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silver2195 Since: Jan, 2001
#76: Oct 16th 2010 at 6:26:38 PM

I'll be using a new format from now on!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-2/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

No wonder her name is Yuri...

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

I don't remember the part where Aoi dies. And shouldn't that be Neo-clear weapons?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-9/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

This borders on Reset Button. Okay, maybe not really, but it puts off a great deal of DRAMA until later.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

Note Kaoru's shocked expression. Even after the Colony Drop, this still surprises her.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

Ugh. It seems Kaoru's view of Kyosuke hasn't changed that much.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

I'm starting to think Fujiko is being secretive for its own sake.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23222-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-165.html

I can't remember if she's explicitly the same person as Yuri or not. If so, why does she look so different? She even seems older.

edited 16th Oct '10 6:43:58 PM by silver2195

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#77: Oct 16th 2010 at 7:04:30 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-6/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

There's something strange about her eyes...

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-9/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

Is he suggesting they use lethal force against Black Phantom agents? That would be out-of-character for him.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-11/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

Reality Is Unrealistic? Or just Lampshade Hanging?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

Bullet is just as dysfunctional as I suspected.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

The Say It with Hearts thing supports the Les Yay interpretation.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

So she is Yuri.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23223-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-166.html

I'm not sure if the scene with Bullet in the Maid Cafe is meant to be funny or sad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omurice

edited 16th Oct '10 7:05:08 PM by silver2195

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#78: Oct 16th 2010 at 7:09:44 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23224-6/zettai-karen-children/chapter-167.html

I suppose the guy with the concealing outfit is the one responsible for the pollen, so it's not just an application of Yuri's Hypno.

edited 16th Oct '10 7:12:10 PM by silver2195

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#80: Oct 21st 2010 at 12:17:58 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23224-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-167.html

The Mood Whiplash of Bullet putting a gun to his head and then making a Super-Deformed face made me roll my eyes.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23224-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-167.html

Hooray for Friendship Speeches!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23224-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-167.html

More Les Yay.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23224-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-167.html

I think that now counts as No Yay as well. Also an obvious Fake Cliffhanger; it's clearly just an illusion.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23225-7/zettai-karen-children/chapter-168.html

Called it.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23225-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-168.html

Shiho?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23225-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-168.html

I'm guessing that's another illusion.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23226-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-169.html

That's not very nice.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23226-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-169.html

It's somewhat unclear, but I think she fired with intent to kill.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23226-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-169.html

That surprised me, but in retrospect, I should have seen it coming.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23226-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-169.html

I think Yuri just lost this fight.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23226-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-169.html

Did he just shoot a brainwashed guy?

edited 21st Oct '10 12:47:41 PM by silver2195

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#82: Oct 22nd 2010 at 6:40:23 PM

http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/ZettaiKarenChildren171/141241-8.html

So she isn't Yuri? They're sisters? Or is it a split personality and the illustrations are lying? Since Not Yuri doesn't really have a name, I'll go with Mirage, which she was referred to as on one of the cover pages.

http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/ZettaiKarenChildren171/141241-9.html

How does Shiina get away with this stuff?

http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/ZettaiKarenChildren171/141241-10.html

So Pollen Man was a girl all along? I have a feeling there's an important plot point I've overlooked somehow...

http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/ZettaiKarenChildren171/141241-17.html

Kaoru is starting to get annoying again.

edited 22nd Oct '10 6:56:39 PM by silver2195

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#83: Oct 31st 2010 at 12:50:07 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23228-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-171.html

I get it now. The white-haired girl is not Yuri; Yuri is someone under More than Mind Control from the white-haired girl. Mirage is the white-haired girl's sister.

As for Pollen Man, I'll tentatively assume that he isn't the same as Yuri, he was knocked out (because his suit protected him from worse injuries), and he was taken away by Mirage after the battle.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23228-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-171.html

The PLOT of this arc arrives!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-6/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

It's confirmed that Fujiko is an example of Screw the Rules, I Have Money!.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

The Children are being jerks again.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

Is that really The Children and not Tim Toy?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

So it is the real ones.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

Beginning-level foreign language textbooks need to be parodied more often.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

That wasn't very nice, Kaoru.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23229-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-172.html

Is Kyosuke trying to get Kiritsubo fired? Or is he just being a goofball as usual?

edited 31st Oct '10 1:36:08 PM by silver2195

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#84: Oct 31st 2010 at 1:40:19 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-1/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

Is this stuff supposed to be canonical?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-3/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

No, she's just a jerk.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-4/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

Fortunately, Aoi and Shiho aren't being jerks. No, wait, Shiho is being a jerk too.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-6/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

I think this is the first time Shiho has shown remorse. Kaoru looks a bit Off-Model here.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-7/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

The wombat reminds me of the fish in The Cat In The Hat.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

Kaoru?!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-11/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

It seems there are other important PANDRA members we haven't met yet.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

When he mentions "Catastrophe", is he referring to Kaoru or to something that happened in these waters?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

So Kyosuke has an actual plan here after all. It has nothing to do with interrupting Kaoru's studying, though.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23230-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-173.html

Actually, it does involve interrupting her studying.

edited 31st Oct '10 2:08:47 PM by silver2195

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#85: Oct 31st 2010 at 6:36:23 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-2/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Product Placement!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-3/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

I think Shiina is trying to subvert Hard Work Hardly Works here.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-7/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Minamoto is such a Purity Sue. Not That There's Anything Wrong with That.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

There's something ominous about that chair...It's a throne, isn't it? For a queen!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-11/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Mio?!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Those outfits are even sillier than I remembered. The gap between Shiho's boots and her skirt is absurdly wide. Why doesn't she wear stockings like all the other anime girls?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Apparently there's a manga sound effect specifically for Arcade Sounds.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

The title of the book is interesting...

edited 31st Oct '10 6:57:14 PM by silver2195

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#86: Nov 1st 2010 at 12:23:50 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Looks like either Kyosuke has been messing with memories again, or there are more WWII vets in suspended animation, or someone is PANDRA can summon ghosts. Her speech bubble implies the last one.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23231-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-174.html

Why do the translators seem to think Utsumi is male?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23232-3/zettai-karen-children/chapter-175.html

From the way the female characters talk about him, it seems he really is male.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23232-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-175.html

Fujiko explains it all.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23232-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-175.html

Kaoru seems to be rejecting Kyosuke's ideology after all.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23232-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-175.html

Kyosuke has walked right into his own trap.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23232-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-175.html

Go Kaoru!

edited 1st Nov '10 12:39:23 PM by silver2195

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#87: Nov 1st 2010 at 12:49:34 PM
silver2195 Since: Jan, 2001
#88: Nov 1st 2010 at 3:06:59 PM

Top 5 reasons I read this manga (in no particular order):

  • Character Development. For example, Kaoru has gotten less violent over time.
  • I care about the characters. This is related to Character Development but not the same thing.
  • A self-aware sense of humor that I don't talk about much here but which has really grown on me. It's especially evident when they talk about Zettai Chilchil.
  • Good fight scenes starting with the Black Phantom arc.
  • I'm interested in what happens next. There was a period when I didn't feel that way, but the Time Skip has improved the sense of a continuing storyline.

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#89: Nov 1st 2010 at 9:09:45 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23234-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-177.html

Kaoru's remark suggests that the use of the words "route" and "ending" was deliberate.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23234-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-177.html

This is perfectly in-character for Kaoru, but I'm surprised at Shiho. I think she's spending too much time around Sakaki.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23234-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-177.html

Minamoto never really got the chance to show his geekiness until now.

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#90: Nov 5th 2010 at 6:35:50 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-5/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

I'm starting to wonder if Yuri was Pollen Man after all, and being shot affected her ability to move somehow.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-7/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

More Kaoru/Yuri ship fuel.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

While The Children often screw up on missions like this and cause property damage, the risk of them failing to prevent an actual death is Like You Would Really Do It.

Wait a minute. I just remembered that someone in Black Phantom can make precog probabilities seem lower than they really are. Uh oh.

Also, now we know why this arc is called Life Savers.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-9/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

Kaoru/Aoi isn't as interesting as Kaoru/Yuri.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

I'm sure there's a reason the boat looks like that, but I have no idea what it could be.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

Isn't Fujiko supposed to have access to tons of money?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

I think some of Kiritsubo's worse traits are rubbing off onto Minamoto.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

Kaoru has a 50% chance of using violence here. If she does, I'll be very disappointed in her.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23235-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-178.html

I'm very disappointed in you, Kaoru.

The Normal People are back. Was this a chance meeting, or do they have a mole in BABEL?

edited 5th Nov '10 7:07:52 PM by silver2195

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#93: Nov 5th 2010 at 8:39:33 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-4/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

Since when is Oboro a Badass Normal?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-5/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

I'm not sure what's happening in that last panel.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-6/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

I'm starting to suspect Kiritsubo is an Esper and doesn't realize it.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-9/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

Wasn't she running low on Mana?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

Kaoru joining PANDRA is becoming less and less likely.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

Fujiko comes across as flirting with Oboro here. It wouldn't be out of character for her.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

Minamoto should have known she'd interpret it that way.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23238-19/zettai-karen-children/chapter-181.html

A new credits page! Yay!

edited 5th Nov '10 8:47:46 PM by silver2195

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#94: Nov 5th 2010 at 8:52:59 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-2/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

It seems that the implication that they're somehow all the same person and the implication that they're somehow all different people are both deliberate. Interestingly, their hair colors (and arguably their personalities) match those of The Children.

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#95: Nov 6th 2010 at 8:59:42 AM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-7/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

More Kaoru/Yuri.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-9/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

Even more Kaoru/Yuri.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-11/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

So it's a split personality thing. But isn't Mirage the red-haired form, not the white-haired form?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

Mirage is Crazy-Prepared. But she still hasn't explained the red-haired form.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

I see. The red-haired form is a case of Hulking Out.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

Is Red planning a Grand Theft Me on Kaoru?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

So Red's name is actually Phantom.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

We get some insight into Black Phantom's organizational structure, but their motivations are still pretty mysterious.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23239-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-182.html

That's really Beyond the Impossible. I have an odd feeling that the other personality is either her father's or Kaoru's.

edited 6th Nov '10 9:31:30 AM by silver2195

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#96: Nov 6th 2010 at 9:37:45 AM

The last chapter cleared up a lot of things. I think the story is really moving along.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23240-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-183.html

I though Nai's power involved shadows, not rain.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-23240-16/zettai-karen-children/chapter-183.html

The fourth persona is a musician?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-28988-4/zettai-karen-children/chapter-184.html

Don't Explain the Joke, translators!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-28988-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-184.html

I'm not sure if this is meant as a parody of K-On or not.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-28988-15/zettai-karen-children/chapter-184.html

There's something strange about the appearance of that rain.

edited 6th Nov '10 10:19:18 AM by silver2195

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#97: Nov 6th 2010 at 11:14:19 AM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-28988-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-184.html

Phantom's facial expression here reminds me of Fukunaga.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-1/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

The line between the omakes and the main story is getting blurry.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-5/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

Let's see Phantom get out of this one.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-6/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

Nice trick, but since she only has one cloak, she can't pull that off again.

edited 6th Nov '10 11:27:08 AM by silver2195

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#98: Nov 8th 2010 at 4:33:13 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

I'm guessing she wants The Children to succeed more than she actually cares about the lives at stake.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-10/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

For a moment I thought this story would be better with just two personalities: Yuri and Mirage. Then I remembered that having Phantom, a Kaoru-like personality makes them more of an Evil Counterpart to The Children. That line of thinking makes me suspect that the fourth personality is Minamoto-like.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

Personality #4 seems a lot like Mirage, but opposed to her for some reason.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

So #4 is on Yuri's side?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-29790-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-185.html

CLIFFHANGER TIME!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-3/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

I saw a character named Feather mentioned on the WMG page. The speculation there is that she's Future!Kaoru using Mental Time Travel, which doesn't really explain what she's doing in Yuri's mind.

edited 8th Nov '10 4:42:22 PM by silver2195

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#99: Nov 8th 2010 at 6:19:58 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-4/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

So she's Future!Kaoru projected back in time using the raremetal earrings? Minamoto's shocked expression implies that that's what he thinks. That explains why she's in Yuri's mind, but not how she got back in time in the first place.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-5/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

Okay, she's definitely Kaoru.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-11/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

I should have expected that.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

Why is Feather fighting them instead of just explaining herself? Or is that really Phantom? Since when does Phantom use psychokinesis?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

But does he weigh more than a duck? Kaoru's secretiveness seemed out-of-character until I remembered that she's in love with Yuri and has no reason to suspect that Yuri is an Esper or connected with Espers.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31020-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-186.html

Did her time as Feather make her tired?

edited 8th Nov '10 6:31:47 PM by silver2195

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#100: Nov 8th 2010 at 6:46:20 PM

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-2/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

Fujiko is a borderline case of Evil Cannot Comprehend Good.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-5/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

You'd think Feather would have left Yuri a note or something.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-7/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

Is Feather a Technopath on top of her psychokinesis?

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-8/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

It was Obfuscating Stupidity on Kaoru's part all along!

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-11/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

Realizing you're a Tomato in the Mirror is tough.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-12/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

This would be a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming if Kaoru didn't give the impression of ulterior motives.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-13/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

A nice display of Heroic Willpower.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-14/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

Feather seems to be a Shipper on Deck for present!Kaoru/Yuri.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-17/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

Since all of The Children end up on the same side whichever way the prediction goes, Minamoto's words aren't really that comforting.

http://www.mangareader.net/335-31671-18/zettai-karen-children/chapter-187.html

The last words of the song do imply that THE FUTURE is being influenced for the better, though.

edited 8th Nov '10 6:53:12 PM by silver2195

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