Chapter 152: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at 16https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1026947The most consequential chapter in a while and the first color page in a while.
Yuuball!
Yuuball: Forma de Blanco?!
Damn, this bitch has already dropped Guren like a rock. Won't even refer to him by name anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsS_VMzY10I
Again, heavy GureMahi and MikaYuu parallels.
A selfish narcissist to the bitter end.
Kek, it's that Sasuke panel all over again.
GureShin shippers will be clinging to this spread forever.
That's it for this month. Unlike Ao no Exorcist and Gokurakugai, there isn't a date listed for next month's chapter on MangaPlus. So either they screwed up, or more likely, there's a break next month and this is the last chapter of 2025. I guess we'll just have to see.
all their deaths weren't satisfying enough, none of them had any real weight to them. One moment they were alive, the next, poof. Dead. So unsatisfying.
Volume 35's cover.
>>283509771Thanks op!
>>283509791To each their own, but I despise Guren, so seeing him finally lose was very satisfying.
>>283509823I also despise Guren, and am glad he is dead, but his death should've been heavier. It just felt like Kagami wanted to kill his little pets as quick as possible and get it over with so they wouldn't suffer.
Honestly Ferid got off the easiest, he just sorta vanished.
>>283509942How much heavier did it need to be? He has to watch Shinya die again, watch Mahiru die, admit defeat (which is probably the biggest narcissistic injury of all for him) and beg Yuu to put him out of his misery. He's an unrepentant mass murderer who dies like a bitch. Frankly, he doesn't even deserve the tears Yuu sheds for him.
>>283508987Unrealistic af lmaoDude got cut in half but still can move for several minutes later>>283509194>Ferid went out like a little bitchKek >>283509214If not for Mahiru's existence, it really feels like a BL couple here>>283509306Nah she is just reminding Guren that he loves her not Shinya>>283509619Not even Mahiru gets this treatment>>283509771I wonder if Saito can use sinful keys and kill Shinoa so we can get back to the main plot already
>>283509791They are really just filler characters
>>283510080>Frankly, he doesn't even deserve the tears Yuu sheds for him.Ironic how Yuu cried for the guy that killed his best bro and used him and his friends like chess pieces but didn't shed a single drop of tear for his true father, his creator.
>>283509771Thank you for posting.
>>283508838Haven't read the latest yet but how did we go from dinosaurs to everyone dies in like five chapters?
>>283508987Kagami/Yamamoto/Furuya's emotional beats are usually based but it's not working for me right now, I feel like Shinya-Guren should have more weight here >>283508846Or maybe I've just been inured by this character death train mini-arc like >>283509791 said.Last half of this chapter got to me though.
>>283508838>>283509771HOLY CHAPTERThanks for keeping going with the dumps, anon. I wonder where the Seraphanons got to, I'm excited about the endgame.
>>283510179As shit as Guren was, he was a constant presence in this incarnation of Yuu's life from a young age and presented himself as a mentor figure, while Sika was the guy Yuu kept being told was the villain. It's not always easy for people to change all their thinking and emotions on a dime like that even when the opposite is the truth.
>and then they all died, the endlegit killed off the only interesting characters this manga have, i know it was expected but now i hope we're finishing the story in 5 to 6 chapters cause all the panels will be filled with fucking yu and shinoa, disgusting
What does Shinoa even want to do?
>>283515049Yuu and Shinoa are interesting. Guren and his buttbuddies were the boring ones. I even read the whole prequel about them and it didn't change my opinion of them. Shinya and Mahiru were the only ones with any personality.
>>283515202drop the nuke
im surprised this is still going after all these years, completely forgot about it, i might have to re-read the entire thing now tho, same with Ao no exorcist
>>283515292Seraph is a manga that reads WAY more enjoyably on a binge, so that's fine. It's pretty fast paced and easy to follow when you read an arc all in one go, but people seem to get confused and lost with the monthly breaks (I mean, I do too).
>>283508838>Chapter 152: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at 16Novelfags, did this chapter make you nostalgic?>>283508874Bottom panel confused me until I realized Saito and Ferid were basically having an all out slapfight
>>283509771>Unlike Ao no Exorcist and Gokurakugai, there isn't a date listed for next month's chapter on MangaPlus.Happened with World Trigger last month, probably the author comment announced a break already
>>283509554How does Yuu killing Guren stop Guren from going berserk?
>>283508838This along with Blue Exorcist is the kind of series that just refuses to end for some reason.
>>283509165Ferid never stopping smugging and smirking and acting OP even as he bites it is my sides hilarious.I thought karma would get him totally humiliated, though.>>283509194Kekaroo spoke too soon. >ghosted by his doggy Crowley>"crap. no"The state of!
>>283509114She's not a bitch.
>>283509165>Dammit! We came this far...used everyone and everything...all for nothing.You'd think Yuu would be a little more shaken by the parallels between him and Mika and Guren and Mahiru. Maybe that's tragic hubris, or maybe that's foreshadowing that there's more to Yuu's plan than "use everything and everyone" after all.
>>283515697so it's basically Bleach levels of pacing
>>283517058They have the power of homosexuality and anime on their side. Guren was doomed because he was straight.
Haven't read any chapters in ages. Has Shinoa made any progress in curing the MC's homosexuality?
>>283515214Yuu is an eternal retard with the world's strongest case of Stockholm syndrome who knowingly betrays his family and forces his self-proclaimed reason for living die miserable, pointless deaths so he can keep being a good little puppet for the villains. The worst part of this chapter is that it confirms this moron is going to keep being treated like the hero until the end.Shinoa is okay, but her motivation being attachment to Yuu makes it really hard to sympathize with her and the fact that she just stood there and let Guren die without accomplishing anything shows she's too far gone to be anything but the least bad option remaining. Her faction would have been neat in a three or four way fight, but it's boring as the last remaining challenger.
Kuretobluds our time is now>>283515049Kureto is sstill alive and his plans are all uninhibited
>>283518403>Has Shinoa made any progress in curing the MC's homosexuality?Boy oh boy. Read chapters 114-120, it was a fucking rollercoaster going one way.Also led to this epic thread. https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/244651737/#244651737
>>283518403The MC isn't infected by anything.
>>283509465Imagine being told Yuu has a plan and he was the one who thought it up by himself. Yeah, I'd make that face too.
>>283519111Kek'ed and checked.
>>283516466Are either of these close to ending? If so I might finally catch up
>>283509165>>283509194Good riddance Ferid. I'm sure you'll be back as a bullshit OP demon in just a bit.
>>283519248I don't read Exorcist, but Seraph's story is currently in its endgame.
>>283518157Tbdesu memeing aside, taking the epic tragic boy-girl hero-heroine star-crossed lovers and throwing them under the bus for star-crossed gay BL lovers to take over is kind of a ballsy writing decision, at least for battle shounen.
>>283509041I'm confused, where did Yuuball come from?
>>283509014>jumps in and kills off the novel protagonist's whole life goal in one slap>does it with all the gravitas of a comic jumpscareKek, I don't know how Kagami commits so hard to never letting Yuu drop his baka and yet makes him so unironically OP.
>>283508838It was a really interesting chapter, we're finally in the endgame and I'll accept any kind of BS the author decides. That's right, I finally accepted that mangakas have no idea what they're doing with their work, so whatever.
>>283520577Powers of an angel and some super demon, all given to a mega retard. Peak fiction.
>>283519248>Blue ExorcistIt might end in less than 10 chapters, and I hope it's in less than 5. >Owari no SeraphI think it still has enough juice for other 20+ chapters, but after seeing this one, I think it will be wrapped up in 12 or so chapters.
>>283520596>I finally accepted that mangakas have no idea what they're doing with their work,Wrong manga to decide that about. OnS has paid off foreshadowing again and again.
>>283520623Seriously, are there any other manga where complex, tragic, trauma-hardened, gritty, powered up, alpha type characters get consistently outsmarted and BTFO by a jolly grinning bratty undignified mega retard? I feel like OnS doesn't get enough credit for originality.
>>283509041>Saito, these are main characters. Mika and I only slaughter dozens for a burger when they're NPCs.
>>283509089>that face of ennui>that hand gesture>>283509114>>Damn, this bitch has already dropped Guren like a rock. Won't even refer to him by name anymore.Holy hell Shinoa's heart is as rock hard as my boner at these pages
So who's controlling the eyeballs? Heaven?
>>283522153Guess it's Yuu since he's using it to watch his prisoners, but don't see how. Did I forget a powerup?
>>283522153>>283522393How did you pea brain fags understand things up until now?It's obvious Yuu is controlling the black one while Shinoa is controlling the white one. Because both received the first power so they can now manifest angel stuff
>>283516328He killed Guren when Guren was still human, if he becomes 100% demon, it's more troublesome to kill him
>>283515030Except he regained his memories already
>>283515202Turn Yuu into a straight man
just end this god forsaken series already
>>283522936That's the plan anon.
>>283522829>>How did you pea brain fags understand things up until now?>implying I didThanks tho
>>283509733Is the anon who insisted for thread after thread for two years that Yuu doesn't give a single shit about Guren and would happily flick his head off still around? Because HAH.Ahem, hope they learned a lesson about ignoring the bleeding obvious.
>>283509140The fact that under her facade of not giving a shit and layers of scarred emotional repression, Shinoa's love for Mahiru is unbreakable is just one of the many reasons why Shinoa is the most heartwarming character in the cast, desu.
>>283523235Do cucknoa cucks really?
Still hoping all the bullshit everyone's trying to do gets exposed and God just smites everyone all at once.
>>283519782They were a sacrifice the readers were willing to make.
>>283509791Just the way the setting works and how some can get their memories back makes it all so tiresome.
>>283519010Just awakened to the fact that sometimes you spawn as the same sex, sometimes not the same species, and love transcends all.
>>283523464>cuckShinoa has given to me beyond all expectations.
>>283510083>Unrealistic af lmao>Dude got cut in half but still can move for several minutes laterThis is a power of love manga
>>283509140>I feel like we have a chance. Very Shinoa line
just finish this garbage and finish denyuden already, or maybe not you would fucking mess it all too kagami
>shinoa really is the final bosslmao
>>283526953Is there a more based shounen love interest arc? Imagine going back to 2015 threads with this.
>>283519265>>283520757Well, damn. Next you'll be telling me that D.Gray Man and Kuroshitsuji are ending too.Guess I'll catch up after I finish off Noragami
>>283509194So on his deathbed Ferid finally discovered his meaning in life? And it's being an attention whore?
>>283509366>A selfish narcissist to the bitter end.Who?
>>283508838I'm amazed this manga is still ongoing.
I am glad Guren and the manipulative bitch Mahiru are gone. Hopefully it stays that way.
>>283526792Kagami already finished Denyuden earlier this year.
>>283515697Being fast on binges is not a good thing, though. It means the chapters have little substance.
>>283517191Bleach was at least weekly though
>>283520757Blue Exorcist will easily have more 20 chapters.
>>283528892How was that ending and does it portend anything for OnS?
>>283529447Please, don't. I stopped caring after Blue Night, that was the last good arc.
>>283529185Nothing wrong with being an action battle manga that delivers its narrative through whirlwind moments. There are plenty of talky dramas for people who prefer that flavor.
>>283510083>>If not for Mahiru's existence, it really feels like a BL couple here>>Not even Mahiru gets this treatment>151: Shinya’s death mindbreaks Guren, Mahiru gets to be the pep talk>152: Guren dies holding Shinya in his arms (again), Mahiru delivers the general life love messageDon’t get me wrong, I don’t think Guren/Mahiru actually got done dirty (they got the old married couple atmosphere plus the Mikayuu parallels), but Shinya got the more passionate ending with Guren there, kek.
It's been nice to read the chapters whenever they've been dumped here along with the few Seraphanons.
>>283509619>fucking cuts him in half instead of beheadingGoddamn Yu calm down.
Mika sexo
>>283535006Mika/Yuu flashback was fantastic with my fellow anons.
>>283535006Same.I would choose which manga and anime to consume based on /a/ threads if I knew which ones would have comfy ones.
>>283508838New Anime season when!?
Endgame right here, sisters
>>283534447In the end, Guren loved Shinya best.
>>283508987uh oh!
>>283509771>Shinoa is the final bossabsolute kino somehow
>>283537872Will the suits/advertisers/subscribers allow it?
Shinoa will rape Yuu while Mika watches
>turns some dude into a pair of fingers>gives them to Mitsubawhat did she mean by this?
>>283538754Yuri route incoming I hope I'm not being delusional
>>283509399>>I’m turning first. I’ll be waiting for you on the other side.What’s the difference between current demon Mahiru and whatever she’s turning into, other than being detached from Guren?
>>283528745Narratively, I feel like the manga should have at least a semi-inspiring ending with some people resurrected. After people dying again and again and Yuu playing keikaku to change the universe, having it end in everyone dying one last time and Yuu repeating the Guren tragedy yet again would feel like a wet blip of an anticlimax.
>>283538613This but figuratively
>>283509306>Again, heavy GureMahi and MikaYuu parallels.If the Guren/Mahiru and Yuu/Mika parallels got any stronger they’d be planking each other.What is Kagami trying to do with this?
Wtf Guren is dead!? What about the rest of his harem? Who were they even fighting? What happened to Migay? Is Shinoa still smug?
>>283509366Ironically, looks like Guren could finally die in peace because he could comfort someone (Mahiru).
Guren deserved worse
>>283542675Okay Hiragi-ojisan
>>283509493>>283509519>Guren telling Yuu to live his life free of Guren's burdens>Yuu putting on his best genki act to reassure Guren that what he did mattered even though he's crying insideD'aww. No obsessive romance with Guren/Yuu, this is what clearheaded unselfish bro love looks like.
>>283509493What's Yuu thinking in the "..." panel? Remembering the times Mika "died" because of him like Shinya died for Guren?
>>283537872Cute and canon
>>283539321that's far too based to happen
>>283509554>bottom panelTwo squiggly lip lines never conveyed so much
>>283509771Ice cold queen God I can't wait for the Shinoaball
>>283543349I mean that's about as likely as there being absolutely nothing going on between Yu's ears.
>>283544582She ded
>>283548124can she actually die at this point?
>>283518698Minor character chads unite
>>283518649>so he can keep being a good little puppet for the villains>but her motivation being attachment to YuuNo offense anon, but did you stop reading 3 years ago? Though there was plenty of foreshadowing even then.
Shinoa hype for next year
I kind off lost interest in this manga when the story out of nowhere went to DARK ANCIENT GREECE, but the threads never fail in making it look entertaining honestly. I thought Twin Star Exorcist's endgame was a bit messy(?, for the lack of a better word) for a monthly manga, but this takes the cake.
>>283550316nothing will outdo attack on titan
>>283550589>Attack on titan.Oh yeah...that happened...
>>283515049>>283550316The one thing you can't say about Seraph is that it isn't entertaining.And the one thing you can't say about Yu and Shinoa are that they aren't interesting.
This series is still a thing?
>>283509366>>283509399good man who is always loyal to his yandere wife
>>283553047>good manlet's not get carried away
>>283553115Guren is written as a classic downtrodden hero
>>283549381The first is the villain, anon. The flashback just confirmed he's directly responsible for all the bad things that happened from the very start. Him having a bit of muh family autism doesn't undo the harm he's inflicted on countless people. Yuu betrayed his family and friends to help achieve the goals of the two most evil people in the setting.
>>283554097Yuu's achieving his own goals, he's just willing to use whoever helps him. Probably.
>>283530024it was a retarded rushed ending ryner and ferris have kids but he world is ending the enemy i stoo strong so Ryner manages to pass on their memories to the new world that got reseted...except the goddess is still around and will reset it again
>>283554929It's hard to trust retard MCs and it's even harder to trust the author since >>283555492
>>283555492So basically a status quo reset ending?
>>283550316>I thought Twin Star Exorcist's endgame was a bit messyIt was dragged out, the same way he did with Binbougami ga! but the final itself was pretty good.
>>283556523yeah but a bit worse since they had kids before the world got reset and in the new world they are reincarnated as a a kids...
>>283509619S, good riddance
>>283509619soemeone edit this in a spongebob emme
>>283557297Well that gives me some trepidation for Seraph.Let's not do a YamiBou ending pls. or whatever the title was of the yuri anime that had the couple reincarnate as kids
>>283556626Agreed with the overall sentiment, while it was a bit weird to see it go for coexistence ending and have the semi-final boss and the final boss out-posses each other at the last minute, but it fortunately landed the ending overall.
>>283557743Honestly its basically a worse ending of Kurosagi,and i think he will do it yet again i nSeraph of the End MC reset reality in that LN so that the prophecy of the world ending doesn't come true. He will probaly do another "world reset" ending
>>283558542Well thanks for tempering my expectations. Hope he sees sense and realizes a reset ending would be anticlimactic after all the emphasis on cycles and patterns repeating.
>>283557415To the ship or to Shinya?
>>283555627>retard MCsYuu emotionally manipulated and outwitted Guren and Asuramaru, who are both master manipulators in their own right. Not to mention Asuramaru having access to Yuu's mind.
>>283560512>outwitted Guren and AsuramaruBy suddenly changing his mind about everything he'd been totally genuine about before that and pursuing a completely illogical course of action. At best they were ignorant of the true nature of the bond implanted between him and Mika. At worst, they overestimated his intelligence by thinking he was smart enough to be manipulated.
