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Someone bribed a scan group into catching up with the raws for Magus of the Library instead of waiting for 2030 when the official release would come out. Dumping chapters 51-55 now.
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Why do strongman types end up with a bunch of fat over the muscle anyway? Is it just something that happens with the diet required to build that muscle or is it something that helps them?
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>>287475948
It's not in shonen jump or anything axe crazy. IIRC last time I checked it was still the best selling series in it's magazine by a fair margin.
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>>287475345
booba
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booba
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>>287478083
For now. But chapters have been nuked from Mangadex before.
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>>287478083
only from Vol 8 and newer. This is one of the few manga I bought physical because fan translations were in short supply. Art and world building are worth it.
I wonder if the author likes fashion design, such detail is put into the costumes and jewelry.
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>Best girl Oggha is partnered with Theo so she'll be getting the most screentime
>>287478485
I bought some of the volumes digitally, just to support the series. First time I've actually spent money on a manga that wasn't by Nihei, but I really enjoy this series
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>>287475345
>strongman physique
That's how you know he's real
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Imagine getting a faceful of Oggha tits every day for work.
>>287475562
Do you Catan?
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>>287479641
The kafna uniform is all butt built to show it off.
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And that's all for chapter 53, I'm gonna call it here because I've been dealing with this fucking captcha for seven hours and I've got at least four hours to go while I can barely keep my eyes open. If this thread is still alive when I wake up I'll start with 54 and 55. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll have fixed this shit by then.
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>>287480107
Thanks anon
Sedona is total sexo
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>>287476613
>pureblood elves and pureblood kemonomimis are ugly
> "mixed race" elf and kemonomimi look like proper anime elf and kemonomimi
What exactly is the author implying with this??? He never seen a halfbreed in his life?
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It's been so long I honestly forgot Sedona was a guy.
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>>287478749
All of the officially done volumes are free to read on on nyaa. I couldn't imagine buying digital volumes my guy, at least get the physical books.
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>>287480979
The true best girl appears on only 12 pages, but she's absolutely based on nearly every one. The author knew she'd be too powerful, so she got relegated to being a background character.
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>>287481913
>Sedona was a guy
But she's clearly a woman
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>>287483459
Huh I thought that one didn't go through because it took an hour to appear on my end.
>>287483714
We'll have a couple dozen to spare by the end of 55.
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>>287484345
The biggest flaw of this manga is the insistence on moral relativism even when one side is clearly wrong. I guess the mangaka wants to show how open-minded Theo is but it's just a pointless devil's advocate.
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>>287484391
I'm being charitable and assuming it's a mix of Theo going "I don't know anything about these people so I can't judge" and the author not wanting Theo to be set in his views before he's even done his first job. It'll probably change as more violent supremacists and the like come to the fore.
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Poor Ohgga is never escaping the friendzone
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>>287485439
He's got the stache but doesn't have the racism so far.
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And that's all for chapter 55. Chapter 56, The Sea Cannot Be Heard will probably come out a week or two after all the raws come out (or maybe when the raws for chapter 57 begin).
This village looks to be on course to get turbo fucked between everything set up in this chapter and what'll probably be the third member of the Trine showing up.
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Who else googled Kafna of the Wind by Sophie Schwimm to try figure out what the source material is like? I can't be the only baka here.
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There she is, the best girl.
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>>287486361
I did after chapter 1. I was very confused until I came across an explanation that mentioned she's in the manga and stopped reading immediately. I still can't tell if she's justthe author's self-insert joke, or some sort of plot critical meta-aware time traveler.
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>>287488202
>Maybe few arcs
Weren't the main villains a while ago talking about how they hate racism and they all need to wear masks to stop the racism against magic-clankers?
>Only 2-3 chapters is about that
I know but it boils my blood
In the chapter on verification of truth they literally don't even mention the idea of Testing something in the Real world
It's a hideous delusion, and all of the characters ought be shot for it
It was also kind of pathetic when the MC is shamed for seeking his job out of a sense of purpose and responsibility instead of opportunistically seeking a position of power.
I think I hate this author too much to actually read much further, but that art was cool, and the worldbuilding seemed nice
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>>287488419
>In the chapter on verification of truth they literally don't even mention the idea of Testing something in the Real world
>It's a hideous delusion, and all of the characters ought be shot for it
They are all obviously missing important things and suffering for it
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>>287486646
I got the impression that it means this manga is just Theo's biography being told to the reader after his story is already done, and Sophie is the one who wrote it
There's probably some meta stuff there, like how it's subject to possible inaccuracies and revisionism. "Theo Fumis" and/or other characters might not even exist in this universe, and they were just made up by Sophie
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>>287489071
I think the context as implied by Sophie is different from what she expects her readers to pick up, the way this sequence was framed would make Sedona saving the world almost an obvious twist. Remember the title of the book is "Kafna of the Wind" and Sedona has wind magic, this is an adaptation of the Theo Fumis chapter.
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>It's been so long I honestly forgot Sedona was a guy.
HUh? >>287477566
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>>287489199
Mind you, this imagery also seems to point towards the more standard explanation there rather than any shenanigans of Sedona being the hero all along.
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>>287489417
But if >>287485180 is correct and Sophie is writing this while Sedona is considered the savior of humanity they could both be right
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>>287485980Chapter 56 opens with Theo bringing up the idea of spirits leading an attack on the town in revenge for destroyed homes and gets dismissed because a spirit with the power to do that would have to be tied to something ancient while the ones tied to things like crops have fuckall power. So yeah Trine interrupt seems certain.
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>>287489417
Maybe it's a red herring but man it would be crazy if she is actually the main antagonist
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>>287492073
Theo is /not/ catching the hints that Ohgga is one of the heroines.
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>>287484788
>These City slacker are steeling our woman's!
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>>287484986
I honestly don't get the impression that Ohgga is attracted to Theo, she seems to just like him as a friend and the physical intimacy is just an aspect of Creyak culture
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Kek
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Rakta are a fun bunch
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>>287489417
It's implied, but this prophecy doesn't necessarily state that either of them are evil. Considering what we now know about THE BOOK and how the story of the seven magi is inaccurate but still taken as history, I wouldn't be surprised if Sedona agrees to become the "villain" so that the world will see Theo as a hero.
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>>287495434
I've said it multiple times that this is a pretty feminist and left leaning manga
But it's done in a way that it doesn't feel offensive
ffs I'm a massive simp for Sedona but she is a very feminist character
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>>287496154
My only grip is that, there's the danger that the author will not be able to finish the story,simply because of the slow pace with the fact it looks like a grand narrative.
It took 10 years on real life to they graduate, and only NOW they are working.
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>pretending to be retarded
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wokeshit is completely fine as long as its entertaining though
it's not a cognitohazard; nothing will happen the hot female antagonist is a feminist
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>>287489071
Oddly, the book is called "Kafna of the Wind", so you'd assume that the titular subject is either Cynthea or Sedona, or maybe both since Kafna could be plural. I suppose it's from Theo's perspective because he's the link tying the two together.
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It's not "woke" at all. It depicts a society with prevalent sex discrimination, but the author acknowledges opposing points of view, and said society isn't presented as irredeemably evil for barring women from certain professions. A "woke" story would have been about letting women become Hamnas.
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>>287497736
I didn't know anon...
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>>287498147
>The MC is a Jewish-Aryan boy
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>>287498147
Don't forget to mention that the work involving safe guarding magical scrolls and important text/documents are done mostly by women, lmao. Not to mention making Kalergy mutts more attractive than their purebreed counterparts
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>>287501634
Well, the Rakta are clearly Chinese and the Kadoe Japanese, but I certainly don't think that applies to the other races. Even the Hyron are a sort of mix of Indian, Arab, Ottoman, and European.
>>287501832
No, the haupi speak a kind of Nahuatl, and this disc is obviously based on the Sun Stone.
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>>287503737
I think it's mostly an aesthetic thing. They're "Japanese" because they wear kimonos and put tori gates outside of their temples. It's hard to come up with completely unique cultures, so author's just borrowing inspiration from real life.
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>>287474971
What's with this interaction? Is he a submissive boy for her?
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>>287505948
Yes, he's an impressionable, naive young man facing his mentor and saviour who clearly isn't above using the kid's admiration for her (him?) to have some fun. This is because there are no laws forbidding grooming of children in this land.
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Good thing that repaying debt interest isn't forcing local governments to sell off anything valuable they might have in the rest of the world, right?
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Is it just me or to Rakta frequently have names based on colors? Sedona's a bleu, there was that Rakta author named Lugei Noir, Kana's last name(Midoreen) is from the Japanese word for green, and the third Rakta classmate is Yuki Chairow(Chaairo is brown in JP)
I just noticed this but I think it's true
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>>287484291
A classic quote, in another form.
https://youtu.be/bXb3if57sug
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I remember dropping this once the boy was in school and they kinda just kept going in circles with with the whole allegories of modern world problems and classwork. It just kinda got boring, art was atleast always consistently amazing.
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>>287509452
Shit, you're right.
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>>287507089
Should it feel like this kind of quotes vanished from video games? Even if they're not all winners, just their presence.
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This cracks me up so much because it's a clear poke at otaku/pop culture
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>>287484391
>is the insistence on moral relativism even when one side is clearly wrong
The opening of the manga had Theo being all accepting of the racism and classism he suffered through and it didn't change his situation and was shown to be the wrong approach to his circumstances. But since then he's been fortunate enough to meet mostly other teens who aren't that fixed in their beliefs but the same isn't true of adults. I'm giving the story the benefit of the doubt because we know that he and Sedona will have an irreconcilable difference later on, and the leader of the Masked society similarly doesn't seem malleable either. This village is probably going to be my litmus on what to expect from the rest of the series more than previous ones.
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>>287518992
Catgirl is dead though
>>287519184
Hey Hyrons did you know you're clearly wrong? I'm correct and you're incorrect and Tricerallahtops is fake. Now let women get driver's licenses and we'll all handle our shockingly limited resource situation together.
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>and Tricerallahtops is fake
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>But since then he's been fortunate enough to meet mostly other teens who aren't that fixed in their beliefs
The other teens aren't fixed in their beliefs but that doesn't mean they'll all settle on the same beliefs that we find acceptable, and even (especially) if they do that might not be a good thing.
Right now the library alliance is kept together by a baroque set of agreements based on a lie about an ancient victory. It's shaky and false but it's working and nobody's going to war. Once it goes, establishing a working set of new agreements that bring in existing power structures is going to be extremely hard, especially when none of them want to compromise, and 99% of the outcomes for the continent involve at least some total war. They might come out of it with more respect for human rights but they might not come out of it with enough of a population to sustain their resource-intensive high-volume communication regime at all. They could lose everything by trying to gain a little.
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>>287519802
You just need to be strong enough to overpower everyone and set a new agreement of no war anon,of course you can't just overpower or enemies and make them settle an agreement, it will be all be reasonable people being reasonable
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>>287484391
>I guess the mangaka wants to show how open-minded Theo is
It's not just Theo. Like in the censorship chapters, the author seemed to want to give every side it's full due before coming to the reasonable, level-headed conclusion. It's respectable, but exhausting at some point. Still, I prefer the nuance to something more one-sided.
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>>287520950
Ah yes, the Spiked Mountain Legend.
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I think that works well because it's a discussion within the Judicial department so civility and professionalism is to be expected. The library still rolled over those guys with illegal printing presses and Sedona themselves flattened an entire bridge full of dissidents without bothering to argue to the point.
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>>287520918
On that note, I need to know why the dragons are so pissy. Their champion fled too, didn't he?
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>>287521295
Syranna dindu nuffin
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>>287523620
>Female Anatomy
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>>287521486
Here are some links to the first few volumes.
https://mega.nz/#!2aoz2CTK!JKi6j1OrpgVmBMA3i0JsWomGcuiaUeI9chtKGbUJzPg
https://mega.nz/#!tPQHgS5K!7IP7jxT-LjRmxhCAe64QfzPmMsc28ktxCfZ1jVChess
https://mega.nz/#!heRhECjb!EqdkD0mm3nSxZFMuYAkUV-C8XkanoOT0qfKDyfSae7I
Just curious though, may I ask your age?
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>>287523620
>The Creyak and Hyron are definitely going to be strictly militaristic in settling things.
The Hyron torn between the old theocracy and the new guy pushing hard for ruthless capitalism according to chapter 50. Creyak on the other are looking real militaristic.