IY 497: Kohaku's Neck

Mar 13, 2007 22:09

Freelance Manga has the scanlation up here. My thanks to Patches and Sparks as always. ^^

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manonlechat March 14 2007, 03:13:38 UTC
What a great chapter! Tense, dramatic, emotional--everyone playing a key role on stage (even Kirara!). Can you imagine how gloriously great this would play out if they animated it beautifully, with the voice actors and music?

This really is close to the end... It's obvious now.

SOMEBODY had better give Sesshoumaru major flack once he gets back, for leaving his little family unprotected like this. But I'm glad that he IS gone, because I sense some kind of dramatic closure/reckoning between Sango, Kohaku, and Naraku.

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amara_anon March 14 2007, 03:30:12 UTC
Yeah, I see now that RT had to have Sess throw his little hissy fit to get him out of the way here and make it all dramatical. ;) But someone better give him a hard time about it. Maybe Inuyasha should punch him in the face? I'm sorry, that would be so funny. XD More likely than not, I bet Sess inwardly beats himself up for being so careless.

Ugh, yes, how I wish we could see this animated. It sucks that if it ever is animated, it will be such a long way off.

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numisma March 14 2007, 03:14:38 UTC
Oh my goodness... I have to read this chapter asap. I can't even remember the last time I read the manga myself. It's been... a couple years? ^_^;;

But KOHAKU!!!! ♥

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amara_anon March 14 2007, 03:32:25 UTC
Yes! Go, read! Stat!

And let me know what you think! ^^

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numisma March 14 2007, 03:38:21 UTC
I am done and I am so excited I'm flailing in IM over this with a friend and asdfkjsadlkfjsda lkfjdslkdsmkfdlvn lkvnmdlksvjndsjklfjdklvnmdslkjvnlj;fgn;slakjfglk j *__*

I am incoherent, I tell you.

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amara_anon March 14 2007, 03:40:50 UTC
Gah, wow.

So you gonna start reading the manga again? At least through 500?

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haro March 14 2007, 03:31:07 UTC
Good chapter. ♥ Highly suspenseful, and very dramatic. It felt genuinely dangerous and that's just wonderful. I feel like that's been lacking for a while. Naraku really gained some of his edge back with that move on Kohaku. T__T I really hope for lots more Inu-tachi and Kohaku in coming chapters. ...I also liked seeing IY use kaze no kizu. His new attacks are nice (except ds-tessaiga, which I don't like), but I liked seeing him go back to the basics.

Jaken cares about Rin so bad it hurts. He seriously loves that girl so much. I mean him bawling at the end of the hell hound arc proves everything. He may try to cover it with 'Sess can't cry, Sess will be pissed,' but those tears were totally genuine. It makes me gooey inside.

I don't watch AI, but I caught some off and on at work. Sanjaya was awful, no offense. How do some of these people get to the top twelve? :\

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amara_anon March 14 2007, 03:39:18 UTC
Yes, genuinely dangerous, that was it exactly. Just a really great action-driven chapter that didn't feel dull or generic at all. Naraku feels dangerous again. I also liked seeing kaze no kizu again for some reason.

And Jaken = ♥. He is consistently getting some of the best lines these last few months whenever he shows up. Oh yeah, when he cried for Rin that time? Total goo. ;)

Sanjaya just doesn't have the stage presence or a powerful voice. He got through because the little tween girls think his hair is cute or something. Every year there's at least one guy with a horrible voice who gets through because he's the least sexually threatening and he gets the little girl and grandma vote.

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alterfano March 14 2007, 11:43:47 UTC
yeah. this was a good one. i loved that they all got to fight, but i'm worried for Miroku again too. And sango against Naraku all alone! that's not good.

and yeah. 11 years old and going thorugh this shit. NOT fun at all. RT is really showing her dark streak here.

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amara_anon March 15 2007, 19:41:38 UTC
Somehow she always makes it so that I worry for characters I "know" are safe.

I love her dark streak. Seeing Kohaku cutting into his own neck like that... freaky stuff.

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alterfano March 15 2007, 20:54:00 UTC
very freaky *shivers*

and she didn't even need any words to go with it

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chiquita_queen March 15 2007, 00:18:22 UTC
Yes! I loved this chapter. Hopefully, we'll see some more Sango action. I'd love to see her smack Naraku around. As for Kohaku, I've been expecting him to die for a long time so it wouldn't be a surprise, but I'd love it if Sango could find some way to save him.

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amara_anon March 15 2007, 19:39:47 UTC
Yeah, Sango needs to smack Naraku around a little before the others come and steal the spotlight. ;) And I hope there's a way to save Kohaku too.

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