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>>291930348終わり。
I think I reordered the pages right.
>>291930379Seems about rightTy OP. Now we wait for transanon
>>291930409Give me half an hour or something>transanonbro...
>>291930409That doesn't seem like quite the right name imo.
Used Google TL and desu it seems like a pretty nice chapter pretty much an overview leading us up to the start of December and there's been no blades deployed which we kinda knew from last week if the TL is accurate enough. They suffered a setback so it seems like the first forged blade isn't coming till at least next chapter bare minimum. Also all NTR theories died tonight. I'm guessing we have 2-3 more volumes of the seitei war at most assuming the blades deployment isn't something that takes overly long.
I haven't seen jump treat a popular series with this much scorn since kimetsu
>>291930279>Akemura: I have to do it.>Blurb: Kunishige and Akemura...>Kunishige: Even so, I won't let you.>Akemura: Wh- why?>Kunishige thoughts: You're the same as me. For Chiaki's sake, we could do anything. No... you'd do more than me.>Kunishige thoughts: The ones worthy of wielding great power aren't people like us, but those who hesitate and can stop themselves.>Kunishige thoughts: Those who don't hesitate are strong. But at the same time, they're also dangerous.>>291930299>March 30th. After going ahead and refusing the handover, Soga Chiaki and Rokuhira Kunishige get married with the head of the Soga family as witness (photo: August)>?: With the evacuation of the southeast region, battles occurred in essentially uninhabited cities following the start of the war.>With that, damage to civilians has been kept to a minimum, though at the end of 2 months of resistance that area was handed over.>Including those at the very bottom, around 32,000 sorcerers were gathered from across Japan. A quarter of them were lost in that battle of resistance.>>291930309>?: In response to the Mikaboshi who have occupied the southeast, we are currently halting our complete resistance and are instead delaying their advance with hit-and-away tactics.>?: The amount of deaths and missing people keep increasing. The Mikaboshi are steadily advancing forwards. >?: They'll be in Tokyo in no time.>?: Are the enchanted blades still not ready?>?: Even with how much time preparation has to take... and despite that...>Narrator: July. Together with their invasion, the Mikaboshi attacked important research facilities in thte Kantou region.>Including the Datenseki Research Center (the headquarters of the enchanted blade plan), with the need to hide all traces of datenseki and the plan, a fast relocation was forced upon them.>The plan was delayed.>A fitting place for the enchanted blade plan was a wide and hard-to-find area.>Yagiratei
>>291930326>Narration: In the northwest of Tochigi prefecture lies the Soga family's secondary residence.>Narration: It hid the Soga princess since the start of the war.>Subaru: You've got some presence to you now, huh? Facial hair's good.>Kunishige: Chiaki isn't a fan.>December.>Subaru: It's about time.>Narration: We've already sent out a prototype. Heading towards the real deal, they entered the final stages of preparation for swordsmithing. >>291930331>Giyu: You're to guard Yagiratei. >Akemura: But.>Giyu: In the worst case, who will protect your sister?>Akemura thoughts: I still don't know the battlefield. I've just been kept here.>Akemura: To protect Nee-san...>Akemura thoughts: Nee-san suffered nightmares every night since the war began. >Akemura thoughts: Tragic dreams fell upon her with no stop to them, and she grew exhausted as she started to fear sleeping.>Akemura thoughts: But ever since the enchanted blade plan has moved here together with him...>Akemura thoughts: The hard days aren't that different. >Akemura thoughts: Yet she's now gotten some peace.>Akemura thoughts: Nee-san can sleep again.>Akemura thoughts: Once again, Nii-san saved her.>>291930337>Akemura thoughts: I still haven't done a single thing...>Akemura thoughts: I guess I'll move my body a little more.>Soga mom: Akemura!>Ichiki: You two are the most important people in the country with the situation we're in now.>Ichiki: For a while we'll keep it as a top secret.>Ichiki: However at Chiaki-sama's request, you, her little brother, will be informed of this.
>>291930348>Akemura: Nee-san... are you okay?>Chiaki: Yeah. Because of everything, the dreams have kept rushing in and I've just been stuck in bed.>Chiaki: But I'm still in a bit of a daze.>Chiaki: Akemura.>Chiaki: You're going to become an uncle.>Akemura: ...The name?>Kunishige: You're being too fast. Thanks to the prophecies, it'll just be a bit faster than usual.>Akemura: Is it a boy?>Kunishige: It'll still be a while before we know the gender.>Akemura: When will we know?>Chiaki: It's a boy.>Soga mom: Could it be...>Chiaki: In a dream... I talked to him.>291930360>Chiaki: His name is Chihiro. I talked to him.>Kunishige: You talked…>Ichiki: Excuse me.>Kunishige: A prophecy?>phone caller: Preparations are complete. >Ichiki: Got it.>Ichiki: Rokuhira. Head to the forge.>Editor note: The meeting in a dream. The plan moves forward.
The pacing is garbage, you can feel the change of plans. this went from a proper part 2 that just happened to be set in the past to a Wan Piss tier flashback.
>>291931027>Chiaki: It's a boy.>>Soga mom: Could it be...>>Chiaki: In a dream... I talked to him.>>>291930360>>Chiaki: His name is Chihiro. I talked to him.Oh boy. We're on some self fulfilling time travel, prophecy shit now. Its Eren all over again.
>>291931014>chiaki fears the beardWhy?
>>291931027Nice chapter. I accepted that we're probably not going to see much of the actual war so I'm fine with it, I like the Chiaki-Kunishige-Akemura stuff.Kinda funny, went to sleep yesterday thinking there's no way kgb will get bottom one again and yet here it is...
>>291931027>chihiro has been forged
I wish Hokazano cared about her
>>291931301Seeing as we're about to forge the first blade for real next chapter I don't think we're going to be waiting all too long desu. It's her or Ibuki getting first dibs imo.
>>291930944...this is popular?
>>2919313583rd best selling series in the mag that's a 100k seller isn't popular to you?
This arc is such a joke. Where's the fighting?
It's pretty ballsy to spend so much time on a flashback arc on character who are mostly all dead. We've spent a dozen+ chapters on Kunishige / Chiaki characterization, which I can get, but then you throw in>Ibuki>Possibly lolibaba>All the MikaboshisThe present day cast could also use this kind of characterization but it will have to wait. It's a ballsy decision, and people are getting impatient
This story is getting too Tokyo Revengers for me.
>>291931442>it's afraid
>>291930279Kek, it looks like conserved chapter from before Ibuki introduction one, with one panel with destroyed city being added recently. Nothing from character interactions or emotions indicate that Ibuki+ chapters happened. How dead is Hokazono?
Seriously, the hell is going on with the pacing of this arc.
>>291930360NAME DROP
>>291931027>>291931290>Chihiro was born from eugenicsJapan did it again
one more week
>>291931548Nothing?
Bro, this chapter is lowkey...It makes the whole flashback look retarded. Like it just showed he could have summarized it like that from the beginning, no bullshit famy abuse flashbacks or smelting, and it would have been FINE.
>>291932113you are low iq
>>291930279The pacing is legit atrocious
>>291932113The pacing has always been all over the place, people are only noticing now because it's gotten sliiiiightly worse and the usual keys are not jingling to keep their attention.I don't have any expectations left for this manga anymore and actually enjoying this arc more than the previous two. Not surprised some people are getting frustrated because their favorite toys are not present and there are no shitty "amazing action" double spreads to keep them entertained.
>>291932284> amazing action" double spreads to keep them entertained.Last time it happened was during the deadlock arc with Chihiro vs Datenseki jobbers
atleast he went back and give a summarisation of all the events. Are the protoypes an unnamed katana? Did they ever say which one was the first to be made out of the six?
>>291932334Eh, I'm pretty sure Chihiro+Samura vs Yura/Akemura had plenty of them? Might be misremembering though. Less action, no battles with EB, most popular characters are not present - suddenly people say the story is now bad and the pacing is bad and all that stuff, they only start paying attention to that stuff when they don't get what they want, lmao.
>>291932412>suddenly people saythe schizo is not "people"
>I had a dream where I talked to Chihiro WTF is that
>>291932453Stop being disingenuous, you know there are other people both here and in other places who are dissatisfied. You look like a schizo yourself if you blindly deny it.Your average jump reader is not smart nor patient.
>>291932583Maybe it wasn't a literal conversation, idk. Reminds me of when naruto met kushina, maybe we will get something like that?
>>291932596>hereno there aren't. the samefagging is extremely blatant because he puts 0 effort into it.>other placesno one cares about your shitcord or whatever the fuck
>>291932412Well, there is certainly some big problem with the pacing right now.
>>291932639>No one but a schizo criticize Kagurabachi on /a/This is how insane you sound anon.
>>291932639>no there aren't.You really don't see how insane you sound? All popular manga have both haters and regular readers who criticize it, it's impossible to only have one schizo being negative at all times. Just because that schizo posts more often that any other anon doesn't mean others don't exist, you're just fucking paranoid and should take a break from 4chan at this point.
>>291932688spamming the same short sentence with minor variations on the thread over and over again is not "criticism", negro
>>291932284The short chapters are really hurting it, feels like you get crumbs every week if that.
>>291932583I mean she can see the future sometimes, Chihiro probably thought about his mom a lot and "talked" to her in his mind, I can buy that this can end up feeling like a conversation.
>>291931005>Julywont it be June?
>>291931601At this point I'm just thinking we're not going to see her. Fucker drew lolibaba entirely to fill out the roster
>>291932284Bad pacing + short chapters + characters that should be getting focus aren't getting it + offscreen war = bizarre clusterfuck of an arc
I hate saito for galvanizing this nigger.
>>291931005>married alreadyDamn once Giyu got promised a nuke sword everything worked itself out real fast huh? Imagine having to invent the sword equivalent of a nuclear bomb just to get your girl's family to approve of your marriage.>>291931014>after moving in with Kunishige, Chiaki finally sleeps wellOr she doesn't sleep at all.>>291931027>Chiaki got to talk with ChihiroThat's really cute but also a massive Checkov's gun for the future. I suppose there was no>hey mom in the future your little brother has become the genocide god king of japan please don't give him the EBKunishige looks quite taken aback lmaoAlso>Chihiro got forged before all EBHe's a big brotherThanks for the TL anon and thanks for the dump anon >>291930360
for me it's bug lady
>>291932334Dunno, I thought the Irishina talks chapters had incredible action and quite the interesting use of sorcery from top tier sorcerers, which we never saw much of.
>>291932583The craziest possibility is that she saw a future where she talked to an old Chihiro who actually gave her his name, which could mean she is alive in the present day.The simple straightforward possibility is that she saw a near future where he was born and they had named him. That's where she took the info from.However, the curious thing here is that she only gets prophecies relevant to national security. So, I wonder if getting a Chihiro prophecy is relevant like that.Another point to note: Ichiki, Sogamom, Akemura know about Chihiro other than Kunishige and Chiaki. We can assume that Shiba/Azami find out later. Thankfully, Ichiki knowing this doesn't contradict with chapter 46. He was mostly silent when the Kamunabi higherups were all questioning the validity of Chihiro's identity
>>291932691You are talking to the BCschizo who single managed to kill black clover threads with his constant paranoia, even insulting other BCfags for saying they don't like something even though every fucking shounen, well, manga, always had those commentsDiscord positivity shit is fucking cancer
>>291932596Probably, the weekly schedule on low page count with hiatus in the middle during the most slow burn fully narrative arc probably turned off a lot of fans who were in mostly for the action. It's unlikely they'd get so mad as the schizo (he's a really special case) but I can see it get worse reception even though I really liked the smelting arc as a whole, especially because it is all a setup for the eventual tragedy to come, which is a foregone conclusion. We might get more and more Akemura focus going forward to focus on his rise and fall as he finds peace (with Chiaki's happiness), honor (through battle) and pride (through victory) only for it all fall to pieces leading to the 200k massacre.Still not a last toc place though, two weeks in a row to boot. Saito drank the kool aid if he thinks that's how you treat your only new series with real big potential. Banking on OP as your only flagship for the next decade will kill the magazine. Seriously, no matter what issue is there with Takeru, if they can't even manage one alleged troublemaking author what are they even doing?
>>291933409Nakano wasn't much better.
>>291933564And people called me crazy when I said Oda was the one supporting the nobodycares series (Roboco, akane, Kiyoshi) and sabotaging the battle onesGuy for raped by ufotable and mappa and it shows, and modern piece is fucking boring
>>291933564>>291933603>oda schizo is hereshut up>>291932691>>291933553Now say "criticism" again, Jeremy.
Christ who cares, when is it gonna go back to the present day story??
>>291933646You don't even read this
Not gonna lie, I was ok with Chiaki being a major part of Akemura's motivation but his entire character this flashback is Chiaki-centric, that's too much. Current Akemura feels like an entirely different character.
