Haiji and his group are about to enter the labyrinth of mist.
After entering the labyrinth they begin talking about how it's highly probable that Nils' "baa-chan" is Eureka compatible. Haiji comes into conclusion that the labyrinth which looks like made from the stone is in fact concentrated must which has solid form which would be an impossible feat without an Eureka.
Nils implies that his grandma was unusual even before, Viviane speculates that maybe she went on a rampage because of her Eureka powers went berserk.
Viviane loathes Nils' cowardness and she tells how she has always been alone, even on missions.
So we are slowly getting into Viviane's past.
Toriiooji says that some townspeople who had entered the labyrinth before all of them encountered monsters so they escaped.
Haiji gets grabbed by one of them and says that he isn't fine - he ran out of power while ago. He asks why won't they leave these monsters to Viviane to handle?
An obvious lie in my opinion, he hasn't really used his power at all.
It seems Viviane doesn't have a choice, she says to them not to close their eyes so that they can see how harmful her Eureka power is. It says that she lied: in reality she didn't want them to see it, since people would pull away from her.
Viviane then transforms his hands and feet almost in to a huge blades.
In my opinion this Eureka could have been more aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, but i'll let it slip. The idea of molding your body with blades in itself is nowhere near original, but many things rarely are nowadays. It sure has potential, but it's really up to mangakas creativity, like always
We get a small flashback of Viviane, how six years ago there was a scandal and it was find out that the metal was embedded in her body. The Zaibatsu (literally: financial clique) used a lot of money to get the Eureka from her. She was eventually abandoned by her parents and later she got in White joker and they taught her how to manipulate her body. Essentially she had lost her noble envirnoment in which she had grew up and she plans to take it all back with her power.
I like it how this flashback was summarized in only two pages, which is a great thing: most of the flashbacks in different mangas tend to be too often a bit boring, even in One Piece.
She quickly decimates on one of the minotaur monsters with a nice move and then plans to go save Haiji, but Haiji had already freed himself.
Yeah, I knew he was lying.
Haiji lied about him running out of power, he just wanted to see Viviane's Eureka power. He says that it's beautiful and then begins to praise it from earth to heavens.
Will be continued in Hungry Joker chapter 12.
Comments: Chapter 11 was a decent, but really didn't have me excited: Viviane's Eureka feels a bit too generic, it honestly feels like I have seen similar power in a dozen of different mangas. In the span of 11 chapter Hungry Joker has not made a very good impression, but I'm willing to give it more time, though I wouldn't be surprised for it to be cancelled.
I think what Hungry Joker needs is a seriously amazing plot twists which would keep readers eagerly waiting for the next chapter. What this kind of manga often needs is a intriguing mystery which makes readers go speculate about it on blogs and forums and or more interesting characters with varying abilities which keep wanting to read more. At the moment Hungry Joker has not managed to be successful in either of these, but if you remember how tedious One Piece was at first I'm of course willing to read more of this and hope that it will exceed my current expecations.
I still acknowledge Hungry Jokers potential: it's only a matter of its usage.
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