WSR 2-3-14

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This week we’ll be covering the most chapters in a while, since all the breaks are over for the moment

Magi 213

As Kouen, Alibaba and the others exit the ship, Jafar says that they’re required to put their Metal Vessels in a special depository, so that everyone can negotiate without concern of fights breaking out with the Household Members. As long as the Metal Vessels are here, the Household Members can’t use their Household Vessels. There are a total of 12 here: Sinbad’s 7, Kouen’s 3, Koumei’s 1 and Alibaba’s 1.

Kouen enters the room where Sinbad is waiting with Masrur and Sharrkan (who are more than capable even without their Household Vessels) to start the negotiations. Morgiana and the others want to move to Sinbad’s side, but are stopped by Kouen and his men. Alibaba’s household is confused by this, but accepts that there must be some reason why he made the arrangement he did with Kouen. Morgiana confronts him directly, inquiring about what could make him do this, hinting that it could be Balbadd, something he’s willing to die to protect. Alibaba placates them by saying he’ll keep them safe from Kouen’s manipulations.

Seishuu, one of Kouen’s 4 Household members, notes that most of Sinbad’s Household isn’t assimilated, confident that they could kill them all. But another says that their ki is strong and it’s revealed that the Yambala are allied with Sinbad as well, bolstering his strength.

But then the Fanalis Corps appear and they seem to be on Kouen’s side, which confuses Sinbad, since Reim was supposedly in an alliance with Sindria. Muu says that he’s good friends with Kouen and wants to support him.

Kouen says they should focus on the summit itself, Yunan chiming in and appearing, revealing two allies of his that are the major focus: Aladdin and Titus.

The chapter ends as the three of them start to explain the past of Alma Toran.

Seven Deadly Sins 64

Drefyus’ group discusses why the Seven Deadly Sins would even be attacking, since with Gowther, there are 5 of them together; invading Lyonesse doesn’t make much sense. But Jericho says it doesn’t matter; they just have to fight them and show their power. Jericho and Hauser bicker, Hauser bringing up his Platinum Holy Knight rank, which Jericho says isn’t as good as Diamond, which is likely one of the highest.

Dreyfus thinks there must be a plan, but he doesn’t know what it could be. He thinks Helbram might know, being one of Hendricksen’s men, but Helbram plays the fool. Dreyfus presses him and he breaks, saying that it’s probably what used to be Merlin’s castle, Hendricksen’s magic research facility, which has many artifacts, including Meliodas’ hilt.

Diane and King are moving towards Lyonesse as well, thinking they can provide adequate support with their Sacred Treasures. Both of them are concerned, since they’d never seen Meliodas as angry as he was before Diane threw them towards the kingdom.  Diane even wonders whether Meliodas would get that angry if it was her instead of Elizabeth captured, King insisting he would, since they’re all comrades (trying to hide his own obvious feelings for Diane).  She thinks Meliodas wouldn’t make that kind of face, King saying he’d try to rescue her himself, which somewhat cheers Diane up.

King remembers something, summoning Oslo, the Black Hound we saw a while back that was tracking the group before King joined them. He explains that Oslo can send people to a location if they swallow them, so they can get to Lyonesse quickly that way. It’s a bit awkward for Oslo to swallow Diane, but she manages to get through into what appears to be the dungeon area.

The Holy Knights are trying a new strategy, fighting Meliodas with just weapons, since he can’t counter physical attacks, but he easily beats them. Ban calls them idiots and wonders what that power could be from before. Gowther says it’s more important whether they’re an ally or enemy, but Meliodas says they should focus on their goal of getting the hilt back and rescuing Elizabeth.

A huge group comes at them and Gowther unleashes his Sacred Treasure, a double bow, and rewrites the memories of the Holy Knights so they think they’re friends or family. It’s only temporary, but it will distract them so they can get in without all the fighting and use their energy better.

The chapter ends as we see Arthur, his wizard and Hendricksen moving through Lyonesse to fight with the Seven Deadly Sins

World Trigger 47

The Neighbors watching over the invasion comment that Earth hasn’t shown all its power, since they had a limited number of people taking out their initial spy Neighbor soldiers, the RADs. Some of the Neighbors are impatient and some squabbles occur. The ultimate conclusion is to wait while they move to the next stage of their attack.

Osamu and Yuma are fighting off the Neighbor soldiers, but Replica explains that their plan now is to focus on one area at a time, while B rank squads evacuate the citizens.

A Rabit appears and attacks Osamu, Yuma counterattacking with his Black Trigger. Osamu warns him against using that, since Kido could retaliate, but Yuma says this is a dangerous situation, so he has no choice.

Some B rank agents mistake him for an enemy Neighbor and attack, but the Rabit recovers and attacks them. Arashiyama squad manages to take it out with precise shots. Arashiyama contacts HQ, but they send a garbled message, talking about “cannonfire” and “shooting down”.

The chapter ends as we see the Ilgar bomb type Neighbor Soldiers attack the HQ building, starting to damage it even slightly.

Bleach 567

As Nodt finds the concept of someone unable to fear ridiculous. Rukia says he should try using his power again if he doesn’t believe it. She then reveals the true form of Sode no Shirayuki, meaning it was still incomplete before (though she still doesn’t have Bankai, it seems)

A group of thorns flies at Rukia, but she blocks one with her hand, As Nodt taunting her, since she was running from them a few moments ago. But the thorn is frozen solid and shatters on the ground. Rukia explains that, while she can unleash Sode no Shirayuki’s true power, her body still isn’t strong enough to resist it fully, so she has to keep her body as undamaged as possible.

As Nodt repeats the fact we saw before: even freezing the thorns doesn’t stop his Fear from permeating into you. He notes that a state of peace, while conducive to life, is not as easily explained as the state of fear, where people can spout many words elucidating why they are afraid. At their core, he insists, people desire to live, so they cannot help but fear death. In short, fear is the basis of life itself: even growing stronger is for the purpose of eliminating fear.

Rukia responds that’s why she can’t be affected by fear: she isn’t really alive anymore (which sounds a lot like Komamura with Dangai Joue) The true nature of Sode no Shirayuki isn’t as a medium for cold itself, but reducing the user’s temperature below 0, so that anything they touch freezes, the user an extension of the blade.

But As Nodt says that if that were true, the basic functions of life would cease, so you’d be dead anyway. Rukia retorts that, technically, she is dead, but she’s learned how to function in a state of physical death by manipulating her reishi. Her molecules are in a suspended state so As Nodt’s fear cannot flow into her body.

Rukia moves quickly, slashing at As Nodt’s shoulder. She’s reached 18 below zero, the freezing point of blood, meaning his wound won’t bleed. 50 below zero freezes the moisture in the ground, causing an ice-quake. And absolute zero freezes virtually everything, Rukia only having 4 seconds of mobility. 

The chapter ends as she seemingly freezes As Nodt solid and has won, As Nodt contemplating if this is what it feels like to fear.

Naruto 663

Sasuke is trying to stand and Sakura is still healing Naruto when she notices the Nine Tails’ chakra has faded. She sees that Naruto doesn’t have a pulse or heartbeat, Gaara explaining that Kurama’s been extracted. He explains that Kurama told him about Minato having his other half and that they have to get to Minato to transfer that half to Naruto in order to save him.

They can’t use the body flicker technique, since that was connected to Minato having sealed Kurama’s yang half in Naruto, so they have to get there manually. It’s still a while away, so Sakura, using the last bit of her chakra, cuts a slit in Naruto’s side and massages his heart to keep him alive until they get there.

Meanwhile, Tobirama is helpless to move and help Sasuke, whose chakra he can’t sense in the slightest.

Karin, elsewhere, has unleashed the chakra chains that Kushina used when she was helping Naruto subdue Kurama, fighting against Black Zetsu and the Mokuton statue. But Black Zetsu stabs her through with Mokuton jutsu. She bites herself to heal and Suigetsu and Juugo come in to help, knocking Black Zetsu away and keeping him immobile. Black Zetsu starts to counterattack, but Orochimaru uses a cursed seal on him and he becomes paralyzed. Karin has recovered, but she says she can’t sense Sasuke at all, just as Tobirama said.

Madara unlocks the Gedou Mazou’s power, taking on a new form like Obito did, becoming the next Jinchuuriki of the Ten Tails.

Sakura’s still keeping Naruto alive, encouraged by his confidence many years ago, saying he can make this dream happen as long as she helps him.

The chapter ends as we see an unknown figure appear before Sasuke. I’m theorizing Obito by the bloodied appearance of the foot, though that means Obito will somehow sacrifice himself to keep Sasuke alive, it seems.

One Piece 737

 Violet explains that Pica ate the Stone Stone fruit, so now he can absorb rock (meaning it’s a Paramecia type, not Logia) He’s molded himself with the entire castle, made entirely of stone, so he’s able to manipulate it as he pleases. The walls move together, trying to crush our heroes.

Back at the finals, we see Jesus Burgess attacking the Fighting Fish bosses with his Surge Elbow, which seems to be a special weapon, possibly using Impact Dials.

Suddenly, the fish that has the Devil Fruit on its back appears, Sabo, Bartolomeo and Diamante noticing. It heads straight for Rebecca, who moves to slash the chains. Sabo moves in to take the fruit, but Diamante attacks. Sabo snaps the extended and hardened sword in half, Burgess moving to take the fruit. Rebecca and Bartolomeo are keeping their distance from Burgess’ Surge Elbow, while Sabo takes his own stance and prepares an attack to counter it. He attacks Burgess using Armament Haki, shattering the armor.

Diamante observes that the fighting style is vastly different from the Lucy we saw before, getting suspicious.

Usopp’s group is nearly at the executive tower, the structure a combination of an executive only lift in the center with shafts on the sides leading to various drop-off points for broken toys.

We see Cavendish, recovering from being thrown into the place where the losers of the tournament were thrown, like Chinjao and others. He meets Trebol, revealed to have the Sticky Sticky fruit, who bickers with Sugar about the name of the tower where all the toys come in from above and leave as Sugar creates them.

Cavendish is turned into a toy and Sugar initiates a contract, which explains why they can’t seem to resist, for the most part. They seem to be aware that they’re toys, but can’t resist (though we have examples of the toys eventually breaking free of the contract at least). Koala’s master, Hack, is one of them, a connection people may have speculated on already, as well as Sai and Elizabello, griping about finding out where the weapons were smuggled in Sai’s case or being a toy even though they’re a king in Elizabello’s.

Usopp and the Tontatta sneak closer, Leo explaining their plan. Sugar likes to eat grapes, so they’re going to slip in a grape shaped amount of a super spice. Once she is shocked, the toys will (theoretically) return to normal and regain their human forms. From there, they will reveal Doflamingo’s true colors and take back Dressrosa. The chapter ends as Leo moves to slip the “grape” into Sugar’s basket.

One Piece is on break next week, so we won’t quite be back to a regular schedule yet, though this week will be the expected lineup of 8 series.

Toriko 265

The Gourmet Age is long past, a former one star restaurant now a high class establishment by the new standards. Everything is now served in pill form, the concept of fresh food disappeared.  A year and a half ago, after Meteor Spice’s damage, Human World was virtually a wasteland, unable to be farmed. The IGO eventually ran out of its reserves and resorted to the food pills. But the synthetic food only serves for the nutritional value, none of the taste.

We see a bright eyed young man entering a shop to get ingredients for his ailing mother. It’s explained that any fresh ingredient, like a simple daikon, is now a high class ingredient, since they’re so rare. Suguru really wants to get fresh ingredients for his mother, the shopkeeper giving the daikon to him, asking him to keep it secret, since the shop will eventually be closing down because they have so few fresh ingredients left.

Suguru is caught by the guards, who are so desperate for food, they’re even willing to lose a finger to their rings that explode if they violate the contract. But they’re stopped after they steal the daikon by Toriko, who starts to give out the ingredients from the Gourmet World that he acquired over the last year and a half to everyone in Human World with his immense strength and skill.

Komatsu has improved his skills as well, effortlessly preparing ingredients with his Derous Knife, each motion crisp and clean. Everyone crowds around the celebrities of Gourmet World, returning with such a cornucopia of fresh ingredients

The chapter ends as Mansam, now the president of IGO, sends out what we can presume are Coco, Zebra and Sani to meet Toriko.

Fairy Tail 370

We go down a deep hole to see the final seal on Face released, the giant construct rising out of the ground.

Back at Tartaros’ hideout, Natsu and Lisanna see a sword that they move to use in order to free themselves.

Kyouka and Franmalth try to find Face’s location, Kyouka ordering Franmalth to activate it remotely. He explains they can’t do that now, though he speculates Crawford might have been able to, had they just gone with his plan.

Kyouka’s concerned about Fairy Tail getting involved, but Sayla steps in and says that soon they will be eliminated.

We see a member of Kyouka’s squad called Lamy, a subordinate demon apparently,  hopping around in an area with a bunch of tubes, likely containing experiments. She stops at seeing Tempesta, now in a new more bishounen looking form and she’s gawking over it, Tempesta focusing on recalling important information and not his looks. Jackal has been reborn as well, meaning Tartaros is still well at full power and only growing stronger with the inclusion of Minerva and possibly Mirajane if things go their way. The loss of memories on Tempesta’s part is connected to what are now called sin particles, possibly the same or different than the anti magic particles.

Suddenly, Minerva is shown, her new form terrifying as expected, and Lamy moves her attention to Mirajane, who she’s still modifying.

Back at Fairy Tail, Elfman is still sulking and Cana comes in, commenting on how weird he was behaving. She sees the Lacryma and panics, Elfman pinning her to the wall. Cana now sees that he’s being controlled.

Levy, meanwhile, has located the base, which is now right above Magnolia, the country the guild resides in. The group moves to attack Tartaros, but the chapter ends as we see the guild explode (destroyed for at least the 2nd or 3rd time now)