2012-12-26, 03:05 | Link #9744 | |
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I need to catch-up on this thread but figured I should post this here since I think everyone would be interested in reading it. It's rather lengthy and extensive, but I go into why I absolutely love Cruz's development as a character and why I feel that it is the greatest thing about Needless.
http://avvesione.wordpress.com/2012/...d-in-needless/ I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! Edit: Quote:
I've bought everything through a local bookstore that's part of a chain in Japan. I'm able to order anything from the main stores in Japan, so that's how I was able to buy Volumes 1-13 of Needless last year at one time. It's also how I'm able to have a subscription to Ultra Jump. The store is Kinokuniya and they have a few branches in the US. I'm not sure where you live but they have 4 stores in CA, and one in NYC, Seattle, and Portland. It looks like a few stores are stocking Needless (4 stores have Volume 15 on their shelf), so you might be able to order it from one of them and have them ship it to you. Here's a link: http://www.kinokuniya.com/us/index.p...tion=keySearch
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2012-12-26, 04:12 | Link #9745 | |
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2012-12-26, 06:55 | Link #9746 | |
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I'll guess I will use Yesasia.com, its almost twice as much but that free shipping is worth it, just have to buy in bulk.
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2012-12-26, 12:28 | Link #9747 |
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One thing has been made clear with these latest developments.
If this decisive fight is ever going to end with the victory over Arclight, it won't be through strenght but, once more as it happened back with the fights against Arca or Strom among others, through strategy and wit, as well as a helping hand from someone in the enemy side. Arclight has proven to be far too powerful, to the point he isn't even using any fragment, and he's got an impenetrable barrier around him. It's now when Cruz should stop and recall Arca's last words, which I believe is the key or at least the main step to bring Arclight down once and for all. The main question is, when she mentioned, "the right and the left hand of God", was she using rhetoric words or by "right" and "left" she meant... Uten and Saten? When you think about it, Arca knew Arclight always boasts of being God. In addition, those two always flank him wherever he goes. I don't think Arca ever knew of Cruz's fragment to begin with. Oh, and for all we know, Uten might be already there, only no one can't see him at the moment. It will be interesting if Kafka comes too, because I can't wait to see his reaction when he finds out Cruz is the girl who warned him about his fate. |
2012-12-26, 19:37 | Link #9748 | |
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2012-12-26, 20:24 | Link #9749 |
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I am still partial to this. Disk and the others may have said that, but I'm taking what they said at face value due to certain reasons. Aruka refers to the person as "him", and by reasonable deduction, Cruz would be the most likely person. However, as the manga has proven, the obvious answer is not likely the correct one.
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2012-12-26, 23:09 | Link #9752 |
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I'm still leaning towards that Seth and Solva being fake or them somehow able to return. Maybe they didn't have time to clone them right this instant, but maybe what they did instead was save their memories and take the bio data from this point in time so they can bring them back later, like Uten and Kafka were.
Either way, I'm saying this because while I wouldn't put it past this manga to have some shockingly abrupt character deaths, if that was the end for them for the whole manga it should have at least been a shockingly abrupt death "on screen." |
2012-12-27, 00:41 | Link #9753 |
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Decided to update this.
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It don't think the middle Arclight was ever meant to be apart of the 12, meaning this picture only has 11 of the 12 holders. Which also means number 5 likely isn't Cruz since that has yet to be reveled.
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2012-12-27, 01:11 | Link #9755 | |
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That aside, we know Bermuda, Psychokinesis, 4th/5th Wave, Graviton, Magnetic World, Rainmaker, Flame, Agnishwattas, and Ice are each individual Stigmatas. That's 9. He has 11 now that he gained 2 of the 3 he was missing. If Doppleganger is one, that's 10. So the ones we don't know are actually 2: one he does have but he hasn't used yet, and one he doesn't have. |
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2012-12-27, 01:16 | Link #9756 | |
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Psylocke scans just released an english version. After reading the chapter again, I don't think Set and Solva are going to make a counterattack inside Arclight, because he really eats them. You can see blood gushing out from his shoulder "mouth". It's disgusting. If he just absorbed them I would be more inclined to believe it, but now . . . no, not possible. I'm still hoping for Cruz to compare Gido with Aruka. Just have to wait until next chapter. The more chapters that have been released lately, the more waiting has become a pain. Anyone else have that feeling?
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2012-12-27, 01:43 | Link #9757 | |
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Also Kanna can be #7, Arclight could have just re invaded the city after Seth and Solva left.
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2012-12-27, 11:27 | Link #9758 | |
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As for Seth and Solva, I don't know about the later, but in the Black Spot doujin that takes place somewhere in the middle of the second part of the story, there's a girl whose name is Seth. If they are not making a counterattack, I believe is now when that big sword is gonna play its true purpose. |
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2012-12-27, 12:59 | Link #9759 | |
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I guess it goes with the territory when cloning technology is available to have suspicions, but as much as I like Solva, I really hope it was the real Seto and Solva which got devoured by Arclight. We've already seen people turning out to be alive when they were supposed to be dead, but if Seto and Solva join those ranks it becomes harder and harder for me to take death serious anymore. By the way it looks like Seto had those Edenseed spear marks on her belly when she was eaten. I'm not sure whether that means anything because she didn't have those anymore when infiltrating Simeon's headquarters as a prisoner, but it was just something I noticed. |
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By the way, did anyone else notice there were no jokes in this chapter? Not a single one. That's pretty unusual for this series...
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