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Soul Eater Chapter 96: "Screw you guys, I'm going to the moon."
We begin, of course, with a full page of Maka's think-bubbles. Basilica di Santa Maria Novella... I remember... Even now, it still scares me... How I first met Crona here... How shocked I was back then, when I first saw Crona's soul. A weapon and a meister sharing one body. Two souls---...
Maka stares at Crona. That still hasn't changed. Crona and Ragnarok's two souls... And yet...
Maka's hand trembles. "Ah... You're Crona, aren't you..."
Crona looks down. "Maka..."
"!" Maka then breathes a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness... Crona! I've been looking everywhere for you!" Maka holds out her arms. "Let's go back to Shibusen!! Everyone's waiting for you. Nobody will make you do bad things anymore. I'll protect you no matter what!!"
Crona's face darkens. "It's too late..."
"What...?"
"Somehow... Somehow... I came here for some reason... Who are you...? What are you to me...? I don't really remember..."
Crona looks up. "But... I was waiting for you... I came here to wait for a person named 'Maka'..."
Maka smiles nervously. "Yes. That's why I came to meet you here."
"This is the last rule that I will uphold..." Crona says. "Drawing the line here..." Crona still won't look directly at Maka. "That's why I was waiting here. To be able to say those last words to Maka..."
"Wait!" Maka says. "That's not..." She tries to smile again. "Soul and Black Star and Kid and Tsubaki-chan and Liz-chan and Patti-chan, everyone... Everyone came to care about Crona so much... Especially Marie-sensei... It's still not too late... Everyone will accept you again!"
"You don't understand..." Crona says. "I killed my own mother..."
Maka is le shock!! "Me... Medusa... You killed Medusa..."
"That's right... I killed somebody who can never be replaced... The only person who I was connected to... With this very hand... And I never thought that doing so could make me feel so free..."
Maka isn't smiling anymore.
"All of my cogs are already turning..." Crona says, in what has got to be the coolest-looking panel of this entire chapter. "I can't gear with anybody else anymore..." Okay, this is a bit of a weird pun, but Crona is saying that hir "gears" can't mesh/bite into anybody else's gears anymore because they're already spinning. It's quite a bit less nonsensical in Japanese than it is in English, but I am le tired and can't come up with a more elegant translation right now, so I'm sorry for inflicting this bad translation on y'all.
Suddenly, Crona is DRAMATIC SOUL WAVELENGTH FLOURISH!!!
Outside the church: Soul, Black Star, and Tsubaki look on in alarm.
But Maka refuses to step back as Crona walks toward her...
...and then right past her.
"This is goodbye. I have to go now."
Maka reaches for Crona's arm. "Wait!!"
But her hand is repelled by a sharp sting.
Because on the next page Crona is suddenly GOING MALEFICENT on Maka and sprouting MOTHERFUCKING THORNS all over the goddamn place.
"Rules are absolute," Crona says. "Rules are everything in the world. Even animals follow rules. Even bugs. But I can't follow rules. I'm allergic to rules. I don't know how to deal with this world of nothing but rules." Crona slithers toward the church doors. "I will go to the moon. The kishin will be mine. With the kishin's insanity I will warp and bend the world. I will make all the gears in the world spin madly forever."
"That's not true!!" Maka shouts, apparently still five steps behind in the conversation. "We can heal you again!!"
Crona finally turns toward Maka. "This is not something you can fix. This is my own decision. It is something that I have decided to do." Crona puts hir hand on the door. "These doors... They opened inward, didn't they?"
BAM.
Crona sends the door exploding outward with a flick of hir fingers. It crashes right between Soul and Black Star.
"Crona!!" Black Star says, making ANGRY FACE. Oh man, Crona, you've really done it now. Remember how he flipped out when Eruka hurt his beautiful nose?!
Crona stands in the empty doorway of the church. Crona's hair is growing thorns.
"I can't uphold all the rules---... That was the first thing that I decided..."
"Tsubaki!!" Black Star shouts.
"But where's Maka-chan?!"
Maka comes running out of the church. "Wait, Crona!!"
"DON'T TOUCH ME!!" Crona shrieks, whipping Maka aside with a lash of those thorn-tentacle things.
"Maka!!" Soul dramatically shouts. "Crona, you bastard!!"
Meanwhile, in another part of the city! "What's this wavelength?!" Ox says.
"Did they find Crona?" Kim rather astutely guesses.
Back in front of the church, Maka is shakily getting back on her feet.
Crona's back is turned to Maka, but Crona still says, "I don't want to hurt anybody anymore." The Crona sprouts hir wings (now decorated with decidedly clown-like harlequin diamonds) and takes to the air.
But Black Star can "fly", remember? So Black Star gets in Crona's way! "Stop right there!" Black Star shouts. "We're not done talking to you!!" He pulls pack his fist for a punch. "Get. Back. DOWN!!"
Yeah that punch has no chance of happening. Crona lashes out with another tentacle, wraps it around Black Star's ankle, and flips him into the air. "I SAID I DON'T WANT TO HURT ANYBODY ANYMORE!"
Like a cat, Black Star manages to land on his feet. And suddenly, Ox and Company are there, too! "Where is Crona going?!" Ox asks Maka.
"To the moon!!" She runs toward Soul. "Soul!!"
"Let's go!!"
"Wait!!" Harvar interrupts them. "Shibusen is in the middle of battling the kishin's forces on the moon. If somebody as dangerous as Crona is heading toward the moon, our first priority should be to contact Shibusen and warn them!!"
"Not to mention that it would be suicide for you to chase after Crona on your own," Ox tells Maka. "Among all the Spartoi, Black Star is the most capable of fighting against Crona, and even he couldn't land a single hit."
"Sh... Shut up..." Black Star groans. "It's not that I couldn't keep up with Crona, it's that this era can't keep up with me!!"
"And we don't even know where Kirikou and his pots are!" Jackie adds. Wait, Kirikou isn't there with them? Oh yeah, because he split up into his own group last chapter. "He barely has any soul perception, so he probably hasn't even noticed anything going on over here yet."
"DAMMIT!!" Maka swears.
"What happened between you and Crona?" Harvar calmly asks. "You should make a report to Shinigami-sama right away!"
Maka flashes back to Crona's thorny face. "The kishin will be mine. With the kishin's insanity I will warp and bend the world. I will make all the gears in the world spin madly forever."
Maka turns toward the rest of her team. "Everyone, get ready!! We're going to the moon!!"
"Let's go and meet Kid there!" Soul agrees.
"I wanted to go the moon from the beginning anyway!" Black Star says.
"Crona is such an idiot!!" Maka says through gritted teeth. "I don't care about executions and I don't care about rules. Screw that crap! I just need to knock some sense into Crona!"
Meanwhile, in the Death Room!
Tezca is dead but still hanging around inside Shinigami-sama's mirror, because why the hell not. "They're fighting the kishin's clown army right now... The enemy soldiers can replenish themselves with no limit. It seems like this is going to be a close fight. Kid has connected two Lines of Sanzu but has yet to fully awaken as a shinigami..."
"Oka~~ay..." Shinigami-sama says.
Ohkubo has drawn Enrique dancing around in the background of this panel to let us readers know that he still remembers that Enrique exists.
"This is going to be difficult without the Brew..." Shinigami-sama says. His mask is significantly more riddled with cracks than it was the last time that we saw him.
"The Spartoi team has successfully made contact with Crona," Tezca continues, "but said target appears to have fled to the moon... It appears as though Crona is after the kishin..."
"'M also a bit worried about that kid named Gopher who ran off with the Book of Eibon and the Brew..." Shinigami-sama says. A bit worried. "The kishin battle might end up turning into four-sided tomoe after all." A more boring person might have said "end up being a four-way battle after all," but this is Big Daddy we're talking about, who according to canon itself is the biggest weaboo who ever weebed, so of course in the next panel we see him imagining a four-way battle on the moon as a pretty, swirly tomoe design. "Have you issued Kim the orders for the Spartoi to return to Shibusen?"
"Yes. And we are now ready to establish contact with the fifth power that has interest in this battle as well."
Meanwhile, on the moon!
Kid is getting tired. And getting his ass kicked.
A White Rabbit suddenly kicks Kid in the stomach, sending him flying. Ouch. So that means that Kid is now officially fighting on Akane's level. Pathetic.
"Onee-chan..." Patti says.
"Kid is going to run out of strength, and there's no end to them!" Liz says.
Kid looks very unhappy. Also he has that my eye is swelling shut because I just got punched in the face by a mostly-naked tentacle clown monster wearing a jaunty tophat thing going on all over his face in the next panel, but that might also just be Ohkubo trying to draw Kid looking angry and concerned at the same time. It's kind of hard to tell.
So Kaguya does her laughter-bamboo pun again and gloats, "Come, fight until you cannot fight anymore! And look and see the state of this battle now!"
Shibusen grunts are dead or dying EVERYWHERE.
"What should we do..." One nameless grunt says to another. "No matter how many of them we defeat, more of them keep coming..."
"There's no end to this battle, is there..."
Meanwhile! Justin is, I dunno, doing his Justin thing, which means laughing maniacally and growing extra arms and legs everywhere and distending his jaw so that he can scream gibberish at MAXIMUM VOLUME. "THIS IS KISHIN-SAMA'S INSANITY!! CEASE YOUR SUFFERING!! SUBMIT TO THE MADNESS!!" And in the next panel, he... Well, I don't know what the fuck that's even supposed to be. He's doing something all right. "You of all people, why do you continue to struggle against the insanity? Give in and submit!!"
I guess that was directed at Stein. I think I'm supposed to be unsettled or creeped out by the way that Stein is drawn in the next panel. But I just can't find him scary when he looks so. darn. silly.
"Never!" Marie answers Justin's taunt. "As if Stein would ever fall for such stupid traps like yours!"
"Ha ha ha," Justin laughs. "What are you talking about?! You're already in my trap! That's right - my trap is this very moon itself!! This very moon upon which you stand!! The perfect bait to lure you into the perfect trap!!"
...Okay, I'm sorry, but I have to bring this back again:
Godammit, Justin.
"THIS VERY MOON ITSELF IS MY ULTIMATE GUILLOTINE!!"
Ohkubo, that next panel is a bad visual and you should feel bad.
"One step on this moon's surface and slowly slowly you will find yourself unable to run away! You are all trapped inside my pillories already! Fear how the blood from your throat will splatter when my guillotine slices through your neck! Insanity shall forever rain from the moon!! The guillotine is coming for your heads!! The guillotine shall forever rain from the moon!! Guilloti... Guillo... Giro.... BLURGH!!"
Hey Justin, isn't it kind of hard to scream gibberish when half of your face is suddenly exploding?
"You can't keep being a pain in our ass forever," Stein says to Justin. "It's time to finish you off."
Oh please do, Mr. Stein. Please. For the love of terrible bamboo puns, please finish the asshole off. I don't know if I can take another chapter of Justin being Justin.
"Even if you kill me, you'll never turn the tide of this battle!" Justin says. "You've already lost." Then he just starts spitting out blood and screaming. "AND ISN'T IT MYSTERIOUS, STEIN-SAN, HOW YOU'RE STILL ON SHIBUSEN'S SIDE?! RULES AND RULES AND ELIMINATING ROTTEN BELIEFS AND ELIMINATING ROTTEN PEOPLE AND MAKING YOUR WORLD WHERE EVERYBODY HAS TO THINK THE SAME! DAMN! WAY! AND FRONT TO BACK YOU MAKE THEM LINE UP AND SLANTWAYS SIDEWAYS YOU STILL MAKE THEM LINE UP AND WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG WITH LETTING THE SLANTY SIDEWAYS SLANT THEIR OWN WAY? DO WHAT YOU WANT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! RESEARCH WHAT YOU WANT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! KILL WHO YOU WANT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT!! THAT'S THE NATURAL WAY TO BE ISN'T IT?! ARE THE SHINIGAMI'S RULES REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?!"
Stein grips Marie. "SOUL RESONANCE!"
"He doesn't understand anything about Shinigami-sama's rules," Marie says.
"STEIN, THE MADNESS INSIDE YOU WILL NEVER BE CONTAINED BY SHIBUSEN'S RULES!!"
"Right now I have a target to attack, so the rules and I are getting along just fine!"
"THEN AFTER YOU HAVE ELIMINATED ALL HERESY AGAINST YOUR SHINIGAMI, WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN?! HOW WILL YOU LIVE WITH RULES-SAMA?! WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE MADNESS INSIDE OF YOU?!"
"REVENGE FOR B.J.!!" Marie screams.
Wow, Marie's ultimate attack is really, really pretty. It looks like a triquetra.
Make that a really, really BIG triquetra.
Two pages later: DING DONG, THE ASSHOLE'S DEAD!
But since a tiny portion of Justin's face is left intact, dramatic! manga! rules! dictate that he must deliver some dramatic! last! words!
How Justin is managing to speak with only half a mouth and no neck is a mystery best left unresolved. "Have no fear, Stein... Your true era is nigh. The order in this world is already crumbling."
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT MONTH.
ETA March 17th: Ha ha whoops so I managed to skip an entire panel of Tezca's dialogue. That's been fixed now, sorry! Also, a friendly reminder to the anonymice: Remember, if your comment contains a link to a scanslation, it will NOT be unscreened! You are always welcome to comment again without the links, though.
Maka stares at Crona. That still hasn't changed. Crona and Ragnarok's two souls... And yet...
Maka's hand trembles. "Ah... You're Crona, aren't you..."
Crona looks down. "Maka..."
"!" Maka then breathes a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness... Crona! I've been looking everywhere for you!" Maka holds out her arms. "Let's go back to Shibusen!! Everyone's waiting for you. Nobody will make you do bad things anymore. I'll protect you no matter what!!"
Crona's face darkens. "It's too late..."
"What...?"
"Somehow... Somehow... I came here for some reason... Who are you...? What are you to me...? I don't really remember..."
Crona looks up. "But... I was waiting for you... I came here to wait for a person named 'Maka'..."
Maka smiles nervously. "Yes. That's why I came to meet you here."
"This is the last rule that I will uphold..." Crona says. "Drawing the line here..." Crona still won't look directly at Maka. "That's why I was waiting here. To be able to say those last words to Maka..."
"Wait!" Maka says. "That's not..." She tries to smile again. "Soul and Black Star and Kid and Tsubaki-chan and Liz-chan and Patti-chan, everyone... Everyone came to care about Crona so much... Especially Marie-sensei... It's still not too late... Everyone will accept you again!"
"You don't understand..." Crona says. "I killed my own mother..."
Maka is le shock!! "Me... Medusa... You killed Medusa..."
"That's right... I killed somebody who can never be replaced... The only person who I was connected to... With this very hand... And I never thought that doing so could make me feel so free..."
Maka isn't smiling anymore.
"All of my cogs are already turning..." Crona says, in what has got to be the coolest-looking panel of this entire chapter. "I can't gear with anybody else anymore..." Okay, this is a bit of a weird pun, but Crona is saying that hir "gears" can't mesh/bite into anybody else's gears anymore because they're already spinning. It's quite a bit less nonsensical in Japanese than it is in English, but I am le tired and can't come up with a more elegant translation right now, so I'm sorry for inflicting this bad translation on y'all.
Suddenly, Crona is DRAMATIC SOUL WAVELENGTH FLOURISH!!!
Outside the church: Soul, Black Star, and Tsubaki look on in alarm.
But Maka refuses to step back as Crona walks toward her...
...and then right past her.
"This is goodbye. I have to go now."
Maka reaches for Crona's arm. "Wait!!"
But her hand is repelled by a sharp sting.
Because on the next page Crona is suddenly GOING MALEFICENT on Maka and sprouting MOTHERFUCKING THORNS all over the goddamn place.
"Rules are absolute," Crona says. "Rules are everything in the world. Even animals follow rules. Even bugs. But I can't follow rules. I'm allergic to rules. I don't know how to deal with this world of nothing but rules." Crona slithers toward the church doors. "I will go to the moon. The kishin will be mine. With the kishin's insanity I will warp and bend the world. I will make all the gears in the world spin madly forever."
"That's not true!!" Maka shouts, apparently still five steps behind in the conversation. "We can heal you again!!"
Crona finally turns toward Maka. "This is not something you can fix. This is my own decision. It is something that I have decided to do." Crona puts hir hand on the door. "These doors... They opened inward, didn't they?"
BAM.
Crona sends the door exploding outward with a flick of hir fingers. It crashes right between Soul and Black Star.
"Crona!!" Black Star says, making ANGRY FACE. Oh man, Crona, you've really done it now. Remember how he flipped out when Eruka hurt his beautiful nose?!
Crona stands in the empty doorway of the church. Crona's hair is growing thorns.
"I can't uphold all the rules---... That was the first thing that I decided..."
"Tsubaki!!" Black Star shouts.
"But where's Maka-chan?!"
Maka comes running out of the church. "Wait, Crona!!"
"DON'T TOUCH ME!!" Crona shrieks, whipping Maka aside with a lash of those thorn-tentacle things.
"Maka!!" Soul dramatically shouts. "Crona, you bastard!!"
Meanwhile, in another part of the city! "What's this wavelength?!" Ox says.
"Did they find Crona?" Kim rather astutely guesses.
Back in front of the church, Maka is shakily getting back on her feet.
Crona's back is turned to Maka, but Crona still says, "I don't want to hurt anybody anymore." The Crona sprouts hir wings (now decorated with decidedly clown-like harlequin diamonds) and takes to the air.
But Black Star can "fly", remember? So Black Star gets in Crona's way! "Stop right there!" Black Star shouts. "We're not done talking to you!!" He pulls pack his fist for a punch. "Get. Back. DOWN!!"
Yeah that punch has no chance of happening. Crona lashes out with another tentacle, wraps it around Black Star's ankle, and flips him into the air. "I SAID I DON'T WANT TO HURT ANYBODY ANYMORE!"
Like a cat, Black Star manages to land on his feet. And suddenly, Ox and Company are there, too! "Where is Crona going?!" Ox asks Maka.
"To the moon!!" She runs toward Soul. "Soul!!"
"Let's go!!"
"Wait!!" Harvar interrupts them. "Shibusen is in the middle of battling the kishin's forces on the moon. If somebody as dangerous as Crona is heading toward the moon, our first priority should be to contact Shibusen and warn them!!"
"Not to mention that it would be suicide for you to chase after Crona on your own," Ox tells Maka. "Among all the Spartoi, Black Star is the most capable of fighting against Crona, and even he couldn't land a single hit."
"Sh... Shut up..." Black Star groans. "It's not that I couldn't keep up with Crona, it's that this era can't keep up with me!!"
"And we don't even know where Kirikou and his pots are!" Jackie adds. Wait, Kirikou isn't there with them? Oh yeah, because he split up into his own group last chapter. "He barely has any soul perception, so he probably hasn't even noticed anything going on over here yet."
"DAMMIT!!" Maka swears.
"What happened between you and Crona?" Harvar calmly asks. "You should make a report to Shinigami-sama right away!"
Maka flashes back to Crona's thorny face. "The kishin will be mine. With the kishin's insanity I will warp and bend the world. I will make all the gears in the world spin madly forever."
Maka turns toward the rest of her team. "Everyone, get ready!! We're going to the moon!!"
"Let's go and meet Kid there!" Soul agrees.
"I wanted to go the moon from the beginning anyway!" Black Star says.
"Crona is such an idiot!!" Maka says through gritted teeth. "I don't care about executions and I don't care about rules. Screw that crap! I just need to knock some sense into Crona!"
Meanwhile, in the Death Room!
Tezca is dead but still hanging around inside Shinigami-sama's mirror, because why the hell not. "They're fighting the kishin's clown army right now... The enemy soldiers can replenish themselves with no limit. It seems like this is going to be a close fight. Kid has connected two Lines of Sanzu but has yet to fully awaken as a shinigami..."
"Oka~~ay..." Shinigami-sama says.
Ohkubo has drawn Enrique dancing around in the background of this panel to let us readers know that he still remembers that Enrique exists.
"This is going to be difficult without the Brew..." Shinigami-sama says. His mask is significantly more riddled with cracks than it was the last time that we saw him.
"The Spartoi team has successfully made contact with Crona," Tezca continues, "but said target appears to have fled to the moon... It appears as though Crona is after the kishin..."
"'M also a bit worried about that kid named Gopher who ran off with the Book of Eibon and the Brew..." Shinigami-sama says. A bit worried. "The kishin battle might end up turning into four-sided tomoe after all." A more boring person might have said "end up being a four-way battle after all," but this is Big Daddy we're talking about, who according to canon itself is the biggest weaboo who ever weebed, so of course in the next panel we see him imagining a four-way battle on the moon as a pretty, swirly tomoe design. "Have you issued Kim the orders for the Spartoi to return to Shibusen?"
"Yes. And we are now ready to establish contact with the fifth power that has interest in this battle as well."
Meanwhile, on the moon!
Kid is getting tired. And getting his ass kicked.
A White Rabbit suddenly kicks Kid in the stomach, sending him flying. Ouch. So that means that Kid is now officially fighting on Akane's level. Pathetic.
"Onee-chan..." Patti says.
"Kid is going to run out of strength, and there's no end to them!" Liz says.
Kid looks very unhappy. Also he has that my eye is swelling shut because I just got punched in the face by a mostly-naked tentacle clown monster wearing a jaunty tophat thing going on all over his face in the next panel, but that might also just be Ohkubo trying to draw Kid looking angry and concerned at the same time. It's kind of hard to tell.
So Kaguya does her laughter-bamboo pun again and gloats, "Come, fight until you cannot fight anymore! And look and see the state of this battle now!"
Shibusen grunts are dead or dying EVERYWHERE.
"What should we do..." One nameless grunt says to another. "No matter how many of them we defeat, more of them keep coming..."
"There's no end to this battle, is there..."
Meanwhile! Justin is, I dunno, doing his Justin thing, which means laughing maniacally and growing extra arms and legs everywhere and distending his jaw so that he can scream gibberish at MAXIMUM VOLUME. "THIS IS KISHIN-SAMA'S INSANITY!! CEASE YOUR SUFFERING!! SUBMIT TO THE MADNESS!!" And in the next panel, he... Well, I don't know what the fuck that's even supposed to be. He's doing something all right. "You of all people, why do you continue to struggle against the insanity? Give in and submit!!"
I guess that was directed at Stein. I think I'm supposed to be unsettled or creeped out by the way that Stein is drawn in the next panel. But I just can't find him scary when he looks so. darn. silly.
"Never!" Marie answers Justin's taunt. "As if Stein would ever fall for such stupid traps like yours!"
"Ha ha ha," Justin laughs. "What are you talking about?! You're already in my trap! That's right - my trap is this very moon itself!! This very moon upon which you stand!! The perfect bait to lure you into the perfect trap!!"
...Okay, I'm sorry, but I have to bring this back again:
Godammit, Justin.
"THIS VERY MOON ITSELF IS MY ULTIMATE GUILLOTINE!!"
Ohkubo, that next panel is a bad visual and you should feel bad.
"One step on this moon's surface and slowly slowly you will find yourself unable to run away! You are all trapped inside my pillories already! Fear how the blood from your throat will splatter when my guillotine slices through your neck! Insanity shall forever rain from the moon!! The guillotine is coming for your heads!! The guillotine shall forever rain from the moon!! Guilloti... Guillo... Giro.... BLURGH!!"
Hey Justin, isn't it kind of hard to scream gibberish when half of your face is suddenly exploding?
"You can't keep being a pain in our ass forever," Stein says to Justin. "It's time to finish you off."
Oh please do, Mr. Stein. Please. For the love of terrible bamboo puns, please finish the asshole off. I don't know if I can take another chapter of Justin being Justin.
"Even if you kill me, you'll never turn the tide of this battle!" Justin says. "You've already lost." Then he just starts spitting out blood and screaming. "AND ISN'T IT MYSTERIOUS, STEIN-SAN, HOW YOU'RE STILL ON SHIBUSEN'S SIDE?! RULES AND RULES AND ELIMINATING ROTTEN BELIEFS AND ELIMINATING ROTTEN PEOPLE AND MAKING YOUR WORLD WHERE EVERYBODY HAS TO THINK THE SAME! DAMN! WAY! AND FRONT TO BACK YOU MAKE THEM LINE UP AND SLANTWAYS SIDEWAYS YOU STILL MAKE THEM LINE UP AND WHAT EXACTLY IS WRONG WITH LETTING THE SLANTY SIDEWAYS SLANT THEIR OWN WAY? DO WHAT YOU WANT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! RESEARCH WHAT YOU WANT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT! KILL WHO YOU WANT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT!! THAT'S THE NATURAL WAY TO BE ISN'T IT?! ARE THE SHINIGAMI'S RULES REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?!"
Stein grips Marie. "SOUL RESONANCE!"
"He doesn't understand anything about Shinigami-sama's rules," Marie says.
"STEIN, THE MADNESS INSIDE YOU WILL NEVER BE CONTAINED BY SHIBUSEN'S RULES!!"
"Right now I have a target to attack, so the rules and I are getting along just fine!"
"THEN AFTER YOU HAVE ELIMINATED ALL HERESY AGAINST YOUR SHINIGAMI, WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN?! HOW WILL YOU LIVE WITH RULES-SAMA?! WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THE MADNESS INSIDE OF YOU?!"
"REVENGE FOR B.J.!!" Marie screams.
Wow, Marie's ultimate attack is really, really pretty. It looks like a triquetra.
Make that a really, really BIG triquetra.
Two pages later: DING DONG, THE ASSHOLE'S DEAD!
But since a tiny portion of Justin's face is left intact, dramatic! manga! rules! dictate that he must deliver some dramatic! last! words!
How Justin is managing to speak with only half a mouth and no neck is a mystery best left unresolved. "Have no fear, Stein... Your true era is nigh. The order in this world is already crumbling."
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT MONTH.
ETA March 17th: Ha ha whoops so I managed to skip an entire panel of Tezca's dialogue. That's been fixed now, sorry! Also, a friendly reminder to the anonymice: Remember, if your comment contains a link to a scanslation, it will NOT be unscreened! You are always welcome to comment again without the links, though.
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"THIS VERY MOON ITSELF IS MY ULTIMATE GUILLOTINE!!"
Pfffffwahahahahahaha!
(Although I have to say, paragraph-shouty Justin makes kind of a point. But only kind of.)
STEIN AND MARIE, YOU BADASSES!
(Ahem. Thank you so much for these.)
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Even with all the context going on I couldn't help but to laugh at this.
Thank you a lot for the recap!
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"I don't know how to deal with this world of nothing but rules. "I will go to the moon." Even with all the context going on I couldn't help but to laugh at this.
I know! It's just so teenage angsty that it's kind of funny.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-15 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)I don't think I've squeed this much since Chapter 87. Oh my god, Crona! Warping and twisting the world with madness is a bit too Medusa-y for you!
Why do I have the feeling the someone out there will start an AsuraxCrona fanbase, just from the constant talk of "make the Kishin yours"? ...Actually. That pairing kind of makes sense, minus the age difference... (Curse ADHD).
Thank you so much for posting these! Seriously, they're the highlight of my month!
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Me too.
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Ah yes...Justin DOES remind me a bit of Mojo Jojo...thanks for putting that clip in by the way...that was a damn good show, I miss it much. And YAY JUSTIN IS DEAD! Although his screaming about rules sounded more like a hissy fit than anything that dramatic...maybe BECAUSE he sounds so much like Mojo jojo. Although its quite amazing he keeps attmepting to speak while blood is pouring out of his exploding head.
Thanks for the recap!
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And "hissy fit" is a perfectly accurate description of that bit as far as I'm concerned. I know that it was supposed to be Dramatic Last Words and all, but it really came across as Justin just throwing a gigantic temper tantrum because he lost.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 01:31 am (UTC)(link)I swear if Kidd & Co are dead and Maka punches the kishin in the face I will break into Ohkubo's house and shit on everything he owns.
Thanks for the recap!
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But at the same time, with all of the ridiculous crap that we've got to make fun of in the manga itself, can we please not be that fandom that jokes about inflicting harm upon the author himself. Please. Can we not.
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But yeah, gotcha. Sorry ;)
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 01:51 am (UTC)(link)I was kind of surprised at Crona saying that zhe doesn't want to hurt anyone anymore, but wants to go to the moon to make the kishin hirs. I wonder what zhe's up to...
And, I just read Justin's capslock rant as a rap, and it sounds pretty good in my head xD
Thanks again!!!
Re: vega_jd from LJ, who doesn't know how to login
1. Killing mom means no longer being bound by rules,
2. and oh hey wow now that I'm no longer bound by rules I FEEL SO FREE,
3. but the rest of the world is still all RULES RULES RULES and I can't deal with them anymore, so
4. if I make everybody AS FREE AS I AM then I'll be able to deal with people again AND they'll all be as happy as I am now. It's a win-win!
And, I just read Justin's capslock rant as a rap, and it sounds pretty good in my head xD
I can easily imagine Justin rapping. All to easily. ^__^
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I vote we let Crona go apeshit and kill Kaguya and everyone else and then once (s)he starts attacking Shibusen Maka uses her ultimate friendship!powers to calm Crona down and move hir to the good side.
I HAVE SOLVED IT.
I also vote SoMa, but I always ask for SoMa and Ohkubo just laughs a belly laugh at me and doesn't really do SoMa.
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no but seriously it would be awesome if that happened
like if Crona suddenly appeared out of nowhere and totally saved Kid and everybody else from Shibusen. That would be epic.
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"REVENGE FOR B.J.!!" Marie screams.
I did some sort of sad squee once I read this part. Hell yes, Marie. You kill that asshole for what he did. ;__;
Other than me laughing at Justin's ramblings, I enjoyed this chapter. Thank you for the recap, like always!
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ME TOO.
I've been hoping and praying that Marie would be able to finally exact her revenge on Justin and for once Ohkubo did not disappoint!
Oh, and you're welcome! :)
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 02:28 am (UTC)(link)I have to say. This is what we've been fucking waiting for! HELL YEAH! Crona going all "Nah dawg, I ain't even mad. I'm going to the moon B|"
This whole chapter. It...it was just so full of.....OHKUBO!!!!!! I fucking love you so much for this chapter *sheds a manly tear*
It's about damn time Justin died! GOD DAMN! Been waiting forever for this shit to happen! And fuck yeah Marie! You stay bad ass.
Kidd though...damn man...you said like all of Shibusen's grunt squads were down...makes me wonder what Spirit is doing then. He's gotta find Kidd or Stein.
About Big Daddy's comment on Brew though, I assume a lot of other's are guessing as well that Noah has it, or Gopher, or whomever has the Book of Eibon in their hands.
Even with all these questions, one thing is for sure. The battle on the moon is just beginning. It's going to be one hell of a party. I'm biting my nails here I can't wait for this shit! >:D
Thanks again for the Chapter recap(s)
-Zi
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It's about damn time Justin died! GOD DAMN! Been waiting forever for this shit to happen! And fuck yeah Marie! You stay bad ass.
I KNOW. That whole scene. It was just so gloriously SATISFYING.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 02:43 am (UTC)(link)Kidd continues to be pathetic, Shibusen's troops continue to die, but finally, Justin has bit the dust. THANK YOU STEIN THANK YOU SO MUCH
Meanwhile who knows WHAT'S going on inside the moon Noah what the hell are you up to?
Is it weird that I have a gut feeling that Chrona's gonna live? I dunno, it's just a feeling (and probably one that's gonna be wrong).
Anyways, thanks for the recap!
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Although I really, really don't think that Crona is going to survive. The best that we can probably hope for at this point is Crona earning a tiny sliver of redemption by having a heroic death. But it's Ohkubo and you never know, so we'll see.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)Hopefully when zhe gets on the moon there will be oceans of black blood, and needles everywhere. Even more chaos and crazyness!
And yays for Marie finally getting a badass moment again
Also, a question for you.
Do you think Soul Eater has any chance of an anime remake, cause the popularity of soul eater seems to have gone down quite a bit (maybe it's just me though).
Even if it did suddenly gain some popularity, would they even be able to just remake it from episode 30-something where they trailed off? Because the anime was pretty faithful beforehand.
Thanks for the recap, it was awesome as always :D
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As far as whether there's any chance of a Soul Eater anime remake, I have no idea. And to be honest, I kind of don't care. I'm one of those fans who really liked the anime adaptation that we got, YES including the ending (blasphemy, I know). Not that I wouldn't love to see a new anime version if one were to be created, but at the same time, it's not something that I'm actively wishing for.
I see the argument being floated around that since FMA got an anime remake then Soul Eater is more likely to get one too. But I really don't think that's a good comparison to be making. FMA was a very, very rare example of a franchise that became wildly popular with mainstream, non-otaku audience, whereas you can't really say the same about Soul Eater. The FMA manga has sold a whopping 50 million volumes to date, but the Soul Eater manga just passed the 10 million mark last year. Soul Eater is nowhere near as popular as FMA and therefore not nearly as lucrative a property to revive. BUT on the other hand, there are plenty of other less popular and more crappy manga properties that have gotten rebooted anime adaptations or second/third/fourth seasons added on, so we'll see.
I don't think it's unlikely that we might not someday get an animated OAV or something bundled with a future volume of the manga. But again, we'll just have to wait and see.
Thanks for the recap, it was awesome as always :D
Thank you! ^__^
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-17 06:16 am (UTC)(link)I too enjoyed the original anime for what it was worth. I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing a remake, though it clearly won't be a necessity and would be more like something neat to see (hoping Bones makes it and gets an awesome staff behind it).
And thus Crona, Asura, and Noah (I guess) appear to be the only major baddies left in this series. Among other, probably more important things, I kinda have to wonder what became of Medusa's other lackeys who aren't Eruka. It's weird, but for all the things the main characters do, the characters we see less often somehow end up being almost as appealing.
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Soul Eater usually debuts near the top of the manga bestseller list on the first week that it's on the shelves, but it tends to drop down and then off the list within two or three weeks. Which is what a LOT of manga titles with Soul Eater's particular brand of mild popularity do. It's really only the "mainstream" manga titles (i.e. Shounen Jump titles or Fullmetal Alchemist during its first printing) that manage to stay within the top 5 on the bestseller list for multiple weeks in a row.
So in answer to whether that means something or not... Well, it does mean something. Manga that perform that well on the Oricon sales rankings usually get an anime adaptation. But Soul Eater already got an anime adaptation, so the question is whether it's popular enough to warrant an anime reboot. Again, my answer is: I don't know. The only example that we really have for comparison from Bones/Squeenix is Fullmetal Alchemist, and those books still sold waaaaay better than Soul Eater ever has or likely ever will.
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)I also enjoy the fact Justin finally meets his demise. :B Never liked him.
I have a feeling this might be a dumb question- nevertheless, I must ask someone. Is it impossible now to post a comment using livejournal? As of late, I'm being redirected to dreamwidth.
Well, let's see if I can reply to your comment using my livejournal login....
If you're having trouble maybe you could check out the Dreamwidth FAQ for help?
:D
(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)Also, thanks a lot for the recap, it's so funny, as always!^_^
Re: :D
Also I would love Ohkubo forever if Black Star managed to get all the way to the moon using Tsubaki's scarf mode, but somehow I suspect that he's more likely to catch a ride with Maka or Kim instead.
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Oh man, I have been waiting for this chapter all month.
I'm still craving for a raw but it will come in time.
Your recap really hit the spot and helped me regain enough sanity to stop refreshing shibusen long enough to finish my politics essay. So thank you for that. And thank you for these incredible, faithful recaps.
I think I might be one of the few people who doesn't want Soul Eater to end soon, although many people are saying it will, saying that they "see the signs".
There are still a lot of unanswered questions and I truely wouldn't mind if Soul Eater went on for five years or more...although my feelings may change. Sure, I find the monthly pace frustrating sometimes but I find that when I read Soul Eater in one go (from the beginning or any other point in the manga) I find the pace very easy to follow and natural.
I guess... I just really love this manga. And I want more of it. And I'm hoping Ohkubo really enjoys writing it. Why stop a good thing? I'd never want to read a story that was never-ending but I think that Ohkubo can yet go a long way and still end it well.
This got me thinking about SENOT. I wonder how long that series will go on for. Will it end earlier than Soul Eater or continue even when the main series is over? Hmmm.
I'd appreciate any of your thoughts. :)
Once again, thanks for the recaps.
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I have no idea if Not! will keep going after the main series ends or not.
Oh, and thank you for the lovely compliments about my recaps! ^__^
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(Anonymous) 2012-03-18 06:38 am (UTC)(link)Did the quality of the art just increase? Strange crazy spindly arm and leg imagery aside, it just seems more detailed than usual.
Do you think you'll ever see Crona the same way again now that Ohkubo is using a more pronounced thorn motif? Because say what you want (though I don't know what exactly you think about it), it looks awesome.
Now, you have no idea how much I want Kaguya to die. I don't care if she comes back seconds later, I just want Kid to actually KILL her. Perhaps the connection of the final Line of Sanzu and the awakening of Kid's full potential is nigh.
Looks like Crona, Asura, and Noah (I guess) are the only major baddies left. Which makes me wonder: what's to become of Medusa's lackeys, if you even care about what happens to them? I mean, their foremost purpose seemed to be working for Medusa, so with her out of the picture, for lack of a better judgment, they may not have anywhere left to go.
So besides them, the only other potential dangling plot threads I see are Soul's obnoxious stalker girl who caused Maka quite a bit of grief, and whether or not Angela will catch on to Mifune's death.
Last but not least, this chapter reveals that there will be a fifth power to join the battle. Who could it possibly be? The witches, perhaps? Maybe they'd form a truce with DWMA considering how the kishin was considered a threat to them way early in the story.
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I was guessing that the witches would be the fifth power, too.
...You know, you really don't need to qualify your own opinions with a side comment saying that you don't know what I think about [whatever]. Who cares what I think? If you think that the thorn motif looks awesome then say that the thorn motif looks awesome. If you're wondering about Medusa's lackeys, then wonder about Medusa's lackeys. Dude, it's your comment. Just say what you want to say.