WSR 9-18-17

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My Hero Academia is on an unexpected break this week.  

Magi is slated to be ending in roughly 4 chapters (we’re behind a bit in fan scans, unfortunately). But I will cover it to the end, which will likely be official in Japan sometime in October.

Dr. Stone 28 

Kohaku tries to stop Senkuu after revealing Suika’s face, though we see that she’s surprisingly cute. But suddenly her face squishes into something more unpleasant to everyone’s shock.

She explains that she can only see well when she wears the melon mask, her vision normally blurry, so she has to squint like that. Senkuu says the mask helps her by using the pinhole effect, where the vision’s scope being narrowed makes it work better in a way

Chrome wonders if there’s a connection between this and glass, Senkuu explaining to Suika that she’s nearsighted and that they can make glasses with science.

Suika is grateful, wanting to see the world truly as it is, not blurry as she’s experienced it for years.

The first step in the process is finding silica sand, the group following Chrome as he shows them a place where he found a transparent rock. They scrape off the pieces and grind it into a fine powder. They just need lead, already having calcium carbonate and seaweed for the other portions.

They combine the materials together to make the crystal like glass needed to make lenses for Suika. Senkuu has put together a rough tool, using the corundum that Chrome has to whittle down the lenses and cut them, since glass’s hardness is a 6, while corundum is still a 9. Meanwhile, Kohaku leaves, not able to follow the conversation and wanting to train Kinrou and Ginrou.

After going through the process, Senkuu fits the lenses in Suika’s melon mask, letting her see all the things around her, like sunflowers in a field, Chalk the dog and even Senkuu and Chrome, Suika tearing up at how happy she is

Kohaku’s training with Kinrou and Ginrou continues, Kohaku noting that Kinrou needs to have a sense of distance when using his spear. Ginrou talks to Kinrou afterwards, revealing that his vision is blurry as well, Kinrou telling him not to reveal this to anyone.

The chapter ends as Suika notes Chrome and Senkuu are both surprisingly good looking, which Chrome takes offense at. Senkuu says now they can move on to more chemistry and have helped Suika join their workforce.

We Can’t Study 31

Yuiga, focused on exams more than fun in the summer, is delighted at an offer from the headmaster to go to a summer cram school.

He’s nervous as he waits for class to start, another student asking to get by him to her seat. She looks young enough to be in middle school, though Yuiga observes that she’s slightly taller than Rizu.

The pace of the class is exceptionally fast, Yuiga barely able to keep up. The girl next to him, Asui Kominami, shows a great knowledge of the material and even offers Yuiga her notes when the teacher moves onto the next section.

Yuiga thanks Kominami afterwards, impressed that someone so young has such abilities for note-taking and the like.

But Asui notes his uniform, explaining that she’s actually a graduate from there and thus is actually his senior at 19. Yuiga is stunned, since she looks young enough to be middle school age.

He brings up that she’s a rounin, someone who failed their entrance exams and is taking an extra year to try again, though she tells him never to mention that word again. Kominami emphasizes that she’s here to learn, not to socialize and that he should treat her with respect as his senpai.

As they study through lunch, Yuiga notices Kominami’s not eating, offering her some of his food in exchange for sharing her notes before.

Yuiga’s overwhelmed at how cram school works, Kominami saying that this is just meant to supplement your own studies, not something you should take lightly at all. She even notes that it was something she failed to realize, which is why she’s taking another year for exams.

Her wisdom impresses Yuiga, still thinking she might’ve been a middle-schooler, which irritates Asui.

As cram school ends for the day, Kominami has left early to Yuiga’s surprise.

But he finds himself lost in the area, pulled into a maid cafe by some thuggish looking guys. He tries to leave after realizing they charge for even being there, but is stopped by a guy at the door to pay the 1000 yen seating fee (roughly $11). 

The chapter ends as one of the maids comes in, introducing herself as Ashumi the Pixie Maid. Yuiga and her recognize each other, Kominami revealed as working at the maid café as the chapter ends.

Black Clover 126

We see how Finral was seen as a failure in the past, Langris viewed in a much more positive light by his noble family.

They introduce the brothers to Finesse, a girl with a weak constitution, but a strong magic lineage, who is to be the fiancée of the next head of the Vaude family. Langris thinks she’s plain, but Finral compliments her beauty in spite of Finesse feeling sad that she’s so much older than the two of them.

Finesse tells Finral that she sees him as stronger than his brother because of how kind he is, Langris overhearing the conversation, thinking there’s no way he can lose to his older brother in anything

In the present, Finral’s group finds Langris, who moves to destroy their crystal. But Finral, having tested it with Cobb’s spatial magic, is able to counter Langris’ attack.

Jamon and Leopold are sent to where the crystal is after Jamon finds it with his Glass Magic.

But they find themselves trapped by the Snow Magic user’s field magic that slowly numbs their senses.

Leopold, using the training for Mana Skin from before, manages to resist it and unleash a blast of fire that the Snow Mage narrowly dodges.

Meanwhile, Langris is pushing Finral back, the Black Bull deciding to use a new technique, a simple ball of spatial magic.

Sekke thinks it’s so plain, but narrowly dodges as it homes in on him. The Bronze mage tries to use his defensive magic, but it ignores this, teleporting him away to where Yami is on the toilet.

Finral titles his magic Fallen Angel’s Flapping Wings, saying that even though he can’t use offense type magic, he still will win this match by using it on Langris.

Langris, pushed to use his grimoire now, unleashes a hail of spatial distortions around him, the chapter ending as he says he won’t stand for his brother looking down on him, that he won’t lose here.

One Piece 879

The Straw Hats weep at Pedro’s death, but Jinbe tells them that they should not falter now. Brook protests that he’s being overly cold about this, but Jinbe counters that they would’ve died at the coast had the Mink not intervened, his sacrifice a victory for them.

He further notes that this invasion of theirs has made the enemy unbalanced in a way, though they must remain vigilant and believe in Luffy’s plan to fight Katakuri, the Thousand Sunny still in danger until they escape Big Mom’s territory.

Chopper and the others agree, Nami guiding their course while Jinbe watches the current.

Carrot sees the ships and Big Mom seemingly walking on the ocean, though it’s actually a Candy Sea Slug made by Perospero that she’s walking over.

Perospero notes he can remake his arm with candy, but it’ll still melt with enough heat from even a teacup in the afternoon. He says he has to make the Straw Harts suffer for what Pedro did to him.

We shift over to the western coast, Zeus and Prometheus confused after Big Mom left them behind.

Sanji’s group is flying towards Cacao Island, Pound sighting Chiffon in the distance, calling out to her, though she doesn’t seem to hear.

We learn that Lola was the former Minister of Chocolate, the seat left open, though Pudding was recommended to join. She refused, thinking that her sister might one day return.

Pudding is hiding in Rabian, wrapped up slightly. She says she doesn’t want to be next to Sanji, since people might mistake them for being married, still insisting that she doesn’t like Sanji, though internally, she’s touched that he’s worried about her falling from Rabian.

As they head to Cacao Island to make the cake, we shift back to inside the Mirror World.

Luffy is assaulting Katakuri who seemingly imitates Luffy’s Gum Gum Hawk Gatling and makes it even stronger. The Mochi Man even says that anything Luffy does he can do faster and stronger, Mochi seemingly superior to Rubber in the Devil Fruit hierarchy.

Unleashing a Hawk Stomp, Luffy tries to quickly move behind Katakuri and attack, but his Observation Haki sees it coming, Katakuri punching him away

Luffy then goes for the Elephant Gun, Katakuri making his own that’s even bigger. He wins the clash, knocking Luffy into the wall as the chapter ends with him telling Luffy to give up.

Magi 363

Kougyoku and the others find they haven’t fired their Extreme Magic, turning to see that Kouen used Phenex’s power to calm them, saying they’re pathetic to follow the Rukh’s rewriting.

 

Hakuryuu reveals that they gave Metal Vessels from the International HQ to certain people in case they needed backup to fight Sinbad.

Kouen was one, since he had been infused with part of Hakuryuu’s black rukh after he substituted his own legs for Hakuryuu’s after he lost them fighting Alibaba. And Hakuei, because she had been altered for Arba’s possible reincarnation, is also ready to fight alongside her brother in Djinn Equip.

The group fights back against the angels of death, ready to defend the people from returning to the rukh

Kouen is furious at the people being puppets to Sinbad’s mind control from rewriting the rukh as we see him fight, even rushing to confront Koumei.

It seems that Kouen was the one who distributed the other Metal Vessels, using Phenex to temporarily negate the rukh rewriting from Kougyoku and the others. 

Alibaba's more confident now that he has newfound allies in this fight

 

Alibaba notes that the black mass of the Great Rift is David’s true body, so they need to help Aladdin by attacking David from the outside. The group combines their efforts with full strength, allied together now in this fight.

The chapter concludes as Ugo understands that Sinbad was rewriting the hierarchy of gods itself so that he can use the magoi in the Sacred Palace to defeat David in another way, David’s body seemingly splitting in two to his shock

Seven Deadly Sins 235

Zeldris is still resistant to the idea of saving Meliodas, but the Demon King says he won’t hear any objections. The only threat to the Demon Clan in his approximation is the Seven Deadly Sins, who are trying to remove the curse on Elizabeth, the Supreme Goddess’ daughter. He tells Zeldris to kill the other Sins after rescuing his brother

The Commandment of Piety sends a message to the other Ten Commandments, but finds none of them are responding. We see that Galan is still petrified, Greyroad and Merascylla are captured by Merlin and Fraudrin has been defeated by Meliodas. 

Derriere and Monspiet managed to survive after Meliodas blasted them with Full Counter, living with a human who helped them to recover. They don’t seem interested in really helping Zeldris now, preferring to live a simple existence. Thinking back to when Meliodas and Elizabeth spared their lives 3000 years ago after they underwent the Indra transformation, it occurs to them maybe they were forgiven and treated with kindness to show them a better way

Even Gloxinia and Dolor reveal they’ve defected to Zeldris, who removes the curse seal from their bodies, reverting them to normal.

Zeldris comments that with Estarossa in a coma, there’s only himself as a Ten Commandment.  He thinks he’ll be enough, wanting to show that he’s the one worthy of becoming the Demon king instead of Meliodas

Suddenly, two other Demons appear, Cusack and Chandler, who are loyal to Zeldris, offering their assistance after having broken out of the Goddess Seal.

The chapter concludes as Zeldris accepts their help, Cusack noting to Chandler that it’ll be like old times, Cusack as Zeldris’ former master and Chandler having some connection to Meliodas, left unsaid as we end things here.