#ch132

[opbackgrounds]

It's a little detail, but I like how Oda has different arrow designs for different characters and regions

[new-romantic-sailors]

hadn't realised I was reading That kind of comic

[pardon-my-scifi]

Fern. Sweety. Baby. You are one of the more sane people in this world. Please don't eat the hair.

[abybweisse]

What do you think, who will be the final villains?

Maybe Queen Victoria will be a negative character in like in the anime?

Could London burn down like in the anime?

I've answered asks like this a few times.

Basically, I still expect the big bads to be Queen Victoria and John Brown, much like the queen and Ash Landers/Angela Blanc were in s1. But I doubt it would include London burning down.

I do, however, expect/hope that Tower Bridge is discussed as part of the reason the Phantomhives were attacked. Because I think that Vincent wasn't as helpful as the queen wanted when she asked for money and workers... and after the attack, the estate was relinquished to the crown, and she moved funds and people from the estate into the bridge project. Which points back to what our earl says (ch85) about how long it's taking to build the bridge -- that humans have priorities. I think that Vincent focused on other priorities, while the queen wanted all the needed resources for the bridge right away... since the bridge was historically dedicated to her dead husband, Prince Albert. There are other clues about this, like the timeline itself for the bridge project in the manga (ch85 again, see below), as well as Vincent saying (ch132) that bridges and ditches take a lot of money and help (manpower).

Sebastian points out in ch85 that the project plans were approved around when the earl was born, so 1875. Then he says construction didn't actually start until 3 years ago. This discussion is in 1889, so construction started in 1886. Well, the twins were born in 1875, and Vincent's priorities were his pregnant wife, the expected child, and their estate's prosperity. The attack happens December 14, 1885, and the demon contract is made ~Jan 20, 1886. Then construction "magically" begins around the time that our earl is working to regain the estate under the Phantomhive name. Vincent had previously (ch132 again) warned Francis/Frances that if he didn't have an heir who could run the estate, they might have to relinquish the property to the crown. That's exactly what happens between the attack itself and our earl officially becoming Earl Phantomhive. Our earl officially gets the earl title on March 17, 1886 (ch63). In the letter the queen sends to our earl, she even confirms that the estate and title were in her hands until it could be returned to the Phantomhives (or bequeathed to another family).

Though there is probably more than one reason for the attack on the Phantomhive family, I theorize that a big part of it is essentially a money (and labor) grab by the queen.

[decompression-melting]

chapter 132: fuck the plot, look at how small and cute this cat is— SHIBARI????

oh wait this is important actually. uh. what wang yi said

anyway some more cute pics. look how tiny white is next to wang yi

NOT THE CAT

business partners or partner partners ;))) either way i’m happy for her

IS THIS ALLOWED??? BILIBILI????

we could’ve had it all. we could’ve had nipples. i’ll take the shibari though

[gradelstuff]

[toyota-supra]

I’ve seen this term literally everywhere but to this day it’s still very difficult putting drifting into words in my head. I genuinely don’t understand the difference between techniques even with so much watching and playing.

I imagine though that this is impressive because it was her speed in the entry that carried her exit? still hard to conceptualize, but very cool

[real-mr-meat]

perhaps this should be required reading for catholics

[yoursjae]

Johan is going to live. He's going to live happily ever after with his two best friends, his mom, his two dogs, and his family. He's going to get that damn haircut after years of having an overgrown mullet and he's not going to die. No, he has not been with us since the beginning because he's only been here since ch132. So there's no way he's dying! And yes, I am being delusional so someone please save Johan before I actually lose my mind

[midnight-in-town]

Hello. I don’t know if you talked about it but why everyone favours the older brother Ciel Phantomhive but don’t care or bother to listen younger brother. Also Undertaker what his purpose to see twin brothers fight and set up OCiel, which I get impression he cares more about RCiel than OCiel. What do you think about it?

Hey, thank you for passing by the askbox. I understand that you are new to my blog, but as I mentioned to you and as stated on my blog : before asking a question, you ought to briefly check if I haven't answered similar questions in the past. :)

As far as Kuroshitsuji is concerned, I doubt there is a single topic left I haven't talked about, so the masterpost can be useful for your search and you can also browse the tags.

Short answer to your questions :

"why everyone favours the older brother Ciel Phantomhive but don’t care or bother to listen younger brother"

That is not what's going on : our!Ciel's family was shocked by the recent news, but the situation escalated too quickly for them to do anything about it at the moment.

For more details and future theories, please check these posts :

About Frances: why ch132 is her being very caring because she loves her family [addition] [stop harping about her, folks, or so God helps me]

A summary about Lizzie’s dynamics with the twins

More of Lizzie’s development later in the arc

About an eventual Edward & Soma team up for more investigation

About Ed eventually choosing our!Ciel’s side

Frances Midford as a mentor to our!Ciel and her kids 

Ed got competitive towards real!Ciel because he created his sister’s insecurity issues

"I get impression Undertaker cares more about RCiel than OCiel"

That's not the case : UT cares about both twins, he was very clear about it in ch131, just like he was clear about what his main objective was, in ch140.

It's just that, currently, real!Ciel's revival is dependent on blood transfusions, while our!Ciel is lively and has Seb by his side.

I hope I answered your questions. Next time, please search before asking. I will delete redundant asks, thanks for understanding.

Have a good day !

[aihoshiino]

do you think b komachi (specifically the 4 founding members) were ever friends at one point? i think 45510 implied it with how ai refers to them being friends before and nino saying that ai didn’t ‘cling to her friends’

personally, ive assumed that they were never close due to that rift between her and the rest of them therefore leading ai to want to make friends with them but knowing that they mightve been close in the past (even if it was brief) before distancing themselves away and growing to resent and envy her is just

Idk it hurts

I THINK ABOUT THIS SO MUCH AUUUUUU...

The Spica novel implies they never really connected at all and that there was some pretty nasty bullying of Ai basically immediately but uh, the Spica novel also has a lot of weird contradictions with the main series so I kind of just have been taking everything from it with a grain of salt... it'd be one thing if it was actually written by Akasaka and he was retconning but I genuinely think this Tanaka guy just did not know anything about oshi no ko when he wrote it lMDKMSLSKS

SO COMPLETELY IGNORING SPICA IN THAT REGARD...!

It's hard to pin things down exactly because we've never gotten a proper snapshot of that part of Ai's life. The closest we come to having anyone from that time period talk about it is in 45510 and Nino is sooooo biased that it's hard to know how seriously we can take her words.

I tend to believe that Nino is mostly telling the truth about how things went there from a purely narratively utilitarian standpoint of "this is our only source for this particular information so she cannot be a wholly unreliable narrator", even if her obvious emotional bias means you can't just uncritically accept what she says. Kyun kind of accidentally corroborates this in Viewpoint B where she describes Ai as being a little distant and seeming to have her walls up, which matches Nino describing her as 'aloof'.

I don't think this was something Ai was doing intentionally, though! This isn't something anyone in B-Komachi would've had context for but immediately worth noting is that, given that we know Ai can't be any older than 11 or 12 when she debuts in B-Komachi, this is two years at the very most out from her being separated from her mother. As Ayumi herself admits, her abuse of Ai escalated and peaked when Ai was eight or nine years old and Ai was put into the children's home and abandoned by her not long after. Given how fresh the wounds of abuse and abandonment would've been, it's really not a shock to me that Ai might have been kind of wary and defensive in a way that would've read as aloofness to kids who don't know what's up with her.

And also, like... Ai is autistic lol! She literally has a type of neurodivergence that affects her ability to socialize on top of her being implied to have been pretty poorly socialized up to that point as well. Chances are good that during this important period of making first impressions in B-Komachi that she probably wasn't great at masking, so that combined with her already having her guard up a bit likely would have made her seem really standoffish.

With all that laid out, I think my read of what initially happened with the founding members and Ai is that they were all reaching out to each other but ended up missing the final step they would've needed to really connect. The other founding members eventually gave up but Ai never stopped trying to reach them even long past the point where even she admits that they probably hate her. She never gave up on the idea that they could be friends.

It's definitely sad! I think the way the founding members fell apart is a really good depiction of like... an emotionally messy situation where it's hard for me to really blame anyone. In the aftermath of ch132, I've seen a lot of people really ragging on Nino and blaming her entirely for Ai's isolation within B-Komachi but like... isn't Ichigo also to blame for letting things get that bad? Isn't it the manager's job to make sure toxicity like that doesn't fester? Hell, a big part of why the girls in B-Komachi resented Ai is BECAUSE of Ichigo - because the group's management spotlighted and promoted her to the extent that all the other girls felt like they were just there to be Ai's backup dancers.

Thank God that could never happen with the present day generation of B-Komachi, right? Ha... hahahahhaa...............

[catcas22]

Prince of Death ch132

Prince of Death - Chapter 132 - catcas22 - Elden Ring (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

[pardon-my-scifi]

How tf did this chick survive alone? Petition for Frieren to always have a parent and to never be left alone.

[abybweisse]

I don't know if you've already mentioned this in any of your posts about Tower Bridge, so hopefully I'm not repeating the same idea back to you, but there's a detail I feel supports your theory regarding Queen Victoria reallocating the Phantomhive resources to that project. It's the abandonment of the Phantomhive estate and land.

I was reading this post and it occurred to me that the Phantomhive manor not being in use when O!Ciel returned with Sebastian is a sign that Queen Victoria didn't care about the Phantomhive's property so much as their other resources. O!Ciel returned to his manor in the same state it was left in during the attack, and Sebastian fixed it. Perhaps Victoria sent someone there at one time, but it seems to have been abandoned throughout the twins' captivity. Furthermore, O!Ciel and Sebastian were able to use the manor in secret for a time. No one came to check on the place until their presence was known.

I find this to be a reasonable sign that Victoria only had use for their other resources. Or none of them, but I feel your theory about her using the Phantomhives' resources is more plausible than that.

Left to decay

I've talked about it before but not with much detail.

Not only was the manor itself left in ruins, but the roads apparently needed repairs. Bridges, too, and getting trenches re-done. All the work that had been done while Vincent was there (ch132) was left to deteriorate. Only a couple months, probably, but weather and constant use will create a lot of wear and tear to roads and bridges. The roads are probably mostly dirt/gravel anyway, and those need constant maintenance to keep ruts from forming where the wheels usually roll along. And erosion, debris, etc. will start to refill trenches. Besides, we don't know what repair/building/digging projects were still just in the planning phase when Vincent was killed.

Some of the estate dwellers were still on the property, like the old man who was probably deemed too old and infirm to work on Tower Bridge, as well as some of his grandkids, who were too young/not skilled enough. I imagine that the vast majority of people who stayed would have been too old, young, or weak to be of much use to the queen.

Our earl might have found out that some of his residents left to work on the Tower Bridge project in London, but he might have figured they left simply because there were better work opportunities in London and elsewhere; he might have not known the queen relocated them... and allocated them. Or, if he knew the queen had used funds and resources (people), he might have automatically accepted it since Phantomhive Manor and the surrounding estate was in such a sorry state of affairs. It had been relinquished to her, so she had "every right" to do with it as she pleased. It's probably just never occurred to him she could have caused this to happen, with the intent to take the money and move people around.

He probably hired more people on as soon as he could. Perhaps a few previous residents returned once they found out it had been restored. And he made repairs as soon as he could, in order for the workers to transport their goods to market with ease again. Even in ch120, that old dairy farmer we see again and again is praising him for repairing those roads.

Even now, there are some younger adults, but a lot of the residents are very old or very young.

Real Ciel says that it looks like cheap goods from the US were having a negative impact on the sale of Phantomhive estate goods, and that might be true. However, if the workers on the estate had trouble even getting their goods to market, and if the workforce was reduced, the issues were way worse than whatever real Ciel realized.

[laarems]

I will be honest this piece became slightly less funny-cute after ch132

I really like csm part 2 so far but i miss my goddamn family

[gradelstuff]