WSR 9-16-13

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Magi 197

Hakuryuu and Judal speak a bit at the beginning of the chapter, Judal teasing Hakuryuu about his sister fighting, while Hakuryuu being more serious and saying they came for another reason, which I’m not sure about what exactly it is.

Meanwhile, inside the rukh of Mogamett, he regrets what he has done, realizing he was the one building this wall and his stubborn prejudice against the goi was only making things worse. He wanted to help, but being so focused on helping them through the superior power of the magicians only created more friction between them.

 Aladdin apologizes as well, saying that even if he was obstinate about the difference between magicians and non magicians, he inspired people to fight on. He asks Mogamett to come with him, but Mogamett refuses. Since he sent so many people into depravity and used them as fuel, he thinks that he cannot leave, even if Titus enables him to do so. Even if he might be able to return to the white rukh, all the people he turned to the black rukh may not be able to return at all.

He asks Aladdin to help, since he’s figured out that Aladdin isn’t from this world. He feels sorry that those people who died in depravity cannot return to the white rukh’s flow where their loved ones wait for them in vain.Aladdin thinks it’s possible, though he admits that the way is still presently unknown.

Mogamett thanks Aladdin for helping him see Yamraiha again, even if he also feels guilty. It’s explained that he stole Yamraiha from the royal family her ancestors had served for generations. He kept the truth from her because he didn’t want her to leave, but also because since the rulers had changed, magicians and those sympathetic to the royal family would’ve been killed. Yamraiha was initially suspicious, but she grew to regard Mogamett as a father.

Aladdin continues with this line of thought, saying that Mogamett made a lot of people feel loved and protected. Mogamett thanks Aladdin as he disappears into the black rukh, saying Aladdin truly saved the country, stopping the war from continuing and enabling the metal vessel users to ally even if they also bore hatred towards each other. He leaves Aladdin with a final message for Magnostadt: no one is greater than another, even if they are more powerful or otherwise different in ability.

Sinbad sees the medium breaking apart and it dissipates. Yamraiha tries to apologize to Mogamett before he fully disappears and he smiles, the medium disappearing into the sky outside. Al Thamen curses his uselessness, saying they need to make a better core themselves instead of indirectly. But they do find a silver lining in Scheherazade’s death and her rukh going to the flow.

The chapter ends as Titus meets Ugo in the enclosed area where he met Aladdin a while back. Wonder what this means for Titus, not to mention Ugo’s involvement in the story.

The arc will end next chapter, so I wonder what we’ll be moving towards after that.

World Trigger 30

Kitora and Arashiyama retreat to a side street to try to avoid Izumi and Miwa. Izumi concludes they’re cornered, but Miwa says they’ll just bottleneck them and then teleport out to get them in that enclosed space that much easier. It’s noted that since Kitora’s leg (just one, unlike what I thought last week) is disabled, they have to keep them at a distance. Forcing them to get into an enclosed space would be to Arashiyama and Kitora’s advantage. Izumi and Miwa think they have to whittle them down from afar.

Arashiyama and Kitora contact Satori and they have him transmit information to them through his Radar Option Trigger. They can’t find Touma, since he’s wearing a Bagworm Option Trigger, hiding him from Radar Option. They reason out that they’re trying to lure them out by making it seem like they’re heading for Jin. They ask their Operator, Ayatsuji, to help them find the best sniping positions and they move out.

Arashiyama is heading for Izumi, Kitora apparently using a Bagworm Option as well. The idea seems to be to initiate a surprise attack with Arashiyama as bait. Arashiyama pops out and Izumi uses Meteor, Arashiyama using Shield Option as best he can. Miwa and Izumi are trying to find Kitora, but Arashiyama doesn’t answer when they ask where she is.

Miwa uses the Heavy Option on his Gunner Trigger, further disabling Arashiyama, but he teleports behind them. Touma seems like he’s about to shoot Arashiyama, knowing where he was going to teleport, but then Kitora appears behind him, defeating him. She had attached the Scorpion Trigger to her disabled leg and attacked him from behind, using the Bagworm Option to hide herself.

Miwa and Izumi are ready to finish off Arashiyama after he taunts them, saying it was a surprise attack with him as bait, but with a different target, Satori snipes off Miwa and Izumi’s firing arms. Miwa’s still ready to fight, but he’s contacted by a superior and told that the fight’s over as the chapter ends.

If the fight’s over, what does this mean for the superiors at Border who ordered them to get Yuma’s Black Trigger?

Bleach 549

The unseated officers are inspired by Toushirou’s strong attack against Bazz B last time and they think they might have a chance even without their captain having Bankai

Meanwhile, Marechiyo is slammed into the wall by BG 9. He says that he’s been looking for Soifon and asks the vice captain where she is, since he can’t find her even with all the technical data he has. But Marechiyo says if he knew, he’d cover for her, but he honestly doesn’t know. He also says he’s the kind of person who’d throw their superior under the bus to save his own hide, so it’s a bit contradictory. But we’re probably supposed to get the idea that he cares for his captain, even if he doesn’t show it.

BG9 says that after asking 3 times, he needs to use a different method. He then stabs with his blade, seemingly not even using an arm, attacking Mareyo, Marechiyo’s younger sister, who was nearby. BG9 then says that there are other related individuals nearby and they will die if Marechiyo doesn’t answer his question. The vice captain attacks, furious that the Quincy would attack his family members. BG9 is virtually unscathed, stabbing Marechiyo into the wall and blocking his attacks with weird tendril things under the cloak. He then proceeds to try to finish Marechiyo off with what appears to be a gatling gun that he pulled from his cloak, though his body seems to be very mysterious as to what it actually is.

The gun is suddenly slashed in half and Soifon appears nearby, having caught the bullets. She compliments him for using such an advanced weapon, instead of a bow and arrow. BG9 is confused at Soifon’s appearance and she laughs in response, surprised they didn’t know about this from their intel. She explains it’s Shunkou and BG9 responds that he’s aware of the technique but that her form should be incomplete, but Soifon counters that it’s been a while, so she’s gotten better. She thanks him for stealing her Bankai, since now she’s perfected her Shunkou to this extent in the absence of the Bankai. She slams into him with her Eternal Shunkou and an explosion results that can be seen across Seireitei by Toushirou and Rangiku

They move to help the others, but it looks like Bazz B isn’t done yet. These fights are definitely showing off the adaptability of the captains after losing their Bankai, but I imagine that these fights will push them to their limits, since these are Captain class and above opponents in terms of their strength, relatively speaking.

Naruto 647

The chapter begins with the 5 Kages floating towards the battle on Gaara’s sand. Sakura is tired and Shikamaru seems to have fainted or is near death. They try to use the long distance healing, but Katsuyu explains that the tiny clones used in the technique were all used up, presumably to heal Tsunade. It’s like those people who’ve had their chakra drained by the God Tree. Shikamaru’s getting his chakra drained steadily as well, the others trying to help him.

Obito says he won’t kill the shinobi if they stop resisting. The idea is that if they want to end their suffering, they should just accept the God Tree draining all their chakra and die or just accept the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Hashirama tells the shinobi not to give in, since accepting the genjutsu would be the same as dying.

Suddenly Orochimaru and his group come in. They explain that the Kages are on their way, Orochimaru commenting that Sasuke doesn’t seem happy

Hashirama notes something Madara told him before: that for the tree to fully bloom, it only needs trace amounts of the Kyuubi and Hachibi’s chakra. It’ll be about 15 minutes. Madara will use the Sage powers he acquired from being a clone of Hashirama and take Obito’s place in utilizing the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Hashirama asks Ino to transmit this information to everyone. He says they can either take down the tree or the user of the jutsu in the time they have, but they can’t give up.

Obito continues to drone on in his nihilistic viewpoint and Naruto has had enough. Ssasuke then inspires Naruto by cutting through one of the tree limbs with Susanoo and he and Juugo move forward. Naruto then charges up his chakra and through Ino’s jutsu, they see his heart, his regrets of not being able to help Sasuke, the deaths of people precious to him, like Jiraiya, Chiyo and Neji. But he won’t let all that go to waste and he and Sasuke confront Obito as the chapter ends.

A lot of emotional setup, but this is looking like the arc could end sometime next year at this rate, though time dilation in manga could stretch the time frame of 15 minutes quite a bit. And Obito may have a backup plan.

Toriko 250

The chapter begins with an explanation about a phenomenon in Gourmet World when especially powerful beasts confront each other. The vortex of their sheer power swirls around them, forming what is called an Emperor Ring, which many beasts in Gourmet World won’t go near. This time, however, the Emperor Ring comes from Ichiryuu and Midora and it’s the biggest Gourmet World has ever seen. Any beasts that wandered into it are either affected by Minority World or Hungry Space

Ichiryuu compliments Midora on twisting Minority World to his advantage. But he also says that it extends to everything, so he can’t stop those things that are unconscious. He then rescinds Minority World, putting Midora back into a state of near death. Ichiryuu says since the damage to his heart is now the majority, Midora will be dying soon anyway. But then more bites are taken out of Ichiryuu’s body as Midora responds saying that he’s still in a good spot, apparently recovering slowly from the damage done by eating Ichiryuu.

He then explains about Hungry Space, that his tongue not only consumes objects, but the air itself, leaving a vacuum that, if something gets into its area of effect, is consumed, much like the Dinner of Kings we saw when the Four Emperors fought the Four Beast, eaten by an unseen force. The taste is memorized and then Midora can attack at his leisure, it seems. And Ichiryuu’s Minority World isn’t able to affect it, since it eliminates everything in that spot, leaving only the Appetite to consume more.

Ichiryuu comments that it seems like Midora has become a glutton, never able to be satisfied, never feeling full. Midora agrees, saying his appetite is infinite, that he has never been full.

We then flashback to when Midora was younger. The Gourmet Cells Acacia discovered created much more food potential, but it also created more war potential, people fighting over every ingredient, every sort of food in the economy that had been built.

Midora is revealed to have been born to feed livestock, a horrific turn of events in the age of Gourmet War. He also apparently was born with those scars that we see on him as an adult, oddly enough. He managed to survive by nursing on a sow member of the giant red haired pigs and people viewed him as a monster. This continued into adulthood, chased by people, always hungry, always needing to eat. And he gained a mentality that food is not to be given, it is to be taken any way you can.

The Gourmet War got worse, the food shortage more and more prominent, even someone like Midora on the verge of death. The chapter ends as Midora is found, fallen over from starvation, by Frohze.

This flashback seems like it will give explanations about a lot of things we weren’t aware of. Especially something like how Ichiryuu and Midora, probably Jirou as well as Setsuno and others, have lived to be hundreds of years old, 500 or more in the case of Acacia’s three disciples. Acacia himself was said to be over 600 when he died, so this world seems to take the Gourmet Cells as being the source of great longevity among other things.

Fairy Tail 352

Everyone is still in shock that the Eternal Flame seems to have disappeared even after Gray melted the ice. Charle thinks it might have already gone out a while ago, Gray thinking he can’t unfreeze the giants like this, since they might just disappear too. Flare is saddened to think the flame is gone, but Wendy exclaims that it isn’t gone. She still feels residual thought, suggesting it’s alive, which is a bit unusual when you think about it.

The group notices something at the fire altar and we see a tiny flame still surviving. Wendy says Natsu can restore the flame. He’s still fighting the monster and the others try to call him down. He hears them and goes down, leaving the monster behind. It tries to attack him, but he grabs its tail and throws it away. But the monster fires a laser beam from its eye and engulfs Natsu, pushing him down. It nearly hits the giants, but Natsu unleashes a burst of flame from his mouth, pushing the laser away.

He then uses a giant’s head as leverage, pushing himself towards the monster to slam into it with greater force than before. He slams it into the altar itself and then shoots a line of flame to finish off the monster. But he’s not done yet, bombarding the target with countless attacks. Lucy even says he’s going a bit overboard and Natsu finishes with the secret art of the Fire Dragon Slayer.

Flare sees that the flame is fine and Natsu and Wendy’s combined experience; Natsu hearing the flame’s voice and Wendy hearing its thoughts; makes the group realize that the flame is a living entity. More specifically, it’s Atlas Flame, the dragon that Natsu managed to convert to his side and help fight the dragons when Future Rogue was trying to control them after they came through Eclipse in the last arc. This revelation is interesting and it means that the dragons are still around, they’re just mostly in hiding.

I wonder if this means that the dragons will have something to tell the others about Acnologia or otherwise contribute something to the plot. Atlas Flame may very well end this arc fairly soon if he’s able to defrost everything from the magical ice.