![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Soul Eater Chapter 105: Tiny feet candycane pie you're the apple of my eye.
I dedicate this recap's opening song to Black Star.
And to Ohkubo.
Okay, so, we'll be getting the tiny feet in a moment. First I would like to point out that this chapter opens with a two-page color spread of Crona standing in front of some rocket ships, an assortment of gigantic pencils, a hideously ugly gigantic rabbit wearing a facial expression that clearly betrays its state of more-than-half-bakedness, and a strange worm creature that also happens to be chowing down on Crona's ass.
I don't think that Ohkubo has delivered an illustration this strange since the time he drew that Gangan cover of Maka masturbating with the Little Oni's severed head while she flashed sidebutt Gangan readers everywhere. And the strangest thing about that illustration was that it was apparently inspired by the 2010 World Cup.
Yes, that's right. Ohkubo said to himself "I'm gonna do a soccer-inspired illustration of the main character in my shounen manga!" and he ended up creating THAT.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't even WANT to know what Ohkubo was trying to do when he ended up creating this month's illustration of Crona with the butt-eating worm and the drunk-looking rabbit and the giant pencils and the rocket ships. Because I bet it actually started out as a perfectly innocent bit of artistic inspiration, something along the lines of "hmmm, I guess I'll draw an illustration of Crona with roses because roses are kind of Crona's thing right now," and then, you know, OHKUBO HAPPENED, and we ended up with...
...Well, at least there are roses in the background? You can kind of see them in the background there, behind the rocket ships. If you squint.
Oh, Ohkubo. This is why we love you.
So we open the month's chapter right where we left off, with Maka and Black Star about to face off against Crona. Who is not okay.
Maka charges straight toward Crona. "CRONA!!"
Clang. "YOU MORON!! How could you swallow the kishin like that!!"
Crona is not okay. "That's right. With the power of the kishin's madness, I will break the world!!" Then Crona notices that Maka's foot is, you know, on Crona's neck. "?!"
"YOU IDIOT!!"
Maka's knee in Crona's face.
"DUMBASS!!"
Maka's foot in Crona's face.
"A DUMBASS LIKE YOU!! SHOULD JUST DIE!!"
Crona's face in the ground.
"Do you think this is really just trying to beat the sense back into Crona?" Soul asks. I guess this is his way of telling Maka that she's going too far.
But actually, no, Maka isn't nearly going far enough.
Crona's sword in Maka's face.
"You're the stupid one, Maka!! Trying to fight close combat with such a stupidly big scythe."
Crona has a point.
"Can you avoid all three of my blades like that?"
No, but Black Star sure as hell can help.
Black Star's foot in Crona's stomach.
Jesus Christ I'm bored with this boring fight. Thank God my phone is ringing right now. brb
Goddamit now I have to get back to recapping this boring shit.
Yaaaaaaawn okay why does everybody have such tiny feet I mean seriously what is this shit. Remember when Ohkubo used to draw those stylish oversized feet on all his characters and how that actually looked really cool and worked really well in terms of creating dynamic action scenes in the unabashedly cartoonish Soul Eater universe?
Yeah. I miss that.
Especially since these action scenes are boring, the characters look stiff, the tiny feet are constantly distracting, and Crona's facial expressions are way more goofy than they are creepy.
Anyway dialogue I guess.
"If you'd been alone I would've gotten you," Crona says.
"That's right," Maka says. "I'm not alone. Because alone I'm weak. And Crona, you're not alone either!!"
"I don't need anybody else anymore," Crona says.
Crona is very, very not okay.
"Because I'm not WEAK LIKE YOU!!"
Argh this dialogue is retreading the same thematic ground that, oh, every other conflict in Soul Eater EVER has covered with more depth, more complexity, and more nuance than this shit we're getting here. Reading this dialogue is like listening to a half-awake high school student summarizing all of the thematic complexity of Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent with "and then they all learned that greed was bad, the end." Not that I'm comparing Ohkubo to Steinbeck or anything. But I *am* comparing Ohkubo to that high school student, who's taking 104+ chapters of a sprawling fantasy epic with a huge cast of characters and multiple character arcs that all boil down to being all about how accepting others is the same as overcoming insanity and rejecting others is the same as succumbing to insanity, a dual-sided theme that is approached from multiple angles and with various subplots and layered on top of several complimentary themes at the same time throughout the entire series, all of which is building up to an epic confrontation between Maka representing the acceptance of others and Crona representing rejecting others out of fear, and then we end up with...
Maka screaming trite dialogue like "You're not alone!" at Crona while Crona yells back "Yes I am!" and the fight is boring boring boring and my god after over 100 chapters of dealing with this same thematic material you'd think we'd be BEYOND yelling "You're not alone!" "Yes I am!" "No you're not!" "Yes I am!" during the Big Bad Final Confrontation, yes?!
No. Of course we're not.
(ETA: For the record, I'm not complaining about the fact that Maka and Crona's fight here is addressing the same themes that have been addressed before in the series. This is Maka and Crona's big fight: the thematic message SHOULD be all about accepting others vs. rejecting others. It's just that the dialogue conveys this in a much more boring and simplistic way than the dialogue in ANY OTHER FIGHT in which Ohkubo has addressed this theme before. Just compare the dialogue in this fight to the dialogue from the second time that Maka fought Crona... Yeah. There's no comparison. The latter is funny and subtle and heartwarming and intense, the former is just two characters screaming trite shounen manga catchphrases at each other.)
So anyway Black Star blocks Crona's big attack, which he manages to do by inelegantly swinging Tsubaki like a baseball bat. "For somebody as great as me to be reduced to such brute attacks..." Black Star gasps.
So Maka fights Crona some more.
Holy shit I cannot believe how boring these action scenes are. Whatever happened to the old school Ohkubo who could draw such kickass action scenes that--
oh shit phone's ringing again.
Fuck back to this shit again.
So anywhoo Crona nearly knocks Maka off the cliff that is formed by the moon's mouth and then tries to finish Maka off with a "BLOODY LANCE!!"
Fortunately Black Star and Tsubaki interfere again.
NGL, one of the highlights of this chapter is definitely that awesome panel of Black Star redirecting the Bloody Lance toward Crona. He looks like he's giving it a big hug!
Black Star lands next to Maka. "You okay? Hang in there!"
"Thanks. You saved me..."goddamit look at how fucking tiny her feet are in this panel "Just like the way that you saved me the first time that we fought Free. Now that I think about it, Black Star, you're always saving me, aren't you?" Maka grins at him. "Is it 'cause you've got a crush on me?"
"Dwuh?!" Black Star says. "You've got the wrong idea! It's because you always need saving, that's all!"
Maka turns away from him, still grinning. "I have to help Crona feel this same feeling of gratitude, too."
"No, give it back to me," Black Star says. lmao his face.
So now Crona's doing something and Soul says "Hey, this is no time to be joking around!"
Wow Crona's doing something all right.
Crona is very, very, very not okay.
"No freakin' way!" Black Star says.
Crona is very, very, VERY not okay.
'Kay so I guess Maka and Black Star just got crushed to death. I supposed I should, uh, care? But I'm bored and without the phone to distract me I guess I'll go make pie or something. I dunno. Anything to give myself a break from this tedious recap.
Fuck you guys I just made the most fucking awesome candycane pie with like chocolate crust and shit it's fucking awesome.
So! Armed with pie and a QUADRUPLE ESPRESSO I now feel sufficiently be-sugared and be-caffinated to be able to plow through the rest of this chapter without falling asleep.
Anywhoo, down on the surface of the Earth!
"One of the moon's teeth just popped out..." Stein observes. lmao the poor moon's face. "What in the world is going on up there...?"
Meanwhile, the Troika see the tooth-popping action too. "Is that a baby tooth?" Patti asks.
"If it's not," Liz says, "then the moon's gonna have to get a false crown."
"The only thing that means for certain is that we have to get to the moon right away!!" Kid says.
I need another piece of pie.
Meanwhile, back on the moon! Crona is making an excellent squinty-face.
And oh look Our Heroes haven't been crushed to death after all. Because Black Star is somehow able to hold up the moon's fallen tooth ALL BY HIMSELF.
"Tsubaki..." Black Star grunts. "In Japan, what do you guys do when you lose one of your baby teeth?"
"Eh....?" Tsubaki says. "You're supposed to throw it away where nobody will ever see it again, but..."
"Is that... SO!!"
And Black Star tosses the offending tooth off the moon.
"I... I was fighting alongside such monsters..." Maka gasps.
"A little late to be losing your nerve now, isn't it?" Soul teases her.
"Well," Maka says, standing up and dusting off her black coat, "I guess I always knew that from the beginning anyway." She grins. "I guess that's why we've got no reason to be afraid of Crona."
"Stop it..." Crona says.
Crona is very, very, VERY, VERY not okay.
"DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!!"
"ROSE THORNS STORM!!"
And then, after Crona finally manages to successfully strike Maka and Black Star with said thorns: "My thorns are poison," Crona says. "My thorns are infected with my feelings. My insanity makes it so that the cogs won't mesh---..."
And then Maka and Black Star drop their weapons.
"What's wrong?" Tsubaki asks.
"What's going on?!" Soul chimes in.
"This is...!!" Maka gasps. "It's making our soul resonance go crazy?!"
"When the moon's missing a tooth and the teeth of the gears won't mesh, you're crazy to think that souls can match up too," Crona says. Muppet mouth. Oh fuck me with a spoon. No wait I'm eating delicious pie with this spoon. Mmmm, pie. "The truth is that everyone's always like this!! It's crazy to try to match up the gears!! YES!! Now it begins - the world where nothing matches up!!"
Yeah but Soul's not going to take that lying down. "I can still do something with my piano!"
No he can't.
One scythe-snatch later: "Dammit--!" Maka gasps.
"Black Star!!" Tsubaki shouts.
"Shit!!" Soul feels the need to add.
"HA HA HA" Crona laughs oh jeegus Ohkubo what are you doing with that face fuck I need more pie.
That face. I can't. Pie. I need more pie.
Okay so Soul is still hitting the keys of his piano and it's still not working. "What the!! It won't make any sound!!"
"There's no need for anyone to interfere with anyone else anymore," Crona says.
"Soul!!" Maka shouts. Then she ponders aloud, "How am I supposed to fight Crona without Soul...?"
"Leave this to me," Black Star says. "I can still fight even without a weapon!"
"I'M SO RELIEVED!!" Crona screams. Jeegus.
Meanwhile, Spirit! "This cliff sure is grueling for a handsome thirtysomething," he gasps. "I can't believe they left me behind like this..."
lmao omfg. That's right, I forgot. They were ALL at the bottom of the moon-mouth-cliff at the start of this chapter, but then I guess Black Star and Maka just SUPER-JUMPED up to Crona's location while leaving poor Spirit behind to climb up the moon's chin all by his lonesome.
Aaaaaaand that's it for this month's chapter! Be sure to check back tomorrow night for more high-res scans and awesome digital downloads from this month's big Soul Eater blowout that's happening both in Gangan magazine and on the Gangan website. Until then, however, I leave you with the second official insert song of this month's recap, this time dedicated not to Black Star, but to Crona, in honor of that fabulous opening color illustration:
ETA the first: Insert pre-emptive "fuck you" to Bleachh here. Dude, don't you get tired of doing this every month?
ETA the second: Z-Raid wrote an excellent post explaining the difference between boring action scenes versus dynamic action scenes, and another excellent post about composition in fight scenes. Both of which articulate exactly WHY this chapter of Soul Eater is so painfully boring (in terms of the fight scene visuals) much better than I could have.
ETA the third: This month's color scans are up!
And I think that's it for this month!
And to Ohkubo.
Okay, so, we'll be getting the tiny feet in a moment. First I would like to point out that this chapter opens with a two-page color spread of Crona standing in front of some rocket ships, an assortment of gigantic pencils, a hideously ugly gigantic rabbit wearing a facial expression that clearly betrays its state of more-than-half-bakedness, and a strange worm creature that also happens to be chowing down on Crona's ass.
I don't think that Ohkubo has delivered an illustration this strange since the time he drew that Gangan cover of Maka masturbating with the Little Oni's severed head while she flashed sidebutt Gangan readers everywhere. And the strangest thing about that illustration was that it was apparently inspired by the 2010 World Cup.
Yes, that's right. Ohkubo said to himself "I'm gonna do a soccer-inspired illustration of the main character in my shounen manga!" and he ended up creating THAT.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't even WANT to know what Ohkubo was trying to do when he ended up creating this month's illustration of Crona with the butt-eating worm and the drunk-looking rabbit and the giant pencils and the rocket ships. Because I bet it actually started out as a perfectly innocent bit of artistic inspiration, something along the lines of "hmmm, I guess I'll draw an illustration of Crona with roses because roses are kind of Crona's thing right now," and then, you know, OHKUBO HAPPENED, and we ended up with...
...Well, at least there are roses in the background? You can kind of see them in the background there, behind the rocket ships. If you squint.
Oh, Ohkubo. This is why we love you.
So we open the month's chapter right where we left off, with Maka and Black Star about to face off against Crona. Who is not okay.
Maka charges straight toward Crona. "CRONA!!"
Clang. "YOU MORON!! How could you swallow the kishin like that!!"
Crona is not okay. "That's right. With the power of the kishin's madness, I will break the world!!" Then Crona notices that Maka's foot is, you know, on Crona's neck. "?!"
"YOU IDIOT!!"
Maka's knee in Crona's face.
"DUMBASS!!"
Maka's foot in Crona's face.
"A DUMBASS LIKE YOU!! SHOULD JUST DIE!!"
Crona's face in the ground.
"Do you think this is really just trying to beat the sense back into Crona?" Soul asks. I guess this is his way of telling Maka that she's going too far.
But actually, no, Maka isn't nearly going far enough.
Crona's sword in Maka's face.
"You're the stupid one, Maka!! Trying to fight close combat with such a stupidly big scythe."
Crona has a point.
"Can you avoid all three of my blades like that?"
No, but Black Star sure as hell can help.
Black Star's foot in Crona's stomach.
Jesus Christ I'm bored with this boring fight. Thank God my phone is ringing right now. brb
Goddamit now I have to get back to recapping this boring shit.
Yaaaaaaawn okay why does everybody have such tiny feet I mean seriously what is this shit. Remember when Ohkubo used to draw those stylish oversized feet on all his characters and how that actually looked really cool and worked really well in terms of creating dynamic action scenes in the unabashedly cartoonish Soul Eater universe?
Yeah. I miss that.
Especially since these action scenes are boring, the characters look stiff, the tiny feet are constantly distracting, and Crona's facial expressions are way more goofy than they are creepy.
Anyway dialogue I guess.
"If you'd been alone I would've gotten you," Crona says.
"That's right," Maka says. "I'm not alone. Because alone I'm weak. And Crona, you're not alone either!!"
"I don't need anybody else anymore," Crona says.
Crona is very, very not okay.
"Because I'm not WEAK LIKE YOU!!"
Argh this dialogue is retreading the same thematic ground that, oh, every other conflict in Soul Eater EVER has covered with more depth, more complexity, and more nuance than this shit we're getting here. Reading this dialogue is like listening to a half-awake high school student summarizing all of the thematic complexity of Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent with "and then they all learned that greed was bad, the end." Not that I'm comparing Ohkubo to Steinbeck or anything. But I *am* comparing Ohkubo to that high school student, who's taking 104+ chapters of a sprawling fantasy epic with a huge cast of characters and multiple character arcs that all boil down to being all about how accepting others is the same as overcoming insanity and rejecting others is the same as succumbing to insanity, a dual-sided theme that is approached from multiple angles and with various subplots and layered on top of several complimentary themes at the same time throughout the entire series, all of which is building up to an epic confrontation between Maka representing the acceptance of others and Crona representing rejecting others out of fear, and then we end up with...
Maka screaming trite dialogue like "You're not alone!" at Crona while Crona yells back "Yes I am!" and the fight is boring boring boring and my god after over 100 chapters of dealing with this same thematic material you'd think we'd be BEYOND yelling "You're not alone!" "Yes I am!" "No you're not!" "Yes I am!" during the Big Bad Final Confrontation, yes?!
No. Of course we're not.
(ETA: For the record, I'm not complaining about the fact that Maka and Crona's fight here is addressing the same themes that have been addressed before in the series. This is Maka and Crona's big fight: the thematic message SHOULD be all about accepting others vs. rejecting others. It's just that the dialogue conveys this in a much more boring and simplistic way than the dialogue in ANY OTHER FIGHT in which Ohkubo has addressed this theme before. Just compare the dialogue in this fight to the dialogue from the second time that Maka fought Crona... Yeah. There's no comparison. The latter is funny and subtle and heartwarming and intense, the former is just two characters screaming trite shounen manga catchphrases at each other.)
So anyway Black Star blocks Crona's big attack, which he manages to do by inelegantly swinging Tsubaki like a baseball bat. "For somebody as great as me to be reduced to such brute attacks..." Black Star gasps.
So Maka fights Crona some more.
Holy shit I cannot believe how boring these action scenes are. Whatever happened to the old school Ohkubo who could draw such kickass action scenes that--
oh shit phone's ringing again.
Fuck back to this shit again.
So anywhoo Crona nearly knocks Maka off the cliff that is formed by the moon's mouth and then tries to finish Maka off with a "BLOODY LANCE!!"
Fortunately Black Star and Tsubaki interfere again.
NGL, one of the highlights of this chapter is definitely that awesome panel of Black Star redirecting the Bloody Lance toward Crona. He looks like he's giving it a big hug!
Black Star lands next to Maka. "You okay? Hang in there!"
"Thanks. You saved me..."
"Dwuh?!" Black Star says. "You've got the wrong idea! It's because you always need saving, that's all!"
Maka turns away from him, still grinning. "I have to help Crona feel this same feeling of gratitude, too."
"No, give it back to me," Black Star says. lmao his face.
So now Crona's doing something and Soul says "Hey, this is no time to be joking around!"
Wow Crona's doing something all right.
Crona is very, very, very not okay.
"No freakin' way!" Black Star says.
Crona is very, very, VERY not okay.
'Kay so I guess Maka and Black Star just got crushed to death. I supposed I should, uh, care? But I'm bored and without the phone to distract me I guess I'll go make pie or something. I dunno. Anything to give myself a break from this tedious recap.
Fuck you guys I just made the most fucking awesome candycane pie with like chocolate crust and shit it's fucking awesome.
So! Armed with pie and a QUADRUPLE ESPRESSO I now feel sufficiently be-sugared and be-caffinated to be able to plow through the rest of this chapter without falling asleep.
Anywhoo, down on the surface of the Earth!
"One of the moon's teeth just popped out..." Stein observes. lmao the poor moon's face. "What in the world is going on up there...?"
Meanwhile, the Troika see the tooth-popping action too. "Is that a baby tooth?" Patti asks.
"If it's not," Liz says, "then the moon's gonna have to get a false crown."
"The only thing that means for certain is that we have to get to the moon right away!!" Kid says.
I need another piece of pie.
Meanwhile, back on the moon! Crona is making an excellent squinty-face.
And oh look Our Heroes haven't been crushed to death after all. Because Black Star is somehow able to hold up the moon's fallen tooth ALL BY HIMSELF.
"Tsubaki..." Black Star grunts. "In Japan, what do you guys do when you lose one of your baby teeth?"
"Eh....?" Tsubaki says. "You're supposed to throw it away where nobody will ever see it again, but..."
"Is that... SO!!"
And Black Star tosses the offending tooth off the moon.
"I... I was fighting alongside such monsters..." Maka gasps.
"A little late to be losing your nerve now, isn't it?" Soul teases her.
"Well," Maka says, standing up and dusting off her black coat, "I guess I always knew that from the beginning anyway." She grins. "I guess that's why we've got no reason to be afraid of Crona."
"Stop it..." Crona says.
Crona is very, very, VERY, VERY not okay.
"DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!!"
"ROSE THORNS STORM!!"
And then, after Crona finally manages to successfully strike Maka and Black Star with said thorns: "My thorns are poison," Crona says. "My thorns are infected with my feelings. My insanity makes it so that the cogs won't mesh---..."
And then Maka and Black Star drop their weapons.
"What's wrong?" Tsubaki asks.
"What's going on?!" Soul chimes in.
"This is...!!" Maka gasps. "It's making our soul resonance go crazy?!"
"When the moon's missing a tooth and the teeth of the gears won't mesh, you're crazy to think that souls can match up too," Crona says. Muppet mouth. Oh fuck me with a spoon. No wait I'm eating delicious pie with this spoon. Mmmm, pie. "The truth is that everyone's always like this!! It's crazy to try to match up the gears!! YES!! Now it begins - the world where nothing matches up!!"
Yeah but Soul's not going to take that lying down. "I can still do something with my piano!"
No he can't.
One scythe-snatch later: "Dammit--!" Maka gasps.
"Black Star!!" Tsubaki shouts.
"Shit!!" Soul feels the need to add.
"HA HA HA" Crona laughs oh jeegus Ohkubo what are you doing with that face fuck I need more pie.
That face. I can't. Pie. I need more pie.
Okay so Soul is still hitting the keys of his piano and it's still not working. "What the!! It won't make any sound!!"
"There's no need for anyone to interfere with anyone else anymore," Crona says.
"Soul!!" Maka shouts. Then she ponders aloud, "How am I supposed to fight Crona without Soul...?"
"Leave this to me," Black Star says. "I can still fight even without a weapon!"
"I'M SO RELIEVED!!" Crona screams. Jeegus.
Meanwhile, Spirit! "This cliff sure is grueling for a handsome thirtysomething," he gasps. "I can't believe they left me behind like this..."
lmao omfg. That's right, I forgot. They were ALL at the bottom of the moon-mouth-cliff at the start of this chapter, but then I guess Black Star and Maka just SUPER-JUMPED up to Crona's location while leaving poor Spirit behind to climb up the moon's chin all by his lonesome.
Aaaaaaand that's it for this month's chapter! Be sure to check back tomorrow night for more high-res scans and awesome digital downloads from this month's big Soul Eater blowout that's happening both in Gangan magazine and on the Gangan website. Until then, however, I leave you with the second official insert song of this month's recap, this time dedicated not to Black Star, but to Crona, in honor of that fabulous opening color illustration:
ETA the first: Insert pre-emptive "fuck you" to Bleachh here. Dude, don't you get tired of doing this every month?
ETA the second: Z-Raid wrote an excellent post explaining the difference between boring action scenes versus dynamic action scenes, and another excellent post about composition in fight scenes. Both of which articulate exactly WHY this chapter of Soul Eater is so painfully boring (in terms of the fight scene visuals) much better than I could have.
ETA the third: This month's color scans are up!
Gangan cover: cover scan | textless digital version | high-res digital wallpaper | awesome anatomy correction by tribalpunk
Color pages: high-res scans
Bonus poster: high-res scan | color-corrected version by z-raid
Manga volume 23 cover: cover scan | magazine advertisements
Gangan mobile bonus emoji: right here!
And I think that's it for this month!
no subject
Maka I can't even get over how dumb you're being.
Why are you so shocked that Black*Star's monstrously strong or that Black*Star is helping you, HE'S YOUR FRIEND. TIME AND PLACE, MAKA, JUST LIKE LAST CHAPTER.
Oh god is there a point to this that I'm missing or is this chapter really that boring.
I kind of had a thought that maybe this would lead up to Maka using Papa
whenever he gets up therebut no considering Ohkubo it will probably be something even more trite than that.no subject
no subject
I think I'm just running under the assumption at this point that everyone in-universe knows that Black*Star is the miraculous second coming or something.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-11 04:50 am (UTC)(link)... What.
While looking at the raws, I was pretty bored with what I saw but I hoped that the plot of it would be interesting. After reading this recap, I am disappointed. It kind of feels like Ohkubo is rapildy losing interest in the series hence the lazily rehashed thematic messages, lackluster fight scenes, and boring dialogue
and microsized feet.On the plus side, Crona's hilariously ridiculous face brought much entertainment. Crona channeling Kermit the Frog is one fo the funniest things I've ever seen in this series.
Thank you for the recap and translation!
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-11 07:37 am (UTC)(link)no subject
I actually thought there would be SOME plot in this chapter; thanks to my awesome spatial processing and the awkwardness of Kid's hair I thought his Sanzu lines went all the way across.
But, no.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-11 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)The videos are perfect and hilarious. Gosh, those baby feet deserve a video alright.
I think this recap was better than the chapter itself!
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-11 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)Well i hope the next Chapter will be better and atleast have SOME plot :P
no subject
Am I the only one who gets annoyed that Maka is almost always the dumb, weak one that usually fails like hell and has to be rescued or redirected by the boys? Good thing Soul's around to keep on eye on her or she'd probably wander around slack-jawed with her undies on backwards.
About the only time I can remember her actually kicking ass on her own was during her first battle with Crona. Wait...even then Soul had to pull her out of the madness because, unlike him, she couldn't control it by her own little self. Yuck.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-12 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)By the way, would you mind if I point out some places where I think you translated a bit incorrectly?
Black star's response to Maka asking if he likes her:
"Isn't that kinda a childish way of lookin' at it?" -> "It's just that you're a small one (who needs help a lot)."
Black star throwing the moon tooth off:
"In Japan, what do you guys do when you lose one of your adult teeth?" -> supposed to be baby teeth, though this probably was just a word slip seeing you got the word correctly in patty's line.
Crona's last lines.
"There's no need for you to interfere anymore,""JUST RELAX!!" -> The first line sounded like Crona was talking about what's going to apply to everyone from now, not just talking to Soul and Tsubaki. I'm not 100% sure about this, but the second line made me think that this was more likely. Second line, 安心だ! is more like statement than telling people to do something.
So I think the lines should be something along "There won't be a need to interfere with others anymore." "I'M SO RELIEVED!" Personally I liked that last line when I read it, so this is the one that actually bothered me into posting a comment here.
I hope I'm not being too nosy... I wanted to share these interpretations because you seem like a person who pays a lot of attention to details and I liked that about you.
no subject
Sorry that this reply is going to be short cause I'm on my phone right now, but thank you for this comment! I think your translations are spot on and I will be correcting this post later when I get home.
And yeah whoops the "adult tooth" thing was a typo. Or more like a brainfart. In case you couldn't tell, I had a LOT of trouble focusing during this recap. No wonder it's full of mistakes.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-12 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
About the only time I can remember her actually kicking ass on her own was during her first battle with Crona
Are we even reading the same manga?
0.o;;
no subject
I read some spoilers on Tumblr — something about Unohana being the first Kenpachi, and I was like "Way to go Kubo, revealing her as an uber badass after she spent like 400 chapters as a pointless background character who never got to do anything cool. Yes it totally makes sense for someone that powerful to sit on her bum throughout the whole damn manga."
no subject
So BlackStar has been fighting with you for years now and has come to your side countless times and you are just now mentioning him saving you and teasing him about it, Maka?
I don't know, I mean I thought that was kind of just a waste of manga panels. Like…I don't really understand what the point of that was or why we're lightheartedly talking about BlackStar having a crush on Maka at this moment when we're in the middle of a battle that's had such a huge build up to it…
And the rest was just blegh.
Thanks for recapping! It was hilarious, and I kind of envy you your pie rn
no subject
no subject
On the plus side, Crona's hilariously ridiculous face brought much entertainment. Crona channeling Kermit the Frog is one fo the funniest things I've ever seen in this series.
Yup, pretty much.
no subject
no subject
Well, there was "plot" in terms of Crona doing something at the very end, but other than that, not much, nope.
no subject
NGL I like it when Ohkubo can interrupt an intense battle for a joke or lighthearted aside, but sometimes it works well and sometimes it's just jarring. I think this was one of the cases where it was really jarring.
no subject
no subject
no subject
However, this is the recipe that I used:
http://pigofthemonth.com/chocolate-candy-cane-pie/
Mine didn't turn out as pretty and I didn't have the perfect little dollops of whip cream garnished with candy canes on top. But it was still very, very tasty.
no subject
(Anonymous) 2012-12-16 03:26 am (UTC)(link)It's time to start the fight,
It's time to gets thing started on the grinning moon tonight!
no subject
NO NO BAD MAKA BAD! I know she didn't mean it but still.
For a second their I thought black star had a crush on Maka but then realized it could just be black star being a glory hog or maybe its just black star wanting some gratitude for constantly saving Maka.
Well the chapter wasn't to bad we got to see Crona’s new abilities and yeah I thought the fight seemed pretty stiff I was like ware were the action lines. when I was reading it I was like imaging the action lines and then I was like there we go.
And when is Maka going to realize she is going to have to do what she did last time trying to beat him/her up is not going to get them anywhere except maybe subduing him. Of course they obviously had to start somewhere right.
Oh and thanks for the recap and the high-res scans.
no subject
And when is Maka going to realize she is going to have to do what she did last time trying to beat him/her up is not going to get them anywhere except maybe subduing him. Of course they obviously had to start somewhere right.
I think it might be building toward that too, but we'll see.
no subject
Regarding crona’s soul when it was shown in 104 it looked intact but Ragnarok’s soul seems to be maybe a kishin.
And a while a go I was trying to figure out who crona’s father might be thru Greek mythology and… I think I know who crona’s father is It couldn't be anyone else if it is based on the tiniest bit on Greek mythology.
But I'm not sure if I want say it yet but if it is who I think it is they might meet very soon. But I have to ask do you have any suspects yourself.