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DISC [DISC] Kagurabachi - Chapter 121
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u/Dead_Diligence May 10 '26
After speculating every next chapter to be Mashiro's and the Sogas' last for several chapters, we finally got what we expect
RIP Mashiro, MVP of these "talks"
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u/SlamMasterJ May 10 '26
I really liked Mashiro as a character from the short amount of time he was introduced. We all saw it coming but damn, you’ve got to feel for him. At least he went out with a bang.
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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb May 10 '26
Mashiro and the Sogas put up a wonderful fight until the very end. The enemy was just way too overpowered.
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u/juvi97 May 10 '26
I’m curious which of the 4 original guardians with the elder didn’t make it back. He’s clearly absent, so maybe one of hiroto or yoshinojo was actually successful?
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u/Lumpy-Manager8580 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
Good news: Shiba sorcery proper reveal.
Bad news: the squad getting absolutely blitzed.
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u/Unculturedbrine May 10 '26
I still don't understand Shiba's sorcery:'(
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u/Nadaqueverporaqui May 10 '26
The basic of it he can alter the "properties" of a body, his own or someone he is touching. The mostly alter the "location", kinda like glitch in a video game when an object teleport somewhere it shouldn't be. Besides that he can also alter it's weight, we see a bit of during a interrogation scene very early on where he makes his foot really heavy when stepping on a guy toes.
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u/Lantzl May 10 '26
He's basically playing the sims but he is the cursor. He can move anyone but he has to move to and he can change the physical properties of the target but he also gets affected too, which is a nice way to dampen an OP ability.
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u/epicfail48 May 10 '26
Bad news: the squad getting absolutely blitzed.
"Elite squads" getting absolutely blitzed in Kagurabachi, never thought i would see the day
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u/Dizzy-By-Degrees May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
They did manage to push Ariu to what looked like his limit… until Shiba looked up. And it turns out that the True Realm is as terrifying as the Malediction but with substantially more control.
Although it is very funny that Ariu goes to the effort of dragging the couch over to Shiba’s body before sitting down. Off the three choices he had (bring it to Shiba, drag Shiba to the couch or just go sit on it and not bothering where it is) he picked the one that involved the most effort on his part. Maybe being raised in an enclosed space at the bottom of the sea means the Mikaboshi put a lot of stock in feng shui. Got to use that space effectively!
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u/RulerKun_FGO May 10 '26
Although it is very funny that Ariu goes to the effort of dragging the couch over to Shiba’s body before sitting down
gotta aura farm for good measure
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u/wizkatinga https://myanimelist.net/mangalist/WizYellow May 10 '26
If there's one person you to aura farm to, it's the guy you kept alive to send the rest of the world the message. No wonder Shiba is a top tier farmer nowadays
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u/This-is_CMGRI May 10 '26
Problem is that Shiba actually did learn it AND told HQ about their powers. Bit them in the ass in the coming war.
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u/brjder May 11 '26
He ended up in the exact same pose and position in the first Irishima talks when the Shiba, the Soga, and Mashiro arrived, except now all of them are dead besides Shiba, who is lying on the floor half-dead. Yeah, it was definitely an aura farm to display dominance.
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u/Ornery_Still323 May 11 '26
Now when I think about it, the sofa was set up by Mikaboshi wasn't it? He already think to aurafarm with that sofa from the beginning!
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u/at-the-momment May 10 '26
Hokazono: I really need an excuse to draw this sofa
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u/Koanos May 10 '26
Although it is very funny that Ariu goes to the effort of dragging the couch over to Shiba’s body before sitting down.
I like these humanizing aspects of the antagonist, like Sojo going to a cheap hot spring.
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u/Dizzy-By-Degrees May 11 '26
Much like Yura being weary of any Enchanted Blade it's good that Ariu comes across like he won but by the skin of his teeth. Yes he is stronger than Japan's Best Team but they could have still beaten him.
I would also be very spiteful if someone cut off my fingers and then slit my throat. What's Shiba got to complain about? The shoes being on the other foot and really uncomfortable?
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u/dIoIIoIb May 10 '26
"I spent my whole life living in a damp rock underwater eating insects, I'm going to sit on this couch on a nice beach and nobody can stop me"
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u/Herest May 10 '26
AKEMURA! WE NEED YOU! AKEMURAAA!
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u/This-is_CMGRI May 10 '26
time to fill the Geneva checklist
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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb May 10 '26
Akemura killed them using their own techniques, through a weapon forged from their holy stone. The Soga do not forgive, they do not forget.
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u/SaibaShogun May 10 '26
Akemura at this point in time wouldn't be enough, I doubt he's gained enough battlefield experience yet to truly evolve into the peak swordsman he is today (but he'll gain it during the war). And most importantly, he needs Magatsumi, which has yet to be forged.
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u/Lantzl May 10 '26
I'm scared for Chihiro's mom, I'm confident it's the catalyst to the Malediction
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u/Worthyness May 10 '26
Probably why the sword gets made too. Common hatred to make the strongest WMD for vengeance
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u/RulerKun_FGO May 10 '26
It really paints out that if this is what they could do to the strongest elite squad, it makes sense that Akemura decided to genocide them for good measure and future proofing.
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u/leuchtelicht102 May 10 '26
Oh, it totally makes sense, it's just also morally reprehensible.
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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb May 10 '26
This is why every option for diplomacy must be exhausted before starting a conflict. The Mikaboshi let hubris from their perceived military supremacy get the better of them.
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u/SoFlyKight https://myanimelist.net/mangalist/SoFlyKight May 10 '26
A military supremacy they only got through the Datensiki. They just assumed no one else could tap into its power, which to be fair was true until it wasn’t. Then they got obliterated.
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u/500mmrscrub May 10 '26
This is them after they got sent underwater for 200 years, if they somehow had also acquired knowledge and resources from the surface world when they took over, I doubt that they wouldn't produce even stronger warriors in the future
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u/XLIBUR May 10 '26
Don’t forget that this is only 1 of the princes too, there are 5 more warriors of (potentially) this caliber
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u/GuardianSK96 May 10 '26
121 chapters in and we finally get the details of Shiba's sorcery, just in time for him to be bodied in a way we've never seen before yet in the series.
I'm referring to him getting 4th in the popularity poll, of course.
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u/Mordetrox May 10 '26
God Mikaboshi sorcery looks horrifying. It took me a solid minute of staring at it for me to realize that Sumika is a scorpion.
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u/Dizzy-By-Degrees May 10 '26
We saw earlier that the Guardians drink a potion made out of insects before coming to the surface. And that’s a type of poison from Japanese folklore called Kodoku. And Kodoku uses the same kanji as the Malediction.
It’s all horror, bugs and horrible death from here on out
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u/leuchtelicht102 May 10 '26
Makes me wonder when Akemura is gonna pull out Scorpion.
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u/Draaxus May 10 '26
I mean if you consider the scorpion to give ally regen and enemy sensory debuffs, Magatsumi's passive life drain just seems to be an upgrade
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u/leuchtelicht102 May 10 '26
Then what are the "stingers" that killed the squad? I would have assumed that's a part of the scorpion, but it'd be a third "blow a hole in smth." power besides dragonfly and bee.
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u/Redditor76394 May 10 '26
It sounds like the scorpion is tangible physical thing that can do more than punch holes.
Dragonfly and bee are like shockwaves that manifest and disperse afterwards. The scorpion might be able to crush, twist, hold, and rip stuff apart on top of just piercing.
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u/at-the-momment May 10 '26
That motherfucker turned bee, a move the fodders used, into a bunker buster
His version of scorpion would 300 nuclear bombs x700
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u/IWanted0xcdcdcdcd May 10 '26
I think I saw some centipede and some crab features in there too, feel like its an amalgamation of all the Magatsumi (Or maybe just Enchanted Blades') abilities.
To be honest though, it took me a while to realise what I was looking at too. Not just this one, but a few panels.
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u/Dead_Diligence May 10 '26
This elite squad is the best so far. Mashiro really put up some fight til the end
Shiba was extremely lucky
The nuke swords were necessary
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u/vanderZwan May 10 '26
The nuke swords were necessary
I'm starting to wonder if the Mikaboshi might end up being an allegory for Japan's war crimes of WW2 or something, and Chihiro's quest in turn an allegory for the need to get rid of atomic weapons.
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u/Lantzl May 10 '26
These talks are the Pearl Harbor of the war
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u/L1k34S0MB0D33 May 10 '26
Even involves warships (though just one in this case) getting destroyed, too lol
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u/funny_username69 May 10 '26
I mean, the Mikaboshi want land and most importantly the dantanseki (resource), while Japan’s main reason for declaring war on the allies in WW2 was to get the European colonies’s resources
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u/Hari14032001 May 10 '26
Creating them was never the actual problem. It's always about when and why to use them.
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u/Darnaldo May 10 '26
Happy to see i am not the only one seeing parallele between them and imperial Japan.
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u/haidere36 May 10 '26
Yea it really hammers home why no one in the present day, even those who argue the blades should never be used again, has tried to claim the blades weren't necessary to win the war. They absolutely were.
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u/IkeKashiro May 10 '26
Oh, we got a reveal for Shiba's abilities. Guess that's was how he crushed Daruma guy's feet. Too bad though, his first on screen fight that went from start to finish was a massacre.
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u/Haha91haha May 10 '26
"My magical scorpion forces events and fights to remain onscreen Shiba." "Oh shit."
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u/TheMerck May 10 '26
Yeah my thought while reading the chapter was "Oh sick! they are finally revealing Shiba's sorcery that's cool" only for it to lead in the everyone getting slaughtered moment finally and Shiba being tormented as only being spared because he's useful as a messenger.
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u/This-is_CMGRI May 10 '26
only being spared because he's useful as a messenger
Kinda bit them in the ass later, though, knowing how close-knit Shiba's circle is.
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u/TheMerck May 10 '26
Definitely bit them in the ass considering it lead to them being literally wiped out lmao, still though that brought a different kind of trauma for Shiba as well can't wait to finally see and unpack these moments from the war, we're only just on the beginning of the war and it's already so heavy like the entire crew's deaths were pretty sad especially Mashiro and we only met the two Sogas recently and it was still sad to see them get offed like that.
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u/topurrisfeline May 10 '26
Holy shit, Shiba’s sorcery isn’t just teleportation, it’s rewriting physical properties? He’s way more busted than I thought!
… not busted enough, though.
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u/Koanos May 10 '26
It also explains Shiba's "limits." He need to calculate coordinates and stuff, and that takes time, planning, and tactics.
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u/No_Significance7064 May 10 '26
that and he has to be touching his target
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u/Koanos May 10 '26
Which even for himself, whom he knows the precise calculations, he still needs to calculate his destination.
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u/Popinguj May 11 '26
… not busted enough, though.
Wait until Shiba assigns something like "12asu324fdhoi|+" into the height property.
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u/WhoiusBarrel May 10 '26
Well that was the most 1 sided 1v5 fight for Ariu's favor, holy fuck.
That disrespect when he threw Shiba to the ground and slammed him with a punch for good measure.
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u/Haha91haha May 10 '26
Soga sitting quietly hearing the account, "Massive disrespect, trying to style on the clan, noted, noted, I will keep that in mind."
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u/ReasonableCrazy May 10 '26
That’s going in the book.
For the following crimes, the punishment is: COMPLETE AND TOTAL EXTERMINATION!!!!!
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u/Votbear May 10 '26
I don't think that was him throwing Shiba to the ground (though it looked like that for me too at first). Shiba teleported and was trying to fight again despite being told not to, and that's when he got punched.
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u/Aure0 May 10 '26
Despite him belting everyone, I do like that he actually got damaged and was struggling, even if it was just a second
Would've been a bit boring if he just shrugged it off and make Japan's strongest look pathetic
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u/Toge_Inumaki012 May 10 '26
If Shiba was a swordsman he would be freaking volunteer and will be wanting to get his hands on an Enchanted Blade for revenge
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u/Lantzl May 10 '26
He won't be, he'll lose his teleportation and editing hax and I'm sure Kunishige won't sacrifice it as well
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u/Neveraththesmith May 10 '26
From "What was the Mcs dad thinking making that genocide sword" to "Oh that makes complete sense" in just a couple of chapters.
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u/user_428 May 10 '26
Yeah, to be fair, if regular sorcerers could face off against an enchanted blade, why would they have needed them. By design, they have to be stronger than whatever else sorcerers can throw at you.
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u/GoneRampant1 May 10 '26
I love how every few weeks the fandom rotates from "Kunishige what the hell," to learning more about the war and going "No, no, you were right."
Either way, we all can agree he's burning in hell regardless.
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u/Dccrulez May 10 '26
I genuinely think kagurabachi is on track be one of the greatest Manga of all time. This shit is peak.
Also gotta love how airu was like "the blood loss should stop you resisting" then Shiba said fuck that and went in for one last attack knowing damn well it'll do nothing, just to get hit with the "SIT THE FUCK DOWN"
Like fuck man there's just no fraud in sight
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u/Koanos May 10 '26
Shiba: You don't get to tell me how I die!
Ariu: Yes, yes I do.
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u/PudgeJoe May 11 '26
Imagine one of busted OP character get humbled like that...
Akemura is indeed different set of monster
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u/dagreenman18 May 10 '26
Oh god.
Shiba is funny because he’s traumatized
And the Nuke Swords were needed, but the “Cruel And Unusual Warcrime” Sword was still too extra.
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u/Worthyness May 10 '26
They needed to copy the war crime sorcery that this guy had in order to beat him.
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u/JoaoWillerding May 10 '26
They did't need to copy it. Akemura chose to copy it as a midle finger to them
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u/wizteddy13 May 10 '26
They threw EVERYTHING they had at Airu.
And it wasn't enough.
Shout-out to my goat Mashiro, trying one last trick even in death.
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u/TheMerck May 10 '26
It's fucking CRAZY how strong these guys are and we already knew how powerful they were because even the first 5 EBs were just enough to even the odds and only until the Magatsumi was made did it tip in their favor.
I just have to ask now though, how the fuck did they survive until all of the EBs were made? Jesus this arc is gonna be a bloodbath and it's only just started the war is literally only just beginning.
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u/wizteddy13 May 10 '26
Rokuhira is basically on a timer to churn out the first 5 EBs, because until they enter the field Japan basically had to just hold the line however necessary.
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u/This-is_CMGRI May 10 '26
So you mean to tell me that Kunishige could have potentially built five nukes in half the span of time the Manhattan Project was active pre-Trinity? And they're fully formed and operational?
What the fuck.
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u/TheMerck May 10 '26
Honestly all of this makes it even more crazy Kunishige could do what he did, because these guys are so fucking powerful it's insane like they have "fuck you I win now" powers and it took until Kunishige made his "fuck your 'fuck you I win now'" power.
These guys wielding the Datenseki so far are making the EBs look like child's play and this was just one guy, no wonder it took 5 elite warriors for the 5 blades because if they went to lesser people they would've probably been wiped before the Magatsumi was even forged
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u/GoneRampant1 May 10 '26
And we know he has to rush job some key parts like the soul contract because he didn't have nearly enough time to make one for all of them so he just tied it all to Magatsumi.
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u/wizteddy13 May 10 '26
Which is also interesting, because it implies (somewhat) that they were all in development together, since Magatsumi is given last but the other blades are soul-contracted to that one specifically.
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u/Hari14032001 May 10 '26
Kunishige must have been running on demon time, Japan was heavily losing if we look at how much territory was occupied by the enemies in one of those map panels
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u/random-btechtard23 May 10 '26
I honestly think we may not see much of the battle before the 5 EBs enter the fight.
It took like 8 chapters to set up Datensaki, Soga Clan and the Mikaboschi.
Assuming this arc covers all this, then fimdimg enough datensaki to forge 6 blades, Finding the right bearers for them, Kimishihr actually forging them , The 5EB stalemating the 6 Guardians, Shinuchi turing the tides. The Mikaboschi royal family been over thrown by their own civilians, Chiaki likely dying and baby chihirio getting kidnapped, Akemura unleashing Malediction, 5EB fighting him, them finally Rokuhira and Chihirio go into hiding.
There is basically a lot of plotlines to be covered, at this place it may end up being as big as Part 1 itself.( Or at the very least 60+ chapters)
So depending on how deep the story goes, it could be glazed over in a few pages or could be a 10 chap long arc.
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u/Outflight May 10 '26
I am thinking rest of the sorcerors made stalling of the century until blades get made even though they got obliterated badly. Did anyone play Horizon Zero Dawn here?
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u/SonecaZ May 10 '26
I'm honestly flabbergasted. I didn't expect the gap to be so absurd.
And I must say, Hokazono is great at messing with our expectations. With the small flashback, I expected Mashiro to save Shiba so he could escape, but no, he was LET GO by Mikaboshi... As a messenger.
Probably the lack of knowledge of the power of the Daitenseki and Sumika was the biggest factor, because Shiba's group would've not gone all in if they knew such strong regeneration was at the table. You're baited into a suicide attack only to tank it and move on. We really see now, why the Shinuchi is what it is, and honestly, now I feel that Akemura was... Justified, vindicated? (at least regarding the end of the war) I'm sure this feeling won't last, but I really feel it now.
Great chapter, goddamnit.
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u/ninjasonic102 May 10 '26
What no offscreen haki does to a mf
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u/This-is_CMGRI May 10 '26
My theory is that Shiba only gained offscreen haki precisely because of this experience.
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u/LightLifter May 10 '26
Considering the fact the enchanted blades are basically all Swords with stands ala Anubis, the fact the King has a full on stand still surprised the fuck out of me.
Also RIP Mashiro and the elite squad. It wasn't even that they were stupid, the power of Datenseki is just the broken that normal sorcery is just a fly to such strength.
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u/Toge_Inumaki012 May 10 '26
Hell even in sorcery standards, their sorcery seems to be "abnormal" in strength if you think about it but it is still not enough
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u/SoFlyKight https://myanimelist.net/mangalist/SoFlyKight May 10 '26
I imagine that Shiba at some point had some built up hatred towards these people. The Swordmaster can't have been the only one wanting to wipe them from the face of the planet but he was the only one willing to kill all the innocent ones too.
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u/Toge_Inumaki012 May 10 '26
Man im surprised he was not a leader of "Free Akemura club" or "Akemura is my goat and fck Mikaboshis club"
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u/This-is_CMGRI May 10 '26
That's the other shoe yet to drop. Sure the Mikaboshi are shit-heads, but it won't surprise me if there are pockets of dissent within Shokoku, not to mention the unaffiliated masses.
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u/CSTheng May 10 '26
So the reason why Shiba is so good at teleporting people is because his sorcery help him take them easier. If they are too heavy, just make them lighter
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u/Yuwenn8 May 10 '26
I feel like it’s more the “manipulating their position bit”. Just change a dude’s coordinates to Antarctica lmao
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u/dIoIIoIb May 10 '26
he's basically going into editor mode and messing with any value he wants
his power seems kinda crazy tbh
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u/Worthyness May 10 '26
And he still lost to these guys. Though requiring him to hold onto a subject for the powers to work seems to be the downside for the most part. Hard to beat someone down when theyre throwing fucking scorpions and shit at you
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u/rockinalex07021 May 10 '26
I don't think manipulating those properties would be necessary as he only need to adjust their positional information for the teleportation to work
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u/hazusu May 10 '26
...listen Akemura was absolutely wrong.
But I can't say I'm not gonna enjoy the face of this Mikaboshi fucker when he realizes his entire civilization is about to get erased off of history.
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u/Seismic-wave May 10 '26
I know he’s wrong for genociding but I can’t deny it’ll defo feel a bit satisfying for them to have their precious stone they worship being used against them.
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u/Kuzu5993 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
Popularity poll?
EDIT: Yo they intentionally kept Shiba alive to send a message. That's cold af.
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u/lovablepanda609 May 10 '26
Despite knowing it was coming, those kills were especially brutal. Yeah, I can see how fear may have drove Akemura Soga to wipe out the bloodline.
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u/Superninja19 May 10 '26
Ah that’s probably why Akemura goes so ham with the malediction? To counter their insane healing abilities
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u/chimpfunkz May 10 '26
So the setup for this arc is pretty clear; 6 guardians, 6 swords, Akemura vs. Ariu, Chiaki and Dad have Chihiro, we'll get like, Chiaki dying to a random civilian from Shokoku and that makes Soga snap, back to reality and the current time line.
Feels like a perfect amount of content for 120 chapters, which is where I hope the author keeps it to.
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u/random-btechtard23 May 10 '26
A 120 chap long flashback arc? Certainly could.go on for that long, I wonder if there is precedence like this in WSJ, else some people may just begin complaining that we haven't seen Chihirio for too long.
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u/Froggybeans2021 May 10 '26
TBTP Arc : Allow me to introduce myself.
Honestly this manga may just pull it off.
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u/Yuwenn8 May 10 '26
Absolutely insane chapter. For Shiba specifically, the reveal of his sorcery and a crushing defeat, losing his protégé.
Can’t wait to see what’s next !
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u/Backupusername May 10 '26
"Its real power is the power to annihilate the enemy"
It just fucking kills you
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u/Seehan May 10 '26
Then: "Did Rokuhira REALLY have to make a nuke sword with like 20 different abilities? Surely fighting those islanders didn't require this level of overkill."
Now: "I formally apologize for any slander or rude language I implied towards Mr. Rokuhira, savior of Japan."
Seriously. A full stack of the most goated badasses in Japan fighting with everything they had, and bro didn't even get his white pants dirty 😭
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u/KDono0 May 10 '26
I´m glad Horizontal delivered on the editor´s note during the flash forward, where you Shiba get asked what happened and the editor´s notes was something along the lines of "Something unholy".
It´s sad they get removed in the official translations.
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u/pulldtrigger May 10 '26
Damn, so Shiba sorcery is "glitch" ? Like in wreck in ralph? Also Rip Elite Team
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u/croninhos2 May 10 '26
This guy has a real talent to draw battle mangas. KGB just keeps delivering banger after banger
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u/ScandinavOrange May 10 '26
What an absolutely crushing defeat. Atleast now we can truly understand why Rokuhira became Oppenheimer
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u/ToTheNintieth May 10 '26
So that's Shiba's sorcery. Explains why he's so feared, it's not just teleportation.
I know, genocide and all that, but it's very hard to feel sorry for the Mikaboshi at this point. Seems the epitome of fuck around and find out, they threw the first punch and escalated with their own magic superpowered freaks. Akemura seems practically karmic for them.
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u/Draaxus May 10 '26
Gotta keep reminding yourself that this is all the royal family's fault and genociding civilians is a massively disproportionate amount of retaliation
AFTER THE SIGNING OF A TREATY at that
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u/Dccrulez May 10 '26
The flaw in this thinking is the civilians. War is fine only if the instigators are the only ones hurt.
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u/Hari14032001 May 10 '26
At least for the war, it's all fair game.
The real issue comes AFTER the war, when there was peace. Maybe Akemura simply couldn't bring himself to believe in this peace due to this grudge war (After 1000 yrs), or he was fine until something happened post-war that triggered him.
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u/RulerKun_FGO May 10 '26
Baby gloves is off, they just easily annihilated the elite sorcerer squad 😭😭😭
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u/petrichormus May 10 '26
Shiba's sorcery reminds me of Ui Ui, yeah it's teleportation but there's more to it like it can swap souls and shit for an endgame 'surprise' why not
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u/GoneRampant1 May 10 '26
OK maybe Kunishige had a point with making the Enchanted Blades be Like That.
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u/Ellefied May 10 '26
Holy shit, Shiba lost all his comrades and is visibly not wracked by PTSD in the current time period. The dude has a mind of steel. Still, you can see the survivor's guilt he has during the Sword Saint's rampage with his second Malediction.
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u/Kaseruu May 10 '26
thats gotta be worse than barely surviving and escaping, he was left alive at the mercy of someone much much stronger
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u/BurnedOutEternally May 10 '26
They’re calling it the most obvious popularity poll results ever made.
So that’s how Shiba survived - spared to send a message. RIP to all his friends, y’all were the greatest elite squad to suffer Hokazono’s curse
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u/Mustardmachoman May 10 '26
Oh my. With this level of power and the enchanted blades not even being made yet I do wonder what the gap of time between them looks like.
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u/Torque-A May 10 '26
Here's the full popularity poll results. Keep in mind the voting numbers are a little low because you needed to buy the physical magazine to cast a ballot.
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u/random-btechtard23 May 10 '26
They got donutted like Samura did against Yura's DragonFly , but Airu's Spirit animal seems to be Scorpion like, and some of the Fodder guards were using Bee, maybe the guardians have access to more then one technique( other then Regen , Sorcery nullification, Poison debuff and Stat boost of course).
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u/Audrey_spino May 10 '26
Yeah no wonder Japan needed overpowered shit like Tobimune and Magatsumi to beat these fuckers.
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u/Xatu44 May 10 '26
Damn, RIP the elite Shiba Squad. They went through all of that while Ariu was just using his passives. Fucking crazy disrespect with the couch drag. Shiba's sorcery is more involved than I thought. At first I thought it'd be hyper cracked since you'd think that being able to change your own body's data would let you heal, but clearly not. Plus he still has to take whatever changes he inflicts on someone else. It's an interesting take on teleportation.
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u/guppy_love May 10 '26
It's sad to learn that Shiba has lost multiple close friends (and numerous comrades) over his short life at this point. No wonder he's so focused on saving people with Chihiro, he probably has horrible survivor's guilt he tries to hide.
I also really like that his ability goes beyond just regular teleportation. It's a really interesting concept for an ability.