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Spoiler for Chapter 57 Summary:

Utao rushes in to attack Amaterasu at close quarters using Kukuri's knife, but is driven back.
Shion yells at Utao for approaching without figuring out the enemy's abilities.
They decide to first disarm Amaterasu through long range bombardment (via Souya's Mikumari and Akatsumi's Kagutsuchi).
Souya orders Shion to leave since her kakashi is damaged and has no offensive abilities (plus the fact that he has secret orders to destroy everything, Kirio included).
Moyako asks if Aki would still go after the village if she unseals Kuramitsuha.
Aki says it doesn't matter, he would still do it even if she doesn't help him.
Moyako comments that after all, only Kyouhei can be friends with Aki, and asks how they first met.
Flashback to years ago on the day that Atsushi was going to perform the ceremony to inherit Kuramitsuha.
Atsushi is unhappy that Aki is attending, but his parents insist that the rules dictate all Kuga children to be there.
Atsushi orders Aki to get lost during the ceremony but then changes his mind.
He decides that having Aki there would be good for reminding Aki their difference in status.
Kyouhei interrupts by crashing Kukuri, apologizing that he is still new at controlling.
Atsushi leaves in anger, but Aki sees through Kyouhei and says he doesn't need his pity or his help.
Aki has no interest in attending the ceremony, but Kyouhei persuades him to go, saying that Kuramitsuha might not respond to Atsushi and choose Aki instead.
Back to the present, Kyouhei discovers a removable section in the bars of his jail cell.
Apparently no one bothered to check after Aki escaped.
(Presumably this is how Hirashiro arranged for Aki's release.)
Moyako is surprised to receive a call from Kyouhei's house.
Hibino, Kuuko and Shimoyama are at Kyouhei's home, assisted by Kyouhei's father.
They call Moyako to alert her of the Kuga's plans and Souya's orders to eliminate all evidence.
Hibino decides to go free Kyouhei at the shrine; Kuuko is excited by the chance to create more chaos.
"Wait," says Kyouhei's father.
Mahiru visits Moyako to take control of Takemikazuchi and join in the battle.
She is shocked by Moyako's fashionable attire.
Koushiro appears at the battle with Amaterasu.

Originally Posted by blitz1/2

Chapter 57

Spoiler for ch57:

Ok, from what I can figure out is that Utao begins the attack to rescue Kirio (and fails of course)
Then we have Aki, who comments to Moyako that he has to go (rescus Kyohei?) There is a small flashback in how Aki and Kyohei met each other (Aki was bullied by the same person that killed sensei when they were younger, to be interrupted by Kyohei who was probably training for the first time with Kukuri)

Kyohei manages to break free from the jail thing (because some of the bars were loose, mostly due to Aki's doing in the past.He stumbles onto more scribblings of Aki, which all say, "Must kill Kyohei..."

Chapter ends with Utao and the others readying a second wave attack.

Spoiler:

Aki doesn't even know Kyouhei is imprisoned.
He says he is going ahead whether or not Moyako helps him unseal Kuramitsuha.
Moyako asks how Aki first met Kyouhei, hence the flashback.
Actually, Kyouhei only feigns incompetence and crash lands Kukuri in order to drive Atsushi away.
It was Atushi's big day to inherit Kuramitsuha, but we can all guess who ended up chosen by Kuramitsuha...
I don't think Aki could have cut those metal bars cleanly by himself...
Hirashiro must have arranged it to free Aki.
Kyouhei doesn't discover additional scribblings, he's just looking back at the cell before he leaves, thinking to himself he owes Aki one.

Originally Posted by stuopidget

Just to add

Spoiler for 57:

It's implied Kyouhei intentionally bugged in, and the ceremony they were going to attend is Kuramitsuha's bonding ceremony, that Aki didn't want to attend because he thought the seki relationship was predetermined, but Kyouhei told him that's not set in stone because the bond depends on if Kuramitsuha responds.

Looks like Mahiru is also getting a modded (improved?) Magatsuhi back too.

There's no way they have enough firepower to take on Amaterasu still at the moment. Probably gonna wait till 6 vs. 1.

I hope Kyouhei gets either Mikumari or Tokotachi (temporarily maybe, and Aki gets the other one haha) before the end, though I'm curious what Kukuri's new tricks are.

Spoiler:

Mahiru is taking Koushiro's suggestion and asking Moyako to switch Kirio's Takemikazuchi to her control.
I don't know if Magatsuhi can be fixed...
It was pretty much smashed to pieces and exploded. RIP Magatsuhi
I don't think Kukuri has any new abilities, it just looks more heavily armoured.
Well, Utao has yet to fully utilize Kukuri's old abilities anyway.
Why would Kyouhei take control of Souya's Mikumari?
I think Aki is sticking with Kuramitsuha to the end; the only question is what can the fully unsealed Kuramitsuha do?
(On that note, 8 years ago during their first encounter with Amaterasu, Kuramitsuha should have been unsealed back then but Aki didn't do anything special.)
Kukuri under Kyouhei's control should be a match for Amaterasu but I really don't see Kyouhei stealing control from Utao once again.
Tokotachi seems to be only choice for Kyouhei to enter the battle as a seki.

I'd like to see the full form of Shion's kakashi but I don't really think they have 3 days to do the modifications.

Originally Posted by vansonbee

Hello, was wondering what chapter would be episode 12 of the anime?

and does anyone know if Utao gets a bigger role in the manga, like with a new doll?

Episode 12 would correspond roughly to Chapters 36-39.
Utao has the same role; the anime follows the manga quite closely, especially for the major characters.
Given Utao's attachment to Kukuri, I don't think she would ever agree to switch dolls.

Originally Posted by blitz1/2

nope, Utao still has Kukuri.

Although, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future volumes, we would see some more ancient Kakashis, which would basically be similar to the Amaterasu type and that the village just reverse engineered these things.

I don't even know if the village technicians are able to create new kakashi's from scratch.
The ancient inventor that created the kakashi's for the village as thanks for helping him escape political persecution only made 10.
That's the village's 8 surviving ones (until recently), plus 2 that were lost in some ancient incident (Amaterasu + Tokotachi).
So the only kakashi yet to appear is Tokotachi.