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>>291183521Neo-humans VS Kaiju
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>>291183668So scary, if they actually get the same drive as humanity... wouldn't they be unstoppable?
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It's a little unbelievable that these blockheads need further convincing about the threat of the freaking Kaiju who's making neo humans shit their pants.
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>>291183784So what happens after ate all reactors?It is possible that it might become Shin whose body turned into a reactor at the cost of a world of pain.
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>>291183807Ah, too soon.I guess the spring/World Tree will just become its feed.
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>>291183851>trying to preserve its massive bodyImplying it can become smaller to survive... I would hate MAN-kaiju.
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>>291183893I bet they would try to shoot at the kaiju.Like, if all the energy is going to disappear, might as well... then the kaiju would seriously going after them.
>>291183521>>291183533>>291183557So neo-human cities each have their own theme? Like this one is the office plankton city and the previous one one was circus themed or whatever. That might also mean the cities vary in power
>>291183880Maybe it will evolve into the dropped concept of Shin godzilla
>>291183752>>291183784I get why Daikokuzan would be a threat to the existence of modern civilization but I don't really see how it would outright threaten the existence of humanity entirelyIt's just a big dumb animal looking for food
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>>291183730>The braaap attack
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>>291183999Hag trips
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>>291184036Are they going to use Soul equipments/weapons/tools? I don't think the party would fold to mere muscle-power.
>>291183998Actually is a Tail whiplash
>>291183948I have some doubts about this hero
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>>291183948>>291184081He's going to be a well-meaning but ignorant one that will fuck up everything.
>>291184082hehe
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>>291183668Kino panel
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>>291184137Oh, a reasonable Elder. I actually thought he was corrupted by the Curse's power.
>>291184152End. The village chief cut the chapter in half again.
>>291184156Or the tree somehow.
>>291184168That's a good look, I'm ashamed to have ever doubt him.
>>291184168That's surprisingly reasonable
fanart and not fanarthttps://mega.nz/folder/7L4wnJ7a#bvJqdttFrJbk8lpnJW_6cg
>>291183922Holly fuck. Now I get it. Bauzerk might be just mining energy for himself and will return to collect it
>>291184391That's a good strategy.
>>291183973Sinister pea shooter. Maybe he’s the Oppenheimer of his cursed world
>>291184391At least one member of his group has to be evil and manipulative. I'm betting it's the Curse worlder
>>291184081The suprise probably will be " he was the hero who get turned to demon" bullshit.
>>291184168Thanks for the dump
>>291184452It's actually a wonder the only Curse human we met was such a nice guy. The fact that the Curse world was emptied suggests someone else is hoarding the energy.
>>291183973me when i go outside for 5 minutes
>>291184498Or is it that all of humanity in The Cursed lands is nothing more than an insignificant group... I don't know, barely fifty survivors?By far the most Grim of the Worlds.
>>291183521>37.1Why can't they just index chapters using whole numbers
>>291184452Bauzerk is in it at the very least. The chapter he was introduced has the following cover page. That's him either dropping or picking up the soul container. That's how he defeated the first demon lord
>>291184616But didn't he defeated The first Demon lord Closa long before the worlds merged?
Damn, I wanna see Daikokuzan vs Gimbak, though I imagine they would become buddies
>>291184137Oldheads knew the boy was right from the get-go, just needed a tradition appropriate excuse to follow his planDidn't even wait for Hallow to challenge them himself too, I love One's characters so much
>>291184810Shame we'll probably miss out on Daikokuzan vs the World Tree since it comes with built in cloaking
>>291184391>>291183922im actually 100% Bauzerk is great demon king in disguise and this chapter further proves my theory.It just fits the set up so well,the only hero that defeated demon lord(impossible),not revealing his face,harnessing power from the forbidden technology.Also it fits into the story pacing,it was about time that we were started to be fed snippets of him to make his later reveal rewarding.Also also i feel like this trope of ultimate villain disguising as one of the good guys is very clique which fits the cookie cutter fantasy Sorcerion world story type.His motive might be thats hes either bored/catious not wanting to reveal his power level before assesing the other world dangers
>>291183730I see now, Daikokuzan looks like a Giant Pangolin.
>>291184810I don't see how Ginbak would have any chance at all vs Daikokuzan from what we've seen so far
>>291184690We don't kow. That was never specified
>>291184607Because that's just a half of the chapter. When it gets printed in the volume release the index will be removed
>>291183521Did he shrink? (Still reading through the chap)
>>291185384The buildings are massive, and the tower even more so.
>>291185009But it's kind of left to speculation; I mean, when Hallow went to face the Demon Lord Jachi, the worlds hadn't merged yet. During the time he was traveling to his castle, Baurzerk would have already killed the Demon lord Closa.
>>291184059nani?!
>>291184979Yeah I was just about to sayHas he always been like that or am I just noticing it now?
>>291183598And clearly Neo-humans lost.
>>291183940Previous one should be fashion/trending/entertainment city. There should be different city focusing on different industry theme.
Jachi solos
>>291185786It is interesting how the various zones across the 13 worlds feature their own sub-realms, each with distinct themes; examples like Gaia's Wrath, with regions like the Crimson Forest or the Demon King territories—such as Roya Roach Castle, which resembles sewer pipes.
>>291184979Pangolin are digging pros so which might’ve explain daikokuzen actually ambush the mothership from underground undetected.
>>291183730>city wide KWAB by a normal tail swing
>>291186011I said it looks like one, not that it is one; obviously, it doesn't have the huge claws.
>>291183947He destroy whenever he travels and he devours energy so civilizations cannot power their computers to watch porns
>>291183880Mini daikokuzen could make an adorable late game mascot companion
>>291185669He had Godzilla spines before. Either he got a redesign or they're retractable.
>>291185971Odds on the Game being extremely threatening vs immediately jobbing?
>>291183947are you retarded? look at the current state of the world and how the entire econmy depends on a few trading routes.This thing could erase America in a few days and the entire world economy would crash, banks go out of money, billions would try to flee, wars would break out left and right, etc.
>>291186235Then their natural enemy would also be the Lawless
>>291186235>Daikokuzan represents natural disasters.>>291186248>Lawless represents human wickedness and the danger posed by humans who have lost their humanity and all moral boundaries.
>>291184974I very doubt this theory. Closa was confirmed dead both by the official art featuring offscreened demon lords and Nyudo who crossed his portrait along with the other dead lords. And just by looking at his design he doesn't seem like a scheming type, especially the one who managed to fool Nyudo of all people>>291185600>Baurzerk would have already killed the Demon lord ClosaWhy? The only source of information is Zeu, Bauzerk could have killed him anytime before meeting Zeu. Anyway my working theory is that Bauzerk actually lost the first encounter with Closa, but managed to survive unlike his jrpg party (that would explain their current absence). Sometime after the worlds merge he returned with the curse weapons (and maybe the new party) and actually killed him. That made him overreliant on curse and that's the meaning of this cover >>291184616
>>291184059>>291184082>>291184111Straight outta Mob Psycho.
>>291186413>But it's kind of left to speculationBesides, I prefer it this way; using The Curse as a secret weapon would technically be cheating.It seems the concept behind this "Last Bastion of Humanity" is that each individual embodies the pinnacle of human power from their respective world—much like the Shonen protagonists I’ve mentioned in past threads: genuinely unique and extraordinary humans who can actually turn the tables on their natural enemies.Someone like Ragna from Ragna Crimson, for instance.
I want them to keep Daikokuzan as pet at the end.
>>291184563I'm still pretty sure that the Curse Humans are the actual NE as mad scientists with their worst creation killing basically everyone.
>>291186200I bet he changes based on what he eats
>>291185971>Demon Lords are animal themed>regions of Gaia's Wrath are biome themed>Lawless groups are themed after the seven deadly sins>Neo-human cities are industries themed>Curse technologies are insect themed>Madalans are planet themed (?)
>>291186200It is likely the ground of Gaia's wrath, given that the first time we see him, he was carrying an entire continent on its back.
>>291186789This could confirm the theory that he tunnels underground.
>>291183998>image in middle of dump to speak nonsensekilly ourself>>291183947and its food are energy reactors...
>>291186764>are planet themed (?)The alien theme leans more towards the abstract and the cosmic—very much in the style of Kirby, in fact, the aliens from Versus would fit right into the Kirby universe. That works brilliantly with the concept of presenting them as something completely foreign and difficult to comprehend.
>>291186764>Lawless groups are themed after the seven deadly sinsThey are more like Mad Max>Neo-human cities are industries themedBladerunner
>>291183668>it's afraid
>>291186860OY VEY
>>291183973Hallow will prove him wrong and restore his faith in humanity by destroying a soul container
>>291186598>Someone like Ragna from Ragna Crimson, for instance.Daikokuzan Solos Voltekamui.
>>291187375No, we are talking about themes not of the NEs as a whole, but the subfactions/subregions of each
>>291187503>destroying a soul containerNot the idea, they still need that shit working, they will just turn it off to not attract Daikokuzan.
>>291187596Oh, but honestly the Lawless are Mad Max and Fallout without Mutants.All the World of Mad Max is literally a Harsh Desert, so as the Land of the Lawless.
>>291186233Im honestly hype for The Game, it should be a warping reality level threat to work>>291186764>>291185971> Aliens - Technology beyond out imagination> Robots - AI take over > The game - ??? > Neohumans - Invasion of the Body Snatchers> Curse - Chernobyl > Lawless - Seven deadly sins > Titans - Might makes right> Demon king - jobbing is a job > Kaiju - Walking natural dissaster> Gaia - Nature takes over> Yggdrasil - Nature eats itself > Parasites - Resident Evil> God - Faith as a powersource
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>>291183521Seeing those Neo-Humans running to their deaths in unisong is hilarious.
>>291183668>>291183686>>291183707>>291183730>>291183752>>291183784So satisfying seeing these fuckers get slaughtered by chad kaiju.
>>291183872The thought of Daikokuzan getting a power up from that Curse energy is pretty scary.
>>291186233"Single Entity" Natural Enemies feel like they get way more wank than the others
>>291183948The gas mask guy is one of my favorite characters. He's so morbidly humorous and at the same time aware of how fucked they are.
>>291188367He's the most interesting human to follow for sure. I'm interested in seeing what goes on with Heidi though.
>>291184036>>291184059Beating the meathead humanity with strength may be the best solution after all.
>>291184082>>291184111Hallow > Thorfinn confirmed.
>>291188434Technically he dexfagged them
>>291184137>>291184152Based old man, he's actually a reasonable guy after all. I hope the tribe can survive now that they will sacrifice what was protecting them.
>>291184168Fuck, the old man is quite awesome.
5/10 chapter so far. Feels like a bunch of stuff technically happened but it was all really underwhelming. >Kaiju is invincible>Neo-Humans feel fear (best part)>Titan Humans are dumb>Hallow no diffs themI mean okay. Whatever.Man I hate this manga being monthly.
>>291188472True, he's a fullblown hero, knowing to use his strength in the right moment and not abuse of his power. Perhaps this will convince the other disillusioned hero to step up and be heroic again.
>>291187556Demons are so fucked up if this were a scenario.>>291176831
>>291187503Anon, the worst thing they can do now is destroying that thing, if they do, all of their food and World tree water will.be gone and will die more easily.
>>291188542The other 5 will be here next month
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>>291188542>didn't mention the old man (also the best part)You didn't get it. The best part is the contrast between humans and neo-humans and how the former are going to survive because they can feel fear. This chapter I also enjoyed the execution of Daikokuzan vs Neo-humans, Batsz's thoughts and the amazon hag. 8/10 chapter for me and it's only been just half of it>>291188651Kek
>>291186233The game should fuck a few natural enemies because it seems the weakest menace of them all.I'm betting on the demon king and Ginback being the first big guys to die and the god jobbing to the game.
Neo humans were already in my bottom 3 but this definitely helps keep them in there. I just think they don't have anything really to be a threat. At most imo they'll have someone who breaks away from their sort of collective hive thoughts and be an individual who helps the main cast. Honestly, I think the mad max evil humans will destroy them because it just seems like how it would go in a fitting way.
>>291189019Isn't the bottom 2?The Bottom 1 are the Lawless.
>>291189019aka probably Heidi after teacher guy teaches her friendship lolIf the Neo-Humans hijacked other threats like the Lawless they'd be way more interestingDaiko blows up their city and the best they can muster is>fucking drills and acid
>>291189271I think he means interest wise, not powerscaling wise
>>291189019Neo humans haven't shown anything remarkable yet but they have huge likely never realized potential. If robots are a threat because they can learn then that should make neo humans even more dangerous. They gathered new information, cooperated with each other and learned fear as a motivator. That in combination with being basically a race of shounen protagonists should amount to something in the end. Maybe they'll pop off in the late game once they are driven into a corner facing extinction.
>>291188997>I'm betting on the demon king and Ginback being the first big guys to dieI can see the Demon King dying and Jachi being crowned the new one after getting a power up with Nyudo as his advisor or puppetmaster
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>>291189389>If robots are a threat because they can learn then that should make neo humans even more dangerous.I'm all for a robot humiliation ritual since they have zero personality anymore but the neo-humans likely lack the execution factor needed to capitalize on the adaptation.
>>291189468If they're the peak of humanity then they should be way better than robots at innovation while robots would have an advantage in the speed of iterations. The robots didn't show any impressive jumps, just gradual improvement by copying the opponent. Neo humans should be able to connect information in much more creative ways. Shouldn't forget that they have a hero captured as well.
Hello, I just read the manga recently and I just caught up. I wanna say (and I assume this has been discussed before because this is a common antagonist faction in fiction), but is anyone else surprised they didn't add vampires as a Natural Enemy in the manga? One would think vampires are a no brainer since you can mold them to be whatever you want as long as you keep certain key elements, or pull a world where Victorian humans are oppressed by vampiric masters using them as livestock and slaves or something like that, so I'm surprised they didn't use them (perhaps they would be too similar to the demons). Mind you, this isn't me criticizing the manga, I'm loving it so far and I am fine with the Natural Enemies we have, it's just vampires are so common in fiction it's kinda weird they didn't use them in Versus given all the crazy shit going around.
>>291184476I don't think that will be the case since we already have two cases of heroes being turned into demons (the one who was captured by the monkey lady and one of the heroes introduced in the first chapter who was said to have been brainwashed into serving the demons). I think Bauzerk will be his own faction unrelated to demons, though it's possible he may be a future villain.
>>291189676Vampires are another kind of the Demon faction, but more parasitic as they can turn humans into one of them.
>>291189634>better than robots at innovation I mean they could certainly come up with better ideas but I'm unsure of their ability to implement them. They seem to lack firepower.
>>291184498I think Bastz is very elated to talk with people given most of his world is dead, which is why he's so helpful and nice. And I cannot blame him for that tbf.
>37 chapter and we don't even know how the game world looks like.I starting to believe those "game world" refugee are simply retarded, nothing more.
>>291189676Pretty sure one of the Demon King Lieutenants was a Vampire. I'm meh on the Natural Enemies personally. Feels like they could have been cut down to like 5 factions.
I don't know if I'm the only one who has realized that the 47 Demon Lords are a reference to the 72 Demons lords of Solomon, just with the number reduced.
>>291189860>manga ends without the game world or its denizens literally ever being acknowledged againyour honest reaction?
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>>291188589Versus is far outclassed by Ranga Crimson, I don't know why people want to put them against each other. The only way to make this an interesting scenario is by adjusting the power levels so that Versus isn't stomped.
>>291189676Kiva was basically a vampire.The demon army is basically all the Dragon Quest monsters, so vampires are already included
>>291189921The Next Great Battle will be The Videogame VS Mad god.https://x.com/versus__info/status/1858434984383496258
>>291188542>Titan Humans are dumbCan you really call them dumb? They found the solution to most of their problems after spending years getting periodically fucked by the Titans, it's normal they want to keep the tool protecting them.
>>291189983>Saved picBecause is fun, way to fun.
>>291189867>>291189990Yeah, I thought about Kiva as well since he looks like a stereotypical vampire, but his abilities are more similar to Zarbon than what you typically think of vampires, but if he's the closest we can get to that then I agree the authors did acknowledge vampires.
>>291190007I meant more so that they were dumb because their might makes right culture is silly and because they weren't even able to touch Hallow LMAO
>>291189990He's also like a demon knight from an isekai or something like that, you know the trope here.
>>291190060That's fair then, though, given the world they live in I don't blame them for developing a culture like that.
>>291189888Japan has 47 prefectures, it's a japanese doing the japanese
>>291190169That doesn't change the fact that the similarities are unsettling.
>>291183668Godzilla humbles all
>>291183668>neo humans are all autistic
>>291190376It's the next step in humanity, didn't you watch that one Predator sequel
>>291189983There are things in Versus that can stand up to the Dragons, the only issue is that we only get glimpses of what each faction is capable of every now and then. Since the manga releases chapters monthly, it’s hard to fully gauge just how strong the factions really are.(Not to mention some battles happened off-screen, much is left to speculation.)Ragna Crimson kinda suffers from this too, as Ragna simply one-shots various of the superior dragons, so we never really get to see what they are capable of on their own.The best example of this is literally the manga's first arc, where Ragna quickly kills about four dragons from the Winged Bloodline.(Mind you, we do see several dragons later on display their abilities, but it’s very brief or not much—take the spin-off manga, for example, where The Silver Princess fights The Dragon of Spikes)
>>291184082We Elusive samurai?
>>291183668At long last, they remembered that thing called fear—much like the Demon Lords, who are so arrogant that they charge headlong into danger, yet have lost all sense of it.
>>291190596Honestly, the lizard dude has my respect. He was grievously wounded yet decided to fight till the end.
>>291190024That reply chain was funny.
>>291190751He remained loyal to the Demon Emperor; that is honorable.
>>291190911What makes me like him even more is that the last we see of the fight is the cat unleashing his strongest spell fighting alone against Ginbak. By that time the rest of Demon Lords were either killed or escaped, meaning the lizard was alone on that and not only he fought till the end, but that he did that when Ginbak pressumably defeated the cat first and he was fatally wounded against an enemy he knew was leagues above him. Mad respect to the guy, he lost, but a coward he was not.
>>291190911If only he chose to live for the Great Demon King instead of just dying for him
Shitty flopped manga for ESL indians
>>291183668Why are they just standing there to die if they're so logical
>>291191304They're very community/hivemind-driven as seen with the Giant, to contrast with the Lawless.
>>291191117i saw this before, such a goat.
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>>291191525>>291191554>>291191581One of my favorite scenes of this manga, what a great way to end Kiva's character arc. I admit it, my eyes went a bit watery, I didn't expect to feel like this with a character like Kiva, but god was his final moment absolute kino.
>>291186233The Game should envelope the whole world, might be good for powerscaling.
>>291191816That and The World Tree.
>>291188589>Robots Creates an anti-dragons combat unit.
>>291186233>>291188997Here's what I think: people assume that the natural enemy is the game itself, like that star trek episode where a game reprograms the crew. I think thats only part of it. I think the real threat of the game is that it makes its players into part of its ant colony, and 'gamifies' objectives. But, most importantly, is the 'game over - retry' logic. I think that if a game player dies, their mind just downloads into a new body and they get sent out to do it again. And again. And again. Until they succeed. How do you beat someone with infinite lives to try and try again? Eventually you are fighting a Dark Souls character, someone who has died enough times that they know exactly how to beat you because they've seen all your moves and learned the fight. Now imagine a swarm of those people.
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>>291186233Unrelated, but my personal wish for the game is this:>To contrast it from the robots, that are mindless drones following their programming, the Game is instead a sentient AI with personality, like AM from I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream>Since the little we saw of the game world people showed them wearing somewhat futuristic clothes perhaps the AI will appear as a virtual avatar to give itself a form able to be grasped by thise it meets, like the futuristic Miku from pic related>If the robots are genocidal machines, the Game instead is a narcissistic AI who wants all life to play it forever and gets angry if they stop playing>It will appear at first as a seemingly innocent, friendly being, but as it gets more screentime it will turn more deranged, sadistic and possessive, to the point of murderous obssession, like a technological version of the God>It will appear in the story when several characters from different factions are trapped in its zone of influence and are forced to play it until one of them clears the game successfully in some sort of battle royale, which is an almost impossible task as the Game proves to be very hard>As it turns out, if you die in the game you get reduced to a zombie only thinking in playing it all the timeThese are some ideas I could think about it. To be fair The Game is so mysterious and absent it's hard to predict what route ONE will take with it.
>>291192308Basically an Artificial Mad God?
I liked the chapter, I've got no actual complains about what it was going for, I think it was pretty effective in that regardBut I did feel like it was missing some pages, I don't know if it's because Azuma is overworked or just a limit since it's released on a physical magazine but the transition from the Spiral Mountain Humans trying to take down Hallow and then being winded down happened way too fast.But like, besides that, great! The next chapter should be the last before we have enough pages for the next volume so I expect a big cliffhanger.
>>291192363>Part 1
>>291192342Yeah, I admit my idea is also inspired by those who think the Mad God will be beaten by the Game. While I'm not on that board fully given how fucking strong the Mad God is, I do like the idea of a technology-based counterpart of Yaotsu and characters being trapped and forced to beat the game to escape.
>>291192432I like that Mad God relies on people's faith and beliefs, whereas The Videogame relies on their attention and addiction.So different, yet conceptually identical.
>>291188589Gaia's Wrath.
>>291183521This manga looks so damn cool. Before I even start it, some of the fights that feel like they have a ton of potential areAliens vs. RobotsLawless vs. Neo-HumansWorld-Tree vs. NatureGod vs. The Game
>>291189983>Versus is far outclassed by Ranga CrimsonParasites, Aliens, Gaia's Wrath, The Curse, World tree, Daikokuzan/Kaiju and Mad God.
>>291193147>Aliens vs. Robots
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>>291192535Pretty much, some Natural Enemies are at times counterparts of each other, so a sentient AI with a god complex makes a cool counterpart of the Mad God.
>>291193180And Robots of course.
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