MSR February 2023

 

 

 

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World Trigger is on break this month

 

High School Family ended rather unexpectedly at 122 chapters, but the author may have more in the future

 

 

 

And PPPPPP concluded as well at 70 chapters, which is unfortunate, because there was a lot of potential in a more genre flexible work like this

 

 

 

Fabricant 100 8-11

 

While No. 100 faces the singing Fabricant, Ashibi tries to occupy Roxy. No. 100 gives chase, deducing that the singing Fabricant’s voice can also have an ultrasonic quality that slowly affects people physically. In order to disrupt the song, No. 100 gets on a chandelier and begins screaming

 

We learn Roxy had acquired hearing loss as a child, desperate to reach her dream of singing regardless, meeting the singing Fabricant by chance. Roxy wounds Ashibi, No. 100 moving to his side to fight as the curtains close. Roxy insists she won’t abandon the Fabricant, but she’s stabbed from behind, Ashibi’s blood shifting the Fabricant’s mission to becoming the ideal human instead of helping her

 

Roxy expires after singing one last time, Ashibi resolved to not see Fabricants as human due to this incident showing their inhumanity, even No. 100 not to be fully trusted. Mortsafe lets Ashibi and No. 100 enter their ranks, willing to even sacrifice humans to protect the lives of more from the Fabricants

 

Ashibi is let into Mortsafe, though Hugo, who’s showing him the ropes, thinks Ashibi might not be suited to the organization because of how he solves problems more passively. And he refuses to give the badge until they complete a mission, Ashibi agreeing as we see a Fabricant in the nearby house with a special eye

 

 

 

 

Tokyo Demon Bride Story 21-24

 

Manaka and Jinta investigate an incident at the school, discovering an earthbound spirit that they free by helping him deal with unfinished business, a student that died before he could really experience high school. Afterwards, Manaka feels like she and Jinta are getting closer, but she receives a supernatural summons from her aunt

 

Jinta notes Manaka is being distant, but they go to Harajuku, Manaka’s sense of style unclear while Jinta offers a suggestion. And Keroru and Myaako join them for lunch, Jinta and Manaka’s relationship still unclear, since Manaka appreciates his kindness, but he doesn’t know how he feels. After Manaka shows him the outfit they got, the next day she disappears

 

Manaka offered herself up so her oni family, including her aunt, wouldn’t kill Jinta, the oni even slaughtering some vagrant spirits in the neighborhood. It turns out Manaka violated her family’s code by trying to have an intimate relationship with Jinta and thus returned home. Jinta wants to help her, Keroru revealing she has Anywhere Tickets that can take them anywhere in the otherworld

 

Jinta heads out with Keroru and Myaako, dealing with violent spirits as they seek to get to the oni castle in the Otherworld. They encounter Kandata, a guard, but before they can injure Myaako, she reveals they’re looking for Manaka and are offered help instead

 

 

 

 

4 Knights of the Apocalypse 93-95

 

Lancelot tells Percival that he’s had difficulty reading hearts since they entered town, Chion and Isolde both worried about Tristan’s safety. They even burst into Tristan’s room, where he’s helping the lady get dressed and while Chion and Isolde fix the door they broke, Tristan is hypnotized by the woman, everyone else heading out to the festival, including the Chaos Knights of Camelot

 

The Festival of the Dead gives Percival, Donny and Anne a chance to briefly honor their lost loved ones. Afterwards, Lancelot and Gawain temporarily negate the effect that’s jamming magic detection. But it seems it’s from the woman that’s with Tristan, Ioladio, who reveals her true form to be something non-human

 

Ioladio’s power overwhelms Tristan in spite of him using both Goddess and Demon skills to fight back. Meanwhile, the two Chaos Knights,  Macduff and Teananich, approach Percival and Anne’s groups, Jade having gone to help Anne and Isolde

 

Teananich’s magic power, which lets her control various small animals in a limited range, poses a problem, a snake biting Isolde. Jade uses his Darkness to block her vision, Isolde’s explosive magic setting a trap that Teananich triggers while following them. Macduff’s silencing magic lets him take the group with his hand to hand combat, but after seeing Percival’s support magic, he rushes over and snaps the boy’s neck, Chion thinking he’s done for

 

 

 

My Hero Academia 380-381

 

Gentle is helped by La Brava, while the Business Course films the villain’s efforts to help people, in order to encourage more trust in heroes. Kurogiri teleports Eraserhead and Present Mic away before they fall to their death. Meanwhile, it seems Hawks is killed by All For One, but it’s an illusion by Keimi

 

 

The Shiketsu students mobilize, Hawks fighting All For One, but Tokoyami manifesting Dark Shadow in full to unleash a blow that All For One has to concentrate on, since he can’t steal the Quirk without touching the actual body versus manifestations from a Quirk

 

 

One Piece 1074-1076

 

Sentaro unleashes more of the Pacifista Mark 3, using Kuma’s model as the base with more powerful capacities. Meanwhile, the Straw Hats move to find Vegapunk, Bonney experiencing a bit of what appears to be Kuma’s painful past. And Morgans plans to spread a half truth in his breaking news story

 

The lab’s cameras are being sabotaged while the groups are separated while searching around the Labophase for Vegapunk. Pythagoras, barely surviving because of his body’s capacity to separate, reveals he was attacked by one of the Seraphim. And the others are attacked as well, someone inside a traitor most likely or even the World Government advancing their plot somehow

 

Luffy and Zoro team up with Lucci and Kaku to defeat 2 of the Seraphim, while we see other Cipher Pol members imprisoned, Vegapunk thinking this means something leaked to the government from inside, since he’s chained, meaning the Vegapunk we’ve seen before wasn’t the real one. And Shanks prepares to face Kidd to get his Road Ponegliff

 

 

Black Clover 350-352

 

Sister Lily explains about her past, wanting to help people, but finding only discrimination, feeling like she’s failed in inflicting pain via Lucius’ control. But Asta says it’s not her fault as she falls unconscious, moving to take down the 5 headed dragon

 

Asta’s unable to finish off the dragon himself, seemingly needing help. We learn of Ryudo’s power, the Tengentsu, which he got by surrendering all his yoryoku, which let him save the country from a plague. This inspired the Ryuzen Seven to follow him, Ryudo rekindling his soldiers to fight in spite of the difficulty as Mushogatake defeats Heath with his Iron Yojutsu

 

Ryudo helps the Ryuzen Seven collaborate their efforts with the help of Tengentsu, lining up all 5 of the dragon heads so Asta can take them down with one strike