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Escape

Yupi starts pretending to be enraged. Is trying to full Knuckle for his own advantage.

It seems like Pufu has been transfroming himself into tiny little bugs and escaping Morau’s prision. Will he realize this soon enough?

Ikarugo is still shearching for Palm. He comes in contact with Brovuda. Brovuda already had a plan for figuring out the traitor. If Ikarugo hadn’t been hiding, he would be dead now.

Something happened to Palm. The message she leaves makes us assume she’s dead or at least won’t matter anymore on the course of things.

Ikarugo sees a chance to do something, but I’m not sure to what he means with it. We’ll have to wait and see. 

Recitativo

Cross and the other higher ups are going to central.

This chapter shows the characters still recuperating and Allen and Kanda already training. It was really funny. This is defnately one of the funniest series I’ve read along with Full Metal and GTO.

Komui and the other reserchers reach the conclusion that Lenalee’s innocence is a new type. An evolution. I guess they should all try to undergo this evolution. They need to get strong fast.

The Noah’s are planning something. It’s going to start in the next chapter. 

Turn Back The Pendulum 5

So, something happens. This little arc is really going to be important for the main storyline.

It starts with some people disappearing. The guys behind this have shinigami ropes.  We can also see a huge round, that seems to belong to one. Is this Nnoitra? Im’ suspecting at least Aizen to be causing this.

They talk about some "bump in the road", what or who is getting in their way?

Back to Soul Society, Mayuri is working under Hurahara and people are discussing the strange disappearances.

The ninth division is investigating this. The captain himself goes out since the squad he sent didn’t come back yet. While doing it, they come across some surprisingly huge hollows. Is their size related to the disappearances?

After they take care of the hollows, they find ten shinigami robes lying there. Has the squad also disappeared?

More curiosities are being satisfied. From the fight, a boy was saved. He’s the current vice-captain of ex-captain Tousen’s squad, the 69 guy. 

The Leaf’s Origins

Madara continues his story about Itachi, although he still doesn’t explain his part in all of it. 

Tobi says that the Uchiha’s massacre was done by Itachi on orders from Konoha’s top brass. And that Itachi didn’t have bad intentions.

Why would this be? Was there a good enough reason for wanting every Uchiha dead? Wre they going to become dangerous? Why leave Sasuke alive? Was that the personal doing of Itachi or was he ordered to let him live? Knowing the Third’s personality, I can’t believe he agreed to that mission.

How does Madara come into this story?

It seems there’s always been a conflit between Konoha and the Uchiha Clan. Tobi explains how he got the Mangekyo and how the Uchiha first came into contact with the Senju Clan of the Forest. At this time I would think that Madara, having the Mangekyo, would be stronger than the First.

The cover’s headline makes me believe that the Sharingan has been used to control the Kyuubi and prevent catastrophe. Maybe they want them dead, because they have the potential to control the Kyuubi? Maybe the Kyuubi’s attack happened from an Uchiha’s revenge? But, was it Madara? Then why would he help Itachi? And how does this fit with "promising child" story? Who’s Naruto supposed to kill?

Senju looks cool and confident. We will have to wait for the next issue to know how this "conflict" begun.

Squirm

The training is progressing. Naruto decides to ask Azuma for help, since he’s also a wind user.

Azuma explains how wind chakra should be manipulated. He uses his chakra blades to explain. It seems they absorb the user’s chakra and react to it’s nature. I wonder the effect they have with different natures and jutsus.

The various scenes taken from the manga are all progressing at a good pace, but there’s some added fillers that complement the story. All in all, I think they are doing good, and the episodes don’t turn boring or stupid with everlasting stares and such.

The filler arc has some new developments. Tsunade thinks it will be good to keep Naruto away on a "safe" mission, while Azuma, one of the village’s jounin, is away. I think this logic is kind of stupid. So, Team Azuma goes to check the destroyed village, Team Yamato goes on a B-rank mission and Kakashi also goes to try to uncover some more information on Akatsuki’s movements.

In the meantime, Naruto has completed the first step of his training. Using his wind chakra to completely cut the leaf. Azuma and Kurenai are also getting some development.

I hope this arc gets some good fight scenes and an interesting plot. For now, the Jinchuriki story is still just a rumor. The bad guys only seem to care about taking revenge on Konoha to help the Fire Country develop. There’s no sign of the boy who appeared first yet.

The New Captain Appears! His name is Amagai Shuusuke

There’s a new OP and ED stating this episode. It’s high quality this time with nice animation. It’s all related with the new filler arc, which makes me believe that this arc will last an entire season.

The fillers have started. Ichigo doesn’t appear in this episode, but I guess they will find some excuse to bring him out of Hueco Mundo in order to enter in this arc. I hope that doesn’t create some plot holes, because of the manga’s original story.

The episode starts with the new captain being introduced to the others. The 3rd squad doesn’t trust him yet and everybody is waiting for Amagai to prove himself. Kira, always sad mooded, is feeling a lot of pressure to make things work between his new captain and the 3rd squad’s shinigamis.

This creates some funny situations as Kira tries harder than it’s really needed.

The 3rd squad gets called to eliminate some hollows in Severing World. There’s a weird problem and the Seizing Currents are not deactivated. The squad gets in trouble, but Amagai manages to save everyone.

Was this problem just so that Amagai could get along better with his subordinates, or is it related to the main plot of the arc?

Overall, the episode very good, nothing special happened and I didn’t think it was funny but, it managed to be okay.

From the upcoming episode’s names, the fillers will certainly last at least until episode 172. But then again, they will probably last the whole season.

Spy

Fujimaro goes home alone. As soon as he enters, he sees his sister on the ground. Enraged he dashs to the killer, but Haruka’s voice surprises him and he’s taken down by the killer.

So, the spy is actually a subordinate of their father. She’s there to help them.

It seems like there’s a spy in Third-I. That’s the only thing Takagi has told to their team.

Takagi has gone to an hold friend of his. He’s asked him to take look at a DNA sample. The researcher says its a scary sequence. But, there’s an hitman prepared to take out Takagi and the story shifts back to school.

I think Fujimaro is pretty stupid in going to confront Maya and directly tell her that he suspects her. He could use it later as a surprise element. Also, talking to her alone.. It’s like he doesn’t understand what it means if Maya is an enemy.

Maya tells him her alibi and he leaves to confirm it. A man observing the situation talks to Maya. From her answer, it seems she won’t exitate kill Fujimaru if he finds out the truth. More importantly, she asks him how it went. The man with a butterfly tattoo answers "He’s dead".

I doubt Takagi has really been killed like that but, I can’t see how he survived if the hitman is do certain of having killed him. Is the tattoo just a normal tattoo? Or does it mean he belongs to some clan or order or something like that? 

Your Soul’s Family

The chapter starts off with Ed’s escape. It’s very funny how Ed and the two chimeras work between them.

After some shootings and chases, they finally manage to get away. Ed tries to think of where Al would go if they were looking for a place to meet each other. He comes up with the idea to go to one of the old hideouts, the one Gluttony destroyed.

To bad Al is still in Rose’s town. Hohenheim tells all everything. They both talk about their situation, they are similar in a way, both are supposedly immortal. Hohenheim says the tunnel is probably already complete but there’s no worry, because the bad guys are still waiting for the right day. It’s probably an important date, like when the homunculus first broke free or something like that.

Greed is still chasing his old pal. He has no memories of the past Greed. He kills the chimera without hesitating. But, porbably due to his greedy nature, he can’t even forget the past Greed’s memories and they come back. Lee, trapped inside Greed uses this chance to torment him. Greed start losing it, he can’t deal with those feelings.

He gets angry and goes directly to Wrath. He starts attacking him with Pride and his wife near. Pride doesn’t intervene as to not expose his true identity.

Both fight on equal footing but, with the arriving of backup, Greed runs away. He desperatly runs until he reaches tthe hideout Ed is checking.

As soon as he sees Ed, he collapses relieved to see him. He’s Lee again.

The good side gets another powerful allie. Things are looking better.

The Inheritance

This new series is from Kishimoto Seishi, twin brother of Naruto’s mangaka, better known for creating 666 Satan.

In the close future, mankind has found a new eco-energy system. It’s called Mysticker. They hope this will help Earth prevente damage being caused by the global warming stop polution. Tokyo has been chosen as the subject for experimenting this new energy.

The Mystickers are stickers that have different powers like electricity and fire. This powers can be used by sticking them to an object. 

When I first saw the main character, I though I was actually seing Jio from 666 Satan. But, taking aside the physical similarity they are different characters.

Daichi belongs to a team of Mysticker users. I’m not sure of the true purpose behind this teams. They see another team coming and creating trouble. So they go to help the people being attacked. In the fight Daichi uses a fire sticker on one of enemy’s clothes and they catch fire. This guy later tries to get revenge and sticks an ice sticker directly to Daichi’s skin. But, surprisingly, the sticker doesn’t freeze Daichi’s body and instead sends an "attack" of pointy ice blocks. Daichi’s brother appears and saves them. Seems like is a skilled Mysticker user.

Daichi’s parents dyed when taking a detour to buy a present for Daichi. Daichi thinks it’s his fault and that his brother resents him.

Meanwhile, somebody has been searching for Daichi. This guy sticks the Mystickers in his own skin and then controls it’s powers. He calls himself a Blazer.

Nanba finds Daichi and tries to take him with him, but Ginga comes and protects him. Nanba wins the fight using a sticker that takes Ginga to another dimension. Just before disapearing, Ginga tells Daichi about Blazers and how he tried to protect him from those people. He gives him a rare electricity sticker which never ends and disapears.

Daichi uses this producing a really powerful attack that surprises Nanba and leaves him knocked out.

Then, another new character appears. Kuroki, he’s the one who has helped his brother. Daichi takes his offer to know the truth.

I liked this chapter, but I think some stuff could have been done better. The way everybody just says unnecessary things, in the situation context, like they are purposely explaining it to the reader, because he’s to dumb to understand by itself, gets on my nerves. But, the comedy was good and the fighting mechanics have big potential.

Jio Freed 

I finally read the final chapter of 666 Satan. Franky-House had already scanlated this back in December and I didn’t know.. shame on me..

Miko has been eliminated and the previous program takes control of Shin. It activates the Freedom Program. What’s this?

This new program starts Armageddon again. Satan has taken control and Jio is trapped inside him. Satan is thinking of doing the Armageddon thing and then moving to another planet where he can reign supreme.

The story behind everything is finally explained by Lucifer, Satan. The beings from another planet, Eden, were trying to create eternal energy. Since everything is a continuous cycle of energy created with the Big Bang, then controlling it, would allow them to know everything.

An organization called Solomon was created with 72 scientists. The Kabbalah served as way of storing information into the zephilots. This zephilots eventually changed their appearances matching the kind of information they stored.

Eden was consumed by the Kabbalah and oly the scientists survived. Lucifer tried to obtain the power of the 1st zephilot of the Reverse Kabbalah. He used 666 living beings to avoid being consumed himself, but still lost his body. He then killed all the other scientist except two who were already expecting his actions.

Adam and Eve had created another system for storing information, the Freedom. Lucifer tried to break into it but got sealed inside and Freedom took the form of what is now Jio Freed.

Lucifer tries to take Jio’s body and convince mankind to follow his desires, but Jio is  stronger and delivers a more important message and gets people to follow his will. I think Lucifer did this so that people would unconsciously give him the energy he wanted. But, Jio shows him that real energy comes from good feelings and the relations between people. This was the power that Lucifer was actually looking for.

Jio uses that energy to drive Shin away to a planet that can be consumed without killing any creatures. So, he and the other recipes are gone forever.

The story shifts to the future where Ball and Mei tell their children the story about Jio and Ruby.

So, it’s finally over. I didn’t like this ending very much, but I don’t think it was bad either. Overall it was a really cool series to follow. I’m now curious at to how the anime adaptation will turn out and what’s the author going to work on now.