Soul Eater Chapter 59: This is Your Song

[nenena]

Because I promised.



I know it's not much
But it's the best I can do
My gift is my song
And this one's for you

Time for this month's Soul Eater recap!

WTF is going on in that first page? I think it's supposed to be somebody's screaming face. I really have no idea, though.

Okay, moving on. Color illustration. Maka in her black gown, holding DEMON HUNTER. Yes, that's right.

If Maka and Soul ever go to prom together, I hope that this is what their prom picture looks like. Because when your prom date is actually a GIANT GLOWING MOTHEREFFIN' BADASS SCYTHE, that is beyond awesome.

Also, Maka's dress is made of black blood.

Again: Beyond. Awesome.

Next page:

And heeeeeeere's this month's official NIGHTMARE FUEL PAGE. Thank you, Ohkubo. At least we got that out of the way right off the bat.

I mean, ostensibly, the only thing happening on this page is that some Shibusen cannon fodder are clawing at their heads and screaming, but HOLY SHIT does it look like the scariest things I've ever freakin' seen, because for some reason it's like that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Nazi's faces start melting, only these faces aren't actually melting, but they kind of look like they are, and no I dunno how that works exactly, but suffice to say these poor guys are screaming really, really hard and are apparently really, really being mindraped.

Next page: A shot of Baba Yaga Castle, with this extremely telling dialogue plastered all over it:

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

Next we see Sid. Despite actually being dead, he sure looks to be in a lot better condition than those poor dudes from the previous page. Heck, he just looks like he has a mild headache.

Dude, Sid is so hardcore.

"This enormous soul wavelength... is it the insanity wavelength? It's like my mind is being torn apart..."

Nygus is still attending to Black Star. Or she would be, if she weren't busy trembling and grabbing at her head. "D... Dammit..."

Black Star looks up at her. "What's the matter? Come on, you just gotta pull your mind together..."

He grabs at her collar, hauls himself up, then stands fully upright.

She stares up at him. "Black Star..."

"All right, Shibusen dudes," Black Star says. He sucks in his breath. "Now lemme show you what real spirit looks like."

And then he makes his soul wavelength go nuclear.

The Shibusen soldiers stare at Black Star and are all like, Whoa.

Tsubaki looks to Sid. "Mr. Sid!" You guys, this is one of her only two lines of dialogue in this entire chapter.

Sid's like, aw hell yeah if this guy who's BLEEDING TO DEATH can do it, then we can do it, too! He starts yelling at the troops. "BEAT THIS! HOLD YOUR MIND TOGETHER WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!! DON'T LET THE INSANITY BREAK YOU!!"

This has got be the most obvious Captain Obvious Speech in the history of Captain Obvious Speeches, but whatever. Seriously, it's like yelling at a bunch of soldiers and telling them "DON'T DIE! KILL THE ENEMY! OH YEAH AND DON'T DIE!!" Um, thanks for the advice and inspiration? Or maybe not so much.

Eh, I should cut Sid a break. He's still being mindraped. I'm sure that his speech-giving skills aren't operating at their pique right now.

Black Star sits down, breathing heavily. He looks up at the castle and grins. "Maka, Soul. Sorry, but you guys gotta take care of the rest."

Scene change. Somewhere really far away, beneath a starry sky, Noah pauses and turns his head, gazing at what appears to be a vast forest behind him. "And now it's begun," he says.

He closes his eyes, and smiles. "Insanity... What a lovely wind."

MY GOD.

HIS EARS ARE POINTY.

I NEVER NOTICED THAT BEFORE.

OH MY GOD.

Meanwhile... Inside the book!

Kid is inside the book. "This is... inside the book," Kid says. Well, thank goodness we've got that established.

"Oh, this is bad," Kid says. UNDERSTATEMENT. "The insanity wavelength from outside the book is entering this space..."

There are too many ellipses in this chapter already. Too. Many. Freakin'. Ellipses.

Kid grits his teeth and squares his hands. It looks like he's miming holding the Brew. In fact, it sure looks like he's trying to be holding the Brew, but unfortunately, he has no Brew.

"Damn, it's just out of reach..."

He makes one of his great angst-faces. "For now, all I can do is keep faith in everyone else..."

GODAMMIT OHKUBO STOP WITH THE ELLIPSES

Okay, back to Arachne's lair. Arache is still an undefeatable monster. Maka is still holding Soul and looking badass. Medusa is still lobotomized. Soul is still NOT NAKED. This is still a travesty.

"Maka," Soul says. LOSE THE SHIRT, PLZ. "This is..."

"Yes. Arachne is pulling all of the souls surrounding this castle into her insanity."

Arachne glares down at Maka. "This girl..."

Maka closes her eyes and makes with the Jedi Battle Meditation. I can feel it, she think-bubbles. Her pigtails are blowing prettily in an unseen breeze, because that always happens during Jedi Battle Meditation. You know.

Maka visualizes a vast glowing spiderweb, dozens of souls trapped within it, and tiny little black spiders crawling all over those souls. This is...!

"This is bad, Soul," she says. "All of the souls within this castle are falling into insanity!! If we don't do something soon..."

"And what are we supposed to do, huh?!" Soul yells back. Then, apparently, he reaches a sudden realization, as evidenced by this word bubble: "......!!"

ASDFHJKSDFGHJK;DFGHJK ELLIPSES

NOW THE ELLIPSES ARE SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES

SOON THEY WILL TAKE OVER THIS MANGA COMPLETELY

And in the next panel, Soul's word bubble: "......"

And in the next panel, Maka's word bubble: "......"

ASDFGHJKSDFGHJKHJK;ASDFGH

GUYS I FIGURED IT OUT

OHKUBO IS A PUPPET

A PAWN OF HIS EVIL ELLIPSES OVERLORDS

HE SOLD HIS SOUL

AND NOW WE MUST PAY THE PRICE

ALL MANGA WILL BOW BEFORE THE ELLIPSES

THERE IS NO RESISTING THE ELLIPSES

THEY WILL CONSUME US ALL

AND THE WORLD WILL FALL INTO DARKNESS

A DARKNESS OF AWKWARD MID-SENTENCE PAUSES AND MUMBLING TRAIL-OFFS

AND THE GRAMMATICIANS WILL WEEP

TEARS OF BLOOD

SWEET, SWEET BLOOD

And suddenly I am totally okay with this, because I am very much in love with the thought of Sir Herbert Reed tearing out his hair and crying like little baby.






Okay.

Okay, I'm sorry. I was just having a slight, ellipses-overload-induced breakdown.

I'm better now. I swear.

I'm going to keep going with this.

Oh look! It's the imp! He's come to save me from the ellipses!

(*hugs the widdle imp*)

"Yes," the imp proclaims, "Exactly!"

Yes, exactly, what? Soul and Maka didn't say anything, they just made ellipses at each other! Oh, well. If the imp has the ability to interpret cryptic ellipses, then I'm not going to question it.

[Edit after the fact: Aw hell you guys. I was so enraged by the ellipses abuse that I completely missed - yes, my eyes actually jumped right over it - the fact that Soul DID have another explanatory word bubble on the previous page. Soul says, "But if we're right next to her, then how come the insanity isn't affecting me at all?" THEN come his Ellipses of Sudden Realization. So when the imp says "Yes, exactly!" he's presumably responding to Soul's actual word bubble, not the telepathic silences that Soul and Maka were beaming at each other. Er, my bad. But see what the ellipses did to me?! They made my brain go crazy!!!!]

Okay, now Soul is back in the Black Room. And looking sssssssmoking in his suit. I am no longer upset about his previous inappropriate lack of nudity. This more than makes up for it. Mrrrrweor.

(WTF, self. He's thirteen. WTF.)

"...Right," Soul says, although he's sweating nervously. "Maka's anti-demon wavelength is protecting me!"

"Perhaps," the imp says.

Maka swings her scythe. "Chain reso-- No, we don't even need to go that far. If I can just get my wavelength to reach everyone else..."

"Yeah," Soul says, "but how?"

"Soul, lend me your power..."

Soul looks down at his hand. "With my piano..."

"You know you can do it," the imp says.

"No. I can't. There's no way that the sound of my piano is loud enough to reach all of the souls within this castle, let alone the souls surrounding it..."

ellipses

Somewhere else, Killik, Jackie, Kim, and Ox are clutching at their heads and looking miserable.

"Damn..." Soul says. "There must be some way..."

they hurts us, preciousssss

Soul sees Maka's vision of the souls being consumed by Arachne's spiderweb, and think-bubbles, But if we can't stop Arachne's insanity, then...

"What's wrong?" the imp asks. "You'd better hurry up and start playing. I'm only here 'cause I wanna hear you play the piano."

"Aw, shut up," Soul says. "I'm going to play. I'm just trying to think of how exactly to do it..."

The imp makes this totally excellent pissed-off face. "You just never change, do you? It's your personality that sucks. You're so lazy when it comes to your piano. The strings are going to get dusty, at this rate, and eventually you're going to end up with cobwebs in there."

"Hey," Soul snaps. "I told you to shut u-- ...!!"

He sees the spiderweb.

"That's it!! Maka!! Concentrate on your soul perception!"

"Got it," Maka says, still busily slicing through Arachne's gooey body, back in the real world. "But why?"

"Just hurry!"

The imp actually looks like he has no idea WTF Soul is doing. "What are you going to do?" the imp asks.

"How do you think that Arachne is able to spread her insanity over such a huge area?" Soul asks. He reaches out, and touches a thread of the spiderweb. It vibrates as he plucks at it. "I can see it now."

"A spiderweb?" The imp asks. God, I love seeing the imp's face when the rug is being yanked out from beneath him.

Soul looks determined. "I'm going to reverse this spiderweb. It's gonna work for me."

Next page: Overhead shot of the Black Room. A huge spiderweb is now centered right on Soul's piano. The imp looks up at the web. "It's like an enormous stringed instrument..."

The imp turns to Soul. "You really think you can do this? You're a keyboard guy, not a string guy."

"You already know this part, don't you?" Soul says. "My brother is a violinist."

HELLLLOOOOOOOO FLASHBACK WES!

WE MISSED YOU!

Flashback!Soul is listening to Flashback!Wes playing the violin. Wes does that all the time, Soul thinks. He plays the melody of his soul's meditation.

(I hope that CNet comes up with a more elegant way to say that bit in English, because I am le stumped. Soul Meditation Melody? Soul Contemplation Melody? Wes is hawt so who the hell cares? Wes is hawt so who the hell cares. Bonus! Wes is NOT THIRTEEN. Very hawt.)

Soul sits down at the piano.

Maka slices and dices.

The song that will carry Maka's wavelength to reach everyone else, Soul think-bubbles, starts with a G-sharp...

We see cuts of everyone else suffering from Arachne's wavelength and basically going batshit bonkers: Sid and the Shibusen soldiers, Arachnaphobia's cannon fodder, Liz, Patti, Jackie, Killik, Ox. And Harvar, who is still more or less fine, for some reason.

Soul taps the G-sharp.

Sound effect: Dong!

(Hee hee, dong.)

And then the piano GOES NUCLEAR JESUS CHRIST WTF

IT'S LIKE IT EXPLODES WITH THE POWER OF SOUL'S SHEER AWESOMENESS

AND IT'S LIKE ALL LIGHT AND GOODNESS AND THE POWER OF LUUUUURVE

BUT KINDA LOOKING LIKE A NUCLEAR GLOWING SPIDER WEB

THAT HAPPENS TO BE EXPLODING

WITH AWESOME

And Soul tosses back his head and PLAYS LIKE A MOFO.

And Arachne's all like, Oh shit. "Th... This is--"

And there are GLOWING MUSICAL NOTES ATTACKING HER SPIDERWEB

JESUS CHRIST THIS IS AWESOME

And Maka's all like, That's right, beyotch, and Soul's GLOWING SPIDERWEB OF LUUUURVE AND GOODNESS AND SPARKLES AND AWESOME IS RADIATING OUT OF HER BODY!

Arachne glares down at her. "You would dare to turn my very web against me?!"

Medusa stares at Maka and says, "What amazing strength, this combination of her soul-perception ability and her anti-demon wavelength." Medusa looks a biiiit nervous as she's saying this. Just a tad.

Soul keeps playing. I can feel exactly where everyone is, he thinks, their precise location... Then all I have to do is send my notes out along the threads of the web.

Yay, Killik is all right! Jackie is all right! Kim is all right! Ox is all right! "What the heck?" Killik looks around in confusion. "This song..."

Listen to it, Soul think-bubbles, as the glowing spiderweb of LUUUUUURVE AND GOODNESS AND SPARKLES AND AWESOME consumes all of Baba Yaga's castle.

Listen to Maka's song!

Aaaaaand the Shibusen soldiers are all right, too! "Now what's going on?" Sid asks.

"It's Maka-chan..." Tsubaki answers.

There's the other one. And now Tsubaki's dialogue is done.

"Ha," Black Star laughs. "Sounds like a dork's song to me."

Arachne, unfortunately, is pissed. This can't end well. "What kind of ridiculous soul-perception ability is this?! You would use the threads of my soul to spread your anti-demon wavelength?!"

Suddenly a glowball flies right at her face!

Glowball sound effect: Pon!

Rhymes with "pwn."

Okay, okay, I know, it's a Japanese phonetic way of rendering a musical note, but whatever, I couldn't resist.

The glowball explodes near Arachne's shoulder. She grimaces. "The anti-demon wavelength can reach all the way here now..."

And suddenly there are explosions all around Arachne! "?!" is her only word-bubble.

Medusa looks up at Arachne and grins. "Looks like you didn't cut yourself off from your network fast enough," she says. "The insanity is your real body, after all..."

Arachne grimaces, suffers through some more explosions, then lowers herself down toward Maka.

"We have you cornered," Maka says. "Because you were slowly trying to enter everyone's minds. Hurt that, and we hurt you."

Arachne grins, despite the fact that her face is cracking apart. "Little girl... You dare to think that you would be able to capture me in my own web..."

the ellipses

they burrrrrrns us, precious, they burrrrrrns us

Soul, having finished playing, sits on his piano bench and crosses his arms. "Let's do this, Maka."

"SOUL RESONANCE!!"

And all of a sudden JESUS CHRIST WTF

THERE'S BLACK OOZE ENGULFING MAKA'S ARM

AND HER CLOTHES ARE BEING TORN OFF

AND SHE LOOKS ALL SUPER BADASS

AND TURN THE PAGE

AND

HOLY

SHIT






Maka. Demon Hunter. Dress made of black blood.

Maka glares up at Arachne and says, "Your soul. I'm taking it. Now."

END.






asdfghjk ellipses

Come on, Ohkubo. I know that manga writers love to use ellipses. I know that. And I know that they love to use ellipses far more than would be considered acceptable in English comic writing. I know that.

But, all cultural and stylistic differences aside, EVEN JAPANESE has its limit on ellipses. Even Japanese.

There's a line, you bastard. And you crossed that line.

The glowing magical healing spiderweb of luuuuuuurve made up for it, though. In spades.

All right, Ohkubo. You win this round. We shall meet again on April 11th.

Comments

[thejenx.livejournal.com]

XD Ok. I just stayed up all night to do 200 pages of reading that I couldn't care less about. But reading this, ellipses-induced breakdown and all, absolutely made my night. Day. Whatever the fuck I'm in right now.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[annalouise.livejournal.com]

Her pigtails are blowing prettily in an unseen breeze, because that always happens during Jedi Battle Meditation. You know.

TRUE FACTS.

omg. thank you so much! I am really looking forward to this chapter! It looks like we are coming to the end of the Arachne arc? Or at least, maybe sometime this year, we might be out of Baba Yaga's Castle.

[lmd-84.livejournal.com]

Ellipses. So many. What was wrong with an absence of speech-bubbles I wonder?

Thanks as usual for the commentary. I do so love to read your observations and reactions to the series.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Ellipses. So many. What was wrong with an absence of speech-bubbles I wonder?

What bothered me even more than the absence-of-speech ellipses were all of the end-of-sentence ellipses that didn't have to be there.

"I have to believe in everyone else..."

"Black Star..."

"Soul, lend me you power..."

"There's no way that the sound of my piano is loud enough to reach all of the souls within this castle, let alone the souls surrounding it..."

"I'm just trying to think of how exactly to do it..."

Arrrrrrgh! Either in Japanese or in English, any of those sentences would have worked just fine ending in a simple PERIOD!

[lmd-84.livejournal.com]

Reading the lines like that, I see your point on redundant ellipses. Maybe with this batch of ellipses Ohkubo will use none whatsoever next month. Oh, and I'm pleased to see a brief update on Kid's condition. Stranded though he is within a book.

One point strikes me about Soul and Maka's awesome reaction to Arachne's wavelength, though; it's been an awful long while since we were first told insanity is contagious. Do you ever think we'll see Stein and Asuza's predictions come to pass, and it will have a widescale effect on people? Or will Ohkubo continue to over-ride the insanity wavelength with moments like this?

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I think that the insanity wavelength is only contagious if you're in close proximity to Asura himself, as opposed to someone affected by the wavelength. (Arachne's soul-web allowed her to imitate Asura's effect, but it wasn't the same thing.) As for it spreading to affect more and more people, however... Well, I dunno. Stein predicted that it would hit the crazy and the evil first, and there's already a lot of crazy and evil out there, before it starts to affect otherwise stable people.

[chiikaboom.livejournal.com]

GOTH COWBOY. IS. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

JHGLKFSNHLTJH

FORONLY2PAGESBUTDFLHKNGFDLHGFN

DAGFHLKDFGNBL

ILUOHKUBOIRPAGHFDLH

this chapter was godly. The fact that none of this will ever get animated makes me want to commit seppuku with a butterknife. :C

Thanks for the scans buddy 8D it made my day

[rather_crassly.livejournal.com]

I was happy to see Kid, too. I found the scans at 3 AM and thought "No, I gotta go to bed. No more Soul Eater. Okay, one quick check. Let's see no Stein, no Crona, but yay, there's Kid, he's fine. Night-night Kid. Don't get in any more trouble."
Yes, this was a beautifully-drawn chapter. Ohkubo's made huge strides in his artwork since Vol. 1; I notice it more and more. And who knows, this could get animated some day! I'm always hearing how this series is a big hit. Unfortunately, they never back it up with any numbers.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

I'm always hearing how this series is a big hit.

I would actually disagree with that.

I don't have numbers on my side, either, just impressions. But I will say this: Soul Eater is certainly popular, but it's not a "hit." When the bar for "hit" is set by behemoths like Gundam, FMA, the Shounen Jump megoliths (Reborn, Bleach, Naruto), we're talking huge differences in scale here.

Soul Eater is popular, yes. It's got merchandise, and regular magazine coverage, and specialized shelf displays in most bookstores I visit (and this is a Big Deal), but I don't think it's anywhere near moneymaking enough for us to hope for more anime to be made.

Then again, less popular series like Eureka Seven have gotten OAVs and such, too, so maybe we'll see.

[rather_crassly.livejournal.com]

I'll settle for popular, popular is good! And yeah, I'd love to believe that this show is making money hand over fist, but until I see it printed up in Bones' stock portfolio I'm not believing it. I wish there was something like Variety, only for anime. It would certainly be fun to read.

series like Eureka Seven have gotten OAVs
I was thinking of the Hellsing OAVs, too; that announcement sure surprised everybody.

[alice-rm.livejournal.com]

Your comments always make the chapters 10 times more awesome 8D

I REALLY happy to see Kid and Noah again, but the fact that Noah is going away worries me .x, oh well, Kid is not going back to Death City in a long time~ and I'm expecting to see Crona soon inside the book too, yes, I still think that she/he is also inside it...

and Maka looks just so beautiful and awesome in the last page >D I pity you, Arachne! d8

Thank you VERY much! Awesome as always :)

[insanityin3d.livejournal.com]

CRONA IN NOAH'S BOOK?!?! D:

I wouldn't put it past him, that sick pedo. XD Hopefully after Maka reduces Arachne to a gooey pulp, we get some more on Noah. :3

[alice-rm.livejournal.com]

I don't know xDU is only a speculation xD I mean, Crona could be seen as an interesting "item" because of his/her symbiotic relation with Ragnarok, and we know how much Noah loves rare items D8 so maybe he collected Crona too.

[hyatt-ayanami.livejournal.com]

My....that's my hope too XDDD
I would love if Crona is inside Noah's book♥

[kiyuu.livejournal.com]

I just gotta say.

Reading this summary while listening to the End Credits song from Coraline made it much more epic than it already is.

I think I'll need to put that song on repeat when I read the actual chapter.

[drifth.livejournal.com]

Oh gawsh YES. Your commentary is as hilarious as ever. XD

If Maka and Soul ever go to prom together, I hope that this is what their prom picture looks like. Because when your prom date is actually a GIANT GLOWING MOTHEREFFIN' BADASS SCYTHE, that is beyond awesome.

This brings up so many interesting images.

I want to know what is UP with Harvar. Still not buying the whole stiff-personality = reason why insanity's not affecting him.

Everyone looks a year or three above thirteen to me... but whatever. Another chapter packed with Team Albarn AWESOMENESS, yeah!

[lmd-84.livejournal.com]

Personality seemed to work for Black Star when it came to him not reacting to anyone's soul wavelength, even Asura's at close range. Could be missing something, but I can see Harvar having a similar issue when it comes to soul perception, if not for quite the same reasons. He's not, for example, been shown to be as self-centred. Simply uptight and rather, uh, direct.

[drifth.livejournal.com]

Hm touche on Black Star there. The only time the insanity actually reached him was when he was in Demon Blade mode, I think.

You know, if Black Star and Harvar ever team up I think they could beat Asura black and blue. Their insanity resistance gives them an edge over everyone else. But then again, they probably wouldn't be too compatible. (I dunno why but I sometimes see Harvar as a male version of Maka ^^;)

[lmd-84.livejournal.com]

True about the demon blade mode, although if I recall correctly it was not using the mode itself that caused Black Star to hallucinate, but the fact he pushed himself too far, allowing him to become open to Asura's insanity.

Come to think of it, both Ox and Harvar have similarities to Maka; studious and serious respectively.

I think their respective soul wavelengths would count against Black Star and Harvar. The very fact they're immune to the insanity wavelength could mean they simply can't work with one another; not responsive enough to each other. However, it's still a neat idea. Asura wouldn't know what hit him. :)

[milkshaketears.livejournal.com]

I'm genuinely surprised that I didn't see "ellipses" tag at the end of the entry. Ahem. Anyway. Thanks for the summary, it has to be the most hilarious things I've read in a while! :---D

[insanityin3d.livejournal.com]

It's okay, Golom, the ellipses won't harm you anymore.

Like always, a great chapter and a FANTASTIC commentary from you. I must say, the glowing music notes against the spider webs were UBER sexy, and that ending was just WOW! Maka is so epic. I can't wait until she beats Arachne senseless. Next month is going to be AWESOME!!! X3

Thank you!

[pianoman-soul.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeee, Wes *o* *appropriate icon*

Chapter sounds epic. Although I think I'd take it more seriously if I didn't, erm, play a string instrument.
Also.

Okay, now Soul is back in the Black Room. And looking sssssssmoking in his suit. I am no longer upset about his previous inappropriate lack of nudity. This more than makes up for it. Mrrrrweor.

I am the same way, don't feel guilty. I mean, in the manga, even weapon!Harvar is naked. I want some explinations.

[aiwatan.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the summary! not only helped to understand what's going on but amused me to no end.

Chapter was awesome, even with the ellipses attack

[wispyhollow.livejournal.com]

Your hatred of ellipses made me read your whole post EVEN THOUGH I WAS TRYING TO AVOID SPOILERS FFFFF

Seriously though am i the only one who think Maka is seriously overdone??? Will I get mauled for that statement?

[kyrafawxe.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks for being epic and posting the summary.
Elipses~ I use them alot too... not like that though.

-shudders- I'm all excited now. POWER OF MUSIC.

[elrickeyblade.livejournal.com]

Heheh, I love reading your comments on the Soul Eater chapters- they always make me laugh. XD And by the way, I just wanted to bring up something: does anyone else feel a bit...apprehensive or confused about how the little imp acts in this chapter? I mean, usually he's trying to persuade Soul to sink into insanity and all that jazz; how come in this chapter he's only making small talk, being curious-like, and even acting a little bit...supportive???

Then again, maybe it's just me reading all this wrong....^^;;; Toodles.

[nenena.livejournal.com]

To be fair, in this chapter the imp started out sinister. He was certainly sinister when Soul said that Maka's wavelength would protect him, and the imp grinned and said "Maaaaaaaaaybe."

Then the imp got impatient because Soul was still hesitating to play.

Then the imp got completely thrown for a loop when Soul actually got a Smart Idea. I think the imp was even more surprised because he was the one who accidentally gave Soul that idea in the first place.

I don't think that the imp actually said or did anything supportive. He was just WTFing at Soul for a few pages. Then once the lightshow started, he basically couldn't do anything any more.

But we'll see next month. Maybe the black blood is going to give them trouble again. We'll see.

[sapphire-pyro.livejournal.com]

OH WOW IT SEEMS REALLY AWESOME!!!! I love your summary xD

RAW WHERE!!!! xD

[nenena.livejournal.com]

Check shibusen.

[miss-breeziness.livejournal.com]

I admit I tend to use too many ellipses too...
I'll try and improve...

Sorry. :D

[volkner.livejournal.com]

FLASHBACK!WES, BADASS MAKA IN DRESS, SOUL IN A SUIT AND KID'S RETURN.

That's all I needed bb ♥

[mikk1o5.livejournal.com]

I second that!!!!

[dark-fire-angel.livejournal.com]

.... this totally made my day, for reasons I can not even begin to explain. D; Now if resumes and information for all the shit I do in school were this amazingly hilarious to read THE WORLD WOULD BE A MAGNIFICENT PLACE.

Yes it would.

Alas, I will have to deal.

PS: I can has ellipses n_n watch! ..... SEE!

[chainofironrose.livejournal.com]

Oh man I had this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zTFaqLVs6o) song playing while reading this chapter and it was epic.

But darn it I wanted to see Chrona locked up and tearing his/her face off in agony from the mind-spiders D:

[tobu-ishi.livejournal.com]

Is that what that dress is made of? I wondered. I finished the chapter at like three am and spent the last several pages pausing my reading to alternately seeve and squeal, so that by that point I had been reduced to such a gibbering puddle of Maka-awe, Soul-want, and shipping glee that I was pulling a Gurren Lagann finale reaction and just going THIS IS SO AWESOME THAT I DON'T CARE THAT IT MAKES NO SENSE.

But if it's constructed of black blood, then it--in fact--does. Brilliant! :D

(With regards to Soul, I don't think his age has ever been officially stated, but you have to be at least sixteen to have a motorcycle or moped license in the state of Nevada. So it's not quiiiite as pedo, possibly, unless Ohkubo Did Not Do The Research or Soul is more of a delinquent than we thought.)