Last time was plot, so what brings in this new chapter…
8/12: Andy’s high-level spoiler overview!
8/12: Jezzy shares her thoughts on yaoi Ren/jeanne
8/12:
Ok, so like always Dit’s going to have to fill in some of these finer points but here we go!
Shaman King Flowers Volume 4 will come out on October 10th, 2013.
[wpspoiler name=”シャーマンキング Flowers Chapter 16 Spoilers” ]
So we start off with Yosuke and Yahabe talking on top of a tower in Tokyo again. You know that standard “this world is ours” kind of stuff.
In the morning… Hana is having breakfast with Yohane, Luca, Gakko, and Namaha. Gakko and Namaha then do some explanation of the god rankings with a chart. Gakko then continues to act like Horohoro.
Hana gets all moody again… but only for 3 pages this time!
Anyways… Men is walking down the road then two familiar looking guys appear! The two living guys from Team Niles! So they go beat up Men with their mummy attacks.
Then Men turns the battle around with both Bason and Shamash!
And that’s it! It’s only 32 pages long. So a bit short this month, but that’s ok.
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Coming soon.
Okay so, I’m not sure why Andy skimped on this. Maybe he was trying to protect me in some way even though he knows I’ve seen the raw and I know what happens. Here’s the scoop on Men.
[wpspoiler name=”Ren/jeanne still sucks btw” ]
So, the flunkies from Team DeNile show up and are like, “OMG THAT’S JEANNE’S KID. REVENGE REVENGE REVENGE”
Men’s all like “Oh? Oh…Sorry…” Which is like WAIT, YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS? YOU’RE….8…WHY DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS? Also, the stupidity of his hair style increases exponentially at this point.
He seems to pull out a Wounded Gazelle Gambit of sorts, and lets them beat him up a bit. At this point he’s following jeanne’s whole googly-eyed bullshit like “Whaaaaat? Meeeee? Oh noooooo! I’m sooooooorryyyyy~!” Not that I’m buying into jeanne being the mom or anything.
So they slap him around (and I’m really hoping he chides them on taking out adult problems on children, because, like I said, HE’S EIGHT YEARS OLD), and things are looking bleak, he gets beat up, his hair looks like a moldy swirly blah blah blah.
Then, he’s all “LOL JK DIE NAO.” And then the chapter ends.
Men is officially a sociopath. Obviously things in Tao Castle haven’t improved in terms of a happy environment. Hey, MAYBE JEANNE IS HIS MOM AND SHE’S DEAD AND THAT’S WHY HE’S ALL SCREWED UP. I would accept this theory.
I’m still not okay with this pairing, even if it is supposed to be canon. I’m a fan of well-developed relationships. While, yes, people can go away for a couple years and come back with someone entirely new in real life (hell, my sister is apparently going to marry someone from Spain she met while she was teaching there barely a year ago. Who knew?), you can’t really do that in fiction. Especially if you’re trying to say that two characters who never actually had a real interaction (no, making out with someone’s spirit does not count as interacting — especially when, in the same scene, the girl wets herself because she’s so scared of him LOL I WAS WRONG THIS NEVER HAPPENED I MADE IT UP APPARENTLY. How embarrassing…BUT SHE’S STILL SCARED OF HIM SO YEAH!). Sorry, but I don’t buy it. Roaming tumblr, I’m relieved to know that a lot of other people aren’t buying it either. You need to be a good enough writer that you can make readers believe the shit you write. Takei fails at this epically.
I finally stepped back and took a page from the HP fandom. We know who Rowling paired everyone with, but does this stop people from writing Hermione/Malfoy fanfiction? No siree bob. So I won’t stop either.
I love Ren. Nothing will ever change that. I don’t have to embrace or even approve of what Takei does or who he pairs him with. I’ll continue to do my thing and just explain away Ren/jeanne whenever I need to. I’ve already explained away this chapter in my head.
You may call me pompous or butt hurt. I call myself a creative force.
I’m going to go drink some Calpico or strawberry smoothie or milk or something.[/wpspoiler]
I just realized Andy’s pics are all nice and clean and mine…aren’t. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I’M SORRY I CAN’T CLEAN.
