/a/ - Animu & Mango

I didn't see any babies with the kids. I think Norman is still alive too.

>>658179

Next chapter

MAMA IS DEAD

>>658195

>House is the Matrix

>Everything is training for the real battle

>Mama is Morpheus

>>658179

Last chapter

>EVERYONE HAS EARS

Latest chapter

>SOME EARS GONE

That shocked me a little, that must have hurt a lot.

My first thought was that Ray had been crossdressing as Emma in front of the fire, taking advantage of the chaos and the fact that the transmitters in the ears don't tell Mama WHO they belong to. I can't help but think that will be a plot point, eventually.

Either way, it wouldn't be surprising if Norman somehow survived, too.

>>658142

I think Norman's alive

Need a high level autist to confirm burned ham and hair actually smells like charred human

>>659915

>Lil' Nigga is a sleeper agent that is supposed to assassinate a mama in case there is a breakout in order to activate the alarm.

Calling it now

>>659912

Recent medical graduate here.

When surgeons use harmonic scalpels to cut tissue it does smell like burnt meat. Smells pretty good too, in my opinion.

As for hair, burnt hair has a very typical smell that's easy to notice. if you've ever electrocuted bugs with an electric bug zapper, it smells the same.

>>659999

Quads of truth. Cysteine, a dominant amino-acid in hair, contains one part Sulfur. The heat from burning decomposes it at ~460 degrees burger points, and these particles form a gas at ~830 degrees burger points. Fires can double that, especially ones like this. The rest is all the smell of proteins/carbons being vaporized.

At extreme heats, the two (sulfur and meat) paired are the two dominant smells, so as long as enough of the substances are paired, it should smell viably similar to a burning human. The absence of bone only really makes a difference for the level of smoke.

>>660021

Lupin has some fucking weird episodes.

So, do you guys think they'll actually escape or is this a fakeout?

>>660111

If they don't escape Ray is dead on the water and Emma is not much better off.

>>660111

I've given up trying to predict this series. Literally anything can happen at this point even Krone coming back

>>660111

I have two guesses.

>They fail to escape but due to Mama no longer having "a safe avenue of retreat" she instead commits to getting them out, between the fire, their ears being cut off, and the escape attempt getting noticed by the demons

>The escape succeeds but Mama tracks them far enough to have a final showdown, the gang are winning but damaged, maybe a few losses, due to demons harrying them, but ultimately win. But Norman appears, and

>>660122

What about neither because Lil Nig is an assassin working for Norman and will stab Mama next chapter

>>660126

New twist: Phil is actually much older than he looks and acts, and has been mama's secret double-agent this whole time.

>>661199

Chances are they either forgot, or they knew that they couldn't possibly bring everyone with them. Given his age, he was probably too young to test or too far away from any possible shit date to be in trouble.

>>661213

No, Phil went back deliberately. They told everyone and took everyone. None of the kids are stupid enough to fell for the "mama loves us" shtick anymore (and he was earlier noted to be unusually smart). He's a plant for one side or another, the only question is which.

If they actually manage to escape - what then? Two more chapters for some Shawshankesque wrap-up?

Planning the escape from HQ?

Or maybe they decide to Take a dump on Ko̱̞̪̦̦͔̩͆͛ͤ̀͌̍͗̒rͨͧ́̍̅͑ͣͫ̚҉̸̲̩͔̫͔͎͢a͍͚̤͈̥̝͚̤ͨ̌̑̔̓͒ͭͭo̜̞͈̲͔͎̽̑̊ͣ͋u̵̳̼̱͕̪͍͊͠´̫̙ͭ̃̄͆ͣ̉͢͠͠ͅǚ̺̳͚̰͇͂ͯ̚ͅü̶͖͔͕ͯ̎̊̄̔̔ͬ́́͡'s dinner table?

>>662083

We still have no idea what is beyond the compound.

It's probably not a nice place.

>>662083

>If they actually manage to escape - what then? Two more chapters for some Shawshankesque wrap-up?

>Planning the escape from HQ?

The world is clearly fucked up in some big way. What are the demons? Why do they need developed brains that have been trained with those specific tests? How did the Demons take over? Why are some humans working with them? What's William Minerva's deal?

This shit has potential to go on for quite a while longer.

>>662083

I think I read somewhere that the author had about 300 pages of script before even getting an artist or publisher. There's probably a good amount of chapters to go before it finishes, though who knows where this crazy coaster ride is going.

>>662220

>>662225

>This shit has potential to go on for quite a while longer.

Sure, but I wonder what the general theme is going to be. Up till now we have kids VS adults, prison break, suspense and varying degrees of keikakus and counterkeikakus.

Not that I want another 200 chapters of the same stuff with a different coat of paint.

>>662234

Yeah that is the main problem with this series.

So far it's been mind battles, kids in a situation trying to use their above-average brains to figure out a way to use the rather mundane means at their disposal to achieve a pretty mundane goal (escape the farm).

But the larger plot includes non-mundane elements like demons who eat people's brains. The trying to outwit Mama thing worked, because of the particular circumstances the kids were in. Those aren't going to exist in the wider world outside.

If the demons capture the kids and put them in a demon jail, it's not like they're going to let the kids roam around freely to plot an escape. In fact the kids can't do anything against the demons at all.

Maybe the kids meet up with some human organization, who fight the demons. But what would the organization do with the kids, besides protect them? Employ them? To do what?

Now a lot of the stuff with the kids trying to outwit mama was a lot like espionage. The kids could get conscripted to work as spies, and sent to infiltrate organizations affiliated with the demons. But would they really send kids to do that?

Another way the author could keep the story going is to give the kids magic powers. Which I hope doesn't happen, but it might not be so bad if the powers are the kind that require lots of trickery/thought to use.

So we wind up with the kids and demons weaving plots and trying to exploit the rules that govern their powers to upset each others' plans. The mind-battle thing could be kept working that way.

The powers and the espionage angle could be made to work together as well. I actually see some potential in that. But really I never know where they're going with this series. It's one of the few weekly manga I'm reading weekly because I always want to know what happens next and am always surprised.

>>662682

This shit made my eyes bleed, holy fuck anon.

Looking at the demons here, it looks like they're wearing some sort of breathing apparatus. Maybe they're actually aliens? If they can't breath oxygen then the kids might be able to attack them that way.

Phil is a real champ.

Fucking Phil, holy shit. The balls on that little dweeb. So next up we have a nice game of tag and after that perhaps some kind of training arc setting up the next, even bigger, prison break and what Phil and the kids in the other plants are up to.

Or everybody dies. The end.

>>663458

For some reason, I get the feeling that some of the other kids from the other farms are going to get involved in this soon. Like Norman or Krone managed to send a message to them, and they will suddenly show up on the wall and give some much-needed assistance to distract Isabella.

I also wonder how the other mamas are going to explain what the hell that blaring alarm is for, in their cute little isolated orphanages. It also raises the interesting point, that it seems clear none of our protagonists have ever heard those alarms before. This means that, in at least 12 years, there has never been even an ATTEMPTED escape, by even a single child, from any of the houses.

>>663458

I have a feeling Isabella might be planning to have the kids kill the big bad or at least starve him out so it doesn't seem like she intended it.

>niggastream beaten to the punch again

Hahaha they are so done, I give them 3 months at most to vanish from relevance once and for all

There they go teasing the pen again.

>>663546

It's beautiful.

>>663538

>Isabella playing the long con

Well, she did stand on the wall while she was still "merchandise".

>>663546

Who's doing these faster than niggerstream? I need to know, I want out.

>>664045

Somebody is uploading to batoto. Sometimes.

>>659982

Phil a coon.

>>665260

I've been bracing for more edginess since Conny's death. It was inevitable.

SHE ACTUALLY DID IT

THE MADWOMAN

>>658142

>>659333

Norman is currently being jerked off 24/7 because they need his semen for reproduction of top-of-the-line goods.

>>658227

Yes please.

>>665260

Not necessarily, remember that they take painstakingly great care to raise these kids so as to increase their value.

If the kids ran around the other plantations waking everyone else up to what's going on then the demons would see their entire livestock going to shit. So it is quite possible that they want to exterminate the 'virus' before it spreads.

Their response in no way confirms that there's a human society in the outside world.

I fucking LOVE "huge success" type of chapters and episodes, and this one was so fucking well executed.

What a fucking boss Emma is, I thought her wanting to take everyone including babies would eventually backfire but she and Norman figured all out.

I'm extremely pleased.

>>667950

I wonder how they'll close down the farm within one and a half year though.

>>667947

The demons have likely cracked the entire human genome. I highly doubt they still rely on something as unpredictable as natural processes like that. Beside, Norman was clearly still prepubescent. He now exists nowhere except as a hallucination in Ray's mind.

>>667949

It finally dawned on me that the chapter titles mean "Execution" of the kid's SUPREME MASTER ESCAPE PLAN.

>>668015

Going from the last pic it can still turn out in a slaughter. Reaching the forest on the other side of the cliff doesn't mean they're safe at all.

I also wonder what'll happen to Isabella if she's not able to handle the situation like 'grandmother' was able to.

>>668020

Isabella is going to pursue them and go outside the boundaries to the real world. Then she'll eventually become an ally when she gets filled with Emma's hope.

>>669277

Won't her heart stop or something?

>>670732

Yeah, Krone showed the kids that all mamas have some kind of bomb implanted in their chest so they don't get any ideas to leave once they find out the truth.

>>669271

That's right, that demon dude said they could tear the shit out of the other kids as long as they don't damage their heads.

It's going to be a slaughter.

How and where will the demons relocate the remaining childs in the farm, after the fire? The mansion would need to be rebuild, after all.

Latest chapter is out.

Isabelle covered the kids tracks.

Rip Mama she will be missed

ISABELLA DID NOTHING WRONG

NO-THING

WRONG

>>674527

>Isabella gave Ray special treatment because he was her son this whole time

>Ray setting himself on fire was supposed to be the biggest possible fuck you to his own Mom

>Isabella is happy the kids could escape

Holy shit, this fucking series just keeps throwing curveballs. I am truly impressed.

You guys think this is the last we'll see of Isabella?

"And then the demons killed her due to her unforgivable incompetence and she died to death".

I'd be kind of disappointed, to be honest. At the very least I'd want to see how Grandma and the demons handle the punishment, what they tell her, if not right now because it would expose too many elements the author still wants to keep hidden, then at least in a future flashback.

>>674585

Now that you mention it, how are the demons going to handle the mop-up-operation at the plant?

The house is burnt down and Isabella mentioned she disposed of all the ropes. Are they just gonna swoop in all "ooga booga where da kids at"-like?

They have to sweep the whole area and a dozen toddlers are sitting there and have nowhere to go. Except the oven, I suppose.

>Isabella is the loving mother we all knew she would be

D'aww~

>>674527

>It doesn't seem to be winter

It really doesn't. That's very interesting, and I'm upset at myself for having not noticed it. Near as I can tell, that's some kind of temperate deciduous forest, so during winter they should be bare of leaves even if they're in a climate that is fairly warm (Florida?).

This could indicate several possibilities. They could be in the southern hemisphere (though in chapter 5, the kids deduced from the movement of the sun that they are in the northern hemisphere), or they could be in some kind of controlled climate (giant biodome or advanced future with weather-controlling machines and an artificial Sun), or they could just be on a planet that IS NOT EARTH, so the rules are different.

While going back in the chapters, I noticed something interesting. When the kids discovered that William Minerva had implanted Morse Code into some of the library books, it was actually Phil who pointed it out to Emma. Yes, PHIL! My suspicions about him are intensifying.

ISABELLA DID

NO-THING

WRONG

ISABELLA IS PURE AND JUST WANTED TO PROTECT THE KIDS

For some children, it's called The "I'll see what I can do" Sometimesland

>>677541

It would have been prettier if Norman were there, too.

DID YOU REALLY THINK ANYONE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY IN THIS SERIES?

>>677913

Of course I thought the gigantic, ancient, evil murderforest would just let the kids walk through peacefully. Why would I suspect otherwise?

Also, William Minerva's new pen clue reads, in morse code, "AOUCHM". No idea what the heck that is supposed to mean.

>>674632

So what kind of forest are they in now?

>>678049

Demon rape forest.

I think Ray not recognizing stuff was meant to indicate they were in some alien forest of some kind.

Which is fuel for the "they're in another planet" theory, but it could also mean they're in a really distant future, much further away than they think, or the plants were brought to earth by the aliens.

Or it's just earth plants Ray doesn't know, but I trust this manga to make use of small details by now.

>>678092

Nope. They're all most definitely captured by a contingent of escaped humans who are working in secret with William Minerva to free humanity from the enslavement of the Demons.

>>678123

The escaped humans are all children lead by one escaped mama.

>>678092

I want to bask in Emma's warm healing light.

>>678049

Like no forest that exists on Earth, now or ever. Those are still resembling deciduous trees (essentially gigantic oaks) in a temperate forest, but no trees grow that large anymore except for conifers, like redwoods and sequoias, which have very different-looking canopies and much deeper roots than this. It's not nearly cluttered or wet enough to be a tropical rainforest. Even back in early dinosaur times, when the Earth was warmer and there was a denser atmosphere that could have supported larger trees, there were only cycads, ferns, and conifers. Deciduous trees had not evolved yet.

Basically, fill it with spiders and replace the kids with dwarves, and it's Mirkwood.

>>678081

>>678195

Being unable to recognize the landscape may simply mean it's been even longer than they may realize. They could be thousands of years into the future and not even realize it yet.

Im guessing this is the part where the majority of the children are lost and now we have the main MCs without babysitting duties. Probably for the best because having to watch over children in a scenario like that is a death sentence.

>>678351

I think the year is still correct. The kids just aren't on Earth. Maybe they're not even in Earth's dimension. Maybe they're in Hell.

>>678353

I was expecting the reverse. Whether they've been sucked through the ground into another dimension, or captured by whoever, now is the time for Don and Gilda to prove themselves as leaders or fuck everything up and descend into crippling anguish as the little kids are killed around them.

>>678402

>Don and Gilda have to lead

>Don uses his strength

>Gilda uses her brains

>Warrior tribe is founded

>>680882

If there's an alternative to niggersteam please tell me of it.

>>680882

>Even the quality is shittier

This is the price we all pay when the world runs on "FIRST!" rather than "best".

>>680916

But hey, you can't be accused of bleaching everything if you paint everything black. Genius, really.

NEW CHAPTER

But only niggerstream for now.

The ride truly never ends.

>>680477

Presumably before they made their escape. Possibly several hours before. Not sure how that would work out though.

>>677985

>Of course I thought the gigantic, ancient, evil murderforest would just let the kids walk through peacefully.

This anon turned out to be right about it being a murderforest, they gonna get digested by a tree.

>>684060

>group endangered by rape forest

>they get away

>but suddenly demons

>they get away again

>but someone got seperated from the group

>they find Mr. Minverva and the missing member is there, too

>but Minverva is also demons

>they get away again again

>everything is demons

>the end

Calling it right now.

>>684065

Manga went from a tense jailbreak thriller into a survival adventure in an unknown alien world.

I am perfectly okay with this.

>>684073

Plenty of older authors get copied a lot or used as inspiration, but inside Shonen Jump Togashi and Toriyama were the first to do a lot of things during their respective times and have a lot of success doing it. If you actively start looking for similarities sometimes it gets pretty blatant. A lot of things in Naruto are straight up shittier copies of things that were in Hunter. There was a fight in MHA recently that was extremely similar to one that happened ten years ago in HxH. Toriko's gourmet world basically copied the dark continent's idea.

I'm not getting much of a dark continent vibe from this story arc yet though, but I think it's because that lazy fuck Togashi will never even reach the dark continent in his story so we don't even know exactly how the place is.

>>680882

Christ! I had no idea they were fucking it up this badly. They don't even release this manga until the new week has started and they still make a mess of it.

>>684116

>we don't even know exactly how the place is.

It's big

>>684066

>the demons are actually a formerly human aristocracy after centuries of rampant CRISPR/Cas abuse

>they are semi-dependent on prebubescent human brains in a manner similar to queen bee rearing

>>684116

Didn't Toriko have Gourmet World shit first? Oh well, not like it matters since it turned out to be shit and a mess in the end.

Latest chapter is out. The demons are on the hunt and the kids have realised that their storybook is actually a secret guide for their escape.

Marvine = Minerva

>>685305

I might be totally wrong about the order of events, but I remember back when Toriko first got into details about the Gourmet World the first thing I thought about was "this is straight up a Dark Continent ripoff." I think some other series at the time was doing something similar too, with the established world being just a smaller part of the whole world, don't remember which one though, I think Magi.

>>686899

Who's Ugo then and why is he the main character? That just raises more questions.

>>686945

Ugo is a DEMON.

>genre shift from mystery thriller to fantasy survival

I am very okay with this

>>687091

>There must be a reason why the demons make very clear that the kids must be eaten by animals

He saying the opposite there, anon. "We absolutely mustn't allow those humans to be eaten by anything other than our kind", i.e. only the demons can be allowed to eat the humans. The 'lowly organisms' I assume refers to the wild animals the bloodsucker trees fed on.

I assume the demons don't want other animals to eat the kids, because eating their brains confers some kind of power, a power the demons don't want wild animals to have. If an animal eats one of the kids, it might transform into something much more powerful, possibly a threat to the demons. Or maybe the demons just don't want to lose whatever benefit that eating the kids would bestow on one of their own.

>>687091

>And what Emma did take notice in the last panels?

I haven't the faintest idea. The katakana in the last panel look like "zu zu" but I'm not very good with deciphering what Japanese SFX are supposed to mean. Either way, it's kind of weird because she obviously shouldn't be able to hear anything from that side of her head.

>>686945

Toriko mentioned Gourmet World as far back as 2008 or 2009 in Chapter 63 if I recall.

>>687099

I don't think there's any benefit. They just don't want the valuable goods to be eaten by some inferior lifeform. Like a farmer not wanting his chickens eaten by wolves.

>>686983

>I'm starting to think she's kind of cute

Everyone begins to feel that way sooner or later.

>>677985

>Pen code I thought was an "A" is actually an "E" and a "T", spelling out "TOUCH ME"

Yeah, well fuck you too, Mr. Minerva! And double-fuck you, Mr. Morse, for inventing a system where such confusion is possible!

In other news, Winter finally came. They walk a few miles, and the weather drastically changes. Still have no idea what kind of planet they are on; maybe it's some kind of small and dense planet where whole climate zones are only a dozen miles across. But they're heading South, so it should be getting WARMER. Ugh. I dunno.

Finally: HOLY FUCKING JESUS CHRIST THEY'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!

>>690581

>But they're heading South, so it should be getting WARMER.

If I head south from where I am right now it would get colder for me. We don't know what hemisphere they're in. And did the weather really change drastically? I don't think it did.

That creature sure has a lot of incisors.

Someone is going to die next chapter, otherwise all tension will go right down the drain and these kids will become mary sues

>>690629

Minerva's book will reveal that all Peter Pan had to do to defeat the 4 legged Rock Monster is throw that one flower that just so happens to be handy into its mouth.

>>690597

>And did the weather really change drastically?

It got a shitload colder, and doesn't seem to have turned to night.

>>690630

No, no. They'll tickle it's special toe and that'll tame it.

>>690597

>>690695

Giant glacier monster soon

>>690629

No, the author's going to keep stringing us along into thinking the kids are all invincible and got things under control, then one of them is going to bite it, in the most horrible, gruesome way.

>>668015

If that was true, wouldn't they be able to always create top of the line goods?

>>690629

How they fuck are they all supposed to run from monster the size of those trees? No amount of playing tag can prepare them for fighting demons, they better not somehow use their tag skills to all get away

>>690945

You have an excellent point. With the orphanage "farms" having a loving environment, and being focused on learning and the constant testing, they've got the "nurture" part down to a science (and more importantly, it eliminates variables between children) yet there is still a large range of "quality" in the children.

The demon hunter cut off the head of the giant hexapod monster really fast & almost instantly, how the hell will Ray escape him and his big demon hound? Im worried about this going bloody for the kids

>>690630

>>690702

Boy am I glad you two were wrong.

>>693595

It's interesting that there seem to be multiple species of demons around, and not all of them are intelligent. This suggests that they really are on some planet that isn't Earth. If it were just the demons who showed up one day and took over, then they wouldn't have bothered bringing those "low breeds" along just to populate the forests.

What's with all this bullshit going around about the demons supposedly getting stronger from eating human brains? I thought they just farmed kid brains because they were tasty. Or is this some youtube theory bullshit?

>>694165

Where did you pick that up?

>>694165

There's never been anything to suggest that. I've never heard this theory, so it's probably some youtube bullshit thing, yeah. Right now all we know is that they want to eat brains of extremely smart kids that are at the peak of freshness.

Although, there could be a thing where the demons get SMARTER from eating kid's brains. Perhaps they used to be like those feral demons in the forest, until they were fed human brains by ~someone~ and then were somehow magically "uplifted" into sapience.

>>694184

This. Hell, we know next to nothing of the world and why they are farming for brains except for their leader? Or some high up demon with random letters for a name

>>668015

>The demons have likely cracked the entire human genome. I highly doubt they still rely on something as unpredictable as natural processes like that.

Like wine variability is nice.

>>695214

The trap being a trap is the trap, you fool

>>695205

>>695214

It's like THREE DAYS before even the crappy scanlations come out. Where the fuck are you guys getting these??

>>695261

Madokami although they are indeed niggastream scans.

>>695262

>Mangafox

>...

>:/

And here I thought I deserved to be gassed.

>>694166

Niggerstream

>>695267

>>695582

>It came out two days early this week for no discernible reason

FUCK!

YOOOOOUU!!

>>697848

It was inevitable.

So now we have demons, feral demons, and human-like demons, that may or may not be interested in eating the kids, possibly to get promoted to the other clan of demons. There probably aren't any humans on this planet other than those in the farms. William Minerva will just turn out to be the leader of another set of demons, who want the kids for their own uses.

These kids can't catch a fucking break, Jesus Christ.

And shouldn't Ray have asked that question later? Like when they're in a better position that could allow them to run away or fight in case these demons just want to eat them too?

>>701570

>shouldn't Ray have asked that question later?

Seriously. It was very impulsive of him. There must be something he knows or has that is already giving him leverage so he can afford to show his cards right away.

>>701652

That's what I'm thinking too, based on previous events.

Either that or these demons are good guys and the author just wants to move things forward without going through a whole mini arc or subplot about them being saved by the demons and slowly starting to trust them or whatever.

Binge read the shit out of this. Incredibly interesting manga that I simply could not put down. I miss Norman.

Calling it for the new demons being good. I don't think the tone of the manga is dark enough to throw all the kids into another shit-situation (at least on the surface of it) so immediately.

NEW CHAPTER

>can't see why not

What a cheeky cunt.

>New demons don't eat humans because humans aren't kosher, or whatever

Well, it's a little too convenient, but I guess I can accept that. Though it's difficult to trust someone who has literally no reason to kill you and eat your brains other than "Jesus tells me not to".

What I can't accept is that these demons are just going to explain to Ray and Emma why the world is so fucked up and full of demons and humans farmed for consumption. This series has never gone for the "info-dump" approach, and it shouldn't start. Everyone's just been slowly and organically gathering information about the world over time, and that's a good thing. To maintain that, one would assume that either: 1) The demons don't really know much of the history of the world anyway, or 2) They're going to hide the truth or outright lie to the kids.

I'd be okay with either one.

>>706574

>Though it's difficult to trust someone who has literally no reason to kill you and eat your brains other than "Jesus tells me not to".

That's a really good reason actually. Religion can be a powerful thing. It's an explanation that sits better with me than just "Oh we're allies of humans and part of an anti-demon resistance, human power!", which is what I was expecting. There's room for exploring that too, like maybe later a demon who's supposedly religious shows up and they're already very trusting of these nice demons and then the guy goes and tries to eat them because he's curious and not that religious or whatever.

I do agree that the next chapter will definitely be an info dump. I'm not too happy with it but we all knew it was coming eventually, maybe from Minerva, maybe from some book they find, but instead we're getting it from demons themselves.

I still trust this series to not shit the bed and not make this info dump be the be-all end-all of lore, and we'll get some grey areas that will be clarified later when they get more information from someone else. I think demons telling the kids their side of the story is a good setup for a twist later when they hear the human side.

>>706607

>I think demons telling the kids their side of the story is a good setup for a twist later when they hear the human side

Oh, this just makes me think that the humans are going to turn out to be horrible, horrible bastards, and demons are actually the "lesser of two evils", as it were.

>>701453

Also worth noting that Music and Sung-Joo only appear to have 2 thumbs, instead of 4 like most of the Farm Demons.

>>706645

So human brains being demon-nip is just a pleasant bonus for those poor, downtrodden souls?

I'm beginning to wonder who could hide behind this post.

>>706645

That's such a boring, played out idea that's been done to death, they would have to do it really well to not make it shit.

>>706770

And "humans are being eaten by evil aliens" isn't a boring, playing out idea that's been done to death?

>>708612

>Lets see what kind of barrier separate the human and demon world.

If I had to guess, I'd say a magical barrier. But in order to cross it, you need the power of both a human and a demon soul.

All kidding aside, I'm still not buying a fucking word those demons are talking about. Not a word of it. It just seems way too contrived.

>>708612

The prison break never ended.

I'm ready.

>>708612

If I'm understanding this right

>Humans and demons exist on the same Earth-ish planet

>Treaty is made thousands of years ago

>World is split/divided/barrier'd

>Demons farm humans "peacefully" for thousands of years

>Humans exist, seemingly as normal on their side of the world based on the books and tech being sent to the farms

>The actual year is 2046 or so and William Minerva is up to something which potentially threatens to start war between Humans and Demons

>>708698

Pretty much what I gathered too.

I think that the human side would be our reality. Like how old stories refer to monsters and ghosts but nowadays there are only trickles of spooky shit

From what I imagine demons and humans share the same space, Earth, but not the same "reality". The barrier between them would be like, some heavy /x/ shit about not-so-parallel realities and the monsters that habit therein crossing over

At least that's what I got from this chapter.

>>708715

Seems a little out there.

I think it's just a really big wall around the equator, maybe with a really big pit or body of water, and maybe a single heavily guarded road.

>>706824

Frankly? Feels like less-so than "humans were the monsters all along" type of stories.

>>708636

>Starts as a prison break manga

>They break out

>Oh it's going to be an adventure survival manga now...

>Nope, still prison break

Wasn't really expecting this.

>>708635

I hope anyone who was worried this chapter would make things boring by explaining all the mysteries in one go and making things too clear are relieved now at how sketchy that whole story was.

>>706574

>1) The demons don't really know much of the history of the world anyway

With an author who loves twists so much I'm pretty sure this is setting us up for more of them. There's going to be something horribly off in the kids' assumption about the world, either the demon's story was lacking something, or he was misinformed, or else the situation has changed in ways he wasn't aware of, or some combination of the three. We're going to get more Ray and Emma reaction closeups as their assumptions about the world are shattered and their hopes start to crumble.

>>708715

>>708741

I think it might be secret continents and such. Maybe they're actually somewhere past Antarctica.

>>711415

>Maybe they're actually somewhere past Antarctica.

WE HOLLOW EARTH NOW.

I am unsure why [&*#^*%$] being the enemy of the kids should come as such a surprise. I had assumed he was some kind of leader of the demons, or some shit. But the way these new demons speak of him, it seems more like this being may be more of a GOD.

As in: God himself decided to "split the Earth in two" and promised one half to the demons and one half to the humans, and by going against this, the kids are defying His divine providence.

>>711844

Oh shit.

What is the pronunciation/translation of [$^*&#($] is Minerva?

>>711844

>>711848

I immediately went to the thought that Minerva is a demon after that exchange.

>>711857

I've been pretty sure that Minerva was a demon, of one kind or another ever since it was established that there are multiple types of demons. That was even before we got these hippie demons right now. But I don't think he's "unpronounceable", because his actions run counter to what the demons are doing. Also, weren't the best brains going to be eaten by "unpronounceable"?

>>711844

>>711848

I saw a pretty plausible theory in the comment section of the shitty site where I read this.

What if Unpronounceable is actually the Demon word for Humanity itself, and that by escaping the farm, and attempting to breach the barrier, they are disrupting a delicate status quo. We've seen dudes working with the demons before, so there is at least one faction accepting of the farms and demon-kind.

>>711944

But wasn't that nigga already introduced? Sitting there at his fancy dinner table.

>>712018

They are. And I guess the name of the Unspeakable One is la migra.

>>712018

Don't think too hard about it.

In Magi, when Sinbad was going full globalist politics, destroying national identities while facilitating open border policies that completely fucked with several countries I saw people in chapter comments comparing him to Trump, just because Sinbad was the villain.

So now we know there's some reason the hippie-demons always stay on the move. I assume they're being hunted by the maneating demons. It makes me wonder if the maneaters are religiously motivated as well, with Unpronounceable being some kind of Lovecraftian/Robert E. Howardian-esque elder god, that demands children's brains for it to devour, while punishing any demons who don't do its bidding. This would include the hippies, which would explain why they're always on the run.

There's also something else the hippies aren't telling the kids, how Unpronounceable will become their enemy. The Corean tells Musica "they'll find out soon enough", implying something inevitable is going to happen that will reveal Unpronounceable to them. I feel the hype.

>>712070

>Don't think too hard about it.

But one has to wonder how the majority of people seem to have lost their ability to properly analyze characters and their actions while also losing all forms of reason and understanding of how society works. I mean, I see this kind of shit and wonder "people really can't be this stupid, can they?".

>>712215

The little female demon is also pretty human (in fact both of them are). I wonder if they'll ever address that or if demons end up looking more human-like the more they avoid human meat.

As for Unpronounceable, he'll probably find out what the kids are up to and he'll send out his best hunters (or even an army) to keep the kids from crossing over and starting another war or rebellion within the demon castes.

NEW CHAPTER

Seems like the demons are pretty damn religous. So maybe wingdings-sama is not seen as a living deity?

>>713885

Maybe he's just a big guy.

And here we go with Emma learning to KILL.

So it turns out that the flower the demons stab into their prey is part of a religious ceremony, but it also sucks out the blood to better preserve the meat.

I have a hard time believing such a plant could naturally evolve, but whatever. More importantly, Emma has tested her mettle for murder, by killing... a small bird. Yeah.

>>714501

>I have a hard time believing such a plant could naturally evolve

Refer to several chapters ago when a carnivorous tree almost devoured them. Flora and Fauna in "demon" territory doesn't follow the same rules.

Looks like the plan got downsized quite a bit.

Man, it's pretty fucked up that the demons are mass-farming what seems like clones of a single person (Minerva? Norman??) allowing them have sentience but otherwise treating them like chickens. They could easily have them develop with anencephaly so they don't have any consciousness, but then again I suppose the brain is supposed to be the tastiest part.

>>716978

I thought that page was just a general representation of what a farm looks like, not an accurate one, but at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the demons really did have some fucked up retarded clone farming technique going on.

>>716995

>>716978

If this is supposed to be "low quality meat" then does it really matter if they are sentient or not? Are we certain they only produce brains here and not eat the whole bodies? Maybe the brain snack thing is just something the elites do?

In such case then just keeping them barely alive with the cheapest method possible is the most logical option

>>722129

I like his enthusiasm -- cheeky bastard.

>>722129

I'm glad it turned out that at least one of these demons aren't just helping the kids out of the goodness of their hearts. That seemed like bullshit from the beginning, so it always seemed plausible that there would be some other motivation.

Also, I hope the kids brought their shovels, because nobody builds their secret base ABOVE ground.

>>722129

>card game

For what purpose? There's not that much material or characters for that.

I also like Sung Joo's motives. Seemingly selfish, but his opposition to farmed humans could at least result in more free-range humans who actually have a chance to fight back, which can benefit Emma's new society if they don't make it to the human world.

NEW CHAPTER

those fucking cookies

>>724834

The biggest twist yet, is that it wasn't a lie.

I really hope this shaggy fucker is the real Minerva and not some pompous fag in a fancy suit

>No numbers on his neck

Is it safe to assume Minerva's from the outside world instead of being an escapee, then? Because he knows a lot about the farms to be a simple outsider. What have we learned about Minerva up until this point, anyways?

This nigga be so gar

hype for next chapter.

>>724896

Well, nothing much about Minerva, but we can assume a lot about him as a character by the surroundings and logic.

Right off the bat we could assume that Minerva is the one who gives the Demons their equipment, as it would answer the question of how did Minerva's shit get into the farms.

His base isn't that far out from the farm, but still far enough for any sort of expansion.

There are numbers on the cell, but not on the man's door, whose door is free of any sort of mark, like a janitor's closet or office in a hotel.

The things that don't add up, is if that man is Minerva, why is his computer monitors dated, he has no pen, merely a quill, his shoes bottoms have shitty wear-and-tear (which could suggest an active travel life-style, so it could fit Minerva's character anyway.), his teacup is also broken, which suggests the inability to get a replacement. He also has one glove, which is strange.

All of this could be just aesthetic choices, of course.

Maybe this is Minerva, but past his 'prime'? He does have white streaks in his hair, so he could be middle aged, a classic 'older-than-he-looks.' It would also fit in with his surroundings, as everything around him is dated, including his clothes.

>>722184

>I'm glad it turned out that at least one of these demons aren't just helping the kids out of the goodness of their hearts.

Makes me wonder why these demons eat humans at all. Obviously they can survive without doing so. Unpronounceable might require high class brains for a ritual, but the mass produced humans aren't going to have much in terms of quality mind meat. Is this just a compulsion, a hunger they have to fight to suppress? Or does eating humans help them avoid devolving into those more beast-like demons?

It makes me wonder about the origin of these "demons", and if they were engineered as intentionally anti-human organisms. Like some kind of ploy to save the Earth from humans ala True Ancestors or Parasytes. But all the novel flora and fauna would seem to contradict that. Unless the demons were a creation of a mad scientist, or sorcerer or something, who wanted to use them to conquer humanity. Maybe Unpronounceable created the demons specifically to fight humans.

Maybe Unpronounceable was human at one point, and turned himself into some kind of brain-eating superbeing. And turned a bunch of humans into demons, to worship him as a god, and serve as his private army to conquer the world. But they failed at that, so he had to settle for a truce.

>>725301

The farms and the promise predate human society as we know it by several thousand years. It's hard to imagine that the Demons could have ever been human, since the author seems to be going for a more grounded and less magical approach.

Sung-Joo and the heretic demons have a religion that glorifies the hunt as a sacred practice. A smart human puts up a better struggle and makes for a better hunt than a dumb one. A brainless animal that just waits for you to kill it is no hunt at all. I get the feeling that the elite demons who run the farms came to understand that the thing that made humans so tasty was a good brain. Everyone else could have mass produced meat, but Unpronounceable and his inner circle get the finest, grass-fed, hand massaged, labor-intensive, lovingly raised meat in their world.

>>725301

>Or does eating humans help them avoid devolving into those more beast-like demons?

This is what I think, but more than eating brains was what caused them to evolve into full sentience in the first place. I was thinking that Unpronounceable might have been the one who originally "uplifted" the feral demons by feeding them human brains. The more they eat, the smarter they get, or something.

>people actually expected anything good to be inside the shelter

>>727250

I thought about the second possibility too.

Could be testing them or teaching them a lesson.

>>727250

>With a revolver that has, at most, six bullets

The six bullets are for the biggest kids, he can stomp the rest to death.

>>727250

Could be that they have no idea what a gun is or how it works. They've never seen one before and the books they had to read were about fantasy stuff and basic historical facts.

>drinking from a broken cup

>tea biscuits

All he's missing is the hat and he's a bonafide Mad Hatter

>>727386

>zippity zunker

>get out of my bunker

>but before you go

>a parting lesson:

>kids can't outrun

>my smith & wesson

An attempt was made.

POACHERS The kids are fucked.

>>729777

>The kids are fucked

>not expecting the tweest

>Emma coldclocks the guy in the nuts to get away, and then flawlessly calls his bluff

Wow. This manga never fails to go with the one thing I didn't expect to happen. Surprised his gun actually works, though. Then after all that shit, Emma still puts a blanket over the shithead after he faints. She is too pure for this world.

Also, it seems the guy has somehow developed multiple personality disorder based on the people in his group that died. Or they were all in his head to begin with...? Maybe they were the kids in the farm that he had to leave behind, to die, when he escaped alone.

>>724893

What would happen if it turned out to be just like that.

>>730818

>The real Minerva is used to jaunting between the human and demon worlds all the time

>Someone finds out and shuts down his gateway

>He's stuck in the demon world all alone with no way to return

>Promptly loses his shit

>Kids have to discover their own way once they find out their idol and savior is now a useless schizophrenic moron

It would certainly fit in with the tone of things so far.

I've started to become attached to what was once background children.

>>732215

>>732217

They certainly have become more characterized, except that one girl with the spiky ponytail. Has she even spoken?

>>732215

Slowly seeing them act and interact in small, unobtrusive chunks throughout several chapters is a pretty decent way to do things.

All this happiness... ah~

It just can't last.

Schizo Shaggy is going to go on a rampage next chapter because the kids suck at tying up murderous bastards and generally being hardasses. Didn't Emma go hunting with what's-her-daemon to learn how to take a life? She should have put an arrow between that fucker's eyes when she had a chance. Now? Blood will be spilled.

>Let's make a deal

>>732251

>Blood will be spilled

Need I repeat myself?

Anyway, I am extremely excited to see how things are going to go now that Don and Gilda will finally be taking more of a leadership role. How badly are they going to fuck up? How many kids are going to die under their care? Oh, it's delicious~

>>736186

I'm positive this will turn out excactly as Ray and Emma think this is gonna turn out.

What could go wrong?

HEY KID, WANNA BLOW UP A SHELTER?

>>739682

Antenna kid is a threat to civilization.

>Emma talks to you calmly and rationally like a mother in complete control of the situation

>And if that's not enough, Ray then threatens to blow the whole fucking place up

These two are just the perfect foils for each other.

Also this: >>727100

Wonder what his nickname for Jemima is.

>>742597

Pancake.

That last page be all.

Latest Chapter is out

Holy crap the Arsenal that Minerva had hidden away

>Giant arsenal of guns and bombs and rocket launchers and shit

>The kids end up taking two knives and a pistol because the rest is too heavy and unwieldy for them to use in the field

This subversion of every setup is starting to become rote. The author's writing process seems to be to ask one-hundred people what they think will happen next, and then do something nobody expected.

>>747203

Did you expect Emma and Ray to go full wasteland bandit with shotguns strapped to their limbs?

>>747209

Maybe not, but it's pretty obvious most of that shit is never going to get used, which makes its reveal in the first place a giant cocktease.

You better bring at least one of them back alive

next few chapters gonna be the guy trying to kill one of them without the other noticing

Knowing the author I'd be more surprised if both of them make it back alive

>>747400

>both of them make it back alive

>but die in an explosion

>but not really

>everyone else is dead

Or are they?

I wonder how their little trip is gonna play out.

>Cookie-eating faggot is actually extremely competent at everything

I still think he's Minerva pulling a fast one, just using this entire exercise as a way to "test" the kids to see if they are worthy to be his allies in doing... whatever the heck he wants to do.

Also, I doubt that "3-week" windy path is going to get mentioned like that, and then not used. Betting they'll have to take that path on the way back.

What a twat. I'm enjoying this.

(((x)))