Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Death Pie Chapter 5

After quite a long break, we're back with more Death Pie. And in this chapter, we learn the meaning behind the name "Death Pie", and the story enters the final confrontation! Thanks to our friends at HappyScans! for another great chapter.

Oh, Kagemaru, we barely knew ye. Well, a lot of stuff happened in this chapter, but the gist of it is that, apparently, Kagemaru was a government agent in the Narcotics Division who was trying to get Tobioka into the Yakuza meeting places. Why, we don't know, but it would seem it has to do with Takikawa, Tobioka's old friend. The reason this chapter took so long was because of that long description of Death Pie over Kagemaru's death scene; I had to do a lot of research and the like to get through it, particularly the whole "Death Pipe" thing.

The mahjong battle on the ship kind of seemed like a way of making sure there was Mahjong in every single chapter; it didn't really do much for the story. But we know that the Brother isn't actually Takikawa unless he was using an alias; his real name is Matsudai Yousaku. The whole God Facer scene got me interested to see if all the pieces will eventually fall together neatly; the ship in Chapter 2 was from the Dog Facer Foundation, just like the island where the final confrontation will take place, but the man we see at the end is actually called *God* Facer. I wonder if there's a connection between the two words being reverses of each other.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Tetsuya 4

http://www.mediafire.com/?9rkhh32wvphz8a3
Edited by everyone's favorite duo of photoshop masterminds, Mr. Biggums Crump–the prophet who "sees the lines"–and Kazuhiko, also known as David, the God of the Fonts. (Join our cult today.)

-Spoilers-

I'm enjoying this arc. Jefferson's instability really serves to up the ante on this whole gamble. As we have found out, this guy really takes human life lightly, and seems to have no problem with gunning down a few "japs" here and there when it suits his needs. I don't know how Tetsuya is getting out of this one. What was he thinking?

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Tetsuya 3

Back in record time (see: still ridiculously slow) with Tetsuya chapter 3. Enjoy your racism.
http://www.mediafire.com/?n6pmpestbdno71p

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Jefferson is quite a formidable foe, if he's just going to kill anyone who pisses him off. If you think about it, what stops him from just killing everyone in the room and taking all their money? Why gamble if he has proven he can get away with murder? Then again, I suppose he can't outright murder Tetsuya. What would happen in the other 42 volumes? 42 volume arc of Danchi facing off against the old couple? YEAAAHHHH

Anyways, yeah. Here we have a perfectly accurate portrait of a World War II age American soldier. By the way, I have no idea whether I'm being sarcastic or not. I don't know what American soldiers were like. For all we know, Jefferson is a completely accurate representation!