My wife Luluci on the cover.Chapter about the Knights Moralis dealing with the fallout of Silver Eve, plus a surprise.
Not going to dump until the speedscan is out, but here are the highlights.>Easthies has been demoted and is imprisoned at the Great Hall>Vinanna tells Luluci the king of Ezrest wants to buy the illegal X-ray glasses for medical treatment purposes and offers her Easthies' position>Luluci is conflicted and decides to eat pudding>Utowin visits Easthies, Easthies tells him he would've wiped anyone's memories including his and Utowin gets mad>Rologa also goes visit Easthies and asks him to become his master creating the worst witch duo in history
Birth of the "we hate Coco and Agott" squad.
>>288364580Lulucis Lulucis
>>288364671>>Luluci is conflicted and decides to eat puddingholy cute
>>288364706What a cute
>>288364671Did Luluci win or lose?
>>288364706This guy sucks so bad man. The other boyfriends are all great and then this is Agott's designated boyfriend
>>288365356Only suffering ahead but for now she feasts.
>>288364671>magaka tells readers they can skip this one chapter because it has triggering content>turns out the "filler" chapter actually introduced an important plot point
>>288365789Vinanna herself forgot the details because Easthies mindwiped her and is going by the knights' reports so it's like she skipped that chapter.Also she condones Easthies' muggle mindwiping spree and says she would've done it if he hadn't, her only issue is with him attacking her.
>Hears about Forbidden Magic>Immediately wants to learn themEasthies was right
>>288366143
>>288364706wasnt this kid shitting on agott for not apprenticing with her own family?
>>288366361based
>>288364671>the king of Ezrest wants to buy the illegal X-ray glasses
>>288367001Yes, plus he strikes a similar pose to Coco's when she defended Agott from him so you know he now probably has a chip on his shoulder about her as well and may want to be taught by Easthies because of what he tried to do to her. It sounds way too petty but also the kind of thing he'd do.
>>288365915>evil old womanSomehow the closest thing to a traditional witch in the series so far.
>>288364671Laviscious body
>>288367217We've gotten to the point where artists add content warnings to their own works huh...
>>288364671>offers her Easthies' positionsquad leader or head of knights?
>>288364671>>Easthies has been demoted and is imprisoned at the Great HallHaha get bend
>>288364671>>Rologa also goes visit Easthies and asks him to become his master creating the worst witch duo in historyWho knew asshole magnetism existed?
>>288368127Tht chapter happen 5 years ago, anon.
>>288364580I'll post the full raw chapter just for giggles and shits. >https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L21vbm90b25vdXNmcnVpdC85MnJhd3MtdGVzdC9tYWluL1dpdGNoX0hhdF9BdGVsaWVyXzk3Lmpzb24/97/1/
how lewd
>>288369753So many sexy poses
This old crone may be our first true Witch. >>288369816Luluci is our proud eye candy.
I think Shirahama likes this evil old lady.
Our girl is drowning in the chaos. This is all Coco's fault.
>>288369802>>288369819>on top of her mentor going off the deep end and the pressure of having to replace him, Luluci has to struggle with the idea of the item that reminds her of her sexual abuse being used for good to help doctors treat peopleNo peace of mind ever for our poor girl, she's one small push away from becoming Coco 2.0.
Easthies is ready to star in a romance movie for teenage girls.
Utowin thought that nepotism would save him. He really is a prick. >>288370082SOON
Having a whale of a time.
Hungry girl....
Maybe these two will be the schismatics.
A match made in Hell. Shirahama is going to have fun with these bastards.
>>288370104he looks like those bottoms in chinese danmei
>>288370329Really they will intensity the worst traits of ech other.
>Easthies>freely admits he'd mindwipe his old buddy if need be>Qifrey>does it over and over again in secretWhy is Qifrey the good guy again?
>>288370564>intensify*
>>288370569He's not. He is the type of character that will fall as low as his enemy if needed just so he can feel guilty about later
>>288370329did easthies even take the fifth test? why would he
>>288370676He does ostensibly have to train the other members of the Knights Moralis.
>>288370104>>288370309he's such a drama queen
>>288370569coco is the only good guy
>>288370726Justice has a heart of drama.
>>288370253luluci is a pudding slut...
>>288364671Surely it isn't a bad idea to let the humies have x-ray glasses that will let them see under clothes, no way will they be used to find out that witches are drawing underneath their cloaks
>>288370569Because Easthies is an asshole.
Can someone reassure me Shirahama won't get Gachiakuta'd
>>288371410She's not terminally online
>>288370253>>288371350https://videoart.net/creme-caramel/very relevant
I want to peep on her with my *legal* see-through magic glasses
>>288364671>Easthies has been demoted and is imprisoned at the Great HallThank god, some Pointed Hats still have a brain!
Why do people hate Rologa so much… he’s just a tsundere…
>>288370329If this dickhead ends up getting any worse than he already is, I might just join the brimhats out of spite. It's truly impressive how much worse he gets as a pretentious asshole, even when proof is staring him right in the face.
>>288372094He showed up two times only to shit talk Agott. That's not a good look. Maybe now he will finally do something for once. But with Easthies the chances are high he will become worse.
>>288372094>>288372248Easthies and him will somehow improve one another. Their assholery will grind flat on one another and they'll both be purified.
>>288366143Coco has never once considered herself a pointy hat. The moment she gets access to the tower, it's fucking over for the coneheads.
>>288370082Luluci has been wavering in her commitment to the current system for a while now.Though I guess in-universe Endless Leech Night was a few days ago?Still, if Coco pulled a Phos and asked her to come with her to the CocoLoco faction, she probably would.
>>288372839Still too early for her to leave right now. Gotta give her some more trauma. Maybe seeing Vinana doing something evil.
>>288369776>>288369802>>288369819>>288369842>>288369866>>288369888>>288369914>>288369937>>288369963>>288369992Vinanna is looking extremely sexy to me. Just something about her is ticking a lot of boxes. Quite frankly, I would. She must have been extremely dangerous when she was in her youth.
>>288372291is simply math, two negatives make a positive
>>288372958She's got the appeal of a lady like Balalaika.
>>288364580Come on, Shirahama, why can't you keep Luluci bust size consistent?
>>288370104>>288370136>>288370193Canon
this is your new SS squad leader
>>288371654for you
>>288370569Olruggio was the one who wanted Qifrey to mindwipe him in the first place. It's a thing between them.
Rologa just wants a buddy to bully those two annoying girls with and doesn't know said buddy will try to kill one of them next time they see them.
>>288373220My body is her eminent domain.
>>288373581In an ironic twist, Coco will be the one to completely erase Easthies' memories. Rologa, on the other hand, will get a fate worse than death for bullying her Agott.
>>288366361I look like this and say this
Wow, the hype for this anime has died down significantly.
>>288374349Not really, the threads have the biggest longevity out of any new anime this season, but most of the ones posting there are animefags that don't want to get spoiled.
How cute, he’s flirting with her. Utowin: “Perfect timing. I’ll give you this pudding.”Luluci: “Huh? Thank you very much…”Luluci: “That’s unusually thoughtful of you, Utowin… I was just in the mood for pudding.”Utowin: “Did you fall for me all over again?”Utowin, smaller text: “Pretty considerate of me, right?”Luluci: “Unfortunately, I haven’t even fallen for you the first time yet…”Utowin: “Ah, okay. Sorry. I got carried away.”
>>288374464>confirmed lesbianNice. Now show us her girlfriend, Shirahama.
>>288374419While the animation is beautiful the story just isn't a hype machine. Qifrey won't be summoning a dragon every episode. Above all it's a slow comfy anime with occasional terrorist attacks
>>288374464>utowin is straightShirahama betrayed us.
>>288374529meant for >>288374349
>>288374529That and monthly manga simple are not as hyper as weekly manga, see Kakegurui, massively popular anime that doesn't have threads due to being monthly
>>288374574Was there ever a doubt? We already know who the gay guy among the Knight Moralis is
Shirahama used to draw bl doujins back in the day under the name Sato. Here’s one of the pages I found of it.
>>288374962Any page that looks identifiably as 'hers'?That looks reasonably standard in aesthetic.
>>288373581Poor brat is just a little shithead and doesn't realize he's tying himself to fucking Judge Dredd.
>>288375568That’s how her old art style used to look like. Here’s a 18+ otome visual novel she worked on. The artstyle is pretty similar. And people who have been a long time fan of her say that she used to have a pixiv page where she used to post bl gundum ship art.
>>288376061Some more art from that visual novel.
>>288375568Here’s a cover of a doujinshi she made.
>>288376061>>288376074How on earth did she turned from this to a woke lefties libtard?Who poisoned her? Marvel? DC?
I will find the forbidden spell to make Qifrey pregnant
>>288374349Only if you listen to shitposters in the nicolive threads.
>>288376227Well, the game came out over 15 years ago. Half of /a/ wasn't even born yet. Shirahama was probably taking whatever she could get back then. But really, what about that game do you think would bother her? That characters had sex in it?
>>288374528She already did.
>>288376074I'm next.
>>288376227Don't believe what people on /a/ say
Speedscans out, poastanhttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nn4qAKBj2fDS1yiAmsdDrquKoU7xIL7iSeems like I'm already a villain.
Introspection is a scam.
Witches: No Sense of Right and Wrong
Vinanna didn't really have a strong character in the Festival arc, but this chapter somehow still feels like a character assassination, lmao.
A simple creature.
Based Lawfag. Han Feizi smiles down at him.
>nooooo you can't lobotomize us toooooo!!!>only everyone else!!!
Such drama.
Maybe two wrongs can make a right. ENDAny thoughts from you night owls?
>>288378031So the society that people keep saying is shit and doesn't make sense actually is barely hanging together by a thread
>>288378192Well, you wouldn't have the Knights Moralis as basically unrestricted ATF agents if the world wasn't teetering on the edge constantly.
>>288377840The Dagda quote isn't quite right there. He should be asking her to take Custas as her disciple
>>288378437Putting the speed in speedscans.
>>288376686I wonder if she'll ever show up in the present.
>>288377805I'm all for Vinanna being like this, it wouldn't make sense for her to have allowed Easthies to be her successor if she didn't share his way of thinking. It was either that or negligence, which would've been boring.>>288377911If he found out Qifrey did it, would he get mad or thank him?>>288378001>>288378018>hand on neck poseUtowin is discount Olly through and through.
>>288370049she started it by jailing xray dude
>>288377746>>288377737so her plan always was to memory wipe everyone after they saved the day?
>>288378056just what dastardly shenanigans is that fuckboi gonna get up to with him
>>288379610Vinanna said she noticed an "abnormality" and here she is mentioning some vagueness to Beldaruit. There was something weird going on that night, more than the leech
>>288370329It's gonna take the power of handholding to push back against their unholy union
the double spread of their first kiss in 100+ chapters is gonna hit like fuckin crack
>>288379922I'm not sure she's supposed to be referring to an event but rather to the Brimhats' aim to give muggles the knowledge that magic can do things witches say it can't. Even if the people who were treated had their memories mindwiped by the time reversal bed itself, the doctors will still know about it and start wondering why witches can't do more. The king has basically taken Beldaruit hostage for that exact purpose now and wants the x-ray glasses too. It's possible that Vinanna agreed to the use of the contraption because they were out of options but would've mindwiped everyone (including Beldaruit) and destroyed it after the crisis was over. If that was her idea then Easthies ironically screwed it all up by attacking her and then getting taken out himself, but we can't know for sure since he mindwiped her.
>>288380019If it was just that then there would be no need to speak this vaguely nor would Beldaruit be so shocked. If anything, Vinana here is pointing out "something" that was more important than what the outsiders would see and how they would react.
Daughter!
>>288377805>Fuck muggles, they don't deserve medical helpI feel the calling of my ancestors, they're telling me to BURN THE WITCH
>>288377700Luluci is naive as hell, she'd be giving the most powerful man in the country the means to see through witches' cloaks and discover the secret.
The men are hotter than the women in this manga, no homo
>>288380312There's a deluge of important hot adult men but Luluci is the only relevant adult woman, I always hope Alaira will start showing up more often but the story forced her to be completely irrelevant for the time being. Lestisse, Adina and that other female Brimhat are also waiting in the wings for their moment. Them aside I can only think of the cute nurse with the butch nurse gf but she'll most likely never leave background character status.
>>288374962is that yaoi
>>288380370They need conserve to hot adult woman energy until Coco and Agott get older
>>288380641*Tetia
How will Aggot handle adult Coco's giant booba?
>>288372958Agreed, one of her best qualities (to me at least) is her body language, casual and relaxed yet assertive
>>288377737>the leech swarm attack caused by the Brimmed HatsShe doesn't know anymore it was the greedy grandpa? So the fact the Pointed Hats did it themselves caused her to bend the rules?
>>288377820>Are they hiding some grave secret even from fellow witches...?God I hope Shirahama doesn't pull a Heavy Object
>>288381433Luluci's heavy objects.
>>288381441Kek
His invention will save thousands. Luluci must apologize.
>>288379922so all vice captain had to do is follow along with the plan and they would have both gotten their way yeah he is stupid.
>>288364671>Vinanna tells Luluci the king of Ezrest wants to buy the illegal X-ray glasses for medical treatment purposes and offers her Easthies' position>Luluci is conflicted and decides to eat puddingkek
>>288377737>The leech swarm attack caused by the Brimmed Hats.Called it. I hope this was on purpose.
>>288381430Technically he had switched to being a Brimhat and got the forbidden spell from them.
>>288381796Sorta. There's a grey area between using forbidden magic and actually being part of the Brimhat faction proper.
>>288380145Luluci isn't the brains of the operation, just the boobs.
>>288381841He added a brim to his hat. Granted, no other Brimhat was aware of his actions and he in fact fucked everything up for Lestisse and Ininia, but that's how they usually roll anyway.
>>288379997Speaking of 100, I wonder if there'll be a treat in the 100th chapter or if it's just going to be business as usual. It's quite a milestone, but I don't remember Shirahama doing anything special for those.
>>288379223>>288380139Vinanna is doing the right thing for either the wrong reasons or for right and wrong reasons. The X-Ray goggles will also let the king see through witch cloaks to discover their secrets. And even if you modify them to only work in specific areas that witches don't go, there's always going to be an exception. Now, if Vinanna realizes this is hard to say because she's obviously smart, but also she doesn't explicitly tell that to Luluci in the scene and instead could be denying the concept just out of principle.
>>288381796>one of our top leaders was actually a terrorist and caused this nightmare but because helping would be against the rules we can't do anythingStill hard to justify to anyone. So maybe that played a role to this "exception"
>>288381733The wizard government got some good propaganda out there that everything involving magical evil is brimhat doing, and people believe it.
>>288381506>>288381910Its a hard issue because why Vinanna denied it isn't obvious, but there is a very good reason to turn the request down.
>>288382001because they would reveal witches drawing spells under the clothes?
>>288382195Yes. But she isn't explicit that is her reasoning in this scene, so she could just be denying the King on the basic principle of the matter that muggles should have minimal access to magical tools.
>>288382195Easy fix : instead of making the spells tied to portable glasses, make it bound to a great big device that cannot be moved from its location. You know, like these light thingies that hang from the ceiling in real operating rooms. Witches aren't allowed to practice medicine so there's no reason for them to be in the room anyway.
>>288380312>>288380370No shit, Shirahama is a fujo. Of course her men are more important/hotter
>>288366361There is literally no counter arguments to this btw.
>>288380312Luluci just has a shitty haircut.
>>288380123Evil corrupting witch.
>>288379610Seems that way. If not for whatever abnormality she detected setting off her internal alarm, she'd have erased everyone's memory of that day herself. She was leaving the memories intact for a reasons, even if we don't know specifically why.
>>288364580LULUSEXXX
>the witch police now has the only access to the glasses that Let you see if someone draw magic upon their bodyAm I the only one thinking about this? Are magic body scans comming soon?
>>288380905
>>288383893>witch gestapo adds a witch TSA branchThey just need witch traffic cops fining you for flying too fast and this society will be wholly irredeemable
>>288383893>>288383926At a certain point the Watchful Eyes will just be humanoid xray surveillance cameras using a version of these goggles if Easthies or someone like him gets their way.
>>288383814Well said.
>took a break when the Silver Eve started years ago>forgot about it and let the chapters pile up>anime reignites interest>turns out Silver Eve arc just finished and I can read it all in one goHoly shit, truly a Namek-tier arc that I believe makes up more than half the manga concurrently.Very glad I waited.>>288364671Chadthiesbros ... we just tried to do our JOB ...
>>288383926"Just move the line along, lady, everyone wants to get to the Silver Festival, not just you"
>>288384454To be fair, is a huge arc with huge changes to the status quo. It felt slow because this manga is monthly, instead of weekly, but is not much longer than a Fairy Tail big arc, and has way more interesting consequences.
>>288384519Yeah, the change in just Coco is massive
>>288384519Don't get me wrong, while "Namek" is at times used derogatory, let's not forget that Namek is a really fucking good arc that changed the trajectory going forward.While it most likely went past the amount of volumes Shirayama planned for it, it had some high highs that were held together by some patchwork and some lows that I am willing to overlook for the sake of facilitating the payoff.It was definitely worth it but keeping up monthly would make following the web of interrconnected parts harder.
>>288364671>witches do a lot of magic under their sleeves and capes>xray glasses
You really don't need X-Ray glasses or anything, you can simply tell a couple of your spies to put on pointed caps and witch garbs and sneak into their tents during the festival to spot them drawing their magic runes with their magic sentient tree blood juice.I wonder how many times people have learned the secret of drawing magic and how many times entire countries had to have their minds wiped before.
>>288385544The witch community seems paranoid enough about leaks that they'd catch you. And just because you can see what they're doing, doesn't mean that when you tell someone how to replicate it, that they can. Because you wouldn't have the right tools to do it. Like if Coco just watched Qifrey in the workshop and tried to replicate his magic, but she didn't have the Brimhat's pen, she'd have failed and would have thought that there was some kind of trick she missed. Some kind of superpower he had that she didn't have.
>>288382433That would require innovation and without Coco or Olruggio around, no one is allowed to do that.
>>288385858The only thing that is needed is the ink isn't it? You can draw with your fingers if you want to as long as you're using the right ink.And you could totally just casually approach Tetia and ask her if she could help your practice some spells or whatever if you looked and acted like a witch.There is a huge amount of options and opportunities to figure out how it works, the series really underestimates how badly regular humans would want to uncover magic as well as how crafty they are.I'm certain that during the chaos of the leech festival alone several people must have figured out how to cast spells.Also does wiping someones memories work inside the castle that's got the anti-magic barrier protecting it?
>>288386437You'd have to know the ink was special.
>>288386457Do you really think people would not consider that possibility Everything we have achieved in technology is because of trying out everything we can think of
>>288386492NTA but don't apply our world logic to it. Let me ask you a question: If you happen to see a rainbow in a world of magic, would you believe that's someones magic or that it's a natural phenomenon?Yeah yeah, endless pursuit of knowledge, the indomitable human spirit, the unlimited power of science yada yada, but it's much easier to believe it's magic because that's just as much of a possibility unlike in our world.We don't have the luxury of an otherworldly power so there has to be an explanation we can find eventually.
>>288386492IRL magic users managed to hide their secrets for millennia, and that is in a world where magic didn't clearly exist. If you had literal proof of magic, you'd just accept that as reality. Not think that there was a trick to figure out.
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>>2883879442/4
>>2883879643/4
>>288377700I hope they realize that this will immediately be used to expose how witches write their spells under their cloaks, enabling the king to have both medicine and magic under his control. It will be the end of Pointy Hat supremacy. Good.
>>288378031>>288378056The amount of chaos this duo will cause in the future.....
>>2883880154/4
>>288388073Cute. Thought realistically Qifrey should've started to tree.
>>288387944>>288387964>>288388015>>288388073Very cute.Qifrey later had to go start a fight with Easthies or something to survive the night.
>>288379610>>288379922>>288383712How I am reading this is that the abnormality is Coco. She doesn't remember the day, only has secondhand information of some of the larger details. She knows what happened, but not why. She knows what she would have done under normal circumstances, and thus knows that something strange must have happened to cause her to do something which she struggles to reconcile with that she thinks she would have done that night. Because, without her memories, she is missing the key detail of Coco convincing her to support the plan she did. There was an inflection point, a change in her thinking, that Coco provoked that is now missing.
>>288388939I don't think it could be her since they barely interacted with each other
>>288388939She mentioned something about feeling a disturbance in the air. I don't think that Vinanna would hesitate for a second on lobotomizing Coco if it seemed necessary.
A Coco victory fucking over both coneheads and brimcels is the only way.
>>288379223>If he found out Qifrey did it, would he get mad or thank him?Qifrey captured Engendale he did not memory wipe him.
>>288389060I'm still betting on Coco coming up with some kind of defense magic that she tells anyone and everyone how to make. Something that counters forbidden magic AND the memory wipes, leaving the Knights Moralis powerless to undo it with mindwipes and the scariest of forbidden magics now trivial to defend against.Basically the solution to gun violence being to hand out items that make you bulletproof.
>>288389467Oh yeah, I guess Easthies was specifically referring to the mindwipe, which IIRC was done offscreen by the hobo-looking Brimhat?
>>288389495Actually, looks like the cat did it
>>288377820Does that panel imply the "grave secret" is the silverwood trees? I dunno, that doesn't seem so bad.
>>288389697Luluci is feeling guilty about covering for Dagda and Custas at the expense of her duty.
>>288374529Not all anime needs to be hype my dude. This is better. Let the aura farmer and hype moment people filter out naturally. We don't need the JJK, Chainsaw Man, and Solo Leveling people here.
>>288389697It might be that only Silverwood grown from humans can produce magic ink. But I don't think that makes sense. Supposedly very few know that Silverwood can grow from humans, but at the same time, Silverwoods are common enough that having one in an average shop like Nolnoa's is unremarkable, Therefore magic ink Silverwoods are common while Silverwood sprouting from humans is rare, so they can't be the same.
>>288390112We don't really know how many magic shops exist. But I do generally think the 'how' of where Silverwoods come from is obscure or perhaps people just think they come from the bodies of dead animals without thinking more deeply about the mechanics of it or if that could apply to a human.
>>288390161I don't think that even most witches are aware of how silverwood trees reproduce, not even knowing they come from animals. Remember, they act as a form of magical healing until you settle down and a tree grows out of you. The sages wouldn't want anyone to know about that part, and that part can't remain secret unless people don't know where silverwood trees come from at all.
>>288388017Vinanna has personal experience with the King being a sketchy fuck. It was unfair to ask Luluci this when she doesn't know it. But at the same time, she should be suspicious if she's meant to be a leader in the magic ATF agency.
>>288390112Does Silverwood born from animals not work?
I wonder if the part about Silverwood being a gift from god is to be taken literallyWill Coco and her friends fight god at some point in twenty years
>>288389735Sure, but the framing of that panel and that bubble implies >>288389697>>288391454There's nothing to indicate it doesn't. All the silverwoods witches get their ink from being human-based would be a pretty huge twist, but there's no reason to think that's the case.
>>288377840>>288391562Maybe, but you have a Dagda flashback to him asking her to look out for Custas on the next page, the speed TL just got the subjects mixed up. Would Luluci be privy to info about where Silverwoods come from or even care that much if not for Custas?
>>288391553Yes, but rather than a fight to the death it will be a competition to draw the most impressive spell. God loses and leaves with his tail between his legs.
>>288392612So in this world Euini is a dog cursed to become a human?
ENTER THE ANTI-ARKCO DUO
>>288392941They're going to be so bad for one another that they'll both come out the other end as paragons of virtue.
>>288381374Exactly. You are a man of culture, just like me.
>>288384484Nicely done. How come we get corralled and digitally strip searched, but we don't get cool hats for compensation.
>>288392849And would he mount dog Richeh in his human form?
>>288391454We see the tree sprouting from a deer or whatever, right?
>>288392941Imagine that little shitter having access to the mindwipe spell.
>>288394239Yes, I was asking if it's good enough to make magic ink
They never made a big fuss over ink being wasted right? So I'd imagine it's not ultra rare and only made out of humans even if it was a secret
>>288394702Well, humans aren't an endangered species.
>>288392849This is probably just how they look wearing the beastcloak while near a scale wolf
>>288396216Yeah, but it's mentioned by the Qifrey that, as far as he knew, he was only one who got implanted successfully. The thing with Custas was a newly developed variant by Restys.
I think the strongest version of this theory would be>in the past, all ink-bearing sillverwoods were grown from humans>after creation of The Pact, all silverwood seeds that were suitable for taking root in humans were destroyed>the trees still used today are all ancient and from this time, and the inability to grow new ones has just never been questioned because it hasn't been needed in the restricted magic society>brimhats are researching how to recreate the ancient seeds so new ink trees can be grown from peoplebut I'm still not that confident in it
Wasn’t it mentioned ages ago, before Leech Namek, that the Brimhats were messing with some forest? It had a spooky name.
>>288397156I think that is one of those before-the-pact things. Some witch was trying their hand at necromancy and made a haunted evil forest.
>>288397422Although, on second thought - given that it was called a 'silverwood forest', they may have been actually trying to undo some massive catastrophe that had just happened involving mass parasitism or mass death. So perhaps they were just completely misunderstood or failed at saving people in an unexpected way.
>>288397422>>288397460Okay, so it was a silverwood forest, that’s what I was getting at. Interesting.
>>288366361All those dead children were worth it too?
I want a Coco daughter/wife.
Watching her instills a great sadness in me, for I've never had as much courage and drive as she does.
Keep an eye out for the novel in the near future, there's some cool stuff in it: https://kbirc.kodansha.co.jp/books/2408>Rights sold English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Italian
>>288399915Why does the witch's ball not feature elaborate hat displays?
>>288401125>In the final story, the Knights Moralis go undercover after receiving a report about abuse of magic.Nothing to see here, we're just unassuming muggles.
>>288399913I feel melancholy because I know Shirahama likes writing her both happy and depressed, and Coco has a lot of depression in her future.
>>288376227Are you fucking retarded? She was already a subhuman degenerate drawing gay porn and self-insert gangbangs. That's generic left-wing illness right there.
>>288364580I left this manga back when I caught up to it, I think it was around ch 50It was really good, is it still? Did it get super gay or something bad?
>>288402172You should catch up, now is the perfect time. There was a huge arc where the series became a lot more ambitious and the author really started delving deep into the themes and conflicts. Chapter 50 was already a bit into it, you should restart from 40 if you want to go back to the very beginning.
>>288402211Ty anon I remember the first chapters were good so I'll probably go from the start again
>>288399915>Bare shoulders Luluciuuuuuooooh
Wwhen are we going to see Witch/Norm relationships and a Witch toss up indoctrinating their children into the secret or telling them they failed to inherit their parent's great power.
>>288399915me on the left
>>288397156>>288397460>>288397460There is this thing from Qifrey's past... which we still don't know what the heck it really is because he'll turn into a tree if he tells anyone about it
>>288402768>>288397156>>288397460I can't blame you for not remembering because even Oly can't remember it either
>>288402768>>288402794So my theory is they're looking how to mass produce powerful ink to give it to everyone (maybe for a revolt against the sages?) and that means they are looking for forbidden magic to turn people into trees without fail
>>288403339I figure, if silverwood trees are powerful magical conduits because they're born from flesh and blood, then why not skip the middle man and just turn the person into the silverwood in a controlled manner? Imagine how powerful their magic would be.
>>288403485Imagine if you could just produce your own ink from your own body and have unlimited supply
>>288403520Right? It is a way to make basically the perfect being in the setting. A human-silverwood hybrid that can make their own extremely powerful ink and potentially live for hundreds of years like a tree. As far as mad scientist plot go, it is almost reasonable, lol.
>>288403339Consider this: the plan really is as simple as they want to find a way to use silverwood seeds as an effective, safe medical treatment. The ability to heal most any injury with magical means. Armed with such potent healing magic, the Brimhats could reveal thesemselves to the world and IMMEDIATELY curry the favor of every normie in the setting, and a fair number of witches as well. It is a magic that is so in-demand that everyone will want it, but it also goes against the pact. It would force the Knights Moralis to either surrender and compromise or go to war with everyone at once, a fight that pits the world against them. Easthies railing against the turnback table would be an effective foreshadowing of this conflict: the most dangerous magic to the pact that no one can be allowed to remember because its too dangerous is using magic to heal. The pact cannot survive this being known and accepted.
>>288404303That would fit Ininia's interest in healing and disappointment that such simple pleasure was enough to overwhelm Custas. But then Qifrey being used as a seedbed wouldn't make as much sense, unless he was already dead before the treatment or something.
>>288404451>But then Qifrey being used as a seedbed wouldn't make as much sense, unless he was already dead before the treatment or something.Honestly, there's a non-zero chance that's true
>>288376227Twitter. It turned a bunch of useful idiots into braindead leftists like this mangaka.
>>288402768>>288402794Also, does anyone have the raws for this chapter?I want to see the original Japanese for Quifrey's thoughts in this page.They're thick with metaphors, and I'm wondering if how I'm reading them is the same way I'd read the original Japanese>A new possibility, overgrown with mayhem, scooped forth from the seeds of sown chaos>And the great cost which hope declares... is none other than despair.The way I'm reading it, Quifrey thinks that the ultimate goal of what the Brimhats are trying to accomplish is good, but the methods and the possible (unintended) consequences are evil
>>288404641Here you go.
>>288404752I see the dot furigana a lot in Shirahama's scripts and not as often in some other manga's.Are they just a form of emphasis?
>>288404752It flows a bit better in Japanese, but it's largely the same. Slightly clearer that the "new possibility/potential" in the first box is the "hope" in second box since they're closer together. Do you have the next page? I think I know what follows, but I'd like to make sure>>288404822Yeah. I've seen it a lot in idolm@ster scripts too.
>>288404936Sure
>>288404822yes, they're like the equivalent of boldingit's more common for mangaka to use quotation marks instead but the dots are pretty much used in the same way
>>288405063I "see"...
>>288404451>>288404478>But then Qifrey being used as a seedbed wouldn't make as much sense, unless he was already dead before the treatment or something.Considering that the backstory on the forest is that it was created by a witch trying to raise the dead, that seems likely. That also might play into why he woke up with no memories: side effect of being dead when the process started. As for who he was before he lost his memories... wouldn't it be delightfully fucked up if Qifrey was raised as a Brimhat and no longer remembers? He could have been an apprentice, or son, of one of the Brimhats before something went wrong.
>>288404962Yep, pretty much the same as the official TL. Only difference is how the words were distributed across the boxes. Such a pain for translation, you either lose the poetic phrasing of the original or lose how the words were laid out.>>288405110>As for who he was before he lost his memories... wouldn't it be delightfully fucked up if Qifrey was raised as a Brimhat and no longer remembers? He could have been an apprentice, or son, of one of the Brimhats before something went wrong.Remember that the Brimhat Qifrey is looking for looks like him. I'm thinking he might be Iguin's twin brother who died early and was brought back to life.I think it's notable the Iguin mention Qifrey by name during the Dragon's Labyrinth>He could have been an apprentice, or son, of one of the Brimhats before something went wrong.He explicitly says he's not a Brimhat. But it's possible that bringing him back to life is exactly why his resurrector became a brimhat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVWYW0K3ikg
>>288405222Redistributed words is how you can usually trust a translation. If bubble by bubble they match the Japanese, that usually means that the translator is translating bubble by bubble and given how context sensitive Japanese is, probably missing something.
>>288405110Qifrey being a revived corpse who is dead if the silverwood takes over and would be dead without it, is a delicious type of suffering that I hope is true.
>>288402794>qifrey openly talking about pointed caps censoring stuffYeah Thristas was a hero.
>>288377840How could we forget Dagda mentoring Luluci
