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Seven Deadly Sins is on break this
week
Robot x Laserbeam has unfortunately
ended in the recent issue of Weekly Shounen Jump. Had a good run, but golf
doesn’t have the same appeal as it did when Nakaba Suzuki ran Rising Impact in
1998 in Weekly Shounen Jump
New Jump Start this week: Sougou
Jikan Jigyou Gaisha Daihyou Torishimariyaku Shachou Senzoku Hisho Tanaka Seiji
(General Time Company Director President Special Secretary Seiji Tanaka) by
Keiji Amatsuka, is an interesting time travel adventure type story in the vein
of Terminator. Nagato Tokioka is the president of General Time Industries, but
he’s at risk of being assassinated in the past by agents from Vortex Corp. His
secretary, Seiji Tanaka, uses the time travel tech they’ve adapted for their
business ventures to travel back 20 years and save the president when he’s 17
to preserve the company’s existence. There are battle elements along with a
comedy angle, but it seems like it could be in the vein of Assassination
Classroom as the English editor suggested in a comment.
Dr. Stone 64
Chrome’s group arrives, Chrome shouting
loudly about how they’re so close, which Gen quickly silences.
But Chrome bumps into one of the
many statues, Magma noticing numbers on their foreheads written in blood. Gen
thinks these are the order of priority for revival. Since the lowest number is
33, there are at least 32 people revived.
Chrome realizes that with this, even
if they manage to convince most of Tsukasa’s group to join, he can still
increase his numbers afterwards.
Magma wonders if they couldn’t just
smash or break the statues so their fighting force is weakened, Gen thinking it
wouldn’t be the worst idea, even though Chrome says it’s horrible to even think
about it
As Magma prepares to smash one, Gen
seems to remember the face of one of them, stopping the axe before it strikes.
He thinks it’s a bit pathetic that he had a moment of weakness like this, but
Tsukasa’s willingness to do such a thing to statues is what makes him so dangerous.
Chrome says they have a higher goal
here and that they just have to recruit people faster than Tsukasa’s army can
grow
They come across a grave, Gen saying
it’s Senkuu’s (at least from Tsukasa’s view) as we learn from Senkuu himself
that that place will be the drop off point, since it’s of no interest to
Tsukasa.
The trio then move to hide the
infrastructure, burying most of the receiver. There’s a rock in the way, Magma
smashing it, which causes a high pitched sound that is noticed by someone
As they hide to make sure no one saw
them, Magma thinks it’s no big deal, but Gen warns them that some people in the
kingdom have especially good hearing
An arrow narrowly misses them as
they flee from the person, who thinks he heard something in their direction,
but not finding them
The next day, Senkuu’s group waits
back at Ishigami for a response, hoping that none of Tsukasa’s villagers finds
it.
Taiju and Yuzuriha, realizing that
they’re being watched, pull just the receiver from the ground, the screams of
Taiju to Senkuu interpreted as wails of mourning by a nearby villager.
The chapter ends as the next step of
the plan has been complete, establishing radio connections to Tsukasa’s
kingdom.
We Never Learn 68
Yuiga flees from the stage,
seemingly thinking his work is done, while Fumino manages to ad lib an ending
that captivates the audience.
Some people wonder about who the
prince was, and also why Fumino helped with him escaping with her distraction,
finding a flyer for Rizu’s class’s udon shop
Meanwhile, Yuiga is in what appears
to be the AV room, thinking about the kiss and whether it really counts
He comes out and encounters Satou
and Suzuki, who take the costume to Mafuyu for her lecture
Yuiga then meets up with Kashima and
the others, who are angry at him for missing his cue. They’re also ready to
beat up the costumed prince from before, Yuiga keeping it secret that he was
said prince. He wonders if Furuhashi even knew it was him
Fumino relaxes after the play and
sees Asumi. She mistakenly thinks it was her senpai that donned the costume,
thinking the kiss was perfectly innocent. But Asumi corrects her quickly,
saying she was with Satou and Suzuki getting treated to food during the play.
This makes Fumino panic at not
knowing who she had her “first kiss” with, Asumi still wondering where her
guitar was (which was why Fumino first thought it was Asumi in the costume)
Meanwhile, Mafuyu’s lecture is going
better than Satou and Suzuki thought, her performance with Uruka’s group making
her popular with the students.
Yuiga is equally shocked when he
sees a crowd forming at Rizu’s udon shop, Rizu saying that people thought her
class had some guy called Prince (mistaking the word for prince for someone’s
last name), which allowed them to have a burst of customers.
In the end, they still only sold a
bit over 600, but Yuiga still thinks they can sell more by changing up the
toppings.
Rizu is impressed at Yuiga’s
ingenuity, saying they could start a shop together, which people around them think
means she’s proposing they get engaged or such.
Yuiga notices something off about
the udon, the two almost having a Lady and the Tramp moment with the noodle. A
kid comments that they’re like lovers, Yuiga saying that it’s something like
that as the chapter ends with Rizu confused (possibly Yuiga thinking of a new
way to advertise the udon shop).
Fire Force 132
As Licht leaves, Gleo says that he
won’t bring them Shinra Kusakabe, planning to kill him instead. Intent on
making it look like an accident, they say it’ll be easy in Haijima, especially
since Licht doesn’t have any other skills
Back at the 8th, Vulcan and Lisa
work on inventions, the engineer saying his assistant can take the day off. He
tells Shinra about how he was pursued by Haijima and Dr. Giovanni, who hurt
Lisa, not willing to let them get away with that.
Shinra and Arthur bicker as the
knight accuses Shinra of being a spy, but Vulcan stops them with his
inventions.
They ask Shinra about being at
Haijima, where he explains that he was taken in by them after the fire when he
was 5 since his powers were still unstable, getting training with their
devices. He comments that they didn’t view the kids as anything more than test
subjects, giving them no compassion
Licht appears, telling the others to
join him in the meeting room, where he reveals that he’s a Haijima spy to
everyone.
Oubi and others say they had already
suspected him, Licht specifying that he was targeting Shinra because of his
access to the Adora Burst.
Shinra, however, didn’t show signs
of the Adora Burst in his childhood, Haijima letting him go to firefighter
school at 13. When they realized he had it afterwards, they became more focused
in their experiments, likely connected to the kids we’ve seen that are being
exploited
Hinawa objects to the idea of
handing Shinra over, but Licht suggests they use this as an opportunity to
further investigate Haijima, since he doesn’t know much about their skill
development facility, where the kids are being tortured to gain new powers
Shinra says they have to do this,
especially since the Church won’t reveal anything about Amaterasu for years,
needing to save those kids as soon as possible
Oubi agrees, but says the 8th as a
whole will participate in this. He asks Licht which side he’s on, the scientist
saying he’s about pursuing truth (similar to Joker) and sticks with whoever is
closer to it, in this case, the 8th.
The chapter ends as we see the child
from a few chapters ago, Nataku, being guided by a mentor that calls himself
Shinigami (Grim Reaper)
Black Clover 163
As Asta uses his third antimagic
sword to try and break the reincarnation spell, it seems it won’t be that easy
as Rufulu continues to resist, releasing massive amounts of magic.
Vanessa and Magna try to stop him as
well, the scene shifting to inside Luck’s soul as he’s confused. He sees a
vision of his mother, moving to her, since he thinks no one else loves him.
Rufulu threatens to destroy his body
and soul by overloading himself with magic, Vanessa observing that the elf may
become something else even more evil, similar to the Poison Plant Magic Knight
Asta and Yuno defeated (teasing that the elves have a connection to the Demon
King, which we were told about by the Witch Queen)
The elf’s rage at his loved ones
being taken from him is acknowledged by Asta, but he also says that Luck is the
Black Bull’s friend and Rufulu dishonors the memories of his friends and family
with his behavior.
Luck bids farewell to his mother,
saying there’re still things he can do. We then see his memories of meeting the
Black Bulls as well as Rufulu’s memories of the first Wizard King talking about
how humans and elves can be friends.
Rufulu’s soul is dispersed as he
tells Asta he would’ve wanted to be friends with humans like Luck’s friends.
Luck cries as he awakens,
appreciating his friends in the Black Bulls, Magna affirming this as well as
the chapter ends
One Piece 909
We begin by seeing the Mink Tribe
Guardians waiting for Nekomamushi to come back with Marco, former right hand of
the Whitebeard Pirates
Marco is treating a hurt animal with
his Phoenix Zoan Devil Fruit’s powers, Nekomamushi learning from him that the
village he’s in was Whitebeard’s homeland. One of many unallied countries that
couldn’t pay the Heavenly Tribute to the World Government, Whitebeard offered
his support in secret even though he had no people close to him there.
The crew wanted to keep Whitebeard’s
homeland safe, even fighting Blackbeard in the 2 years after the Summit War.
Marco tears up at how kind his captain was, using his portion of the treasure
to help this village, the crew knowing anyway.
Weevil still poses a threat, his
mother (formerly of Whitebeard’s crew in the past) making him attack anyone
associated with his supposed father. Marco leaves Nekomamushi a message to give
to Luffy, since he’s heading to Wano
We shift over to Wano, where Franky,
Usopp, Robin are acclimating themselves to the society, since Kinemon warns
them that if they attack any of the higher ups, Kaidou will react harshly.
But Zoro, accused of being a
murderer and grave robber of Ryuuma’s remains and sword Shusui is being forced
to commit ritual suicide. He takes the seppuku blade, tiny and without a hilt,
slashing his accuser from a distance as the chapter ends with him apologizing
to Kinemon for breaking his promise
My Hero Academia 189
Hawks and the other Heroes continue
to take out the Noumu and evacuate the citizens, while the news reports the
situation, especially with Endeavor’s grievous injury
But the Hellflame Hero gets up and
tries to attack again, but High End knocks him back, causing more damage to the
city, which threatens to make things even worse than Kamino three months ago
when All Might and All For One fought
The citizens are panicking, pushing
each other around in the chaos, as a reporter says that this situation is what
happens without a symbol of peace.
Todoroki, along with others at U.A.
dorms, are still trying to process this, but we see the Endeavor fan from
before on TV, telling the press to stop focusing on All Might’s influence and
look at Endeavor, whose flames are still burning now
High End is pursued by Endeavor,
barely managing to keep himself standing with his flames.
Hawks offers support with his
feathers, saying that Endeavor was the only person who tried to keep up with
All Might even though it seemed impossible
The chapter ends as we see that
Hawks’ feathers are actually enhancing Endeavor’s speed enough to catch up to
High End, Endeavor ready to finish the Noumu off.
