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Black Clover 74

The Black Bulls are leaving, Charmy having captured the Eye of the Midnight Sun attackers in what Magna recognizes as high tier binding magic, suggesting she’s pretty powerful despite her magic being cotton based.

Asta encourages Kiato and Kahono to continue to pursue their dreams, Kiato showing his new leg he got, while Kahono is still able to communicate through sound waves of some sort in spite of her throat being damaged.

The group is recovering back at base, Gordon forgotten, though we’re told he’s just bad with talking to people and actually does want friends, but isn’t able to really convey it very well

Yami is going to talk with the Wizard King, Charmy, Finral and Asta all coming along.

Finral leaves the group after teleporting them there, the rest of the group going to meet Julius.

He’s given the magic stone, praising the Black Bulls for not losing any members in the fight, since the Magic Knights guarding Raquey were decimated. Julius will have Vett’s body autopsied, and in the meantime, he’s impressed at how powerful Yami has become, remembering when people thought he was crazy to recruit such a person into the Magic Knights.

Julius praises Yami, who thinks he’s being excessive about it. Yami notes that he just did what he asked, proving himself by accomplishing the task set before him in his own way. And he wants to show that Julius wasn’t wrong, as well as showing his own capacity for choosing subordinates like Asta and Charmy.

The Wizard King also praises Asta, who asks for his autograph, to Yami’s annoyance, since he’s Asta’s direct superior. Julius seems to think Charmy is Yami’s child, irritating him at the suggestion

Suddenly, Marx interrupts them, saying there’s an attack by Diamond Kingdom on a border town called Kiten.

The Magic Knights guarding the area were all but wiped out. But Julius thinks this isn’t just a mild provocation, since the guys leading them are 3 of the 8 Shining Generals, who are the Diamond Kingdom’s equivalent of Clover Kingdom’s Magic Knights

But Marx is notified of something, telling Julius that the Golden Dawn has appeared on the scene, Yuno, along with the captain and 2 other members, ready to fight off the invaders as the chapter ends.

Boku no Hero Academia 103

Everyone’s confused at Inasa having rejected his admission to Yuuei, but we shift our focus to a new Hero, Ms. Joke, who’s a friend of Aizawa’s, proposing marriage to him, which he flatly rejects. Her Quirk forces people to laugh, which impairs their ability to fight, making her effective as a Hero.

Ms. Joke introduces her class, second years from Ketsubutsu Academy, most of them amazed to see Yuuei’s first year students, many in the news recently.

One of the students, Shindou, shakes everyone’s hands, impressed at their resolve in the face of the dangers they’ve faced in the last year, especially Bakugou. But he rejects Shindou’s handshake, the Hero thinking it’s fine, since it shows Bakugou’s strong spirit.

Some of the other Ketsubutsu students are interacting with Yuuei students, the teachers telling them to get suited up and move to the information sessions.

The introduction is given by a guy from the Hero Public Safety Commission, nearly ready to fall asleep from the workload. He explains that there are over 1500 students here and they need to cut down those numbers.

Since society feels that Heroes have become overly saturated in society and the standards are somewhat ambiguous as to how much a Hero can expect compensation for their deeds versus doing it for the sake of helping others. The provisional license will thrust these new Heroes into that environment and it is merciless.

The endgame is thinning the numbers to 100 out of the 1540, meaning it’s only about 5% of the total that will survive rather than the 50% promised before.

The basics are explained, each participant having 3 targets they can put anywhere on an exposed part of the body. Each person gets 6 balls and must try to hit the targets. Whoever gets the 3rd target is considered the one who finished that person off. Whoever gets 2 captures passes to the next round. We see the arena open up around them, massive in scale and possessing various environments.

Ms. Joke thinks Aizawa must be quite fond of this class if he hasn’t expelled any of them yet.

Deku tells the others that they need to work as a group, but Bakugou and Todoroki ignore him, saying they need to work individually for once.

Deku’s worried that the other schools will take the same strategy and target their class, Ms. Joke explaining to Aizawa that Yuuei doesn’t have the same advantage of their Quirks being unknown, since they were shown to the country through the Sports Festival, meaning the general pattern year to year is that the other schools target Yuuei for elimination.

Aizawa says he didn’t tell his class because he already expected they were aware of this and that they’re going to move forward with the goal of pushing past that limitation and get stronger, using that as a springboard to becoming pro Heroes.

The chapter ends as everyone starts to show off their powers, ready to win this preliminary to get provisional Hero licenses.

World Trigger 154

Ikoma’s confused at how Yuma managed to dodge his Whirlwind Kogetsu, his teammate suggesting he attack again. The second assault is dodged as we’re told how Whirlwind Kogetsu works.

The length of activation time is inversely proportional to the range: so if you activate it for a shorter period of time, then the range is extended further, Ikoma’s 40 meters long, while normally, it’s around 15 meters.  The technique required to utilize this as Ikoma does is impressive and very precise in nature, meaning he’s not to be underestimated in spite of how silly he acts.

Ouji squad, having surrounded Kuga as well, tries to assault him with Hound, but he dodges. Ikoma tells his squadmate to target Ouji instead, blasting them with Asteroid. But they turn out to be Hound, keeping them in midair for Ikoma to attack.

Kurauchi distracts them by utilizing Grasshopper as Ikoma slashes again with Kogetsu, cutting a building near in half.

Both Chika and Oki blast him with Sniper fire, knocking him back down. Ouji tells his squad to stay back from Ikoma, but Yuma appears from behind, taking out Kurauchi by decapitation and getting a point for Tamakoma 2

Isami and Kitazoe compliment Yuma for being able to take advantage of the timing and get the point in that opening that he had. And Kurauchi was a valuable member, since he was Ouji Squad’s mid range fighter, Ouji and the other teammate being more close range.

Ouji unit decides to pull back, their Operator creating a path for them to get past the Snipers.

As Ouji unit retreats, Ikoma is still dodging Chika’s Lead Bullet assault, trying to take out Yuma as well.

Ikoma directs Oki to target Chika with the radar data they’ve acquired, their Sniper reluctant to attack a girl like Chika, even complimenting her tactics as a Sniper.

He even suggests Ikoma do it, but the captain says he couldn’t do such a thing with his face, implying his teammate has a better looking face by comparison and is more popular with women.

Yuma clashes with Ikoma’s 2 Attackers, the chapter ending as we see that Ouji squad is moving to target Chika and Oki as well, making things much tougher for Tamakoma 2’s strategy.

Seven Deadly Sins 188

Monspiet explains to Derriere how they eliminated the Goddess summoned by Denzel, the only other major threat being Escanor, while Greylord and Fraudrin will finish off the leftovers.

He fixes up her hair, even offering her an outfit, which she rejects, thinking he’s making fun of her, though the Commandment was being sincere. But the two react, sensing some new presence that surprises them.

We see Hawk’s mom crashing through the forest, heading as fast as they can with Elizabeth, Hawk and Zaratras on her back towards Liones.

The former Great Holy Knight says he senses a great amount of evil energy in the capital. He’s worried about bringing Elizabeth into this conflict, but she says she promised Meliodas she would continue to fight and protect the kingdom. Hawk is also confident in his power, which makes Zaratras happy

But they encounter demons, Zaratras managing to Purge one of them, though even more appear before them.

Hawk’s mom smashes through them in spite of being told to turn around, Hawk actually eating a tiny piece of one of the demons accidentally and transforming into a new form.

But the tables turn again as Monspiet and Derriere appear, the Commandment of Purity recognizing Elizabeth, asking what she’s doing here, confusing Elizabeth.

Monspiet moves behind Zaratras, the Holy Knight moving to strike Derriere, who knocks him back, but is stopped by Elizabeth using the Ark power we saw from the Goddess before to stop the second blow.

The hand is crushed by the attack, Derriere rushing to strike Elizabeth with her other hand. But suddenly she’s struck by an unknown figure, knocked off the giant pig, Monspiet going to save her.

The chapter ends as Elizabeth is ecstatic to see that Meliodas has woken up, ready to fight again.

 

One Piece 837

Cracker introduces himself as the Biscuit Knight, his sword dubbed Pretzel. Nami warns Luffy not to fight, but the Straw Hat captain ignores her warning

He goes into Gear 3rd and clashes with Cracker, who knocks him back with his shield to his surprise. The Sweet Commander stabs him with a barrage of swords, eventually blasting him through a number of Homies with Pretzel Roll

Nami tells Luffy to run, Brulee mocking her. She says she’s seen the fear in Nami’s eyes, others in the Worst Generation and even before that failing before the might of Big Mom’s crew, including Apoo, Bege, Kidd and Urouge.

The only one who put up a significant challenge was Urouge, taking out one of the original 4 Sweet Commanders. But this just made Big Mom send Cracker to soundly defeat the Mad Monk. Brulee emphasizes how hopeless the situation is, that they cannot win against their power.

The Mirror Woman grabs Nami with her Mirror powers, but is punched away by Pound, Nami following it up with a Thunderbolt Tempo to defeat her for the moment.

As she and Pound retreat, she comments on how useful Big Mom’s Vivre card will be.

Meanwhile, Luffy tries to attack Cracker with Hawk Gatling, but Cracker uses Armament Haki that manages to deaden the power of his attacks.

As he slams Luffy down, Cracker insists that he cannot save Sanji, and even if he got to him, he’d regard his crewmates as low class peasants, since he has royal blood.

But suddenly Luffy goes into Gear 4th and smashes Cracker with Kong Gun, knocking him out as the chapter ends on him saying that Sanji would never speak like that to his friends, even if he was happy marrying Pudding.

Toriko 384

As Midora and Acacia square off, an Emperor Ring is created by the sheer force of their powers clashing.

Acacia can sense that Midora resents him for some reason, Midora explaining that Ichiryuu told him that there was one opponent he must defeat.

The Gourmet Corps boss discerns that Acacia set things up so Frohze would die from her preparation of GOD in a weakened state, even arranging it so Midora would come to her wounded so she’d do so in spite of the danger it posed to her

Frohze wouldn’t be so naïve as to not know her own stamina: Midora thinks she did it to stop Acacia’s plans. The Gourmet God then killed her and summoned Joa’s soul into her body.

But Acacia responds that it was more complex than that: Frohze was pregnant with his child and her stamina was sapped already. The child was born after she died, nurtured by the Cure Water that Midora gave to her grave regularly, bursting out of the earth.

Joa tries to manipulate Midora’s emotions again by acting like Frohze, but Midora glares, his Intimidation freezing him in place.

Midora explains that Joa isn’t the child that Frohze was pregnant with, but her reincarnated form, her sex having changed from eating PAIR. This creates a conflict as to which is entirely true: either Frohze’s memories are fuzzy as Joa as Midora says or she’s truly dead and Joa is Frohze’s body with the soul of a chef from ancient times who was said to be a master of Dark Arts of cooking.

Acacia says it doesn’t matter either way: all he wanted was a cook with that level of Food Luck to prepare the ingredients the best way.

He also notes that he didn’t consider Frohze an inconvenience, since she was staunchly loyal to him in spite of insinuations by the Gourmet God that he was unfaithful to her, the God Chef still cooking him a meal every night. Midora's rage has reached its peak, saying that there's no need to talk anymore.

Midora knocks Acacia into the stratosphere, Acacia countering with a blow that Midora diverts with Food Luck, smashing into the earth itself.  He then smashes Acacia again with Hungry Blow, ready to finish him off.

But Joa tries to slash at him with an attack enhanced by Gourmet Cells, the attack missing as Midora says he still hasn’t told Joa his Full Course.

 

The chapter ends as Brunch is trying to revive Teppei with Cure Water, PAIR offering to aid the Reviver if he undoes the Knocking that Acacia did on him.

Fairy Tail 498

Gray blocks Invel’s initial attack and counters, but the Winter General stops his Ice Strike cold and shatters it, saying that Gray’s Ice Make is nothing compared to his magic.

The Ice Mage then utilizes the Ice Demon Slayer magic to attack Invel with Ice Devil’s Zeroth Longsword, Invel amazed at the use of such a power, since it will slowly corrupt and kill the user over time. But this impresses Invel, gaining some respect, since he was wounded by the attack

With Invel’s attention drawn he fully utilizes his power, a blizzard spreading over the battlefield. He warns Gray that his heart is slowly being turned by darkness

Invel notes that darkness is not necessarily good or evil, connected back to Zeref in a way. But he’s concerned that Gray may be taken over in some way and be unable to control the power.

Gray retorts that he’s not trying to be purely good, willing to become a villain to save his family and friends.

Natsu encourages that, using his power to finally melt the ice. Brandish takes Lucy, Happy and Natsu away, growing herself to titanic proportions in the process.

Juvia and Gray are left behind, Invel using his Ice Lock power on them, binding the pair together. He says that since it binds them to his will, he commands them to fight to the death, the chain only breaking when one of them dies.

The Winter General leaves, saying that once Gray kills someone he loves, his darkness will fully awaken

The chapter ends as Gray seems to be willing to kill Juvia, Invel thinking Gray is the one that will stop END (Natsu in reality) and Juvia thinking that she’d rather die than fight or kill Gray.