Persuasion
I thought of a bad Shiranui joke so I'll just share it hereRumiko's sitting at her desk, working out the story for Mao>Time to come up with a name for the water-themed villain>Hmm, what sort of characteristics does he have>He likes to hang out in shrines...>Shrines... Shi-rines...>*snap* Rumiko, old girl, you've done it again
brb, writing a bunch of Shiranui x Hakubi fanfiction
Thanks for reading!
>>287632284somewhere on some mountain daigo's sneezing and doesn't know why
Sketch for >>287632336
>>287632286genbu is here!
>>287632312because coral manipulation falls under water magic I guess
>>287634085If water magic lets you control octopi it can let you control coral as well
>>287632360shiranui's swordfish didn't used to have 3 eyes w- wait is that...blood?
>>287634202i don't recall shiranui controlling octopi...and even if he did, wouldn't they have been made of water?
>>287635559He didn't personally, but Mokuzu did. Point is, water magic clearly lets you control sea creatures and corals are living creatures (even if they are big boned).
>>287635956>nanoka, don't look...i figured that was an ayakashiit even has demon eyes
>>287637412Octopus eyes are pretty weird, to be fair
I don't know how exactly, but I have a feeling that Sana resenting Shiranui for killing Daigo played some kind of part in the downfall of the clan.
>>287638136maybe this somehow plays into why shiranui became part of the death gamesana knew about it because daigo told her after all
>>287638341Yeah, see I was thinking that maybe she was actually in control of the ayakashi that night, and tried to kill Shiranui but ended up killing Masago instead. But that doesn't really explain why she would spare him afterwards.
>>287632413EATEN>>287632436>>287632466I bet daigo would be proud of mao's treatment of sasuga heh
>>287639218did mao deliberately toss sasuga into that water attack lol
>>287639218>>287639269>every other regular human recruited into the nu-Kou Clan>dead, dying, bound to die from spirit seeds or traumatized>meanwhile Sasuga lives in a gag manga with infinite plot armor
>>287639538sasuga used to live in an acme cartoon where he was the wiley tricksterthen daigo showed up and turned the tables on him so hard that mao has never respected sasuga since
>>287640189i think even hakubi lost some respect for sasuga, probably why he was okay with shiranui taking him in the divorce lol
>>287637590we'll see how the octopus looks in the anime
>>287632524>He likes to hang out in shrines...>Shrines... Shi-rines...
>>287632553>the koketsu spell was cast be the master and the byouki>be
>>287632284>300+ chaptersis this old lady ever going to learn to not overuse her ideas until everyone (including her) are tired of her stories by the end
>>287632579shiranui said this in the viz version>picrelngl i was wondering if mao was being a little stupid for the very reason that shiranui brings up on this pageand the fact that he went underwater alone
>>287632602>end up having to fight against hakubi>could you win?could he? could shiranui even win against daigo?>>287632630mao why are you assuming that the succession battle is hakubi's only reason for possibly killing shiranui?>brb, writing a bunch of Shiranui x Hakubi fanfictionhakubi was only this arrangement to get close to yurako, and probably to access some of the cursed tools shiranui had salvagedon top of that hakubi's not into the typical pretty face anyway>picrel also i can't decide which version sounds gayer heh>there would be another path... for you two to maintain the clan *together*>the two of you could continue the goko clan's legacy *together*
look at this silly hyakka fanart i found but couldn't post in the anime ep thread because he hasn't shown up yet>https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/138305363
>>287645125Hyakka and Kamon should get into the shikigami game some more, we need giant pokemon battles with the four auspicious beasts
>>287647144I'm assuming you meant to reply to this lol >>287646576>Hyakka and Kamon should get into the shikigami game some morewood is supposed to be represented by the azure dragon, but kamon's only shikigami so far has been benikodo hyakka's sparrows count as shikigami? either way he should summon suzaku to fight hakubi's tiger
>>287638910>But that doesn't really explain why she would spare him afterwards.shrimple, no more ayakashi controlher only means of killing him after that would've been more hands-on
>>287649161I'm just thinking why the ayakashi would have stopped after killing Masago if she Sana had any control over them. Maybe her hatred for Shiranui merely made them go out of control, and then the master got them under control afterwards. Or maybe she went>Kill the one with the big hatbut wasn't counting on Masago being there.Actually, looking at Shiranui's description of the events, I don't think we've ever seen the moment Masago actually died... Could the ayakashi have been going for Shiranui, but Masago sacrificed herself to save him? That would give him a strong motivation to resurrect her, and give Sana a real impetus for wanting to die, because her malice led to the death of someone innocent.
NANOKA SO CUTE
>>287649556Interesting line of thinking. I'm absolutely sure there's still something vital we haven't seen about Masago.
>>287651873I've been wondering if masago and daigo ever interacted myself, and not even before they died could their souls have communicated in some way?
>>287632284so is this just inuyasha 2, or is it actually different?
>>287654157There's less emphasis on adventuring and power-ups and more on gradually unveiling the mystery of an event that affected most of the main cast a long time ago. In terms of characters, Mao and Nanoka are about as different from Inuyasha and Kagome as you can get. And I want to say that the side characters get a little more focus than in Inuyasha, but I've already pretty much forgotten what happened in Inuyasha despite rereading the whole thing just a year or two ago.
>>287632658>He isn't aiming to kill youmao are you sure about that?
>>287632682>nothing will ever endbyoki's words?
>>287657057Yes, I noted that as well. I don't remember if it's said elsewhere, but that's what he tells Mao when he runs away after his reawakening. Parallels to the way Daigo has been speaking other people's words, or just Mao borrowing a catchy phrase? Who knows.
>>287657317was it the same in japanese too?
>>287657347Both had 何も終わらない as the salient part, Byouki just uses a funky old-fashioned ぬ in place of ない.
alright anons, it's time to talk about volume 28here's the back cover featuring long-hair nanoka>picrelwe last left off on ayame pulling out a comically large needle to try to kill her little sister
>>287659501chapter 269>you now remember that kagari had a hedgehog shikigamihedgehog in japanese is harinezumi which is literally "needle rat" you know soma's had iron rats coming out of his body...COINCIDENCE?!
>>287659551also from this chapter>picrelheh >>287644972
moving on to chapter 270 with the implied naked kagari cover>picrelso out of the new gen we've seen mei's cleavage, renji partially shirtless, and soma fully shirtlessthis leaves sasuga as the last of the new gen to not show some skin, in the same way kamon hasn't shown anything hmmalso mei really does a 180 with her usage of the seed of haku, the storytime overall helped remind how she gave it to renji with no hesitationbut then here after seeing that other guy, she's now begging hakubi to exorcise the needle curse
>>287659699this panel just made me sad... :-(
>>287659767when sasuga shows up to exorcise the needle curse, he says this about mao>He broke my conch shell with the water spirit sealed insidewith water spirit being 水精様was it mentioned before this that there were water spirits inside the conch?also this chapter is apparently the first time kagari and sasuga meeti guess they were the only ones among the new gen who hadn't met each other yet... wait has sasuga met soma? has soma met renji?
chapter 271wondering again how many of the new gen know about hakubi and shiranui's immortality...and do the kids not notice that soma's hands are metallic now>picrelunless hakubi told them that's to be expected...?
>>287632336nice page
>>287662448have to make an entrance after allwe'll see mao riding genbu into battle in the anime soon :-)
>>287661223chapter 272>picrelmetal energy releases from the back i guessis this that technique soifon and yoruichi use
>>287664271might be the nicest smile he's ever given
>>287664321piggyback ride for otoya :-)
chapter 273you now remember that soma's last words to nanoka were>you ought to be more femininerumiko makes some striking panels when the death involves crumbling in some way doesn't she
>>287665800mao also landed one hell of a bloody strike on hakubi in this chapterso there's this, and that time he cut off more of hakubi's armwasn't hakubi supposed to be hyakka's target? you're slipping hyakka-kun
chapter 274>picrelrumiko was that iron rat coming out of his neck necessary...and i swear there's a statue that has a pose kind of similar to soma's in that left panel
>>287666646an anon wondered before how many people have been turned in to tenkowonder if the kids know they're staying with a fire ayakashi (who is perhaps in human form), or are they staying with an actual fireball?also the little one's wearing soma's hat...
>>287666715kamon>I don't understand why Soma tried to escape from Hakubi. He seemed so enamored with him.heheheanyways on the last page nanoka wonders if this was the plan all along, in the simulpub they name hakubi specifically but it seems the raws don't have her think of a specific namecould she have potentially been thinking of daigo? or both of them?
chapter 275 with that haircutting ayakashi who's just like thatalso silly nanoka forgetting that she has a pixie cut teehee
>>287667504>>287651751>NANOKA SO CUTEtmw the manga says the same>picrel
>>287667535an evergreen panel from otoya heh
chapter 276 - no particular commentchapter 277>picrellmao
>>287667674>sword defeated by hairalso the female evil spirit was using washi for herself, i thought washi was an old man thing?
>>287665800It was a bit of a weird thing to say just before you die
>>287668399i saw a comment speculate that this was soma's way of saying nanoka should live a normal life instead of being involved in fighting the goko clan, but the comment still noted what a wild thing to say that wasnanoka's reaction to that is great though lol>picrel
chapter 278opening with yurako barely learning about daigo crashing shiranui's shrine (heh, see OP's joke) from back in volume 25so then that whirlpool stuff in volume 26 was in the middle of moving? where was he staying?also hatless hakubi again, but isn't his injury in picrel in the wrong direction? >>287665865
>>287668977>picrelthat twitch thoughi don't remember the exact words, but previously when they've talked about daigo and sana's relationship they'd use a phrase that literally means something akin to "heart was taken" (with kokoro for heart)anyways i am here to once again suggest to you all that at some point daigo will take sana's heart (literally) and that that will exorcise the master out of him
>>287669046daigo and sana died before they could married, yet daigo still gets to experience an acrimonious relationship with his almost in-lawsrumiko-dono your mind...>Why are you asking me that?>So? What difference does it make?daigo dodging those question as if he doesn't think to himself in his own thoughts heard to no one but himself "i just wanted to make you happy, sana" in the literal next chapter lol
>>287669152oops, forgot picrelanother aspect of this interaction is that sana's murderer is asking daigo to explain his relationship with sana, while keeping sana's literal heart in a jarwhich is, as the youth say, completely out of pocket honestly yurako what were you expecting him to say to you here
>>287669216yurako>If you truly despised me, you would just kill me.someone hasn't seen- i mean read the count of monte christo, which is odd considering the book was published in the 1860s and was later published in japan as gankutsuou in 1901-1905 according to jp wikiwait according to wikipedia there were already four silent film adaptations by the time yurako speaks with daigo in this chapter
>>287669456yurako>But there is something you're unaware of, Daigo... I'm not like you.daigo missed the chance to say >You're right. Mao actually loves me.before getting moss'd in the face
>>287669216Yurako's questions sound like they could almost be aimed at her dad. Maybe that threw Daigo for a loop.
>>287670297anon-kun, y- your mind...there are layers to this interaction oh my godbut wait, wait... mao just told shiranui in this week's chapter that the master, shiranui's father, is in daigo >>287632579and the last chapter of volume 28 begins with shiranui's shikigami delivering the moss to yurakoso even though they can't meet in person, all shiranui has to do is send a message with his shikigami both shiranui and yurako want to kill daigo, and for them to know that their abusive father's soul is *also* in him?? mao what have you done!!?
maobros, you did reread chapters 269 through 278 (volume 28) right?
>>287671534Yes, and since the usual guy hasn't asked yet, I did make an intermediate revision for the timeline for volume 28 (I consider this a work-in-progress though, so I'm not taking responsibility for any mistakes).Souma's death is the highlight of the volume of course, and even if you don't care for him as a character it's a very nicely executed sequence. Highlights just how big of a bastard Hakubi is, and it ties in nicely with Kagari which in turn ties in nicely with Mei and so on. Long-haired Nanoka was an alright diversion with a little romantic progress. And I absolutely love the Yurako sequence, it's great to see her going on the offensive after spending so much time getting tossed around by others even though it backfires spectacularly in the next volume.
Also, regarding chapter 270 in particular, Kagari makes some funny faces (maybe something about Sasuga has that effect on people)Seriously though, I like the way this chapter portrays Kagari's insecurity about her value, and how that changes after she witnesses Souma's death. And poor Mei's just trying to tell her that shit's not going to end well.
>>287666818Given that the whole page is them talking about Daigo, I certainly assumed that she was thinking about Daigo too
>>287659899Sasuga and Renji usually hang out on Shiranui's end of the clan, I imagine.
>>287632729Thank you for posting, OP.
