned environment with no light and air into something livable for humans. So the King created a source of light, and probably a huge pocket of air, with some oxygen generators to replace trees or some shit.
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He TANKED that.
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Kinda funny if it was him and his clan. Pine trees are one of the least efficient trees for generating oxygen, iirc. You want leafy leaves, not needles.
They must've been so happy to return to the surface. "Thank god we don't have to work so hard to just fucking breathe."
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Was the leak and official TL that dogshit? You guys need me to go back and do chapter 118?
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The Datenseki is central to the plot and they are closely tied to it so yeah they are probably around one way or another. If you believe the schizos you could even think that maybe Xigbar kun is a Mikaboshi himself.
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People really see a story about the clash of ideals between people inside the nation after total extermination of the enemy and their first desire is “but what if some of the enemy was actually alive”. Ignoring actually fucking interesting narrative because their minds are fried by theorizing and trying to predict twists everywhere
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Well, 4chan won't let me attach a word file or pdf, so here is the 118 script post by post.
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Chapter 118 – Irishima Talks 2
Shiba: Please go back.
Blurb: Negotations fall apart!!
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Mashiro thoughts: Those four guys next to the old man in the back are most likely combatatants... But
Mashiro thoughts: At that level, Shiba-san and I can hold them down.
Mashiro thoughts: ...The one that is dangerous is
Ariu: We will go back after the job is done.
Mashiro: …
Mashiro: Rather than those four, its this guy....
Mashiro thoughts: that we can't let act however he wants...
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Shiba: ...I'll ask just in case, but that job
Shiba: isn't “having a dialogue”, is it?
Shiba: ….”Mikaboshi”.
Ariu: So you know.
Ariu: Then this will be quick.
Ariu: You only have to look at history to know our motivations.
Shiba: Hey.
Shiba: If you move too much, my big bros next to you will cut you down.
-TL note: Shiba says お兄さん達, which literally means “big bros”, but you can also use it to refer to young men or men who are slightly older than you. I kept it raw because of Yoshinojo's follow up jokey line.
Yoshinojo: I'm the big bro.
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Ariu: ….We,
Ariu: the Mikaboshi,
Ariu: were chased across the land by your ancestors,
Ariu: and have lived hidden in the dark for over a thousand years.
Ariu: Chiba, Kanagawa, Tokyo.
Ariu: These cited lands are the price for that.
Shiba: Hey.
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Hiroto: Next will be your throat.
Ariu: ...Furthermore, this stone that you all call the datenseki.
Hiroto: ...hey
Ariu: We pray to it. We are protected by it. And we live with it.
Ariu: Its is the Mikaboshi's
Ariu: God.
TheGang: !!
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Hiroto: !!
Yoshinojo: ….
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Mashiro: Hey, hey, hey
Mashiro: They're going crazy all of a sudden.
Mashiro: Whats with you guys, really.
Mashiro thoughts: I thought that they were no big deal,
Mashiro thoughts: But they blew away the Soga brothers, huh...
Mashiro thoughts: Going by that black plume, they did something.
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Mook: !!
Narrator-kun: Mashiro's sorcery “Akuu”
-TL note: 空空Akuu. 空 is “empty, space”.
Narrator-kun: creates “pressure” in specific locations at specific directions.
Mashiro: !
Mook: Kera
-TL note: 咼楽Kera. 咼 is a crooked mouth, being dishonest, or evil. 楽 is music or comfort or something that is easy to do. That kanji combination isn't real, but the “kera” is likely a reference to the螻蛄kera that is the irl name for mole crickets. Dunno why its a bee looking power, though.
The kanji makes me think it might be a reference to ケラケラkerakera, which is sometimes a disgusting laugh used by villains in stories. Thats where the “crooked mouth” “evil” comes in.
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Mashiro thoughts: He pierced through it....!!
Mashiro thoughts: That sorcery.... Was that a bee...?
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Mashiro: !!
Mashiro thoughts: This strength and speed is beyond that of a human's....!!
Mashiro: Gah
Mashiro: cough
Mashiro: !!
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Mashiro: …...
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Mashiro thoughts: Is that a datenseki....?
Mashiro: pant
Mashiro: pant
Flashback Ariu: We are protected by it---...
Mashiro thoughts: Wait, the datenseki's power. Have they....
Mashiro thoughts: So these guys can use that overwhelming energy that cannot be handled by the human body...
Mashiro thoughts: There's no way to win fighting normally...
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Mashiro: Well, even so.
Mashiro: I do have this on my side.
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Mashiro: I made use of your sand cloud to hide it.
Mashiro thoughts: The small country.... How many people are hidden within there?
Mashiro thoughts: Are they all so warlike like this?
Mashiro thoughts: If there are a ton of them at this level, then....
Hiroto: pant
Hiroto: I never want to fight in the sea again.
Hiroto: It makes my wounds sting!!
Mashiro: You're insane to win against that underwater.
Mashiroto: !
Yoshinojo: Did Shiba die?
Yoshinojo: Pheeeew
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>Spent hundreds of year preparing and honing the Datenseki
>Get BTFO'd a by some autist who can't even cook for himself
Lol. Lmao.
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Shiba: Unfortunately, I didn't.
Mashiro: !
Mashiro: Lightly wounded... These guys are all really monsters.
Mashiro: I came out with so many broken bones
Shiba: Now then.
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Tape: Irishima Talks - Testimony
Interviewer:...And then?
Interviewer: What happened....?
Blurb: This is unsettling!!
And there you go, bud.
Sorry for the slight thread derailling, the rest of you.
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>>287490670
https://x.com/quebecoislarp/status/2044417208193896822
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>>287491245
no but spamming is one thing, making threads upon threads and then be no less than 75% of the posts back in /wsj/ inventing increasingly more deranged schizo hallucinations is another
>he was doing it before too
yes, but god, lately he's been on an overdrive
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>>287491286
The worse is yet to come.
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>>287489456
Young Soga is so cute, no wonder kunishige gave him the death sword. Could you say no to him?
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The anime will bring organic shitters in, and these threads will become unusable, even if the schizo kills himself. Enjoy it while it lasts
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Some retards for some reason think that the singular schizo being surrounded by tourists will make the threads betters, when it's well known that newfags reply to the most obvious bait.
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Even though they were swordmasters, at this point the OG wielders haven't fully realized the power of the swords right? Iirc Samura is far stronger than he was during the Seitei war arc via bluetooth sword practice.
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Isn't this all basically the Minamoto chasing the Taira and defeating them at Dan-no-Ura but some of them threw themselves into the sea and the former Empress sees them in a vision in the Dragon King's palace at the botton of the sea?
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>Then, as the Nii-no-Ama took the Emperor into her arms and went to the gunwale of the vessel, with a look of anxiety on his face he enquired of her : " Where is it that you are going to take me, Ama-ze ? " Turning to her youthful Sovereign with tears streaming down her cheeks, she answered : " Perchance Our Lord does not know it, but though through the merit of the Ten Virtues practised in former lives you have been reborn to the. Imperial Throne in this world, yet, by the power of some evil karma, destiny now claims you. [...] This land is called small as a grain of millet, but yet is it now but a vale of misery. There is a Pure Land of happiness beneath the waves, another Capital where no sorrow in Thither it is that I am taking Our Lord. " And thus comforting him, and binding his long hair up in his dove-coloured robe, blinded with tears the child-Sovereign put his beautiful little hands together, and turned first to the east to say farewell to the deity of Ise and to Sho-Hachimangu, and then to the west and repeated the Nembutsu, after which the Nii-no-Ama, holding him tightly in her arms, leaped with her Sovereign into the sea.
>And at that moment from all those who still lived there went up so great and terrible a cry, that the shrieks of all the damned burning amid the hottest hell of Avichi could not exceed it.
>And as I chanced to fall asleep there for a space, I saw in a dream as it were our former Palace, but of greater and more surpassing beauty, and there sat our Former Emperor with all the Courtiers and Nobles of our house ranged about him in all their ceremonial grace and dignity ; such a sight as I had not seen since we left our ancient Capital. And when I asked where this place might be, the Nii-no-Ama answered and said : " This is called Ryugu, the Palace of the Dragon King of the sea."
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They sure tried, at one point they spare one child on the condition that he become a monk and then end up killing him too. Though some presumably survived and you get various people claiming descent from them, most notably Oda Nobunaga claiming descent from Taira no Chikazane.
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>And when I asked where this place might be, the Nii-no-Ama answered and said : " This is called Ryugu, the Palace of the Dragon King of the sea."
You know, I never studied the Heike Monogatari, so I never realized the Urashima Taro folktale was connected in this way. Pretty neat.
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>They threw the emperor regalia except the mirror to the sea
>sword was lost
>jewel recovered
>lady that was going to throw the mirror looked at it and immediately died
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wonder if it's going to be another of those things where they avoid mentioning the emperor because it's still kind of taboo and just stick to the soga/mikaboshi conflict with no mention of what the imperial family was doing
though it's interesting because the heike getting one of their descendants to become emperor was a big deal and part of why that conflict started, and also if this was a straight parallel and that emperor did survive you could argue that the mikaboshi serve the real imperial family
but i don't think that's the case and it will just avoid the topic of the imperial family entirely
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>Narrator-kun: "Reconstructing the environment".
>Narrator-kun: A divine ability that recreated
>Narrator-kun: an environment without light or air into something humans could live in.
>Narrator-kun: Something that surpasses the levle of simple strengthening, and touches onto the laws and principles of reality.
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The Sazanami are the most progressive sorcerer clan.
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I'm actually curious how this even happens, it's not even simply genetic, it takes into account who is older and who is officially part of the family as with Chiaki. Like what is causing these rules of how sorcery is passed down?
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>contentious
It cannot be more contentious than the nuke swords and all the modern age shit parallels that westgroid retards make. It could just be him trying to make the manga not too complicated for wsj troglodytes.
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Why not both really, dude was inspired by Naruto after all.
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>>Ariu thoughts: The enemy
>>Ariu thoughts: are the Soga, and the people who flourish under them.
>and the people who flourish under them.
Does this mean they consider Japanese citizens to be their enemy as well? Akemura really did nothing wrong if they were blindly attacking civilians as well when they invaded Japan.
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i'm not sure if it means that or in the sense of clans and armies that supported and benefitted from the soga rule
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I think it would be cool to have a few of them survive so Chihiro has to actually take a stance on what should have been done re: the Mikaboshi. If it's all in the past and they are all dead then we're missing out on that.
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The people who allied under the Soga banner, I would say. Like, if the people from Hokkaido are just living their lives, unconnected to the Soga, they're not part of the "enemy".
The Soga were the leaders of the forces that drove out the Mikaboshi. So they're focusing on the Soga as their prime enemy, as well as any clans/orgs/groups that are directly serve or are allied with them.
Thats how I see it.
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>Mikaboshi seem to be almost worshipped by their people
Its not the Mikaboshi that are being worshipped. Its the datenseki.
The Mikaboshi are the royal family, and from them come the six Guardians. So they still have a high status. But all the prayer and worship is clearly directed towards the datenseki, not the Mikaboshi.
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>I mean if they have a ship and can travel around they can farm seeweed and catch fish etc
Gotta be careful you don't get spotted though, lest the Soga clan finds out you survived and finishes the job.
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I guess, but they seem to be acknowledged as guardians of the datenseki and people rely on them, how does that turn into the people getting rid of them and surrendering to their ancient enemies who turn datenseki into swords? Is it just despair and giving up on the datenseki itself? Objecting to the war and believing the mainlanders would let them keep their datenseki? Just civil war over power because the Mikaboshi are weakened?
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I think >>287489313 has a point regarding that.
>So it doesn't necessarily mean the royals lost their power/position because they were overthrown. It could be that losing the war destroyed their political hold over the Mikaboshi. Ruined their reputation, the same way losing WW2 destroyed the Imperial family's divine standing.
>We see in this chapter how deeply the goon believes in Ariu and the Guardians' promise - keep the people fed and living, keep the datenseki away from the enemy. And the royals were failing in both.
>I can totally see it being the ruin of the royal family in the eyes of the Mikaboshi peoples.
The royals are the ones pushing for this war. They take their people up to the surface, start this war, FAIL to recover the datenseki, CAUSE the enemy to meddle with and desecrate the holy datenseki turning them into abomination weapons turned against the "chosen" islander people, LOSE the war, and with only 200k people left, the islanders are once again on the brink of annihilation as they were a millenia ago. Throw in that the sacred six Guardians might have all died in the war.
Not all the islanders wanted the war, not all them are warhungry nutjobs like the Mikaboshi. Makes sense that the islanders finally got sick of Royal family's bullshit.
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Takeru, please.
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>Secret Sumo Summoning Skill: The All-Encompasing Rings of Saturn
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>>287493427She appears for a chapter at the end of the Rakuzaichi arc, but after that she's MIA. It's a shame because I like Char, but her being like 6 years old and having purely support sorcery makes it hard for her to be relevant. Hopefully it takes a while for Iori to unlock External Suzaku so Char can be relevant again for a bit as a medic.
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Will do, I didn't look at the posts before, just wanted to post a cute Char
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Yeah and Hokazono seems to have it well planned out, wild that he had basically another's manga worth of backstory that was only vaguely hinted at but was crucial to the plot. As long as nips are on board there's no reason why this can't last as long as he wants to write it.
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>As long as nips are on board there's no reason why this can't last as long as he wants to write it.
The biggest issue will be Chihiro being completely absent, but if he releases a bonus chapter every now and again focusing on Chihiro while we're in the flashback it'll be fine.
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>Kagurabachi gets axed during Vs. Sojo
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>Iori, use your womb to repopulate the Soga clan. My final message. Goodbye.
>*Fades away*
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I still don't get how exactly Magatsumi's powers turned out like that. Is it Akemura or Kunishige basing them on the Mikaboshi's powers? Making it out of the Mikaboshi's datenseki that they steal at some point? Dramatic irony unintended by anyone?
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>wait, wait I recognize that!
So despite current era characters not being present the readers will still indirectly experience their "character progression" through revelations of the war. For example, Kunishige smithing swords down the road will undoubtedly be a "progression" for Chihiro despite the latter not being present at all.
It's neat. It's kinda similar to how Chihiro and Hakuri didn't interact for a year or so now but you still feel like they have always interacted.
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Magatsumi's power is twofold: suck lifeforce out of people/things, convert lifeforce into black energy constructs.
And its energy manifestation (the goldfish, clouds, geisha, etc) is the flowers.
Thats it.
Like the narrator said, the Blade has an infinite number of shapes the black energy can be converted into. Thats what the various moves we've seen are.
Imo, its pretty clear that Akemura is the one creating the bug themed abilities. He's shaping it the black energy to be like that.
My guess its a response to the Mikaboshi powers. Destroy the insect wielding Mikaboshi with insect themed powers. Destroy the islanders while wearing the spiral centipede image of their sacred Guardians.
That sort of "Fuck you" to the enemy.
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Akemura was from an elite clan that had no sorcery besides Hiroto's and Chiaki's.
If he then fought in the war against insect sorcerers and got a sorcery blade, isn't it obvious he would've copied the closest sorcery he had experienced? He might've equated insects = sorcery.
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Chihiro had schematics for New Enten and New Kuregumo in his forge, he's seemingly not planning on combining the blades. Which I think is for the best, I'd rather another character get an EB instead of one being permanently deleted from the roster.
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>Gets New Kuregumo
>Basically gets to keep his lighting sorcery and get two other sorceries for free
>Already proficient in cloaking
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>My guess its a response to the Mikaboshi powers. Destroy the insect wielding Mikaboshi with insect themed powers. Destroy the islanders while wearing the spiral centipede image of their sacred Guardians.
Why is Akemura so fucking cool?
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Arigato Samura.