I know what you were all thinking.
"There's just no way Amano could ever top vegetables and old men," right? I KNOW BECAUSE I WAS THINKING IT TOO. But you know what? We were wrong.
1. I AM GOING TO ASSEMBLE A SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMITTEE WILL BE TO MEET AND DETERMINE IF THIS IS, IN FACT, THE BEST THING AMANO HAS EVER DRAWN. AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT COMMITTEE'S FINDINGS ARE ULTIMATELY GOING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION WITH A "YES." BUT IF NOT, THEN I WILL JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT MY BELIEFS DO NOT HOLD WITH MODERN SCIENCE. AND THEN I'LL HAVE TO START A CULT. THE CULT OF SHITT P. WHO'S WITH ME??
NO BUT SERIOUSLY I AM DIGGIN' THIS COVER, DUDES. I THINK LOOKING AT IT IS ACTUALLY GETTING ME HIGH. dsfalkj
2. Is this going to be a Gokudera chapter. I think this is going to be a Gokudera chapter. 8D
Do you suppose Gokudera really just walks around narrating his life all day in his free time like this? "The Inheritance Ceremony is coming up! Until then, I'll protect the Tenth flawlessly! GONNA BUY A NEW SUIT, GONNA MEET ME SOME MAFIA CELEBRITIES. Ohhhhhhhh yeaaaaaah, everything's coming up Gokudera." And then he actually pauses to make that smug, smug face in the middle left panel, HAHA. JUST WHEN I THOUGHT HIS QUIRKS COULDN'T GET ANY MORE ADORABLE.
3. --JESUS FUCKING CHRIST AMANO. I see your ability to draw INCREDIBLY SOUL-MAIMING THINGS hasn't dulled in the slightest. D: GIEGUE FAMILY ARE ZOMBIES?!!? Wait, holy shit, are these guys related to those creepers who stalked Kyoko and Haru all those chapters ago? I'M THINKING YES. I'M THINKING THIS IS A FAMILY OF CREEPERS.
--FLYING! FLYING CREEPERS!! OH MY GOD THE NIGHTMARES I WILL HAVE.
4. "GOOD MORNING TEN--BZUH??" Oh, Shitt P. You make me so happy.
Also I love Gokudera's hair so much. Idk. I'm just throwing that out there.
5. Daaaaaaamn, SHITT P HAS THE CONCENTRATION OF A THOUSAND YEAR OLD MOUNTAIN HERMIT. It takes serious zen skills to just sit there while some crazy guy shoves insects in your mouth. On a related note, this chapter seems determined to scar me for life!
GOD REBORN YOU'RE SO RACIST U.M.A.S HAVE FEELINGS TOO YOU KNOW. >( Of course, he's probably just talking smack because he loves fucking with Dera. And don't we all?
6. Wow, I'm already looking forward to future Shitt P chapters. You never know what the fuck is going on. |D AFTER HER, GOKUDERA! WE'LL HOLD DOWN THE FORT OVER HERE!
...okay what. What is this page I don't even. SOME HALF-ASSED ASSISTANT BETTER BE OUT OF A JOB FOR THIS.
Let's kidnap the Gokuderas from the "WHERE'S SHE GONE??" panel and the "I SAID!!" panel and force them to duel until we have a victor. And then that victor can battle Gowadera for the championship.
7. And so our hero bravely pursued the bouncing alien lady through the streets of the town and apparently through a public bathhouse, while the readers tried in vain to sort all of this out logically in their minds. Then, suddenly, as if pinged by the other boobs on this page (AND THERE WERE TOTALLY BOOBS YOU GUYS, WTF)...
ADELHEID APPEARED! And so the two hottest characters in the manga were suddenly pitted together in a showdown of hotness, and I'm sorry, I think I just died from a nosebleed. If Ganauche suddenly turns up, I'm screwed for certain.
Anyway, Adelheid decides to try her own hand at Jesusing Gokudera but frankly it's been done so many times by this point that it's really kind of trite by now. In any case, Gokudera smartly runs off halfway through her explanation because he has the attention span of a--squirrel!!1
8. Hmmm... signals, eh...?
BY JOVE, I THINK HE'S GOT IT.
This is the dramatic scene in this chapter, incidentally. THE TENSION, YOU CAN FEEL IT...! I'm on the edge of my seat oh my god.
9. --SHE SPEAKS! :O :O :O
And, uh. I have no other reactions for this page except that I fucking love this manga.
They even did that thing from fucking E.T. AHHHHH why is everything amazing?!
10. And just to round everything out, this chapter ends with a dude FUCKING EXPLODING.
Things:
- DUDE
- WHAT
- The "world's leading fighting family" sure does suck.
- No, seriously, what??
- A female fighter? Could he have possibly been talking about Adelheid?
- And even if he wasn't, a female fighter who completely wiped the floor with the strongest mofos in the entire freaking mafia? MIRACLES DO HAPPEN~
- Lastly, ring flames that aren't sky, sun, rain, storm, lightning, cloud, or mist (in case you weren't counting, that's ALL OF THE TYPES)? Oh wow, suddenly I think I might have severely underestimated the potential for awesomeness in this arc. AND I WASN'T EXACTLY SELLING IT SHORT OR ANYTHING TO BEGIN WITH.
Next week is a color page! Aw hells yeah, please be color Nonos. *_*
Also I fell behind on comments again, but I'll get to those soon! But like, later tonight, because right now I have to go and beat the crap out of my sister (she is testing for her black belt tonight ♥).
ETA: S-she. She beat me up. 8|
Also, since I just totally had a brain fart apparently, Happy Birthday to aroundight, rukawagf, and morphaileffect!