#this is chapter 208 for reference

[shaba-the-art]

Redraw of a manga panel

[syn4k]

having a really normal evening in q's chapter draft can you tell

[pistatsia]

Plot armor

ao3 | Teen | Lin Ling & Original Nice | Chapter 1/3 | 8k

“That blood and sweat factory is squeezing him dry! Where is Moon? Shouldn't she do something for him? Hold on Nice, at least we, fans, stand with you. We are watching you, Treeman!” Lin Ling blinked. He widened his eyes. He turned to his phone, swiped away the widgets, and turned on geolocation. It showed his city in China. Like hell they were in China! ‘Oh, they’re squeezing every drop out of him,’ huh?! What happened to ‘Oh, the workload’s too much for you? Feeling tired? 208, pretentious, get out of the spotlight, shameless buyaolian!’ Well? Where did that go, dear netizens? What happened to ‘Went against the current? Let’s spit on him from above, just to make sure he drowns!’ In his post-resignation work sprint, Lin Ling forgot the most important thing that defined the laws of marketing. People, damn them, were inconsistent.

A dark period in life is always followed by an even darker one: just ask Lin Ling, who, in his attempts to destroy Nice's ranking, accidentally raised him to the Top-10.

Tags: Crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Attempt at Humor, References to Depression, Fix-it, maybe the real reputation damage was the friends we made along the way

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[necronatural]

gsgw chapter 208 spoilers (huge)

BRAUN KEPT REFERRING TO KIM SOLEUM AS ROE DEER BECAUSE THATS LITERALLY HIS ONLY NAME

[ezralva]

Unpopular opinions but from what I've seen around since ppl predicting his death, most of Choso's fans still got so hung up on that 2 panels of Yuki's last words in the past that they perhaps skipped the fact that neither Choso, Yuuji, nor everyone afterward nor the narrative until this very chapter ever touched on the subject whether Choso is a human or a curse even matters, it's just figurative speech back then to justify that Choso deserved to live beside Yuuji, as long as the latter allowed, which Yuuji did.

Most of the arguments I saw was that if Choso died then Yuki's sacrifice was for nothing. Imo that's more of a 'You' problem, depending on how one wants to interpret it. This 'black and white' separation is clearly just more important for the fans but actually not so much in the narrative for the arcs afterward.

Let's be more objective with what happened after chapter 208 and it's the fact that we never saw Choso or anyone ever hinted a scene afterward whether that statement (of his identity) is important anymore beyond that arc as Choso never referred to himself as either or shown that he was in any dilemma anymore due to it. Or that his still being a half-curse standing between the sorcerers ever became a problem or caused a rift amongst them. Readers should start admitting that literally no one in JJK after chapter 208 ever brought that topic again of what Choso is or cares about it. Choso was given the chance (and also a confident boost) to be with Yuuji and Yuuji allowed it so he took that. For others, the only thing that matters to them is that he's siding with Yuji and thus with them. The next thing we knew, the narrator referred to him as one of the sorcerers. We saw him smiling and standing naturally among the entourage who cheered for Gojo's last battle, the guy he tried to kill before. Other characters refer to him as just 'Choso'. Choso only cares that he is Yuuji's big brother that needs to protect him, not what he is now that he sided with the sorcerers. Yuuji himself is also a half-curse now so that's the more reason for Choso not to care abt what he is, not when his last little brother is finally the same as him.

Even in this chapter when Choso said 'I need to apologize to Tsukumo too', there's still no flashback to that 1 scene because it was preceded by Yuuji reminding him that it's not an enough reason for him to disappear after Yuuji became strong and is immediately followed by, 'Yuuji, I'm sorry for leaving you again'.

To me this is more referring to Yuki's words at the bar when she said "but if you die, he'll be alone again" and the fact that Yuki died so Choso could have more time with Yuuji but now he indeed had to leave Yuuji again, rather than about whether he had lived on as a human or not. I personally believed he already did, though, if that really matters, but to Choso now what he is isn't more important than the fact that he, as Yuuji's big brother, is now leaving him alone.

Feel free to argue w/ me abt this but the fact remains that after saying sorry for leaving to Yuuji, it is immediately followed by panel of Eso and Kechizu reappearance calling after their big brother to join them on their side again, now it's in the their original form again, the cursed object.

For me personally, Yuki's death was not in vain as Choso had time to pass down his legacy to Yuuji before joining Eso and Kechizu's side again, but if people wanna see that Yuki's death only amounted to ripping Kenjaku's shirt open now that Choso still died, then be my guess. (Besides, Yuki isn't the first side character in JJK that gets this treatment of not having much importance, after her role is finished. Even though she was being mentioned a couple times for her research and even here in this chapter, but not even one flashback to her might be a sign that Gege doesn't hold her high in their list of priority, but hey it's JJK so it's not news.) It is important to also note (and I think this one is where most readers perhaps skipped) that back then, Choso didn't have much to say or choice for the sacrifice cz Yuki's CT was already transferring Choso to a safety place, before he himself could choose, say, or do anything.

Yet this time he chose to threw his life on the line for Yuuji. It wasn't even the 1st time he did this. We saw this back from his fight with Naoya (before chapter 208) and he wasn't acting any different until now, after passing chapter 208 👆

When the others got hurt one by one during the fight, Choso might've healed himself but we didn't see him come back to distract Sukuna from chasing after the others or took the blow for them, but we saw him immediately come back to Yuuji's side when Yuuji cudn't handle his wound and then of course we saw him protecting Yuuji with all his last efforts. He's just persistently living up to his big brother character, not whether he's a human. He would do the same if it's Eso or Kechizu in Yuuji's place.

So here's the highlight, even after this far, Choso isn't self-sacrificial for all humans like how other sorcerers showed. He's only self-sacrificial for Yuuji and the other little brothers that are now merged in him, because for him, he's a big brother above all else.

TLDR Choso's arc was set from the beginning that he lives only for his little brothers and that is the meaning of his life. It is one of his first lines when he appeared. What Choso ever wanted wasn't to be human or curse, but to be worthy of living with his little brothers and then of being Yuuji's big brother after what he did in Shibuya and to Yuuji. Doesn't matter whether he's a human or curse because he will always be both and that is not a bad thing. In fact the very presence of him and Yuuji as half-curses till this arc is special because he represents that grey area between human and curse, that not one is the more right than the other which is also one of the very theme of jjk.

[crazywomanposting]

ೃ⁀➷ maneater (spencer reid x oc)

summary: Spencer falls in love with an unsub.

warnings: explicit sexual content, graphic descriptions of violence

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Chapter One: She'll Only Come Out At Night

He sounded like a boar when he came. 

Squealing and sweaty on top of me. I thought of how it might feel to hear him scream. 

His name was Rudy. He came monthly. He wore a gold band on both ring fingers and refused to tell me what it meant. He always fucked me from behind. He would prop me up like I was in a yoga class, and I would think ‘cat, cow, cat, cow’ until he came. 

I always waited for them to move first. In the interim, I pant with him, pretending like I’m also expended from it all. 

Finally, he stands. Peels his sweaty skin off of mine and walks to the side of the bed. I stand, walk to the bathroom and let his semen drip down the inside of my thigh. It squelches as he buckles his pants loudly behind me. 

I am always leisurely in my cleaning up. I always hope they will leave before I am done. They almost never do. 

Rudy always waits. He sits on the mattress, precariously close to the edge, as if to distance himself from the whole thing. 

I wring out a hand towel in the sink. Imagine the coarse terry cloth as something softer, like skin, or a neck. 

He stands up as I approach him. 

“Thank you, darling.” He places a hand on my elbow, like some sweet Southern gentleman. 

“I’ll see you next time, Rudy.” I smile. 

He leaves with a nod. 

He drives a Mustang. Ostentatious, as Mike would say. 

⁂

This was Spencer’s second trip on the jet today and he was exhausted. JJ was handing out the case file: a suspected serial killer in San Francisco. 

“Reid?” Morgan snapped his fingers, “You with us, pretty boy?”

“Uh, yeah. Just tired.” 

JJ nodded solemnly. “It’s been a long day.” 

Spencer looked at the folder that had been thrust into his hands, shuffling through the missing people’s profiles within. 

“All men?” He asked. 

“All men.” JJ echoed, “Makes me think it’s a woman.” 

Spencer furrowed his brow. “I don’t know. Maybe some sort of blitz attack but these are big men. It’s hard to say one way or the other.” 

“Six missing persons sounds like a serial killer to me,” Morgan replied. 

“And one bloody crime scene,” JJ added. 

Hotch stood. “Prentiss, Reid, I want you to go to the crime scene. Everyone else, let’s meet at the station.” 

Spencer trailed behind Prentiss as they walked through the floor of The Tigress Casino. Leading them was a stocky man who had introduced himself as Rudy, the owner. 

Rudy led them to Room 208, reported at 9am that morning as the scene of a crime. Local police had linked it to the missing persons cases in the area. 

“Housekeeping found it like this this morning,” He announced, holding open the door for the agents. 

It was a small room with a queen bed in the centre, sheets rumpled but the bed was still made. Beside it, there was a blood stain shaped vaguely like Texas. 

“No murder weapon?” Prentiss asked, hands in pockets. 

“We don’t even know if it was a murder yet,” Reid replied, squatting beside the blood. 

“No one is losing that much blood and surviving it.” 

“Actually, the average adult can lose a little over half a gallon of blood before they need a transfusion,” Reid murmured, absentmindedly. 

Prentiss glanced at him. The profiler part of his brain, grinding along on autopilot even as the rest of him is elsewhere, recognised her action as checking on him, worrying, maybe. 

The rest of the day passed as such. There were families to visit, asking grieving wives intrusive questions about their husbands, mother’s to probe about their sons and one grandmother, who was the victim’s only living relative. 

It wasn’t until they were driving to the precinct that Emily finally confronted him. 

“You doing okay, Reid?” She asked, lightly, as if she hadn’t been worried about him all day. 

Spencer hummed. “Yeah, just tired, I guess.” He knew exactly what she was referring to, his glossed over expression and absentminded remarks. She thought he was using again. 

She didn’t reply. Just nodded and kept her eyes staunchly focused on the road. 

At the precinct, as they shared their findings, Morgan had suddenly stood up. All eyes turned to him as he grinned wickedly at Spencer. 

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Pretty boy?” 

Spencer nodded, not returning the smile. “She’s a prostitute.” 

They all agreed. The victims were predominantly married men, checked into hotel rooms that their wives didn’t know about. Wealthy families, with children and unfaithful husbands. The other’s had been divorced or never married but still fit with the victimology. 

Initially, the disappearances had been months apart but she was rapidly devolving. She would strike again, and soon. 

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[redthefortuneteller]

Both Snake and his snakes came from over the hills and far away

Right then, in regards to chapter 208, I'll be now focusing on my theory of Snake being originally a snake and originating in a facility owned by some sort of Dr Moreau type figure.

The flashback starts with Snake saying that since he could "remember" he was in a cage. Now I feel I should mention that from fan's translations it often came up as "when I woke up, I was in a cage." It would be great if someone who understands Japanese could be so kind as to clarify if there can be any double meaning to the word used in the original. Its meaning could change things a little bit. Regardless, he then says he didn't know why he was there nor did he know anything about the outside world.

So, from this I gather that he was born in a cage. In other words, captive bred. Forgive the reptile keeper term. It sounds dehumanizing, because it is. Unless we're talking about a snake. If he was born a snake, in a facility, it makes sense that all he remembers was being in a cage since he remembers.

Regarding the human mother and python father: I don't deem it necessary to waist time on taking what that repulsive charlatan said into consideration, as he's lying through his teeth to sell Snake's image as a product. If Snake says "It's all a lie." then it is so.

Now, another question I have in my mind about the translation is when he follows with "I have no father." because the translation I got, admittedly not through proper means of a human translator, but through google, is that he said "It's all a lie. There is no father." "I have no father." can mean his father died, but "There is no father." can mean that there's no such thing as a father there, meaning it's not specifically that rock python in the cage the charlatan lied about. Regardless, what these two phrases can hypothetically both mean, literally, is that there is no father, end of story.

As a small side note, @abybweisse mentioned that the snake in the image above looked like it could be Wilde. Indeed, this snake is a royal python and Wilde is portrayed as a (albeit impossibly huge) royal in the anime and the in the musicals. If we follow the concept of there being no father, he could have been created in a test tube, properly referred to as in vitro fertilization: taking a mature egg and fertilizing it with a sperm cell in a lab. It is possible to artificially inseminate a female snake too, thus having no father (that one would know of).

But allow me to stretch my ideas a little and ramble on about snakes for a bit. There's a certain phenomenon that very rarely occurs with snakes called parthenogenesis, or virgin birth for those of you more poetically inclined. This means the animal reproduced asexually, without copulating with another of the opposite sex. I won't go too much into the offspring, for the sake of time. Suffice to say that they're usually not as strong or as well developed as the ones produced by two animals of different sexes. There is one species of snake that is an obligatory parthenogenesis breeder though, the Brahminy Blind Snake. But only females are born. They're all girls, always! No boys allowed in their club.

Then there is a more common possibility. This is the retention of sperm during copulation with a male by the female, for later use. So, you go out and acquire a beautiful rainbow boa that had been a breeding female in the past and has retired, you come home with her, set her up nicely, give her a few kisses (don't do this, you'll get salmonella)… and a few months later you open her vivarium and are greeted not only by your baby, but by her, still slimy, 15 brand new wriggling babies! No father (in sight)! Sometimes a female could even have babies from an already deceased father by having stored his sperm for he was oh so worthy. The lovely joys of Nature…

All silliness aside, if Snake was a snake to begin with, there's these three possibilities to explain the lack of a father. The mother could even have been captured from the wild while pregnant for instance. Whichever the case, it's important to note that snakes rarely stay around to care for their young. A few do stick around to protect them but that's the extent of maternal care they provide.

Then he adds "These snakes and I were all brought here from somewhere far away" He ends it with "We have no family." In chapter 202, page 9, Dan says "Snake and us are family", which leads me to assume he's talking about humans this time around, especially since he then says that that's what he thought until he met the circus troupe.

This made me feel hopeful in a way and sad in another. Hopeful because he definitely came from somewhere along with all the snakes as I'd suspected. Sad because I feel as though that's the only information we'll ever get, since now we're already at the circus part of the backstory. I reckon there's no chance of bringing up a flashback about a past older than the freak show. Wherever they came from, it wasn't the wild. He has a wide array of different species with him, and a green anaconda and a black mamba are from completely different types of ecosystems and different continents. These snakes weren't found in the wild all together with him, it's impossible. They all had to have come from a collection, a facility, somewhere that could provide the necessary husbandry to at least keep them alive. So I believe he wasn't in the wild with all the snakes and then they got captured and brought to England. I think they must have either been sold or something happened to the facility they were being held in (as it did with Finnian). The people that got in brought what they found back to England and sold them to a freak show. But then there's the issue of the orphanage… I don't know what to think about that. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them. I've run into a wall here because I can't fathom someone placing a snake hybrid with loads of venomous snakes into an orphanage. Not only that but Snake said he'd been inside cages since he remembers and knows nothing of the outside world. Did someone tell him something about an orphanage while at the Noah's Arc? Does it concern one of the troupe members and not him directly?

Since this post is getting too long, I'll briefly mention the other points of interest about Snake: He had no name at all until the circus and Joker named him. The snakes had no names either and Jumbo named them.

So I should scratch what I've written about the names of the snakes in my master post as Jumbo made the kind contribution of dispelling what I'd been contemplating as an explanation for their names. By the way, Wuthering Heights is an absolute favourite of mine as well. Just remembering certain passages sets my heart aflutter. Seems I have found something in common with Jumbo. Never thought he'd read those sorts of gothic works… he struck me as having a more Zen philosophy mind and Wuthering Heights is quite intense.

As always, thank you for reading and forgive my rambling style of writing…

[thevividgreenmoss]

While the editors claim the historiography of Zionism, in reality theirs is a historiography for Zionism, a Zionist historiography seeking desperate renewal. In seeming response to Raz-Krakotzkin, the editors write in their introduction that in addition to Europe, Palestine and “in many other non-European spaces Zionist movements developed as well” (13). “Moreover,” they go on, “Zionists claimed a land outside of Europe not as a colony, but as their ancestral homeland” (13). While the latter part of that sentence is certainly true, and a core part of Zionist ideology, to argue that Zionists did not claim Palestine as a colony is a lie and nothing less. As is undoubtedly well-known to the editors, Zionists regularly and repeatedly referred to their efforts as a colonial project as countless historical studies have demonstrated, most recently Areej Sabbagh-Khoury’s meticulously researched and powerfully argued Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (2023). Moreover, the claim of Palestine as a homeland marked Zionism as more than simply another nationalism. In her review of The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (2018), Nadia Abu El-Haj carefully critiques the effort therein to define “the colonial” as “excess” and frame histories of Palestine and Israel in terms of competing nationalisms, without attention to the structure of settler-nationhood. “The distinction of Zionism,” Abu El-Haj makes clear, “is that it was a settler-nation from the very start: that is, it was a colonial project of settlement that imagined itself as a project of national return. Not only was there never any ideological space between the national and the settler-colonial. In contrast to settler-nations elsewhere (the US or Australia, for example), there was never any temporal distance either.”[6]

Every chapter in Unacknowledged Kinships seeks to eclipse the settler-colonial history of Zionism. A chapter by the historian Orit Bashkin, who has otherwise contributed to modern Arab intellectual history and the social history of Iraq and Israel in a series of well researched books, provides an overview of the recent scholarship on Arab Jewry. The chapter’s value, however, is diminished by an incoherent conclusion. “Finally, Zionism,” Bashkin writes, “was not simply a foreign movement imported from Europe and Palestine, as the postcolonial school would have it, or a natural response to Arab Fascism, as the conservatives have argued. Rather it was a local option, one among many, that appealed to Jews, especially as Arab national elites let them down and the conflict in Palestine seemed to have determined the lot of Jews outside it” (208). The conscription of some Arab Jews into Zionism does not make it local. Does the presence of American nationalism among some Indigenous or Black people make the United States any less a settler-colonial or slave society? Zionism was not “imported” from Palestine to elsewhere across the Arab world. The transplantation of a racial ideology that pitted “Arab” against “Jew” was a European Zionist project. All the major leaders of the Zionist movement in Palestine were European. Of the thirty-seven signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, “all but two… were from Central or Eastern Europe,” as Ussama Makdisi reminds us.[7] To name Zionism “local” is to elide again, as this volume seeks to do, its colonial function.

...Quayson however, reveals himself a fellow traveler in the editors’ campaign, readily adopting their prejudice and the logic of the Israeli security state. In his Afterword to the volume, Quayson writes that the events at the 1972 Olympics in Munich were “stomach churning” as he observed them as a child in Ghana and that unlike “the foreign policy positions being taken by African states” the Israeli raid on Entebbe Airport in 1977 “served to consolidate the Israelis as heroes in our young eyes even further” (298). Quayson is certainly welcome to recount his youthful impressions (although readers may wish to consult proper histories of African and Third World solidarity with Palestinians in the same period to read alongside such anecdotes). But Quayson’s reliability is thrown into serious doubt when he turns to the 1982 massacres of Palestinians in the Beirut refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. He characterizes them simply as a “public relations disaster” which “created a bitter taste toward Israel for many people in the postcolonial world” (299)—although apparently not for Quayson. While Israel’s complicity in the massacres is well-documented and well-known, Quayson seeks to absolve Israel by both raising doubts about these facts and justifying Israel’s actions due to the “complex geopolitical calculus” that Israel and its adjuncts in Lebanon were apparently working under, namely the perennial specter of Iran. Why? In the end Quayson makes clear his opposition to BDS, “something I personally think precipitously abandons the possibility of dialogue and collaboration with progressive Israel-based scholars” (299).

...Faisal Devji, in a piece that rehashes the arguments of some of his recent books on Pakistan and Gandhi, takes the opportunity to scold supporters of BDS with insidious comparisons. Arguing that “BDS has taken on the role that states and the international community are meant to play by imposing punitive sanctions on a criminal regime. This effort is inadvertently mitigated by the movement’s weakness and so its own vulnerability to sanctions of many kinds. Such vulnerability gives BDS its moral idealism, but this is promptly squandered by the desire to speak in the name or at least in place of the state and international order.”[12] Inexplicably, a stateless people, many of whom without even a passport to their name, endlessly abused by a state-system which restricts their movement and blocks their access to those legal mechanisms of international governance, are condemned for attempting even the smallest pragmatic use of that system. Shall we also condemn Six Nations of the Irouquis’s appeal for sovereignty to the League of Nations or the Civil Rights’ Congress historic charge of genocide against the United States presented to the United Nations in 1951?

Palestinians and their supporters, Devji goes on to argue, would do well to heed the example of the Gandhian refusals which mobilized millions against the British in India. No mention is made, of course, that Palestinians have been practicing civil disobedience in their land since before the State of Israel even existed. Or that the General Strike in Palestine in 1936 was the longest in human history (perhaps only surpassed by the hartal that consumed Kashmir in 2020). While Palestinians are daily arrested, maimed, and murdered for stepping out into the street or opening their lips, when dozens of Palestinians participate in wave after wave of hunger strike as they’re stuffed into cages, Devji, our Thomas Friedman, dares to ask where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

[drstonetrivia]

Chapter 208 Trivia

Brody-Os! Part of a complete breakfast.

Magma is posed here like Senku is in the manga volumes' character introduction pages. He's also next to Senku's two best friends rather than Nikki and Yo.

I don't think it means anything but Magma did beat Senku this chapter… Is Magma the replacement for Senku? 🤔

We finally see Joel's arm, and it does seem to be fully functional given he's rapidly weaving donuts between Luna and Yuzuriha (while blushing, because he still hasn't gotten used to women).

I think this implies that broken/crushed bones heal similar to piercing wounds.

The mathlympics coincides* with the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, and the little icons on the banner they faxed are based on the ones Japan used for the sports.

*Technically the closing ceremony was a few weeks ago but the manga was on break.

This panel is interesting: either they're saying this person was revived 51st in Corn City and had the number written on him, and that it stayed on his skin despite having been written on the outer/damaged layer of stone, or that tattoos don't count as healable injuries.

This could mean that the petrification only heals life-threatening injuries, as Soyuz's head scar and now this tattoo (technically the body treats the foreign ink as an infection of sorts) have stayed.

This does imply Kaseki's arthritis was considered life-threatening though…

If the number on the soldier's arm was in fact his revival number, then the population of the world is probably close to Dunbar's number already, since 51 + 75 = 126, plus the Spaniards, making the total Earth population ~150.

The corn harvest here may be telling us Corn City has been back up and running for the last 60-100 days, as that's about as long corn needs to grow. If we assume the start date is October 1st, then it would be around late November/early December now.

(It could also be much earlier if this corn was still the corn growing naturally over the last 7-8 years, rather than them planting it.)

Just for fun I compared the ring size to Kinro's thumb width and I think it's accurate, at least it is for my hand. His hand is a little smaller than I was expecting though…

(0.5 * 33.6 = 16.8mm if you want to check your own thumb!)

Just because nixie tubes are cool, this is how the calculator number display looked. Depending on the noble gas/gases they filled it with, it could be orange-yellow, blue, or purple-pink.

(They should also have 12 pins on the bottom, one for each number+decimal point+1 anode)

Gen mentions they're crossing the Indian Ocean, so I guess Math City is considered established now. The next ones are Rubber City and Aluminum City, but since they're both across the Indian Ocean from India, they could be going to either one of them. Rubber is closer, however.

The scrawny scientists are fine, but Magma is too big for his contestant podium and has to straddle it.

Magma's studying payed off, he can read numbers!

Ukyo's such a good teacher :)

The calculator itself is a 32 bit floating point calculator, has four functions (+, -, *, / ) and with a display that shows 12 digits, the sign (positive or negative numbers) and status (for example if a number is too big to display or some other error).

The name on the calculator, Senku Intelligent - 1, may be a /very/ loose reference to the TI calculators you likely used at school, though "TI" stands for "Texas Instruments" rather than "Texas Intelligent".

These candies Minami's has next to her are definitely corn syrup based, and are probably getting stickier by the minute because sugar candies should be stored in an airtight container and that looks like an open jar.

If anyone's confused by how Ryusui Bank works, I believe the plan is to add and subtract any transactions people make and save their totals on the calculator, or keep a paper record of it (=ledger). It's entirely trust based, there's nothing of physical value being traded.

The time difference between India and California is 12 hours 30 minutes, so it's probably mid-morning for the ones on the Perseus and evening for the ones in Corn City, going by the skies shown.

From what I could tell, all the magnetic memory parts were basically exactly as they described them, including the little history lesson Senku adds on page 8. There just wasn't much more to add! (I know I said this before but I loved this chapter haha)

[liiacfleur]

The Undead Highlands

contains spoilers for unpublished chapters 6/7/8/9. don't read the indicated spoilers if you don't want to be spoiled about certain places and (vague) references to events that take place later in the story. ones that I would consider larger spoilers are labeled as (MAJOR SPOILERS) and the text has been crossed out. this will be updated again around chapter 9/10.

Capital:

Moonstone

Capital of the Highlands. A major port city carved into the sea wall with an affinity for mining, sheep herding, and artisan materials. The first established city within the Highlands, and the home of their leader, Kas the Banished. In the time of the Ancient Kingdom, it was the only city south of the wall that was able to hold off the Undead King's seige. Unfortunately, its residences subsequently starved to death trapped within the city, their bones only found by Kas and his army many centuries later.

Major Towns/Cities:

Moonsmouth Sanctuary

The first attempt at settling in the Valley of the Vanquished. With a population of several thousand, they were able to build homes in the trees around them after forming a spiritual connection with the sentient plant life. The village initially specialize in wood exports across the fledgling kingdom, and made occasional trades to established merchants from Hawkins. Eventually, they became a sought out trading post, and their economy expanded to include a variety of merchants and goods.

By 207 GC, they became the first established city outside of Moonstone, joined by a second later in the year, and a third on the west coast in 209 GC.

Loch Hellfire

(Minor Spoilers)

Built in the remains and rubble of a city from the ancient times, Loch Hellfire was built along the coastline at the outer reaches of the Bog of the Dead. Beginning as another outpost such as Moonsmouth, it was officially established by the Byers siblings when they went to study old tombs preserved inside the rubble. More resources were allocated to its construction thereafter.

By 207 GC, it consisted of nearly six thousand residences, specializing in magic, apothecary, and the training and soul tying of monsters found south of Moonlit Wall.

Dragon's Peak

(MAJOR SPOILERS)

Originally an abandoned ancient city on the western side of the continent south of Denfield and the Crescent Tower. After an expedition led by Robin and Steve in spring of 209GC, it was later established as a major city in the following years, culturally mixed between those of the Undead Highland and a flood of citizens from Denfield who possessed old magic. It became a sea trading port, specializing in mining, and held the most impressive military for centuries afterwards, consisting of not only highly skilled soldiers, but dragon riders as well.

Lesser Locations:

Cabin Near Mirkwood Tower:

(Minor Spoilers)

The site of Eddie's death in 202 GC. Sometime after the war, a single cottage, a water well, and a small orchard were constructed by Kas the Banished and his Arch Mage. In the summer of 208 GC, it was established as a small farming village, accompanied by a militia to guard the border after the court rebellion in Hawkins. They specialize in farming gourds and wheat, but eventually became the main exporter of cider south of Mulberry.

Cave in the Bog of the Dead:

(MAJOR SPOILERS)

Where Steve and Kas found shelter after Kas was injured fighting a Nightwalker in 208 GC. Location where Steve learns the more about Kas' undead nature and their ally-ship is officially established.

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Chapter 5: The Daijōsai

The Daijōsai and Enthronement Rites in Premodern Japan

Origins

The first thing to be said is that the daijōsai is a rite of great antiquity, but it is not the primordial and "unadulterated" rite claimed by some nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist commentators. It is quite clearly a late addition to the sequence of early Japanese enthronement rites... its core meaning had nothing in origin to do with rice or, indeed, with the sun-goddess... the Nihon shoki (720) refers to rites of enthronement for all the 41 emperors who reigns it records... not daijōsai... they were rites of regalia transfer later known as senso, and/or rites of enthronement (sokui)... usually... in the new year before the planting of rice... the autumn daijōsai there is but one clear reference inthe whole Nihon shoki.

—Pages 184-185

...prior to the reign of Jitō a sovereign would abdicate and personally hand over the regalia to his or her successor. In Jitō's time, however, the Inbe ritualists assumed for the first time a key role in regalia transfer... a new understanding of the regalia as sacred objects that the sun-goddess had bestowed on her grandson, ninigi (Mizubayashi 2001:319). Jitō's reign coincides after all with the early formulation of the mythical narratives... future sovereign's approach to the throne, surrounded by maidens bearing cloud-like screens to obscure his view, re-enacts Ninigi making his way through eight-layered clouds to alight on the Takachiho peak. The emperor's dramatic emergence from behind the curtains enwrapping his canopied throned is a dramatization of Ninigi casting aside his coverlet after alighting on the Takachiho peak... These and other commonalities between enthronement rite and myth are, indeed, far more numerous and persuasive than any between myth and daijōsai (Okada Seishi 1989: 29-33).

—Page 185

...second half of the seventh century – the enthronement rite began... identifying it with practices in the might Tang dynasty... during the reign of Tenji (r. 668-71)... Japanese sovereigns began to wear Tang Chinese crowns, ornaments, and court garb... added... the Chinese symbols of legitimate succession: a sword and a gold plaque... tachi kei. Incense was burned to notify the gods in a heaven of the momentous event of succession, and shouts of banzai greeted Tenji's accesion; both features are Chinese in origin (Okada Seishi 1989: 31).

...The latest research by Mizubayashi Takeshi... demonstrates... daijōsai had nothing to do with the sun-goddess; neither can it have been a harvest rite... the lunar eleventh month in which the daijōsai took place is far too late for harvest celebrations... the court alreadyhad a harvest rite involving the presentation of the first fruits to Amaterasu in Ise in the lunar ninth month... kanname rite... It appeared perhaps in the late eighth or early ninth century, but it can only be verified in the tenth-century Engi shiki.

—Page 186

The kojiki... must hold the clue to the original meaning of daijōsai... one episode that features the son of heaven and a palace building containing bedding, and which involves feasting...To welcome this handsome imperial visitor, the sea kami spreads eight-layered sealskin mats within a palace hall. On top... places eight-layered silks... has Sora-tsu-hiko take a seat upon them. The sea kami "set out hundreds of tables laden with gifts, prepared a feast for him and gave him his daughter Princess Toyotama-hime as his wife" (Phiippi 1969: 150-2). ⑰

...striking similarity... the emperor, the palace building, the eight-layered mats, andthe feasting are all present... Mizubayashi argues persuasively that the daijōsai was in origin a dramatization of this story (Mizubayashi 2001: 208-11).

—Pages 186-187

⑰ From the Endnotes: Philippi 1969 mistranslates tatami yae or "eight-layered" mats and silks as "many layers"; the eight here is critical.

One particularly striking feature of the Kojiki sea-kami narrative is the marriage... In its original form, the daijōsai... must have involved a marriage. The beds in the daijōsai pavilions – there were originally two in each – evidence this fact. Mizubayashi argues that the marriage was intended to bind the emperor to the sea and land through his marriage to marine and earthly maidens... These maidens were selected from the districts that were divined as Yuki and Suki, the former of which were all located by the sea... Through his weddings, the emperor acquired the magical means to rule the entirety of his realm (Mizubayashi 2001: 256-9)

—Pages 187-188

The Demise of the Daijōsai

...We need to be extremely wary, however, of over-stressing continuity. The daijōsai did not establish itself now as the sole or even necessarily the most important signifier of Japanese emperorship. For one thing, we shall find a powerful Buddhist influence at work; for another the daijōsai was for many generation not performed at all... the meanings attributed to the daijōsai by the modern state were themselves modern ideas. There is no evidence, as we shall see, that the Meiji reading of the daijōsai had any currency before Meiji.

—Page 190

...For Tenmu, Shōmu, and their successors, identity with the kami, on the one hand, and devotion to the Buddha on the other were in no way contradictory. Others in the imperial court took a different view, and then took action. In the year 871 the court published... a code of procedures... with the... intention of preserving the integrity of the myth of the emperor's descend from the sun-goddess... imposed a ban on the performance of Buddhist rites at court for the duration of the daijōsai... suggests that the shift in the daijōsai's meaning discussed above had already taken place: the daijōsai was now associated with the sun-goddess. The same code similarly protected the many other jingi rites at court from Buddhist encroachment.

—Page 190

...1288... Emperor Fushimi (r. 1287-98) underwent an enthronement rite entirely without precedent... Fushimi fashioned his hands in the shape of the wisdom fist mudra and recited the dharaṇī of Ḍākinī. The whisdom fist mudra was that formed by Mahāvairocana (dainichi); the dharaṇī of Ḍākinī invoked a Tantric demon deity representing the fierce powers of Mahāvairocana's twin aspects of wisdom and compassion... marks a striking development in the theory and practice of Japanese emperorship. After all, by forming a mudra with their hands and dharaṇī spells with their lips, Japanese emperors were now achieving a mystical identity with Mahāvairocana.

—Page 191

The union of sword and jewel mirror that of emperor and empress. The emperor-as-sword is the Buddha Ekākṣara-uṣṇīṣacakra: the form in which the sun-buddha Mahāvairocana manifests itself as a cakravartin or sage king. The empress-as-jewel is Buddhalocana, the eye and the mother of all buddhas. As sword and jewel unite, so do the laws of buddhas and kings. Together, they give birth to the third divine treasure, the mirror of Amaterasu kept in the Naishidokoro elsewhere in the palace, which represents both the son of heaven produced by the imperial union and the manifestation of Mahāvairocana in the land of Japan.

—Pages 191-192

The Daijōsai and its Early Modern Revival

...Motoori, for example, regarded the emperor's feasting as the pivotal ritual moment. For him, the daijōsai was not a "Chinese-style rite" in which the emperor worshiped the sun-goddess as his ancestor. Hirata Atsutane... argued that the origin of the daijōsai was to be found in Ninigi's planting of rice in the imperial rice field. His disciple, Suzuki Shigetane (1812-63)... proposed... function.... through the emperor's feasting on rice, was to effect his transformation into a living kami (Maeda 2006: 262-5). None of these ideas had been articulated before.

—Page 195

...Japan, Aizawa believed, was trapped between the Russians and the British and was powerless to resist. It was not the foreigners' weaponry so much as their religion that filled him with dread (Wakabayashi 1986: 86-90)... No rite could be more efficacious in this regard than the daijōsai. Aizawa writes of its transforming effect:

When the Emperor, Amaterasu's own flesh and blood, solemnly performs this daijōsai rite in Her honour, Her own countenance presents itself to all who gaze on His majesty. The court nobles looking on, both high and low, imagine themselves to be in Amaterasu's presence. The feeling of communion arises naturally among them and cannot be suppressed, for they too are descendants of the gods. (Wakabayashi 1986: 157-8)

Aizawa invested the daijōsai with a core Confucian meaning, and saw the divine emperor's offering of rice to Amaterasu as teh ultimate act of filial piety. Filial piety was synonymous with loyalty, and there existed no better technique for its dissemination than ritual performance. Rituals were a means of political rule, and political rule was identical to ethical inculcation... imputed to the daijōsai the power to transform not just the political elite but the whole of society... transformation depended on the daijōsai being revived in its former magnificence. ⑳ People from all provinces must again bring the fruits of the land to Kyoto and offer them to the emperor, who will place them before his ancestor, the sun-goddess. "In ancient times, the emperor thus took upon his own sacred body the sincerity with which his subjects sought to recompense heaven. he conveyed this to the kami. The people knew this, they rejoiced and were filled with heavenly blessings" (Arakawa 1989: 361)...

—Pages 195-196

⑳ From the Endnotes: Sōen wagen is not easily rendered into English. Wagen means Japanese words or speech: sōen refers to grass (sō) which bows (en) before the wind. This is a metaphor for the virtue of the loyal subject being forever inferior to, and so prone before, the greater virtue of his lord.

[verycharismaticdragon]

So, the poll is finally over — and it is time to reveal The Truth! (Well, eight truths and one lie, to be more precise.) Let’s get to it!

9th place: “having extremely bad sex was instrumental for saving the world” TRUE

We are starting with the least voted for option, that nevertheless bamboozled 208 people (3.3% of voters). Yup, sorry to everyone who thought a gay romance novel couldn’t possibly have bad sex. We console ourselves with the fact that it was bad for thematic, plot, and character reasons.

8th place: “straight harem novel protagonist experienced a gay awakening” TRUE

First, let me apologize to everyone for my apparently ambiguous grammar. It was meant as “the protagonist of a straight harem novel”, not “a straight protagonist of a harem novel”.

Anyway, this happened! In fact, you could say this happened twice!

You see, Scum Villain is a story of a transmigrator — a guy who died and woke up in another world. More specifically, in the world of a straight harem novel he read, in the body of a villain, Shen Qingqiu. At the time our transmigrator MC entered the world, though, the protagonist of said straight harem novel was still in his teens. So not yet a murderous antihero, and not yet a harem master, but an orphaned child who up to then had a very difficult life. And encountering a man who was kind to him, believed in him, and even protected him at the cost to himself… the protagonist of a straight harem novel fell hard.

Yup, “straight harem novel protagonist” actually refers to the male lead of Scum Villain, Luo Binghe. And, despite what 239 of our voters (3.8%) thought, he did have a gay awakening — this is basically the premise of the novel!

But wait, there’s more. In one of the extra chapters, the original version of Luo Binghe ends up in the world where our transmigrator has changed things, and accidentally swaps places with our Binghe. To the OG’s shock, the villain he tortured and killed over a hundred years ago is not only alive and kicking in this world, but is… nice to him? ?? ????? ??

…So, after a couple of days it takes Shen Qingqiu to figure out that it’s not his Binghe being moody because he got injured but a whole wrong guy, the OG straight harem novel protagonist is also not what he used to be. And beseeching this kind version of his villain to come with him.

So yeah. This happened twice.

7th place: “character who thinks ‘beat them up 3 times a day’ is flirting got his man” TRUE

Honestly, this was one of the most entertaining options to watch — both in how its placement in the poll changed, and the chaos it somehow wrought among actual Scum Villain fans in the notes.

Besties… I can’t believe you forgot Mobei-jun’s iconic “love advice”. I can’t believe you thought this was about Liu Qingge. (Also I’m pretty sure someone thought this was about Binghe and said they’ll fight me if I claim this option is true. They get a free pass however because I think being ready to rip throats for Binghe is about the sexiest quality a Scum Villain fan can have.)

Anyway — yeah, this happened. Mobei-jun and Shang Qinghua, a.k.a. MoShang, are a canon side couple. 

Sorry to the 287 of our voters (4.6%) who were like ‘i hope the fuck not?!’. In Mobei-jun’s defense, he is a demon born and raised, and that’s a ~Demon Culture Thing~. Also, more than a few things happened between him saying that with his full chest and riding into the sunset with his love interest. (Well, the love interest was riding; Mobei was pulling the cart.) And he had an unfair advantage of being his love interest’s literal ideal man… but more on this later.

6th place: “character played hot potato with his own half-naked corpse” TRUE

This option has suddenly pulled ahead of its closest competitor at around 4500 votes, but for what? Despite what 295 of voters (4.7%) thought, this also happened in Scum Villain. Sometimes you (a transmigrator) set up a spare body for yourself because you think the protagonist is going to kill you. And then you die (not via getting murdered). And then you come back to life in a new body. And find out that the protagonist has apparently been keeping your old — dead — body in perfect condition for 5 years in hopes of reviving you. And then during a comedy-of-errors-esque sequence of events you end up catching your own dead body, the clothes on which have come undone. And you understandably freak out and toss it to someone else. as if it was a hot potato.

5th place: “3 different demons made one character drink their blood on 5 separate occasions” TRUE

So first, I guess, I need to explain what’s the deal with the demon blood. A particular subset of demons, called heavenly demons, have a unique ability to manipulate their blood, even when it’s outside their bodies. And, importantly, inside someone else’s. This can be used to track the person down, to hurt them, to heal them… (And for sex, actually, but somebody has neglected to mention this to our half-demon ML.)

Anyway, there are three heavenly demons around, and all had made Shen Qingqiu drink their blood once or twice. No, the blood doesn’t have an expiration date — but since he happened to change bodies a couple of times… 

So, to the 319 people (5.1%) who thought the blood drinking was either too weird or too normal to be true: nope, our MC is the world champion in demon blood chugging.

4th place: “character's dad is a fan of a famous porn ballad starring his son and son-in-law” TRUE

Despite the fervent hopes of 5.6% of voters (351 of them!), this one is also true.

You see, the main couple’s unhinged behaviors have captivated certain creative minds, and so there’s a ballad about them. That is very popular. And very horny. In fact it’s deadass explicit RPF.

And it just so happens that Luo Binghe’s absentee demon father (in his defense, he was imprisoned under the mountain) (not to defend him too much though, once he comes back he’s a total jerk to his son), Tianlang-jun, is a huge aficionado of human culture. Books, plays, songs, you name it. And he has an especial fondness for raunchy romances. You know, exactly like a porny ballad that just so happens to be about his son and his son’s crush.

Which is how our MC ends up in a situation where his uh-it’s-complicated’s dad asks him “have you slept with my son?” and he’s like “what? no” and the dad just starts humming a song that’s about them fucking. His life is so difficult (schadenfreude). 

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Whew, so far so good, right? We only have the top 3 left, and the false option hasn't come up yet! And yeah, I gotta say, for a book as wild as SVSSS, the fact that six options were correctly identified as more likely to have happened than the fake one is already big. Good job!

Though, I regret to tell you, that’s where our lucky streak ends. So, allow me to present…

3rd place: “a succubus fortune teller told MC at least 5 men are in love with him” FALSE

Wait, you might say, but haven’t you defended this option before? I have, but only from the accusation that the number in it is somehow false. Excuse you, I have counted the men several times to be sure!.. that the number adhered to the popular fanon.

The story behind this option is that I thought long and hard to come up with something wild enough to match the energy of the book. In the end, I used something that happened in canon as base, spiced it up with something from fanon readings, and mashed it together in a way that (I thought) would be obvious to any reader as blatantly false — but could still snag a few unsuspecting dash osmosis in-laws. What I learned was that the SVSSS fandom didn’t read the extras enough times.

Okay, so What Is The Truth!

The truth is: a succubus fortune teller made a divination about MC’s destined partner (not who was in love with him, but rather who he had a red string of fate with), and accurately described the ML to him… without once mentioning that he was a man. (Making her prediction virtually useless to Shen Qingqiu, who at the time ID'd firmly as a straight guy and didn’t even consider this possibility... and also thought that Luo Binghe was the most heterosexual man ever, in view of the oversized harem from the original work.)

So, as you can see, the entire second half of this option was just me bullshitting. If you are one of the 387 voters (6.2%) who caught this — kudos to you!

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This out of the way… time to crown the victors of our ‘he couldn’t Possibly have said that’ tournament.

Without further ado, I present to you: Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu, our unparalleled transmigrator duo!

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2nd place goes to Shen Qingqiu, our beloved main character, with the option “MC told ML that if he was his mom, he would never abort him” (TRUE)

I would love to say it makes sense in context. And, well, it makes some sense in context. But also there are reasons Shen Qingqiu won a “character we most want to study like a bug” tournament against everyone else from all three of the author’s novels a while back, and this line was one of them. (Not even the wildest thing on his resume, tbt, but my favorite weirdo moment of his wasn’t a good fit for the poll.) 

Okay, so the context for this one. At a certain point in the story, the male lead, Luo Binghe, learned that his birth mother had apparently taken the poison that would kill her unborn child (him) — in exchange for her own freedom. He already had abandonment issues up to his ears, and this was yet another thing to chip at his already shaky mental state. Eventually, after A Few More Things piled up, he had a mental breakdown of, ah, potentially world-ending proportions — and that was what it took for Shen Qingqiu to realize how miserable Luo Binghe had been the whole time, and how deeply he was hurt by Shen Qingqiu’s own actions over the course of the novel. So Shen Qingqiu resolved to (finally) take steps to show Luo Binghe that he is loved and wanted. Among other things (yes this is where our least voted option happened too), he did his best to convince Luo Binghe that his birth mother actually wanted him — that she wasn’t trying to abort him, but only took that poison to escape, and must’ve drawn all of its effects into her own body to prevent it from harming her child.

It’s only that… our most special guy decided to start that statement with: “If *I* were her…”

Anyway, as many as 478 of our voters (7.6%) unfortunately didn't believe he could have possibly said that.

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And finally, the 1st place — continuously since as early as 900 votes! — goes to Shang Qinghua with, “character told his love interest to call him ‘daddy’. not for kinky reasons” (TRUE)

All hail the author-god!

Oh, yeah, to explain: Shang Qinghua, a.k.a. Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky, is the second transmigrator — that our MC susses out at about 1/3rd of the story. When confronted, it turns out that he is not just another reader, but in fact the author, stuck in the world of his own novel.

For this reason, he sometimes refers to other characters as his ‘children’ — usually in his head or when talking to his fellow transmigrator.

But then at one point, when he is venting his frustration with a certain demon’s behavior (see 7th place option) to said demon… who also happens to be his most beloved ‘ideal man’ OC… he, among other things, snaps: “I’m your dad! Call me daddy!”

…Meaning, ofc, something like ‘I created you!’ So, yeah — not for kinky reasons. just for totally normal author-god reasons. 

With this, Airplane-bro has swayed 543 voters (8.7%) from the right path! Put it on his list of crimes next to child endangerment.

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Soooo… this is it! This has been a blast. I loved seeing everyone’s responses! Especially non-readers trying to logic out the unlogicable. I love you guys. Read Scum Villain 🫶

okay so since nobody else jumped to make this, here we go

(there's a 'see results' option for those who did read svsss at the end of the poll btw!)

(also i ask humbly to reblog if this poll caught your fancy. because most of my followers are from danmei fandoms and likely have read svsss)

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In one chapter, for example, Gray refers men as rubbers and women as waves; symbols that gives the reader an even deeper thought of what Gray is trying to present. In the way the book covers the concepts of men-women differentiation, there are similarities and some differences in the way we have covered similar concepts in class and in other sources. For example, Gray argues that men and women have different ways of scoring giving and receiving of love in a relationship. He argues that while men give high score points, women assigns a single point at an act of love at a time. This is because men, according to Gray think of big acts, unlike women. He argues that both men and women keep scores of give and take in a relationship and whenever one of them realizes that he or she has given more than he or she has received, resentment begins. It is at this time that communication becomes critical in any relationship so as to bring sanity and balance (Wood 208). Men are obviously angered when they realize that women are underscoring their acts of love. However, this should not cause alarm because men should realize that women scoring methods are very different. . This is because women think that their men are always thinking about them and caring for them on regular basis. Another concept that Gray advances is the way men and women react when it comes to stress. According to him, while many men withdraw to seek a solution to their problems, in their caves, women talk about their problems. When men retreat to their caves to find a solution, women do not understand them and a conflict may ensue. The act of retreating is significant for men because it enables them to come up with solutions or a new approach to the problems. Another difference that Gray tackles is a natural cycle of women, referred to as wave. In the wave concept, women have ability to give other people. However, when they do so, they expect to receive back and if they do not receive, their wave crashes. When a woman wave crashes, she calls for attention, and listening to and understanding from those around her. Gray argues that when a woman is supported from this low point of crash, she can rise like a wave and be restored to her former status of loving and caring. The concepts discussed in this book can make a person a competent communicator in interpersonal and group setting. This is because one gets to understand the dynamics of the behavioral patterns of the other person, especially of the opposite sex. When relating with men, one is able for example, to know his expectation of scores and for a woman one gets to know that score of acts do not matter. Moreover, if one is in a relationship, one gets to know that men and women are different (Wood 205). For example, women expect men to be caring at a regular basis. Therefore, a man will be able to understand her woman’s reactions if he Read the full article

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List of Urusei Yatsura Season 2 Episodes and their equivalent Manga Chapters & Original Anime Counterparts

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I made a list of Urusei Yatsura Season 2 episodes with the manga chapter that they adapted alongside their OG anime counterpart as the season was airing. I also wrote down my thoughts and notable aspects of each episode.

I already made a similar list for Season 1 where I listed each of the Urusei Yatsura Remake episodes and their corresponding manga chapters and 1981 original anime episodes. You can see it here.

Anyway, here's the list for Season 2:

Episode 24A Fantasy Bubble Gum Manga - Chapter 275 Fantasy Bubble Gum Original anime counterpart – Episode 169 It’s Exciting! The Terrible Overhead Cooler!! Note: The original anime combined Chapter 275 with Chapter 241 Ice Cooler Relaxation. The concept of the fantasy bubble gum was merged with the ice coolers. The Remake only adapts Chapter 275 and does it faithfully.

Episode 24B Love Knows No Barriers Manga - Chapter 206 Love Knows No Barriers Original anime counterpart – Episode 163 Oh No! Darling Can't Understand Me! Note: The original anime episode was much longer and had references to other anime like Aim for the Ace! and even the movie Halloween.

Episode 25A Trickle of Memories Manga - Chapter 176 Trickle of Memories Original anime counterpart – Episode 81 Oh! The Memories of Mother

Episode 25B Album of Memories Manga - Chapter 177 Album of Memories Original anime counterpart – Episode 81 Oh! The Memories of Mother

Episode 25C The Home Visit Blues: Feuding Fujinami Edition Manga - Chapter 298 The Home Visit Blues Original anime counterpart – Episode 189 Deadly Home Visits! A Teacher's Life is Dangerous Too

Episode 26 Electric Jungle Manga - Chapter 301-304 Electric Jungle Part 1-4 Original anime counterpart – Episode 192 Come Quickly, Darling! Lum's Dangerous Marriage Talk Note: This is the 1st episode of Season 2 and the 4th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall that is full-length. The OG Episode 192 was the last episode that adapted the latest chapters (at the time) of the manga before being canceled. Episodes 193 and 195 adapted older chapters and 194 was a rebroadcast of Episode 44.

Episode 27A Lover Thief Manga - Chapter 207-208 Lover Thief, Part 1 & 2 Original anime counterpart – Episode 121 Here Again! Hunter of Love Princess Kurama

Episode 27B That Mizunokoji Girl Manga - Chapter 224 That Mizunokoji Girl, Part 1 Original anime counterpart – Episode 132 Matchmaking Hell! Is the Armored Daughter a Beauty? Beast? Note: This is a strange one. The manga story spans 4 chapters so the original anime adapted them in 2 episodes which was a rare thing for the OG anime to do. So I assumed the Remake would dedicate one entire episode to That Mizunokoji Girl storyline. But since it's only half an episode, I guess it's going to skip a lot of scenes from the manga. Or parts of the story arc will be covered in a later episode.

Episode 28 The Continuation Of: That Mizunokoji Girl Manga - Chapter 225-227 That Mizunokoji Girl, Part 2-4 Original anime counterpart – Episode 132 Matchmaking Hell! Is the Armored Daughter a Beauty? Beast? and Episode 133 Love of the Armored Daughter! Maiden Heart is Shaky Wobbling Note: This is the 2nd episode of Season 2 and the 5th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall that is full-length. This means this episode is technically the 2nd part of a 2-parter. So, Episode 27B only adapted Chapter 224 and the rest will be adapted in Episode 28 as a full-length episode. Honestly, I thought all 4 chapters would be covered in one episode so this is a bit of a bonus. The OG anime adapted this arc in 2 episodes and it's nice to see that the Remake also did something similar.

Episode 29A Kotatsu Love Manga - Chapter 250 Kotatsu Love Original anime counterpart – Episode 146 The Scampering Kotatsu-Neko! Anything to Get Warm Note: This episode choice is peculiar because the Remake completely skipped Kotatsu-Neko's origin story. So it's weird to have an episode about him adapted. If you want to see the origin story of Kotatsu-Neko then watch Episode 51 A Cat with a Grudge on the Stairs or read Chapter 111 There's a Cat on the Stairs! Highly recommend it.

Episode 29B Lum Becomes a Cow Manga - Chapter 221 Lum Becomes a Cow Original anime counterpart – Episode 117 Lum-chan's Becoming a Cow? Note: Adaptation of a fan favorite story.

Episode 29C The Home Visit Blues: Luxurious Mendo Edition Manga - Chapter 298 The Home Visit Blues Original anime counterpart – Episode 189 Deadly Home Visits! A Teacher's Life is Dangerous Too Note: Second part of The Home Visit Blues. There will be 3 more parts.

Episode 30A Eerie Earmuffs Manga - Chapter 72 Eerie Earmuffs Original anime counterpart – Episode 24 Beware the Earmuffs!

Episode 30B Family Tree Manga - Chapter 12 Intention Original anime counterpart – None Note: Note: This is the second story of the manga that was not adapted in the OG anime in any way until the Remake adapted it into anime for the first time. The original anime probably skipped it for a specific reason. The chapter came out when Urusei Yatsura was still pretty new and Shinobu was still considered the main heroine. The anime was released a few years later when Lum was considered the new main heroine. So it's speculated that's the reason this chapter was skipped in the original anime. Also, the name "Intention" in the new Viz translation of the Urusei Yatsura manga is one of its many mistranslations. The kanji of Intention and Family Tree look very similar so that's probably how it got mistranslated. But it still blows my mind that they didn't proofread the manga which resulted in a very rough and unnatural feeling translation.

Episode 31 Open the Door, Part 1 Manga - Chapter 329 Open the Door, Chapter 330 The Ends of Love and Sadness, Chapter 331 Running for Tomorrow Original anime counterpart – Urusei Yatsura OVA 3 Inaba the Dreammaker Note: This is the 3rd episode of Season 2 and the 6th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall that is full-length. Not only that but also it's a 2-parter. Making it similar to Episode 28 The Continuation Of: That Mizunokoji Girl. In the original series, the Inaba storyline was adapted into a single hour-long OVA that was released after the TV series had finished airing. Apparently, it also screened in some theaters like some OVAs of the time. In the Remake this will likely be a 2-episode story.

Episode 32A Open the Door, Part 2 Manga - Chapter 332 Dream Doors, Chapter 333 Once for Tomorrow Original anime counterpart – Urusei Yatsura OVA 3 Inaba the Dreammaker Note: This episode is the 2nd part of a 2-parter.

Episode 32B The Home Visit Blues: Prohibitive Miyake Edition Manga - Chapter 298 The Home Visit Blues Original anime counterpart – Episode 189 Deadly Home Visits! A Teacher's Life is Dangerous Too Note: Third part of The Home Visit Blues. There are 2 more parts left.

Episode 33A Haunted Mendo Manga - Chapter 274 Haunted Mendo Original anime counterpart – Episode 166 Scary!! There is an Octopus on Shūtarō's Head!?

Episode 33B Last Date Manga - Chapter 247 Last Date Original anime counterpart – Episode 157 I Love Darling's Kindness... Note: Adaptation of one of the fan favorite manga chapters. The author Rumiko Takahashi alongside some of her editors considers this their most favorite chapter of Urusei Yatsura. If you hate Ataru then this chapter might change your mind...

Episode 34A The Case of the Battered Principal Manga - Chapter 311 The Case of the Battered Principal Original anime counterpart – None Note: This is the third story of the manga that was not adapted in the OG anime in any way until the Remake adapted it into anime for the first time.

Episode 34B The Secret Flower Garden Manga - Chapter 233 The Secret Flower Garden Original anime counterpart - Epissode 135 I Hate Gossiping Flowers!

Episode 34C The Home Visit Blues: Hellish Moroboshi Edition Manga - Chapter 298 The Home Visit Blues Original anime counterpart – Episode 189 Deadly Home Visits! A Teacher's Life is Dangerous Too Note: Fourth part of The Home Visit Blues. There is only 1 more part left.

Episode 35A L❤ve-Darling in Danger Manga - Chapter 162 L❤ve-Darling in Danger Original anime counterpart – Episode 77 Darling's Dying!?

Episode 35B Foxes of the Moonlit Night Manga - Chapter 222 Foxes of the Moonlit Night Original anime counterpart – Episode 134 I Dearly Want to Meet You! Return of the Pure Fox!! Note: The original anime version of this episode is simply better because of a beautiful insert song by Lum's voice actress Fumi Hirano.

Episode 35C The Home Visit Blues: Onsen Mark Goes to Space Manga - Chapter 298 The Home Visit Blues Original anime counterpart – Episode 189 Deadly Home Visits! A Teacher's Life is Dangerous Too Note: Final part of The Home Visit Blues.

Episode 36 Wretched Shutaro! Manga – Chapter 178 Wretched Shutaro & Chapter 179 Frenzied Shutaro Original anime counterpart – Episode 86 Outraged! Piteous Kid Shutaro!! Note: First episode of the 2nd cour of Season 2. This is the 4th episode of Season 2 and the 7th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length. Also, this is the first full-length episode that only adapts 2 chapters. Because of this, the pacing was fantastic and the Remake could add some original scenes with Mendo's family. I liked that a lot.

Episode 37A Asuka Returns Manga – Chapter 237-239 Asuka Returns, Part 1-3 Original anime counterpart – Episode 150 The Armored Girl Returns! Plenty of Older Brothers Note: The ending of this episode in the remake was more faithful than the original. For whatever reason, the original anime episode didn't adapt the final jokes of the manga.

Episode 37B A Stormy Date: Part 1 Manga - Chapter 252 A Stormy Date, Part 1 Original anime counterpart – Episode 153 The Armored Girl Appears Again! A Storm Raising Date

Episode 38 A Stormy Date: Part 2 Manga - Chapter 253-256 A Stormy Date, Part 2-5 Original anime counterpart – Episode 153 The Armored Girl Appears Again! A Storm Raising Date Note: Yes, A Stormy Date is a 5-chapter long arc which makes it one of the longest stories of Urusei Yatsura. This is the 5th episode of Season 2 and the 8th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length. This episode is also the 2nd part of a 2-parter similar to That Mizunokoji Girl episode. Interestingly, the OG anime adapted all 5 chapters in one episode instead of making a 2-parter like the adaptation of That Mizunokoji Girl Part, 1-4 which was Asuka's introduction story. As a result, there were lots of cuts in the OG anime version of this episode. A lot of the jokes from Chapter 255 A Stormy Date, Part 4 did get cut which is a shame.

Episode 39A Nagisa's Fianceé Manga – Chapter 341-342 Nagisa's Fianceé, Part 1 & 2 Original anime counterpart – OVA5 Nagisa's Fianceé Note: Many of the concepts and jokes shown in this story would later get recycled in Ranma 1/2. Namely, the arranged marriage plots and the character of Nagisa and his joke would be recycled into Tsubasa.

Episode 39B The Fairy's Parasol Manga - Chapter 299 The Haunted Parasol Original anime counterpart – Episode 186 Dreaming Ten-chan! The Great Adventure at the End of the Rainbow!!

Episode 40A One Night's Battle Manga – Chapter 349-350 One Night's Battle, Part 1 & 2 Original anime counterpart – None Note: This is the fourth story of the manga that was not adapted in the OG anime in any way until the Remake adapted it into anime for the first time. This is the second and last Nagisa story.

Episode 40B Deadly Peril in the Classroom Manga – Chapter 120 Deadly Peril in the Classroom Original anime counterpart – Episode 56 We'll Risk Our Lives During Classtime! Note: I gotta say, I'm very disappointed with the chapter selection in Season 2 Part 2. This is the second Ten-focused episode since the last one. Not only does this character not need more screentime this late into the story (other characters should get it instead) but also if they had to give Ten more screentime, there were plenty of better chapters to pick from such as the ones with his potential love interest Mako or with his mother who is a firefighter and also only received a small cameo in one of The Home Visit Blues episodes.

Episode 41 Flower Petals of Love and Courage Manga – Chapter 346-348 Flower Petals of Love and Courage Part 1-3 Original anime counterpart – None Note: Finally, after 4 consecutive episodes with unwanted characters we're getting the second story with Inaba and Shinobu. This is the 6th episode of Season 2 and the 9th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length. This is the fifth story of the manga that was not adapted in the OG anime in any way until the Remake adapted it into anime for the first time. I wish the Remake focused more on these unadapted chapters. I wonder if we'll get more episodes of unadapted chapters or if this will be the last. I hope it's not since there are still lots of bangers left.

Episode 42A Lum's Wrath Manga – Chapter 166 Lum's Wrath Original anime counterpart – Episode 88 Enraged Lum-chan!

Episode 42B Steal My Heart Manga – Chapter 354 Steal My Heart Original anime counterpart – OVA 9 Catch the Heart! Note: Welp, both of these stories were already adapted in the OG. I was kind of hoping that we'd get more unadapted chapters but oh well. Even if we weren't getting more Benten or Oyuki chapters I was hoping for adaptations of AtaLum chapters such as Chapter 320 Ultra-Colorful Couple's Look and Chapter 322 Darling's True Feelings. Even among already adapted chapters they could've picked something like Chapter 353 I Howl at the Moon which was Ataru's counterpart of the Lum Becomes a Cow chapter, Chapter 183 A Night Alone where Ataru and Lum try to sleep together, or Chapter 217-219 Blue-White Flames of Anger Part 1-3.

Episode 42 Post-credits scene Manga – Chapter 320 Ultra-Colorful Couple's Look and Chapter 356 Boy Meets Girl, Act 1 - Pitch Black Original anime counterpart – None and Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 The Final Chapter Note: The biggest surprise of Episode 42 was the post-credits scene. I knew that they'd probably tease the final arc at the end of this episode but I didn't think they'd also adapt Chapter 320 Ultra-Colorful Couple's Look. Sadly, they didn't adapt the rest of Chapter 320.

Episode 43 Boy Meets Girl: The Morning of Farewell Manga – Chapter 356 Boy Meets Girl, Act 1 - Pitch Black, Chapter 357 Boy Meets Girl, Act 2 - Will You Marry Me?, Chapter 358 Boy Meets Girl, Act 3 - Farewell Morning Original anime counterpart – Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 The Final Chapter Note: This is the 7th episode of Season 2 and the 10th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length.

Episode 44 Boy Meets Girl: Are You Really Getting Married? Manga – Chapter 359 Boy Meets Girl, Act 4 - Heart Ignition, Chapter 360 Boy Meets Girl, Act 5 - Labyrinth Reunion, Chapter 361 Boy Meets Girl, Act 6 - Are You Really Getting Married? Original anime counterpart – Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 The Final Chapter Note: This is the 8th episode of Season 2 and the 11th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length.

Episode 45 Boy Meets Girl: Crooked Heart Manga – Chapter 362 Boy Meets Girl, Act 7 - Crooked Heart, Chapter 363 Boy Meets Girl, Act 8 - Disaster, Chapter 364 Boy Meets Girl, Act 9 - Unstoppable Original anime counterpart – Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 The Final Chapter Note: This is the 9th episode of Season 2 and the 12th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length.

Episode 46 Boy Meets Girl: I Want You When I Can't Have You Manga – Chapter 365 Boy Meets Girl, Act 10 - I Want You When I Can't Have You, Chapter 366 Boy Meets Girl, Act 11 - Fin Original anime counterpart – Urusei Yatsura Movie 5 The Final Chapter Note: This is the 10th episode of Season 2 and the 13th episode of the Urusei Yatsura Remake overall which is full-length. Ngl, the ending was done very well. It surpassed my expectations.

Season 2 adapted 63 chapters from the manga. Season 1 adapted 65. So, Urusei Yatsura Remake roughly adapted 128 out of 366 chapters of the manga in total. Which is almost 35% of the manga. The rest of it was not adapted.

There were 6 stories in total that were adapted in the Remake but weren't in the original.

There were 10 full-length episodes in Season 2 and 13 full-length episodes in the series overall.

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Here's every time Kusuo actually refers to Kuusuke by name:

0.5: This one doesn't count as it has the アイツ furigana too, but it's worth mentioning as even this happens Very rarely.

1. Twice in chapter 208

2. Twice in this scene from Psi Battle

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I just noticed that when Kusuo says how Warp is a robot made by Kuusuke, the kanji reading says アイツ [that guy] instead of くうすけ [Kuusuke].