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So this is like...20% of the Gun Devil? Well Denji, at least you still have Power. Cause Aki is so dead.
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chiasaur11 posted:Yeah, she's got contracts with other Devils, one way or another. The handsigns are the same as you get with mundane contractors. She doesn't need contracts, she can force other people to make contracts instead. She just needs to force you to say "shitposting devil, I offer you my everything, please kill lowtax" or whatever.
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Jun 25, 2020 15:07
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Jun 25, 2020 15:44
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Friendly reminder of this little interaction from Chapter 5, after Denji and Power were loudly arguing over who was at fault for killing the sea cucumber devil.
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CodfishCartographer posted:Friendly reminder of this little interaction from Chapter 5, after Denji and Power were loudly arguing over who was at fault for killing the sea cucumber devil. as much as i like to think of Fujimoto as some sort of chaos weaver, dude clearly goes in with a plan. there's a bunch of stuff in Fire Punch with that amount of distance between setup and payoff too
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CodfishCartographer posted:Friendly reminder of this little interaction from Chapter 5, after Denji and Power were loudly arguing over who was at fault for killing the sea cucumber devil. OH man  I wonder if the bloodletting is related to this. If Power becomes to strong she can break free.
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How does this just keep getting better? I wonder who she's beckoning? The Gun Devil i suppose. Flython fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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Jun 25, 2020 18:25
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CodfishCartographer posted:Friendly reminder of this little interaction from Chapter 5, after Denji and Power were loudly arguing over who was at fault for killing the sea cucumber devil. I think she needs to say “This is an order” to activate it. Power just listens because she’s scared.
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RatHat posted:I think she needs to say “This is an order” to activate it. Power just listens because she’s scared. Nah, it the latest chapter we see her give Angel several commands that are followed. Admittedly, it could be because at some point in the past Makima said "this is an order" or something, but then maybe she said that to Power in the past as well. Honestly it may just be Power listening because she's scared, but the super zoom-in on Makima's eye is slightly suspicious.
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The author is really good at mixing things up and escalating unexpectedly. Now Im hecka worried tho
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Jun 25, 2020 22:43
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Denji rejected her offer for that getaway earlier, huh? Denji is the dumbest strongest boy. Accidentally.
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yeah the lighthearted moments make the gut punches that much worse. I love this manga  Our boy Aki has the right idea but this feels like he just sealed his fate
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Darth TNT posted:OH man That's always been my assumption, even aside from mind control. Power getting too strong might mean she isn't pliable. And this chapter makes it seem more plausible that Denji's immune to Makima's mind control, which makes the second chapter very interesting. Admittedly, if Makima has to do the whole "That's an order" thing, it's possible that Denji just wasn't hit with anything since he was reliable anyway. But if she doesn't, then the second chapter says a lot. Makima gives Denji an order, and he immediately tries to get out of it. And then when he finally obeys... he attempts to run for it and quit. If Makima's primary experience with Denji is as one of the only people she has no direct power over, that's some interesting context.
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chiasaur11 posted:That's always been my assumption, even aside from mind control. Power getting too strong might mean she isn't pliable. I think there are some people/devils she possibly can't control. Otherwise, Why would she need to "fight" the Darkness Devil? She could have just told it to gently caress off. Why fight the Gun Devil, for that matter? I'm thinking that devils that are more feared than she is may not be able to be swayed by her, or at least not as easily. So Chainsaw, being feared by devils themselves, may be immune to it. Good thing she's just as good at manipulating Denji emotionally without needing to use her domination powers lmao
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If you think about it, the beginning of tribes and proto-civilization would begat Authority and thus Domination, so while not Primal, Makima's definitely antediluvian e: a thought: I wonder if Makima is the source/origin of the Devil Contract system to begin with? Archenteron fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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Aki Prediction: We've been shown that while controlled, the subject doesn't seem to recall what happened during that time So from Aki's perspective, he'll have just asked Makima for help and then "wake up" experiencing the prediction Future devil gave him. Not understanding how he got there which is pretty 
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Archenteron posted:If you think about it, the beginning of tribes and proto-civilization would begat Authority and thus Domination, so while not Primal, Makima's definitely antediluvian The other day I was wondering what really "enforced" the contracts and why they hold so much power. What if Makima is the one enforcing them, oh god
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JamMasterJim posted:Also, fanart for this week's chapter This is really good.
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Just noticed this apparently takes place in 1997. I wonder if that means we'll get a timeskip to the present day at some point. Then we could get devils like the Artificial intelligence devil, or the Global Warming devil.
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RatHat posted:Just noticed this apparently takes place in 1997. I wonder if that means we'll get a timeskip to the present day at some point. Then we could get devils like the Artificial intelligence devil, or the Global Warming devil. Y2K devil
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https://imgur.com/a/l9SVoXj are people still posting here?
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yum posted:https://imgur.com/a/l9SVoXj Makima: Look at the timestamps.
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Chapter 75
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WHAT THE gently caress IS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT?!?! Be careful Denji and Power!
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the last six pages just being an alphabetical list of people killed during the 12 seconds the Gun Devil was there was soooooo sick. What an artistic device. 😙👌
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NickRoweFillea posted:the last six pages just being an alphabetical list of people killed during the 12 seconds the Gun Devil was there was soooooo sick. What an artistic device. 😙👌 The scrolling list of names + the 1997 date makes it feel like an old fashioned VHS clip or something. It was also an unexpected terrorist attack from the USA yum fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jul 3, 2020 |
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Hypocrisy posted:It's beautiful. Makes you want to salute an eagle playing baseball at a fireworks factory, don't it? And Makima continues to be... about how I thought she was. She apologizes to Aki and Angel when there's no-one to hear her, and she regrets that this is going to go down the bloodiest route... but it's not going to slow her down at all. Also, neat how Fujimoto played with reader expectations. He knew Fire Punch fans would see the first Gun twist coming a mile away... so he followed it up with a blindside of a Gun Devil attack right now. chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jun 27, 2020 |
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Yummy, plenty of interesting lore reveals in this chapter. Was the bit at the end a historical record, or is the manga set in that timeframe and I just never realized? Whatever's behind Denji's secret door better be truly insane, because he's way out of his depth if he wants to go toe to toe with the Gun Devil or Makima.
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just realized that the gun devil's initial salvo may have been to deprive makima of any human sacrifices she could use for her contracts
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NowonSA posted:Yummy, plenty of interesting lore reveals in this chapter. Was the bit at the end a historical record, or is the manga set in that timeframe and I just never realized? It is indeed set in 96/97. In the flashback to the first Gun Devil attack, it says 13 years ago on November 18th and you see a calendar that puts it on a friday. Which is the case in 1983. The cars all look the part and I don't think I've seen any mobile phones.
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NowonSA posted:Yummy, plenty of interesting lore reveals in this chapter. Was the bit at the end a historical record, or is the manga set in that timeframe and I just never realized? Denji threw down with someone powered up by a primal devil specifically to kill Makima using the power of People fear Devils, but Devils fear crazy, and Denji's repeatedly proven he's got that in weapons grade. (He's also apparently immune to Makima's main powers, which is important to the balance of these things.)
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NowonSA posted:Yummy, plenty of interesting lore reveals in this chapter. Was the bit at the end a historical record, or is the manga set in that timeframe and I just never realized? I actually thought it was earlier since the USSR is still kicking around, but I guess it's just survived longer subbing the gun devil for nukes. Dunno if it's true, but I read that the town the Gun Devil attacks this chapter is the mangaka's home town.
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do you think Devils are scared of Chainsaw because the Evil Dead franchise exists in-universe? i'm serious
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