Chapter 23: Illuminated PathRead the chapter here:https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1029755The end of the training/Majo arc!
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>>289323349I want her to give me oneI would say I would want to spin around to face the other way after it starts but I think she's pretty well spoken for at this point
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>>289323450Cute husband and wife
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>>289323528KISSU
>>289323566Jien must've lent her the book lmao
>>289323566This is rape
>>289323619There he is, the rascal
>>289323566KINO SPREAD
>>289323659It's cultural.
>>289323566Kinato status: ruined for marriage (except to Terasu)
how long can this trash excape the axe with barebone coomer bait?
So, who's the heroine?
>>289323566Terasu a cute
Sorry about the filename change btw>>289323674Well, it's time to say good bye to Terasu. Hope we see her again soon!
>>289323450>I wanna attack him...Being liked by a majo sure is dangerous
>>289323488Oh wow she's just straight up talking about marriage to him
>>289323791>Hope we see her again soon!It's axed, isn't it.
>>289323791And welcome back, Linae
>>289323853it's too late cf
>>289323853ENTER KAMINAGIOr should I say, CUTEMINAGI
>>289323744Me
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>>289323942ENTER ChadliusAnd Juna's booty
>>289323890>>289323942is kaminagi anon still alive
>>289323982New arc!?
>>289323890After her off screened training arc, Linae is ready to take back her rightful place as the main heroine and official wife.
>>289324035!?
>>289323890>>289323942After 10000 years, best girl has returned
>>289323942I want to see Kaminagi ass up like>>289323982
Last page. I was worried this is getting axed, but after reading the last few pages I think we're safe! (For now)Well, thanks for reading, see you next week with a new arc!>>289324092ENTER
>>289324155hey, it's these guysthe long haired woman looks like a guy in these new clothes
>>289323890>undyked and feminized
>>289323890I'm assuming the close combat training is more for defending the base rather than any plans to have her sent out on missions
>>289324155there are still 5 chapters left before the new batch anyway, and this current direction seems to be heading toward a conclusion
>>289324155this gonna get axed, retarded kinatofag.
>>289324155Kaedegami also felt like it was setting up another arc before abruptly ending...
>>289324155Noise coming back for an eventual rematch seemed like it would be a huge red flag, but that would mean trying to fast forward an wrap things up within the next 2 chapters. Going by the pace of this chapter, maybe there's some hope for another arc that can cover a volume
>>289323674Jien doesn't like Amazons. >>289323566KISS! >>289323853Linae has interesting insticts. >>289323890>>289323942LOL at Kaminagi, Kinato dealt with the tomboy'ish parst too.
>>289324326and Gonron Egg rushed to a conclusiom while setting up a new arc with a cliffhanger at the same time. The axe is indifferent to where the story is going it chops away all the same.
>>289323890I need Kaminagi wife
Yeah I smell the axe.
So with the training arc now over. The mc can now use full cowling without hurting himself, but he still has no type of attacks. How's he going to do in an inevitable rematch before it ends in a few chapters
>>289324155Volume 1: Chapter 1-7Volume 2: Chapter 8-16 (nine chapters?)Volume 3: Chapter 17-25 (nine chapters?)Honestly, I think chapter 24-25 will end with some of hook or twist for this new arc. I hope we get to see Lamia fights again.
the axe can drop anytimethis is just getting good now Kinato please endure
>>289323942KEK
>>289324703I swear this bitch is old with wrinkle and shit before. Does become straight make her look younger too?
>>289323890>>289323942Best joke of the chapter.
>>289324172>the long haired woman looks like a guy in these new clothesOr is the long-haired guy dressing up like a chick for work?
>jien sidelinedgood>more kaminagiGOOD>more julia culoGOOD>olgen became a cute boar paired with linaeGOOD>linae trainedGOODAmemiya must have discussed stuff with the editor, lets hope the higher ups do not lose faith in Kinato
>>289323890Imagine her and Linae working together painting her room pink and throwing out all her old clothes for only skirts and dresses
>>289323890>female "heroine" is useless at fighting>gets sudden training offscreen to make her combat-capable so she can actually do stuffPulling a Phantom Seer I see
>>289324155>evil woman arc nextWhy are evil women so in vogue now?
>>289325608kinato gotta make them cum
SO WHAT'S THE VERDICTaxe or nah ?
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>>289325723People said before that the evil trio returning would signal the coming of the axe. But it will all depend on the next chapter and whether it will feel rushed or not.
>>289325872>evil trio returning would signal the coming of the axetrue, but then again they came back but>redesigned>the girl is in charge nowlet's see next week, if Noise is going to meet Kinato then its over
>>289323566YAY
Yeah as the other people said, next chapter really decides the pace of things. If action starts next chapter then it's probably dead and going to end really quickly. Else, it means they're atleast going to give Kinato 4 volumes and maybe see how Volume 2 sells.
>noise is meeting Kinatoits over>noise is meeting his evil chief its peak
>>289323890Olgen has the magic power to turn into HIGHLY MARKETABLE MASCOT CHARACTERS.Tradwife Kaminagi a cute.
>>289324172Or did Long Haired Guy look like a woman while he was in fishnets?
The amount of wish fuffilment women falling in love with MC has turned me around and made me like this series
>>289326574>>289325322trueI just checked, and we never got a good view of this person from the side, thus can't tell if "she" has breast or notpic related is the closest we got
>>289324155Kinato...will live!
>>289324172Please let this be just an arc to introduce this "you know who," the rest of the villain group, and their objective.The fact that it seems we'll see the rest of the "Seraphim Wings," with their total focus on the guild, would be yet another death flag.
>>289324775>UD discussion is dead>Saito pretends dttf is more popular
>>289324307GMS
>>289327262In that case, if it's really going to end in the next few chapters, introducing new characters from that guild would be a very stupid decision, but Amemiya has been making stupid decisions since the beginning of the series.
This series is so cancelled is not even funny, this is where I get off
Terasu was really cute and I wouldn't mind if it ended with Kinato going back for herThe gag with the knight/princess girl was actually funny. I wish we saw more of her. The childhood friend is borinh
>>289323237>Kinato's MagicThread hidden, I'm tired of this unpopular shit being shilled by one faggot here.
>>289324155Thanks OP, I am so happy to have Kaminagi back
>>289323890>>289323942Cute and Funny
>>289325382Kinato had good girl designs and fan service, the only problem is the MC and jumping the shark into making him Deku 2.0, Jien's magic is also not very exciting but that can be fixed
The pacing and Jump's usual publishing patterns tells me this doesnt have long to live but I had fun reading this arc. It's too bad but Ill try to appreciate that it didnt die too prematurely like alien headbutt at 16 chapters.At this rate the only copium it has is that a few jump slots are currently left open, so it can stick around for another batch so it can end on a 4th volume like Otr.
>>289327430>introducing new characters from that guild would be a very stupid decisionHe did something similar with Shadow Eliminators, iirc.
>>289323674 I like how Jien finally has teh lovee of the people he grew up with.
>>289323942 I love Kinato's facial expressions
We just have to believe in Volume 2. It will sell well and then Saito will finally make Kinato rise in the rankings
Brought back the best girl too little too late (I also liked Terasu though)
>>289330084The fucked up thing is that by the time it comes out a week later, the cancellation would theoretically already be decided. I don't like to sound conspiratorial, but something tells me they might give Kinato another small print run, Just so there's no room for criticism like "wow, the manga is selling well," or "it sold more than X manga, and yet it was canceled, what is the editorial team thinking?"
>>289329482I counted and there were about 20 "flustered" faces of Kinato in this chapter alone. Deku couldn't dream being that pathetic.
>>289330813Even while treated as dead it sells like the cover featured manga Kiyoshi>>289323853Linae needs to get at least one fanservice scene before the axe
>>289324155So fucking pissed, i LOVE THE SERIES BUT THIS WILL IT OR WONT IT GET AXED IS PISSING ME OFF. FUCK WSJ
>>289323528Would you marry a girl with a bigger abs than you?
>>289323791>and they never saw each other again
>>289325809I wonder what her canon hair color is
This has gotten gradually better over time. Shame the axe is all too apparent. 3 volumes?
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>>289334493Huh. The white section is just a fade into a lighter shade of the same colour, not the classic 'Asian girl with purple streak'
>>289334171At least 4 volumes. We're already down to 19 series, so I doubt Jump would want to cut themselves even leaner before a new batch.Regardless, assuming my math is right, the last chapter in Volume 3 would be chapter 25, maybe 26 if they're fine with it being a bit beefier. Given that Noise is separating himself from Dua and the Maskface, that gives two different "objectives" for the arc. Which doesn't exactly make sense for Amemiya to write instead of just keeping the 3 antagonists together if he was planning on ending in 2-3 chapters anyways
>>289334493her blue eyes kinda freak me out... I feel like them being like a purple would have been better
>>289323450Majo are… carnivorous
>>289323566CUTECANON
>>289323853Isn’t it sad, Linae?
>>289334493sexo
>>289334493Beautiful, I am very pleased with these colors
>>289324155>I think we're safe
One thing that really intrigues me is how Kinato gets so little attention/dislike online, considering it's one of the most viewed in mangaplus and has more comments or views than works like Akane and Ruri. They said the series would flop after Kaminagi was "cured," but it's been going strong for 20 chapters now. I think it's grown by 10k views compared to last month, and even though the comments sometimes decrease, the views remain constant. The people literally saw Kinato hiding.Compare it with others from the same batch, or with batches released later.
>>289324155>the villains came backanon, I...
>>289336263AH always had several posts on Twitter and an apparently "strong" fandom that posted fan art and constantly complained about the treatment they received from Jump, and even so, they never came close to Kinato's visu. I highly doubt they actually read the work; they only ever talked about "soul" and "aura." The "pronouns-in-bio" crowd that started attacking Kinato over Kaminagi was the same group that "embraced" AH; those people don't read manga.
>>289324155We don't even see that other majo captain. It's over.
>>289336263I think kinato is one of those manga that has a good rating online(and non-domestically) but unfortunately Jump stories need their domestic audience first to both buy out their books and rate them well in their surveys to survive long enough to become anything. It a poor metric because itll cut some potential stories short but it is what it is.Akane is the inverse of this since it's popular in Japan but has near non-existent online discourse anywhere else(even after its "anime boost").
>>289336529It's funny that AH got some attention when the author note said that he originally wanted it to be about the goat girl headbutting aliens(before the editor shut it down), and made a concept art of it. A bunch of people said that they wouldve loved if AH was like this, but they most of them didnt even read manga
>>289336935You misunderstood, lol. I know very well how the metrics work in Japan; I'm talking about the West, where manga is more...Hated. In Japan, it has its haters for being a "narou" story (isekai style), and for having many "homages". But the manga sold well, got a reprint, and sold out in several stores; it just had a small print run, and we didn't get the margin from the general public. By the way, Manga Plus doesn't exist in Japan, only here. There it's called Jump+, but it doesn't have all the works from Shuesha or Jump magazine.
It probably should have happened sooner but I'm glad we're looking to get interactions with almost all of the Iron Fang this arc
>>289337179Yeah whats going on with kinato does seem pretty weird. in the wsj thread Ive seen people say that it feels like it was set up for failure with jump having zero expectations for it, being bottom last of the TOCs constantly, and not getting a single color page this far in. It being underprinted, poorly advertised, and having its reprints release window be so hazy and under the radar is also baffling.
>>289337011 I don't know why they thought the original premise was better. The emo serious goat girl headbutting aliens, did people really think that was a good idea? What we got is so much better. Ouga is entertaining, the attack moves are more than just headbutting, and Mei has more personality than what the draft showed.
The best-case scenario is that they got spooked by scalping and are waiting to see if its Volume 2 sales do well before committing to actually supporting it, but that's probably very cope.I just can't see Kinato being less popular than something like DttF
>>289337430Pretty often whenever someone release their concept art or original first story draft, youll hear people preaching that the prototype was better because they can always image something that they didnt have being better than what they got. Same applies with AH, what we got was pretty cool but jump was just too axe happy
>>289327361>Saito pretends dttf is more popularBut it is thoughhttps://youtu.be/1H_i8tR6iz4 (1.2k likes)https://youtu.be/xFhzH0Au4mM (710 likes)
>>289337450Kinato wasn't that affected by resale; on Mercari, there were few listings, around 150 (and that's including the sold volumes). UD had around 1200, many of which were like 8 volumes of UD in one AD. What led to the resale of UD was the Twitter account, 2 CP, and Kohei's orb. Even though Sakaday is big, I didn't see anyone saying anything other than "was he an assistant?"
>>289337450First it was waiting on the reprints, but now it might have to wait on the result of the 2nd volume. I guess the good news is that if they have to wait to see the number for vol2 sales then maybe there's a chance that itll survive long enough for another batch
>>289337633MOGGED
>>289337633But that doesn't mean anything, it's literally a video that plays as an ad on YouTube. What matters is that the Japanese read the manga and comment on it weekly, both on Twitter and in online forums. Natsu isn't talked about much, and when he is, it's usually to criticize him. Haruzuke Mound, if I'm not mistaken, had much greater success with the PV, and it was a flop.Also, they started showing PVs as ads in YouTube videos in that batch, which is why PVs like Roku and Natsu have so many views. Remember when Kinato and UD suddenly jumped from 15k to 100k? F It was because of this method, well after they released the video, that they didn't even bother to do the same with Alien, which is why it's so low.And lastly, Natsu has 38 comments, Kinato has 54.
>>289337794I just checked and saw they forgot to do the same with Animal Sign, it only has 14k views lol. And HAL has 4k views. Canon Master has 2k. See how irrelevant that metric is? Even the views do Jump Plus, where in addition to Natsu having few views, they decrease with each chapter, unlike Kinato who has a good number and maintains it for all 3 chapters.
This manga fate was already sealed when it pissed off the FGO crowd
Hair color predictions for Juna, Talius, and Terasu?
>>289336935well it sold alright but not really "good" domestically, although it places low on the ToC so the actual magazine buyers don't care for it... if you take the ToC at completely face value
>>289337633>a youtube video vs. delaying the volume printing which they did to turbo-axed AH and hadn't been done in years before
>>289339472 (me)Honestly Talius gives me white/pink vibes and Juna is either a light brown or maybe if Amemiya is feeling up to it a green.Terasu is probably dark purple.
Saito is a scoundrel, I'm sure this would be the colored page of chapter 8 (it's an extra from the volume).
>>289340454That's inner cover, almost every manga has one retard
>>289340619His urge to curse is stronger than his urge to reason. I'm saying the concept could be from some CP he had in mind.Of course, it could also not be, but that inside cover exudes a color page that I can't explain. But as I said, it's pure guesswork/a desire to believe anything
>>289340454cute
Volume 2 was not delayed, let's just see how well it does
LIVE, KINATO
>>289342534Sorry the axe is already decided
>>289337794>>289339836To me it seems that Saito axes in batch order. You can see as soon as he axes kinato and doctor he will start sending to the bottom the Roku/destroyerz batch.Don't be surprised if basketball outlives those for some fucking reason
How did drawn to the fire get a color page but kinato didn't?
>>289340199Kaminagi already covers green (kinda), I agree with light brown for Juna.
>>289340454I love chibi
>>289324155Thank you for posting.
