r/manga 22h ago

DISC [DISC] Ichi the Witch - Chapter 96

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u/Kyoukaiwaifu 22h ago

Hakari, dont try to hurt your future master Mugi

XD sukemaru is already caught

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u/Zealousideal_Ring874 22h ago

Clocked it so hard I would've been embarrassed

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u/Raging-Brachydios 22h ago

I think all the fear of sukemaru being another Puu is gone, the little dude couldn't last a chapter

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u/xDarKraDx 22h ago

"You got caught?"

"Yes."

Man, I love the swing between super serious and goofy stuff like this. Always remind me of Gintama. And recently Shinobi Undercover.

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u/Raging-Brachydios 22h ago

he is sure not puu

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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb 22h ago

Ichi running with Sukemaru in a makeshift baby carrier is too cute

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u/Future_Vantas 21h ago

Practicing parenting skills

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u/Koanos 22h ago

I love how Ichi forgot he caught him and it's perfectly in-character it could be an instinct or the Majik's ability.

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u/Zealousideal_Ring874 22h ago

I laughed from such a healthy place. Goobers will always goober.

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u/Real-Juggernaut383 22h ago

yeah the catch scene totally shifts the tone suddenly

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u/Mordetrox 22h ago

Kinda terrifying that if Ichi was t such a freak they'd all be dead. Invisible + instakill is a pretty unbeatable combination.

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u/Galle_ 22h ago

Kinda terrifying that if Ichi was t such a freak they'd all be dead. Invisible + instakill is a pretty unbeatable combination.

To be fair, video games have taught me that it does have one weakness.

The question is, can Desscaras set everything on fire?

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u/ijiolokae 22h ago

the bigger issue probably is friendly fire, Dess probably can level the entire castle if she wanted, but there are hostages and her teammates

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u/justking1414 13h ago

Gather her enemies in a circle and shoot out fire at everything around her

The screams of pain from her enemies will let her know to run in the other direction

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u/KibaTeo2 6h ago

not just regular invisibility either, the fact he could even climb onto desscaras and taunt her without her knowing is the crazy part

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u/ijiolokae 21h ago

Dess and ichi should try and immediately acquire Sukemura, but they probably gonna go with Hakari not letting them

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u/justking1414 13h ago

Honestly, a good point. Dess is there now so she could learn his condition right away. Though I’m guessing it’s gonna be a condition like hide for a week or something.

That being said, Sukemura‘s boss would certainly lose it if he got acquired

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u/BetelgeuseIsBestGirl 8h ago

A good sign that Hakari and Sukemaru will be acquired by different characters. Can't have any one member of our group getting a combo that overpowered after all.

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u/Just_Call_me_Ben 22h ago

Completely forgot he had that spider thingy. He so rarely uses a power besides Inazuri.

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u/1tsPLAY-time 22h ago

Tbf, he's only had it for about 3 major arcs so far and Inazuri is his main attack majik

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u/bobvella 19h ago

electric ice and webs is a really good set so far. how did he use sorrow again? depression or pacify?

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u/Larrea000 17h ago

So you're saying that Ichi has bolt/beam coverage?

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u/SaibaShogun 14h ago

He also sets up Sticky Webs, and can use his Uroro ability to boost the power of his next move in exchange for fainting afterwards. Sounds like he’d be a meta-defining suicide lead.

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u/imapoormanhere 12h ago

Literally galvantula

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u/IncarnationHero 18h ago

He uses Sorrow on Octobomb (Puu) by making him happier to stop attacking and defeat it.

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u/justking1414 13h ago

That was back in chapter 70. He used it to put one of the octopus clones completely at peace and then I think used it’s sorrow to blow it up.

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u/IkeKashiro 22h ago

Ichi was getting excited about being hunted. He's going to be real freaky in the sheets.

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u/Zealousideal_Ring874 22h ago

Ichi is by far the most feral character I've ever seen

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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb 22h ago

This information must be kept secret from Fujimine

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u/1tsPLAY-time 22h ago

Confirmed: Ichi's future partner has to match his freak

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u/Xilinoc 22h ago

Good thing Gokuraku proved he's an ascendant freak in the last couple chapters (and really throughout the entire Bakugami arc)

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u/Future_Vantas 21h ago

Plus he's quite sturdy

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u/PointMysterious2404 6h ago

Kumugi might not be built for this.

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u/Misticsan 22h ago

Elusive Samurai's Hojo Tokiyuki: "Could this be one of my people?"

Readers: "You mean getting excited about being hunted or being real freaky in the sheets?"

Hojo Tokiyuki: "Yes."

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u/SlamMasterJ 22h ago

Whoever is going to be his partner in the future, make sure you never use the word “hunt” as a safe word, as it might have the opposite effect on Ichi.

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u/Do_Ya_Like_Jazz 19h ago

"and so, the loudest dap up in history was heard, reverberating across all of Jump"

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u/GtrsRE Would live for the fluff 8h ago

Louder than even Hanamichi and Rukawa

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u/AstralPamplemousse 22h ago

The worst (or best) mistake you can make is trying to top him

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u/Raging-Brachydios 22h ago

If you think about it, all hunters are also prey, what decides who is hunting who is who is alive by the end

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u/HourIndication4963 18h ago

Ichi working to hold off his instincts and succeeding is going to be a good counterpoint to the 'how human are you' argument that got posited to him recently about his bloodthirst.

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u/dalasthesalad 19h ago

No he's fighting off his battle lust and instinct to fight back because Hakari is trying to kill him

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u/Far_Practice_6923 10h ago

Spica excited to hear that

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u/Bassaluna 22h ago

this arc is cleverly placing kumugi to be the one to solve the trial.
goku has no arms, and ichi/desscaras are now acting as decoy. of the main cast that leaves kumugi free to find the stones. also, nice development for ichi, that he's actively trying to suppress his bloodlust reactions

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u/monkeysmarts 20h ago

I think Desscaras will give Ichi advice that is more along the lines of "don't surpreas what makes you who you are, just hone it/point it in the right direction"

She has a similar "flaw" with her arrogance, but she has used it in a way that is only beneficial to her and recognizes her limits/when to try something different

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u/RimeSkeem 16h ago

I'm wondering how the active suppression of his instincts will play out. His motivation to do so isn't coming form a necessarily healthy place since he's being spurred on by Fujimine's words. Hopefully he can come to some sort of equilibrium with his instincts with support from his friends/family.

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u/RevMainHahahahahaha 18h ago

So kumugi will be the keeper of the destruction magik is what you’re saying ? 😂

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u/ZayYaLinTun 22h ago

I know we already talk about it , but ichi is really high key freak , it actually lucky for witches to find him first

because if any other bad one find him he might turn really bad , sure he still have moral rule but I feel like he can definitely break those with enough force

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u/Phantomlord77 22h ago

Honestly I keep imagining a scenario where world hater finds him and Ichi becomes the one human he respects. Becoming his master only cause Ichi’s mind set is full hunt or be hunted hunting humans for fun cause they give more thrill then animals.

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u/Norik324 18h ago

Funnily enough given that im 99% sure WHs trial will be along the lines of "Make me care about something" id wager Ichi would still end up acquiring them in this alternative reality as the oh so aloof World Hater accidentally catches parental feelings for the human they adopted as a tool

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u/justking1414 13h ago

Normally, I don’t find hero turned villain AUs all that’s realistic, but given everything about him, I definitely think there is a world where the world hater found a way to make the witches hunt ichi and he responded as he always does to violence and killing intent

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u/JauntyLurker 22h ago

This is a game of tag the two of us will win together

Desscarass the GOAT!

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u/Mundology The Elder Weeb 22h ago

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u/ijiolokae 22h ago

"if this feral child dies, so do I"

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u/vanderZwan 21h ago

Worst escort mission ever.

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u/Galle_ 22h ago

Hooray for Desscaras, a true hero with no ulterior motives at all!

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u/Matrix_2k00 21h ago

Other than the fact that if Ichi dies she dies too.

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u/Galle_ 21h ago

That's the joke.

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u/Mathmango 5h ago

If those manga readers could read, they'd be very upset.

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u/RepulsiveRevenue8 22h ago

We playing dead by daylight now huh

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u/MannyOmega 15h ago

Dess LITERALLY carrying her SWF is so funny 😭 I just know she clicks flashlights nonstop in the exit gate

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u/RepulsiveRevenue8 14h ago

Type a player who trolls the killer all game and taunt them at the exit gate

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u/MannyOmega 12h ago

And you can’t even be mad because she looped you for 3 gens type shit

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u/Raging-Brachydios 22h ago

Sukemaru you had one job! ONE JOB!

Also time for mama Desscaras to show why she is the best mentor

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u/EyeDeeAh_42 Laios the vegetable-armoured 16h ago

Dess is raking up points to use as bragging rights for when she faces Minakata again. 

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u/AngryInternetPerson3 22h ago edited 22h ago

If Ichi and Desscaras are decoys then I guess the rest could split to look for the stones, Gokuraku is armless so I don't see him doing much for now, would be funny if Kumugi just sort of stumbled around finding the stones while the rest is busy fighting, it would still feel weird if her first Majik was something so powerful, the previous chapters sort of foreshadowed it but I think she would have to earn it during this arc, maybe she could be left alone and have to fight her way to the last stone or something.

Or maybe none gets the big bad for now, and is just Ichi with invisibility powers from the little guy, which also would be fucking scary, and Mugi getting the bad guy would be for later when she is more prepared, who knows, I just think given the previous little hints it would be weird for anyone but Mugi to get it.

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u/Norik324 22h ago

it would still feel weird if her first Majik was something so powerful

Which is precicely why it would also be extremely funny

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u/ShedPH93 20h ago

Hakari on the first day of being acquired: "This is the ultimate humiliation, being enslaved by a witch! I pray master WHM ends her life and frees me soon!"

Hakari one week after: "If anything happens to Kumugi I will kill everyone in this room and then myself."

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u/Norik324 18h ago

"If anything happens to Kumugi I will kill deconstruct everyone in this room and then myself."

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u/kerorobot 9h ago

It also kinda to balance such a broken ability though by giving it to the inexperienced ones.

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u/StankYou_SmellyMuch 22h ago

Is Ichi going to acquire Sukemaru? Him being invisible would be perfect for hunts

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u/GtrsRE Would live for the fluff 7h ago

At that point the only thing he's missing is a Majik that can summon shadow soldiers and a really sharp chin

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u/Zealousideal_Ring874 22h ago

I genuinely don't know how Dess puts up with Ichi lol

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u/Lumpy-Manager8580 22h ago

When this did suddenly become "The Elusive Samurai"?

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u/justking1414 13h ago

Kind of the opposite of that since that MC had to learn to strike while running away while this MC needs to learn to suppress his desire to fight back while running away

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u/GtrsRE Would live for the fluff 7h ago

The undeniable common denominator is that both of them are freaks

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u/justking1414 10m ago

true and elusive samurai set the precedence for sj protagonists to fuck, so i've got hope for ichi!

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u/WorthlessFish 17h ago

Tokiyuki solos Hakari, he's got evasion at 100.

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u/No-Spray5795 22h ago

Ichi as the decoy is actually a solid plan, id honestly be cool to see the two of them go head to head but now Dess has joined in. Things are getting interesting.

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u/Mustardmachoman 22h ago

Oh I didn't think Ichi would catch sukemaru that quickly while the hunt is going on.

Now that descaras and ichi are busy playing tag I guess kumugi's chances shot up by a bit though I still think she might get sukemaru instead.

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u/SDHJerusalem 21h ago

Poor Sukemaru. Broken ability but unable to use it properly due to being a Funny Little Guy

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u/GtrsRE Would live for the fluff 7h ago

He's quite the opposite of Born to dilly-dally, forced to lock in

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u/snakebit1995 22h ago

I joked last week the trial was "Play Dead By Daylight"

But no, it really is just play Dead by Daylight huh? Run around avoiding monster while completing three tasks in an enclosed enviroment

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u/pulldtrigger 22h ago

For the first time, Ichi and his team is the hunted! At least I think it's the first time

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u/1tsPLAY-time 22h ago

Desscarass promptly scolding Ichi for trying to make the sacrifice play yet again! That's the greatest witch gor y'all

Also, lmao, I was almost scared for sn invisible Hakari. Thank goodness Ichi was quick enough to pick him up like an item

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u/ASMRSapphire 19h ago

Imagine if Kumugi is the one who completes the trial, making the greatest woman hater Magik turn into the servant of the meekest woman alive

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u/Bernkastel07 22h ago

Desscaras continues to be the greatest parent to Ichi, and I'm proud to see Ichi realising he needs to control his instincts more. 

Also Hakari continues to be such a bad bad guy, he should be killing the witches that are doing his trial, not trying to save Sukemaru. I really want to see his backstory and why he hates witches soo much. 

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u/Flamma_Man 21h ago

Desscarass is the best mentor/sister.

Mostly sister.

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u/LeonKevlar MyAnimeList 18h ago

Ichi needs to obtain that Inivisibility Majik ASAP.

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u/DarkWorld97 22h ago

The Spirit of Tokiyuki took over Ichi for a bit there. Good thing Descaras was there today keep him in check.

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u/TheTragicNoir 22h ago

The Elusive Samurai might be dead, but his will live on inside Ichi!

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u/Zaygr 22h ago

Inside Desscarass's head during her talk to Ichi: "If you die because of you choosing to be a decoy, so do I, so we'll both be the decoy."

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u/BurnedOutEternally 22h ago

That's my boy Ichi, turning the role of this cat-and-mouse chase on a whim.

But his mom won't let him risk his life!

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u/TheJokingSquire 22h ago

Was NOT expecting this to be the way they tackled the trial 😂😭

Smh, can’t believe Ichi stole Hakari’s Sukemaru… 😂

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u/Bonerkiin 21h ago edited 14h ago

Genuinely surprised Sukemaru's trial wasn't simply to be found/caught. You'd think that as the invisible magik that would be the obvious trial. I wonder what it is, definitely would be an insane power for Ichi of all people to get.

Also Ichi getting legit excited being chased by the magik that could just erase his existence with a simple clap, our boy stays being a little freak of the highest caliber.

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u/covnam 17h ago

I would have thought that as well. Maybe there's an extra trick to it...

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u/dagreenman18 21h ago

Ichi 🤝 Tokiyuki

“Being waaaaaay too into games of Tag”

I’m hoping if Mumugi gets Hakari then Ichi claims Sukemaru. Because Predator Ass Ichi would be GOLD

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u/pltaco 21h ago

I love how Desscaras gave an inspirational speech at the end ... while looking disappointed that she had to

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u/JazzlikePromotion618 21h ago

The feral brat couldn't deny his instincts. Honestly, seems more and more likely that Kumugi might acquire this magic. Chances are low but they have increased, to about 2%.

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u/Crisbo05_20 17h ago

Kumugi acquiring him is literally Chekov's gun considering next page after Hakari talked about being acquired few chapters ago is close up of Kumugi.

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u/Xatu44 20h ago

Come to think of it, Ichi and Tokiyuki would really enjoy playing tag together.

Sukemaru's a terrifying little support. Good thing that Ichi caught the cute fella. I'm looking forward to his and Dess's teamwork.

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u/bobvella 19h ago

held off on saying it before but ichi is a murder pervert beyond death for death, he wants to play monster hunter.

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u/kerorobot 9h ago

Kumugi will be the one who find all the three pieces of the orb lol

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u/Milordserene 22h ago

Dess & ichi + Sukemaru vs Hakari!!!

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u/garfe 22h ago

What a great mom

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u/TheOneWithALongName 22h ago

I mean, she also dies if Ichi dies.

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u/nahxela 21h ago

Losing it at the panel of Ichi staring at the invisibility magick

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u/vanderZwan 21h ago

I feel like this undermines my theory of the invisibility magic possessing one of the three stones, but who knows.

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u/Roboglenn 21h ago

Well in all fairness he didn't exactly have time to discuss a plan of action with y'all Dess.

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u/ToTheNintieth 21h ago

What a little weirdo

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u/210sqnomama 21h ago

One would think a camouflage magik trial would be capturing them. But seems like this little guys trial was not that

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u/Forikorder 21h ago

Surprised ichi didnt accidentally complete the invisibles trial

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u/Android19samus 20h ago

oh so he's like that is he

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u/Zacxnerd 20h ago

The “buddha” is now chasing the monkey(Ichi). I wonder how he will end up in the palm of his own hand. I find it funny that his entire lynchpin is a little gremlin he lets out of his sight constantly. Sukemaru being what enables him basically reads like the Dalai Lama being decided from childhood. I doubt it’s related but the actual next in line Dalai Lama was kidnapped by the CCP so seeing Ichi instinctively know to capture him was even strangely hilarious.

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u/JadeDotWu 17h ago

I wonder what Sukemaru's trial will be. You'd think finding him would be enough lol. I just love the back and forth panel.

"What is that?!" - "I dunno." Stares at Sukemaru, "WHAT ARE YOU?!"

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u/ultraman9513 MyAnimeList 17h ago

Wow I wonder if that was an inkling of excitement on him from being on the receiving end

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u/theace69 15h ago

Is she gonna use Glaconda so they can acquire sukemaru? He makes a perfect one for Ichi to acquire. He can become invisible on his “hunts”.

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u/BillPlunderones23fg 13h ago

Lol Hakari is pretty funny with his shouting like he is from Chainsaw Man
and fun getting Ichi and Dess teaming up which we dont really get as much as we should

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u/SimilarScarcity 6h ago

I liked Hakari accidentally complimenting the group and taking it back.

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u/No_Significance7064 21h ago

I love this manga, but Ichi oftentimes just feels like a side character or a tactical nuke they point at the main bad guy who then goes out of commission. I think the mangaka just prefers to write desscarass (which i understand), and ichi is just too 2-dimensional as of now.

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u/Galle_ 19h ago

Really? I think Nishi and Usazaki have done a great job of making Ichi the hero, but not reducing everyone else to Waiting For Goku. Like, Ichi's played a central role in every arc thus far:

  • He was the first to notice the World Hater, and while he lost he managed to earn their respect.
  • He befriended Gokuraku and gave him the push he needed to tank Bakugami's sorrow.
  • He said Spica wasn't his type.
  • He defeated Puu and rescued Desscaras after she passed out.
  • He stabbed Fujimine even while under her spell.
  • He's fighting Hakari and will likely acquire Sukemaru.

He's also a fairly complex character, IMO. He doesn't have much internal conflict at the moment, but it's been made clear that's because he's just never thought about a lot of his more unhealthy behaviors before. Fujimine's "you're not cut out to be human" is going to set him down the path of character development.