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>elstri and helem are now pretty much the secondary protagonists
>high chance they get "redeemed" since the witches are set up as the big bad
Has there a bunch of side villains ever gotten this popular since team rocket?
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>>284335407
There's no redeeming Helem.
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>>284335900
Helem's evil deeds are vastly overrated
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>>284335937
Not after killing the homeless dude.
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>>284335407
Why would they worship something so utterly pwned? There are clearly more powerful things out there that it won't be able to protect it's followers from.
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>>284336251
To be fair, the Christian god got smoked by Jews.
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I told you to not make a second thread
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How many mud golems does Helem have around to get her a seat in the Iris?
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>>284335407
holy reading comprehension.
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>>284336319
But we always have a second, cozier thread that dies after 300ish post.
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>>284336772
Yeah, but since there's break next week, we could have it then instead
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>>284336319
Oh yeah, what are you gonna do about it? Hag.
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>>284336185
that's my point, she killed one guy, people have been acting like she did a genocide even before that
>>284336772
>cozier
as in it gets necrobumped by a handful of autists
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>>284336820
We will still have the usual break week thread which will either die early or devolve into a fantasy manga general and last a bit longer.
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Sex with Lacrima and her mother.
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>>284335937
>t. Less delusional Helemfag
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>>284335407
Kinda looks like the hopium meme lol
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>>284336889
>Daring to fuck the evilest woman of all
Brave desu
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>impaled by screws
Kumagawa WON
Fuck I miss Medaka Box
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>this is villain vs villain arc and julian's gang is barely present
Could it work?
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>>284336931
Diana's plot: moving to other country and getting new sisters
Hecate's subplot: >>284335407
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>>284337046
It worked in Versus.
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>>284336948
She's not evil just retarded
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I like how most of the palace are actually reasonable about the Supreme Lord. It's really only the queen and Elistri that seem to fuck shit up. Even a psychopath like Arkos was kept under control. I fully expect Lalawag to inform the king of everything that happened (at least that she knew of) because the king would be reasonable about it (or she was already informed by the king to let them go).

Also, I wonder if they'll ever show how the king won the fight 400 years ago.
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>>284336271
>I did that on purpose
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>>284337066
Versus has many factions of villains that make it interesting, plus the fact that the human protagonists are boring as shit. You can't repeat such thing in Centuria, because most people are more interested in Julian, Lukas, Lacrima, and Diana than Helem, Elstri, and Altus.
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>Prophesied evil goddess actually jobbed and got nailed in the basement for 400 years
The King could have told Elstri about this so she didn't chimp out. I failed to see how Diana can do anything against the King when Hecate in her 3 heads form and all the witches jobbed against the King alone.
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>>284335407
I know people have already drawn the reference from eva and such, but this scene looks similar to the ending of jeepers creepers 2
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>>284335407
Elstri's sticking around til the endgame.
I want to see her break down as she realizes she caused the prophecy to happen with her meddling.
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>>284337046
Only if MY HERO Arkos is part of the gang.
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>>284336185
God forbid a girl have hobbies
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Still not convinced that the witches are evil.
Elise seems so nice.
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>>284337171
I think there's actually some jealously. Elstri fucked up, but I feel like the King is more or less putting retards where they can't fuck up. Arkos got posted at the border because he basically wanted to murder everyone when not plowing his maid.

The Queen per what we've heard of her runs the Palace and actually has political power. The King has military power and poltical power, but it looks like he's not a murder hobo. He just wants to rule and enjoy his time. His exchange with Lukas seems like he's accepted his own death and if he can negotiate am exchange of power when the time comes. It's why he probably wants to meet Diana, to see if he can delay rather than deny fate.
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>>284337888
Nice digits. I think we might get her freaking out because not only does she help bring it about she misinterprets it. The guy on the throne in the vision isn't the King, or is a mud clone that the Queen might force Helem to make.

We might get the ending where Elstri is both willingly and happily serving Diana because it's the only way she can serve the King.
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>>284336271
>>284337376
I think the Eternal Champion novels have a pretty good philosophical explanation of Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity as concepts. Elric's books are the best and reading them first will make the rest feel a little lackluster. But if you don't read them first then the rest will feel kinda nonsensical. I guess you should read the Elric books followed by the Corum books.
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>>284336251
They swore an oath. If they broke that oath they wouldn't be witches they would be warlocks
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>>284337601
Except Versus has this big flaw of being too slow because of all the fights that take 2 months to happen. Versus needs to be a biweekly or just have multiple artists in parallel to be palatable as something you keep up with. I honestly just wait 6 months before even bothering to catch up because of how long it takes for something that should resolve quickly to actually happen.
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>>284335407
I didn't expect Elstri and Helem to be redeemed so soon but I'm glad their POV will be sticking around. I came for the Eldritch horrors but their shenanigans have definitely been a highlight
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>>284335937
Shut up, Helem.
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>>284337606
>implying Hecate here was ever actually Black Betty in full
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>>284337601
>Versus has many factions of villains that make it interesting, plus the fact that the human protagonists are boring as shit
Any chapter with human drama is an intant skip, dunno why ONE keeps giving them screentime when people are only interested in the villains
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>>284337606
Well from her perspective it doesn't matter the current situation in the present, the prophecy will come true unless direct action by gifted ones is taken to prevent it
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>>284339994
They get to be witch hunting buddies.
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>>284335407
Evil, amazing powers, but can't fight directly
I love them
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>>284340196
the author seems to be taking the greek approach to prophecy
it always comes true, no matter what.
the entire story of oedipus is about the hubris of a king who thought he could change destiny, when him trying to change destiny was what lead to the prophecy coming true
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>>284335407
Oh, I get it, it's a Demon King Piccolo Situation
Nyx isn't there any more. That's just an abandoned husk. Nyx was reborn in Diana
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>>284340255
That would be true but they have already said the prophecy could be changed because Elstri saw her own death as a child in the prophecy, the king saved her which is why she reveres him and I think the conclusion was stated as gifted or blessed ones being able to change the future
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>>284340264
i'm willing to bet that it's more that the king was special, or that she misinterpreted the prophecy
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>>284335407
it looks like they've been systematically removing her organs and bones over time
Gotta wonder if that doesn't have something to do with all these gifted ones running around the kingdom ala the corpse parts in steel ball run
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>>284335407
Whyvwould they worship a literal corpse as a deity? Mangaka are so retarded
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>>284340262
I think it's more like the Deity of the Night has been shattered into a dozen pieces. The container is under the castle but organs have been scattered around the world. The spine is in the neighbouring kingdom that they're fighting to obtain and the goat in Diana is likely the "soul". It does make me wonder what the truce with the witches really was
>One of your children will inherit the soul of the Deity of the Night
>In exchange we will cease the war against your Kingdom and we will stop killing innocent subjects
>The Kingdom will avoid direct confrontation with the Witches convenant but that doesn't mean the Kingdom will idly allow them to bring back the Deity of the Night either
I suppose it makes sense if the Witches fear the covenant being annihilated but the King fears the Kingdom in ruins trying to accomplish it, a temporary truce after the Kingdom gained the upper hand
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>>284340290
it was a long time ago but I think the king derives his powers from ocean mommy
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>>284340264
I have zero doubts that she actually died and then got brought back to life, meaning the prophecy did indeed come true
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>>284340393
I was more thinking of the assassins
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>>284341007
there seems to be a lot of built-up evidence that powers are purely "genetic"
while there is no evidence that all gifts are derived from the king, there is evidence that practically all of the ones we've seen are linked to him by blood to some degree.
the only ones that aren't I'm pretty sure are the witches
the rest of the assassins are literally bog standard humans
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>>284340318
Christiansis, don't look
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>>284340393
Why? His power seems to be time based. We don't know what the relationship between the sea goddess and the king is. He could have tried to take her down like he did with Hecate. Elstri is also on the younger side in his retainer cohort and isn't privy to many of his secret.
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>>284340434
The prophecy is that she won't live to the age of 15, which is clearly incorrect because she is a hag now

>>284340285
Her prophecy did change the conclusion of the Western campaign and destroyed Rumnir, so it worked with other people, including non-gift like Angvall too.
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>>284337601
>>284339682

Don't speak for everyone you faggots.
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>>284341232
She didn't.
It's like with Lacrima. She died. Her corpse was brought back to life and an entirely new person now occupied it who, because she had access to all the body's old memories, mistook them for her own
but that's just a theory
Really I just want a scene of her encountering a remnant of the original like with Altus and Arkos, and being driven to despair as she realizes the truth and its implications
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Porn lf the magreve when?
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>>284341879
Eventually.
Maybe.
As far as I know, the porn is slow for this series. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.
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>>284335407
>>elstri and helem are now pretty much the secondary protagonists
They are not. Your goon brain is already pure jelly
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>>284336834
It's not how many people she killed on-screen, it's the fact that she resorted immediately to killing without a second thought to deal with a small annoyance. You can't really see that scene and think that it's somehow the first time she does that.
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>>284343228
How many pages of evil lesbians vs the family in the last 10 chapters?
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>>284340285
>i'm willing to bet that it's more that the king was special,

And that still makes prophecies not a certainty
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>>284341300
Holy headcanon. That happened with Altus because thats how he was designed. And even so we saw Arkos still being there.
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>>284343271
Oh yeah, last 10 chapters. God forbid an author expands on the antagonists for a few chapters
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>>284339293
elric books are not as good as people in online places like this like to pretend, in fact they're on the lower level of quality fantasy. idk why weird nerds push them so much.
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If Centuria ever gets an anime I hope Shiro Sagisu does the OST tee bee aitch.
I think his various styles would fit fairly well.
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The ritual OC humiliation continues.
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>>284343490
They suffer from the same problem that Blade Runner suffer. They were so influential that basically half of dark fantasy media spent decades imitating them, so reading them nowadays everything feel old and already seen.
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>>284343927
Oh no what a horrid fate, to be... doted upon a total smokeshow.
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Hmm.
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>>284341183
The water, as well as the ocean, are usually associated with flow of time, eternity and change, so it wouldn't be that much if a stretch if that aspect of the sea is what his powers are based on
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>>284343965
>>284343490
I suppose you prefer Thomas Covenant because it's just like your Japanese animes.
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>>284343490
>>284344819
Which one has more fanservice?
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>>284344873
Can't beat sword & sorcery for flesh and conquest. But Lord Foul's Bane has material that wouldn't be published today.
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>>284335407

No, it’s just Elstri. Helem is the replacement for Arkos, and when she dies Elstri will try and recruit another psycho to kill Diana for her. Each time she does this her prophecy becomes more and more likely.
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>>284335407
>the witches are set up as the big bad
they aren't
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>>284345176
Incorrect, Helem is what made the Manga explode in popularity and the crabauthor is very aware people enjoy the evil dyke memes
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>>284344819
Mine wasn't criticism of Elric.
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>>284341183
He's been described as "Beloved by the sea" a title Julian share.
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>>284343927
Her breasts are as big as his head...
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>>284345234
There have been like four moments that made the manga explode. Naked Angvall, Julian killing Arkos in the Sea ft. Sea Mommy, Larcima turning and being cute with Diana, and Helem revealing that Lacrima is a mud clone.

Helem is a narrative foil. She's a false mother. Even Sea Mommy has some twisted love for Julian and Diana, she wants them to call her and tell them how their day was. Helem really can't show love and needs constant control. Helem and Atlus contrast Mira and Julian. She's going to stick around for Atlus to have his development, and die like Elstri predicted.

Other thing is that we got direct acknowledgement that Elstri is narratively special. She has a good relationship with her father figure and just got told he sees her as a grandchild.
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>>284346530
are you complaining?
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You guys think that the deity of the night/miss goat might actually be evil?
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>>284346850
she's probably not terribly different from tentacle mommy
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>>284346850
You know, the country's name in Japanese is actually Trivia, not Torivia, so it is very likely that the kingdom pertained once to the witches (v. Hecate). The Supreme Lord would just have usurped the land 400 years ago.
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>>284347031
The same one that ate(will eat) 100 souls?
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>>284347240
And?
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>>284346850
I think the King might be trying to welch on a deal with some entity and the Goat isn't evil, just arbitary. So far the only evil characters were/ are Arkos, Helem, and the Queen. Everyone else seems to have a reason for what they are doing beyond enjoying suffering of others or killing their own child for undisclosed reasons and creating an imitation.

The King made a deal with Sea Mommy that we don't know the details about. It'd be interesting to find out what those details are. Also, I think Julian is related to the King, but more in a descendent of a sibling deal. Julian is of the same bloodline. It'll be like how in LOTR you have elfs who meet the desendents of their sibling who made half-elfs and the half-elf decided to stay with humans.
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Titi > Lacrima > Helem > Diana > Elstri > angvall
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>>284347844
my bet is the goddesses gain some kind of power or influence when gifted ones die.
and after centuries of the king spreading his seed, night, sea and wood moms want to harvest.
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I think elstri isn't that bad
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>>284335407
>>284335937
we're gonna kill you
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>>284348771
She's spoiled and needs hagbrat correction.
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>>284336319
what will it take to get her to open her eyes
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>>284350206
Being corrected by Lukas
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>>284335407
The flight plan only lists five people
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>>284347871
That's a bold take.
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>>284339109
>The guy on the throne was actually grown up Julian because the final battle is Diana mercy-killing him
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>>284347871
>Diana not on top
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>>284347871
I think Titi is a bit high but otherwise it looks fairly accurate.
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>>284352512
I'm sure this is heartbreaking moment but I can't help but think of that damn TRUST THE PLAN meme.
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>>284339109
>We might get the ending where Elstri is both willingly and happily serving Diana because it's the only way she can serve the King.
I think it's almost certain the endgame will be Julian trying to save Dianas soul from being consumed by the goat which will make him and Elstri aligned at that point, and Helem will be so pissed off at witches by then that she'll revel in doing anything that irks the witches. Helem might even play a part in saving Diana directly when she figures out the relation between her power and actual souls like Arkos lingering
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>>284351632
Who's dr pavel here?
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Hopefully we get some official art this break week.
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>>284351632
Titi or lacrima, you know the transfusion and stuff
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>>284354811
Meant to >>284354231
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>>284352533
Fuck Diana.
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>>284335407
be honest anons, none of us really thought elstri would be getting her own subplot, did we? I thought she would just be a meaningless obstacle, but it really feels like she'll get redeemed in that she's not completely wrong diana is a menace. dunno about helem thou, it really feels like it could go either way, specially since elstri herself already forshadowed she will meet a bad end
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>>284335407
>>high chance they get "redeemed" since the witches are set up as the big bad
What makes you think this? They've only ever been helpful as far as we've been shown.
>Helped the gang during Arkos' onslaught
>Gave Diana her cloak
>Fought the king of the evil kingdom in the past
>Allies with Diana in the future to lay waste to the evil kingdom
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>>284355863
Honestly? When she was first introduced I expected her to be that one side character who appears once in a while to give some exposition, because that's usually what you get with prophet characters in fantasy.
I was not at all expecting her to be such an important character.
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>>284355863
why are you and the OP acting like villains can't get focus chapters, have you read fucking Hunter X Hunter? Just cuz we follow Hisoka or Chrollo doesn't mean they're getting redeemed, this thread is stupid.
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>>284355936
I forgot how pretty Elstri was in her early appearances.
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>>284355863
Elstri worshipped Mira but was involved in her banishment (through a prophecy?)
At this time, Elstri promised Mira she would "protect the kingdom."
Elstri is unaware that Diana is Mira's child
She is a tragic victim of the main plot.
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>>284355936
>>284355958
>>284356638
it'd be a very good twist if julian sparing elstri actually was the good choice all along, and it seems the story is going that way to redeem elstri, she's been far more reasonable now
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>>284356638
>>284355863
You know what
I think the night goddess is the source of Elstri's prophecies. This is her revenge against the king, to manipulate someone he dotes on whomst once nothing more than to serve him, and have her be the one who destroys his kingdom and brings about the true goddess resurrection by intentionally sending her specific visions that she will respond predictably to.
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the real question is what the silliest gift someone will be burdened with in this manga
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>thread already dead
we lost...
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>>284359134
This is the second thread.
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>>284352787
I don't think the Goat is really evil. The Goat for the most part is presented as ambigious and we aren't really sure if the King pissed of Hecate. Helem feels like she'll either activate a Hecate contingency when making a doll of a witch, get her caved in by Amber/Angvall after killing and reviving Titi, or cause Diana to go full Anti-Christ by not understand that DIANA=GOAT. THE GOAT TOLD DIANA THEY ARE ONE ENTITY.

I don't think Helem is getting redeemed. I think she's going to fuckup and cause problems for everyone and herself because of her impulses. Titi dying feels like it'll be the cause. It'll probably be what rouses Angvall's soul from within Amber.

>>284356784
>>284356638
My bet is that Elstri made a prophecy for Mira that she forgot about/ was made to forget about by Velseka. If Orthos wasn't mindraped and in fact asked to be turned into a mobile weapon, it might be that Elstri asked Velseka to make her forget about the concubine purge and Mira so she could do her job.

If that panel was actually Mira followed by Elstri and Angvall, then it could be that the Queen or Elstri asked for a damnatio memoraie with a memory manipulator to make it stick.
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>>284359458
You have a good idea
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>>284335407
The King being reasonable in no way makes the witches the bad guys
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>>284337171
Is it gonna turn out that Julia's has the same power as the king? A life force type power? He has the 100 souls but he doesn't realize he can add to them, maybe the King is the same. He can take life and give it to others.
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>>284337606
You assume the King did that by himself, which given the context of the prophecy seems to indicate that Diana would wash him.
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>>284359458
> Helem saw them all together
> Helem clocked Diana as Mira's daughter
> she described them as just cloaked figures in her flashback/tale so she can reveal this to Elstri in a moment where it would cause her maximum distress
the true evil GOAT
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>>284360321
Yeah, the story of how the 5 witches destroyed the capital and fought the King is starting to sound a bit strange. Did the King even rule the country 400 years ago? Who could have told Elstri this story apart from the King himself?
Also, are the witches naturally this long lived or has the King been extending their lives?
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>>284359458
Helem was already redeemed, she's going on a mission for the king directly to fight the evil Witches, can't wait for more Team Rocket antics
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>>284335407
I love evil women
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I could see it being a thing where its just flat out impossible to find the witches if they don't want you to find them, and that the king thinks he's gotten away with exiling her for her own good without her realizing that's what's happening until after years of fruitless searching
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>>284361912
But why send Helem? Just so Elstri doesn't go sexless?
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>>284362528
it'd be cruel to make her break up with her new girlfriend
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>>284362528
Helems meat puppets might be able to find them and elstris clairvoyance helps too
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Do you think Elstri will become a deuteragonist where we follow her as well as Julian in two separate storylines? Doesn't look like Julian's side will be dealing with witches for the time being.
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>>284362584
I think the last chapter basically confirmed it and both parties have interesting characters, honestly I'd probably give the edge to Elstri
>Elstri
>Helem
>Zira
>Amber
>Altus
I hope we get more members of the Iris tagging along at some point, would be a good way to develop them
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>>284359458
This story is based in Europe, where goats have always been a visual metaphor for satan/ sin, after the Christian faith.
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>>284362634
>I hope we get more members of the Iris tagging along at some point
Nah, both sides are already crowded.
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>>284362736
If you don't count puppets Elstris team is only 3 characters, I feel like one more powerful member Helem can't just bully would bring a good balance to the party
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>>284362754
>If you don't count puppets
Why wouldn't you? Altus is the most interesting character in that team.
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>>284362766
Because Amber is a blank slate at least from what we've seen so far and Altus while an interesting character has limited room for expression with the current balance. The party has essentially zero combat members that aren't puppets, having someone who can fight with Altus/Angvall but who isn't a puppet could be a way to give Altus more opportunity for personal expression, talking during battle away from Elstri/Helem for example. Just my thought anyway, the author is doing a great job I have zero complaints
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>Do not redeem the villains saar!
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>>284363003
Elstri can be redeemed through an extreme crisis of faith, but Helem deserves an agonizing and humiliating death.
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>>284363075
Too late, Helem is now a second protagonist!
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Where's the chapter dump?
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>>284363327
You missed the thread, this is the second one
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>>284335407
Elstri could maybe get redeemed. They've been highlighting her more humanizing qualities lately and she does legitimately act out of justice, even if she's misguided as hell.
But Helem? They've practically been doubling down on making her as evil as possible. The girl loves this shit and she is never going to stop.
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Is this manga still good? Has it gotten better or worse over time?
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>>284363422
That scene was done to show Helem has issues/begrudges family which is something we'll almost certainly find out later. She has the same eyes as the King as well and something clearly happened between the flashback of her raising Lacrima and who she is now
>>284363486
Better, unless you only liked the Eldritch horror then you'll be left wanting, although this chapter had OPs picture so maybe we're back
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>>284363494
You mean the same flashback where she wish Angvall get herself kill so she can raise her corpse as a toy ? Helem was already rotten then.
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>>284363486
it had some 30 or so chapters of just people we didnt really care about fighting the main cast but the last dozen or so chapters have had interesting things being revealed back to back
i think this is the fifth cliffhanger in a row we got
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>>284363524
She was twisted but that's the nature of her power, she wasn't actively trying to torment anyone which is a big difference
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>>284363530
>people we didnt really care about
I cared about every single medalist.
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>>284363530
I picked the manga up half way through that arc and it was enjoyable all the way through but I can imagine it was tiring reading it weekly
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>>284363558
>jakslop
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>>284363494
I mean I’m sure she ended up like this for a reason, but I genuinely think she’s just straight-up too far gone to change.
Like, the main reason Arkos ended up as such a psycho is because of how his mom raised him. She enabled and encouraged all of his worst impulses, and he unsurprisingly became a serial killer with god powers. There’s an explanation for his evil, but he also clearly loves what he does and there was obviously no changing him (unless you count Altus, who is explicitly a different individual). To me, Helem is probably going to be like that: she became evil for a reason, but she is ultimately too twisted to be redeemed.
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>>284363530
The last arc is retroactively a lot more interesting now that we know Altus is going to be an actual character instead of just an emotionless meat-puppet who needs to be defeated. I wanna say about half the arc was spent on him, and in hindsight that time was more or less warranted. The assassin stuff didn’t actually take up much time, though even then Zana is seemingly part of the main cast now and Balbad/Liu are still alive.
My only major gripe pacing-wise was the Orthros stuff, if only because it felt like the gang was already in the clear after the witches showed up only for there to be another ~5 chapters of fighting.
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>>284363728
I don't think Arkos was beyond redemption either, you're right he's a product of his environment but his flashbacks with the Maid showed a different side of him. He just needed to be humbled but unfortunately that only happened on his deathbed
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>>284363728
only way i see her getting redeemed is if she eventually starts caring about the mud puppets as family, but i doubt it and it would require a bunch of development so we would have time to see it coming
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Helem will join the Coven for Berta pussy
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>>284364145
I find it hard to imagine she'll go that far, if anything she'll confront the injustice she feels was done to her in the past and as a result be less cruel to the puppets/give them more freedom, family is a tad far
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>>284364029
Arkos wasn't a complete, 100% asshole and he did have a more chill side that he expressed with Zira in private. But I think at the end of the day, he simply had no desire to change. He knew he was a cunt and he didn't care. Redemption is something you need to actively want to do, and I think he just lacked that.
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>>284364024
Altus went from a character I was wholly uninterested in to one of my favorites in only a few chapters. It's honestly impressive.
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I just realized
Once she fully awakens into her potential, Diana will almost definitely also have the power to just hand out gifts of her own
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>>284336185
Come on, who here hasn't had a homeless guy or two brutally murdered by a mud corpse doll reanimated by profane semi-cannibalistic magic? You can't judge a person for EVERY atrocity they commit, it's all in the past now.
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>>284365173
I don't think Diana will be in control at that point, the goat will take over her body
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>>284365306
>had a homeless guy or two brutally murdered
Based
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>>284363406
villain protagonists are a thing.
Being the focal point does not automatically mean the character has been redeemed or deemed heroic or even good by the narrative.
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>>284365496
Narratively if we excuse Helems hiccup with the beggar then they're already good
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>>284364639
>Arkos wasn't a complete, 100% asshole and he did have a more chill side that he expressed with Zira in
Zira was his personal onahole, and also the only person he was honest with, hope we get more flashbacks with those two
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>>284365816
Zira seems to be slowly growing attached to Altus and also felt something was off, I think it's only a matter of time before Arkos gets a few more words with her in the present at least
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>>284362584
>Do you think Elstri will become a deuteragonist where we follow her as well as Julian in two separate storylines?
She already pretty much, and the author made sure to made helem a horrible human being so elstri looks much better in comparaison, nowbwhat's left is a flashback between her and mira
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>>284335407
Having a half dead God chained in your basement always leads to good results.
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>>284335407
>get in the fucking corpse, Diana
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/a/pproved ongoing fantasy manga with dump threads
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>>284365856
Sorta unrelated, but I think Zira will become like a mother figure to Altus. Altus is already kind of a mirror to Julian, so I can see Zira becoming Altus' Mira.
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>>284363075
>but Helem deserves an agonizing and humiliating death.
Till we won't learn about her sad past which made her not care about family or love.
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>>284365975
I miss the Bulge, bros
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>>284366619
meant to reply to >>284366036
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>>284359458
I don't trust this flat head motherfucker, his power is too abusable
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>>284366104
Still deserves an agonizing and humiliating death
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>>284366686
I bet he is the true mastermind behind everything
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>>284366619
>>284366633
See >>284364257
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>>284366686
I bet his face reveal will be like the King's, but more extreme, like "This helmet? I am not using any helmet."
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>>284366886
AAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>284366878
it's very possible the fuckery with Mira's retelling of her son and husband's deaths and her being on a slave ship was bucket head betraying the king
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>>284366969
What a chapter. I love Centuria but The Bugle Call really is on several tiers above it.
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>>284367364
For me in "Dark" Fantasy it's Touge Oni > The Bugle Call > Centuria > > > et alii
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>>284367900
>Touge Oni
slop
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>>284367118
>Betraying the king
Flathead is controlling the king too
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>>284335407
Can some catch me up on what's going on? I feel like I've lost the plot and am conflating characters with each other.
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>>284368327
you probably missed the chapter before this one. I did too
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>>284368327
Use this handy character chart.
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>>284368327
What's the last thing you remember with certainty?
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>>284363558
Balbad doesn't deserve it
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>>284369066
He kinda does
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>>284368392
are you going to update the info and arrows on Lacrima??
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>>284335407
because of this thread i read the whole thing. It's good, very good even. The water woman is my wifeu exclusively.
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>>284371616
Welcome to the family of Graaahbros, Anon
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It's funny how this ended up canon
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>>284367900
Agreed.
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>>284371835
Can Lacrima even get pregnant? She's a living doll
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>>284335407
hmm this looks up my alley
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>>284372861
I can fix her
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>>284337015
Kumagawa should've gotten Najimi. Kikaijima is pretty good though.
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>>284337926
He will join Julians jabronis, mark my words
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>>284372227
It always was
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>>284372227
cute



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