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>>291930348終わり。
I think I reordered the pages right.
>>291930379Seems about rightTy OP. Now we wait for transanon
>>291930409Give me half an hour or something>transanonbro...
>>291930409That doesn't seem like quite the right name imo.
Used Google TL and desu it seems like a pretty nice chapter pretty much an overview leading us up to the start of December and there's been no blades deployed which we kinda knew from last week if the TL is accurate enough. They suffered a setback so it seems like the first forged blade isn't coming till at least next chapter bare minimum. Also all NTR theories died tonight. I'm guessing we have 2-3 more volumes of the seitei war at most assuming the blades deployment isn't something that takes overly long.
I haven't seen jump treat a popular series with this much scorn since kimetsu
>>291930279>Akemura: I have to do it.>Blurb: Kunishige and Akemura...>Kunishige: Even so, I won't let you.>Akemura: Wh- why?>Kunishige thoughts: You're the same as me. For Chiaki's sake, we could do anything. No... you'd do more than me.>Kunishige thoughts: The ones worthy of wielding great power aren't people like us, but those who hesitate and can stop themselves.>Kunishige thoughts: Those who don't hesitate are strong. But at the same time, they're also dangerous.>>291930299>March 30th. After going ahead and refusing the handover, Soga Chiaki and Rokuhira Kunishige get married with the head of the Soga family as witness (photo: August)>?: With the evacuation of the southeast region, battles occurred in essentially uninhabited cities following the start of the war.>With that, damage to civilians has been kept to a minimum, though at the end of 2 months of resistance that area was handed over.>Including those at the very bottom, around 32,000 sorcerers were gathered from across Japan. A quarter of them were lost in that battle of resistance.>>291930309>?: In response to the Mikaboshi who have occupied the southeast, we are currently halting our complete resistance and are instead delaying their advance with hit-and-away tactics.>?: The amount of deaths and missing people keep increasing. The Mikaboshi are steadily advancing forwards. >?: They'll be in Tokyo in no time.>?: Are the enchanted blades still not ready?>?: Even with how much time preparation has to take... and despite that...>Narrator: July. Together with their invasion, the Mikaboshi attacked important research facilities in thte Kantou region.>Including the Datenseki Research Center (the headquarters of the enchanted blade plan), with the need to hide all traces of datenseki and the plan, a fast relocation was forced upon them.>The plan was delayed.>A fitting place for the enchanted blade plan was a wide and hard-to-find area.>Yagiratei
>>291930326>Narration: In the northwest of Tochigi prefecture lies the Soga family's secondary residence.>Narration: It hid the Soga princess since the start of the war.>Subaru: You've got some presence to you now, huh? Facial hair's good.>Kunishige: Chiaki isn't a fan.>December.>Subaru: It's about time.>Narration: We've already sent out a prototype. Heading towards the real deal, they entered the final stages of preparation for swordsmithing. >>291930331>Giyu: You're to guard Yagiratei. >Akemura: But.>Giyu: In the worst case, who will protect your sister?>Akemura thoughts: I still don't know the battlefield. I've just been kept here.>Akemura: To protect Nee-san...>Akemura thoughts: Nee-san suffered nightmares every night since the war began. >Akemura thoughts: Tragic dreams fell upon her with no stop to them, and she grew exhausted as she started to fear sleeping.>Akemura thoughts: But ever since the enchanted blade plan has moved here together with him...>Akemura thoughts: The hard days aren't that different. >Akemura thoughts: Yet she's now gotten some peace.>Akemura thoughts: Nee-san can sleep again.>Akemura thoughts: Once again, Nii-san saved her.>>291930337>Akemura thoughts: I still haven't done a single thing...>Akemura thoughts: I guess I'll move my body a little more.>Soga mom: Akemura!>Ichiki: You two are the most important people in the country with the situation we're in now.>Ichiki: For a while we'll keep it as a top secret.>Ichiki: However at Chiaki-sama's request, you, her little brother, will be informed of this.
>>291930348>Akemura: Nee-san... are you okay?>Chiaki: Yeah. Because of everything, the dreams have kept rushing in and I've just been stuck in bed.>Chiaki: But I'm still in a bit of a daze.>Chiaki: Akemura.>Chiaki: You're going to become an uncle.>Akemura: ...The name?>Kunishige: You're being too fast. Thanks to the prophecies, it'll just be a bit faster than usual.>Akemura: Is it a boy?>Kunishige: It'll still be a while before we know the gender.>Akemura: When will we know?>Chiaki: It's a boy.>Soga mom: Could it be...>Chiaki: In a dream... I talked to him.>291930360>Chiaki: His name is Chihiro. I talked to him.>Kunishige: You talked…>Ichiki: Excuse me.>Kunishige: A prophecy?>phone caller: Preparations are complete. >Ichiki: Got it.>Ichiki: Rokuhira. Head to the forge.>Editor note: The meeting in a dream. The plan moves forward.
The pacing is garbage, you can feel the change of plans. this went from a proper part 2 that just happened to be set in the past to a Wan Piss tier flashback.
>>291931027>Chiaki: It's a boy.>>Soga mom: Could it be...>>Chiaki: In a dream... I talked to him.>>>291930360>>Chiaki: His name is Chihiro. I talked to him.Oh boy. We're on some self fulfilling time travel, prophecy shit now. Its Eren all over again.
>>291931014>chiaki fears the beardWhy?
>>291931027Nice chapter. I accepted that we're probably not going to see much of the actual war so I'm fine with it, I like the Chiaki-Kunishige-Akemura stuff.Kinda funny, went to sleep yesterday thinking there's no way kgb will get bottom one again and yet here it is...
>>291931027>chihiro has been forged
I wish Hokazano cared about her
>>291931301Seeing as we're about to forge the first blade for real next chapter I don't think we're going to be waiting all too long desu. It's her or Ibuki getting first dibs imo.
>>291930944...this is popular?
>>2919313583rd best selling series in the mag that's a 100k seller isn't popular to you?
This arc is such a joke. Where's the fighting?
It's pretty ballsy to spend so much time on a flashback arc on character who are mostly all dead. We've spent a dozen+ chapters on Kunishige / Chiaki characterization, which I can get, but then you throw in>Ibuki>Possibly lolibaba>All the MikaboshisThe present day cast could also use this kind of characterization but it will have to wait. It's a ballsy decision, and people are getting impatient
This story is getting too Tokyo Revengers for me.
>>291931442>it's afraid
>>291930279Kek, it looks like conserved chapter from before Ibuki introduction one, with one panel with destroyed city being added recently. Nothing from character interactions or emotions indicate that Ibuki+ chapters happened. How dead is Hokazono?
Seriously, the hell is going on with the pacing of this arc.
>>291930360NAME DROP
>>291931027>>291931290>Chihiro was born from eugenicsJapan did it again
one more week
>>291931548Nothing?
Bro, this chapter is lowkey...It makes the whole flashback look retarded. Like it just showed he could have summarized it like that from the beginning, no bullshit famy abuse flashbacks or smelting, and it would have been FINE.
>>291932113you are low iq
>>291930279The pacing is legit atrocious
>>291932113The pacing has always been all over the place, people are only noticing now because it's gotten sliiiiightly worse and the usual keys are not jingling to keep their attention.I don't have any expectations left for this manga anymore and actually enjoying this arc more than the previous two. Not surprised some people are getting frustrated because their favorite toys are not present and there are no shitty "amazing action" double spreads to keep them entertained.
>>291932284> amazing action" double spreads to keep them entertained.Last time it happened was during the deadlock arc with Chihiro vs Datenseki jobbers
atleast he went back and give a summarisation of all the events. Are the protoypes an unnamed katana? Did they ever say which one was the first to be made out of the six?
>>291932334Eh, I'm pretty sure Chihiro+Samura vs Yura/Akemura had plenty of them? Might be misremembering though. Less action, no battles with EB, most popular characters are not present - suddenly people say the story is now bad and the pacing is bad and all that stuff, they only start paying attention to that stuff when they don't get what they want, lmao.
>>291932412>suddenly people saythe schizo is not "people"
>I had a dream where I talked to Chihiro WTF is that
>>291932453Stop being disingenuous, you know there are other people both here and in other places who are dissatisfied. You look like a schizo yourself if you blindly deny it.Your average jump reader is not smart nor patient.
>>291932583Maybe it wasn't a literal conversation, idk. Reminds me of when naruto met kushina, maybe we will get something like that?
>>291932596>hereno there aren't. the samefagging is extremely blatant because he puts 0 effort into it.>other placesno one cares about your shitcord or whatever the fuck
>>291932412Well, there is certainly some big problem with the pacing right now.
>>291932639>No one but a schizo criticize Kagurabachi on /a/This is how insane you sound anon.
>>291932639>no there aren't.You really don't see how insane you sound? All popular manga have both haters and regular readers who criticize it, it's impossible to only have one schizo being negative at all times. Just because that schizo posts more often that any other anon doesn't mean others don't exist, you're just fucking paranoid and should take a break from 4chan at this point.
>>291932688spamming the same short sentence with minor variations on the thread over and over again is not "criticism", negro
>>291932284The short chapters are really hurting it, feels like you get crumbs every week if that.
>>291932583I mean she can see the future sometimes, Chihiro probably thought about his mom a lot and "talked" to her in his mind, I can buy that this can end up feeling like a conversation.
>>291931005>Julywont it be June?
>>291931601At this point I'm just thinking we're not going to see her. Fucker drew lolibaba entirely to fill out the roster
>>291932284Bad pacing + short chapters + characters that should be getting focus aren't getting it + offscreen war = bizarre clusterfuck of an arc
I hate saito for galvanizing this nigger.
>>291931005>married alreadyDamn once Giyu got promised a nuke sword everything worked itself out real fast huh? Imagine having to invent the sword equivalent of a nuclear bomb just to get your girl's family to approve of your marriage.>>291931014>after moving in with Kunishige, Chiaki finally sleeps wellOr she doesn't sleep at all.>>291931027>Chiaki got to talk with ChihiroThat's really cute but also a massive Checkov's gun for the future. I suppose there was no>hey mom in the future your little brother has become the genocide god king of japan please don't give him the EBKunishige looks quite taken aback lmaoAlso>Chihiro got forged before all EBHe's a big brotherThanks for the TL anon and thanks for the dump anon >>291930360
for me it's bug lady
>>291932334Dunno, I thought the Irishina talks chapters had incredible action and quite the interesting use of sorcery from top tier sorcerers, which we never saw much of.
>>291932583The craziest possibility is that she saw a future where she talked to an old Chihiro who actually gave her his name, which could mean she is alive in the present day.The simple straightforward possibility is that she saw a near future where he was born and they had named him. That's where she took the info from.However, the curious thing here is that she only gets prophecies relevant to national security. So, I wonder if getting a Chihiro prophecy is relevant like that.Another point to note: Ichiki, Sogamom, Akemura know about Chihiro other than Kunishige and Chiaki. We can assume that Shiba/Azami find out later. Thankfully, Ichiki knowing this doesn't contradict with chapter 46. He was mostly silent when the Kamunabi higherups were all questioning the validity of Chihiro's identity
>>291932691You are talking to the BCschizo who single managed to kill black clover threads with his constant paranoia, even insulting other BCfags for saying they don't like something even though every fucking shounen, well, manga, always had those commentsDiscord positivity shit is fucking cancer
>>291932596Probably, the weekly schedule on low page count with hiatus in the middle during the most slow burn fully narrative arc probably turned off a lot of fans who were in mostly for the action. It's unlikely they'd get so mad as the schizo (he's a really special case) but I can see it get worse reception even though I really liked the smelting arc as a whole, especially because it is all a setup for the eventual tragedy to come, which is a foregone conclusion. We might get more and more Akemura focus going forward to focus on his rise and fall as he finds peace (with Chiaki's happiness), honor (through battle) and pride (through victory) only for it all fall to pieces leading to the 200k massacre.Still not a last toc place though, two weeks in a row to boot. Saito drank the kool aid if he thinks that's how you treat your only new series with real big potential. Banking on OP as your only flagship for the next decade will kill the magazine. Seriously, no matter what issue is there with Takeru, if they can't even manage one alleged troublemaking author what are they even doing?
>>291933409Nakano wasn't much better.
>>291933564And people called me crazy when I said Oda was the one supporting the nobodycares series (Roboco, akane, Kiyoshi) and sabotaging the battle onesGuy for raped by ufotable and mappa and it shows, and modern piece is fucking boring
Christ who cares, when is it gonna go back to the present day story??
>>291933646You don't even read this
Not gonna lie, I was ok with Chiaki being a major part of Akemura's motivation but his entire character this flashback is Chiaki-centric, that's too much. Current Akemura feels like an entirely different character.
>>291930331>Protect your sisterLord Giyuu is so merciful
>>291933725>Current Akemura feels like an entirely different character.He doesn't feel that different considering what he went through, I think he did go insane after all that happened and with the swords influence. I think it's similar to Anakin->Vader in SW
>>291930326The prototype disappears off-screen in the blink of an eye.God, this is anime bait.
>>291933725Akemura is basically just a kid as of now. He's gonna have his coming of age through the flames of war.
>>291934008There's a decent chance they repurpose the metal for the actual EBs. They didn't have that much datenseki to begin with.
>>291933646I hope at least not for next 30 chapters. The plot is great right now.
>>291933725Because he IS different. The war hasn't changed him yet to become more nationalistic. Whatever changes hasn't happened.
>>291934008Given the eternal contract rules, the Magatsumi has to exist in some form for the other wielders to be chosen in the first place. So, it's a pretty plausible theory that this prototype was the core of the eternal contracts was remade into Magatsumi later when needed.
>>291931005The first page is very interesting. It means Kunishige didn't trust Akemura to wield a blade because he would do anything for Chiaki and not hesitate.It's possible that eventually, he trusted him the most out of everyone to hold back and be hesitant and that's why he gave him the Magatsumi, which is so crazy to think about given his conviction.
>>291930421>>291930488Just shooting a friendly jab at bro
>>291933497The craziest possibility is Chiaki gets kidnapped and merged with the prime datenseki on the island becoming part of it, which later Chihiro recovers from the island to forge swords to defeat Akemura. Through the sentient datenseki, the two meet thanks to Chiaki's lingering sorcery.
>>291933564>your only new series with real big potentialSales are already falling off a cliff. The anime might resuscitate it for a bit, but unless Hokazono gets out of this flashback namek right now the manga is only gonna continue to bleed readers.>if they can’t even manage one author who turns in manuscripts late, only draws 15-page chapters (after a month+ long hiatus), thinks a year-long flashback arc is a good idea, and whose series is losing sales more rapidly than everything else in the magazine, what are they even doing?Gee I fucking wonder. They should probably move him to a different magazine so a mangaka who isn’t burning out in real time can have a chance.
>>291930299I lowkey find it hilarious how casual that wedding was announcedWas it necessary to spend so much time on flashback within flashback and Romeo and Juliet drama to give it an ending like "And then they married" panel. Where is the flair.
>>291930944>treat a popular series with this much scorn since kimetsuI thought Jump loved Kimetsu No Yaiba
>>291931005>With the evacuation of the southeast region, battles occurred in essentially uninhabited cities following the start of the war.>With that, damage to civilians has been kept to a minimum, though at the end of 2 months of resistance that area was handed over.What a toothless war
>>291931548The pacing isn’t too bad but the contrast is jarring.
This is easily the worst flashback arc ever put to paper. KGBT needs to get axed already. It's continued existence is an embarrassment to manga as an artform and Hackazono needs to be purged from the manga industry for all eternity.
>>291935827Very underwhelming
>hinting time-travelslop oh boy.... the shark.... has jumped
>>291936535it could also be similar to force ghost impregnated Shmi
>>291935827>>291936124It was to be expected, the editors would've never allowed japan to be wrecked by a foreign nation (this is because it'd make people think of Americans)
>>291931301If we get no Lolibaba during the flashback then it'll mean she'll be relevant during the present.
30% of this thread is just the schizo talking to himself. Also where the fuck is Lolibaba, anyway fuck these leaks, I don't give a shit about Kunishige and Chiaki.
>>291931005Goddamnit why is he such a fag. The enemy almost turned his crush into a breeding sow.
>>291936729Hokazono is a homosexual, this is obvious because he refuses to give us Lolibaba.
>>291931301Just accept that she was a comfort woman. That's why she isn't relevant.
>>291936769>she was a comfort womanTafuku's btw.
>>291930299I thought that thing was supposed to be a weird submarine, what the fuck is it?
>>291930360>Chiaki and Chihiro get to talk to each otherKINOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to get the convo in 112 chapters.
>>291936964It's an amphibious sorcery powered space ship. Mikaboshi in the moon soon
>>291936686>where the fuck is LolibabaTwo more chapters.
Dead thread, dead series
>>291933725>Current Akemura feels like an entirely different character.that's the point...
>>291936639they're not that foreign though. they're still basically japs
Chihiro speaking to Chiaki is not that surprising given one of Catducks favorite series is snkAt least he is taking inspiration from one of the better sequences from it.
>>291937594Hopefully he doesn't take inspiration from the ending, I can't get burned like that again.
>>291933472Bug lipstick covered blowjobs........
>>291937007That better not fucking happen.
>>291936686never ever
Can’t we get a good cover or Color pages please? Something more original than the usual
Pity bump
*butthurt bump
I said forever ago that she would be able to talk with people through dreams. This is also how she is connected to Farmer. Mark my words even though I've lost most interest in this series now.
>>291939985Another possibility is that she saw a vision of the future where she talked to Chihiro... which means she could be alive in the present day and will meet him after we return to the present for that vision to come true.
>>291931249I mean she is a seer it's not impossible she had a vision.>>291932284I still rest that the pacing will feel better in tankobon format. everything till irishima talk was kgb at its best and the forging chapters are pretty good if you re-read them at once now.
>>291941859Thankfully this isn't One Piece.
I'm tired of waiting, I bet Hokazono won't give us lolibaba next chapter either.
>>291942876She'll appear in the last chapter of the year.
>>291943108that's not too far away now
>>291930299I do like the weird whistle ship that the Mikaboshi use. No idea how the fuck it's supposed to work, but it's unique.
>>291933725A big problem with this flashback is that the characters in general aren't very fleshed out. We already knew going into this that Kunishige was a sword autist, so the only new angles we're getting on him are that 1. he had a fucked up childhood, and 2. he's in love with Chiaki. The former is superfluous, it's only there to make him and Chiaki more compatible, and the latter has so far been handled in a very cliche, uninteresting manner.Chiaki has been a disappointment. We can talk about Hokazono not being able to write women, but she really is just a plot device dressed up as an important character. Her only role is to motivate Kunishige and Akemura and also be the center of a rape plotline kek.Then of the wielders we've seen, so far they only have about one personality trait a piece. Subaru especially is disappointing, you'd think he'd have the most to say as the oldest. Weirdly enough, the only character in the flashback that has true, measurable depth is Shiba.This whole arc is bad for many reasons, but if I had to guess the main reason why readers are dropping off is because the characters just suck compared to Chihiro / Hakuri / Yura.
>>291947228No one cares about Hakuri, retard.
>>291947228Wrong, the flashback sucks because there is no Tafuku.
>>291942144>I mean she is a seer it's not impossible she had a vision.Its obviously a vision. She said she saw it her dreams, which is what they call the visions. The blurb does the same thing, using 夢dream with the hiragana よちfortune telling.The thing is that if she died in the war, then a vision of her talking with Chihiro is obviously not possible. So in some way, their minds connected over time through the vision and they had a talk. Or I guess she is actually alive, and has been in super duper witness protection. And Kunishige either didn't know, or lied to Chihiro. Maybe Kunishige and Chiaki had a general idea of what was going to happen, and so they prepared the way. Hiding Chikai, preparing Chihiro, making Enten.
Status of nuclear baby?
>>291948823>Or I guess she is actually alive, and has been in super duper witness protection.No. I won't entertain this idea, it's even more retarded than reviving Samura.
>>291948951I don't like it idea. But it something to be considered to explain this vision.Either she is talking with future Chihiro through the vision power, i.e. time travel shenanigans. Or she had a vision where she saw her future self talking with Chihiro - an event that has to have happened during or after the current timeskip.
