Kiwaguro no Brynhildr (New manga by Elfen Lied's creator)

I wonder if that was the plan Put a witch close to hatching the vicinity and have it nuke the area

I don't know, is there even a way to know that a witch is "close to hatching"? Rurumi didn't look any different from the others until a few hours before it happened.

Also, should we add Kana's sister and the other guy to the character sheet, or do we wait for the author to finally give them a name?

Meanwhile I'm still at 109 so thanks for the spoiler tags.

Probably better to wait for names.

It's rather interesting to include Kikka in the loop now. Though one has to wonder what will come of it.

110 and 111 have English scanlations out!

Did not expect to see a magic user hatch so soon!

Dammit, Kikka.

Uh… things went to shit pretty quickly, din't they.

Kana didn't keep her mobility for very long in the end… well Hatsuna can probably still do something about that. I didn't expect 2 of the 3 girls to die this quick though. ò.Ô

Gonna have to second that statement. This is probably indicative of worst things to come.

Who died this time?

Nobody important.

Chapie 112 is out in Spanish. Kana apparently gets a power-up in her prescience. Sort-of. And Misaki is apparently set to become the new member of the astronomy club. Provided she survives, which isn't exactly guaranteed yet…

Ye gods, I can only imagine the hijinks that would ensue if the Invisible Streaker joins Murakami's harem.

Welp, so much for the hijinx…

What I'm wondering is how the hell Vingulf knew within minutes that the girls had failed their mission. It's not like they had a camera following them. It's also kind of sad how nobody seems to care about Misaki being ejected…

Little report on latest chapters.

Yay! At last a flashback about… that guy we never heard of…?

New character out of nowhere. He has a crush on Hatsuna.

Aaand Hatsuna is going to hatch, and Hexenjagd won't be able to intervene… and apparently she knows that her time has come.

Welp, apparently she's screwed.

My guess is there is a trigger for the hatching and they can stop it by just changing stuff till Kana's forecast changes. YI think MC-kun figured this out. I'd be ok with her falling for the other guy however, esp if he ends up doing something sorta cool. They way she fell for Murakami never made any sense anyway and you got mobile Kana(who is great) to replace her.

I'd also be fine if she just goes ahead and hatches.

Which would be awfully ironic considering she was replacing Kotori...

It would also quite refreshing to have another guy in the astronomy club. It would be less "harem-ish".

edited 23rd Oct '14 4:04:26 AM by Lyendith

Chapie out. Hatsuna learns the news.

She… doesn't take it well. That's a surprisingly touching reaction from her, actually.

It is nice to see characters that can't accept their death quite so gracefully.

So chapter 124's raw is available on Senmanga.

Well… Takaya's confession indeed prevented Hatsuna from hatching the next day. But it seems even transformed she listened to his request of leaving his head… kind of.

Chap 125…

… so, why was Takaya introduced again? —'.`— This chapter was awkward. To be honest, I thought I would be shocked by this turn of events but, dunno, I'm getting kind of imune to it by now…

edited 1st Dec '14 12:38:39 PM by Lyendith

I'm guessing love speeds up hatching and this is so they figure it out. That, and the writer probably realized they needed to get rid of Hatsuna to preserve tension a bit. She wasn't my favorite, but I will miss her way of cutting through the BS at times.

126 is out in spanish. You know, I should have seen something like this coming. Hatsuna's and Takaya's deaths had felt like a sudden development even for Lynn, and here's why. If Hatsuna makes it out of this alive (and she almost certainly will), then Takaya will probably live, as well.

The net result of this is that their characters don't suddenly lose their purpose in the narrative and can continue to contribute to it, while still reminding everyone (including the audience) that the situation is still grim and could end up with many deaths very quickly. This new guy, Makina, is almost certainly going to be an important antagonist, as well.

Also, Ryouta's flying kick sure is getting stronger by the chapter, huh?

edited 7th Dec '14 9:26:42 PM by Crinias

Eeh… normally I would be pissed at such a development, but as said above that's actually rather a good thing in this case.

Although I still doubt Takaya can live… repairing a body that misses it's legs and its abdomen is a bit too much of a feat even for Hatsuna (remember that she melts entirely just to repair a hole). And that's assuming that Takaya is still alive at this point. Unless Hatsuna's power evolve like Kana's did, which wouldn't be surprising…

What happened now?

Now?

Well, Hatsuna hatched and was blown up, but her regeneration allowed her to survive even that. She stayed a monster just long enough to eat her new boyfriend. It happens. Oh, and another secret experiment of Vingulf showed up (it's him who blows up Dratsuna), apparently an upgraded version of Initializer, but he can't stay in the outside world for very long.

And that's where we are.

edited 15th Dec '14 12:11:50 PM by Lyendith

127 is up, translated by /a/nonymous. I am not entirely sure whether or not this translation is entirely... correct... Hatsuna revives, and then she manages to heal Takaya, as I'd predicted. The two Hexenjagd guys suspect Hatsuna's rank should probably be rank A or higher, possibly with a codename, because reviving herself from death and other people is pretty serious stuff, so something's suspicious there. The next day, Takaya wakes up, and talks to Hatsuna. After some probably accurate casual dialogue between the two ("Sorry I ate you yesterday, must have hurt a lot." "Didn't hurt at all." "Is that so..."), they start talking about the promise of going out. Hatsuna says sure, she'll go out with him.

Up until there it's probably entirely accurate. What is in doubt here exactly is stuff after that. After Hatsuna says let's go out, Takaya says ok, let's go make love. <Pause.> Murakami interjects, saying that Hatsuna doesn't know that apparently Takaya is 'that kind of guy', who thinks the only thing lovers do is have sex. Takaya then gets all creepy and forceful, saying Hatsuna belongs to him, so they should quickly go have sex. Mortified and confused, Hatsuna turns to Murakami and asks for help. Murakami says that even though it's unreasonable, he did risk his life to confess to her, and that even though it's kind of perverted, if you take the positives and negatives it's an overall positive, so maybe she should just bear with it?

The chapter ends with Takaya carrying off Hatsuna over his shoulder, presumably to have sex with her off-screen while she protests, while everyone else watches them walk off.

If I'm honest with myself the odds that it's a troll translation are actually pretty low. Lynn's probably being a huge troll right now. It would be just like him to take some serious drama and then make a sudden turn into blunt and creepy sexual comedy. He'll probably do other stuff to make it better and less creepy next chapter.

edited 18th Dec '14 5:35:14 PM by Crinias

I'm willing to believe that the second half is a legitimate (albeit poorly typeset and typo-ridden) translation. All of the spoilers I've heard for the chapter said the same as the events.

Still really creepy though.