Toriko Chapter 229: Tengu Branchi Is Awesome

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Well, a decent chapter in my opinion this week. Last week I was wondering how would it be possible for Branchi to defeat an immortal being, except for containing him in some way which would make Elg unable to do anything.

The conclusion was a bit better than I expected, but felt really a bit forced. It's great that the author decided to bring an immortal character into play, but immortality in itself is a bit hard concept in my opinion in this kind of mangas since it should be used very sparingly. I have to be honest that I really don't get it how it would be possible for something to be electrically charged in such a way that it would keep 'hitting' the target continuously, but in any case, I'll leave it up to the freedom of the series. In any case it would be pretty much useless to argue about how stuff works in a manga which is only limited by imagination.

The fight didn't leave up to expectations except that I ended up liking Tengu Branchi pretty much and I hope that we'll be seeing him more after this arc. Hopefully he will join Toriko, Komatsu and others when they head out to the gourmet world. I have always somewhat fancied electricity/lightning as power in series and I think that Tengu Branchi is very well designed, enjoyable character.

Recap of Toriko Chapter 229: VS Immortality

-Branchi vs. Immortal Elg continues.

-Branchi concludes that Elgs regenerative ability is "Nou-darake", which literally means "full of brains"

-It's a gene which is located in the head of an organism called planarian. Then we get a lot of explaining about Branchis techinque and some deductions about Elg wounding his cheek. No wonder Toriko needs some time to get translated.4

-Elg then proceeds to attack with all of his bodies, but Branchi rises up, locks on to all bodies and uses Heiretsu, "Eleki Cutter", turning electricity into sharp blades. He then continues with Fuurai Kamaitachi.

-However, Elgs immortal body is constantly adapting and it seems he's unshaken by Branchis attacks. He then starts kicking Branchi continuously until Buranchi is lying on the ground.

-Tengu Branchi does indeed have a trump card - he explains that his body is like a power plant which can convert all energy from the outside into electricity.

-He has accumulated huge amounts of electricity, which allows him to use Ougy Chokuretsu Daitai Dengeki which is essentially a huge bolt of lightning.

-Elg can regenerate as much as he wants, but that attacks electrically charged him so even if his cells rot and regenerate back he is going to keep getting hit by that attack forever.

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Terra Formars Review

Terra Formars is a story about people of earth trying to make Mars into a fertile planet. They came up with the plan of sending cockroaches and mold so that they would make the planet eligible for people to live there. After couple of hundreds of years the first expedition lands on Mars and soon they find out that the cockroaches have mutated into huge and strong insects which pose a serious danger to the people on the ship..

Art: Terra Formars art is perhaps the best part of the series and it can be considered as excellent. Even if I'd look with a magnifying glass I most likely wouldn't find anything worth mentioning which would lower the score on its art. The battles of the series, though they are often very quickly over are drawn in a very good manner which I found very pleasing. There are a lot of brutality in the series and at first sight it does look like a yet another series which presents us more imaginative ways for people to die. 5/5

Characters: The characters of this series are at the same time a good and also the bad side. There really isn't any main protagonist who we are following, but rather the whole series looks more like a showcase for the author to show us as much imaginative characters which unique skills. This combined with great art makes up most of the enjoyability of the series. So the human characters, which have been imbued in the most imaginative ways with various insect abilities in this series are usually very short lived, which for those who like to follow some main protagonist who is covered with plot armor it's a definite minus. So the main point of the characters of Terra Formars could be both the human and the cockroaches as entirety. I found it pretty funny how the conversation on internet of this series always turns into pointing out the similarities between the cockroaches and black men. 3/5

Story: Needless to say, the story of Terra Formars really isn't anything to gloat about. As I previously mentioned the point of whole series seems to be a showcase for the author to show pieces of his imagination in the form of drawings and I'm not saying that it's necessarily a bad thing. In fact this way the series presented me something relatively new which I enjoyed to some extent. This doesn't mean that there isn't a story line at all, in fact it's quite opposite. People are trying to make the planet more fertile and they themselves created the menace that is posing a threat for the whole humanity. Along the way Terra Formars also presents us some mysteries regarding Mars itself as it seemed that someone else had previously habited the place, also there seems to be some sort of conspiracies in the background of the actual happenings. 3,5/5

Conclusion: Terra Formars is a brutal, imaginative, excellently drawn, shrouded in slight mystery manga which presented something new at least to me. I'd say that it's definitely worth a try if you aren't afraid of some brutal content which doesn't pale in comparison with Gantz. Actually I could say that if one likes Gantz, then Terra Formars is most likely something to seriously consider for enjoyment. For people who like science, Terra Formars also presents very well researched material used in the designs of the characters, which without doubt will please some, if not most of the readers. 3,5/5

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One Piece Chapter 705: Crazy Rookie Bartolomeo Hyped Up

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Needless to say, it was a good chapter even though there was minimal amount of happenings this time. Pointers:

Ok so the one guy who took the spotlight in this chapter was obviously Bartolomeo. Oda decided to introduce us to his advisor Gambia, who was then taken down by Mainard the Pursuer. It seemed as Mainard was supposed to be someone very strong, but the main goal for Oda was to hype Bartolomeo up. I'm very interested in seeing who and what kind of guy he is.

Then we got finally a confirmation that the blind swordsman is in fact Fujitora and I believe that his name was Isshou-san. It was expected and there's really nothing much to say about him. What I'm wondering is that how is it that they decided to go to the Green Pit, maybe Doflamingo tipped the marines off? Either way, I'll be waiting to see what's really going to happen there.

This chapter was in essence a build up chapter once again and I really though that it wouldn't be possible for One Piece to be any more interesting, but it seems that I was seriously wrong. I think that every situation with every character at this point is interesting enough that I can't wait to see what's going to happen with each and every one of them. Of course the tournament is the most interesting case at this point, but I can't say that I would be disappointed if the focus would change to the other strawhats.

Once again one more week of excruciating waiting for the next chapter. Feels bad man.

Recap of One Piece Chapter 705: Maynard The Pursuer

-The "champion" appears, Jesus Burgess. Franky is in the audience thinking that he should go and do his job. The one legged toy soldier wants to tag along.

-A certain marine is near the audience writing peoples names up: "Pirate Mercenary" Heildion, "Missionary" Gambia. He's obviously writing down pirates who are participating in the tournament.

-Scene changes to some guy at the corner of the colosseum's changing rooms: he's saying that "he'll as Isshou-san right away", it may be that he's talking to the previous guy writing down pirates' names. We are then introduced to "Bartolomeo Pirate crew advisor", Missionary Gambia.

-This guy is then introduced as Capman Marine HQ Vice Admiral Maynard the Pursuer, he took out Gambia.

-The blind swordsman seems to be a high up marine, it's seems certain that he's in fact Fujitora. He says to his underling that they should go to Green Pit. He is then formally introduced as Admiral Fujitora, I believe his name was previously said as Isshou-san.

-We get to see team which is in charge of handing Caesar over, the team includes Robin, Usopp, Law and Caesar of course.

-The shopkeeper tells them that they can't go to Green Pit because of fighting fish.

-We are then introduced to CP-0, or CP-aigis 0, it's supposed to be even stronger than CP9.

-Then there's Zoro and the fairy who stole his sword. Zoro manages to finally grab his sword but falls down the roof of a building.

-Kinemon apparently got lost and was ambushed by people who seem to recognize him as Kinemon of the Foxfire. They order Kinemon to come with them or otherwise something will happen to Kanjurou.

-Then there's Sanji, who takes out a sniper targeting him / Violet.

-Finally we get to see the team which is guarding the Sunny including Momonosuke, Chopaemon, Brooke and court lady Nami.

-There's a sudden voice coming from the men's room.

-Scene then changes tot the Corrida Colosseum and we see a shadow of Bartolomeo, who took down Vice Admiral Capman down.

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Naruto Chapter 627: Ultimate Battle Ahead!

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I'm excited. It was a good chapter and a good build up for what's about to come: Four hokages combined, Sasuke, Orochimaru, this will be a great sight for us to see in the chapters to come. I really hope that Kishimoto manages to deliver all that he has built up with all the huge characters who are about to emerge in the form of the ultimate battle.

So, it was pretty expected that Sasuke turned out to take his brothers 'ideology' of protecting the village instead of blaming people who he was cooperating with against Uchiha clan. I gotta be honest and say that there's really not much to write about, since it was just an build up chapter (good one though).

What I still don't really get is Madara's "turn of evil", I wonder whether Kishimoto really decides to clarify it to the readers, which would mean that there could be some turn of events waiting for us.

Recap of Naruto Chapter 627: Sasuke's Answer

-So the flashback has ended and it's time for Sasukes decision / answer

-It seems that Sasuke has come to a conclusion that his brother died protecting Hashiramas will, which means that Sasuke will oppose Madara.

-Tobirama mentions of Kagami Uchiha, who in his opinion resembles Uchiha Itachi. Kagamis son was Shisui Uchiha, who was Itachis friend.

-Sarutobi says that he wasn't able to continue the second's work properly and for that reason he let Danzou handle the darkness of the village. We know how that turned out.

-They ask Sasuke what he's going to do and it seems he goes through all that happened through his head. He says that he is going to the battlefield and protect the Konoha Village.

-They go outside and prepare for the ultimate clash.

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Fairy Tail Chapter 326: Dragons Coming Through Eclipse Gate?

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Pretty good chapter this time.
Believe it or not, but I'm a bit happy that Natsu got beaten up and not defeating Rogue with the power of friendship. Maybe it shows that Mashima hasn't gone too overboard with it. (even though he already has :). This chapter offered a couple of interesting points, which require some parsing:

First Rogues white shadow dragon mode was pretty cool, I liked the idea and design. He obviously got it by killing Sting, but somehow I would have liked that to be left in the shadows and let the readers deduce that themselves, even though it's a bit obvious. I recently watched a video where a very wise man said pretty well, that a good movie doesn't explain it's message, but rather shows it leaving the interpretation up to the watcher.

From Rogue, where he can actually become a shadow made me have some sort of an epiphany where Natsus and other Dragon Slayers where they could become the element that they represent, pretty much like Logias in One Piece.

Then we get to the good stuff which is the Eclipse Gate. I think that the dragons are in fact in another dimension and are going to come through the gate, this would explain their sudden disappearance. This is where the plot goes a little bit more complicated, but it may look a bit like this:

The first timeline: This is where the dragons appear, people are killed and Lucy escapes to the past: as she herself said, in her time she didn't close the gates.

The second timeline: It seems to me that Future Lucy and Future Rogue possibly came from different timelines + Rogue came several years later. This is where Rogue in fact wants the dragons to invade the land for one reason or another

The current timeline is where Lucy somehow senses that the dragosn are going to come through the gates and wants it to be closed. I wonder though how people are going to react to her as she said just moments earlier that she wouldn't do that.

This is pretty much how I see this plotline and it makes somewhat sense, however I recalled in the middle of writing this the moment at  where we are shown the scene of chapter 101 where Igneel and Grandine meet and talk about Wendy and most likely Natsu. This contradicts pretty much with this theory, but maybe it has some truth in it so I'll leave it like that.

Recap of Fairy Tail 326: Natsu vs. Rogue

-The day has changed to July 7th, which is the same day as when the dragons disappeared

- Eclipse Gate is about to open.

-At where Natsu and Rogue are, Rogue says that Lucy will definitely close the gate.

-Natsu activates Lightning Fire Dragon mode.

-Rogue, however actiavtes white shadow dragon mode, he is possessing the properties of both light and darkness.

-Rogue then damages Natsu with White shadow dragon rough silk. He then says that it's the power he stole by killing Sting.

-He is about to deal finishing blow to Natsu, but Ultear comes and interrupts him.

-Meanwhile, the gate is opening, but then Lucy senses something and says that they have to close the door.

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One Piece 705 Spoiler

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One Piece 704 was a great chapter, I enjoy so much reading it even after reading it few times. Now, my intention is to look forward for One Piece 705 Spoiler. There are a lot of things I like to find out in One Piece 705 Spoiler. I still keep thinking what are Sanji, Zoro, Brook, and the samurai been doing. I hope there are some news about them in the next One Piece 705 Spoiler, before the real chapter come out.

I predict Luffy will win easily on his 1st of battle, but considering of Oda style I am sure that the next One Piece 705 Spoiler cannot cover all Luffy's real fight. He might need not use any of his armed haki to fight on the preliminary stage, but good enough to attract huge attention without revealing his true identity. Since we know one of Blackbeard crew already won the 1st battle, the remaining unknown winner will be of Block B. So far we know the winner for Block A is Jesus Burgess, Block B still unknown, Block C is Luffy definitely, and Block D probably could be The Gladiator Rebecca.

One Piece 705 Spoiler could be very thrilling, after they have four winners from every block they will fight direct with Doflamingo family. Very high probability that Luffy has to fight seriously after this, I don't think he can hide his true identity anymore after the One Piece 705 Spoiler. In the mean time Franky could have done some home work by now, most probably he knows where to find the factory already and prepared some plan. Maybe he already finished some weapon or little robot to go investigate.

I know Joker will meet Law in order to retrieve the scientist Caesar, but as soon as he knows of Luffy where about he will rush to go to the Arena. We might able to see some of Straw hat pirate member in the One Piece 705 Spoiler, maybe Robin and Usopp which are in Team To Give Back Caesar lead by Law. The risk is so high but Usopp was in that team, there must be a reason ant that reason shows Usopp is now a very strong man. One Piece 705 Spoiler is full of promise, and worth to wait patiently.

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One Piece Chapter 704: Final Four Participants

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Once again a great one. At the beginning of the chapter we are introduced to a lot of people who seem somewhat 'fodder', no one really stands out and I believe that's how Oda wanted it to be. I do understand that there's somewhat a need for some of the participants to be introduced and he decided to leave the important ones to the latter part of the chapter. It seems that Bellamy is alive after all and seems to be in the service of Doflamingo after all.

Pirate Prince Cavendish is the first "important" participant introduced in this chapter. It was a truly funny moment when Luffy mistakenly said his real name causing a shock in the other participants. Also we got some backstory on Cavendish and I really find it pretty nice to hear about him - it's pretty awesome that he has been three years in the new world without any kind of an ability.

Then Gladiator Rebecca is introduced, once again an obviously important character for this arc / tournament. She and Luffy talk about Kyros and it seems that there's an interesting mystery there lying in wait for us and I couldn't help but to see that if he was the champion 20 years ago, he could have been around when Gold Roger was still roaming the seas.

And finally we see Jesus Burgess after a long time, it seems that the 4 participants for the finals are Burgess, Lucy, Cavendish and Rebecca. Seeing Burgess raises a question: is Blackbeard around? Can't wait for next week - damn you Oda.

Recap of One Piece 704: The statue of Kyros and Lucy

-The people in the waiting room are wondering what just happened. Someone comes and says to Luffy that he's out of the game because of the ruckus he caused.

-He then gets interrupted by Country of Flowers Gang: The Chinjao Family, Don Chinjao, Boo and Sai.

-We are getting introduced to more gladiators, Assassins from neighbouring country: The Funk Brothers: Bobby Funk and Kerry Funk.

-Next are Prodence Kingdom King "The Fighting King" Elisabello the 2nd (second) and Prodence Kingdom Tactician Dagama.

-War Criminal from the battle of Dias, Neck Spring Slayman

-Former bounty hunters from the government bombing incident, Abdola and Jet.

-The Fake Massacre Adventurist, The Ruler Ohlumbus

-Donquixote Family Endorsement, Savage Pirate worth over 100 million "Hyena Bellamy"

-Pirate Prince Cavendish, Crazy Rookie Bartolomeo are supposed to be participating too.

-Luffy or rather Gladiator Lucy puts on a cool armor, holding a shield and a sword: he really looks like an old man

-The Beautiful Pirates Captain Cavendish is introduced "formally"

-Luffy mistakenly says his real name, everyone gets shocked and then they realize his "mistake", truly a funny moment.

-Gladiator Rebecca is introduced, they are talking about Kyros with Luffy.

-There's some ruckus at the arena, first block has been finished and the finalist seems to be Blackbeard pirates' Jesus Burgess.

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