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Magi 192

Kougyoku managed to land hits on the black spot monster, while Koumei and Alibaba had seemingly failed.  Aladdin observes that it’s the hands. They’re the ones that use the defensive wall and can steal rukh. Attacks that target anything other than at the hands do damage, because only the hands are able to do anything in response, it seems.

Aladdin summons the sand golems and they use the super powered fire attack, which I won’t even try to spell correctly. The golems are taken down, Kouen commanding Koumei to coordinate things. He uses his teleportation magic to enable Hakuei, Kouha and Kougyoku to use their extreme magics, each getting their own page to show the damage they deal.

Kouen, meanwhile, heals his and Alibaba’s injuries with Phenex. I wonder if that Djinn is used for anything other than healing. It would be good to see a combat utilization, sort of like Koumei using the teleportation magic to separate things in half.

Alibaba wonders if the Kou Empire’s present Metal Vessel users could rival Sinbad’s group, which is not unlikely if they teamed together. And Kouen has three Household members to boot. Kougyoku and Hakuei each have one and Kouha has some as well, though they don’t seem to have much combat capability.

Alibaba then asks about Hakuryuu, but Kouen says he doesn’t know where he is or even whether he’s obeying his orders.

Everyone uses their strongest attacks, the Extreme Magics already expended and Koumei uses his transfer circles to focus all the attacks into one, doing huge damage to the doll and pushing it into the sea.

But the chapter ends with Aladdin noticing that the doll has now started sucking the rukh from the sea itself and has gotten almost bigger than it was before. 

Just when we thought there was a chance, Ohtaka turns things around and makes us that much more tense about the future.  Aladdin may have to use Solomon’s wisdom or Scheherazade may sacrifice herself in a last ditch effort, who knows.

World Trigger 25

We start this chapter back with Osamu’s group training. Osamu is the main focus, Yuma noted to be getting a bit better at fighting with Border Triggers.  Osamu and Chika are getting some physical training. The bodies they use with Triggers are Trion based, but the idea is that the Trion body will respond better if your body is in better shape. The better the real body moves, the better the Trion body moves.

Back where Jin is confronted by at least 2 A rank squads (both Miwa and Kei’s groups are going after Yuma’s Black Trigger) he and Kei talk about what they’re doing and Jin notes he’s not going to let them mess with his subordinates.

Kazama notes that inter conflict between Border agents is against the rules, but Jin retorts that since Yuma is a Border Agent, they’re technically breaking the rules too. But Tachikawa responds that Yuma isn’t official until the enlistment day, so until then he’s a stray Neighbor to them. Miwa observes that Kei and Jin are remarkably similar in how they go about things.

Kazama tries to convince Jin that he has to surrender and let them capture Yuma and his Trigger. He also questions whether Jin intends to declare war on Border with his Black Trigger, but Jin simply says that to Yuma, the Black Trigger is more important than his own life. He says he won’t declare war, but he won’t let them take the Trigger.

Kazama notes that even if he intends to fight, Tachikawa’s team is specifically trained for fighting Black Trigger users. Jin agrees, saying he’d probably be on even footing with them. But he notes that that would only be the case if he was alone. Arashiyama’s squad, another A rank team in Border, specifically under Kinoda’s branch (which is the third of the major branches in Border) appears to assist Jin under orders from their commander

Jin says that with Arashiyama’s unit supporting him, he thinks he’ll win now and hopes that Tachikawa will retreat. Tachikawa responds that he’s interested in Jin’s resolve and wants to see if he can disprove Jin’s prediction. The two finally draw their Triggers and the battle begins

I shouldn’t have expected the battle to start in this chapter; it’s like a shounen to draw things out a bit and create tension as well as interactions between the characters and factions.

Obviously Jin is going to fight Kei, but the other fighters are a bit uncertain about the conflicts. Jin may take on both Kazama and Kei, leaving the other 4 fighters, which means Jin may even fight 3, leaving 3 to fight against Arashiyama’s group

The specialization of Kei’s group does make me a bit concerned, but Jin’s skill is probably good enough, even if he hasn’t been in Border as long as Konami and that A rank group has.

A look at the wikia suggests that Kei, Kazama and Isami are single person units themselves and Miwa’s unit is 4 people, so Jin, even with Arashiyama’s unit, is still 3 people short. But Jin counts as 3 people himself practically.

Naruto 642

Last time, it seemed like the group had landed a successful attack on Obito, Tobirama noting that the black balls surrounding him weren’t a factor in this case. But we see them gravitate back to Obito and clear away the Amaterasu flames.

Tobirama and Minato comment that he’s especially tough and even when they try to plan around the black balls, they’re too fast.

Tobirama also observes that something’s wrong with Minato’s Edo Tensei body. Enough time has passed that it should’ve started regenerating the arm he lost. Obito responds that any of their common sense can’t apply to him, since he’s on the level of the shinobi ancestors.

The Second then concludes that Obito’s using an Onmyouten (Yin Yang) jutsu that nullifies all other jutsu, supposedly how the original Sage of the Six Paths could. This means that even Edo Tensei aren’t immortal. In fact, they’re quite vulnerable and mortal.

Naruto prepares to go full Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, but Kurama tells him he has to wait a bit longer. He reverts to normal as Kurama prepares.

Gamakichi launches an attack, Obito trying to block it, but seemingly ineffective. Naruto wonders why he rushed and Gamakichi responds that the summoning time is running out. He then disappears. Everyone notices Obito can’t nullify the attack Gamakichi just launched.

Minato then asks why Obito is like this, remembering his dream to become Hokage. Obito responds that Minato’s always been late for life changing events, referring back to the times Minato wasn’t there and Obito was slowly growing insane and evil. Therefore, according to Obito’s logic, Minato can’t really lecture Obito on accomplishing his dreams. He even says that he’s glad his sensei was Hokage, so it was easier to abandon his dreams, probably referring to the fact that since Minato didn’t help him, he saw the futility of the present system and became the person he is now. Minato thinks back to when he fought Obito as Tobi. He considers that if he had known Tobi was Obito back then, he might’ve stopped him, and things wouldn’t have become how they are now.

Obito then mocks Minato, noting how he has fallen and how he is being embarrassed in front on Naruto. But Naruto says someone who hasn’t become Hokage can’t insult someone who has. Tobirama then teleports him behind Obito and he lands an attack. Everyone else is shocked and Tobirama notes what he and Naruto observed.  Gamakichi’s attack was a sage attack, so anything done in Sage Mode is considered a senjutsu attack. This is the new turning point for this battle. Since Obito is a sage, only sage powers will affect him, not normal ninjutsu or the like.

Minato even notes that Naruto’s learned Jiraiya’s senjutsu, showing how much Naruto has surpassed him. The chapter ends with the other half of Kurama talking to Minato, which I hope becomes relevant soon.

Naruto being the center of the fight makes sense and the sage mode is not completely phased out

One Piece 717

Last time, Luffy and Chinjao (Don seems to be a title, not his first name) clashed and afterwards, realizing Luffy can use Emperor’s Haki, asks what kind of king Luffy aspires to be, Luffy responding, obviously, the Pirate King. Chinjao responds that in the New World, there are countless people with the same will and Haki, and things will play out there, whoever is at the top in the end being the winner. He then asks who taught him to unleash his Haki, Luffy responding Rayleigh, a person Chinjao probably remembers, since he’s in the generation of Gol D. Roger, Garp and such.

Chinjao then starts to both scream in rage and simultaneously cry as he rants at Luffy, referring most likely to his past where Garp and the like took away his potential to be a great pirate.

Boo and Sai comment that Sai was supposed to be the major fighter, but they note that when Chinjao gets angry, there’s no stopping him. Chinjao speaks about his moniker, Chinjao the Drill (odd, since he is better known for his head that’s tough as iron) and asks Luffy what Garp did to him. Luffy, of course, doesn’t know and tells him to choose whether to be angry or cry, not do both.

Meanwhile, Sanji and Kinemon are outside the arena, Sanji noting that there are Marines situated outside, waiting for the pirates to come out. We see one of the vice admirals note that they had a spy in the colosseum and he hasn’t come back.

The toy soldier, whose name I don’t believe we know yet, explains to Franky that Doflamingo, since he’s been the king of Dressrosa, enforced two major laws: a midnight curfew and that toys and humans cannot be in each other’s houses. Franky asks why, since they seem to be so jovial otherwise. Franky then asks the question everyone’s been pondering since we first saw them: how can such advanced toys exist if not for Vegapunk?

He starts to explain, noting a toy that’s engaging with a human and is talking to her, insisting he’s her boyfriend, but she doesn’t recognize him. People say it has the “human” disease and it’s taken away, thrown into a pile of scrap, presumably, as he screams that he’s human.

He calls over another toy, who explains that he has a son and wife, but they don’t remember him as Franky and the toy soldier inquire to the two. 

The toy soldier then explains that the toys were previously human and the people forget them once they are turned into humans. This is the result of a Devil Fruit user Doflamingo employs. They head to Flower Fields, where he’ll explain it more fully

We see the fight between Doflamingo, Law and Isshou continue, Law trying to contact Nami.

We then go to Tontatta kingdom, where Usopp inquires about why they’re attacking Doflamingo, one of the gnomes explaining that he has 500 kidnapped members of their tribe, including their princess. The chapter ends revealing that they are hidden under Corrida Colosseum, which is also where the factory is. 

Everything’s starting to come together now.

Toriko 245

We start with a reiteration of Frohze’s request for Komatsu and Starjun rejecting it.

Elsewhere, we see Terrycloth and we find out where she’s rushed off to: Toriko, unconscious and bloodied from the fight with Starjun. She howls into the sky, people likely miles away able to hear it clearly, even knocking off one of Jirou’s buttons on his jacket

Suddenly Starjun pulls a Hiei from Yu Yu Hakusho and a third eye sprouts in the middle of his forehead, mimicking the form of his intimidation, as shown later.

Frohze comments that this development means Starjun has “bloomed” and also notes that he was born with Gourmet Cell genetics. This means, I presume, that he naturally has Gourmet Cells, not like Toriko, who I believe was said to have been genetically engineered. Starjun’s becoming one of the most interesting characters in this series as of lately. He talks down to Frohze, saying he’s become much stronger after fighting with Toriko

Frohze responds that if it was one on one, maybe she could defeat him, but with Jirou and Setsuno there, she has to retreat. She also observes that the other major fight has concluded, hinted to be Midora versus Ichiryuu as Midora’s voice booms down.

Starjun then tells Jirou to release his knocking as a spice will fall and kill everyone if he doesn’t. He does so as the Bishokukai evacuates. Frohze does the same, using Tokage as a shadow teleporter to move all the other members of Neo away.

As Shigematsu is teleported away, we see Mansam remembering that Ichiryuu told him that if he dies, then Human World is in danger and he’ll leave it to Mansam and the like.

We see a few pages showing the potential destruction to come, meteors raining down and Setsuno and Jirou note that Ichiryuu lost to Midora as the chapter ends with the Meteor Spice crashing and explosions erupting everywhere.

I’m not entirely shocked that Ichiryuu lost, when you consider that most of his Gourmet Cells weren’t activated. Midora, on the other hand, kept activating his, so Ichiryuu was just asking to get his butt handed to him.

Not sure how this will play out. Toriko has to be healed from losing an arm and a leg, then they have to either train and fight off Neo to get stronger or go right to Bishokukai.

Ichiryuu’s death would be the first major death in this series and it would affect the power balance significantly, not unlike Whitebeard’s death in One Piece. Not sure how Toriko will be healed. Maybe Mohyan Shaishai, the super ancient Gourmet Revivalist, will have something to do with it. Or Yosaku could do something.