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Soul Eater Chapter 92: Late for a Very Important Date
Last month! I didn't recap because real life got in the way, but STUFF HAPPENED, Kid got blown up, Kaguya had boobs, and Akane and Clay showed up for a few more panels, an offense which caused enough of the fandom to wail and gnash their teeth in such a way that I'm beginning to suspect that the negative fan reaction was the entire reason that Ohkutroll included Akane and Clay in this story arc in the first place.
But for those of you who aren't fans of Akane or Clay, let me assure you: You're probably going to like what happens to them in this chapter. Like it a lot. If you're the type of fan who likes seeing a character that you loathe being turned into a complete buttmonkey and getting pwned left and right by both villains and heroes alike, that is.
As for me? My favorite part of this chapter BY FAR is the part where Kaguya and Patti interrupt a battle to the death to argue about Kid's sexual habits.
Because Soul Eater canon is a strange and beautiful thing.
Thus! We open exactly where the previous chapter left off, with White Rabbit about to shishkabob Clay and Akane. Fortunately, Akane manages to dodge White Rabbit's tentacles at the last minute, and Clay turns into his sword form just in time.
Akane stands with his sword ready to face the monster.
White Rabbit does this horrible giggling thing and then says, "Looks like I finally found somebody who can give me a little challenge..."
"How... How did he get inside the ship...?" Akane mutters to himself.
Suddenly, a VERY INCONVENIENTLY TIMED engineer runs behind White Rabbit shouting, "Hurry! There's a fire in the engine room!!"
Overhearing this, White Rabbit begins to sink straight into the floor. "Oh how I do want to stay and play with you boys, but I happen to be in a bit of a hurry myself."
"WAIT!!" Akane shouts. Like that ever works.
It doesn't work.
Akane stares at the floor. "He's trying to get to the source of this ship's power!!"
Meanwhile, on the bridge! Beret Girl is back! "Airborne troops are engaged in combat! But we're losing soldiers every second!"
Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon!
Kid has finally reached the surface of the moon.
Because he fell there after that bomb went off around his neck last chapter. GOOD JOB, KID.
Kid is still not entirely back on his feet, however, which is probably why Kaguya takes the opportunity to suddenly grab him by the collar of his jacket and lift him up in front of her.
"Kid!!" Liz says.
"Ho..." Kaguya says. "So you didn't die from that... Tough little brat, aren't you..."
"Of course we didn't die," Kid says. "We're from Shibusen, you know."
"We?"
SUDDENLY, FROM ABOVE!
"Take your hands off him!! HAAAAI-YAAAA!"
Granny falls from the sky and manages to kick Kaguya in the face (with both feet!) as she lands.
Kaguya drops Kid and stumbles backward. "How could she have delivered such a powerful blow?!"
Because gravity, that's why. I mean, duh? Although maybe I shouldn't hold it against a Clown of all things for not having a decent grasp of basic scientific principles.
Granny manages to bounce off Kaguya and land on both feet. "Are you all right?" she asks Kid.
"Just a little singed," he says. Then he dramatically rips off his jacket, for some inexplicable reason. "We'll eliminate the source of their anti-aircraft fire so that the airship can land here on the surface."
Meanwhile, back on the bridge! "Two members of the airborne troops have successfully landed on the surface! They're moving to eliminate the anti-aircraft fire so that we can regain control of this airspace!"
But the ship is still being rocked by strikes from Moonbeam!
"Djinn," Stein says.
"Understood. It's our turn now. Let's go, Zubaydah."
So I guess Djinn's meister is named Zubaydah. Well, there you go.
Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon! Kid rushes toward Moonbeam, but Kaguya blocks him. "You won't get past me!" In fact, she nearly slices his head off with the edge of her robe. "How dare you try to tear off a lady's clothing, you slutty little brat!"
Wow, I guess she really doesn't like the idea Kid trying to run off and fight a different Clown.
But Patti will not stand for these insults! "Nuh-uh!! Kid-kun is the type of of slut who uses freakin' out about symmetry as an excuse to grab a girl's boobs!! He's NOT the type of slut who would try to tear off a girl's clothes!!"
"Hey now," Liz says.
Meanwhile, Kid is very focused on trying to shoot through Kaguya's robes. "It's like she has infinite layers that just keep reforming!"
"Did you think that I was just trying to protect myself because I'm naked?" Kaguya taunts him. "The truth is the exact opposite! I'm naked because my robe is an impenetrable iron wall!!"
Wait, she's naked?
Suddenly, Granny punches Kaguya's side! "You must have had a poor ubringing, little miss!!"
Feeling the punch even through her robes, Kaguya doubles over in pain. "She did it again, and without even a weapon in her hands..."
"That's because they say that Granny is just too powerful to use a weapon!" Granny says, sending Kaguya flying.
While Kaguya stumbles away from them, Granny turns toward Kid. "This may be because of your neurotic nature, but Young Master, you're always focusing too much on trying to fight 'smart'." However, there are times when you have to stop over-thinking and just bulldoze through your enemies. That power is still waiting for you."
Granny is right... Kid think-bubbles. That's the real difference between Black Star and me.
Meanwhile, more Shibusen troops manage to land on the surface!
"Aw, some of them are landing," Moonbeam says. If he had a face, he would be making sad-face right now.
"Let me take care of the ones touching down," Justin says. "Moonbeam, just keep aiming at the airship."
An army of clowns forms behind Justin. "I won't let any of them escape alive."
Meanwhile, inside the engine room! Blood splattering everywhere!
"Who the hell do you think you are," Gen snarls at White Rabbit, "wreckin' our workspace like this?!"
"I am attempting to stop the source of your power so that your airship will fall," White Rabbit helpfully explains.
Suddenly, Akane! "I won't let you!!"
White Rabbit easily blocks Akane's sword. "Oh, you're here!"
Aaaaand Akane is completely owned.
"Be careful how you swing around that big old sword of yours," White Rabbit says. "There's a lot of delicate equipment in this engine room. Like this thing," he says, reaching one of his tentacles toward the Eternal Motion Spring. "I'd better protect this from you!"
Akane moves to stop him, but White Rabbit just flings Akane around the room a few more times. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... Pretty fast, aren't you!"
"Are you all right, kid?!" Gen shouts.
"Don't worry about me." I can't let him take the Eternal Motion Spring, even if it means I have to die to stop him....
Meanwhile, back to Zubaydah and Djinn! "Soul Resonance!!"
And... Ooooh, that's kind of clever! In human form Djinn is wrapped from head to toe so that we can't see his face, but in weapon form first he becomes a lamp, then he becomes the scantily-clad genie that erupts from the lamp. And then proceeds to punch killer moonbeams out of the sky like there's no tomorrow.
"They just keep coming..." Djinn says. "At this rate, it's only a matter of time before this ship is knocked out of the sky!! Hurry up, airborne troops!!"
But on the surface of the moon, Shibusen's troops are being slaughtered by clowns.
Kid is not happy to see a Shibusen dude fall down dead right next to him. "Liz! Patti! Let's finish this with one blow!!"
Kaguya is one step ahead of them. "Heavenly Raiment!" She surrounds the clowns with a wall of her robes.
"Death Cannon!!"
Kid damages but does not eliminate the wall.
Kaguya glares at him as the wall re-forms in front of her. "Will we bring down your ship first...? Or will you destroy Moonbeam first...? Your side is growing more and more desperate, while I can replenish my robes forever."
"Argh!!" Kid says. "There's no end to it...! Where does a power like that come from, anyway?! Is it because of the Kishin's infinite supply of insanity?"
"Don't give up, Young Master!" Granny says. "Keep fighting!!"
"Got it!!" Kid continues to fire at the wall.
Meanwhile, Granny turns to a Shibusen grunt standing slightly behind her. "Is it ready?"
"...Y-Yes..."
She turns back to Kid. "That's the spirit, Young Master! Keep shooting just like that!"
"It's no use!! It's no use!! It's no use!!" Kaguya laughs.
"Not yet!! Not yet!! Not yet!!" Kid shouts in return.
"A ha ha ha!" Kaguya laughs. "Moonbeam, you can concentrate on shooting down the ship now."
"Leave it to me," Moonbeam says.
Meanwhile, outside the wall! Granny is watching the layers of Kaguya's robe slightly shift and reform after Kid shoots them. Got to nail the timing. I've got less than a second...!! I'll have to charge at the same time as his next barrage!!
She shifts her eyes toward Kid. She sees him shoot. She runs toward the wall in time with his bullets.
"Granny, what are you doing?!"
Granny glances over her shoulder toward him as she runs. "Young Master, I know that you can do it!! And Granny does so love a man of authority!!"
BLAM.
Kaguya peers out of the temporary hole in her robes. "No matter how many of my robes you destroy, your cause is still hopeless!!"
And then she sees the little old lady clutching a big, bulky something leaping through the hole in the wall.
"What?!"
Moonbeam notices too late that Granny is diving straight into his open body. "!!"
"NOW I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A REAL BULLDOZING LOOKS LIKE!!" Granny shouts. "EAT BOMB, SUCKER!!"
"GRANNY!!" Kid shouts.
BLAM BLAM BLAM.
When the dust clears, Kaguya sees that there's nothing left of the other Clown. "Moonbeam!!"
Meanwhile, back in the engine room!
Okay, this is officially getting pathetic. Rabbit is toying with Akane the way that a cat toys with a mouse, and Akane can't land a single blow on his enemy.
"Oh my, oh my!" Rabbit taunts. "If somebody doesn't protect this Spring, it's going to end up broken!" One of his tentacles slaps dangerously close to the object in question, just to prove his point.
"Rrgh," Akane says. "It doesn't matter if I attack with everything I've got, he has too many arms... He's going to break the Eternal Spring!"
"KIDDO!!" Gen suddenly shouts at him. "Don't hold back, give it everything you've got! If the Spring breaks, we'll repair it!! That's the reason why us engineers are here in the first place!!"
"But the Eternal Motion Spring is a demon tool... If I let it break, it won't be that easy to fix!" Akane protests.
"Oooooh, you are just a DELIGHT to play with!!" White Rabbit cackles. "I'm so very glad that I came to this ship!! What a terrible shame that this ship is going to fall out of the sky soon!!"
Suddenly, White Rabbit notices somebody standing behind him. "?" he says.
And then, an announcement on the intercom. "All hands on deck! Thirty seconds until moon surface landing!!"
Stein is like, 'sup.
And then he punches Rabbit in the stomach.
And then Rabbit explodes.
And then Stein turns to Akane and Clay and once again is like, 'sup.
"Akane, Clay. Thank you for protecting the Eternal Motion Spring. You did well."
Akane is making ellipses because I think he just realized than an adult capable of defeating White Rabbit in one blow was totally cool with standing back and watching Akane get his ass repeatedly handed to him just because it was a convenient way of keeping the enemy distracted until the airship could finally land on the moon. "Okay," Akane finally says.
Stein grins and pops a cigarette into his mouth.
It is a VERY unsettling grin.
Akane looks more than a little concerned by the expression on Stein's face.
Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon! Justin looks up toward the sky. "He's coming... I wonder which of us will have the strongest insanity after all..."
To be continued next month!
By the way, Not! is on hiatus this month so that the US release can catch up to the Japanese chapters before January. So there's no new Not! this month. FYI. The GanGan magazine and website are both listing Not! as appearing in next month's issue, but then again they ALSO both listed Not! as appearing in this month's issue (whoops!), so we'll see.
But for those of you who aren't fans of Akane or Clay, let me assure you: You're probably going to like what happens to them in this chapter. Like it a lot. If you're the type of fan who likes seeing a character that you loathe being turned into a complete buttmonkey and getting pwned left and right by both villains and heroes alike, that is.
As for me? My favorite part of this chapter BY FAR is the part where Kaguya and Patti interrupt a battle to the death to argue about Kid's sexual habits.
Because Soul Eater canon is a strange and beautiful thing.
Thus! We open exactly where the previous chapter left off, with White Rabbit about to shishkabob Clay and Akane. Fortunately, Akane manages to dodge White Rabbit's tentacles at the last minute, and Clay turns into his sword form just in time.
Akane stands with his sword ready to face the monster.
White Rabbit does this horrible giggling thing and then says, "Looks like I finally found somebody who can give me a little challenge..."
"How... How did he get inside the ship...?" Akane mutters to himself.
Suddenly, a VERY INCONVENIENTLY TIMED engineer runs behind White Rabbit shouting, "Hurry! There's a fire in the engine room!!"
Overhearing this, White Rabbit begins to sink straight into the floor. "Oh how I do want to stay and play with you boys, but I happen to be in a bit of a hurry myself."
"WAIT!!" Akane shouts. Like that ever works.
It doesn't work.
Akane stares at the floor. "He's trying to get to the source of this ship's power!!"
Meanwhile, on the bridge! Beret Girl is back! "Airborne troops are engaged in combat! But we're losing soldiers every second!"
Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon!
Kid has finally reached the surface of the moon.
Because he fell there after that bomb went off around his neck last chapter. GOOD JOB, KID.
Kid is still not entirely back on his feet, however, which is probably why Kaguya takes the opportunity to suddenly grab him by the collar of his jacket and lift him up in front of her.
"Kid!!" Liz says.
"Ho..." Kaguya says. "So you didn't die from that... Tough little brat, aren't you..."
"Of course we didn't die," Kid says. "We're from Shibusen, you know."
"We?"
SUDDENLY, FROM ABOVE!
"Take your hands off him!! HAAAAI-YAAAA!"
Granny falls from the sky and manages to kick Kaguya in the face (with both feet!) as she lands.
Kaguya drops Kid and stumbles backward. "How could she have delivered such a powerful blow?!"
Because gravity, that's why. I mean, duh? Although maybe I shouldn't hold it against a Clown of all things for not having a decent grasp of basic scientific principles.
Granny manages to bounce off Kaguya and land on both feet. "Are you all right?" she asks Kid.
"Just a little singed," he says. Then he dramatically rips off his jacket, for some inexplicable reason. "We'll eliminate the source of their anti-aircraft fire so that the airship can land here on the surface."
Meanwhile, back on the bridge! "Two members of the airborne troops have successfully landed on the surface! They're moving to eliminate the anti-aircraft fire so that we can regain control of this airspace!"
But the ship is still being rocked by strikes from Moonbeam!
"Djinn," Stein says.
"Understood. It's our turn now. Let's go, Zubaydah."
So I guess Djinn's meister is named Zubaydah. Well, there you go.
Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon! Kid rushes toward Moonbeam, but Kaguya blocks him. "You won't get past me!" In fact, she nearly slices his head off with the edge of her robe. "How dare you try to tear off a lady's clothing, you slutty little brat!"
Wow, I guess she really doesn't like the idea Kid trying to run off and fight a different Clown.
But Patti will not stand for these insults! "Nuh-uh!! Kid-kun is the type of of slut who uses freakin' out about symmetry as an excuse to grab a girl's boobs!! He's NOT the type of slut who would try to tear off a girl's clothes!!"
"Hey now," Liz says.
Meanwhile, Kid is very focused on trying to shoot through Kaguya's robes. "It's like she has infinite layers that just keep reforming!"
"Did you think that I was just trying to protect myself because I'm naked?" Kaguya taunts him. "The truth is the exact opposite! I'm naked because my robe is an impenetrable iron wall!!"
Wait, she's naked?
Suddenly, Granny punches Kaguya's side! "You must have had a poor ubringing, little miss!!"
Feeling the punch even through her robes, Kaguya doubles over in pain. "She did it again, and without even a weapon in her hands..."
"That's because they say that Granny is just too powerful to use a weapon!" Granny says, sending Kaguya flying.
While Kaguya stumbles away from them, Granny turns toward Kid. "This may be because of your neurotic nature, but Young Master, you're always focusing too much on trying to fight 'smart'." However, there are times when you have to stop over-thinking and just bulldoze through your enemies. That power is still waiting for you."
Granny is right... Kid think-bubbles. That's the real difference between Black Star and me.
Meanwhile, more Shibusen troops manage to land on the surface!
"Aw, some of them are landing," Moonbeam says. If he had a face, he would be making sad-face right now.
"Let me take care of the ones touching down," Justin says. "Moonbeam, just keep aiming at the airship."
An army of clowns forms behind Justin. "I won't let any of them escape alive."
Meanwhile, inside the engine room! Blood splattering everywhere!
"Who the hell do you think you are," Gen snarls at White Rabbit, "wreckin' our workspace like this?!"
"I am attempting to stop the source of your power so that your airship will fall," White Rabbit helpfully explains.
Suddenly, Akane! "I won't let you!!"
White Rabbit easily blocks Akane's sword. "Oh, you're here!"
Aaaaand Akane is completely owned.
"Be careful how you swing around that big old sword of yours," White Rabbit says. "There's a lot of delicate equipment in this engine room. Like this thing," he says, reaching one of his tentacles toward the Eternal Motion Spring. "I'd better protect this from you!"
Akane moves to stop him, but White Rabbit just flings Akane around the room a few more times. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... Pretty fast, aren't you!"
"Are you all right, kid?!" Gen shouts.
"Don't worry about me." I can't let him take the Eternal Motion Spring, even if it means I have to die to stop him....
Meanwhile, back to Zubaydah and Djinn! "Soul Resonance!!"
And... Ooooh, that's kind of clever! In human form Djinn is wrapped from head to toe so that we can't see his face, but in weapon form first he becomes a lamp, then he becomes the scantily-clad genie that erupts from the lamp. And then proceeds to punch killer moonbeams out of the sky like there's no tomorrow.
"They just keep coming..." Djinn says. "At this rate, it's only a matter of time before this ship is knocked out of the sky!! Hurry up, airborne troops!!"
But on the surface of the moon, Shibusen's troops are being slaughtered by clowns.
Kid is not happy to see a Shibusen dude fall down dead right next to him. "Liz! Patti! Let's finish this with one blow!!"
Kaguya is one step ahead of them. "Heavenly Raiment!" She surrounds the clowns with a wall of her robes.
"Death Cannon!!"
Kid damages but does not eliminate the wall.
Kaguya glares at him as the wall re-forms in front of her. "Will we bring down your ship first...? Or will you destroy Moonbeam first...? Your side is growing more and more desperate, while I can replenish my robes forever."
"Argh!!" Kid says. "There's no end to it...! Where does a power like that come from, anyway?! Is it because of the Kishin's infinite supply of insanity?"
"Don't give up, Young Master!" Granny says. "Keep fighting!!"
"Got it!!" Kid continues to fire at the wall.
Meanwhile, Granny turns to a Shibusen grunt standing slightly behind her. "Is it ready?"
"...Y-Yes..."
She turns back to Kid. "That's the spirit, Young Master! Keep shooting just like that!"
"It's no use!! It's no use!! It's no use!!" Kaguya laughs.
"Not yet!! Not yet!! Not yet!!" Kid shouts in return.
"A ha ha ha!" Kaguya laughs. "Moonbeam, you can concentrate on shooting down the ship now."
"Leave it to me," Moonbeam says.
Meanwhile, outside the wall! Granny is watching the layers of Kaguya's robe slightly shift and reform after Kid shoots them. Got to nail the timing. I've got less than a second...!! I'll have to charge at the same time as his next barrage!!
She shifts her eyes toward Kid. She sees him shoot. She runs toward the wall in time with his bullets.
"Granny, what are you doing?!"
Granny glances over her shoulder toward him as she runs. "Young Master, I know that you can do it!! And Granny does so love a man of authority!!"
BLAM.
Kaguya peers out of the temporary hole in her robes. "No matter how many of my robes you destroy, your cause is still hopeless!!"
And then she sees the little old lady clutching a big, bulky something leaping through the hole in the wall.
"What?!"
Moonbeam notices too late that Granny is diving straight into his open body. "!!"
"NOW I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT A REAL BULLDOZING LOOKS LIKE!!" Granny shouts. "EAT BOMB, SUCKER!!"
"GRANNY!!" Kid shouts.
BLAM BLAM BLAM.
When the dust clears, Kaguya sees that there's nothing left of the other Clown. "Moonbeam!!"
Meanwhile, back in the engine room!
Okay, this is officially getting pathetic. Rabbit is toying with Akane the way that a cat toys with a mouse, and Akane can't land a single blow on his enemy.
"Oh my, oh my!" Rabbit taunts. "If somebody doesn't protect this Spring, it's going to end up broken!" One of his tentacles slaps dangerously close to the object in question, just to prove his point.
"Rrgh," Akane says. "It doesn't matter if I attack with everything I've got, he has too many arms... He's going to break the Eternal Spring!"
"KIDDO!!" Gen suddenly shouts at him. "Don't hold back, give it everything you've got! If the Spring breaks, we'll repair it!! That's the reason why us engineers are here in the first place!!"
"But the Eternal Motion Spring is a demon tool... If I let it break, it won't be that easy to fix!" Akane protests.
"Oooooh, you are just a DELIGHT to play with!!" White Rabbit cackles. "I'm so very glad that I came to this ship!! What a terrible shame that this ship is going to fall out of the sky soon!!"
Suddenly, White Rabbit notices somebody standing behind him. "?" he says.
And then, an announcement on the intercom. "All hands on deck! Thirty seconds until moon surface landing!!"
Stein is like, 'sup.
And then he punches Rabbit in the stomach.
And then Rabbit explodes.
And then Stein turns to Akane and Clay and once again is like, 'sup.
"Akane, Clay. Thank you for protecting the Eternal Motion Spring. You did well."
Akane is making ellipses because I think he just realized than an adult capable of defeating White Rabbit in one blow was totally cool with standing back and watching Akane get his ass repeatedly handed to him just because it was a convenient way of keeping the enemy distracted until the airship could finally land on the moon. "Okay," Akane finally says.
Stein grins and pops a cigarette into his mouth.
It is a VERY unsettling grin.
Akane looks more than a little concerned by the expression on Stein's face.
Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon! Justin looks up toward the sky. "He's coming... I wonder which of us will have the strongest insanity after all..."
To be continued next month!
By the way, Not! is on hiatus this month so that the US release can catch up to the Japanese chapters before January. So there's no new Not! this month. FYI. The GanGan magazine and website are both listing Not! as appearing in next month's issue, but then again they ALSO both listed Not! as appearing in this month's issue (whoops!), so we'll see.
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