THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER.
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Oh boy, here we go! Chapter 82 raw: http://www.mangabird.com/world-trigger-82-wt
On mangabird. Not a chinese website. Either insanity or english websites start to take more notice of WT recently. Maybe due the many updates in its translations, now up to 65?
Anyway, about the new raw:
We see people trying to save some trapped family in a destroyed house.We see somebody from Border who helps the civilians in saving those people. It looks like this guy could be Karasawa, the guy who handles foreign affairs and collects money for Border, but he looks a bit different than Karasawa for me. If he didn't grew his hair a bit and stopped having a cig all the time in his mouth then this might be a new person from Border. I could be wrong ofc.
Next scene is in the hospital where we see Osamu in a bed with some machines on it (no trion medical technology, shmae~). Chika, Reiji and Torimaru as well as Yotaro are watching him via a window. The other agents are still out in the field, rounding up the last trion soldiers, helping in rescuing people and such. We might get to see a Kitora or Konami or Jun or such visits in later chapters. Or not at all.
Yuuma isn't there because he is searching for the last remains of Replica and Jin is helping him with that search. Yuuma must feel pretty down now that he has lost his last family member so to say. :c
We get a "memory" page of Osamu, which kind of makes sense to me. This was his first real war and he had experienced Chika to be almost captured and got himself almost killed when keeping her safe. His brain was on adrenaline at that time, so now when he was recovering it worked through everything that had lead up to this point, all the stuff that made him do what he did and that got him to his current position as well as gave him the determination to risk so much for somebody else.
With this memory page we enter a flashback of Osamu, which is very nicely done ONLY from Osamu's POV. A good way to get the reader to "feel" into Osamu and imagine himself how he must have looked like or what he felt in this or that situation, instead to "show" the readers how osamu looks like or what he feels at this or that situation.
It starts again with Rinj, Chika's missing(or dead?) big brother, who tells Osamu he will be send on a mission with a new trigger. Osamu tells him that he wants to join Border, Rinji is against that.
We then have a little timejump and see Osamu walking in the rain to Chika's house. Police officers and Men in black from Border stand before the door. We get to hear about Rinji gone MIA and see Chika cry, something Osamu says he had Chika never done before.
It made his resolve to become an agent stronger and so he took a test from Border to become one.
I liked that page in particular.
No text from what Osamu says or thinks. Just what he does and sees.
So we see him and others taking a test, although it seems to be three tests in total, and him marking circles on the test sheet. Then we see the approved board of those who got through those tests. And Osamu's hand holding a number card. His number was not among those on the board. And the page ends with a little panel filled with nothing but the "despair lines" as reality crashes down on Osamu's ambition.
In other words, Osamu failed to become an agent to begin with!
What makes this page so great is that pretty much every reader can feel into such a situation where he or she took on a test or several and then failed despite doing their best. Same with next page where Osamu speaks with a Border member about his result and got told that he is "no agent material" as his trion level is too low and that he should consider becoming an Operator.
We then get to see Osamu breaking into the restricted zone of Border during the night, intended to speak with the higher ups about him becoming an agent. He runs into a Neighbor and gets saved by Jin as seen at the beginning of the manga.
Flashback ends and Osamu wakes up.
He wakes up, realizes he is in a hospital, looks around and see a sleeping Chika who had spend the night waiting for him to wake up (sooooo cuuuteee~ <3). And not only that!
Lo' and behold the bombshell Ashihara drops on us!
Here it comes!
Chika is not alone as she leans on the shoulder of a, very pretty btw, woman who turns out to be Osamu's mom and might be there to have a talk with her son and tell him to quit being a Border agent!!!!
We finally get to see some parents of Border agent teenagers and I hope she won't be the last person! With over 30 missing teens I doubt that their parents will sit quietly around, so I also expected osamu's parents to act when they heard that their son got injured in his job as Border agent despite being told that thanks to his trion body such things should not happen.
Boy, next chapter with the talk cannot come fast enough! <3
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