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Man, so much happened in this chapter that I couldn't get it down to ten points.
I FEEL SO OCD GOD AGGGHHHHH.1. LKJSDKFJLSDKJLFK OH GOD, HYPERVENTILATING. !!!!11!!!1!fffffffff
THIS PAGE. This page is... it's... *_* Whatever else one might say about her, you can't deny Amano can fucking draw.
And between the metal gauntlet, Sistema C.A.I.-esque arm orbit, and inability to keep from revealing his INCREDIBLY HOT TORSO, I'm convinced that Enma has been taking Gokudera lessons.
2. You would not believe how long it took me to finally click away from that cover, but okay. So Enma is still occupied with residual speech-making from the previous chapter, just in case any really slow people hadn't put it together yet that THE SHIMON FAMILY IS PISSED. Thankfully, Tsuna shuts him up with some shounen speech-making of his own. "HURTING PEOPLE WON'T HELP YOU REGAIN YOUR PRIDE." I think it's really sad that he actually had to explain this to them. This seems like the kind of thing they ought to teach you in kindergarten.
Enma's all "I'LL DEAL WITH THIS ALONE," and we are treated to more of Gokudera's awesome teamwork ethic on the following page before it all starts to go to hell. I'm so conflicted over this page. On the one hand, NOT GOOD, but on the other, I really, really liked seeing the Vongola rally together behind Tsuna like that. Especially right after Enma ordered his own guardians to stand down. Really great contrast there.
I also loled at the fact that Hibari got taken out first. Because I'm a terrible person.
3. So once again, people are getting defeated by walls.
Oh well, at least it's not a repeat for Yamamoto given that he's not actually there. I like how Adelheid gets all smug once he starts to freaking melt. "HAHA IT'S JUST AN ILLUSION, WE KNEW IT ALL ALONG!" Yeah, guys, really great job figuring out that it was a fake, given that you were the ones who put him in the fucking hospital. THAT WAS A REAL IMPRESSIVE DEDUCTION ON YOUR PART THERE.
4. THIS IS A TERRIBLE PAGE. Let's just skip past it very quickly.
--right to the next page. Which is also terrible.
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Hey, Tsuna, not to judge or anything, but you know what you could try doing besides standing there and shouting "STOP"? Literally anything else.
5. Not that I can blame Tsuna, given the astoundingly pathetic example the Nonos are setting for him. :| FFFFFF THIS IS GETTING KINDA FRUSTRATING.
Enma's doing a good job of demonstrating why I was so badly craving a vengeful bad guy, though. This is a classic move he's pulling. Someone paid attention in villain school.
6. Anyway, so then along comes another conflicting page. XDDDDD "WE'RE NOT THROUGH YET--*SQUISH*"
So that's a gravity flame, then, Enma? It seems like a pretty safe bet at this point. Or something similar, anyway.
7. And here come the spoilers, at last. Hoooooo boy.
This calls for bullet points.
- "OH NO, THE RINGS!" Ignoring the increasingly pancake-like children who are wearing them. Nice to see where your priorities lie, Coyote.
- Well, those lasted for all of a week.
- Suddenly Amano's decision to upgrade the box weapons into rings at the end of the last arc makes sense. If I understand this right, they no longer need the flames from the Vongola rings to be activated; the kids can just light them up on their own and they're good to go. So it may be that the situation isn't quite as desperate as it looks.
- Especially since I only count four out of six guardian rings actually being smashed there. Lambo has disappeared to God-knows-where, apparently, and Yamamoto's ring is presumably still safe on his person, which in an ironic twist suddenly makes him the only guardian whose fighting ability isn't potentially crippled. DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING.
8. Oh, good, Tsuna finally remembered to move.
AND WE GET A SUDDEN REPEAT OF THE SAME DOKIDOKI EFFECT THAT OCCURRED WHEN TSUNA AND ENMA FIRST MET. Only more explosiony this time. Aww, they grow up so fast.
9. ...sob, this is all stuff we already knew, but it's somehow really heartbreaking to hear it all in Enma's own words, even though he's simultaneously beating the crap out of Tsuna (who, it needs to be pointed out, just saved the world from the strongest guy in existence last week but SOMEHOW CAN'T DO ANYTHING HERE. Everyone's thinking it so I might as well say it XD).
Hey, Reborn, why don't you do something? Is idly standing by just too thoroughly ingrained by this point, or is the Nonos' collective uselessness just that fucking contagious?
10. And now there's yet another time limit being imposed. I SMELL A NEW TRAINING ARC COMING ON. Possibly with some of those gravity training chambers from DBZ.
Enma's eyes... they just out-creepied themselves, and that's something I would have sworn was not possible. D:
11. OH MAN, THOSE THINGS CAME WAY TOO CLOSE TO DAMAGING DINO'S PRETTINESS. Let's all wipe our foreheads and breathe sighs of relief.
So Adelheid was the one with the now-definitely-looks-to-be-ice powers, huh? Nice.
More importantly, Enma is taking his classical villain training one step too far. I guess he skipped the reading the week they covered the Evil Overlord List. The professor told you it would come back to bite you in the ass, Enma. (AND IT WILL, JUST YOU WAIT.)
12. OH LOOK, IT'S YET ANOTHER PAGE WITH TERRIBLE THINGS. And yet, once again perhaps not as terrible as they first seem. For one thing, in a fit of stupidity, Nametwin chose to kidnap the one guardian who is capable of communicating info to the other guardians via illusions and trippy magic dreams. And for another, she's also the one guardian for whom they actually have a replacement kept in cold storage. MUKURO, COULD IT BE YOUR TIME AT LAST...?
Yeah, but in the meantime, I suppose they are in rather a pickle.
Well, then, I'm just going to go outside with an umbrella, and maybe if I walk around in circles saying, "TUT, TUT, IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN," a la Christopher Robin, Yamamoto will appear next week and save us all.
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4- 8CCC
6- LOL when I got that page I was all, "Yeahh that's what I'm talking about guys!" and then I scroll all, "...Oh. ._."
And gravity for the earth flame makes sense since the sky's all about flying and such.
7- Yeah, let's forget about the kids dying and focus on the damned objects =|. Well, if that's what got their first reaction, I guess we couldn't expect them to give a shit before either.
I didn't think about the box weapons, good point. Future technology should hopefully beat the
SuemonShimon Family's power.9- I think either Amano or Reborn himself is too used to him not being able to interfere. He probably can't do much besides shoot either, and while a well aimed one in the heart/head would be good, there's probably a, "But they're supposed to be allies we can't kill them," thing going on. Or something.
10- Is it bad that I kinda want a training arc? I never disliked them, predictable as they are.
And Enma's eye's are reminding me of the D. Spade lens thing, which makes me wonder about [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]'s theory of Spade's involvement which...makes my head hurt with possibilities.
11- I think that was my favorite panel in the chapter, because it was hilarious. Squalo's all, "Woah," and Bel's all, "Tiara off. Not amused." And it's one of the two panels in the chapter where I can tell that Dino is Dino.
12- I hope some illusion shit is going on. Most preferably, "It's alright Bossu, I'm still here! c|>"
And if Mukuro were be a replacement, now would be the best time. And I mean NOW, while Chrome's still in Julie's arms. "Kufufufu~, hello sir. Now what exactly were you planning to do with my cute little Chrome~?" Ahh if only, if only.
I feel like Amano's been writing chapters that are really annoying until we look back on it all OH SHIT. Ah well.
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6. HAHA, I DID THE SAME THING. They were being so epic and brave and shounenish and then Enma's just like, "NO, YOU LIE DOWN AGAIN." POOR DECIMOS, I SUPPOSE THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT SITTING BACK AND WATCHING WITH A VAGUE, DETACHED SORT OF CONCERN LIKE THE NONOS.
7. JEWELRY > PEOPLE, CLEARLY.
And yeah, I could be wrong about the new box-rings, I suppose (and I'd actually be glad if I was, since that means we're defininitely getting new power-ups), but I'm pretty sure Tsuna didn't need his Vongola ring to activate Nuts back in chapter 287. Then again, Nuts just kinda appeared, so it's hard to say. The Sistema C.A.I. scene in the last chapter wasn't that clear, either.
9. I dunno, based on that one episode in the Arcobaleno Arc when he just sort of effortlessly demolished Tsuna and the others, he's pretty damn strong when he wants to be. I'm kinda leaning more toward Amano being the one to forget, like you said. XD
10. YOU'RE NOT ALONE, I WANT ONE TOO. It's been a good while, after all.
11. It's not often we get to see the Varia caught off guard, so yeah, I got some slightly guilty entertainment from it. Also,
it's one of the two panels in the chapter where I can tell that Dino is Dino.
^ that made me laugh SO HARD, I'm not even kidding. XD IT'S TRUE, HE'S JUST A GENERIC MOP OF HAIR THE REST OF THE TIME.
12. I would love it if Chrome used this as an opportunity to do some undercover spy work on the Shimon family, much like Mukuro did with the Millefiore in the last arc. If she's going to keep getting kidnapped, she might as well put it to good use.
And lol, that pretty much sums up the last few chapters, definitely.
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6- I SUPPOSE THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT SITTING BACK AND WATCHING WITH A VAGUE, DETACHED SORT OF CONCERN LIKE THE NONOS.
That makes me wonder what this chapter would have been like if they all really did NOTHING and Tsuna continued to ask, "....but, WHY?!?!" I guess no one would have gotten hurt then.
9- Yeah, that's true, forgot about that. Ffff that power would be really useful right now, Amano.
10- *HIGH FIVE* It has, hasn't it =D
11- XD I was like, "...Who is that? And where the hell is Di- oh wait. Okay then."
12- That would be...really epic man. And can really see it happening too, ffff, I want spy!Chrome so much now.
I can't wait to reread it and think, "Wow, this was really good!" Until then, we shall deal with the horrors.