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so the translators finally settled on "banish" and gave an explanation why... I like it, there's no single clean word for breaking off a friendship in English (though I like "shun", honestly, especially given its religious connotations with the Jehovah's Witnesses), but "banish" encapsulates the...

@Cosmak what? we've known about her preternatural ESP powers since like, day 1. She gets put into an exceedingly stressful situation and she uses it uncontrollably, this is a trope that's present in like, all novels where the MC has special powers. Her winning at games due to her unconscious...

@Cosmak uhhhh... everything about him is so incredibly sus, from the talking to people who aren't there to the more or less abduction to him not properly explaining himself. Who wouldn't panic in that situation?

strange, but we've established that Sadakiyo isn't Friend, so... I mean, that entire bit of the plot is underexplained, for starters.

welp, I'm now confused. Why is "Friend" here? We've established that he likes to be close to the action (the stunt he pulled on top of the monument on December 31, 2000), but this seems a little... personal? Doesn't he have better things to be doing? They're cultivating Kanna for something...

A real feel-good chapter. Those are pretty rare throughout this story.

wow Christian symbology. Also, one thing I really appreciate from manga is that they appreciate just how strong a shotgun is, and the range it really has. It gets changed for balance in video games, but I've seen a real shotgun shoot in a spread that could kill at a range of 50 yards.

ah gosh, I really don't want Kanna to die, not when her character arc is barely to its second act. It would also make a lot of sense for this to be the first "missed item" from the book of prophecy, since a lot of things have been set up to show that Friend's influence, while widespread, is not...

ooh I love this teamup of the dispossessed and marginalized. Stereotypical, maybe, but it's still awesomely executed

I stg if they make him a burn victim or something like that...

ooh, so she's like this emptyheaded high school girl from the start, and now that specific character trait gets turned into a strength! I like it!

she's too blonde and too dumb to die... similar to how it couldn't be Otcho at the start, it's too damn easy, too darn obvious.

well, it's pretty obvious that that specific decoy was not Sadakiyo. But does he mean that it wasn't Sadakiyo behind it all? That's still what I think, but only because it would make for a more interesting story.

damn, maybe it was that masked kid all along. That seems so OBVIOUS, though... I'm still holding out hope for a cool twist, it being one of the other eight and the masked kid has a completely different role.

hmm... has God been co-opted by "Friend"? This series has conditioned the reader to be intensely suspicious of anyone rich or powerful, after all.

ahh, Masuo, if only you'd remained on that sports team. Also, is "termination" a better word than "purification"? I wonder why, the latter has decidedly more religious/ideological connotations, which seems to fit with its usage by the Friend cult, but maybe the connotations of termination end up...

well, damn. I'd say that giving the good luck charms up is a definite doom sign, but then considering the transmitter thing it was a stroke of real luck... or possibly, it's just implicated Kanna and led to the death of several innocents. Ah well.

goddammit Chouno, you and your grandpa... well, I don't think Chouno is going to die, at least, not if his hamartia is naievete. He'll probably get his metaphorical hand chopped off like Luke Skywalker, lose his innocence, and then we'll see who he becomes. Also, I love how the foreshadowing is...

"Be a man and be clear" haha isn't it funny she misgendered her friend because trans women aren't real women

Otchoooooo! I will simp for Otcho no matter how unreasonably shounen his story becomes. In other news, Japanese prison has a reputation of being incredibly harsh and inhumane, and the justice system as a whole has a suspiciously high guilty rate that, unless they're hiding some psychic...