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Kazumi and Hatsuna? Alive?
I'm happy, but this is bullshit!!
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regeneration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Oh well, this happened last time too (Badass Robocop from Elfen Lied been alive at the end even if he got ultimately killed).
Anyway, "happy ending" confirmed, I guess (Kuroha has no memories whatsoever now, probably because of her power usage, but that's not that difficult to handle, it's definitely better than being dead).
Danpmss said: THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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Kazumi and Hatsuna? Alive?
I'm happy, but this is bullshit!!
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regenaration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Oh well, this happened last time too (Badass Robocop from Elfen Lied been alive at the end even if he got ultimately killed).
Anyway, "happy ending" confirmed, I guess (Kuroha has no memories whatsoever now, probably because of her power usage, but that's not that difficult to handle, it's definitely better than being dead).
Yes, hell yes...Kazumi is alive. Hatsuna has the "immortal" power as well as being able to bring back life, that isn't too hard to believe. I was worried that they were dead for sure.
However, how can chapter 100 be the last chapter?? There are too many plotholes...how will they survive without more pills??
Anyways, I need to read chapter 100....trying to find it right now.
Danpmss said: THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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Kazumi and Hatsuna? Alive?
I'm happy, but this is bullshit!!
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regenaration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Oh well, this happened last time too (Badass Robocop from Elfen Lied been alive at the end even if he got ultimately killed).
Anyway, "happy ending" confirmed, I guess (Kuroha has no memories whatsoever now, probably because of her power usage, but that's not that difficult to handle, it's definitely better than being dead).
Yes, hell yes...Kazumi is alive. Hatsuna has the "immortal" power as well as being able to bring back life, that isn't too hard to believe. I was worried that they were dead for sure.
However, how can chapter 100 be the last chapter?? There are too many plotholes...how will they survive without more pills??
Anyways, I need to read chapter 100....trying to find it right now.
I never said this was the last, I said that:
1- Those two are alive
2- That a "happy ending" is nearly confirmed by this fact (and so it was with Elfen Lied).
And also:
Hatsuna was obliterated - http://i.imgur.com/KYlchy5.jpg
According to what Mako said, if she pulverize her to a point that she can't even regenerate herself, she would die (obviously, why did I even repeat this detail lol) - http://imgur.com/n9Cjwde.jpg
Even if she survived, she wouldn't be able to cure Kazumi (or, if she would, she would be probably dead too).
And that's not the case, because her Harnest beeped (what normally indicates that it would be opened and then the Drasils would be released from it's host) - http://imgur.com/H6b200g.jpg
Read all the Raws, had no clue what they were saying but how in God's earth did they survive. They were blown to bits. I wonder where the story can go from here, I imagine it will be close to ending.
Dimitrije1606 said: Just tell me one thing..Was Murakami having monologue, or did that thing from Harnessed talk?
He was talking to her and saying that what she did was unforgivable, and that he would kill her for that, regardless of why she did or if she regretted and change sides (something like that). Welp, he did killed her, but not with cruel intentions (he even said "sorry").
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regeneration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Well I guess that does make sense because I recall in earlier chapter (#74?) that Hexenjagd did mention to Murakami and his company about witch's "real body" being the creature inside harnessed, not the outside human core. So as long as the creature remain untouched Hatsuna is able to revive herself and other witches.
In #83 there is a frame showing that after Kazumi and Hatsuna were "dead", their harnessed still remain, that's why they were able to be brought back to life.
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regeneration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Well I guess that does make sense because I recall in earlier chapter (#74?) that Hexenjagd did mention to Murakami and his company about witch's "real body" being the creature inside harnessed, not the outside human core. So as long as the creature remain untouched Hatsuna is able to revive herself and other witches.
In #83 there is a frame showing that after Kazumi and Hatsuna were "dead", their harnessed still remain, that's why they were able to be brought back to life.
Something is wrong here though. I also recall that in this very same scene, they also said that the girls were born monsters, and we can clearly see that Neko was in fact human from the beggining (she even recovered her memories).
Also, whenever that cilyndrical pokeball starts to beep, the content will be released imediatelly after (but you have an interesting point here too... like, why the creatures tries to go back inside the harnessed, even when the original host is already dead?).
And besides, according to what Mako said, if she pulverize her to a point that she can't even regenerate herself, she would die.
Hmmm---
This scene can serve as a proof (in the condition of your statement/theory of what happened) or as a plot hole (my side, even if I hope to not be).
So yeah, let's see if we can get more information about the Harnessed first, for now, we can leave at this point (it's not like we have enough information either).
Danpmss said: And besides, according to what Mako said, if she pulverize her to a point that she can't even regenerate herself, she would die.
Mako relied so much on her power that she all but forgotten how to use her brain. In chapter 71 asshole scientist responded to her surprise that Hatsuna is still alive with "she will not die unless you eject her", but of course when making another attempt at killing her Valkyria simply upped the power (despite the fact that it cannot affect the harness) and once again assumed that the result was gory enough to warrant death. And the scientist didn't thought much of it because a) he had more important things to do b) he already said to Mako how to kill Hatsuna so he probably assumed that Valkyrie did what she was told to do (he should know better by that time).
Also I don't think that the page you posted (http://i.imgur.com/H6b200g.jpg) was showing that the harness was about to open but rather that this stuff bubbling out from it was the proof that Hatsuna already started regenerating herself from inside of it.
Kazumi was a little trickier but I think that eeveelugia nailed it saying how the witches real forms are really those drasils inside of the harnesses. In theory if Hatsuna was able to regenerate Kazumi body and put the harness with the drasil back into it Kazumi should be OK. In practice it would be rather difficult, even with Hatsuna total tolerance to blood and gore she would had problems putting the harness exactly where it should go while focusing on reattaching Kazumi head to her neck and all the while melting herself... but it still is at least theoretically possible unlike some of the stuff we saw in previous chapters.
GG Valkyrie. About time she finally died. Good to see Kana again but the real question remains if Kuroneko will be able to recover her memories after that.
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I don't give a f*** about what happened to Neko. Hopefully Ryouta doesn't go emo now <_<
Also hope he doesn't get obsessed with this memory blank Kuroha.
Everything about this chapter was predictable as hell. I knew Kazumi and Hatsuna would show up after everything was all over completely clueless about what happened (it doesn't make sense it took that long for Hatsuna to regenerate and heal Kazumi). I knew Kuroha wouldn't die and would just revert out of the Kuroneko state. I am somewhat surprised, however, that she completely forgot EVERYTHING - including all of the events that occurred from when she met Ryouta to when she reverted back to Kuroneko.
My guess is that she'll be as she was when Ryouta met her. Kuroneko implied she used her MBH before but didn't know the results. This means that whenever she uses her MBH, she loses all of her memories - or rather, her memory is sealed away along with most of her magic... I guess that explains Kuroneko's reaction and insistence that she'd get to have a long chat with Ryouta. I guess she knew she'd lose her memory again and was trying to convince herself (and Ryouta) otherwise.
I seriously feel kuroneko's going to die before she manages to get her memories back.. If that happens, I'm planning to go assassinate the author in his sleep.
Confucius said: How the hell did Ryouta threw himself and Neko back to the building??? For a guy who doesn't work out that much, that made no sense whatsoever!!!
Adrenaline. Several years ago a normal guy lifted a crashed helicopter, that was also stuck in mud & water, enough to save his friend who was trapped inside & underwater.
Aaannddd she loses her memory again, how... original.
Lmao... I was honestly just expecting her to be like "Why are you calling me Kuroneko?" or something... not forget him again altogether.
As for the argument about this making sense... Karharot is definitely correct. You guys are just missing a lot of key details that makes this all make complete sense.
"Fatal" wounds mean nothing to Hatsuna. It doesn't matter how you hurt her at all... she will recover unless ejected. I imagine if Valkyrie had all but obliterated Kazumi, Hatsuna probably couldn't have saved her... but all she did was remove her head. Something that with an ability like Hatsuna's is physically incredibly easy to fix.
And as was mentioned many times in recent chapters... the Drasils are impossible to destroy using magic. And destroying their body doesn't mean anything; as we've seen many times with Hatsuna... like how she can survive after melting when she Hangs Up.
Ohhhhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiittttttttttttttt, all that progress is lost. That sucks!
Though it was already explained so it isn't unexpected.
Good Kazumi and Hatsuna are still alive.
I read Volume 10 and I noticed a lot of changes, especially they left out that Kazumi and Hatsuna survived. I wonder why the publisher or author decided to do that?!
Danpmss said: Kazumi and Hatsuna? Alive?
I'm happy, but this is bullshit!!
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regeneration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Your logic is bs. You haven't seen their corpses. The characters are part of the main team, they wouldn'T just die like that. It was clear from the beginning when Valkyrie "killed" them, that they would surbvive. Have you never read any other piece of fiction than this? Protagonists and main characters don't die, unless they benefit the plot or help keeping the protagonist alive. And if they die, they get to have a farewell with the protagonist and you actually see their soul parting from their body. If not, they're not dead.
Danpmss said: Kazumi and Hatsuna? Alive?
I'm happy, but this is bullshit!!
I saw clearly their corpses and/or heads getting multilated, it's just impossible that they are still alive, don't matter what regeneration power they used (they still couldn't, anyway, in that state).
Your logic is bs. You haven't seen their corpses. The characters are part of the main team, they wouldn'T just die like that. It was clear from the beginning when Valkyrie "killed" them, that they would surbvive. Have you never read any other piece of fiction than this? Protagonists and main characters don't die, unless they benefit the plot or help keeping the protagonist alive. And if they die, they get to have a farewell with the protagonist and you actually see their soul parting from their body. If not, they're not dead.
Not sure you read the rest of the few posts in this discussion, so I won't even bother replying to something I already provided evidence nearly 10 years ago. The links for the imgur images are still all functional to this day.
If anything, your arbitrary logic about "Protagonists and main characters don't die" is what displays a bullshit reasoning from someone who didn't read or watch even a tenth of what I did, but hey.
Danpmss said: If anything, your arbitrary logic about "Protagonists and main characters don't die" is what displays a bullshit reasoning from someone who didn't read or watch even a tenth of what I did, but hey.
Really? Then please name at least one manga, where the protagonist dies in the middle of a series.
Danpmss said: If anything, your arbitrary logic about "Protagonists and main characters don't die" is what displays a bullshit reasoning from someone who didn't read or watch even a tenth of what I did, but hey.
Really? Then please name at least one manga, where the protagonist dies in the middle of a series.
The argument is that Protagonists and Main characters DO die, but if it is to entertain your idea, sure, I'll send you some examples, with spoilers, naturally.
Not that the actual protagonist for this (Ryouta) died at any point by the middle of this, just some of the main girls in the series, not even the central main characters, for starters, but hey, let's go with things that actually are the case then.
If you want a very specific example of the titular character of its own tale that die for good forever, even though it's the Naruto of "Naruto" in his series, try the JoJo series for multiple examples of just that, particularly titular characters that can have their names compressed to be nicknamed as JoJo, from the very first part of the manga series (volumes keep going up in number til a soft reboot in Part 7, since they are a continuous story, meaning some main characters die far before the middle way through the tale).
Try Bokurano which goes on killing every protagonist that was the main focus from the start when they enough screentime.
Try Gantz, which kills quite a few main perspective protagonists including the one the story starts with and keeps going even before the middle of the story. A clone from some characters' memories at some point in their lives may appear later as a substitute however, deprived of any of their developments of course.
Try Tengen Toppa Gurren Laggan for an example of decoy protagonist, which had Kamina front and center as the most significant character of the protagonist trio before dying in ep 8.
Try Yu Yu Hakusho and Dragon Ball Z for a joke example, since they die and kickstart the plot by dying, albeit, death is cheap in these.
Try Higurashi and Umineko for series that are constantly killing and rekilling their protagonists from start to finish (though Umineko takes the cake by killing them for good from the very first arc, and the rest is basically a limbo with all of them being just pieces in a chessboard metanarratively).
Try Angel Beats, in which everyone is dead and the story is the main cast reincarnating one by one, for a double kill in a narrative sense.
Try Shiki, in which almost every single character in the cast is dead by the end, with the protagonist dying more or less halfway through.
Try every single reincarnation isekai in existence, which starts with the protagonists dying in the real world and getting reincarnated (though I'd not be cynical enough to give this example seriously just to be nitpicked later, even though you didn't specify much and I really should anyway).
Try Akame ga Kill for a series that actually follow through with what just happened in this until they resurrected these two that died, or even better, try Narutaru, for one that kills main characters in the most depressing, cruelest ways even before halfway through and never stops.
Try Urasawa's Pluto, or even 20th Century Boys and Billy Bat, if you just accept some stories have shifting protagonists in different time periods.
Try Mahoutsukai Kurohime for another example of a protagonist dying and her sucessor taking the lead.
Try Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, which kills arguably the most important protagonist in the story as the story progressed through its second half, and his sucessor and main rival become the definitive PoVs.
Try Fuuka for an absurd example, as tthe titular character dies, and a doppleganger becomes the main character halfway through the story.
For at least one Manwhua example, try Legend of Maian, which kill its main protagonist not once, but twice, and the story kept going.
And can actually keep on going, but I think I wrote enough. Now go read more manga and watch more anime.