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Oh yeah, they were practically all soldiers right? Apart from Luna and her flunkies. All of Xeno’s dudes were people who were at that party and heard him yell to stay awake.
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Apr 7, 2021 08:50
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The pseudo-leader guy whose name I forget definitely doesn't seem unbothered by the carnage.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Even outside Xeno and Stanley, people like Maya, Brody, and Charlotte have all been shown to immediately resort to violence as (one of) their first response(s). Brody only reacted that way once they were outright attacked. Strawberry Pyramid posted:It should be noted that most of Xeno's people were handpicked from elite American military forces, of course they're predisposed to violence, they were intentionally selected for talent and bloodthirstyness. Should note they are not even proper American Military, Stanley's crew is outright stated to be mercenaries. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Apr 7, 2021 12:29
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MonsterEnvy posted:Should note they are not even proper American Military, Stanley's crew is outright stated to be mercenaries. Oh, that'd really do it then. I forgot about that
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reitetsu posted:Oh, that'd really do it then. I forgot about that Yeah they are ex military, but during the big dinner meeting are stated to be freelance now.
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Apr 7, 2021 16:09
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I missed they were mercs too, drat that explains a ton.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:16
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Soooo good I wonder if Suika’s gambit worked.
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Since Suika's the one closest to the bottle and it doesn't seem she's experienced with producing nitric acid or alcohol, we'll probably see her age some bit before the others get depetrified again. Keep your hands off her, Boichi!
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Apr 11, 2021 17:54
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Poor Suika gonna be alone and nearsighted without even her pinhole inducing hat, never mind the glasses. Hope we don't get an extended sequence of a 10 year old trying to survive alone, and that there's another bottle somewhere, if but for my heartstrings.
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Apr 11, 2021 17:55
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It's been like 3 or 4 years in-universe since Ishigami Village. I particularly liked Xeno's final expression in this chapter. I wonder if a timeskip will be long enough that the Americans' guns rust into uselessness?
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Assuming our protagonists get revived, what's the gameplan going forward here? While there might be room to talk with some of the less homicidal Americans like Brody, they're fully aware now that Xeno, Stanley, and their immediate cohort are pretty much completely loving evil monsters and will gladly kill each and every one of them without batting an eyelash; not even actively saving one of their lives was enough to convince them to not indiscriminately mow down a bunch of kids with machine guns. There's no real common ground or room for negotiation here, and it's been proven in the most definitive way possible. Are they going to leave Xeno and Company as statues? Maybe introduce the Tsukasa Corollary to Senku's "revive everyone on Earth" plan where some people are just way too evil and dangerous to risk reviving?
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Apr 11, 2021 18:03
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Apr 11, 2021 18:20
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Xeno will 100% be revived at some point after Senku's crew gets mostly revived (assuming all goes well once Suika gets revived) if only just to have another big brain science guy. I don't know if he can do much when he doesn't have loyal goons with guns. Senku will probably need or want his help in the future
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Apr 11, 2021 18:21
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They also still need Corn City up and running for their endgame of building the rocket to the moon
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mabels big day posted:Xeno will 100% be revived at some point after Senku's crew gets mostly revived (assuming all goes well once Suika gets revived) if only just to have another big brain science guy. I don't know if he can do much when he doesn't have loyal goons with guns. Senku will probably need or want his help in the future The issue with this is mostly that Xeno hasn't had any change of heart despite his time with the kids; he's proven that he's pretty ruthlessly dedicated to the whole "world conquest no matter how many bodies pile up" thing, and he now understands the concept of revival fluid, so even if they leave Stanley and gang stoned, unless they enslave Xeno or throw him in jail permanently or something he's a flight risk away from reviving all of his goons.
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Apr 11, 2021 19:39
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Xeno is Science Vegeta, he'll come around with the next threat.
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Amazingly, Taiju will become the protagonist again
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Sub Harrison posted:Still need to know what the drawback is to using only one medusa to cover the Earth. I still wonder if it's really enough to cover the earth, or if the cut aways to the globe are just a representation of what they think is happening. Basically, I wonder if there's a chance that it only covered part of the earth. barring that, like I said before, I wonder if they got a message out to anyone in ishigami Aurubin posted:Poor Suika gonna be alone and nearsighted without even her pinhole inducing hat, never mind the glasses. Hope we don't get an extended sequence of a 10 year old trying to survive alone, and that there's another bottle somewhere, if but for my heartstrings. I think the one part of the science club we haven't checked in with since the raid started is Luna and geology girl. Maybe if they had a bottle of fluid themselves and took a gamble; Luna's a capable gal, she'll time it right surely!
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This is going to go down in the new history books that mankind was pushed to the brink and frozen into stone all over again and it was over corn. Not oil. They got that in the first arc. No, it was corn.
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Flubby posted:This is going to go down in the new history books that mankind was pushed to the brink and frozen into stone all over again and it was over corn. Not oil. They got that in the first arc. No, it was corn. Based on our current economy, i buy it.
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More wars have been fought in the name of food security (eg lebensraum) so fighting over corn is just a return to norm. If anything fighting over oil is unique to the last hundred years.
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Were Suika and Ginro stoned previously? I just had a thought of...will this fix her near sightedness? it fixed...whatever put tsukasa's sister in a coma. and they're hoping that it will fix all of them literally being riddled with bullets.
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Renzuko posted:Were Suika and Ginro stoned previously? I just had a thought of...will this fix her near sightedness? it fixed...whatever put tsukasa's sister in a coma. and they're hoping that it will fix all of them literally being riddled with bullets. It didn't fix Chelsea's. Given the focus on DNA and it's relation to the petrification effect, genetic conditions might not be curable with it since it appears to simply "restore" your body from forms of trauma. EDIT: And yes, at the very least, they were petrified at the climax of the Treasure Island arc. Strawberry Pyramid fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Time to count all those kernels I saved from corn death... I'm rich b*tch
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kaseki being insanely happy that his body stopped having all the aches from old pain was a nice touch when he got petrified
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If you go back and look carefully at the final panel of Senku petrifying, you'll see that the petrifying process seems to be crystalline in structure, similar to how water freezes into ice.
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For Suika it depends on what caused her sight issues, if it is related to her environment and any issues within, it might correct with the petri-beam.
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AtomikKrab posted:For Suika it depends on what caused her sight issues, if it is related to her environment and any issues within, it might correct with the petri-beam. Like strawberry pyramid said, she was petrified in the fight against Ibara; everyone got petrified for the timing gambit
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Oh poo poo. Oh shiiiiiiit. Inagaki, you madman, you've done it again! I am spoiling this because I am 99% certain that this is what the twist will be next chapter. You have been warned.quote:Something has been bugging me. Almost every foreshadowed event in this arc has been set up and knocked down, except for one thing -- Charlotte getting bitten by the spider and rescued by Suika. When that happened, I figured she'd intervene and prevent Stanley from murdering everyone, but that never happened. e: corrected a detail as per below post SKULL.GIF fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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SKULL.GIF posted:Oh poo poo. Oh shiiiiiiit. Inagaki, you madman, you've done it again! I am spoiling this because I am 99% certain that this is what the twist will be next chapter. You have been warned. Did Suika inject anything? Wasn't it just holding a swab of glycerin to cause a reaction that opens the vessels?
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rannum posted:Did Suika inject anything? Wasn't it just holding a swab of glycerin to cause a reaction that opens the vessels? Yes, you're right, I've edited that part of my post.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Oh poo poo. Oh shiiiiiiit. Inagaki, you madman, you've done it again! I am spoiling this because I am 99% certain that this is what the twist will be next chapter. You have been warned. This would be nice, but then dousing yourself in the stuff just before petrification would also work.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Oh poo poo. Oh shiiiiiiit. Inagaki, you madman, you've done it again! I am spoiling this because I am 99% certain that this is what the twist will be next chapter. You have been warned. Oh poo poo. If this is true that’s fantastic
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Hrm, looking further into the science of this I'm not sure it's actually possible, but the dramatic framing certainly fits.
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I like where you are going and can definitely see Charlotte walk into science team camp, see the revival fluid from the top of the receiver tower and take it before it gets tipped over, and has to decide between Stanely and Suika
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Sub Harrison posted:Still need to know what the drawback is to using only one medusa to cover the Earth. By the way, going back to this.... Rereading the arc I'm not sure there is a drawback, necessarily. I mean there still might be one, we still dont know a lot about the medusa in or out of universe, but rereading the arc the idea seems to be that the pyramid of medusas was to make sure it happened. Just before finding the pyramid (chapter 180) they come to the realization that, to get around the possibility of being near some of the acid, someone managing to figure it out and set up a system to get around a wave, or just dumb luck or some not going off, it would be best to set off a bunch of medusas at once. They also mention the idea of staggering the times they would go off (see also: why man's messages just being sent down on set intervals). Likewise, there were a bunch of duds due to the defects in the diamonds (chapter 182). Basically one medusa might work fine, but to ensure it actually went off a ton of them were made, dropped and had the command given all at once. Just by numbers alone they'd ensure at least one went off and very likely more to cover the gaps.
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I appreciate effectively communicating just how formidably advanced Whyman is by showing the crazy advanced Medusa devices were apparently trivially mass produced and considered as disposable as you or I would consider a container full of cheapass burner phones.
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Strawberry Pyramid posted:I appreciate effectively communicating just how formidably advanced Whyman is by showing the crazy advanced Medusa devices were apparently trivially mass produced and considered as disposable as you or I would consider a container full of cheapass burner phones. Related: I cant remember what chapter(s) Matsukaze's backstory was given, but his time was from before the current crop of Ihsigami/Soyuz people right? It threw a bunch of medusas over the island(s?) but went with a different strategy and made far fewer of them rather than just try the pyramid-style overpower attack again; and hasn't attacked the ishigami society at all, while it's just trying to deal with the science squad by sending out constant radio waves. Is the production of them more limited now &/or how long does it take to make them; which both goes for maybe adding a new "ticking clock" to the series as well as looking into how long was this plan in motion just from a produciton stand point (much less all the preamble)
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