Ngl, when I first saw this panel, Rigr scared me so much with that look and his fangs I was scared for Guren Yall are lying if he didn’t scare the shit out of you in his panel. This is Saito with fangs and a scary look with Yamamoto’s artstyle.
Now, here is him with Asami’s artstyle.
Asami’s artstyle makes all characters look cute and softens their features. No disrespect to Asami, I love the work she is doing with the Catastrophe manga but idk this Saito with fangs and that look wasn’t scary to me tbh. This is the scene where he was revealed to be a vampire so he should have been made to look more frightening and impactful imo. Well, generally, all vampires look cute with fangs in Asami’s artstyle so its understandable.
I prefer Yamamoto’s version and I want more of him with fangs in the main manga. I know he has to disguise as a human but ya know???
I like Saito when he is scary. I want more of scary Saito with fangs, Yamamoto-Sensei! I also would like a scene with him drinking blood .
Here is a zoomed in version to scare the crap out of all of you!
Kagami Should Have Allowed Hyakuya Sect to Kidnap Yuu and Asuramaru (and take Mika as well ig)
So basically, I think many can agree that this whole Shikama-possessing-Shinoa arc was pointless bullshit which didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things since Shikamadoji ditched her in chapter 103 and our main cast are the same group of assholes as they were before with their IQ dwindling with time and our main character being in dire need of a psychiatrist. (I laughed so hard typing this )
Now, by the title, you may wonder why I would have wanted the plot to go in that direction.
Firstly, let’s see why this arc was pointless:
Shikama possessed Shinoa, caused some havoc and then was sealed using the sinful keys. The FIRST PROGENITOR himself was awakened and his awakening was powerful enough to cause all Vampires to rush to him. This guy did not kill a single person. Can you believe that? We should have atleast one scene or something where Shikama kills off atleast a large no. Of Hyakuya sect soldiers or something.
Kimizuki and Yoichi decided to run away somewhere far from the battlefield only to return back to the squad.
Saito was tricked by Ferid only for Urd to come and save his ass. (Ironically, it was Ferid who called the Vampire Progenitor Council to Japan)
Shinya got a power up only to get his ass kicked and get used to provide Guren with his life energy.
Saito’s men were supposed to capture Yuu and Asuramaru and take them to Ikebukuro only for Guren to come and save them.
Asuramaru and the other black demons come into picture only to again get defeated by Yuu and his squad so easily.
Asuramaru wants to explain things but Yuu doesn’t listen because plot is forced into Guren’s direction.
Krul makes an appearance, deals with Mitsuba and Shinoa’s boob and vomit bullshit, talks about her deal with Mahiru and then gets sidelined as Shinoa’s supervisor and DOESN’T EVEN MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN CHAPTER 104.
Kimizuki and Yoichi show some resistance only to follow Guren because he is going to resurrect their sisters.
Guren is like ‘aight aight I am going to resurrect everyone through genocide’ and Shinoa squad is 'okie dokie Guren we believe in you :D’
I don’t like the fact that Guren has become a Gary Sue in this arc. In cat16, I used to love the fact that everything was so realistic. Guren didn’t win easily against strong enemies. He was struggling to get things done. He was weak and that made him a relatable character. In the main manga, he ain’t that relatable since he wants to resurrect all of humanity(I know he is traumatized but still). However, I think this resurrection will not have consequences of the world being destroyed. This time, Guren needs Yuu, Mika and Asuramaru for it. The last time it needed death of many humans and demons and death of a vampire progenitor. Also, the seraph of the end experiment wasn’t completed at that time. Let’s see how Guren is a Gary Sue here:
Tricks Saito and gets all the sinful keys from him.
He seals off Shikama quickly in one chapter (84)
Shinya gets power up to be defeated and give Guren more life energy.
Guren is easily forgiven by Shinoa squad when he cries a bit. They become fine with Mika being turned into cursed gear. Yoichi is with Yuu in the family bullshit as if he didn’t abandon him some time ago. Grand family speeches are given for no fucking reason and pages are wasted. They don’t react to Mika being shikama doji’s son because Kagami wants things to go smoothly for Guren.
Krul also sides with Guren and said that she would silence Shinoa squad if necessary.
Asuramaru and the black demons are told to shut up by Yu and the squad.
Shinoa also becomes loyal all of a sudden to him and forgets the fact that he killed Mirai and Mika (well she got drunk so maybe she doesn’t give a fuck about them). Mitsuba believes in Guren because Shinoa says to do so.
Now, I wanted the plot to go into the direction the title suggests.
In this arc, the Hyakuya Sect suddenly appeared and kidnapped Yuu. Their leader, Saito launched missiles in order to destroy the JIDA. His men fought with the JIDA for some time and then allowed their life energy to be absorbed by Saito so that he can fight against the First.
Now, the LN readers know what the Hyakuya Sect is but to be frank, even we don’t know THAT much about the Hyakuya Sect since Guren was the protagonist and his life story revolves more around Mikado no Oni. We know that the Hyakuya Sect and Mikado no Oni were in war with each other to see who creates Cursed Gear first. They then later joined hands to create it. We know that they were the first to do the Seraph of the end experiments.
The main manga onlys don’t have much idea what Hyakuya Sect is other than that they experimented on Yuu and Mika. Here are some panels where the Hyakuya Sect and Saito were discussed.
(Its good to see Mika not think about Yuu for 5 seconds)
The next time the Hyakuya Sect came into the picture was when they came to fight the war against the JIDA. This whole build up was perfect to then see Hyakuya Sect kidnap them.
There is so much about the Hyakuya Sect we don’t know:
How does the whole organization work? Like do they have Clans working under them like with Mikado no Oni?
Are all the humans there aware of the fact that their leader is a Second Progenitor Vampire? Don’t they freak out working with him?
How did Saito convince all the humans there to fight for him?
How did the whole process of turning Saito into a Vampire-demon came about?
More detail on Mika’s past at the orphanage and how experiments were conducted?
In the post-apocalyptic world, do they have to deal with vampires?
How was Jigenso invented? It is a really unique cursed gear that only they have-
And so much more…..
We also know Saito has a grand plan in mind…
So this is how I would want this arc to go:
Kimizuki,Yoichi and dead Mirai meet up with Narumi and tells him what happened and they take shelter somewhere for now.
Yuu, Asuramaru and Mika are taken to Ikebukuro.
Once Shinoa is freed from possession, Mitsuba meets her and they are the only ones to meet up with Guren later and they QUESTION him.
Krul comes there and sees her brother is not there and questions Guren and Mahiru about it.
Saito is tricked by Ferid but Urd helps him and then escapes to meet with Yuu and Mika.
This could have been the beginning of Mika’s own character arc where his past with the Hyakuya orphanages and connection with Saito is explored more in detail with no Yuu in it. Yuu would still be involved but still Mika will his own things to think about.
Apparently, Kagami only wants Mika to think about Yuu and no one else :’) (he is a fucking demon now but he is still thinking about Yuu)
The Hyakuya Sect has so much relevance in Mika and Yuu’s lives than the JIDA. Moreover, it was Saito who brought Yuu to Mika!!
We could have gotten so much info with this. The Hyakuya Sect achieves something by attacking the JIDA. However, in the canon version, their test subject has escaped and they don’t know where their leader is. The First got sealed but just look at what Saito says here:
The First getting sealed served no purpose because according to the most recent chapters Shikama doji is going to reach Mika(Mikaela) and Yuu(Sun God Aten) and that is something Saito didn’t want to happen.
In conclusion, the Hyakuya Sect didn’t achieve shit and it is infuriating for me to see this golden opportunity that Kagami missed >:(
Everything is still going according to the First’s plan.
Kagami robbed us of the Mika and Saito confrontation . It would have been great to see Mika’s reaction to seeing his beloved Uncle after 8 years and also remember the info Guren and Ferid him about Saito. I would have definitely loved the whole Yuu-Saito-Mika screentime.
I think everybody would have loved this and would find this more interesting than Guren’s family and resurrection bullshit. Also, unlike Guremahi, my man Saito has a fucking plan.
Guren, Mahiru and Ferid Bathory are conspiring against Krul.
Ok,so I have been thinking about this for a long time and have decided to make a post about it. If yall must have have read the Resurrection at 19 light novel volume 2, you must be aware that Ferid Bathory had extended his hand to Guren and asked him if he wanted to work with him to kill Saito, who he knew had been manipulating Guren for some time. Mahiru did interrupt this conversation saying that he is in the way of their plans and killing him is necessary. Volume 2 ended on the point where Mahiru who had possessed Guren was going to fight Ferid. Although the volume ended at that point and Volume 3 is not released yet, by reading the main manga we know that Ferid is working with Guren and Mahiru now. However, it does seem to me that these people are conspiring against Krul considering the events that she has been through now in the main manga?
Ok so do yall remember the time when Krul was captured by Ferid in his mansion? Ferid had exposed Krul in front of the Progenitor Council and said that she was in league with the humans and their seraph of the end experiment. He then said that he would hand over her to them when they come to Japan. Hence, he captured her in his mansion.
Saito came there and talked to Krul. Here, you can see that Krul was asking Saito if he asked Ferid Bathory to capture her.
Saito then says that he discarded Ferid a long time ago and has no connection with him at all.
Even after Saito says that, Krul still continues to think that he is his lackey.
What I am wondering is why doesn’t Krul know that Ferid is actually Guren and Mahiru’s ally? Krul is working with Guren and Mahiru to get her brother back from the First and Ferid is working with them to get his revenge on Saito. Why are such things being hidden from Krul? Ferid could tell her that he is also working with Guren and Mahiru to complete his goals unless they have some plans to betray her or manipulate her later on. Although this is Ferid’s doing, I am sure Guren and Mahiru must have some involvement since Krul must be important for their plans to succeed. She also doesn’t know that the duo is working with Saito.
Also, I think it is clear that Krul doesn’t know that Saito controls the Hyakuya Sect. She knew that he had left his post as a Second Progenitor but she didn’t know what he was up to now. In fact, she didn’t even know who he was when she saw his face let alone knowing he controls the Hyakuya Sect.
Later, the Progenitor Council declared both Ferid and Krul as traitors and gave them the punishment that they will be exposed to sunlight for 10 days. In that chapter, Guren tells his squad that they have to go to Osaka and the exposure torture of both vampires happened at Osaka bay and I am sure the trio must have discussed this before and planned on rescuing Ferid afterwards.
In one of those chapters, it was said that Ferid’s own crucifixion was part of his plan. I also think that Mahiru and Guren only wanted to rescue Ferid and not Krul although they said they would rescue both.
Here, Mahiru comes to see Ferid and even he notices her and looks at her. She doesn’t even pay attention to Krul. Before the punishment began, Krul had also asked Ferid if he had a way of getting out of that mess but he said no. He lied to her at that time.
Also, when the group was fighting Ky Luc, you can see that Ky Luc thought about sacrificing Ferid freed him from that cross-shaped thing to protect himself. He literally reduced their workload and on top of that, this was before Yuu even activated his seraph.
When Ky Luc was fighting Yuu and Guren, Crowley had time to go and rescue Krul at that time. Although he is slower than Ky Luc, it would take him fractions of a second to go and free Krul but he didn’t. He focused on Ferid. I think Ferid must have told Crowley that rescuing only him was the plan. I may be wrong but the way Mahiru and Ferid were exchanging glances does suggest something ig.
In one of the chapters during the war between the Hyakuya Sect and the JIDA, Mahiru mentioned that Krul would be ‘on her way’ so I think they knew that once the First awakens, all the vampires will be aware of his presence. They must have known that the vampires would arrive there so they must have anticipated Krul coming there as per their plan.
I also wonder why did they plan on exposing Krul to the vampire progenitor council. She lost her credibility and reputation as a queen. She lost the absolute authority that she had. The trio seemed to have planned this and look at what Guren says to Krul that sounds like a threat or a warning probably.
Ok so what would have happened if Krul was rescued along with Ferid? She would know that he is working with them and is in league with the JIDA. She would know that Mahiru and Guren are working with Saito. I think that they must have wanted to hide such things from her maybe since they are just going to use her and discard her later on. It may be that they are only working with her to get information on the First and to get to her brother.
Noya when possessing Guren had said that with Mika,Yuu and Ashera together, Guren might get the wish that he has hoped for so long which probably would be the resurrection of his friends. Guren did say in chapter 99 that he would resurrect humanity in front of Krul but I don’t think she knows that he PROBABLY might be using Ashera for that.
I may be wrong about them betraying Krul but just some of these things don’t feel right.
Okay, so is Kagami gonna do another 12 month procrastination to finally reveal Sika’s motive. Just like randomly showing us the Vampires in chapter 105. I’m not complaining I love that chapter, but I’m just saying he’s gonna do it when your least expecting it.
