Chapter 73-75:
We get to see the snipers who took a shot at Hyrein: Narasaka, Shohei and Toma. We had seen them before though we get two new charas, Tsukimi, operator of Team Miwa and the captain of A2 Fuyushima, a special OPS called "trapper".
Hyrein loses too much trion as Narasaka and Toma manages to shot through the little holes in his fish shield. Moira comes in and takes over the sniper position by warping some rabits over there.
Still, Izumi thinks he won this now as Hyrein had lost too much trion by now. Too bad Hyrein's BT allows him to take-in the trion he had turned into cubes with his animals. And Izumi had to bail-out to prevent getting captured.
Kyousuke aka Karasuma aka Torimaru tries to buy enough time for Osamu to get to HQ by entering Geist mode, taking out a rabit in one strike and trying to take down Hyrein. We see the reason why in a flashback where Jin tells him that he won't be able to change the future for Chika and Osamu as he will be defeated by somebody.
Which exactly happened, kinda scary how accurate Jin's foresight is.
However he put up a nice fight, too bad though that he was not buying time as he thought he was just kept busy and away from the HQ when Moira returned to get Hyrein back to capture Osamu.
What I really liked about this chapter was that a surprise attack in a shounen finally did its frikking purpose: Take out a strong figther in a single strike.
No immortal or illusion or "aha, I am the one behind you" bs, a straight hit from behind due trion bullet fishes send through a warp portal of Moira. Those two got a nice combo going there.
Yet Karasuma's defeat didn't seem to have been for naught as the future did shifted again, for the better or worse, who knows. Maybe it was good that he got defeated as now Border has more information about the portal work and that surprise attack won't be a surprise when they use it next time.
With no Border agents nearby to hold Hyrein away from them, Osamu and Replica make a run through the houses as Hyrein's fishes can't shoot through the walls. Thanks to Hyuse's magnet spikes they can locate his position though and with Moira's warp control they can send the fish swarms inside the houses, sealing off the escape way. Osamu gets hit by some jellyfish traps and Replica's clone, send out to open the HQ door when they arrive, got taken out by Moira.
Osamu and Replica are caugth, their option limited as they can't fight two BTs and their remaining options don't speak too good for them.
This is where the "hero" shows up: Miwa walks down the street, declaring he will handle it.
A single A ranked agent against two Black Trigger user, oh boy, that will either be a short fight, or it will show how even a "in power weaker" fighter can deal with powerful enemies by using the right tactic thanks to the right equipment coupled with the right informations.
But before that fight happens, Osamu asks Miwa to take the Chika-cube and get her to safety which reminds Miwa of the day he lost his sister. Something he doesn't seem to like to remember for obvious reasons.
Man, there sure were a lot of dead bodies with holes in their chests, doubt they will show that scene in the anime if they get there that is.
Well, Miwa kicks the hell outta Osamu, tells him he doesn't care and that he should not depend on others. Man, he's pretty hardcore. Kind of an ass as well, but an understandable ass.
It ends with Miwa telling Hyrein he gonna get killed (I don't doubt Miwa will cut off Hyrein's real head once he has destroyed the trion body one) and chapter ends. Next chapter the fight will finaly start while Osamu gonna try to get Chika to safety.
Raw 83:
Spoiler for Spoiler for chapter 83:
Okay, last chapter ended with Osamu waking up in a hospital with his mother watching him. Turns out she was pretty okay with him getting injured in this job as border agent but apprently did not like that he still "made no progress with Chika-chan". So, she's a shipper of OsamuxChika? Oh man, i can imagine those talks at breakfast and lunch between those two. XD
Osamu has gotten quite a lot of gifts (dat Rilienthal dog plushie! <3) and visitors. Even Kazama has come to look how Osamu's doing.
I'm not sure what Osamu and Chika talked about when she woke up but I guess it was about Yuuma and maybe also an apologize of Osamu when he put her into danger instead to run away.
Usami comes by next morning telling Osamu he got first class achievement, a shiny medal (at least it looks like one, maybe made of trion?), 800k yen (that's a lot of money isn't it) as well as 800 points on his point counter. Yuuma got aspecial one with 1,5 million yen and 1500 points. That guy is B-class in no time now. Hope Chika can become B-class soon as well. And that Izuho gonna join Osamu's team as well once she puts in more effort into her training.
I wonder if there will be such medals and prices after every arc/mission/campagin, if WT manages to become a longer running series and keeps it up to have such tight arcs of around 40-50 chapters instead of 100-300 then Osamu, Yuuma and Chika could collect quite a medal collection with their team for various deeds.
Yuuma shows up as well and gives Osamu a heads-up about Replica on the rooftop.
Apparently Replica is still alive since the clones have not disappeared. Osamu apologizes nad blames himself for Replica getting injured and taken by Aftokrator due his weakness. Yuuma has none of that though and tells him he was the one who instructed Replica to go help them and there's nothing Osamu has toblame himself for. And that they now got another reason to become A-rank to get Replica back.
Osamu cries afterwards, saying it is his wound that hurts though obviously it is the stress of the past months/events as well as his own frustration about his limited power that got way there on the rooftop as Yuuma did not blamed him for anything and instead took part of Osamu's burden to ease it. Good guy, Yuuma.
Makes me a bit wonder though. Osamu after that crying seems much more like a normal teen who just tries to do what's right in his mind though he feels helpless or overwhemled by what is happening around him. Yuuma on the other hand... seems kind of "broken" to me. If we remember correctly he didn't cried for when his father died and I somehow doubt he will cry if Replica "dies" as well. Maybe his trion body can't cry or he has shut down so many of his emtions that he cannot feel sad anymore. We see him laugh and grin but we also saw him having no problem to leave people behind/to their capture/death as long as that meant he won't get caugth by Border. His years as mercenary must have been pretty brutal, I would like to hear and see more of that.
At the end of the chapter Osamu and Yuuma meet Karasawa, the guy who handles the money stuff and foreign affairs of Border, who tells them to come with him. Maybe they are going to another Border meeting where they will talk about what Hyuse has told them/they found out about the horns via Enedra's body and what they should do in the remaining three days before Aftokrator is out of reach?
I sure hope so 'cause that means a Rescue arc and seeing a Neighbor world for the first time!
Q&As from volume 5-8:
Spoiler for Q&A Stuff from WT:
World Trigger Official Q&A (Vol 5-8) Translations
These are the Q&A from the official twitter that has been collected in the manga volumes starting from volume 5. There are still some from twitter that hasn’t been collated yet, but this post is just the translation of the questions that were put in the volumes.
First the ones from volume 5:Q&A Corner 1
Q. Why are all the Border members so young?
A. The biggest reason is that the younger you are the easier it is to develop your trion organ. There are many members who transferred from the Defence Corps to HQ Administration after they reached 20 years old and their trion organ stopped developing. (Such as Sawamura-san)
Q. Do Border’s high school students all go to the same school?
A. For the management of the Defence Corp members’ schedules, they do so as much as possible. But it is possible to go to a different high school.
Q. Does a trion body feel pain from trigger attacks?
A. To the point that they know where the damage is. It is possible to set the trion body so that it feels no pain at all.
Q. Can healing be done with trion?
A. If you mean the repair of combat bodies (trion bodies), that is impossible. Combat bodies are basically disposable. Once a combat body has been destroyed, new trion and time need to be spent to create a new body.
Q. Do Border members receive wages?
A. This will probably come up in the story someday, but yes official members do. B-rank members are paid on commission based on the trion soldiers they deal with. A-rank receive both salary + commission. C-rank are trainees so they don’t receive anything.
Q. When you enter Border, are there any requirements like exams or fitness tests?
A. There is a basic fitness test, a basic academic test, and an interview. But you can only be rejected on the basis of the amount of trion you have and your criminal record. (Osamu was on the verge of being rejected)
Q. Does your trion organ improve if you train it?
Q. Does trion replenish with time and sleep like physical strength?
A. Like your heart and lungs or your muscles, if you train it will improve to an extent, and if you take in nourishment and rest it will replenish.
Q. Is the Lead Bullet an all-purpose option trigger or an exclusive option?
A. It is an all-purpose gun option to be used with gunner triggers. It is possible to combine it with others like Hound to make a ‘Pursuit Lead Bullet’ and so on, but the speed of the bullet and the range will lower quite a lot.
Q&A Corner 2
Q. Why is Narasaka-san pretending to be part of the mushroom household when he is of the bamboo shoot faction?
(trans: a reference to the fact that Narasaka apparently likes the Takenoko no Sato/Bamboo Shoot Hometown candy but has a mushroom hairstyle like its rival: Kinoko no Yama/Mushroom Mountain)
A. To avoid unnecessary bloodshed.
Q. Is Rainjinmaru male or female?
A. From its features it seems to be female. But I think the entire Tamakoma branch believe it is male.
Q. Was Yuuma eating Osamu’s lunch in chapter 2?
(trans: they probably meant chapter 3)
A. It was lunch he’d brought in to school himself.
Q. What is Osamu’s eyesight?
A. Both eyes are 0.2.
Q. Does Osamu take his glasses off when he bathes?
A. I’m afraid not. I suspect he does not remove them even while sleeping. Always glasses.
Q. How do you become an operator?
A. You can choose to be one from the beginning or transfer from being a combatant.
Q. Can only girls become operators?
A. Pretty much all of the operators are women. This is because it is said that women have higher parallel processing abilities. But it is possible for men to become one. In contrast, the engineers are pretty much all men. The men seek solace.
Q. Is there a limit to the number of people in a unit?
A. The upper limit is four combatants and one operator. It is said that any more combatants than that will be too much for an operator’s data processing abilities.
Q. Why are only Osamu and Chika’s outfits different? Can you change it?
A. Chika’s outfit is the shared uniform for all female C-rank snipers (up to middle school). Jin changed Osamu’s outfit. That’s why it has Tamakoma’s epaulet.
This was from Volume 6:Q&A Corner 3
Q. Is World Trigger’s abbreviation ‘WaTori’? Or ‘Trigger’?
A. The editor uses ‘Trigger’. Manager uses ‘WaTori’. Me and the assistants just call it ‘World Trigger’ without abbreviating it.
Q. How far can Jin see with his foresight?
A. For futures that are pretty much decided (futures that have a very high chance of being realised) I think he can see pretty far counting by years. In contrast, futures that can be intervened (futures that aren’t decided) he can only see up to comparatively recently.
Q. Between Izumi and Chika, whose trion ability is higher?
A. Chika’s is higher. Izumi is a genius. Chika is a monster.
Q. Was Rainjinmaru bought from a petshop?
A. Branch Manager Rindou appeared with it one day out of nowhere. It is a mystery.
Q. Why is Kazama-san so small?
A. Small yet efficient. That is Kazama-san.
(trans: a reference to the way new technology is often advertised in Japan)
Q. Does Arashiyama have no parents?
A. He does. His father is a company employee. His mother works part-time. He also lives with his grandmother, younger brother and sister, and dog.
Q. What kind of part-time work does Torimaru do?
(trans: Torimaru = Karasuma)
A. Delivering newspapers, manning supermarket registers, as waiter in restaurants, a lot. There is a rumour that on days when Torimaru has shifts, the number of female customers doubles.
Q. What does Ashihara-sensei think of Osamu’s tendency to break out into sweat?
A. The relation between Osamu and cold sweat is like the relation between omurice and ketchup. (The glasses have the egg position)
Q. Are there any age limits for getting into Border?
A. If your trion ability is high enough there isn’t really a limit, but young people are more likely to be accepted because their trion organs have a higher chance of developing. As expected, it’s an advantage to be young.
Q. Can you use Teleport continuously?
A. Since the distance travelled = the amount of trion used up, there needs to be an interval in between. Long distances (over 30 metres) require longer intervals, to the range of several seconds. For short distances (2-3 metres) it’s about 0.5 seconds.
These are from volume 7:Q&A Corner 4
Q. How do members who have just joined find mentors?
A. First you watch the matches or videos of competent people. After it starts taking shape, approach them yourself or get someone to intermediate for you to become their disciple. You can also just keep challenging individual rank battles.
Q. Are there any people who made it to A-rank without a mentor? (Not including the first members)
A. There are several. Like Izumi or Kikuchihara or Yoneya. Even without a mentor, if you have a rival you can become stronger.
Q. When Tachikawa sliced the Ilgar, did he use Teleport? Or did he jump from the roof?
A. It seems he used the ‘Grasshopper’, a manoeuvre warfare use option trigger that allows you to jump in mid-air.
Q. Do the A-rank high schoolers all go to the same school?
A. There are two high schools affiliated with Border (a normal school and one centred on uni prep.). People like Kodera, Narasaka, Usami, Utagawa, Kikuchihara and so on go to the school that centres on uni prep. Pretty much everyone else go to the normal high school. There are also people like Konami (and Kitora) who go to posh girls’ schools that aren’t affiliated with Border.
Q. When you’re in your trion body, what happens to your actual body?
A. It is stored inside the trigger holder, in the space where your trion body usually is. They switch.
Q. How is the trion body’s uniform determined?
A. There are several basic designs, which each unit then arranges to suit themselves. The typical look is a jersey style that won’t intimidate civilians. There are also ones that have been specially modded to include functions like Kazama Unit’s.
Q. Is the amount of trion hereditary?
A. There is a certain likelihood of it being hereditary, but a parent’s ability won’t necessarily be passed to the child. For instance, Chika’s parents’ trion amount is not particularly high.
Q. Do operators come along for the expeditions?
A. According to what Usami said in volume 3, it seems that they do. Border has laptops that work through trion, so they can support units even during expeditions when there is no power.
Q. Please tell us how many teams there are in A-rank and B-rank.
A. Right now there are 8 teams in A-rank and 21 teams in B-rank. But it could fluctuate at any time as teams move up and down due to rank battles.
Q. What is Reiji’s best dish?
A. ‘Meat meat meat veggie stirfry’ (a meat and vegetable stirfry with three times the amount of meat). One of the standard dishes at Tamakoma.
Corner 5
Q. Is there a meaning in the distinction between using either ‘sempai’ or ‘san’?
A. It seems that generally the middle and high schoolers get ‘sempai’ and anyone higher than that is called ‘san’. In other words, Osamu calling Kazama-san ‘Kazama-sempai’ means…
(trans: Ashihara is probably trying to say that Osamu thought Kazama was a middle/high schooler from his height, hence why he called Kazama ‘sempai’ when Kazama’s age should merit him ‘san’.)
Q. The dots on Kazama Unit’s uniform reacted when they activated Charmeleon. What was that about?
A. A mechanism that decreases the amount of trion used in Charmeleon was included. The cost for the combat body itself becomes higher because of that.
Q. Is Utagawa-kun an attacker or an all-rounder?
A. There are various mistakes in the first printing of the volumes, but the correct one is ‘all-rounder’.
Q. Kogetsu ‘cannot be freely extracted or withdrawn’, is that only while Kogetsu is in use? Or does this apply for the entire time the trigger is activated?
A. It applies for the entire time after you’ve chosen the Kogetsu. Sometimes it looks like the Kogetsu had disappeared, that’s just the author forgetting to draw it. The author frequently forgets to draw things.
Q. Please tell us the performance of the gun-type trigger (shotgun?) Suwa used in chapter 45.
A. It is a shotgun trigger that fires large normal bullets in consolidation. You can adjust the angle of the bullets’ dispersal to a certain point. Its advantage is its high instantaneous firepower, its disadvantage is that there is a pause between firing which can create an opportunity.
Q. How far can you change the shape of a Scorpion? Can you wear it around your whole body?
A. You can change its shape quite a lot. How far you can extend it depends on the trion ability of the user, but the more you extend the more its strength drops, so if you wear it around your whole body it will be as fragile as glass. If it’s Chika she might be able to fight with it around her whole body.
Q. If Tachikawa-san, who seems to be quite a disappointment outside of battle, has any fail episodes, please tell us.
A. He read ‘DANGER’ as dan-gah, he made a fuss about a computer being broken when it was just not plugged in, he only ate the dried fruits in a fruit granola bar, and so on.
Q. Why are Osamu’s glasses an under rim style?
A. He received his father’s frames. (His father is still alive)
And these last ones from volume 8:Q&A Corner 6
Q. Are the sniper rifles always out in that gun shape once you have activated them? Or can you withdraw them, or miniaturise them to carry?
A. Gun types stay out once you have activated them. If you extinguish them, the next time you take it out you will need to use up a gun’s worth of trion again.
Q. Can all-rounders snipe?
A. Basically they can’t. Fighting from close-range and mid-range is what an all-rounder does. Only Reiji-san is a perfect all-rounder who can snipe as well.
Q. Does having good or bad eyesight matter for a sniper after all?
A. Your eyesight in a combat body is restored, so flesh and blood eyes do not matter. Glasses characters retain their glasses in their combat bodies to protect their identities.
(trans: presumably he means to protect their identity as a glasses character)
Q. Is Satori’s twin snipe a superhuman ability? Or did he just practice, and has a knack for it?
(trans: superhuman ability refers to one of Border’s side effect rankings from chapter 56)
A. He practiced. Seeking both firepower and coolness, this was one such completed version he came up with. But no one else imitates it.
Q. How heavy is one hit of Miwa’s Lead Bullet?
A. It seems to be about 100kg. Yuuma’s Anchor seal is about twice that.
Q. Please tell us the relation between Tsukimi-san and Tachikawa-san. (From their birthdays Tachikawa-san seems to be older, but she called him ‘Tachikawa-kun’)
A. They are childhood friends and she was his tactics mentor. It goes Azuma-san -> Tsukimi (and lots of other disciples) -> Tachikawa
Q. When characters go Trigger On, the trion body is in Border’s uniform. Do they make trion bodies with uniforms on them?
A. When you activate your trigger, you can choose between ‘changing into a combat body with designated attire’ or ‘changing into a combat body with the clothes you’re wearing’. You can register several outfits and freely choose between them.
Q. Is Yuuma’s wounds healing after he got hit by the car due to his trion body restoring itself?
A. That’s how it is. It seems that Yuuma’s normal trion body is less endurable than his combat body, but in return it has restoration abilities. I think a normal combat body would not be damaged by a car at all.
Q&A Corner 7
Q. Do gates only open within Mikado City? Have any opened outside Mikado City?
A. They open secretly all over the world and steal people away without anyone the wiser. Because gigantic ones opened up with a bang within Mikado City, the world believe it only happens to Mikado City.
Q. Why is Tachikawa-san in Kido-san’s faction and not the faction of his swordsmanship mentor, Shinoda-san?
A. Kido Faction stresses expeditions while Shinoda Faction stresses defence, and Tachikawa is interested in expeditions into the Neighbourhood. He doesn’t have a dispute with Shinoda-san or anything.
Q. Do expeditions try not get noticed by that nation?
A. Basically they sneak in then get their hands on trigger technology through negotiations or bartering. It seems they also take triggers when they fight back against people who attack them in nations that are at war.
Q. Did Konami-chan’s relative, Arashiyama-san also enter Border at the same time she did?
(trans: a reference to the fact that Konami and Arashiyama are cousins)
A. Konami entered much earlier. Konami was a veteran from the time of Old Border, while Arashiyama joined after the current HQ base was erected.
Q. Does Kikuchihara like anything?
(trans: a reference to the fact that Kikuchihara was the only person to put down the things he hates in his profile)
A. ‘Companions’ and ‘friends’.
Q. Is Konami-sempai’s short hair in her combat body to save trion?
A. It seems she did it so it won’t get in the way while fighting. It looks like she set it to her old hairstyle.
Q. Tokieda says he likes cats, does he own any at home?
(trans: a reference to Tokieda’s profile)
A. He keeps two. A black-ish tabby cat called ‘Arthur’ and a white one with black spots called ‘Tomio’.
Q. Why does Youtarou wear a helmet?
A. Because he constantly puts himself in the middle of battle. Reiji-san made the helmet for him.
Q. Who’s the protagonist, Yuuma or Osamu?
A. Either is OK. Personally, I think of all four characters on the title page in chapter 1 to be the protagonist.
(trans: the four characters being Jin, Osamu, Chika, and Yuuma)
Q. Would Jin get upset if one was to eat the Bonchi rice crackers in his room without permission?
A. Bonchi rice crackers will be delivered to your room without permission in return. In boxes.
I found the "old Border" one interesting. Border existed far longer than 4-5 years given that Yuuma is the child of a Boder agent who traveled the neighborhood and a neighbor woman (if that is the case, we know yet nothing about Yuuma's mother). Border seems to have existed for a long time but as an underground organisation, taking care of Trion soldiers in secret before they went public after that huge attack on Mikado city.
Also liked the question where we heard that such warp gates are opening up everywhere in the world, but the whole world belives that the y exist only in MIkado city due their prominence there as well as the other gates being too small and taking only some people (and since ten thousands or even hundred thousands of people go missing every year who woul believe some of them got captured by aliens? XD). I wonder if that means that Border is everywhere in the world and that maybe someday we get an US Border and a EU Border and a world-wide Border organisation, creating an army armed with alien technology, a threat to any superpower/nation on earth as the public sees Border agents more and more as heroes and saviors while their own goverments lose power and reputation in the raise of Border. Well, we gotta see where this manga will lead us.^^