#ch148

[opbackgrounds]

Two things here: 1) I love that Usopp doesn’t hesitate. Through the power of the mask, anything is possible, and 2) this moment is beautiful all on its own, but I think it’s underrated how Luffy’s command to burn the Government’s flag so perfectly foils how far he went to protect Hiliruk’s flag on Drum Island

Like, an argument could be made that Luffy cares for flags as symbols more than the average person. If the World Government was a person and Luffy spat in their eye, I’m not sure that would be more disrespectful than this moment here, and he’s perfectly aware of that

[shysheeperz]

[pardon-my-scifi]

I see you, Horikoshi. I see you.

[cashmoneychiyo]

[grolia]

Hi guys, grolia of @cashmoneychiyo here!! Apologies for the delays in our GSNK releases, as real life has been hitting us like a truck-kun and it's been difficult getting hold of members. But we've still been hustling, and I've decided to give a preview of the upcoming releases to ease your minds -- Volume 14 omakes and then Chapter 148 (final translations pending).

Thank you all for your patience and keep a look out for them o7

[delusinaldreamer19]

My sense of the timeline for when each arc of the Kuro manga came out is so warped.

I was looking at a Claudia/UT fanfic that was first published in 2015 and I was like “wait…Claudia was revealed back then?”

Definitely because of the anime, in my head 2013-2015 is like book of circus release time frame. But no, in the manga the circus arc concluded in August of 2009 😭.

[amuiiart]

Teenage dream

[Up coming event] Tabling at Ch148 in #AFASG24

AFA Singapore 2024 📅 29 Nov - 1 Dec 📍 Suntec Singapore 🌐 animefestival.asia/afasg24

[midnight-in-town]

Lightning's flashback : Ch70...

vs ch148.

Anyway be right back, crying about Osceola's flashback. </3

[tenebriskukris]

Oshi No Ko Chapter 148 - My Thoughts/Analysis

I don’t think I’ve been more disappointed in an Oshi No Ko chapter as much as I have for Chapter 148, but there’s still some stuff to talk about despite said disappointment. As always, spoilers for Oshi No Ko Ch148 below.

A beach chapter??? After the absolute gut punches that were the last few chapters? No follow up to Aqua or Ruby or Hikaru at all???

Please explain to me why Minami is showing up here after being tossed like garbage for the past few dozen or so chapters? She hasn’t even been plot relevant in this arc! I know it’s because she’s connected to Ruby in some respects but if she’s not going to do anything interesting for the narrative why the hell is she even coming back to the spotlight? Really, I could say this about a bunch of side characters on the movie set but at least they actually showed up for the arc, even though they barely did anything that we could see.

Taiki mourning his car is a running gag that is funny but completely useless in the grand scheme of things. After the horrible pacing of this arc is this bit really necessary? No, and the fact that it still got pushed through when there are several other things to dwell on irks me. This is what side characters have been reduced to—comic relief.

Oh hey Gotanda! Been awhile since we’ve seen him at least. And once again Kana’s tongue strikes the director’s weak spot. Ouch. Ruby also doesn’t help things, but at least she’s known the director for longer than Kana has in order to say such things. It’s the difference between when a friend or someone you know roasts you versus someone who you’ve only met once or twice does it.

Ack! Aqua’s black star eyes. Well, I guess it was too much to hope that he’d lost them permanently. 

Huh, so the movie arc’s finished filming? I suppose that makes sense considering what we had last chapter, but it’s still a bitter pill to swallow considering that the movie barely gave us anything about Hikaru and Ai that couldn’t have been extrapolated beforehand.

Frill is a beast, as always. She takes two months off her schedule because She Can and her popularity’s going to be fine afterwards. I dunno how accurate that is to real life, but usually big shot actors and such choose which jobs to pick, but even then they also have to follow the schedules of their manager? Though with enough pull even that’s something that can be leveraged, I suppose.

Taiki oh my god. Does incest run in this family or something? It must be something in the Hikaru genes.

And Frill in a full diving suit! The gap moe is real. Melt having mixed feelings is a sign of his bad taste! Look at her legs! 

The Akane-Kana interactions are gold as always. It’s always funny to see how they both seem to change their behaviors when the other person is around.

There is an entire page dedicated to unnecessary beach scenes, but I’d like to point out the fact that Aqua is barely in any of them and Crow Girl of all people is. It’s obvious why the former isn’t there but the latter being Here At All throws me for a loop. Oh, to be a fly on the wall to hear Aqua explain why it’s so necessary for Crow Girl to be here on this outing at all.

And then there’s the eventual Akane-Aqua conversation. For all of her talk of “I’ll stop your plan, Aqua-kun.” she never really interfered with the movie. She’s just content to stalk Hikaru and hope that Aqua doesn’t decide to stab him himself. Which feels like the wrong move—if Aqua wanted Hikaru dead by his own hands, he’d have done it by now after he knew his identity.

Akane trying to talk about Aqua’s revenge scheme and trying to persuade him otherwise is something both funny and a bit too late. She’d already thrown her shot during their breakup so it’s interesting to see why she thinks she can get through to Aqua again when there hasn’t been much change in his circumstances. The movie being produced is certainly one big change, but I don’t think that this whole “social sanctions” that she’s referring to are going to take root when Hikaru has an eye on the movie through Kaburagi. Perhaps she’s just saying that to try and convince Aqua. 

The movie in-universe feels alot like a nothingburger, really. Ai wanted to be understood through this movie and Aqua used it as a vessel for revenge. And his “attempt” at revenge only dredged up a little controversy. As soon as the next fad comes around, the public’s attention is going to drift from whatever Aqua’s put in front of them. He should know this. Even Ai’s death was eventually cast aside and forgotten by the masses. Why would Hikaru being the twins’ father be any different? 

Not to mention the fact that they still can’t prove that Hikaru manipulated things so that Ryosuke could kill Ai. The movie might lean into that direction, but that doesn’t amount to anything—even businessmen and corporate executives will look the other way at illegal and morally reprehensible behavior if it benefits them. Why does Aqua think that this movie will change anything about Hikaru’s life besides letting him know that Aqua thinks he killed Ai?

Welp, that’s Kana formally bowing out of the Aquabowl. Akane hasn’t been in the running for ages now so this conversation between them might as well be her resignation. Her giving up Aqua and asking Akane to get together with him is almost certainly not the behavior of someone who’s going to win Aqua’s hand. It would undercut so much about how everyone else has struggled for the Aquabowl since the start.

Akane’s face as Kana says all this is just brilliant. She must feel so poleaxed by Kana, especially with her previous thoughts leading her in the direction that Aqua likes Kana even though at the time Aqua was in a relationship with Akane herself. Who’s in the right here? Both of them and none of them, really. Aqua likes both of you, but romance hasn’t ever been his priority since he’d been focused on his revenge plot. Trying to fix him by pushing someone else to get together with him isn’t the way to go.

This chapter was not necessary. I think the presence of a fucking beach chapter wasn’t necessary just to set up these Akane-Aqua and Akane-Kana conversations. This conversation could’ve been around the movie set, or done through a variety of flashbacks—it’s not like the manga isn’t shy about doing that sort of thing. Though maybe we’ll be getting a followup on this scene in the next chapter, but with the manga’s garbage pacing right now I doubt it.

Of course, all of this is just avoiding the elephant in the room—Ruby’s confession. I’d mentioned previously that if Aqua pushed Ruby away she wouldn’t have reacted the way she’s been multiple times after Ch143. Leaving that up in the air when both Akane and Kana are making their own plans to help Aqua and try and help him just makes this entire love triangle garbage feel even worse than it already is. 

Realistically speaking both of them have already shot their shot and failed for various reasons—so attempting to string the reader along by dredging up the love triangle angle is such a tone-deaf narrative decision. Yes, Akane wants Aqua to be happy, yes, Kana wants Aqua to be happy too. But laying it out narratively Like This just serves as a proxy to serve up this love triangle plotline that we’d already got stuffed with earlier in the manga. Bringing the spotlight back on this topic when there are already so many other more relevant topics in the movie arc that weren’t explored for some godawful reason is a kick in the teeth. I’m just hoping that we don’t get anymore screentime for these girls meandering around Aqua and instead do something that’ll actually affect him in some manner.

[elmaxlys]

Tokyo ghoul re really feels like it was some corporate meddling or something I just can't wrap my head around how we can go from TG to that

To me, :re's initial premise was incredible and Haise's simple existence could have lead to some amazing later developments - opposing Kaneki, initially a human, living with ghouls while retaining his love for humankind, he's a ghoul living with humans while retaining his compassion for ghoulkind. It all went down the drain after Black Reaper. I can elaborate but that's just full on talking shit about Kingneki and I feel like I'm alone in my sheer hatred of the guy so I'll spare you.

Long post short: from "it may not be stylish but live" on, the story on Kaneki (so our protagonist)'s side put all its eggs in the "if you can't live beautifully, live for someone beautiful" basket. Kaneki lives for his friends and his friends live for Kaneki (just look at Shuu oh my god this is the saddest/worst case of all) (or live for people who live for Kaneki, such as Ayato and Yomo, who live for Touka who lives for Kaneki). The social commentary was solely carried by the Clowns from then on, and they'd already been established as sadist people who don't give a fuck and like to stir things up for fun so why trust their actions? Also, since everyone else lives for Kaneki, they automatically oppose the Clowns, since the Clowns are with Souta and Kaneki opposes Souta etc etc

There's more to be said, about Hide and Kanou especially, but I haven't read the manga recently enough for my thoughts to be coherent.

But basically, ch148-149 are an amazing summary of what's wrong with TG:re for me:

Hide: I wanted to help Kaneki through the betterment of society, I already failed once but I won't stop trying (the only guy who understood the assignment. clown!hide theories made a whole lot of sense i tell you)

Itori: *lying* Kaneki killed humans to save you and help ghoulkind! this puts Goat on the right track for the betterment of society :D don't you love him and what he did for you?

Randos: :O op your mind

Shuu: but consider this: we don't care, so long as Kaneki in body and flesh is here with us 👍

Goat mains: ur so right bestie

Randos: L + ratio + we don't have any sort of fighting power or living chance without the MCs so sure, whatever you say, might makes right

Itori: oh well i tried

TL;DR: I shit on King for that all the time but the entire MC group is egoistical as fuck, which is why Goat is the worst thing that ever happened to Tokyo Ghoul, and Goat was born from King, hence King fucking sucks (it's not slander if it's true) and the Clowns were right

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This doesn't even really answers your ask but I have a lot of salt in me, sorry

[catcas22]

Prince of Death ch148

Prince of Death - Chapter 148 - catcas22 - Elden Ring (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

[nagirambles]

Rambling about Fairies - Manga Chapter 148 Cover

Oh hey wait. That looks kind of like the cloak he wears in the Celestial Spirit world. A bit different, but same idea. Gray should wear cloaks more often. He usually only wears winter jackets.

Honestly these Celestial spirit clothes were cool, especially the male versions. There’s a decent variety of designs that aren’t just palette swaps, and that's fun. I miss when Mashima allowed himself to experiment with clothes that are cute without emphasizing hourglass figures, like the green dress Levy’s wearing. 

I love how some of them clearly belong to a set, it’s so cute. Wendy even has wing hair ties to match the exceeds. 

[shysheeperz]

[awak3n]

[cashmoneychiyo]

A happy 2024 to our readers + [now closed] recruiting new cleaner(s)!!!

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