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This is not the manga that I married!!
KHR! It's like I don't even know you anymore!!
1. Oh God most epic reaction panel page ever. There are, count them, 21 different reaction shots, and every single one of them is trauma-faced. ALL OF THEM. Even Mukuro, Xanxus, Squalo, and Hibari look horrified. EVEN BYAKURAN, though obviously for different reasons. I've never seen so many characters express exactly what I was feeling (well, what I was feeling at the end of the last chapter, anyway) in my life.
This page also rather painfully highlights the similarities in a few of Amano's character designs, because, uh. For a good thirty seconds there, I stared and stared but could not be quite sure exactly which character was Gokudera. XD I'M STILL NOT QUITE SURE...?? Is that him or is it Basil? GD AMANO. Way to make me feel like a terrible fangirl. XD
2. Oh sweet Jesus Byakuran is speaking sentences that don't end in musical notes. Something terrible is about to happen, isn't it?
--AHHHHHH I KNEW IT. D:
And even Tsuna is starting to scare the shit out of me. Wow, Uni, you were the only thing preventing everyone from going completely insane. She's gone less than six pages, and already Tsuna's finally gone Super Saiyan. HE WON'T FORGIVE YOU, BYAKURAN. Stop and think about that for a sec. There is someone that even Tsuna will not forgive. I think Hell must be gearing up for its own Winter Olympics.
3. I admit I am finding this chapter kind of hard to snark about so far, partly because I'm a bit under the weather, but mostly because I am starting to have some painful flashbacks of Naruto and Bleach's talkiest boss battles, and I am really starting to get bored. XD Only now do I realize how much those little musical notes were actually appreciated. Byakuran, stop being a parody of a villain.
4. ...seriously, wtf. XD
WHERE DID THIS RANT EVEN COME FROM. SUDDENLY BYAKURAN IS FURIOUS WITH THE UGLINESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. AND "ROOTS" ARE POPPING OUT OF HIS LEGS. WTF WTF WTF. And yeah, Tsuna, how dare you like Uni as a person as opposed to a powerful device, you bastard.
5. I feel like this chapter is trying to beat me over the head with itself. XD SO... MUCH... SHOUNEN. SENSES... OVERLOADING. KEEP SHOUTING, EVERYONE, SHOUTING IS THE ANSWER TO ALL OF LIFE'S PROBLEMS. Seriously, it's true. Manga wouldn't lie to me.
6. LOOK, SEE, THE SHOUTING MAKES THE EXPLOSIONS EVEN MORE POWERFUL!!!!
what is this chapter I don't even.
7. ARE YOU FEELING ADRENALATED YET???!!!
8. Wait, what. Right when I was on the verge of making a joke about "just look at all the special effects in this chapter, clearly Amano is trying to get nominated for Best Picture", suddenly there is a Byakuran flashback? *_* I'D ALL BUT LOST HOPE.
9. A flashback with freaking Cervello, even. :O OH, CERVELLO, YOU'RE SO MYSTERIOUS. Coordinating the plot from behind the scenes like this, oh you guys. Who the fuck are you. <3
Also, two things of interest: One, while it remains to be seen if the Vongola ring is what enables Tsuna's brand-new time-traveling powers or if the power was inside him all along!, we now have confirmation that the Mare ring has nothing to do with Byakuran's world-jumping abilities. And two, said abilities clearly have fucked with him and caused his radically detached and dickish view of the world: "I realized that I'm merely a 'conscience' programmed into a game." I mean, it was more or less already clear that his wacky superpowers are what caused his villainy, but it's still awesome to see it confirmed. Oh Byakuran, I'm glad we finally got a tiny peek into your quirky and disturbing thought processes.
10. ...right before you kicked the bucket.
What.
After all of the buildup, after 140 chapters--literally half of the entire manga--and after the incredibly moving sacrifice of Uni and Gamma to revive the Arcobabies, this is how Byakuran is finally defeated? WITH A GODDAMN X BURNER?
KHR, I love you, baby, so I am just going to bite my tongue and wait for the next chapter, because there are SO MANY THINGS that I could say right now, but I feel like I at least owe you a chance to explain yourself first. BUT IF YOU DON'T, we are going to have words. Angry, bitter words stewed in disappointment and the tears of children.
THIS CHAPTER. Seriously. Sigh.
1. Oh God most epic reaction panel page ever. There are, count them, 21 different reaction shots, and every single one of them is trauma-faced. ALL OF THEM. Even Mukuro, Xanxus, Squalo, and Hibari look horrified. EVEN BYAKURAN, though obviously for different reasons. I've never seen so many characters express exactly what I was feeling (well, what I was feeling at the end of the last chapter, anyway) in my life.
This page also rather painfully highlights the similarities in a few of Amano's character designs, because, uh. For a good thirty seconds there, I stared and stared but could not be quite sure exactly which character was Gokudera. XD I'M STILL NOT QUITE SURE...?? Is that him or is it Basil? GD AMANO. Way to make me feel like a terrible fangirl. XD
2. Oh sweet Jesus Byakuran is speaking sentences that don't end in musical notes. Something terrible is about to happen, isn't it?
--AHHHHHH I KNEW IT. D:
And even Tsuna is starting to scare the shit out of me. Wow, Uni, you were the only thing preventing everyone from going completely insane. She's gone less than six pages, and already Tsuna's finally gone Super Saiyan. HE WON'T FORGIVE YOU, BYAKURAN. Stop and think about that for a sec. There is someone that even Tsuna will not forgive. I think Hell must be gearing up for its own Winter Olympics.
3. I admit I am finding this chapter kind of hard to snark about so far, partly because I'm a bit under the weather, but mostly because I am starting to have some painful flashbacks of Naruto and Bleach's talkiest boss battles, and I am really starting to get bored. XD Only now do I realize how much those little musical notes were actually appreciated. Byakuran, stop being a parody of a villain.
4. ...seriously, wtf. XD
WHERE DID THIS RANT EVEN COME FROM. SUDDENLY BYAKURAN IS FURIOUS WITH THE UGLINESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION. AND "ROOTS" ARE POPPING OUT OF HIS LEGS. WTF WTF WTF. And yeah, Tsuna, how dare you like Uni as a person as opposed to a powerful device, you bastard.
5. I feel like this chapter is trying to beat me over the head with itself. XD SO... MUCH... SHOUNEN. SENSES... OVERLOADING. KEEP SHOUTING, EVERYONE, SHOUTING IS THE ANSWER TO ALL OF LIFE'S PROBLEMS. Seriously, it's true. Manga wouldn't lie to me.
6. LOOK, SEE, THE SHOUTING MAKES THE EXPLOSIONS EVEN MORE POWERFUL!!!!
what is this chapter I don't even.
7. ARE YOU FEELING ADRENALATED YET???!!!
8. Wait, what. Right when I was on the verge of making a joke about "just look at all the special effects in this chapter, clearly Amano is trying to get nominated for Best Picture", suddenly there is a Byakuran flashback? *_* I'D ALL BUT LOST HOPE.
9. A flashback with freaking Cervello, even. :O OH, CERVELLO, YOU'RE SO MYSTERIOUS. Coordinating the plot from behind the scenes like this, oh you guys. Who the fuck are you. <3
Also, two things of interest: One, while it remains to be seen if the Vongola ring is what enables Tsuna's brand-new time-traveling powers or if the power was inside him all along!, we now have confirmation that the Mare ring has nothing to do with Byakuran's world-jumping abilities. And two, said abilities clearly have fucked with him and caused his radically detached and dickish view of the world: "I realized that I'm merely a 'conscience' programmed into a game." I mean, it was more or less already clear that his wacky superpowers are what caused his villainy, but it's still awesome to see it confirmed. Oh Byakuran, I'm glad we finally got a tiny peek into your quirky and disturbing thought processes.
10. ...right before you kicked the bucket.
What.
After all of the buildup, after 140 chapters--literally half of the entire manga--and after the incredibly moving sacrifice of Uni and Gamma to revive the Arcobabies, this is how Byakuran is finally defeated? WITH A GODDAMN X BURNER?
KHR, I love you, baby, so I am just going to bite my tongue and wait for the next chapter, because there are SO MANY THINGS that I could say right now, but I feel like I at least owe you a chance to explain yourself first. BUT IF YOU DON'T, we are going to have words. Angry, bitter words stewed in disappointment and the tears of children.
THIS CHAPTER. Seriously. Sigh.
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...At least I'm pretty sure. I think she put Hibari and Xanxus next to each other just to freak with us.
Everything before 8- It was so hard to take this chapter seriously at first. What the hell was going on seriously. I kinda want another translation because sense was not made here.
8 & 9- The flashback was...better than the rest of the chapter. And looking back at it I think of it as something like this:
Byakuran was a normal guy who was bored with the world or something, wondering why no one else seemed to be. Then the whole thing with present!Irie happens and he gets his ~*~powers~*~. Then two pink haired ladies tell him that there's a ~*~*special ring*~*~ that only he can use and he becomes his own biggest fan, deciding that, "Hey! If I have the power to do this shit why don't I have FUN with it?" So he decided to take over the world. I'm also guessing that he's never loved anyone before or doesn't understand it or something.
ALSO, about the Cervello, this is the second time they've show up at the end of an arc saying something to the villain. Curious....
About your 2 points, it'd be interesting if Tsuna does have generation jumping powers naturally (maybe that's where his and Giotto's hair similarities come from?). And I think the situation with Byakuran's more that it's his powers that let him use the Mare ring, so yeah, not the other way around. And the world jumping thing probably freaked with his view on everything because just one parallel world was so small compared to all of them, therefore one life was not important at all, not even thousands, etc.
...This comment is getting ranty.
10- *SAD*. This end was so wrong to me. The only good thing is that he made his ^_^ face in the end but. lksdhsjgsffs. I was prepared for the X-Burner ending because...I figured. (And to be fair it was an X-Burner powered by the shiny new ring and his resolve of "AVENGE UNIIIIIII"?) But it was so FAST and....I'm kinda mad at how it's being taken. Did Tsuna just really KILL him? Not that the guy didn't deserve it but um. Mukuro kinda deserved it. Maybe even Xanxus. So what's up with that? I just don't think that's very fair =/ Or okay for Tsuna to be doing considering he's TSUNA. And I mean come on, Kyoko and Haru are watching. It's one thing to see someone be killed in front of you, it's another to see your friend kill someone. Hell, even Goku and Yama and Ryohei should be taken aback. (At least in my opinion o.o; )
Andandand I'm really bad for this but gosh I miss Byakuran already D'8
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Yeah, the vast majority of this chapter was pretty much just one big action mish-mosh. Not what I'm reading this for, though hey, this is still shounen, so it comes with the territory.
IT WAS. By far my favorite part of the chapter; really the only part I actually enjoyed. What I took from his explanation was that he was actually normal once upon a time, but once he realized there were infinite parallel worlds and that he could be in all of them at once if he so chose, he completely lost sync with reality and started to feel like nothing really mattered because when you've got billions of universes to choose from, it doesn't particularly matter what happens in any given one of them. "I'm just a consciousness (I'm assuming that was meant to be 'consciousness', not 'conscience') programmed into a game"; in other words, humans are just the universe's playthings. And then when the Cervello came along and offered the ring, like you said, he figured he might as well have fun with it, because if none of it matters, then why the hell not?
And yeah, the Cervello always seem to be the ones pulling the strings lately. I'm really dying to know more about them.
AND THIS ENDING. :| Way too abrupt. I don't mind that Tsuna killed him (it's not his first time killing someone; there was also Torikabuto), but the way it happened felt very cheap, and as a reader I felt incredibly cheated. When you have the sense that almost any one of the series's fans could have written a better ending on the spot, to see it happen like this is just disappointing.
Sigh. Maybe we'll get to see a younger Byakuran once they all return to the past. A pre-crazy Byakuran that they can all be friends with or something. XD
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It was almost like someone else wrote this chapter, but then Amano wrote the flash back. And then that other person came back and killed Byakuran.
Yeah, that makes sense. Byakuran's interesting because while one can't really feel sorry for him, what happened does explain why he would do what he's done. Doesn't exactly justify it but it makes sense.
Particularly when they're pulling the stings is interesting too; they didn't show up in the Mukuro arc but they were there judging the ring battle, "working for" Irie, judging Choice and they told Byakuran about the Mare ring. Which gets me thinking that they have a lot of involvement in where parts of the trinisette go. But whyyyyy?
Oh yeah Torikabuto. Forgot about him. But wasn't he sort of not human? Ah w/e XD It did feel cheap though, too rushed, too...un-khr-like, like you said. I only got expected it this way because after the arcobaleno filler arc in the anime and seeing the X-Burner used trial after trial, I was used to it already. But it would have been nice if it was different.
Ahaha that would be great 8D Though I'd hope he'd still have the same personality.
Also, really random, but where the hell is Spanner? And I-pin, for that matter?
IT'S THE END OF AN ERA D:
YES. Oh wow it's exactly like that. Pages 12 and 13 are classic Amano and do so much in so little space to flesh out Byakuran at long last (granted, his motivations are simple enough that they can be summed up as "I did it for the lulz", but still). But the rest of it reads like a chapter written by someone who was pretty much just plagiarizing off his "Shounen 101" textbook.
Yeah, there's a certain logic to it, even if it's a totally fucked up logic. And I can't help but like the guy; he almost reminds me like Light in Death Note; yeah, he's a complete dick, but all the same you can't help but be a little fond of him.
Interesting point; the 7^3 are the one thing tying all of the Cervello's appearances together. WHAT ARE THEY PLANNING, DAMMIT.
Yeah, I didn't really count Tori as human either. XD But he was still a living(?), breathing(??), thinking thing... kind of. Sort of? Okay, he was a little vague. But either way, it's very odd that Tsuna's made at least one and possibly two kills, and hasn't reacted at all the way I'd figure he would have. HE MUST REALLY HAVE LOVED UNI, man I don't even know. However you look at it, Byakuran got the short end of the villain stick.
He definitely has to have the same personality. And then they can all be like, "YOU!!!" and he'll be all, "Me? ♪" and they'll all flip out and it'll be good times. |D
They're... somewhere. Around.
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Yup, yup. It's really strange too. I wonder why she was able to make the flashback so nice (not that I'm complaining) when the rest was so...blah.
I feel the same XDD Mostly because of his happiness. I've compared him to Light a few times too, lol.
All I hope is that whatever they're planing will be epic 8D
LOL yeah, 'cause I was thinking, maybe if he's not human Tsuna's hyper intuition wouldn't have told him HEY STOP YOU'RE GONNA KILL HIM. (Oh that explains why he would have needed Chrome's help at that time too). But killing Byakuran was...off.
XDD That would be so great<3
Hope we see Spanner at least once before they're in the past D8