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>>283555153Spooky
>>283555153Best chapter so far
The lock magic got OP
Are you still here OP ?
Rip dumper, the lock demon got to him
I'm sorry, my internet randomly died.
>It really is the X-Men with the same lol world building and with even less justification.They even have their own fucking Sentinels for crying out loud. I really hope it goes the Scyr-ed route where mages are a new thing(like have only been around a century or so).
>chapter 3>still 50+ pages for a weekly mangaThat's impressive, how long is he going to keep this up?
>>283556051They did them in advance, only possible in Jump+ of course.
The End
>>283556267Looks like i'm getting exactly the revolutionary action series I was hoping for, hope to see our heros actually kill some people themselves soon though, the lack of lethality already bothers me in Shinobi undercover right now, this would be even worse if our heroes hands stay technically clean much longer
Thanks OPThis chapter was better than the first two, maybe there's hope>>283556239Place your bets for the mage resistance>leader is a bishonen prettyboy>after a while it turns out they're just as evil as the magic nazis
alright, I'll stay for a bit longer
>>283555342We already knew the bad guys are incompetent but this is ridiculous>we can now use magic too!>the very first thing the tool does is kill all its handlers
>>283556155I wonder if the skull is an unimportant spooky detail or whether it will turn out that a corpse is required to set up those automatic sentries.
>>283555124>Miramira knew there were keys>Instead of searching for them, she risks blowing her foot offJust so the author can put in some lame monster chase.
>>283555203The bad guys in this story have a major addiction to to spilling out information. It's somewhat permissible for setting up the first chapter but at this point this is starting to get a little ridiculous. Every chapter EVERY CHAPTER a bad dude just starts yapping like they're in charge of the narration.
>>283556613She risks getting some superficial damage but I don't think there's any significant risk she blows her legs. Thought she probably could have guessed the lock was magic.
>>283556462They're non mages using magic, there being a drawback and not having full control is a good thing
>>283556462I like that the magic tools are risky for the bad guys to use. It was already established in the first chapter with the portal magic that kills anything living that tries to go through it. It's imperfect and fits their gimmick of trying to take and control power that doesn't belong to them. Plus it prevents them from just being the same as mages while still being able to pose supernatural threats to the MC.
>>283555153Finally something good happening
>Miramira's magic is extremely limited in application>Nona's magic can do anythingseems unfair
>>283556462It's obvious that the magic tools are made of dead witches but the common grunt doesn't know that.
>>283556155I guess the corpse was a witch with lock magic, and someone else used their "control the dead" magic on it?
>>283557067Miramira will get her big break near the end when she gets powerful enough to use her magic directly on people.
>>283556791"Blowing her foot off" was hyperbole. The point is that it's unnecessary when she knows there's a key in the base.
>>283555372Lockbeast looks so happy here.
>>283557222She did it to prove her determination.
>>283556807>>283556832Sure, but in that case show that the soldiers don't understand or fully control it, for example by giving orders that are too open-ended and get interpreted the wrong way. Here it's just>monster shows up>everybody dies instantlyIf your magic technology is that uncontrollable or untested, maybe don't use it to keep your prisoners locked up.
>>283555288That was anticlimactic
>>283557631did you just stop reading then
>>283557327Yes, the author also wanted a showy scene of her resolve. It doesn't make it less contrived.
>>283555037What's next for our intrepid heroine; Nona Ewin?
>>283558015sleeping with the guards to break her mom out.
>>283555372>>283555312>>283555288Its motherfucking Stone Ocean.
>>283556613She doesn't want to get spotted where and when she shouldn't be out.
>>283555153Oh shit.>>283555233Eat shit.
>>283555288Clever girl. It doesn't look dead though. Maybe lock it inside.>>283555312>she actually did the lockpicking thing I hoped forSweet.>it's not deadYeah...
>>283558493If she didn't want to attract the guard's attention, shooting a gun would be a bad idea. Though I suppose it doesn't matter because these guards seem to be deaf.
>>283555372Here's Johnny!>went for the guards firstLucky. Goes to show these tools are still in beta.
>>283555667Well that looks uncomfortable. Nice save I guess, lucky nothing broke.>>283555736Nice.>>283555770Well, shit.
>Jolyne and a transgender Koichi fights a murder grannyGood issue.
>>283556036>>283556068Damn, this roided mofo.
>>283556129>>283556155>eight fucking locksHelluva boss fight.>>283556185I'm surprised they went back to check. Thought they were running from the guards earlier.
>>283555312>>283555262Stone Free?
>>283556210I guess that means the guards were holding Nona off-the-books for slave labor.
>>283556267Thanks OPThat her stitching magic is basically Stone Free makes this series more appealing to me, if they can be as creative with it as Araki was.
>>283559057>Helluva bossDon't. Just don't.
>>283557067Magic is based on your belief in it. Miramira doesn't have any trust or confidence in her magic, Nona loves her stitching.
>>283557067>>283557149Weight magic can be an instant win though against most people.>Weigh them down>shoot them in the headgg ez
>>283556613>>283557222>>283557877There's three more guards to worry about if they want to sneak around for keys. Arguably still safer, but it's nothing worth bitching at the writer about.
The monster was cool but it was a bit cheap that it killed the guards and kept the main character's hands clean for now.
>>283556267not too bad
>>283559722If it makes you feel any better they’ll likely be blamed for the deaths, adding to the themes of injustice
>>283555037Great chapter ngl
>>28355626768 pages. Another massive chapter. This author is an absolute maniac for releasing this on a weekly schedule.
>>283555153>>283555176>>283555203I like the design of the monster
>>283555288Jorin would be proud
>>283555372I'm guessing this thing was made using the corpse of a mage, that's why it looks so happy to kill it's former tormentors
>>283555400>>283555667>>283555704>Sinking magicFor some reason I expected Miramira to have some kind of light related magic
>>283555985>>283556013HELL YEAH SHOW ME THAT KAKUGO!
>>283556068I like the shape of her wand
>>283558914Miramira is so reliable...
>>283559722This is happening with plenty of current stories. Authors always make sure the mc hands are clean now
>>283555153Ok now i'm interested.
>>283555233He died for some spiteful exposition.
>>283556267Thanks OP
>>283555153First chapter that hooked me in this series. Good action and enemy design.
If the mage resistance turns out to be le evil guys I'm dropping this.
>>283556239Obligatory resistance that will turn out to be even more murderous and evil has arrived. I've promised that one anon that its inevitable.>>283556332I think its would be the usual cause of "head of resistance is most insane lunatic(s) that will throw everyone under the buss, but subordinates are somewhat fine"Also outside of everyone but protagonist being comically inconcompetent is getting stale, its my only real issue with this manga right now.Well this and small concern that it might actually becume quite painful to read once we go into usual 20-30 pages per chapter due to usual pacing fuckup.
>>283557067It reads more like Nona fucked around and experimented with magic because she was "safe" with her mother while Miramira spent her whole life terrified of ever using it, so one's better at using it than the other. Sinking magic has some obvious uses to it that'll probably come up later provided she doesn't kick the bucket within the next 5-10 chapters.
>>283561128They had no problem with Lancia turning 12 Bureau dudes into sliced ham, and dicing a ton of buildings nearby in the process, no doubt killing more we never saw, yet we're not supposed to think she's some monster. I guarantee Nona's gonna be forced to kill someone within 20 chapters.Sitching someone's mouth and nostrils closed, or their eyelids shut to make them stumble to their death, or just put that needle right into their heart.
>>283555704Ok so it's basically jojo but with cute girls and hopefully a better cohesive story.
>>283559722At least it serves a purpose of showing that the nazis are using magic items without full understanding of the risks. At least the chump middle managers, like suddenly handing a town sheriff a bunch of grenades immediately after they were invented claiming "yeah, they'll totally kill any rowdy criminal" with "you might wanna stand back" as the only warning.>>283562432I'm not banking on a comically evil resistance head. More like one that doesn't care for collateral damage. I'm expecting something like one of the resistance mages or even Miramira killing human sympathizers or something out of haste with the justification "they'll be killed and we'll be blamed anyways. It's us or them, now.">>283562780Lovi was also a massive enabler and confidant, allowing her to experiment with low-impact magic even more. She probably has a very good grasp on subtle tricks, but is a ways off of COMBing through armies.
>>283555153>>283555233I wonder if the Magical Tool was a teacher when it was still human, given all the school rules and lingo
>>283563079She should sew the mouth of some dude shut and let him die of thirst.
>>283555037>>283555859Mother's ample love.
>>283555037OYAKODON
>>283555042Slut. I bet she enjoys her "work".
>>283566615>>283566661Shoo, I'm waiting for normal art, not porn.
Good chap.
>>283558015I want this but not ai generated and she's actually tied herself up with her own magicand Miramira keeping herself restrained with her gravity magic
>>283559778Looking forward to seeing miramira in less baggy clothes soon
>>283565399Huh yeah maybe, wonder if it's one creature per ankle thing and we will get to see other themes for lock monsters or if they've undone all of the spells now
>Magic tools are made out of MagesWell, that fucking sucksCall me a pansy, but I really hope expectations are subverted and her mom is safe and sound by the time she finds her.
>>283559778her mom's boobs are as big as her head, it's obvious she was never gonna be a flattie
>>283556267can the fucking ESL translator say the eye of a needle and not a needle's hole
>people still thinking that nona isn't going to murder(probably even innocent bystanders) ningen in a few chapters>when her mother killed a shit ton of people saving heralso the resistance will be a mixed bag with a bunch of mage supremacists who will be killing muggles indiscriminately
>>283567799And a good night's sleep.
>>283556210I bet the officers get to have fun with her mom.
>>283569851I doubt it, the guards weren't fucking Miramira so I think the mangaka is above such cheap shock value, the series is edgy enough already
>>283555176>She can't get away now. Not since she broke that thing.Damn. If only there was a way to open a lock without destroying it.
>>283559095She's even fighting a Jailhouse Lock.
>>283570048Fair enough.I hope this manga will get an anime adaptation in 4-5 years so we can have flood of AI porn of this MILF becoming a cumdump for not-Gestapo's in not-Auswitz.
>>283556129Unintentional comedy moment.
>>283569851I find this series' lack of rape disturbing.
>>283557426They weren't supposed to keep the witches locked up. They were supposed to report them so they get taken to magic Alcatraz. The story so far is humans using things beyond their comprehension for menial tasks.
>>283555704Her gravity magic has so many possibilities. Just making their clothes heavy is enough if you can't do it on people.She could also bring down the roof or even sink the floor beneath them.Throw things and make them heavier when above their heads.And if she can make things lighter, flying or at least jumping far away.
when does she start using her stitching power for healing? seems a bit painful, but it makes sense to me.
>>283571128MHA Ochako being an absolute shitter that never used her powers the right way traumatized people about gravity being useless.
>>283571199I wanna see a fun training arc once they join up with the resistance but I want it to be a short arc too
>>283556051they did the same for galaxias
>>283571440That's actually common in Magazine, the first chapter is 70 pages long, then 49, and then it settles into normal. Galaxias fucking died afterwards because the mangaka couldn't keep it up, though.
>>283556332I think they are breaking out the mages to use them in their war against humans. Her mom will be a slave under the humans and then under the other mages.
>>283555985Reminder for the future: her threads have the strength to rip whole trees from their roots.
>>283571135She was able to seamlessly sew glass back together. I'm sure we'll see her sewing an arm or a leg.
>>283571644I'll be pretty upset if power levels end up fluctuating
>>283571695If she had time, maybe repair someone dead.
>>283571199To be fair the "double weight on hit" sword guy from Bleach, Kira was it? Was stuck in a series with a literal wishful thinking powers so that didnt look all that better either. And we didnt even begin to consider usual shounen "tanked it" aurawankery.
>>283571644Oh you've went and done it, now that I think about it more, it opens ridiculous amount of uses/implications.If that's simply needle tightening by moving, her pull/impact should be enough to literally rip people apart by sewing trough them.If she can control her her tether length within a segment to create a pull - she can essentially chop people with that. That's at the very least instant suffocation if used on the neck. Now pair that with absolute ridiculous speed we've seen her sew in the last chapter.
>>283555153So it won't be a difficult guess to tell that the lockhead here is made out of witch with lock powers.Which causes an interesting plot question: so far all magic we've seen is heavily specialised. Its not a Howgards where you can learn various spells or maybe create something custom. So what exactly created this thing then?We either has some fucked up reanimation witch on the military side, or third party that has another non-"magic" power that allows them to fleshcraft.It does not exactly explain teleporting guns either. Was there also random space-time abomination just chilling somewhere that nobody really minded or mentioned before, like our lockhead? Or do magical tools will simply have a remote use function with abominations all stuffed in some lab?
>>283572194The limits might be what she's thought of or has been willing to attempt.
>>283572265>so far all magic we've seen is heavily specialised. Its not a Howgards where you can learn various spells or maybe create something custom.One notable exception: Mom was able to fly with a broom, unrelated to her comb magic.
>>283572421Actually that's also curious. Honestly calling it "magic" tastes really weird when we are talking about basic bitch shounen "one trick" powers like devil fruits/zanpaktous.I undersand that this move adds a strong individual trait to characters, but that's really not what majority of people associate magic with. Said bleach had an actual magic-magic on top of one-trick swords.
>>283572575You could pick up different magics in Fairy Tail surprisingly easily, but in practice most characters stuck to their specialty 99% of the time.
>>283572194Maybe it will be a case of limitation through mana, all the really crazy stuff she's done might drain her pretty quick in longer engagements
>>283572265>Or do magical tools will simply have a remote use function with abominations all stuffed in some lab?I think there might be a lot of this yeah
>>283572421>>283572575I think it'll be like Kagurabachi or JJK, every mage has their born specialty magic, but very basic applications can be done like her mother flying on the broom. In the Oneshot Merrily has basic healing magic, enough to stabilize herself after she's shot, and Nona here hasn't made a big deal about being shot in the arm, but I reckon Mira-Mira was told to apply some first aid when they captured Nona.
>>283572575>that's really not what majority of people associate magic withYou're right with regards to animanga, but weirdly enough I don't think this distinction exists much among people who read and write western literature. For them, especially the authors, it's just "magic systems". It could be incredibly specialized, or incredibly broad. It could have distinct name within the setting, or just literally be called "magic". But in western literature it's all just magic. Since I like both I always think of things like chakra/jutsu in Naruto, Zanpakutō and Kido in Bleach, Alchemy in FMA, and even Devil Fruits as magic systems. Yet somehow that doesn't feel appropriate to a lot of people when discussing anime and manga.
>>283567878>when her mom becomes a hair-styling magick
>>283560601its drawn in advance, you fucking One Spic newfag
>>283555037Dear Lord, Nona's Mom is so damn hot.
The writing and dialogue are bad, but the action and monster design make up for it.
>>283555037>Nona backwards is AnonBros...?
>>283556210>LanciaMom has a name now! (Unless it was already mentioned somewhere and I missed it.)
>>283570048It's objectively better this way, but once again this is a series where I'd like to peer into the alternative universe where it ran in a different magazine and was a total edgy schlockfest.
>>283574215At least now we know she's not dead. Punished mom soon.
>>283563340Seems more kgb than nazi. Nazis were willing to cooperate with people on the shit list
>>283556210>Lancia is my mom's nameThat line is so bad, she could have said "mom..." and both us and Mira2 would have gotten it.Still, much better than the whole previous chapter.
>>283572265It still blows me away that they took my idea wholesale but didn't resort to using the inquisition as the obvious enemies. They can bequith witch magic as a divine gift as a cover. The method and systems are very similar to the point that it's a dead ringer, but not so close or unique that it's a copy. But using an industrial setting for it is so odd to me and defies sense
>>283579022"She's alive..." would've been enough. We were already given the mom's name in the flashback, but it doesn't seem like the mangaka has any faith in his readers' intelligence.
>>283573641I actually like the unique system for witches because it makes witches more unique from general spellcasters like druid, wizard, sorcerer, cleric.
>>283579022It's a normal line. Are you 2? Where will Nona look for her ball?
>>283555153Oh so we literally are doing JoJo stuff.
>>283555203OH MY FUCKING GOD STOP EXPLAINING THE PLOT TO THE PEOPLE WHO JUST CAPTURED YOU YOU GODDAMN FUCKING RETARD
>>283579855Why do normalfags like this come here?
>>283559226>if they can be as creative with it as Araki wasThey won't because Stone Free also being Jolyne's body let it do some truly out there bullshit like that moment against C-Moon, but "less creative than Araki" isn't really a problem, there's plenty of room below that bar that still clears being good.
>>283570229Name-wise it fits but in terms of actual stands this is mostly Black Sabbath with a side of The Lock.
>>283579022It's a case of being overly faithful to Japanese. "That's my mother's name" would be more natural in English, but Japanese has a lot of instances where it doesn't use pronouns like English does and sticks the name in there instead. Evident if you watch anything subbed, lots of instances where the VAs say [character name] but the subs just use you/he/she because repeating character names isn't appropriate in English. The line with the name in it sounds natural to Japanese audiences and here the translator chose to stay close to it. Maybe they shouldn't have, but decades of people screeching about adaptations being bad will do that.
The author is very wasteful with page space, I wonder how things will go when the page count per chapter shrinks.
>>283556267How do you combine their powers? One traps someone with her threads and the other makes the threads heavy?
>>283579240>they took my idea wholesale
>>283581383Mira makes their weapons heavier so they can't shoot, then based OP Nona kills them all on her own.
I hope we see another magical monster in the next chapter, because that really spiked my interest.
>>283581383>stitch someone's hand to the wall>make their body heavy>they get degloved
>>283581383Nona sews someone to a concrete block and tosses them in the water, then Miramira makes the block really heavy. Swimming with the fishes.
>>283585532Anon...
>>283572265It was clearly made out of someone, but not necessarily the lock mage. They'd presumably need him/her alive to make tools (otherwise, why elsw is it so important to capture living magi?) - making her the guardian too is counterproductive especially if she gets killed like this. What would happen to all the rest of the magic locks? Do they stop working?I guess we'll have to wait for the mage gulag arc to find out.
>>283585532If they wanted to kill someone Nona can just stab them with her needle.
>>283557067I reckon she'll learn to either decrease weight or change the direction of gravity at some point.
>>283557067You won't be worrying about fairness when Mira2 gets strong enough to create black holes with her magic.
Fingers crossed for a cute scene where Nona sews Miramira a pretty new outfit.
>>283587277I was wondering where they'd find a change of clothes for her, but that's a great idea.
>>283587162If she can get some hydrogen, it might be easier to compress it into fusion.
>>283585967They might need them alive because they need to be living to be converted into these sorts of things. That is, they can't just take a witch corpse and make a monster or tools, they need to convert them alive into a monster and then the monster can "generate" tools.Or something like that.
>>283589183She can't use it on animals, but can use it on trees so I assume it follows fantasy rules and won't work on molecules or atoms, only things that won't make her OP.I wonder if she could have used it on the lockhead's lock or would that be categorized as a living thing.
>>283584924this is why we need the Bureau, for witches with imagination like you. Nona would make a good magical tool, you could repair anything with her.
Rape when?
>>283578592For real, if Witchriv was run in Magazine they would definitely ramp up the sex appeal.I don't know why but I find Magazine's manga to be way hornier than Jump's, maybe their EiC just really likes lewd stuff.
>>283590456God, I hope there will be. Nona's mom is too hot not to be sullied.
>>283582332No I don't feel my idea is speshul. I wouldn't have said anything about it if I thought it was rare. But even if an idea isnt rare that doesn't mean it's likely to be published, and I did have it in the /a/rchives as proofs. The idea even if it was actually literally read by the author IMHO wouldn't even come close to being infringement. Even if it was, I am a copyright rebel. Cindy a cute.
>>283590501Wait, isn't that Aliceanon? He tried to get an Alice-themed manga published in Jump but they kept sending him back.
>>283590882Yeah. It's surreal to see somebody on 4chan actually got their foot in the door of manga industry, Kodansha's Magazine to boot.I'm rooting for him.
>>283590501>just this weekHuh. Test: >>>/ic/7780547
>>283591384>>283590501Magazine has an identity as a sex appeal magazine. Their recent big hits are fanservice sex comedy The Student Council has Holes too and the Tsukihime copypasta battle harem with the pierced nipple. Obviously magazines serialize whatever, but they also have to consider their current readership.
>>283591502I like that guy's editor.
>>283591508>Tsukihime copypasta battle harem with the pierced nipple.i love pierced nipples go on...
>>283592384I also love them, I wish to see >>283591508Go on tooWait is this a pierced mans nipple?
>>283592436>>283592384The main heroine. It has a meme German name, Yaegernatch something.
