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Soul Eater Chapter 103: HOLY FUCKING MANDIBLE-NIPPLE NAKED ANT MONSTER SHITTING SHIT FUCKSHIT!!!

We open with Tezca, which means that it's time for more painful and unnecessary exposition. God I hope this doesn't last for too many pages.

(*flips ahead*) Oh thank skateboarding Christ, it doesn't. All right, here we go!

"Thanks to the witches, we were finally able to annihilate the clown army... So our only remaining target is Kishin Asura himself..." Yes yes we know this already Tezca. Moving along.

Big Daddy orally molests some ellipses, then says, "All the seeds that I have sown..."

Excalibur then proceeds to ruin this delightfully cryptic moment by mumbling "I see. I see." And then proceeding to scatter literal seeds all over the floor of the Death Room with the twirling of his cane. Literal. Seeds. You know, Ohkubo, this shit is always stupid whenever Kuniko Ikuhara tries to pull it off, and it's not any better in your manga either. Metaphors are supposed to be metaphors for a reason. Or maybe that's not what's going on with this page at all. Oops.

"Order has produced chaos..." Excalibur declares.

"The Death Room is a mirror that reflects the order in the real world..." Big Daddy says. "It reacts quite sensitively to disorder in the world."

"In mere moments, the outside world will begin to feel his influence too..." Excalibur says.

"He has awakened."

BA-DUM.

"The Kishin."

Hell yes.

Speaking of which, it's time to check in with Sid, Mira, and the Five Stooges! (I'm counting Index as one of the five stooges because he's stupid and his plot is stupid and his face is stupid.)

"The Kishin is in here," Sid says, repeating his line from two chapters ago.

"Yes," Akane agrees, because he is such a useful character and he totally has such a useful purpose for being on this mission, in this storyline, and in this manga altogether. So very useful and necessary is he.

Suddenly--

BA-DUM.

Oh my god Sid behind you-----!!!!!

And then--

BA-DUM.

Here it comes...... Maka think-bubbles.

"Can you feel that, Akane?" Sid asks.

"Yes..."

"Ku ku!" Index laughs. "Finally, he appears..."

"It's just beyond this darkness..." Akane says.

"It's getting closer..."

"Such an intense soul wavelength..."

"Thirty meters straight ahead of us... Yes, it's definitely coming closer..."

"Twenty meters..."

"Fifteen meters..."

"Ten meters..."

"Five meters..." Akane says. "No... Three meters?! Two meters?! That can't be!! At this close range we should be able to see him already!!"

Meanwhile, on the surface of the moon! "Ma... Maka..." Kid stutters. "Is it possible that my soul perception is mistaken, or...?"

"I... I feel it too..." Maka says. "I can feel the Kishin's wavelength so close to us, but... He's not here..."

Deep within the sinuses of the moon! "What is it?! What's wrong?!" Gopher asks Sid.

"One meter..." Akane says. "Sid-sensei..."

On the surface of the moon, Maka and Kid are FREAKING OUT, while Black Star's just standing there, like, making ellipses.

"Zero..." Akane says.

Aaaaaaaaaaand it's body horror time.

"He'll take the souls of the weak-willed ones first," Excalibur says. WHY DOES HE LOOK SO ADORABLE AND CHEERFUL WHEN HE SAYS THAT.

Back on the surface of the moon, Spirit looks about ready to puke his guts out. "Harden your will and steel your mind!" Stein says. "Don't let it get to you!!"

"Ugu," Akane says, clutching at his chest. And not the moe-moe kind of ugu either.

Hey, I told y'all that it was body horror time, right?

And on the next page, indeed it is.

"My replacement arm is coming undone..." Sid gasps. "It's gushing into my mouth......!!"

Dialogue on the next page: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

On the surface of the moon, pretty much NOBODY ELSE is faring any better.

Except for the Little Demon. He's pretty excited about all of this awesome shit going down. "Insanity doesn't attack you from the outside... It comes from inside of you...!!"

So then a whole bunch of Kishin-goo bursts out of Maka's left eye

and she

then she

just smashes it back into her face like the unbelievably chill badass that she is and proceeds to get right down to business. "Courage!!" she gasps, stomping down her foot decisively. "Soul!!"

Soul pulls out his arm-piano-blade.

"SOUL MEDITATION MELODY!!"

Boom. Take that, body horror.

One sparkly POWER OF LOVE-fueled explosion later, everybody is back to normal. Hooray!

"This can only give us temporary protection," Maka says as a few leftover sparkly note-shaped bursts of light float around her. She glares up at the nostrils of the moon's nose.

Inside the moon's nose, Sid and the Five Stooges are back to normal, too. Except that Sid suddenly realizes that Kishin Asura is now standing

RIGHT THE FUCK IN FRONT OF HIM HOLY FUCKSHIT

"Ki... Kishin!!" Sid gasps, managing to jump backwards, swipe with his stabby knife, and throw a flare at the Kishin all at the same time. Impressive.

And of course Asura is still standing there, totally unharmed, and showing absolutely no sign of reacting to this attack.

"Is this... Is this also a hallucination...?!"

Sid doesn't have time to test out his theory, though, because all of a sudden Noah has a rocket-powered magical book strapped to his ass and he is determined to prove that there is a point to him being in this manga no matter fucking what. "SO YOU'RE THE KISHIN!! I CAME ALL THE WAY TO THE GODDAMN MOON TO GET MY HANDS ON YOU!!"

Oh my god. These next three panels. These next three panels.

Noah is now minus one monster and minus one eyeball as well, but he's still grinning like a maniac. "To create such a shockwave with just one swing of your arm! You're just makin' me want you more and more, Asura!!"

"NOAH-SAMA!!" Gopher screams.

"Don't say my name with such a pathetic crybaby voice!" Noah says, summoning what has got to me the most grotesque call-out to Monotone Princess that Ohkubo could possibly have conceived of. And it looks AWESOME. Mandible-nipples and all.

"It's pointless!" Sid says, watching Noah do his whole suicidal attack-the-Kishin schtick. "He doesn't hold a candle to the Kishin's power level."

"It's NOT POINTLESS!!" Gopher screams at Sid's face, attempting to defend Noah-sama's honor.

"ATTACK ANT!!"

Asura seems unimpressed.

"No matter what you may throw at us, this book is still the treasure chest holding all the world's knowledge!" Index dramatically declares. "Knowledge can never die!! And if we use this BREW, then--!"

Then what?

"To know all knowledge at once is, as you can see, quite the power-up!!"

As we can see what?

"AAAAAAAAAAAH"

Oh, you mean that. That's what will happen.

"And then! AND THEN!" Oh yaaaaaay it's the return of bonkers-flavored Index! I was wondering when Index would go off his rocker again. (If he even has a butt to sit on a rocking chair with in the first place, I mean.) "Now the BREW will show its true abilities!! The knowing of all knowledge at once - in practical application - is the birth of a wholly new knowledge!!"

THAT'S what you'd call what's happening in the next panel?! Really, Index?!

"Noah-sama!!" Gopher gasps.

"THE ULTIMATE UNION!! TRUE BREW DISTILLATION!!"

(A pun which translates surprisingly well from Japanese into English, for once.)

Oh my zombie-teddy-bear-loving God, Gopher's face. His face. "Noah-sama's tense shoulders are sharper than they've ever been before!!"

So Noah then proceeds to whale on the Kishin for two straight pages, and holy shit, what the everloving fuck, Asura is TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY CALM throughout all of this. That's right, kids: Kishin Asura is officially the chillest motherfucker on the moon right now, and just waitaminute what the fuck isn't this supposed to be the guy who's like AFRAID OF FUCKING EVERYTHING or something?!

"DON'T EVEN TRY TA STRUGGLE!" Noah shouts, lifting Asura by his throat. Um, considering how calm Asura is about all of this, I really don't think Noah even needed to bother saying that. But whatever, right now Noah is a crazy dude who just got fused with a gigantic naked ant-lady, I think we can let him get away with all of the unnecessary spouting-lines-of-dubious-badassery that he wants. He's earned it.

"A HA HA! THIS IS GREAT!!" Noah screams. "NOW I'M GONNA FINALLY MAKE YOU MINE!"

"To defeat the Kishin himself so easily..." Sid says. "So this is the power of the BREW..."

"This certainly is an unexpected development," Akane says.

NO IT'S NOT.

"Yes, yes!" Index encourages Noah. "Now become one with him! Make the Kishin and the BREW become one!! What a wonderful feeling this new knowledge will be! What a wonderful expression of such a wonderful feeling as you take your prey!!"

And then finally, Asura speaks.

"Why do you still peck at me... The one radiating insanity... Is not you... Insanity is underneath... It's not here..."

"What are you TALKING ABOUT?!" Noah shouts. "SHUT UP!!"

"It's inside... Underneath... Underneath the Order that created me..."

Oh hey look another erudite reference to ontological pluralism I mean wait what HOLY FUCKING MANDIBLE-NIPPLE NAKED ANT MONSTER SHITTING SHIT FUCKSHIT NOAH LOOK BEHIND YOU

"Insane Blood," Crona says, because apparently the copious amounts of it dripping from Crona's mouth and eyes and nose aren't explanatory enough on their own.

"So you're the one who wants to succeed me," Asura says, calmly looking up at Crona. "If, that is, you can..."

TO BE CONTINUED ON NOVEMBER 12TH!

Also, Soul Eater volume 23 will be on sale in December. Just in time for Christmas!

ETA: This month's Gangan Mobile emoji bonus is Justin's face!

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This chapter was AWESOME! Thank you very much for the translation nenena. Its seems Ōkubo is bring more of the avant garde elements lately those ant things made me think of salvador dali's work. And Crona was AWESOME!

Edited 2012-10-11 22:31 (UTC)

Yes yes yes, I loved how awesome the ant-monster looked (and I think that the shoutout to Dali might have been deliberate, too - boobs and all.)

Thanks for the recap! I always enjoy reading your recap even though I usually read the raws myself before.
Quick comment about the Excalibur scene: I think the point of the scene was not that Excalibur was flinging literal seeds around, but that Excalibur flicked something(looked like a pebble to me) and it fell back to the ground in abrupt, physics-defying way. So it's a demonstration of 'rules' in Death Room being disturbed as a result of madness in the world.

Oops, I think you're right. Reviewing that page I still don't see anything particularly physics-defying about what the pebble-thing does (it flies in an arc, hits the ground, bounces, and hits the ground again, doesn't it? which is weird how?) but that interpretation would make a lot more sense. I thought it was weird that Ohkubo would go for the literal-metaphor thing, since that's not his style at all, so I guess the Occam's razor explanation is that he didn't and I just misinterpreted the artwork.

Well it acts normally until the last panel. In the last panel it seemed to 'bounce' before it hits the ground. It's a bit hard to catch because the turn might look like it's bouncing off the ground, but judging from the little details (like when it's hitting the ground last time), it looks more like a mid-air course change.
I also thought it bounced off normally at first, but then went over the panel second time when Death mentioned something about Death room reflecting the madness in the world.

That is definitely the most alarming post title ever to pop up on my reading list. o_o

Well, it was a very alarming chapter. ;)

I haven't been keeping up (I forgot, whoops), but where can I see a picture of Soul's new weapon arm? It sounds like it's changed since I last read.

Maka, why so badass, though? Wow. And man, how long have we been waiting now for something to happen with Crona? Something besides everyone being surprised, I mean. :9

Soul's "new" weapon arm hasn't changed since it first appeared in chapter 83, but you can find pics of it pretty easily if you google "Soul Eater 103." Or "Soul Eater 101" for that matter, since it showed up there, too.

Aaah, perfect! Thanks a lot.

And pfff, it's kind of doofy-looking. I kinda like it.

All I could say while reading this chapter was "FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK"
Literally.
Title of the recap is perfect too!

No but seriously, fuck people who say Soul Eater is going down hill, this is fucking awesome!!

Well, I am often one of those people (because seriously, the majority of the past year of Soul Eater has been pretty dreadful, what with the dragged-out crap that was the clown battle and the shit that was chapter 98 and all). But agreed completely, this chapter is indeed fucking awesome!!

You know, I do hope that you start your next chapter recap with: "We start off this chapter with Noah being torn in to bits by Asura and Crona, putting an end to his disappointing plot once and for all"

I also hope Gopher survives this ordeal, or at least gets one of the most hilarious deaths in manga history.

Aside from that, Asura and Crona are bad-ass, I am happy.

Thanks for the recap btw :D

You know, I do hope that you start your next chapter recap with: "We start off this chapter with Noah being torn in to bits by Asura and Crona, putting an end to his disappointing plot once and for all"

'Twould be glorious if I could!

I just love these recaps...they make me happy while waiting for pictures

And DAMN I NEED IMAGES for this one. While Maka being incredibly badass and calmly taking care of business like it's just another friday, Akane doing THE FINAL COUNTDOWN! and the fact that the guy who was so afraid and paranoid he ATE HIS OWN PARTNER is now sitting there unfazed and unworried about EVERYTHING, I still need to see the images for this one. And I am a horrible person because I actually want to see Crona, who seems to be vomiting blood?

Well, thanks for the recap! (an extra thanks because I realized I failed and to thank you last time ^_^UU)

You're welcome! :)

Also, just google "Soul Eater 103" to find the raw scans!

Ahh yes this is the Soul Eater I missed. A horror story in the disguise of a shonen.

I'm glad Asura finally spoke too. It really surprised me how calm he was the entire ordeal. I mean, this is the guy who screamed like a girl when he saw Eruka and then later screamed about his lack of clothing. Maybe spending 80+ chapters on the moon made him apathetic.

Thanks for the recap and translation!

You're welcome!

And thank you for reminding me of how much I love that moment when Asura just started screaming in Eruka's face.

Flipping out because I KNEW that Crona's going to be Kishin #2. Well, I think most people guessed it already too, but still.
Thank you for the wonderful re-cap! These are the highlights of my month!
And also, I love that we get to see our characters being badasses against opponents who AREN'T those damn clowns anymore, thank god for that. I can't wait for next month!

Flipping out because I KNEW that Crona's going to be Kishin #2. Well, I think most people guessed it already too, but still.

Yeah, uh, I think that was pretty firmly established way back in chapter 4. Not to knock your precognitive abilities or anything.

Oh, and thank you for the lovely compliments about my recaps!

Thank you for the wonderful recap, as always!
Also, is "Insane Blood" the same thing as "Mad Blood" from (I think it was) Chapter 83-84? 'Cause, if it is... Those guys are SCREWED...

You're welcome, and yes, it is!

*Sigh

im sure you get this question a bit but i was wondering if you're still doing Soul eater Not recaps, and where.

Awesome recap this week BTW

Nope, I'm not recapping Not! anymore, since there's no point to doing so when the official English translation is now available on the same day that each new chapter is published in Japan.

Thanks for the reply. I thought that Soul eater and Soul eater Not were both translated by the same company.

They are. They're both translated by Yen Press.

But Soul Eater doesnt get translated on the same day its released?

No. That's a special right that Square Enix only sold them for Not!

Currently, Yen Press has the right to distribute Soul Eater in print format, and Soul Eater Not! in both digital and print format. Square Enix won't give YP digital rights to Soul Eater. Or rather, scratch that - Yen Press announced juuuuust yesterday at NYCC that they finally acquired digital rights to Soul Eater from Squeenix. That probably doesn't mean that they're going to do a same-day release with SE, though, since they're still 4 years behind on the translation for SE proper. They're catching up fast, though - I mean, they're putting out 5 new volumes of SE this year, compared to only 2 in Japan, so it's only a matter of time before they catch up to the Japanese chapters. At that point we may finally see a same-day digital release for both SE and Not. Who knows.

Yey :D Cant wait for the next chapter
Want to see Crona get kishin <3

Me too!

I get this horrible feeling Noah isn't going to die until he lives out every chapter in the book of Eibon, which would mean he's only on the second of 9 possible lives, meaning potentially 7 more chapters of him eating up space. And when he finally goes down the Index is going to suddenly become relevant and pull a Guilty Spark on everyone.

I still feel miffed that Oikubo dedicated so many chapters to Asuras clown mooks yet killed off Justin so quickly.

I don't think Justin was killed of "quickly" at all, but YMMV.

Hi nenena~

I really like your translation. Thanks for this! Can I use it in my personal project in releasing this chapter? With due credit of course! Please agree~ Please let me~ *crying*

It would help if you told me who you are first. At least a pseud or something.

Oh, who am I kidding, the answer is no. I've answered this question many times before. Let me repeat: I don't support scanslations, I don't even write my translations in a style that works in scanslations (and if you think my translations *would* work when edited straight into the manga word bubbles then, to be bluntly honest, that speaks rather poorly for your skills as an editor and scanslator). So the answer is still, for the umpteenth time, no.

I appreciate that you offered to give me credit for my work, which is leagues better than shitty translation-thieves like Bleachh do. But I'm sorry, the answer is still no.

Edited (Typo) 2012-10-27 01:29 (UTC)

Dear nenena,

I have been following your chapter recaps for a while now, and I really have to say that, even when I look at the raw pages and know what's going to happen, your summaries are still fresh and entertaining. They're hilarious, and leave me laughing out loud time after time. Your sarcasm and wit is superb and executed in just the right quantities to keep it from becoming trite.
On another note, I hate how nonchalant Asura is being during this chapter. He should be going buck wild on everybody and just smacking them down with the power we all know he has. And yet...nothing. *sigh*
But anyway, keep it up! : D

Love, a fan.

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