WSR 2-10-14

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 One Piece is on break this week, but everything else is still on schedule. Also thinking of ordering the chapters based on their release, meaning SDS is first.

Seven Deadly Sins 65

We start with a map describing the situation and where all the relevant parties are located.

Hendricksen is talking to Arthur, inquiring about what he meant by a “situation that forced him to deny entry to outsiders”, Arthur playing dumb: he insists he just has a good instinct. Arthur refuses to answer Hendricksen’s follow up question of what his goal is in all this.

Suddenly, a noise startles Arthur, Hendricksen suggesting he might be a target for assassination. The woman who kidnapped Elizabeth before appears behind Hendricksen, explaining that she’s gotten the final piece and that he should move to the underground dungeon. Hendricksen replies that they should try to stop the Seven Deadly Sins from getting her back, the Holy Knight disappearing. Arthur inquires about her ability, Hendricksen silencing him quickly by attacking him, the king crashing into a building. Hendricksen is cut slightly by the counterattack: the Great Holy Knight is impressed by his strength.

The two Holy Knights following Hendricksen move to help him, but Arthur’s magician appears behind them.

Meanwhile, Ban, Meliodas and Gowther are slipping by the guards as the Invasion magic affect is wearing off. Meliodas suggests they look in the underground dungeon, even though the cliché for princesses is a tower.

An explosion is seen across the castle town, Meliodas moving towards it, the castle ignored for now, since Elizabeth might be in danger over there.

At Hendricksen’s Magical Research Facility, Dreyfus pushes Helbram for information about the building and what secrets it holds. Helbram simply says there are many magical artifacts, but he’s also concerned, thinking Dreyfus will find the demon underground. He orders Geera and Jericho to fight the Seven Deadly Sins, Geera asking if he’ll tell her the truth about her father afterwards. Helbram agrees, sending them off.

Hauser asks Gilthunder about his relationship with Meliodas, Gil explaining that he taught him some fundamental swordplay. But Hauser then asks him why he’d be fighting someone he respected so much: Gilthunder responds that they’re plotting to overthrow the kingdom and they’re the Holy Knights who protect it. The relationship is simple and the solution is basic.

The building starts to shake, Dreyfus quickly going underground with his power and the group unexpectedly meets up with Diane as the chapter ends.

World Trigger 48

We see the bomber attack from the perspective of Border HQ, cannons taking out one of them, but another one crashing into the wall. Luckily, it was strengthened with extra Trion (after Chika’s incident with the Ibis Sniper), so it didn’t do any damage to the actual building.

Shinoda asks Kinuta how strong the wall is, Kinuta responding it’s only strong enough to take one more impact.  Shinoda directs the civilians to be evacuated and focus the Trion on the cannons, taking out one of the three Ilgar left. It seems like the shield will be breached, but one of the Ilgars is sliced into pieces by Tachikawa, the base secure for now. They start to reinforce the wall, Tachikawa directed by Shinoda to target the Rabits.

Arashiyama explains this to Yuma and the others, Yuma impressed, since the Ilgars are tougher in self destruct mode, and also able to be pulled down easier. Kitora connects this to the incident a while ago, figuring out that Yuma was the one who helped her.

Arashiyama’s squad is complimented for taking out one of the Rabits, Arashiyama saying that they took out one that was significantly weaker, thanks to Yuma and Osamu’s fighting it before.

Osamu requests Shinoda let him and Yuma go to support the C ranks, since Chika is in the areas still being evacuated. Shinoda starts to allow them both, but Kido stops them, saying only Osamu can go, since Yuma would only confuse and frighten Border agents and citizens with his Black Trigger. He’s told to go with Arashiyama squad and take out more of the Rabits. In short, he’ll allow emergency use of the Black Trigger, since it’s effective against the Rabits, but Yuma has to follow his orders. Yuma retorts that if he’d just used a regular Trigger, he’d be allowed to go with Osamu, Kido saying that he can’t help but use his Black Trigger, since he’s like his father, Yugo.

Osamu is concerned, since there’s a swarm heading towards the evacuated areas and a Rabit may be among them. Kitora volunteers to help Osamu, since, as she says, “she owes them one”. Shinoda permits this and the groups go their separate ways.

Shinoda is confused at the tactics the Neighbors are using, since they could’ve destroyed the headquarters with a few more rounds of bombing. And the deployment of the Rabits is sporadic as well.

The chapter ends as the Neighbor army commanders are bickering about why they didn’t take out Border with a few more bombers, the “captain” explaining that their goal isn’t to destroy or even occupy Earth. It’s implied that they’re trying to capture Chika, as the final panel focuses on her.

Magi 214

Everyone waits eagerly for Aladdin to explain the history of Alma Toran, where he and Gyokuen came from. Yunan notices Judal isn’t there and Koumei explains that he’s busy with training. Yunan speaks as if that’s the only other Magi, meaning he doesn’t know about Gyokuen or knows that she’s from Alma Toran as well.

Aladdin begins, saying Alma Toran was where he, the Djinn and Al Thamen were born. Alibaba asks if it’s a faraway country, but Aladdin says it’s a place located in another time and space. Sinbad theorizes it could be on another star or planet, since the theory that the earth they live on is suspended in space like the stars they see in the sky already exists.

But Aladdin says it’s not that simple, since another star is still in the same space, while Alma Toran is in another dimension entirely. He compares it to a mirror, a world they can’t reach, suggesting that these are like parallel dimensions, separate from each other

Most of the members are confused or think it doesn’t matter, Kouen the only one who’s really fascinated by it. Alibaba asks the obvious question of how Aladdin got here. Aladdin responds that Solomon, who he compares to a God of this world, sent them here.

Solomon warned Aladdin not to tell people of this other world, since knowing they were created might make them lose motivation. But Aladdin thinks otherwise, that knowing the story of this other world might help people learn from its mistakes.

Aladdin uses the same magic Mogamett used to transmit his memories in a visible form, using Solomon’s Wisdom to aid in recovering his memories of Alma Toran.

The world of Alma Toran started much like the world they live in now, except that instead of just humans, other intelligent life came to be on the same planet. It’s seen as odd to Aladdin that there are only humans: no other species has reached the same level of development. But there were many in Alma Toran and they created various societies and cultures.

Alma Toran was so big, the various species didn’t meet each other for a while and lived in relative peace for ages. But war eventually broke out, the greater species wiping out the weaker ones. And the weakest one was the human race. But from them Solomon was born, with the greatest power of them all, power enough to even create a new world. The chapter ends as Aladdin begins to explain their story. 

Naruto 664

We’re reminded of Sasuke’s near death state as we move to Orochimaru’s group. Juugo thinks to himself that with the young Uchiha in such a weakened position, Orochimaru might try to take his body for himself. But Karin obviously wouldn’t want that. She notices someone’s with Sasuke, but can’t recognize their chakra. The only thing she can tell is that the presence is menacing. The group hurries to his position.

Meanwhile, Gai, Lee and Tenten are recovering. Gaara flies over them and they start to piece together that something must be up with Kakashi along with Naruto’s situation. Gai gains new energy to move to where Kakashi is, Tenten exasperated at his and Lee’s attitude, left without Neji.

Madara is moving towards a new location (most likely where Obito is) when he notices his body feels heavier. He spits out the Ninja Tools we saw from a while ago that Kinkaku and Ginkaku used.

Back where Lee, Gai and Tenten are, those two Ninja Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths hit Lee and Gai, Tenten remembering what they are.

Kakashi and Minato continue to fight Black Zetsu, Minato realizing that the other half of Kurama has been taken. Gaara and Sakura arrive, explaining what needs to be done. Kakashi and Gaara face off against Black Zetsu, while Minato begins to release Kurama into Naruto.

He flashes back to leaving Kushina, still pregnant with Naruto. She’s worried about him, but Minato calms her, saying that she doesn’t know this. Kushina responds that she’s certain of it because she’s his mother. Minato responds that he’ll protect his child no matter what, since he’s its father.

Back with Minato, he almost puts Kurama’s other half back into Naruto, but Black Zetsu blocks it with power, retreating. The chapter ends as Madara appears, prepared to take Obito’s eye back for himself.

Toriko 266

Toriko arrives at the 1st IGO Biotope, surprised to see that Mansam is now the president. Komatsu greets Sani, Coco and Zebra, the last of the three very gruff to Komatsu, since he was worried he might’ve died in Gourmet World. Sani compliments Komatsu on getting manlier.  

Rin, promoted as well, is ecstatic to see Toriko. She tells him that she never stopped believing in him, Toriko thinking she was the one to arrange that group of people to encourage him during his depression over losing Komatsu to Starjun.

Rin then asks Toriko to marry her, Sani annoyed at her persistence, Toriko oddly accepting of it. She has to confirm this and Toriko still agree to marry her, everyone else in shock at this, especially Sani, since Toriko would become his brother in law.

It’s revealed that the group still hasn’t found all of Ichiryuu’s Full Course (meaning that synthetic food is just that, artificial and produced by some advanced science, unrelated to the endless Full Course) and that they’re looking for the final ingredient, the main course, in the 1st IGO Biotope. Zebra had been searching before, as shown by the craters he made with his brute method. He couldn’t find anything with his echolocation, Coco didn’t see any electromagnetic waves and Sani couldn’t discern anything with his Dining Kitchen ability, so it’s very well hidden.

Toriko sees there’s a bit of the original surface left and he smells it, tracing a line of scents back to Ichiryuu, astonishing the others at the extent to which he can track a smell back in time. Coco thinks this has to do with the Gourmet World stimulating his Gourmet Cells, Komatsu explaining that Toriko could find him anywhere with a hint of his smell.

Toriko explains how the Gourmet World was so dangerous that they had to find the rare spots that were relatively safe by comparison and make a place that was virtually invisible, made of trees and rocks that were like the materials in Disappearing Cuisine. He notes that such a place wouldn’t survive for long, but in the Human World, it might be vastly different. He thinks Ichiryuu might be playing a prank on them from the grave, a spot standing out to him. The others’ senses can’t penetrate that spot, but Toriko can perceive something there, the spot with seemingly nothing there having an invisible layer that Toriko can touch, even though nothing appears to be there.

The group enters a sizeable area and finds the treasure chest. The chapter ends as we see something that looks like a Nitro sitting inside the nearby house waiting for them.

Bleach 568

Rukia starts increasing her temperature slowly, reducing Sode no Shirayuki’s power gradually so as not to damage her cells. Her thumb is bleeding, so she thinks she might’ve gone beyond the 4 second rule.

As Nodt contemplates Rukia’s power and whether it has the ability to incite fear. He continues his thought from last chapter: that this isn’t true fear. The only thing he truly fears is Juhabach’s wrath, to be killed by him, denied by his master. He sees this battle as a trifle: he proceeds to activate his Vollstandig, Tartar Foras, roughly translated as Fear of God, a monstrous form.

Rukia moves to attack, As Nodt quickly moving behind her, saying she’s powerless to stop him now. He notes that her feet are now paralyzed, explaining that his power now works through the optic nerves and not the cells, so she’s back to square one in being affected by Fear. The two of them are surrounded by a net that creates multiple eyes with the same power.

Even closing her eyes is futile, since As Nodt explains that memories are what power this and even one horrible memory can freeze a person with doubt. It builds up and becomes clearer when you close your eyes. As Nodt is confident he’s won, Rukia sinking into horror.

But the barrier breaks open slightly behind them and Byakuya appears as the chapter ends, the new confrontation beginning.

Fairy Tail 371

The townspeople are shocked at the explosion, some wanting to help the guild-members, since they helped them by putting it together after their higher ranked mages were away for 7 years.

We see Cube floating above the crater, Sayla proud of her achievement. Kyouka wonders why they even went to the trouble of going to where the guild was if they were just planning to destroy them. She says they should move forward with their plan, emphasizing that they intend to wipe out all humans.

Franmalth is shocked to see high magic readings and a grunt reports that there are three figures headed for Cube, though Franmalth thinks it’s much more. Sayla shows the underside of the cube and they see Happy, Charle and Tigerlily carrying cards.

We flashback to Cana trying to stop Elfman. She slaps him with a card, using a technique we saw a while back in the Paradise Tower arc, sealing Elfman into the card. She does the same for the others, sending them back to her hand, cardifying herself and giving the deck to the Exceed in order to escape all at once.

Sayla is stunned, Kyouka ordering the underlings to mobilize their defenses.

Happy and the others are sucked towards the Cube by a gravitational field, standing upside down. Cana releases the cards and the group starts their invasion of the Cube. Cana finds Elfman, now free of Sayla’s control, it seems, and encourages him to get up so they can save Mira and Lisanna.

Back where Mira is being turned by Kyouka’s lackey, Mira breaks out suddenly, revealing to the scientist that she already had the Demon Factor that was infusing into her in order to use Satan Soul, so now it’s fully awakened.

Kyouka returns to Erza’s cell, astonished as Natsu and Lisanna trap her. Erza appears with her Equip magic ready as the chapter ends, preparing to counterattack against her captors.