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>>286491423
And now we wait for tl
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Ok, but where is Keitaro, you know, the MC?
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>>286491402
Dudes got
>Penis for a head
>Vagina for a face
>Needles for arms
>Table for his lower half
>A chode just hanging there
Certainly an interesting design.
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>>286490737
Opening with a random pic didn't help finding this thread.
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>>286490769
>>286490788
yayoi is so fuarking badass
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>>286490737
LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETS
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>>286491211
I like how she's petting Yayoi's ahoge.
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>>286491228
training arc time
>>286491252
>TALENTLESS
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>>286490998
Is that one repalced for each region like the exorcists?

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>>286491305
Its the first time i see yayoi from behind her hair is hsorter than i thought lol
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>>286491305
love this face
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>>286494862
GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST
>>286491423
>>286491445
so basically she has to catch and raise more pokemon so she can catch this legendary rare pokemon
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>>286494511
Ai isn't random, she's part of this manga.
>>286495763
To clarify, Yayoi can't be trained the normal way due to her contract with Tai Sui taking most of her spiritual energy except for what she needs in daily life. So, Oobashi is instead focusing on her ghost catching skills. If she can defeat (defeat, not catch) that weird looking ghost and the two after it, she will get an item that will turn her spirits into shikigami that will listen to all her commands. She has a month to do this and cannot use Tai Sui. So, she's going to get the rest of her graduates and clean up the rest of the Tokyo haunted spots too get ready for this.
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Does lolicon God feel Ai's period
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>>286496181
probably
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>>286490998
Risu-tan spilled the beans on the Replaced leaders. There are 10 of them and they have subordinates under them. We have seen most of them: Takeo, Tenkai (the old man), the woman who pushes his wheelchair, Oswald, Dorothy, the sniper who Oobashi owned (whose body disappeared when he was to be retrieved and the team sent to do that died), Sogen Kamiyo in his grandson's body, maybe the big head thing that retrieved the arm from the graduate house, and two others we don't know.
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YAYOI
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So how much more before this becomes DBZ with ghosts?
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>>286497467
Kuubou will eventually merge with earth
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>>286497467
This criticism again...we are going to go back to ghost catching...besides, you should have expected their to be battles considering Yayoi's main goal is to take out Kuubo and ruin the Replaced.
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>>286491423
>Sweating already
Yayoibros... We got too cocky...
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>>286491402
i wonder whats the inspiration from this one
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>>286497949
I wonder why this thing is making her so worried...I wonder if it is because she is seeing it while having zero spirits that can defend her.
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>>286498437
What a coward
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>>286498437
Its spriitual pressure you can just feel the ever approaching kubo....soon the heart shall strike us once again
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>>286497858
I'm pretty sure Kubou's plan is to take Yayoi as his vessel.
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Yayoi is going to look so chuuni in her Hot Topic getul and doing Naruto handsigns lel
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>>286498519
She shows worry once in how many chapters and she's a coward...yeah, whatever dude.
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>>286498977
Yes
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I wonder if this guy'll try to ask Yayoi about her methods and
A. She goes "I aint telling you SHIT about my methods homo"
B. He already knows them all
C. He teaches Yayoi so much that she agrees to share a little
D. He already knows it's stupid to ask and doesn't even try, and Yayoi asks why he didn't try ect

I really hope it's not B. I don't like a world in which Yayoi didn't invent at least 40% of her shit
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In the book Seimei gave to Yayoi, chapter 24 literally titled "How to find Kuubou"
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hopefully koutarou is getting some trainng arc in the meantime too
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I hope Eiko makes friends with a benevolent ghost and it, like, posesses her computer and shit.
That'd be cool as shit. I want all 4 of our guys to get an upgrade. (Ai has already gotten hers)
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I caught up last thread. What a time to join the threads lol. Hurry up translators I'm excited to read
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>>286499180
iirc he already said he did something similar to the substitute but its not the same thing so technically they are likely to have their own methods
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I hope Eiko dies
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>>286499386
I hope you die
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>>286499380
I bet what he teaches Yayoi are bound to be the methods that are common to all the exorcists. 1000 year old chinese shit and the like. Maybe with 1 or 2 of his own tricks
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>>286499180
Yayoi's methods are very primitive. They have quick results, but are dangerous and unorthodox.
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Technically Yayoi having to supress tai sui stole the possibility of her using bunreis too
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>>286499663
Yeah she needs more benevolent ghosts on board to help her tighten up I reckon
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>>286499691
How so?
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>>286491657
Yayoi is the MC. Keitaro's the helpless civilian that gets dragged into horrifying shit. We're past the need for that now.
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>>286499765
The contract with Tai Sui is eating pretty much all of her spiritual power. She has enough for daily life, but she can't increase her energy or learn any techniques like this.
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>>286490737
LET'S GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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>>286490927
Uh oh.
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>>286490998
>the big head was a Replaced leader
Good thing nobody was at the house when it came by then.
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>>286491171
>>286491196
Wholesome.
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>>286491402
ENTER

>>286491423
>powerful enough to make even Yayoi sweat
Damn.
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>>286497858
>earth
>not shooting for the Sun
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>>286500598
I could defeat this creature
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>>286500887
same, do you also use ropes?
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It's back to conquering Japan's hotspots?
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>>286501692
first japan then the world!
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>>286499262
The exorcists are already raiding his house as we speak.
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>>286501692
Yep. Picking up her remaining graduates and then taking the remaining Tokyo hotspots. Since she doesn't need to capture these three god-like spirits, lesser numbers might work out, but she is still going to need a good number since...we don't know if she will have any breaks in between the fights, so she should assume she won't.
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>training arc
>bunch of bosses in an enemy group to eliminate
>group/team of veterans taking screentime from the characters we already care about
>fights becoming more about brute force than curses and indirect attacks

Each chapter has me losing hope for the future of this series recently
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>>286503365
We know nothing of how Yayoi's remaining graduates attack aside from Class Zero. And we know nothing on how these three spirits fight either, I doubt it is going to be as simple as big number prevailing.
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>>286498742
Kuubo will have to go through me then
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>>286503365
we know about this kind of fight since early on though,but i'm not losing hope i think the author introduced too many exorcists though hope we get the gang back soon
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>>286503365
Welcome to the Piccolo saga of Dark Gathering, don't worry, it will get worse
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>>286503478
He also just introduced like eight more Replaced leaders and at least one spirit to take care of. I'm half expecting them to get devoured by Kuubou because having your main antagonist basically be fodder tier in the verse is really something.
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>>286503365
So many negative nancies, geez.
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>>286503598
we know 5 of them they can also eat each other... there is a huge cast just replaced and spirit mediums and we not even counting the ghosts, i wish author would say why he decided to make so many
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>>286503739
i think people forget that after gimmicks are done the fights were pure brute force when it was ghost against ghost, from hariti vs kuubo to asura and others and so on
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>>286503598
>>286503828
You know, before the Replaced leaders and Spiritualists, the manga was having an issue of not having enough named characters. A happy medium is hard to find, it seems.
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>>286503739
Spoiler, it's a samefag shitposting like it always is. You don't have to give them the attention they seek.
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>>286491026
Interestingly, Risutan calls Ota Taneko leader, while she introduced herself as vice-chairman to main Tai Sui, so either Risutan isn't high ranking enough to know who's their actual leader, Ota Taneko is lying to Tai Sui, or perhaps even making Kuubo the eventual in charge once he is born?
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>>286505254
I am a fan of the theory that Kuubo is going to be the reincarnation of the true Replaced leader...though, that said, they seemed pretty flippant when it lost that fight against bunrei Tai Sui. Unless they don't mind starting over again.
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>>286496013
>So, Oobashi is instead focusing on her ghost catching skills. If she can defeat (defeat, not catch) that weird looking ghost and the two after it, she will get an item that will turn her spirits into shikigami that will listen to all her commands. She has a month to do this and cannot use Tai Sui. So, she's going to get the rest of her graduates and clean up the rest of the Tokyo haunted spots too get ready for this.
Oh good, I was worried that the training arc was going to shift the focus away from the gathering part of the series
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>>286504781
>Everyone who doesn't like to where the story is heading is a shitposter
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>>286505409
I'm assuming Kuubo is meant to be the actual leader, though there might still be someone beyond Ota Taneko holding the seat until Kuubo fully incarnates. Since the Replaced are clearly meant to be the DG universe's equivalent to the Hyakki Yagyo, Kuubo is probably the representation of whatever force originally lead them to begin with.

>Unless they don't mind starting over again.
They probably don't. Even whatever Kuubo is didn't seem especially concerned about the damage it sustained. Given they spent a lot of time creating 'Angel-samas' using failed rituals to try and incarnate it, it's likely they've been at their attempts to birth Kuubo for a very, very long time.
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-ST Mansio- oh wait the translators dropped it
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>>286499196
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A0%E4%BA%8B%E7%95%A5%E5%86%B3#%E3%80%8E%E5%8D%A0%E4%BA%8B%E7%95%A5%E5%86%B3%E3%80%8F%E3%81%AE%E7%89%B9%E5%BE%B4
>空亡の出し方
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>>286503598
I mean, most of the Replaced leaders are guys we already knew about including Sogen (who we didn't know was a Replaced leader originally) and the big head. Outside of the additional two who are unnamed, we knew almost all of them.

>because having your main antagonist basically be fodder tier in the verse is really something.
It's very likely that Kuubo is meant to be the vessel/incarnation of whatever power truly leads the Replaced, and everything they've been doing is their attempts to reincarnate it. Given even literal fodder tier Replaced (as in, nowhere near their eight leaders) like Risu are god-class on their own and those same leaders are dedicating ridiculous resources towards Kuubo's growth, despite having enough power they probably could have taken through country by storm as is short of the top exorcists, it's all but guaranteed Kuubo is grossly far beyond anything else once it has fully matured. The problem is that much like an actual fetus, it's super vulnerable until it reaches that point - though the Replaced and Kuubo itself don't seem to think that's too big a deal.

Like, keep in mind that a massively crippled Nankobo could just reach into the afterlife and pluck out all the souls Seimei had liberated to feed Sogen a powerup and there's no indication this was difficult for him. Ota Taneko just fucking appeared in Tai Sui's main shrine and was not only unconcerned with his threats to curse her, but casually dropped the fact that the Replaced could restore the main body of the strongest god in the series thus far back to full power in a year where it would have otherwise taken 2000 years of recovery. And these beings are still acting like Kuubo is the ultimate culmination of everything they've ever achieved despite this.
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>>286508603
*10 leaders, but my point's the same
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Think one of the twelve exorcists is going to be replaced or is already a traitor so that it would be a 11vs11?
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As a reminder, these are the current standings of Yayoi's spirits and her plans for capturing other spirits. This is before the encounter with Risu, so S Tunnel is probably out. That said, if things go smoothly, Yayoi will have 9 spirits ready to fight the 3 gods she needs to triumph over. Class 1 was present when Yayoi killed her first God, so we should expect good things from him. Jizo is said to be stronger than a normal graduate, so he is one to watch for as well. Large is currently at the Graduate House to act as a honeypot/trap on case the Replaced cone back. Taira...might be able to fight, but I dunno if he will be as strong as he was when he dealt tge final blows to Tai Sui.
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>>286509301
*Sarge, not Large
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>>286509301
>Large is currently at the Graduate House to act as a honeypot/trap on case the Replaced cone back.
Given they sent one of their 10 leaders to retrieve the cursed fetish, I don't think it would end well for Sarge if they bother doubling back there.
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I hate the idea of the organization.
If there's really organization like them, complete with OP members, then it's a little farfetched for Yayoi to be able to catch famous ghost in famous ghost spot.
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>>286510431
This organization pretty blatantly only cares for major deity class spirits, and sometimes not even those if they're a deterrent to other threats like Tai Sui. Most of Yayoi's major ghosts aren't deity class and the less than a handful that are, she mostly engineered herself. Note that the exorcists didn't even give a shit about Yayoi up until they found out that she beat Tai Sui and may have had connections to the Replaced.
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At least Gojo doesn't sounds like an asshole.
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>>286491026
Oddly enough, despite one of the silhouettes looking like Oswald, the 6 high ranking members she knows of are only Ota Taneko, Nankobo, the woman pushing his wheelchair, Dorothy, sniper guy, and Ai's grandfather, not mentioning Oswald. Perhaps it's because Oswald is still using his connections of the real Oswald and his monk friends to gather information and Risutan doesn't want to blow his cover?
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>>286511238
That's a good guess. If they found out about Oswald, they could pretty easily trace the connections he's using to sniff him out.
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>>286511440
Replaced Shami was with Oswald when they were doing the knife exorcism. Shami herself knew that her sister got replaced.
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>>286511481
That would depend on Shami knowing Oswald is a replaced and not someone tricked by her replaced sister
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>>286505409
I think they knew Tai Sui wasn't going to finish it off, and after eating other ghosts it get stronger so getting damaged isnt a big deal

>>286508843
yeah thats very likely odds are that might be too

>>286511103
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>>286509301
Just realized two things. One, isn't K Tunnel where the ghost that took over Shami's sister originally from? Unless it goes back there to heal or if something hasn't already moved back in, it will be empty. And Two, Z Cemetery was supposedly cleansed already by Shami's sister...but something could also still be there or have already moved in. Worst case scenario, that means Yayoi would only have 7 spirits ready for this 3 Totem ghost marathon fight.
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>>286509301
I wonder if yayoi can get the graduated to eat each other and level up even further (at least the graduated shinigami will be happily devour the others), and will she find even more demon (like marbas) to add more strength to herself. That heart crushing ring is pretty op in its own rights.
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>>286512293
K tunnel spirit has moved back in chapter 31, brought there by Dorothy
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>>286512673
Just checked to confirm, you are correct. So, Yayoi will actually fight against it...we'll see how it likes being subdued and forced to fight one of these god class spirits...though it might get wiped out in the process lol
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>>286512630
Is it worth teaching a Pokemon a new move
>Bleached Head's snakes
>Oiran's better instant kill
or
Is it better to keep a party member?

If you really want to min max with no morals, you'd TRAP and BETRAY Sarge and lock him in a room with Oiran or Asura to hyper train them by feeding on him ad infinitum
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Considering the current cast size i wonder how much the author prepared ahead? I wonder if he has in mind until when the manga is going to go for
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>>286512794
Didn't he say once he didn't think he would get to the Tai Sui fight to begin with? He also went on a hiatus or two to do more research...so he probably has a good idea now on where he wants things to go, I hope.
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>>286512829
yeah but hopefully he has a endpoint now wouldn't be good to overstay or to milk too much
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>>286513326
Well, even if he has an endpoint planned out, who knows how long it will take...it is a monthly manga...since they run in the same magazine, is Blue Exorcist close to being finished at all? I guess we can use it as a point of comparison.
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>>286513351
i honestly have no clue where ao no exorcist is at, but its 160+ chapters, so at least a decade + of dark gathering? Man if it was a decade ago it wouldn't be so bad but i'm worried with how the world is shitting itself of losing my yayoi...
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>>286513441
Eh...there is always stuff going on in the world, try not to let it worry you too much. Just focus on what you can control on your end. You'll go nuts otherwise.
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>>286512734
Taira already demonstrated how ONE single op *redacted by nintendo* can turn the tide of battle, and yayoi stated several times over (both by herself and other people) that she gives zero fuck when raising a graduated.
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>>286514217
I mean, yeah, pretty much all the graduates are horrible killers, but it is a sliding scale of awful.
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>>286514769
Hey! Maiden was only a killer ghost because of the fetish, she was perfectly satisfied leaving permanent neck scars on people before the Replaced came into her territory
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>>286514971
thats kinda hot
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>>286512293
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>>286512729
It's kind of funny to think that the K Tunnel spirit, despite being on speaking terms with Oswald and Dorothy, wasn't anywhere NEAR them in power and was probably even weaker than Risu-tan given Black Asura without any transformations could one-shot it and its host vessel.
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>>286513351
>>286513441
Blue Exorcist is currently in its final arc. Though who knows how many chapters away we are from them finally getting to and staking Satan's heart.
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>>286515809
Oswald and Dorothy probably see the potential in it or just like its style or something, is my guess.
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Ok, so if K Tunnel ghost is going to be at its own haunt, it should be a relatively easy catch as long as Yayoi and the crew (plus her spirits) don't do the stupid thing and stare into its eyes. Z Cemetery is still a question mark, since it could be cleansed...though Shami did say her sister wasn't very good at her job, so maybe she didn't really get rid of whatever is there.
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>>286515809
Asura is unfair, his curse is straight instant lethal hax. Strength doesn't change between forms, only method of delivery. First and Second form are functionally identical to the Sixth and Seventh form. The only realistic way to counter it were the chanting that Replaced Shami couldn't do because Asura's first move was to turn her organs into meatballs.
There's also the hand motions but one arm was occupied holding a weapon and also got blown off shortly afterwards.
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>>286517002
cute wife
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Translation dump when
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>>286517869
we shall wait it took a bit last time too
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>>286519092
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>>286515859
It DOES have a pretty gnarly way of killing people, admittedly.
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>>286500598
PUT IT BACK
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any time soon...haha
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>Dorothy really could have just walked up on the fight between Tai Sui and everyone else and taken on all comers
I mean yeah, the New Emperor probably still would have wrecked her but her being a Replaced leader is some crazy upscale.
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>>286523443
Seriously, I thought she was just an uppity tsukumogami that was full of herself...but she can probably back up those boasts.
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>>286523664
Same. Anons even convinced me she was just talking a big game.
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>>286521606
potato yayoi
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>>286500598
NO
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https://x.com/2koin1echd/status/2029076119102894224 Happy for our author
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>>286526707
He got a shout out from the fate strange fake guy too
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>>286526707
Nice.
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>>286526707
>he plays yu-gi-oh
of course he plays it explains the fusing part by alot
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I don't know if you've seen it but I've seen a Tai Sui yaoi is one time. It was pretty good.
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>>286529135
Think I know what you're talking about, actually.
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Man don't make me wait 2 days
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>>286523443
Wasn't Seimei's presence keeping the Replaced from diving in?
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>>286531465
They were concerned at him intervening yes. But we also had the others trying to convince Dorothy not to go when she thought about heading to the battlefield and the specific wording (Oswald saying "she'd probably be fine") implies she could have absolutely just waltzed on in with no issues. Taneko tells her not to go because 'that man' (Seimei) was keeping an eye on them and Dorothy accepts with minimal fuss, but given that Seimei is significantly weaker than when he was alive, it probably was not out of concern of what Seimei himself could do to them but moreso who he could tip off (the eoxrcists) or what he could prepare via precognition if they acted recklessly.

The reveal here that Dorothy is one of the 10 leaders of the Replaced with all the others sitting under them, including literal God-tiers like Risu, completely recontextualizes that discussion and means that she's at minimum powerful enough that none of the other Replaced short of the other leaders could take her on even if they jumped her all at once - since the author has said the reason Tai Sui is treated as such a big deal in-universe is that as a "pantheon head", he has to be strong enough to beat the rest of the pantheon all together. If similar logic applies to the Replaced, then Dorothy would have to be strong enough that her fellow Replaced outside of the other 10 are essentially fodder to her and that would put her in a tier where her actively fighting would mean a very, very dead cast at this point in time.
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>>286532618
But why two of them?
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Can Seimei possess Gojo? Would it be some kind of super fusion? Also did they explain the hand yet? I'm just waiting for the anime to come back bros.
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>>286531913
Assuming that the entire replaced group besides the leaders couldn't jump her seems like a massive assumption, considering there's no reason to assume the replaced are even from similar groups, especially when a chapter extra already calls Dorothy a Tsukumogami. Risutan, while divine class in strength, was forcing herself to maintain a Buddha like state, so more likely a normal spirit that evolved rather than naturally a deity
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>>286532826
It calls her a Tsukumogami but that's actually a pretty broad category - ANY object becomes a Tsukumogami after 100 years of existence and sometimes not even just objects, but also shit like kitsune or tanuki could be considered tsukumogami due to having lived for centuries and being prone to changing forms. It doesn't really tell us anything about her nature at all.

I'll also point out that even if we say that the Replaced can't be precisely judged because they're all from different groups, we still had Nankobo having an entire army of half-a-graduate strong shikigami before he apparently joined up with the wider organization and theres the whole "plucked out every soul Seimei saved from the afterlife whilst crippled and hesviyl weakened" shit he did to give Sogen his powerboost. I think the intent for the upper tier Replaced to be ridiculously powerful is pretty clear.

>Risutan, while divine class in strength, was forcing herself to maintain a Buddha like state, so more likely a normal spirit that evolved rather than naturally a deity
Fair point, but her strength was still very much great enough that it was in the "would take 3 Graduates to kill" category. That tells us a lot if Risu was 'just' a minor Replaced that had ascended to deity status.
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>>286532960
*heavily
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>>286532811
Dual wield.
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>>286497133
If Sogen's a leader, guess that confirms that he's been body hopping for generations, probably ever since the contract with TaiSui started
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>>286534252
Well, Risutan actually says "the recently joined second son of the Kamiyo family", which could either mean Sogen was always a member but Risutan wasn't aware and thought the replaced kid was a new guy, or Sogen didn't bother joining until losing Tai Sui even though he knows Nankobo for a while
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>>286532960
Maybe it's a goal thing, risu-tan is...very cowardly granted there is torture and all but she is a bullshit spirt doing fights and all, she lacks any composure and she doesn't seem to have any sort of loyalty either she is just scared of what others would do, i wouldn't put her in a leader position desu
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>>286532960
Another thing to consider is she could have acquired that status relatively recently, though we would have no way to know how long a spirit has been a deity class.
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maybe we wont get a tl...
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>>286534252
>>286534305
It's also possible Sogen was always a 'nominal' Replaced leader but he had a good thing going with Tai Sui and didn't care enough to shake things up until Yayoi broke the contract the Kamiyos had with him by defeating him. He'd have essentially been 'in reserve' for the wider Replaced - known as powerful enough to be considered one of the 10 leaders, but too lazy and apathetic to actively consider himself part of them since he could just take Tai Sui's table scraps to subsist on.

I do agree though that Risu was probably too low on the hierarchy to actually know exact details on Sogen though.
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>>286536423
This is a dialogue heavy chapter, patience.
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>>286536515
i shall cultivate patience
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TL is out. I'll get to it, but I got busy again...if anyone else wants to dump before me, go ahead.
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>>286537602
sorry i'm a bit busy
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>>286491123
I already had respect for him, and with this I see he's really cool. Willing to do pretty much whatever it takes to help humanity.
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>>286491123
is he that hairy down there too? no homo question
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>>286537404
You have eyes but you cannot see Mt. Tai, junior.
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She's so used to doing things on her own that this must be a blow to her pride...
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>>286539705
Eiko and Keitarou must be freaking the fuck out if they planned on meeting Yayoi and Ai at the train station when they would come back from Kyoto
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This guy is cracked
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10 of them, huh
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Still wild to me that the Sniper is one of the leaders...Dorothy too, for that matter.
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Oh...
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She's been doing her train BS for 40 years, huh
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Going for the crowbar lol
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He's...nicer than I thought he would be?
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Aww
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This is a nice breather for her...
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...not the reaction I was expecting
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Well, damn, that sucks for training.
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Almost sounds like a Gym Badge lol
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This thing is unsettling to look at.
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Shook...well, she has no strong spirits on her, so I don't blame her.
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Back to ghost catching next chapter...and maybe Keitaro and Eiko will show up again. Until next time.
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>>286540381
I'm dumb, no, she's reacting this way because it has some kind of mental attack
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>>286540290
>Big boss
kek
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>>286539746
God i love Yayoi merciless stare
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>>286539815
heh

>>286540078
Oh this give me such a feeling that he might die,he might be the first person to actually teach Yayoi stuff

>>286540109
>>286540137
makes me happy seeing yayoi giving her a hug


>>286540203
next chapter might be with eiko and koutarou iwht the information yayoi gave them and obaa-chan contacting them
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>>286540407
Back to pokemon i guess

>>286540443
i'm telling you its "pressure"
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Whenever Yayoi walks, I could hear her shoes squeek with each step
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>>286539746
Yayoi wants to absolutely gut him like a fish. Can't say I disagree.
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>>286539955
At least we got a definitive confirmation that it was Mamoru who handled Nankobo way back when.
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>>286540001
>Risu was divine class even 40 years ago
Jesus christ.
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>>286540357
Honestly, it's still kind of hard to even tell what the fuck it's even meant to be.
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>>286540246
>>286540268
DIdn't keitarou have a big amount of ernegy and even seimei commented on it? And with mamoru all talk about being a obstacle it would really help if he could learn to use powers
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>>286542767
Keitarou just wants to go to regular college and make normal friends and plow Eiko
Don't send his ass to Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College
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>>286543572
thats not his choice anon i want cooltarou an i want it now
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>>286543572
Depending on how things go, Keitaro may have to learn some stuff anyway, if the Replaced decide to come after him or his family
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>>286544113
I do wonder how connected to the spiritualist world his family is, wasn't his grandma doing the routine exorcisms on him and Eiko? Surprised Shami didn't say anything about that when she met the trio.
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>>286545156
Maybe not that much? Hard to say. What I wonder is of the old lady Yayoi met during her flashback, if she was connected to the spiritualists at all.
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>>286545156
His family are clearly descended from those with spiritual powers, given his grandma as you said and the fact almost his entire family have spirit sense to lesser or greater degrees. They just don't seem to be major spiritualists - at least, not enough of ones to be on the radar of the organization.
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>>286545156
isn't keitarou direct descedant of seimei or is he is just possesed? its actually kind weird if the family of seimei isn't relatively big with exorcism stuff
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>>286546746
Keitarou isn't connected with Seimei through blood, but Ai's family are descended from him.
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>>286548821
cute
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>>286548821
Every time I see this image, I keep thinking Eiko is Junko
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>>286543572
He still needs to solve his spaghetti hand issue.
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>>286549921
From DanganRonpa?
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>>286550157
Touhou
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>>286550449
Based.
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>>286541644
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Zi_2_bfKE
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>>286540357
Finally the lingering question will be answered: can Yayoi beat the cock?

I guess that thing is meant to be related to Mara.

I don't like very much the idea of an item that just makes ghosts obey like Shikigami, I would prefer if it was simply the guy pointing out Yayoi 3 strong spirits for her to defeat/catch. The tension of "okay, I have this ghost, but if I don't use it properly, it might try to kill me instead" was quite central.

As for the rest, Yayoi relies most of all on strategy and prepraration, it is no wonder that she would be hard pressed when ambushed when she was alone and her main forces exhausted.

As for the Replaced and Kubo, I believe neither is such a big threat right now. But the goal of the replaced seems to be to empower Kubo, and I believe that eventually Kubo will become a bigger threat than all these other "divine spirits".

I still always imagine Yayoi with a vendetta against the author of Bleach.
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>>286550891
I mean, it is basically going to be a badge from Pokemon lol. My wonder about the item though, does it just straight up turn the spirit into a shikigami? And is the effect automatic or does she have control over it? Because some spirits like Monk or Oiran, yeah, use it on them, but Sarge and Maiden already listen to her, it'd be a dick move to turn them against their will.
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>>286550891
>spoiler
Yayoi will have to eventually face....the heart
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>>286550891
It's going to be a while before Yayoi will get the tool but there's also another thing to keep in mind. Manifesting a Shikigami takes spiritual energy, currently all the usable energy is being taken up by Taisui so it could be better in Keitarou's hands since his body could easily handle (properly) summoning at least two god class shikigami at the same time.
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>>286551574
That's how it usually works, but it could be a cheat item where she sends the ghost out normally, and then uses the item to turn them into a shikigami after they are summoned, so she can skip the manifesting part of the process.
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I just thought of something. Does Class Zero still count as a spirit? I mean, it is mostly shinigami. Would the cheat item even work on it?
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>>286552324
It's still unverified by the experts in universe but the gang did speculate that gods, demons, and ghosts are all the same kind of entity.
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>>286552461
True, but, and my memory could be hazy, but I always thought Shinigami stood apart from all the others because they come from a place not of our world at all. Like, we can't verify if Shinigami were ever human at one point.
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>>286553640
They come from a hole but I wonder if that is really the case. My bet that the hole is actually just a giant mass of shinigami since it shrinks when a shinigami leaves it. It's a bunrei of a even bigger shinigami.
>we can't verify if Shinigami were ever human at one point.
They can be absorbed into a katashiro so they at least subscribe to a humanoid form, despite just being a triangle blob.
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>>286550891
>The tension of "okay, I have this ghost, but if I don't use it properly, it might try to kill me instead" was quite central.
She can't quite rely on just getting by with the ghosts only choosing not to murder her because of bigger fish being around now, though. If every Replaced is going to be a potential divine class spirit or above, then she's going to need the Graduates to no longer be an active risk to her or her allies before going into battle.

>As for the Replaced and Kubo, I believe neither is such a big threat right now.
Anon, it's potentially a gathering (a dark gathering you could say) of multiple God-class spirits, if not higher level entities. And the spiritualist were very worried about Tein potentially joining up with them as well, and Tein's the only thing other than Tai Sui that caused them to actually worry to any measurable degree. There's also the fact that, unbeknownst to the cast, Taneko is working with Tai Sui's main body to restore him to full power in less than a year - which would be fucking catastrophic for everyone.
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>>286539906
>>286539934
You missed a page between these
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are there any character polls?
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>>286554468
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>>286554527
The pic they used for Keitarou here makes it look like he's shocked that he's that low
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>>286554527
As little sense as it would make, I still wonder if Asura and Oobashi are somehow related. Like, not brothers, but cousins at least...maybe I'm trying to make connections where there aren't any.
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>>286554616
They both turn people into meatballs. I think there was a Q&A where one of the questions was asking to elaborate on Asura and Kondo replied that doing so would spoil some stuff, take that with a grain of salt though. I forgot where I heard that and the archives are down right now.
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>>286554455
>it really is the Hyakki Yagyo
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Yayoi needs new clothes
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Yayoi's gonna do all the unorthodox pokemon batman shit
Keitarou's gonna get the orthodox spiritualist education
Eiko will run support and l337 hacker stuff and with probably get a possessed computer to do wild shit with
Ai is the beatstick

Calling it now
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>>286554527
Japs have good taste other than the ghost shota who I would put 5 spots lower. Alien deserves his spot
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>>286554455
What a retard. One fucking job.
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>>286550891
>I still always imagine Yayoi with a vendetta against the author of Bleach.
Since Yayoi's an elementary school girl, it's possible that she's an Ichigo x Rukia shipper
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>>286554577
Kek
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>>286556261
You do it next time, you asshole.
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>>286554527
AI is way too low japs you bunch of inbreed bastards

>>286554577
Cooltarou would never be that low

>>286554616
They could be distant relatives and desu it would explain why asura is so strong
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>>286539764
>mangled nerves in the hand
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>>286558246
Are you thinking this might be related to keitarou hands? As in a super deity class thing got into him and mangled his nerves?
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>>286557967
Just, I guess Oobashi's family doesn't care about its branches if this is true, considering what the hell happened to the poor kid
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>>286558786
well it could be a member of the fmaily that left the main branch because they didn't want to be in the whole exorcist jobs and became estranged
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>>286558786
They didn't care about Oobashi, the kid was walking around in shoes sizes too small for him
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>>286551574
>so it could be better in Keitarou's hands since his body could easily handle (properly) summoning at least two god class shikigami at the same time
Keitarou will finally have his revenge on the Monk after all those times he tried to drag him to hell
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You are my speciaaaal
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>>286554455
GU RITUAL
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>>286561982
Japan sure loves their Hyakko Yagyo
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>>286565362
well i hope we get some nurarihyon
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>>286565362
It's a cool concept.
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>>286558379
Not him, but that's likely exactly the case.
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>Yayoi just got MOGGED by him EXORCISTMAXXING all over her
it's over...
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>>286567158
???
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>>286565440
Off topic, but I'm still mad at SJ for killing Nurarihyon's Grandson.
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>>286567158
Yayoi is an ambush specialist she needs prep time.
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>>286540109
>eh, that's fine by me. try and kill me whenever you like
would be so funny if now there was a recurring gag of Yayoi taking him up on that. Like he's on the phone and out-of-nowhere she tries to hit him with the crowbar. He deflects it and they carry on like nothing happened.
>>286497949
>>286500398
Based on how he warns her not to stare at it, I'm assuming it's some sort of curse or hypnosis where merely looking at it instantly triggers flight or fight.
Which sounds like it could make for a kino boss battle
>priest can't do the sutra because he keeps stuttering
>sarge for the first time doesn't want to die
>courtesan's butterflies scatter, setting everything on fire but the target
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Because I'm still thinking about the possible relationship between Oobashi and Asura, I looked at Asura's back story again. It is very possible that Asura's father could be Oobashi's dad, depending how long ago things were. Maybe he wanted to get away from the onmyou life, but marrying Asura's step mother was a very poor choice.
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>>286571701
The key would be to use someone that can no sell such an ability. I doubt Class Zero would be affected by such a thing...
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>>286572824
Grandma maybe? Her dolls could seal it away and that thing does have eyes. Rape Shrek the dam ghost could use her parasites to force the spirits to fight on her behalf in the sort of proxy way.
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I wish that they made a Dark Gathering game.
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>>286573488
It's called SMT
There were some neat pixel art of DG if it were a pokemon game. It would be hard to balance a DG game though.
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>>286549921
>>286550449
Dammit, now I can't unsee it
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>>286573488
My idea for it was that it would be a more action based game, at least early on...maybe something Zelda: A Link to the Past-like and as you capture more ghosts and make graduates, you have the option to do Pokemon-esque battles to fight your opponents. But, I don't know the first thing about coding and that sounds like a nightmare to try and make good lol
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>>286540078
I hope he won't die to give Yayoi motivation or shit.
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>>286572824
Yes, but Class Zero is also dangerous even relative to other Graduates. And she'd probably want to save it for the other two anyway, along with the Ascended Jizo.
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>>286576933
Well, maybe he'll end up being more of an All Might instead of a Jiraiya in terms of survival.
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>>286576933
>>286576978
On one hand, Dark Gathering has been around for several years and none of the recurring characters have died (or ceased to exist in the case of the ghosts)
On the other hand, if someone were to die on Yayoi's side, Gojo is a pretty good candidate since he's Yayoi's mentor and stronger than everyone else so far
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>>286579316
Admittedly, he does have the most death flags. I feel like Shami or Jogan could also possibly die but maybe not.
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>>286580274
>>286579316
I bet some asshole will target her dad's ghost
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>>286580569
Do they even know that Kuubo's vessel is Yayoi's mom?
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>>286558379
Might also explain why only his nerves need to be trimmed occasionally while Eiko's doesn't, his vast spiritual powers might be trying to heal the mangled nerves but enough time had passed that it's healing wrong
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>>286582147
I dunno if they have made that connection yet. They were only interested in getting the Mom's soul it seems and cared little for anything else in the vehicle.
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>>286579316
I'm certain at some point the stakes will be raised and someone likeable dies. It's on the verge of being a necessity considering the horror angle.
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>>286580274
I really don't want Shami to die because she's like the spiritualist mother that Yayoi never had
The >>286540109 hug and >>286540137 affirmation that she's proud of Yayoi are stuff that Yayoi needs since she's still a kid in the end
Unfortunately, that also means she's pretty up there with Gojo when it comes to death flags
On the other, other hand, the series being what it is, I won't be surprised if someone like Shami does die... only to immediately get back as a ghost
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>>286584695
Having Gojo die and immediately becoming a SSS+ Tier ghost for Yayoi to use would be funny
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Can't they just possess their corpse?
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>>286576503
Evil spirits fear this.
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>>286585627
Maybe corpses come with too much of a penalty.
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>>286582147
Doubtful. Pretty much nobody even knows where Kuubo is right now.
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>>286588627
Pretty irresponsible of the replaced to just let their wmd wander around. Makes me start to wonder if Kuubo is even part of their grand plan or is just a happy coincidence.
Imagine if it did die to Tai Sui. How absurd would it be to have your plans foiled because of a one in a trillion coincidental encounter?
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>>286589216
i don't think they believed Tai Sui would be kill it because he is too much of a fightfag and the main body is a coward,it could whoever be kileld by another deity-class thing unless it can somehow comeback or something
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>>286588627
I would think they keep tabs on Kuubo. He seems to be their big project. Wouldn't be surprised if the 100 ghosts party is meant to feed him.

>>286589270
I don't think they doubted Tai Sui would kill it. Iirc they were wary of him and was even telling Dorothy to leave him be. However, Tai Sui stays with Ai, so long as Kuubo didn't go to her city/town, they probably assumed Kuubo would be safe from Tai Sui. She just happened to be traveling far that day iirc. I think they just got reaaaaaaaaaaaally lucky that Tai Sui didn't kill him.
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Not yet.
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>>286589216
Even if Kuubo died to Tai Sui, if the Angel-sama experiments are any indication, they would just try again later...now, in that instance, who knows how Yayoi would react if she found out her Tai snuffed out her Mom's spirit...since, both her and Kuubo and too tied to one another...that's the other thing, Yayoi is going to have to find some way to separate the two from each other if she still wants to "save" her and reunite her with her father.
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>>286593196
>if she found out her Tai snuffed out her Mom's spirit
I don't think it works like that. I feel like if Kuubo died, the mom would be fine. Even then, I'm sure Yayoi would rather her die then be in the position she's in. Well, she's already dead, but you know what I mean.
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>>286593364
Hm, maybe. I get the impression that she's very protective of them, to the point of their spirits, but I could be reading her wrong.
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>>286594636
They're spirits. I think she wants them to move on. Her father might only still be there 'cause he's worried about the mom and Yayoi. Once Yayoi frees/kills the mom, the father can be relieved and move on as well.
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Fair enough. I still think something odd is going on with the Dad though. Unless there is a strong spirit vein at the cemetery her Dad is at, he should have passed on already.
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>>286597305
I feel like there is a bit of a plot hole with the whole passing on thing. Ai's brother passed on naturally but TaiSui's energy leaking from her body is supposed to prevent such an event from happening because ghosts can just feed on it and he did have a reason for wanting to stick around. Funny, since if AI did die, their youngest sister would've just been the replacement bride.
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>>286585627
It might be an undead situation where they can move the body but it's still decomposing
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>>286597617
I guess the brother was playing favorites.
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>>286597617
>>286599630
I assume the brother simply refused to feed on Tai Sui's energy, given it was y'know, the power of the demon god planning to soul-rape-torture his sister for all eternity. That, and I think if he kept being a nuisance, Tai Sui would have eventually just exterminated him.
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>>286589216
Kuubo is quite possibly a big attempt to riencarnats the overall leader of the Replaced and judging by the Angel-samas, this hasn't been their first attempt either. Kuubo is simply the most developed and successful. If it had been killed by Chinese Zeus, it would set them back but they'd have just tried again.

I also think they're pretty confident that as soon as Kuubo starts eating a couple divine class spirits, it will be powerful enough to protect itself even sans intervention. We haven't seen what it can do after evolving from devouring Hariti's bunrei, but give it became pure white from that alone, it's likely well into god-class by now.
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>>286540246
I'm quite glad about this, I want the focus to stay on the ghost catching aspect rather than Yayoi

>>286550891
>I don't like very much the idea of an item that just makes ghosts obey like Shikigami
Definitely agreed. One of the things I like about the series is how all of the real firepower Yayoi has are double edged swords you need to plan around so they don't get the better of you.
I get that Yayoi needs a power up sooner or later and doing the whole "Oiran doesn't want to go back in the doll" every time she fights would get old after a while, but an item that just forces obedience is too far in the other direction.
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>>286588444
What a cutie!
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>>286597305
I agree with you on that, and I was surprised when he was still at the cemetery the first time they showed him there.

>>286550891
>I don't like very much the idea of an item that just makes ghosts obey like Shikigami
>>286601485
>One of the things I like about the series is how all of the real firepower Yayoi has are double edged swords you need to plan around so they don't get the better of you.
Likewise here. I like this manga 'cause it's a thriller. The ghosts here are scary 'cause they can really do damage to the protagonist's side, and almost at any moment. Bleached Head is probably waiting for a moment to turn on Yayoi and chop her up and torture her (and with the addition of the snake ghost, for all we know the lobotomy needle only affect one of the two). Oiran probably sends a butterfly or two toward Yayoi every time she's summoned just to see if she can get lucky if Yayoi happens to be off guard. This tension of having to rely on those that want to kill you and where one slip up can literally send you to hell (like picking up High Priest's phone call) is amazing in this manga. If Yayoi can now get their full (or most) of their obedience with no cost (other than catching this 3-part ghost) that kinda removes one of the best parts of this manga for me.
We don't know the full details yet though, and this manga has yet to fail me, so maybe there's another double edged sword that'll come up with it. Like "if you use it to force a ghost, your life span will be reduced" or "if you use it on a ghost, their curse will affect you during the duration you're using it."
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>>286602871
Those are good points...but on the other hand, as Yayoi gets more embroiled in this fight against the Replaced to get to Kuubo, needing total control is a necessary upgrade since the infighting is too much of a liability going forward. I'm sure there will be some downside to the item, since Oobashi said it will become a part of her and who knows what that entails.
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>>286602871
I don't think its such omnipotent thing item especially when she can't use ernegy i believe it's more of a safeguard tool in case one of them completely goes nuts because we can't forget that they are all likely to evolve further,imagine priest evolved and you have nothing to at least control it a bit?
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>>286576503
>>286586703
2 out of 3 spirits in general fear this
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>>286605324
what about the last one?
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>>286602871
>We don't know the full details yet though, and this manga has yet to fail me, so maybe there's another double edged sword that'll come up with it. Like "if you use it to force a ghost, your life span will be reduced" or "if you use it on a ghost, their curse will affect you during the duration you're using it."
Mamoru DOES flat out call it a cursed object that Yayoi won't be able to remove once she accepts it. It 100% has some nasty drawback behind it.
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i wodner if yayoi is going to use the heart attack thing i don't think any of the exorcists know about it, i wodner if it coudl be used on a replaced when they are possesing someone,what happens when the body they are possesing dies anyway
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>>286606745
I don't think Yayoi will ever out the existence of Marbas's ring to the wider exorcists, given how quick they were to push to have her killed just for beating Tai Sui. Her having the personal artifact of another major demon at her beck-and-call (and one powerful enough to harm Tai Sui BEFORE the Kyoto Curse took effect at that) would be far too dangerous to justify keeping her around.

>what happens when the body they are possesing dies anyway
We saw it via what happened to Shami's sister after she got MEATBALL'D - the Replaced survives, but is heavily weakened for a time. I suspect it depends on the damage dealt though. The other Shami got completely vaporized so the K Tunnel ghost probably lost a lot more power than it would if the body had been killed by any other means.
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>>286608003
>(and one powerful enough to harm Tai Sui BEFORE the Kyoto Curse took effect at that)
I don't remember that, and Marbas curse is the perfect skill to kill humans too, if it was not for Mamoru bunreis i think she might have considered using it on him before he talked things out better, now she might just try to ambush him with a crowbar
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>>286608111
>I don't remember that
My memory's a bit weak, but iirc she used it to give the self-slitting maiden a chance to put the curse mark on Tai Sui.
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>>286608111
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>>286608249
I still gotta get used to the official IS translation calling him Yin Jiao instead of Tai Sui. I wonder why they went with Tin Jiao. Also, Jogan already knows Yayoi messed with Marbas, but I don't think he knows about the ring.
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>>286608923
*US translation.
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>>286608923
*Yin Jiao, damn phone keyboard
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>>286608957
>>286608923
Of course trannylators are trying to be smart and screwign stuff up, Yin Jiao is the taoist version of Tai Sui its not name of a god but the leader of 60 distinctis Tai Suis he is also more on benevolent side, Tai Sui is Japan is a proper deity
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>>286540357
I just realized that with this being a three-part ghost, and with Yayoi having so many, it might end up as Keitarou, Eiko, and Yayoi each fighting one. Tai Sui isn't allowed, so Ai will probably sit this one out or support from the outside.
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>>286610255
It might give our girl some inspiration on how to merge divine-spirits
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>>286610320
"Merge"? As in feed them to each other like in Yayoi's room? Or combine them into a brand new spirit? If it's the latter was there a precedent for this? I can't remember any mergers like that.
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>>286610486
i do'nt think so
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>>286610255
Hm, that is one possible way to go about it. We don't know at this point if she is fighting them one at a time or needs to conquer them all at once. Personally, I think she beats one, has to travel further in to fight the second one, and then travel even further in to fight the third one.
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Which one of Yayoi's spirits would try to join the replaced side if given the recruiting pitch?
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>>286612742
the courtesan
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>>286612742
Oiran for sure. They could get Bleached Head if they let him kill as he pleases. Sarge...if they offered a way for him to permanently die, maybe? But hopefully, being one of the few of her spirits that is loyal, he wouldn't be swayed even with that. Monk just wants to curse everyone to hell, it doesn't matter who to him, Replaced including. Child has been screwed by them before, she's definite no. Asura is starting to bond with them, he won't throw that away for these Replaced fucks. And Taira would just see full on injustice with the Replaced methods.
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>>286613048
Funny how Tai Sui would also completely refuse them considering their methods and shit
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>>286613048
>And Taira would just see full on injustice with the Replaced methods.
That might be interesting to consider
if the replaced were to just say "Hey, we'll give you a new body and you can make the Japan you always wanted + give a body to all of those unborn spirits in your blade"
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>>286612742
Oiran immediately comes to mind. Bleach-head seems like a solo kinda person, but joining the replaced is likely more favorable than staying with Yayoi. Tai Sai maybe would if it meant he could have more or better fights, but I think he has a contract or something with Yayoi now. As for High Priest... Idk. Dude just seems to kill anything he can no matter what it is. Doesn't even talk to our knowledge. Most of the others got a "good guy" vibe to them, so I think it's less likely they would.
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>>286613464
He'd never do it even then because the Replaced's goal is to have an army of demons and evil gods mass devour all of Tokyo then eat them/feed them all to Kuubo. Taira's whole history here is all about fighting AGAINST that sort of injustice and channeling the resentment of all the lives who never lived due to his own failures to fight. He'd hate the Replaced the most out of all the Graduates.
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>>286613048
>Sarge...if they offered a way for him to permanently die, maybe? But hopefully, being one of the few of her spirits that is loyal, he wouldn't be swayed even with that.
One of the reasons he joined Yayoi was to get away from his grave because he felt sorry for the innocent spirits getting attacked by the other soldiers tormenting him, so I doubt he would join the Replaced even with that offer
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>>286615719
That's right, I blanked on that aspect of him. He wouldn't want to cause pain to others, especially innocents, just so he could rest.
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>>286615719
If it's something that even Tai Sui considers troublesome, I doubt the replaced would want to deal with whatever is attached to him.
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Do you think we'll get any new mainstay members in Yayoi's squad?
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>>286616838
Eh, I could see Dorothy seeing it as fun and Taneko making plots to exploit it. Oswald, yeah - he'd probably advise caution. Same for Nankobo.
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>>286618948
As in Graduates? Probably.
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>>286618948
Definitely. She might need to keep the Samurai and a few of the others nearby or in reserve just due to how things are escalating. Some, like Class Zero or the Ascended Jizo will 100% be getting screentime but given how troublesome they are, she's going to need a different method of keeping them in line but also close by at least up until she gets the tool to make them into Shikigami.

And obviously, the other haunted spots will provide their own Graduate class ghosts for her to recruit. Maybe even some non-intrinsically malicious ones similar to Child.
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>>286619564
I want to see some Keitarou and Child solo adventures.
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>>286618948
Granny seems an obvious choice
Neat design, sympathetic character, strong combatant, unique curse, potential tension with Eiko...
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>>286620548
Granny's curse should be a hard counter to any of the replaced. Unless they fancy fighting blind the entire time.
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>>286618948
Yeah, the three-part god they're about to beat. Graduate 0 might also become her personal shikigami.

If you mean of the humans, maybe not. Cast can only be so big.

>>286620627
I forgot how, but Tai Sai was able to break form it. Her dolls/babies are probably to weak to keep the top brass of the replaced contained. Riisu-chan's main body was probably strong enough to break free from it too, and she's just around the grunt level among the replaced.
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>>286621152
Main body Tai broke free just from the sheer force of his power. I guess anything weaker than her is going to be able to break out, so maybe it can still work if the Replaced in question is severely weakened before hand.
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I meant, anything stronger than her is going to break out.
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>>286621740
The ones currently on TaiSui (S-chans hair, bag of salt, sealing tags, Monkey King's headband) don't even seem to be enough since he just casually repossesses Ai.
The strongest seal that we've seen so far was Marbas' and Yayoi would consider that unacceptable since it requires a human sacrifice.
Actually, I wonder what was going on with Shuten's seal since he wasn't able to get out without help.
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>>286621988
>>286621769
surely seimei can help in the sealing methods part
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>>286608923
Speaking of official translations
>Li'l Ya
This is... Pretty lame, no? Guessing he's saying Ya-chan.

I think they did the same thing in Chainsawman too with Death and called her "Lil' D".
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>>286608923
What names did the graduates get?
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>>286622296
thanks i hate it fuck the official translations its not dogshit hopefully anon still delivers
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>>286622422
its dogshit*
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>>286622422
I can't find the removed chapters from Mangadex, so all I have now are the official translations to read T^T
>>286622337
Picrel.
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>>286622460
holy mtl
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>>286622460
>Da liu ren
thats chinese you fucking retard, if i had to rely on this i'd drop this manga you can find the older translations its not that hard
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>>286622460
Missing:
>Hellbound Sergeant
>Otogiri, the Soul Sucking Courtesan
>Face-Stealing Fiend
Child is basically the weirdest translation here. Kengon Falls is an actual waterfall but Hachioji Castle is in a completely different place. They are over 100km away from each other.

Also you can just find kredim's tl on comix.to. Should still be there. The storytime here should also be using his scans.
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>>286622962
Where? Weebcentral has the official and Weebdex doesn't have it. Bato and comick died. These were pretty much the only places I knew to find fan translations.

>>286622974
>comix.to
It's there. Thanks.
>The storytime here should also be using his scans.
Oh, true. Guess I can download each one one-by-one from each previous thread in the archives if it comes to that.
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>>286623129
my 3 cute wives
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Still can't forget this image of Eiko.
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>>286613048
We've already seen how bleached head did after he "switched side" lmao. He'll backstab them and peeling off the replaced face and go back to yayoi, saying he got to de-face a lot more after accepting her deal it's the best or some shit.
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>>286623974
Bleached Head only backstabbed Shuten because the latter always goes for a decapitating strike, literally and figuratively. Bleached Head would think Risu's way of hunting is the bee's knees if only a little too quick for his taste. I don't think he actually killed his victims most of the time.
He didn't even try to peel Tai Sui's face either strangely enough, I guess he felt really compatible with Shuten.
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>>286624254
I think it was more after seeing Tai Sui's power and how he no sold all their attacks before they started "working together" that he didn't bother to do his usual methods that time. If he didn't focus, he could have been wiped out and he can't indulge in his usual MO in the future.
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>>286606188
Too naive/proud/stupid to hide from Yayoi
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>>286621988
>The ones currently on TaiSui (S-chans hair, bag of salt, sealing tags, Monkey King's headband) don't even seem to be enough since he just casually repossesses Ai.
Heck, in this chapter, Tai Sui's casuallyteleporting wherever he wants even with all the seals in place >>286540246
He probably considers the seals as little more than training weights to make things more challenging
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>>286629361
>keep teleporting next to the loli
truly a lolicon god
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>>286623494
Is that a pill on Eiko's tongue?
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>>286631756
maybe?
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>>286629361
It really says something that Tai can still do this much even without most of his limbs and at such a power disadvantage, even if pushing himself risks his very existence. Oh well, Waku Waku, I guess lol
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>>286631756
Yes, and elongated canines.
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>>286529135
Finally took the plunge and fapped to it today.

8/10 I would say. Honestly his eyes were kinda unsettling and distracting.
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>>286637961
la creatura]
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Good night, Yayoi
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>>286629361
Always training, even when you have stumps
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>>286643199
'tis just a flesh wound
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>>286629361
He truly is a monster.
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Good thread guys. See you next month.
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>>286621740
>>286621769
>I guess anything stronger than her is going to be able to break out, so maybe it can still work if the Replaced in question is severely weakened before hand.
I'm going to laugh if granny's dolls end up working like a Pokeball



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