Thread 281167653

LETS GHOOOOOO

>>281167653 (OP)
Popularity poll results

>>281167669
MY HERO EVIL PRIEST IS IN

Where are the raws?

>>281167669
list it please

>>281168581
https://gaia.komica1.org/79/pixmicat.php?res=30324312
Blessings on anyone who can dump it right now
>>281168630
>1 Yayoi
>2 Asura
>3 Child
>4 Sarge
>5 Eiko
>6 TaiSui
>7 Spirit
>8 Priest
>9 Keitarou
>10 Oiran
Also what people thought were the best/scariest arcs.
>1 Marbas
>2 Bleached Head
>3 TaiSui
>4 Annunciation House
>5 Asura

>>281167669
Keitaroubros...

>>281167669
>>281169031
MY SON

>>281169031
>marbas in first place
that one was just right

>>281169357
The goat's brain attack was nasty af tbf.

>>281169175
owari da...

>>281167669
>Certified shit wrecker only #5
Japs, no...

>>281170455
Sorry anon but New Emperor/Spirit is 7. Eiko is 5.

Was planning on translating the chapter myself, but my brain refused to work today, so I'm just gonna dump.

We start directly at the end of the previous chapter. Ooboshi leaves the meeting... before they actually start discussing the main topic.

Granny and the others decide that Kantou (with reinforcements) will deal with the Replaced and the rest with the other evil spirits.

But there's one issue: the supervisor for the region of Chuubu has reported that the "Maximum Alert Evil Spirit" Tein is on the move to Kantou.

It's possible that the Replaced is behind this. They placed ritual implements/cursed objects around the Imperial Palace in the week before.

Will the anime ever get another season? Or do I need to start reading?

Back to talking about "Girl A", they're wondering what to do with her considering she seems to have made friends with Shami and Shougan (granny and monk man). Korosuman wants a bout.

Tsukimono kid gives the sensible proposal of having a proper adult look after her so she doesn't get into trouble, especially since she doesn't seem to want to kill people. 5 agree to this.

The others want to kidnap, confine, and kill her (guess who they are). Since it's 5 against 4 (technically), it all depends on Ooboshi now.
Back to Yayoi's house after they visited her father's grave.

The monitor's they've set up are for the hidden cameras Yayoi placed in the Graduate house to catch any Replaced in the act.

We'll get to see who took the right arm. (Didn't the Replaced leader lose his right arm too? Or was it his left?)

ENTER

It looks like it appeared and disappeared from thin air.

Yayoi also placed a tracker on the arm, so they now have a lead. They're going to talk with Shami first before going into battle.

>>281171570
>The Hairraiser

Yayoi also took a piece of what she thinks is Kuubou from the field of its battle with Saitai. She noticed that it suddenly changed shape and surmises it might've evolved like Masakado, pointing out its white glow.

These raws skip a page, but she basically deduces it has grown to the same level as a god.
Taking that into account, she goes over their fighting forces.
Here's the legend: X means in recovery, triangle means they might be able to fight, O means ready for rumble (which only includes Marbas' ring, Hariti's finger, and the S tunnel ghost lmao), white star means they plan to retrieve, black star means they plan to capture.
Basically, they've got no way of fighting it now. It might even be dangerous to go out. However, Taisai is strong enough that his mere presence should scare away most spirits.

>>281171467
>They want to kidnap and tie up Yayoi
hot

RAWS SKIP YET ANOTHER PAGE
Wait a minute.

The Replaced are likely to start interfering more with Yayoi's plan, and in that case, all she has to do is kidnap and make them a kodoku jar out of their group.
Keitarou is disturbed by her saying that, but realizes she might just see it as retributive justice. They need to strengthen their forces, no amount of preparation is enough as they've learned. Eiko suggests getting a car too, when Ai gets a phone call.

It's from her family, and they relay to her that her grandpa died. They ask her to come back for the funeral.

Yayoi says she'll go with her, and the two leave for Tokyo three days later.

>>281171746
Are we going to get a Kuubo vs Kuubo showdown? Or is Yayoi just going to remix the Taisui plan again?

Ignore the three days later, I don't know where that came from. It seems that Eigen, the possessed sibling, disappeared too.
Ai is worried that she still draws misfortune to her, but Yayoi reassures her that no spirit is possessing her anymore.

>>281172412
Oops

Ai spots a woman vomiting in the background, and that causes her to snap from her thought process and hurry toward the metro. On the way, they pass by the most conspicuous man alive.

Ooboshi senses Taisai in Yayoi, and notices he's being watched too.

>>281167669
>Masakado that low

He decides now is a good time to see if Yayoi is a threat or not. Ai and Yayoi make it in time for their train and get to eating refreshments.

Vomit woman also gets on the train.

These shitty Chinese raws skip A THIRD PAGE.
Anyway, vomit woman vomits out a ghost, who forms a boundary around the tunnel.

Nothing seems to happen even inside the tunnel, until...

They get out in another world

>>281172442
>Raccoon doll
S Tunnel bros. This is going to be her arc!

Every passenger, except the girls and Ooboshi, conk out.

ENTER YOMOTSU, WORLD'S END
How will Girl A respond, wonders Ooboshi.
That's it for the chapter.

Here's the detailed breakdown.
14,297 total votes for the popularity poll.

>>281169031
For the scariest arc poll, 12,860 total votes.
Kyoto's T tunnel got the least amount of votes btw.

>>281172792
How popular is DG over in Japan? Is that a lot of votes?

If Kredim doesn't upload in a few hours, I might get back to translating the chapter.

>>281172792
Cute Yayoi!

>>281172709
Oreo hair seems bored, like he's been through this before.

>>281172674
damn cool panel

>>281172760
Good double pun.
Yomotsu here is written with the kanji for "world" and "demise", but it also appears in "Yomotsukuni", another name for the underworld.

>>281173923
Surely there are some divine consequences to bringing a deity into the underworld.

>>281175335
nah

>>281171897
>S tunnel ghost
my mvp still got it

No TL yet?

Like I said before, I've started back up on translating the chapter. It's a passable translation, I guess.

>>281171133
We done here, yeah?
I'll determine it with my own eyes.
*step*
[The exorcist among exorcists targets Yayoi...]
Whether "Girl A" has some use or is nothing more than a threat.
*rattle*...
*slam*
......
Uh... we were going to enter the main topic after confirming with everybody, but...

>>281171175
...Leave him.
All it means is he has no right to complain about our decision, so let's proceed.
Then...
regarding our countermeasures against the "second force",
composed of evil spirits taking individual action across the country,
and the "third force" of the Replaced, few but conspiring with each other...
The evil spirits're becoming more active everywhere, but...
since they've no organization, dealing with them's a matter of time.
But those Replaced freaks...
If Taneko Oota intervened and took command of the evil spirits...
we wouldn't have enough human resources to push them back... I suppose.
We should split our forces to deal with them both.
If there are no objections, my clan (it's strange that they specified house/family here) will deal with the Replaced...
Accordingly, I ask each region to send personnel to South Kantou.

>>281171210

Fine by me.
Regions other than Kantou'll focus on the evil spirits.
Best course of action'd be to strike down the most dangerous spirits within our respective bounds.
Deployment and personnel should be decided by each region.
*slip*
May I raise another item?
What is it?
We received a transmission from the supervisor of the Chuubu region, who is absent for this meeting.
The "Maximum Alert Evil Spirit"...
*flutter*
"Tein"
is heading towards Kantou from Nagano... so it says.

>>281171254
It seems he is currently monitoring the situation.
"Tein", you say...?
A bad one's on the move, huh.
......
I'm not sure if there's a connection or not, but...
we spotted numerous individuals suspected to be Replaced this past week,
we let them roam freely to smoke out their objective, and...
they appeared to be setting ritual implements in a circle around the Imperial Palace for some reason.
We couldn't determine if it was for a boundary, summoning circle, or curse formation, but...
it definitely wasn't for anything good.

>>281171325
It may just be speculation... still, they might be drawing that thing in...
Nevertheless, we mustn't allow the Replaced and "Tein" to join forces.
"Tein's" moving towards Kantou and the Replaced's foreboding actions...
It's becoming more and more apparent that we need to be quick about it...
Things're startin' to smell fishy... We oughta be alert around that bunch, too...
We've wrapped up the general state of affairs and countermeasures, but... our first topic,
"Girl A", what do we do about her?
It'd be trouble if we left her alone.
Although that dumbass Ooboshi did get ahead of us.
Shami and Jougan seem to want to win her over to our side, but...
unless over half of us are in support, the others won't accept it.
I wanna fight her... hahaha.
......

>>281171395
Uhm...
Let's suppose "Girl A" got won over by the Replaced first,
wouldn't that be more worrisome?
!...
Even though her actions caused problems, she's not a ghost, she's human.
A kid, too. She probably makes mistakes from acting based on emotion... *Not that I'm one to talk about that.*
Don't you think getting a respectable adult to look after her probably cause her to settle down rather quickly?
For starters, I'm not a fan of going in guns blazing...
Agreed.
...Yeah, you got a good point there, boy.
5 in agreement... and the rest?

>>281171467
Kidnap her.
Lock her up.
Erase her.
No mercy, huh...
Five in, five out... which means,
it comes down to Ooboshi...
I pray from the bottom of my heart he'll just get rid of her.
May 14th, the day after the Houdzuki family grave visit...
Here we go... done.

>>281171515
Wow... what is this?
*What a crazy setup...*
The Graduate House we went to yesterday...
I predicted the Replaced would come, so I installed secret cameras.
Eh...
Let's check the video.
Okay! Preparation's done... I'm doing it.
...All right.
*tak*
*vween*

>>281171543
...Who or what took the right arm fetich...
show us your face...
*gulp*...
*roll*
!
Stop the fast forward!

>>281171570
*slug*
...
......
...What...
A human...?
No...
More importantly,

>>281171621
...Any changes in the entrance and backdoor cameras?
......None...
I... think......
Wh...where did it come from...?
......
So this is the culprit...
No matter how much I searched, I never found Kuubou...
But a group connected to it are now within my reach...
I've finally grasped a lead...

>>281171652
We know its face...
I placed a tracker in the fetich as well.
Let's go after it and take information on Kuubou by force.
*gulp*...
......
I feel like... things are getting disturbing quickly...?
Maybe we should contact Shami-san first...
Yeah.
Our battle with Kuubou...
is surely drawing near...
......
There's one thing that bothers me about this piece of Kuubou we collected from the aftermath of its battle with the god...
?
The next morning... it abruptly, for some reason,
transformed into a white, umbilical-cord-looking thing...

And that's where I stopped for now. There's so much text, I kinda get why you'd want to use an AI to ease the workload. I'll continue translating in a while, though.

>>281178724
Appreciate ya, anon.

>>281171746
What this phenomenon indicates...
is that...
......
If...
this has a link with Kuubou's main body...
This change implies
that "Kuubou evolved akin to a Graduate"...
doesn't it...?
...After it transformed, it became white,
does that remind you of anything?
!...
Remind me...?
What could...
*flash*

(pic related)
A god...
Yeah.
It shares this characteristic with beings on par with gods...
It's highly likely it ate a God-class spirit...
......
In that case...
I should consider its fighting strength to be very high...
In order to catch the Replaced and hunt down Kuubou,
we must collect the Graduates I spoke of earlier
while gathering ghosts across Tokyo's various haunted spots.

>>281171897

Our current fighting forces, adding those recuperating and those expected to be collected-slash-captured, are like this...
[Sergeant - May be able to fight soon
Soul - May be able to fight soon
Black Asura - Recuperating
Oiran - Recuperating
Bleached Head - Recuperating
High Priest - Recuperating
Self-slitted Child - Recuperating
Taisai - Recuperating
Class 1 Graduate - Awaiting collection
Class 0 Graduate - Awaiting collection
Marbas's Ring - Can fight
Kishibojin's Finger - Can fight
S Tunnel Ghost - Can fight
F Park Ghost - Recuperating
T Tunnel Ghost - Recuperating
A Dam Ghost - Recuperating
Old K Tunnel Ghost - Awaiting capture
D Temple Ruins Ghost - Awaiting capture
Z Cemetery Ghost - Awaiting capture
S Park Ghost - Awaiting capture
K Bridge Ghost - Awaiting capture
Class 3 Graduate - Awaiting collection
Transcendent Jizou - Awaiting collection]

Continuing from last post.

Our expected fighting forces seem plenty...
In fact, it seems excessive...
my estimates' dodginess was made clear in our fight with the god...
It's better to not put much trust on them...
Don... don't say that...
Although, I don't think we'd have had as much trouble if we gathered more power when we fought him.
I've never seen such an incredibly dangerous god before.
After all, it once overwhelmed Kuubou without even trying.
But I have no idea how long it'll take to restore its extreme strength...
Adding him to our battle plan is too risky.
*You got a point there...*
...

(pic related)
...Speaking of being careful,
there's another thing on my mind.
From here on, I'll capture any Replaced that attack us...
and then put them all in a kodoku jar and throw the result at Kuubou.
Let them themselves put an end to this mess...

>>281178660
Thanks

>>281172289
......
Jesus Christ...
......
No... to Yayoi-chan, this might be poetic justice...
It might be excessive, but... considering the battle in Kyoto,
there's no such thing as overprepared.
Our current goals are the collection of Graduate equivalents and the capture of super-dangerous haunted locations.
By seizing and kodoku'ing the Replaced... we may strengthen our forces.
That said... we've got no car, so our range of motion has shrunk down...
I think we should wait to buy a car while doing what we can in close-by places...
I'm still in my school break... it's frustrating doing nothing all day...
*What timing...*
*You chose what car you want?*
*An urban, compact car.*
Still, it'd be bad news if we stopped going to college now...
True...
*brrrrrrrrrr*
Hm...?

>>281172322
It's from my family...
Hello? Dad?
Mh-hm.
Mh-hm...
Eh?
Gramps... passed away...?
!...
*ding*
......
I have to go back for the funeral...
......

>>281172353
Then I'll go with you, Ai.
Back to Kyoto.
......
Li'l Senpai...
Yeah...
Thank you...
[Tokyo Station]
......

>>281172442
The Shinkansen was on break after the fight between the god and Kuubou,
but I guess it was restored at last yesterday.
Who could've imagined we'd be going back right after leaving...
......
Immediately after I came back, Gramps...
Big Bro Eigen's still missing too...
I... brought misfortune again, didn't I...?
There's no saving me, is there...?
*yank*
No spirit's possessing you anymore, Ai.
If there's any karma following you, it's your ancestors' fault... not yours.
You don't need to hold back.
Li'l Senpai...

ANOTHER FUCKING PAGE THEY MISSED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Three days later
May 17th, Tokyo Station
The funeral... went without issue, I'm glad.
I'm sure Ai's presence stopping anything bad from happening.
Yeah!
...?
Without issue...?
Eiko said she wanted this car.
*jump* *jump*
*Master---!*

Thanks for uploading the pages. I was busy and couldn't do it right away.

>>281171210
>>281178660
Tein looks awesome.
>>281171467
>>281171515
I wonder if this is Kondo stealth flexing his own setup.
>>281179685
I thought for sure that gramps was going to jump Yayoi and Ai but I guess they made it through no problem.

>>281179685
Christ, how many pages did they miss? They aren't usually this sloppy.

>>281172494
Still, the funeral... I thought it was gonna be something more...
but thanks to that, the atmosphere wasn't so tense......
*Thank goodness*
There's not much time left until the Shinkansen leaves, let's hurry.
Ah! Hold on~.
Hey... hey, are you okay...?
Ugh...
I... I think I got food poisoning...
Bleeegh...
Ah... my new suit...!
Wah...
*spin*
Uh... gotta hurry...
*step*

>>281172528
!...
This presence... no doubt,
it's Taisai...
......
That kid's "Girl A", huh...
......
?...
......
...I'm being watched, huh...

>>281172553
In this situation,
it might be useful to see "Girl A's" power, though...
Phew,
we made it in time!
We even bought souvenirs!
A station bento... I'm so excited...!
......

>>281172586
*vrrrrrrrrrrr*
*wobble*
*fsshhh*
Phew...
Ah... that was close...
*huff*
Oop...
*shiver*
*clank*
*thunk*
Bleh

(pic related)
*ooze*

>>281172612
*pool*
*drip-drip-drip*
*squelch-ch-ch-ch*
*ch-ch-ch-ch*
*squish*

>>281172647
*vooooooom*
*splash*
*thunk* *thunk*
*flash*
A tunnel, huh...
It's boring when I can't see the scenery...
*slurrrp*
*vooooooom*
*flash*

>>281172674

>>281172709
?
What's wrong, Ai...?
......!
Eh?
Eh...?
...
*flop*
*silence*
......
*crrrrreek*

>>281172760
[Yomotsu
World's End]
It's already started...
Now... how'll you respond?
"Girl A"...
[Shaken up by the evil spirit express...]
[Dark Gathering continues in October]

Done.

>>281179898
Hm...is she doing this on purpose or is she just an unfortunate victim?

>>281180071
I thought she was the mountain ascetic for a moment lmao, but I guess victim? I have no idea what the ghost needed to do all that for, though.

>>281180045
Thank you

>>281180071
I don't think it was on purpose but she was definitely possessed, it could be that the requirements for the curse to activate is the act of being in a liminal space or transitionary period. The station itself wasn't enough to force the curse so she just ended up vomiting for real.
Took a look at the area around the Tokyo station and the tunnels and fields are quite a ways away so she spent some time just dry heaving at the entrance until she could activate the curse.

NEW SEASON WHEN???

>>281181244
I thought this issue with the poll results would be a good place for an annoucment, but not yet...I've been wondering though. I know they are two different series, but Blue Exorcist runs in Jump SQ as well. It took a while for it to get more than one season and I wonder if Dark Gathering will follow the same trajectory?

>>281167669
>number 1 spot
I kneel...

>>281167669
>>281172792
kek she's heads and shoulders above second place. I'm very surprised Keitarou is so low tho, how the hell does the main audience insert lose to high priest?
Also does it say anywhere what place Dorothy got?

>>281183453
Neat
>>281184581
Tbf, Keitaro has not done much lately. He needs something to help with that

>>281184581
Keitarou got his moments stolen by Seimei. It's a shame he doesn't really appeal to anyone.
He doesn't really contribute much to fights since Zenki and Goki aren't actually his and he is usually the damsel in distress. Him being in a relationship with Eiko also turns fujos off.
The bulk of DG fanart is really just Sarge, Asura, Yayoi. Keitaro barely appears. Hell, I'd even wager there's more High Priest or Shuten art than Eiko and Keitaro combined, they are that unpopular despite the former coming in fifth.

>>281171210
Is Tein a reference to Princess Mononoke?

>>281171254
>They placed ritual implements/cursed objects around the Imperial Palace in the week before.

Why doesn't the Japanese emperor notice all the battles taking place in his country, even when the battle is happening in the same neighborhood as his imperial palace?

>>281167669
>Child is third
Nice

>>281185330
Probably because the country is still running. We know the police and probably the government is corrupt but what's new? Japan is still around and the populace is none the wiser, all is right in the country.

>>281184581
Can't say I'm upset since best boy Asura came in second.

So where is S2? I started reading the manga but stopped when it got to stuff the anime hadn't covered... I thought S2 would be announced by then but its been well over a year now.

>>281185857
Yayoi's VA too busy voicing Puniru s2.
HanaKana too busy doing Fate/Strange Fake
Keitarou VA too busy voicing Sakamoto Days

TYPESETTING
WHEN

>>281167653 (OP)
>Nue, Dark Gathering, Junji Ito, Parasyte, & Ura Baito all with threads right now
Aw yeah.
LET'S GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>281169031
>Marbas took top place as spookiest arc
Nice.

>>281171210
>Kuubo
>Shuten Doji
>Marbas
>Tai Sui
>now Tein
Just how many eldritch abominations are wandering around in this setting?

>>281171310
Season 2 soon. But it's better to start reading so you're prepared.

>>281184925
I find it weirder that Samurai Emperor got only 7th.
Yayoi getting 1st was expected but... the rest feels almost random to me.

>>281171570
This one isn't even bothering to keep a human appearance huh.

>>281171897
>only Sergeant and Spirit are in a decent fighting state
>the ones prepared to fight are a shatter, Hariti's finger or Marbas who cannot be trusted
>everyone else is out of the fight
Tai Sui fucking guttered their war potential.

>>281171210
Who is this Tein? I don't recall ever heard of him. Is he a god, a yokai, a ghost, a demon, or something else...?

>>281172674
WLECOME TO HELL

>>281172760
Thanks anon.

>>281178660
Thanks TLbro.

>>281180071
Most likely the latter - it seems it hitched a ride on her until it could find a good spot to activate its curse.

>>281186977
He's either original or it's like Tai Sui and using the name of a mostly obscure deity/demon.

>>281187031
I found out, even if the spelling is a bit different
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennin
But especially considering the cap full of feathers, seems like it is a reference to it.

>>281187059
>Tennin (天人; lit. "Heaven(ly) Person"), which may include Tenshi (天使; lit. "Heaven(ly) Messenger"), Ten no-Tsukai (天の使い; lit. "Messenger(s) of Heaven"), Hiten (飛天; lit. "Flying Heaven") and the specifically female version, the Tennyo (天女; lit. "Heaven(ly) Woman/Women"), are a divine kind of spiritual beings found in Japanese Buddhism, the equivalent of angels. They were seemingly imported from Chinese Buddhism, which was itself influenced by the concepts of heavenly beings found in Indian Buddhism and Chinese Taoism.
>They originated in Hinduism as "Apsara" (Sanskrit: अप्सरा, romanized: apsaras or apsarā); a member of a class of celestial beings in Hindu and Buddhist culture. They are originally a type of female spirit of the clouds and waters, who later plays the role of a "nymph" or "fairy". They figure prominently in the sculpture, dance, literature and painting of many Indian and Southeast Asian cultures. See also Devi, Deva (Hinduism) (a divine being or god in Hinduism), Deva (Buddhism) (a higher being in Buddhism) and Deva (Jainism) (a term used for heavenly beings in Jainism).

>The apsaras are described to be beautiful, youthful and elegant, and are said to be able to change their shape at will; making anyone fall for their beauty. There are two types of apsaras—laukika (worldly) and daivika (divine). They are great in the art of dancing, and often wives of the gandharvas, the court musicians of Indra. The apsaras reside in the palaces of the gods and entertain them by dancing to the music made by the Gandharvas. The 26 apsaras of Indra's court are each said to symbolise a different facet of the performing arts, drawing comparisons to the Muses of ancient Greece. They are also renowned for seducing rishis in order to prevent them from attaining divine powers. Urvashi, Menaka, Rambha, Tilottama and Ghritachi are the most famous among the apsaras.

It's a bit odd that such a being would be evil.

>>281187275
>It's a bit odd that such a being would be evil.
bruh. every nippon anime tried to make christianity evil, or space aliens.

>>281184925
I expected Eiko and Oiran to be higher.

>>281171210
Honestly, it reminds me of the thing Hao uses at the end of Shaman King a bit.

What's the chance that this will get another season? I miss Yayoi.

>>281187059
>>281187275
>>281187493
It's most likely just hammering in the fact that there is no difference between a god and a demon in this world beyond morality.

>>281186971
He's gonna have to deal with it now, considering he and S Tunnel are the only ones Yayoi brought during her trip

>>281189117
S Tunnel is NOT contributing in a fight against a ghost that can warp dimensions. I'm sorry, but she's less than fucking useless here.

>>281167669
Chad Ashura Of Lumbar Lunar

>>281179051
pretty much everyone is weakened lol

>>281189531
>warp dimensions
Funny you should say that, S-chans hair has the same ability.

>>281190098
Only on the small scale - not to the point of transporting an entire train to either the literal end of reality, another universe, or what might very well be a hell dimension. I refuse to believe S-chan will ever be made relevant, no matter the thematic parallels.

>>281187749
The great spirits?

>>281187275
Seeing how it uses different word i believe the author made a different version sorta of a warped version of whats supposed to be divine

>>281190098
Really not on the same scale here. The sign at the end is Yomotsu, also known as the boundary between Yomi, the afterlife, and the world of the living, so whatever that did this just sent an entire train into purgatory. That's at least graduate class if we use the closest comparison, Great Priest, who can send souls to hell

>>281190180
Even High Priest couldn't really pull this off. He could send the passengers individually straight to Hell, but not the train itself. Priest has exponentially increasing range via his cursed sutra spreading, but he doesn't have the SCALE needed for something like this. This is, at minimum, above a Graduate class ghost.

Yayoi is gonna have to get creative with her available forces regardless. Oobashi is content to just sit back and observe for now.

New anime season when?

>>281190691
Soonish.

>>281191502
Based

>>281169031
Marbas was really spooky. The reveal that foreign demons are an actual thing in universe was also a great reveal.

Got bored and decided to look up what pun Ooboshi's name might've been based on. It’s pretty simple. Ooboshi could be read two ways: pronunciation-wise, it would mean something like "archmonk", but kanji-wise, it means something like "one who protects", which matches his name: Mamoru, which, despite being written with the kanji for hollyhock, is also a homophone for the verb "to protect".
Tsukimono kid's name, btw, is Seishirou (conquering lion boy) Toba (ten offerings of food to the gods).

>>281172868
That one is probably the most fucked up one based on possible casualties if you think about it.
It's in the most traveled area we've seen so far. You're driving in your car at speed limit, and then boom! Instant stroke, car crash possibly car pile-up. No way you could've known or prevented this.

>>281192959
Good points, but someone had to job to the shikigami first.

>>281192770
Interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisaragi_Station

The urban legend this arc is gonna focus on is probably based on this, considering the other ghosts use haunted locations with urban legends online

>>281193579
Otherworldly train stations are a popular genre of internet urban legend. I remember one that sent you to the moon.

>>281192959
You really have to wonder just how many of these ghosts actually have absurdly high kill counts that barely anyone knows about.

>>281194659
It makes me wonder what kind of superpowered ghosts there must be that other exorcists are so much more worried about that they let these guys continue existing.

>>281195516
Probably more things like Tein roaming about than we would like think

>>281193417
They looked freaky but they weren't even graduates.

>>281195955
Tein definitely isn't the only one of his kind - they mentioned a bunch of god-level spirits who would be on the move following the fall of Tai Sui last chapter.

>>281202882
Mhm. The thing about power vacuums is that they want to be filled.

>>281167653 (OP)
>>281186833
BAITO

Where typeset

>>281203570
Nani?!

Is Yayoi turning more emotionless as time goes by?

>>281205721
That's the face she makes when she feels especially murderous, like the time Tai Sui splattered blood on her family photo or seeing the Shinigami around the hospitals haunting her mentor

>>281204527
it's been out for hours

>>281206718
And it's still being translated by AI. It completely missed the metaphorical nature of the verb "to let swim".
There were some other mistakes too, although I also noticed some on my end.
Hopefully someone can dump it in my place.

>>281205721
Honestly, she's just in dire need of lesbian sex correction.

YOU BLEW IT

>>281206911
as long this isthe worst kind of mistake i'm fine with it since i can still grasp the meaning

>>281207165
Literally negative effort, fucking default adobe font myriad pro would've been a better.

I'll start the dump...even though...haa, when did he start using AI to translate? After the Tai Sui fight? I'm so disappointed...

Big Boy

>>281207331
I really hope Koorosu man dies first

Good head on this kid's shoulders.

>>281206911
yeah sadly the scans have been getting worse and worse

>>281207299
What happened in this page for there to be so many spelling mistakes?

>>281207392
I got no clue. Bastard is being lazy and is barely editing it now. Son of a bitch.

>>281207392
when you have a garbage prompt sometimes the AI will just crunch the entire speech of characters for some reason,usually happened with GPT i don't see it much with the newer stuff

'ello

>>281207331
Interesting how not all of the exorcists present know what Tein is.

Good idea. Piece of shit Replaced.

>>281207595
They probably only care about their own areas mostly.

>>281207374
That kid talks like an old man.

>>281207649
He spoke much more casually in the original.

Poor Ai...

Surprisingly that nothing bad happened at the funeral. Guess oji-san wants to attack them elsewhere.

Uh oh

>>281207745
Still funny that his outfit stands out so much

Gonna hurl-

The hell did you e-wtf

>>281207773
Does he?
>>281207274
If I saw that, I would just think he's just some cosplayer. I've seen weirder fits from the local crackheads.

>>281207392
Laziness.

Ah shit

>>281207474
Spooky little guy.

Yayoi, this is, what, the 2nd or 3rd time you've been transported to an alternate dimension or world?

And with this badly typeset sign, that's the end of the chapter.

>>281207565
>Marbas is one of the only ones rearing to go
Yayoi should put that fucking thing in a concrete bunker somewhere. It is 100% using any ghost she takes out with it as a sacrifice to reconstruct its Baphomet form.

>>281207953
I'm going to sperg out on why translating Yomotsu as Hell is a terrible choice.
1 - You can clearly see the kanji below read "World's End".
2 - The author clearly wanted to make a pun here, skipping it is just lazy.
3- Yomotsu refers to Yomotsukuni, another name for Yomi, the Shinto underworld, which doesn't really fit our perception of Hell. Hades might've worked.
4 - It clearly isn't Hell because it's a pocket dimension or something.
5 - I don't like it because it's not as cool as "World's End".

>>281207960
I hope we get to see its true form someday (God willing, this fight)

>>281207597
Total Replaced Death.

>>281207719
He's probably busy gathering strength still. Since he knows Yayoi took down Tai Sui's bunrei, which would mean even with his powerboost, he's nowhere near the level needed to reliably take her on.

>>281207847
Will she be ok.

>>281208058
Who knows? Hopefully she isn't linked to whatever she threw up, so she doesn't just die once Yayoi and/or Oobashi resolves things.

>>281207565
Yayoi clearly doesn't trust Nagiko did her job properly(either due to her being replaced or just thinking she's incompetent)considering in chapter 26 she saw her performing a exorcism at Z cemetery yet it's still a target here

>>281207960
I don't think we've seen the ring since the Taisui fight but Yayoi really needs to put the same restraints she put on Taisui on Marbas.
I'm going to chalk it up to Eastern biases since Keitarou and Eiko don't seem that worried that there is a demon of the Ars Goetia within arms reach. Or the fact that there isn't a way of preventing it from backstabbing them since the standard substitute system isn't in effect.
>>281207597
Yayoi, I'm gonna keep it real with you. This is a phenomenally retarded idea.
Powering up the Replaced and then throwing them at Kuubou can result in two things.
Either Kuubou beats them and then absorbs them to power up.
Or
They beat Kuubou and then eat him to power up.
Kuubou is part of their plan. Yayoi, cruel as you can be, you can't force them to fight. They can very easily just choose to let Kuubou eat them without fighting it.

>>281208232
It is also possible a different spirit moved in and Yayoi wants to be sure if it is completely empty or not.

>>281208232
Namiko did say Shami had no talent and that she probably did some scam exorcist jobs on TV before making her way to K tunnel to get possessed because she believed in her hype a little too hard.

>>281208369
You assume that she will treat them as the usual fodder. Who's to say she won't take a page out of Marbas's playbook and force their motor functions to attack Kuubo, whether they want too or not?

>>281207597
TOTAL REPLACED DEATH

>>281208383
Considering the author likes to use the real life online rumors whenever they visit a place(even if the rumors are proven false or misleading in-universe), he wouldn't be able to do that if the spirit was a new one

>>281209275
Whilst Kondo does like to do that, he's also entirely willing to add things that have nothing to do with the original rumor as shown by several locations they've gone to. It's entirely possible the threat was some other type of spirit, but something even more dangerous is either pulling the strings or hiding in the area.

>>281207474
I just recall that Eiko lost her spiritual vision she got from Seimei in chapter 66 when she and Keitarou were unable to see Ai's aunt(ghosts tend to be invisible to everyone besides Yayoi unless they want to show themselves), which is probably why she asked if this thing is human rather than just assume it's a ghost with a weird shape like the rest

>>281171467
>>281207406
Damn I knew this ghost CIA would be antagonistic but three of them just outright want her dead asap. I'm really curious how Yayoi is gonna handle living human foes like this, I assume she wouldn't hesitate to kill them if they strike first and she thinks she would get away with it.
>>281171941
I would fucking kill for a chapter about the ojou-sama owl mask girl keeping Yayoi "contained". She strikes me as the type of person who would go all out with a personalized cell and custom-made restraints imported from Germany.

>>281211038
Wait, so because Eiko can see the ghost, she's making the assumption it could be human.
Doesn't that mean that ghost is pulling a funny one and purposely making itself known because it knows theres a camera?

>>281211123
I mean, anyone fighting them would probably have guessed they were ghosts replacing people, so beyond trolling them, I think it's doing this to hide their true face to avoid being identified

>>281211123
As in, as it's inhabiting a human body, it can't make itself invisible, but it has the ability to manipulate its human form to look like a monster, which would also be the first ghost I think that can use it's ability while possessing a human, unless there's an exorcist skill that includes inflating your head like a balloon

>>281211289
It wasn't caught on cams near the doors when entering or exiting so either it can make itself invisible and phased through the walls along with the arm or it broke in via the windows.

>>281211332
Well, this was their house where they experimented on creating Angel-sama, maybe they have some spell that allows them to enter from somewhere without cameras

>>281211063
The others are also making a pretty lofty assumption that she'll "calm down" once a responsible adult comes into the scene, which is very wrong. Yayoi isn't going to give up chasing Kuubo down and the Replaced are now targeting the people she cares about - she's not going to stop until all are wiped out. If anything, she's going to be even more pissed that tge exorcists are making demands of her when, from her perspective, they haven't done jackshit about any of the literal demons running amuck throughout the nation.

>>281211332
I assume it simply phased in through the walls like a fucking spook.

>>281212311
I think Yayoi would find Yayoi detestable. After all, she's the one cooking WMDs in her room and bringing them to school.
>they haven't done jackshit about any of the literal demons running amuck throughout the nation
The monks did seal Marbas and were going to finish the job and Oswald, even as a Replaced, did exorcism duties. It's probably a case where they are stretched too thin and only tackle problems that are immediate hazards to human life. Noticeably haunted spots are generally outside of their concern since the public don't interact with it and anyone that does die was just asking for it. The monks of course were perfectly fine with watching Yayoi, Eiko, and Keitarou die which leads me to believe that the exorcist community are perfectly fine with occult freaks throwing themselves into the supernatural blender since it also covers up the fact that ghosts exist.
Tamamura mentioned that the Grandma spirit never got exorcised because she was too strong. I'm also betting that the number of casualties wasn't high enough for the, as of yet to be seen, jobber squad to actually come in and deal with. Or maybe sending in someone strong might've been seen as an offense to Taisui.

>>281207374
Look at his fingernails. Kinda long. He sure can defend himself.

>>281213120
Uh, Yayoi has called herself a demon a few times already. She knows what she does isn't good, but it's the only way for her to avenge her parents and to let her Mom rest.

>>281213120
There's also the fact that the average exorcist are those guys that failed to exorcize the eye stealing nurse at Yayoi's hospital

Namiko said her sister Nagiko had no talent, but the ghost using her body said it was good and managed to exorcize a cursed knife that the other monk said many couldn't exorcize

>>281186833
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSTO!

>>281184925
I still think Cooltarou is cooler than the current Keitarou. If they had Cooltarou instead I wonder if he would've been more popular.

>>281206911
I thought this was perfect. I know of the metaphor, so when I saw this, I thought it was a good balance of knowing the metaphor and being introduced to it.

>>281214154
Pitch me your Cooltarou idea.

>>281214647
It's not my ideal, but it is the original Keitarou. From the prototype/pre-serial. Cooltarou still has the "this ghost stuff is dangerous; we shouldn't do this" facade, but he seems much less cowardly and more stern than serial Keitarou. Cooltarou seems more like an adult/university student, whereas Keitarou feels closer to high school I guess?

>>281207847
Hot

>>281214831
i bet the decision of making him cowardly was an editor choice,i also think having the cooler keitarou would be better

>>281207719
>>281207774
>only has lolicon god and S tunnel with her
surely this will get tunnel-chan to evolve and get a proper name.
well that or this ends like a postgame pokemon battle were you just wipe out your new legendary and insta win.

>>281214831
5 pages in and one shot Keitarou is already indistinguishable from the Keitarou we know and didn't vote for

>>281214831
Not my idea*

In this moment Cooltarou is reprimanding Yayoi for the dangerous thing she did. He seems more confident in what he says, whereas I feel Keitarou would have a bit of a "oh no should I really say this" kinda feel to him.

>>281214847
Right; I don't blame this change on the author. This was possibly done due to the intended demographic.
If you think about it though, imagine how much darker and cooler this manga would be if the author didn't have to hold back? This series is marked as shounen, so I assume they're holding back a lot of more intense things, and more adult-male relatable situations.

>>281214881
One BIG difference between Yayoi and one shot Yayoi

>>281214881
where you are reading it?

>>281214867
Yayoi isn't using lolicon god , i doubt she is counting on him unless a god spirit shows uup

>>281214906
Where did her cool shoes go?

>>281214881
Nah, I think this reaction is reasonable. He senses something really bad there. More importantly, his reaction isn't over the top. He didn't scream nor back-off. He broke into a cold sweat, but stood his ground. On top of that, on the next page he even tries to protect Yayoi by quickly telling her to drop the doll.
>>281214924
You can find it on comick. Ch 51.5

>>281214924
The one shot raws were pinned on Kondo's twitter.
https://x.com/2koin1echd/status/1274145474765713408
For some reason, Kredim's version is lower image quality.
>>281214968
No wearing outside shoes indoors.

Here is hoping Keitarou has a better showing after this adventure with Ai and Yayoi. Though the funeral did take 3 days. Maybe now is time for the date with Eiko?

>>281207937
author didnt waste any time throwing Ai into ghost stuff unrelated to her original crazy situation uh? she's even getting her own solo arc alongside our MC, welcome to the group Ai
was expecting her to just be an awkward 4th weel

>>281214900
>if the author didn't have to hold back
We'd probably get more jokes like this too, or even see the underwear. Eiko and Cooltarou's relationship would probably have more scenes or development to it as well.

>>281215040
>red panties when she mostly using purple and dark
what a messy fashion sense baka.
Also i never understand the "intended audience" thing since there is some stuff that should've never have show up like Asura plotline is extremely heavy,having panties jokes and some other stuff is such a minor thing compared to that.

>>281215027
>Kredim's version is lower image quality
I'm thankful and all since I can't read jap, but you guys even notice how low resolution Kredim's images are? Was there ever an explanation for that? Is it just that the source is like that?

>>281215084
>having panties jokes and some other stuff is such a minor thing compared to that
When it comes to censorship on the youth, I'm pretty sure the public is harsher on sex related stuff than horror and violence.
In Jason's movie, for example, I assume censor-police are more upset about naked girls swimming, than about a serial killer cutting campers in half.

>>281215118
Initial raws are pretty low quality, made doubly worse when the blurry text is so small like in >>281207374 . I'm pretty sure he does go back and reuploads the chapter with higher quality images but the initial speed scans are roooouugh.

>>281215259
>you guys even notice how
ever* notice
>>281215259
I see. Wonder if they do this to hinder piracy or something. It clear that they do have high quality art at least.

>>281214906
The ahoge increases her power

>>281215188
I heard a quote once along the lines of "you can cut a breast, but you can't kiss one" when it comes to censorship.

>>281216908
pretty fucked up desu

>>281216485
This.

>>281216485
What if someone targets it?

>>281216908
Yeah, for me its about pragmatism and individual freedom more so. There can't be a monopoly on the market for ideas when it comes to finance, art or speech and each side of the political spectrum should have the same strict guidelines. Otherwise you give one party in this case the ones who own the press, the complete power over what is allowed speech. You don't want that or you get Shimoneta/Fahrenheit speed run.

>>281171941
>>281211063
Good news, Gathering bros. A buddy of mine asked me for some ideas for bdsm commissions and loved the idea of Yayoi and friends bundled up together. Won't be made for a while because he has to prioritize some other stuff, but I'll post it here when the time comes.

She's gonna look so cute all trussed up.

>>281221659
nice as long she is not crying i want to see a tied up yayoi in heat

>>281214906
the giant ahoge is such a 2000s design, I love it

>>281220598
Then you court death

>>281190691
Not soon enough

>>281220598
They would not survive.

>>281207960
You can't just segregate the jewish one because of your biases.

>>281224957
Kek

>>281183453
Cool Yayoi

Keitaro's harem has joshis from all ages. More series should do this

>>281207937
Did the train stop? Fuck I hate stationary trains.

>>281227133
>Yayoi in middle school
>Ai in high school.
>Eiko in college
>Oiran in the grave
Absolute kino.

>>281227605
My Alpha of Apparitions....

>>281227978
>>Yayoi in middle school
???

>>281169031
Happy to see Marbas at the top. Was really good. Bleached Head's arc had me scared too. Not the tunnel part, but the saving Eiko part. From my computer there's nothing scary, but to be in Yayoi and Keitarou's shoes, and have to willingly walk into this ghost's obvious trap... I might've been too scared.

>>281228006
I couldn't be arsed to double check what grade she's in. I just picked something below high school. (I'm assuming she's below high school).

>>281228102
Alright, I checked anyway since someone pointed it out. She's in elementary school.
We just need a middle schooler now, and this harem will be complete.
Maybe Kubo too so we can have someone pre-born since with have Oiran who's pretty much post-dead.

>>281227978
What about Child

>>281228301
Anon said joshis from all ages, so I assume he meant things like JS, JC, JK and JD. The Oiran and Kubo part was just a joke from me. We're honestly just missing JC (middle schooler).

>>281228216
>We just need a middle schooler now, and this harem will be complete.
Keitarou's little brother?

>>281228438
Are his sisters JCs?

>>281228490
joshi means girl or something if I'm not mistaken. Doesn't he have sisters or something? Or maybe we can just get a new character for it. He still works as a tutor, right? Still more opportunities.

Whenever I read Dark Gathering like this I just keep thinking that Yayoi has some huge beef with the author of Bleach.

>>281228216
Yayoi just turned 9 in story lol

>>281231136
It's still really funny that Yayoi isn't even double digits and she's done all this shit.

>>281231955
I found it somewhat hilarious when this 9 year-old got an origins arc.

>>281232786
We still need to see the god Yayoi beat up. Probably some minor shitter deity.
Thinking about it but 3 graduates are probably enough to beat up Goki and Zenki in their bunrei form individually with careful planning. If your standard god is around that level of strength, it's no wonder Yayoi thought she only needed 6 graduates to take down Taisui.

>>281233505
Maybe we'll get a minor flashback to her first God fight when she picks up the Class 1 Graduate, the samurai, since he was the one if the three during that fight, along Oiran and Sarge.

>>281233505
Yayoi DID mention that Tai Sui was the most powerful god she's ever faced, so whatever god she killed before was definitely not a particularly powerful one.

>>281235130
Pretty sure the fact it was killed by 3 graduates is evidence enough that it's not strong, but it also messed up Yayoi's judgement in guessing a god's strength
>>281233505
I'm assuming the god Yayoi killed was probably around the same level as the Hariti Bunrei Kuubo ate, considering she also said that Hariti needed 6 graduates to capture, which was the same figure she gave Tai Sui initially, based on the idea that 3 graduates could barely kill a god, so 6 is needed for capture

>>281233505
>Thinking about it but 3 graduates are probably enough to beat up Goki and Zenki in their bunrei form individually with careful planning.
Given they got easily manhandled by a newly awakened Shuten Doji, that's probably about right.

>>281231955
Thanks to this guy (https://x.com/bongftah) I've been thinking about a crossover with merciless little girls; little girls that are typically smart and able to get their hands dirty. Preferably protagonist ones, but I'm probably open to others. Yayoi and Tanya were the first to come to mind. Then Mitsuba (from Mitsuba Monogatari).
You guys know of any other little girls that fit this theme?

>>281235669
The talk of the number of graduates feels moot because graduate strength differs so heavily and curses are more conceptual and rock paper scissor-y than anything. It's a bit refreshing because it's not a matter of whose number is higher but also annoying because nearly everyone's ability is just YOU DIE. Asura or Marbas would no diff any amount of Bleached Heads because their abilities are just better at killing. Though I'm scratching my head at who Bleached Head would be best against. Oiran? He could warp her butterflies away and warp out of the puddle prison.

>>281238791
The puddle prison is a bit vague, as it seems to be a mental prison as Tai Sui's body was on the surface leaking energy in the form of oil, but he can also launch attacks inside the puddle and destroyed it, but either way the energy drainage might prevent Bleached head from using his abilities

I would say Great Priest is a poor match up against most of the fast killers like Asura and Bleached head

>>281238681
Kaya-chan, though she's genuinely so young that there's shit that still catches her offguard and nearly gets her killed on occasion.

>>281239838
Would she really fit with this group? I tried reading her manga some time ago but I couldn't get past ch 2.

>>281167669
>these polls
What the hell...?
Am I reading a Shoujo?

>>281240614
I'll bite. Not like the thread's moving much anyway.
What's wrong with the polls?

>>281239981
Shed fit if they were purely fighting spirits, but otherwise, she's nowhere near mature enough outside destroying evil spirits to reliably fit in. Yayoi is about the closest to her in terms of occasional behavior (they both have difficulty expressing themselves) but Yayoi has highly muted emotions and what childishness she displays is fairly limited compared to how dead serious she is 99% of the time. For Kaya, most of her childish behavior us about what you'd expect of a normal kid.

Kaya more or less being a specter inhabiting a human shell might influence things, but I doubt it since she acts almost exactly like a kid her age anyway.

>>281240979
All the Shotas and the soldier, its like peak girl fantasy shit.

>>281241443
They are cool

>>281239981
Kaya-chan is hardcore but she's too young to really understand what's happening around her. She arguably has it worse too for the same reason, and her life is very tragic.

>>281241443
I want to say I don't think any girl would want to fuck Chinese Zeus given what he does to the souls of the women he takes, but I also know that many women on the internet are massive degenerates.

>>281242483
But they are fujobait.

>>281241443
pretty sure most voted for the ones they think is the coolest and not as much on terms of look

>>281242483
Taisui yumejoshi exist, there used to be one with a pink hair oc but now she deleted all her art.

>>281243842
Pretty sure it was this account
https://x.com/LLfenglan

>>281243842
>now she deleted all her art.
The bane of my existance, that's why I try to archive a ton of art for series I like.

>>281243842
Why the fuck do these bitches delete their shit?
Arent they completly anonymous

>>281243842
Wtf. Did someone save the art?

I don't like Eiko

>>281244967
they usually do this because of some tantrum

>>281245262
Did a little browsing, found some
https://space.bilibili.com/3546767561853561?spm_id_from=333.788.upinfo.detail.click

>>281246726
Cute OTP

what REVIVED the hype?

>>281167669
Japan really likes the cannibal shota ghost huh

>>281247434
Me too

>>281247598
He just needed mom's spaghetti

>>281246726
Ah yeah, this one. I remember one particular image of the OC getting her entrails pulled out and she was loving it.

>>281207847
I know this feel exactly on Sunday mornings

>>281248422
Degeneracy knows no bounds.

>>281168536
evil hero

>>281250433
I wonder what haunted coffee tastes like.

>>281233505
To be fair it was probably a bit premature for Yayoi to be talking about "your standard god" with a sample size of like, one.

Reminder that there will be a Halloween marathon stream again this year.

>>281255183
they will announce season 2 that day

S2 when

>>281250433
Spooky Chino...

>>281255462
You get Marbas arc as a mediocre pv for the tankos instead
https://x.com/JUMP_SQ/status/1950823747822252428
Couldn't they have gotten Yayoi's VA in a booth for 5 minutes to record some lines?

>>281167653 (OP)
ghoo?

>>281255462
Any moment now...

>>281168542
gathered monster

>>281255263
Soon!

>>281167653 (OP)
im goin

>>281167669
>eiko that low
wtf? i thought people loved yanderes..

>>281259614
I do like yanderes, but she's higher than I expected her to be. And, tbf, the ones above her are pretty cool in their own right too.

>>281259614
most of the readers who voted were either lolicons or shotacons and Keiko is too old...

>>281259614
She's too crazy even for them.

>>281259741
>>281259901
>>281260264
none of these make anysense... yanderes should rule over there...

>>281167653 (OP)
iku

>>281254991
I could see her getting overconfident.

>>281261194
Apparently not.

>>281261194
It's a different era now.

>>281261194
The age of the yandere is over. Let it go.

>>281255183
Neat.

>>281207565
I wonder when they will return to consider getting the ghost that cursed Keitaro and Eiko.

>>281266101
Oh, right. We know so little about their curse. I'm also kinda interested on when we'll get more details. I also wonder if Eiko knows more about it than what she's revealed to Keitarou.

>>281266101
>>281266795
Given Seimei's reaction to seeing the curse at one point, he probably knows what cursed them or has a good idea.

>>281266101
I'm assuming it will eventually take center stage alongside Kuubo as the big bad. Maybe they'll even merge.

>>281167653 (OP)
>>281186833
>>281203570
>>281213945

>>281167669
>Yayoi #1
As it should be.

>>281271792
The greatest ghost slayer of all time reigning from her throne above the plebs. All is right in the world.

>>281269894
Our hero!

>>281265951
Why is she so creepy.

>>281275790
Don't be rude. Eiko is lovely. In fact, if you were to do a poll of the most liked characters in this manga, she'd probably be in the top 5.

>>281275876
The fear she instills in me is what makes her cute.
>>281275915
In her defense, that ghost just looks like Eiko, rather than being Eiko. Eiko isn't that easy.

>>281275847
Stop posting, Keitarou.

>>281169031
Marbas was indeed the scariest, felt like the good parts of Gantz at moments with an insanely strong boss showing up

>>281277912
That part that said
>Ghosts that no longer walk on two legs mean they have completely lost their humanity
And then one of Marbas' minions walks in. I got chills.

>>281278294
Add on-top of that losing your star player (Yayoi), and witnessing their star player enter the field. Things really start to feel dangerous and worse.

>>281278294
>>281278456
Also want to add finding out that the minions that they were running from weren't even the big cheese and just minions raises the fear and danger even more. It just kept rising and rising in this arc. I feel this arc itself deserves an award or something.

>>281277912
It was around that time that DG started getting popular here since the anime got announced and the most recent chapters were getting dumped cuz of that.

>>281255263
I believe you.

>>281277912
I hope we can get something like that again without it being a rethread.

>>281279199
I still remember how everyone went "OH SHIT" in the thread it appeared.

>>281167669
He deserved better.

>>281169233
everyone sons

>>281169233
Our son.

>>281207406
That desktop PC case is so tall that it nearly breached the height of the dining table

>>281266101
Yayoi's original solution to fixing Keitarou's arm was to capture a Buddhist goddess, who looks after the ghosts of human babies. Does Yayoi believe some baby spirit was the one who cursed Keitarou?

>>281207615
Can't they just rent a car instead of buying a car?

>>281286573
Well, we have Tai Sui now so there's no reason for them to not snip the problem early and just get him to cure the curse.

>>281286671
If ge wants to. If it doesn't involve fighting, he probably isn't interested.

>>281287742
*he

>>281287742
There are ways to compel him.

>>281286592
I never rented a car before but aren't those limited by opening hours? Maybe there's no 24hr ones in their area. Yayoi usually hunt at night

>>281279199
Lots of manga try to up the spook by introducing overtly detailed gore or other conventionally spoopy stuff. For example, another decently popular spoopy manga is Mieruko-chan. And while I admire the monster designs there, I don't particularly find them scary or disturbing.

But there's something about Marbas that gets the uncanny unease perfectly right. If I'm gonna be honest, it's not particularly conventionally scary, but something about it triggers an instinctual "something about this isn't quite right NOPENOPENOPE" inside of me.

>>281286671
Tai Sui would probably be more interested in fighting the originator of the curse than in curing it.

>>281280492
Not very dai Daidai.

>>281289864
Daidai daisuki

>>281289851
Same difference

>>281171210
>Yayoi tries to capture Tein
>it already has a master
Yayoi, meet your husband

>>281280492
The most powerful being reveals itself...

>>281294320
No, don't bring Hao into this.

>>281266101
Yeah when you step back and look at the plot beats in hindsight, it's kinda a mess
>one of the first goals set up is Yayoi promising to cure the hand curse, which hasn't really gone anywhere
>the first 10 or so episodes are making a ragtag army, only for all of them to get one-shot and now they only go for S tiers
>Kubo is set up as the big bad the protags need to prepare to defeat, only to suddenly be replaced with Tai
>oh shit there's a conspiracy of ghost swapping souls with humans for some evil schemes
>>281259614
>>281169175
This is gonna sound like cope, but maybe people figured "eh obviously the main characters will score super high so I'll vote for my favorite ghosts instead"
I dunno, like a few of the most popular ghosts being above Eiko, ok I can understand that. But fucking High Priest and Emperor Spirit scoring higher than Keitaro?

>>281299408
>one of the first goals set up is Yayoi promising to cure the hand curse, which hasn't really gone anywhere
The curse is seemingly divine going by the white aura surrounding Keitarou's hand when Seimei sees him, so it would be suicidal to go after it without a large number of Graduates. And Yayoi just learned via Tai Sui why it's dumb to automatically assume all gods are the same.

>>281299817
I think the story has about hammered it in about four or more times that there is no difference between gods, demons, and sufficiently strong ghosts.
>>281299408
>Kubo is set up as the big bad
Kinda funny now that Yayoi has a piece of Kuubo and chooses to not turn it into a substitute? It's not a bunrei, she could hammer away at that thing and Kuubo would have no choice but to take the damage.
On another note, I think the realism of the characters comes off as a bit of a detriment. I'm talking about the availability. Keitarou and Eiko are college students that just started their year and now are shelved away for the coming arcs. Yayoi had her education conveniently written off to justify her constant ghost explorations. I don't think Ai has been to school since her introduction.
We either need a time skip or a sol-ish chapter like in the early chapters to let some stuff cool down. But I feel like that's not happening for at least half a year since we have to deal with Hell and Exorcist guy.

I wish they showcased more demons, Marbas' fight was interesting.

>>281300080
>I think the story has about hammered it in about four or more times that there is no difference between gods, demons, and sufficiently strong ghosts.
Yes, but this very chapter directly addresses the fact that a white aura = divine. Even Tein displays a purely white body. And that means whatever entity is behind the curse is most likely a god/demon of significant strength, and Yayoi isn't going to go after one of those again without knowing EXACTLY what to expect following the Tai Sui and Marbas encounters.

>Kinda funny now that Yayoi has a piece of Kuubo and chooses to not turn it into a substitute? It's not a bunrei, she could hammer away at that thing and Kuubo would have no choice but to take the damage.
It would probably barely do anything with Kuubo being as powerful as she suspects it is.

>>281299408
I have no doubt they'll revisit some of that stuff and it will be, for lack of a better word, epic.

>>281299408
I think it is messy but also... makes sense? Like how unlikely a initial plan made with incomplete information is unlikely to work if not changed.
The goal of curing the hand curse is still on the to-do list, it's just that they have more pressing issues.
The process of making a rag-tag army initially was a essencial part of Yayoi scalibility plan with the kodoku method.
Kubo being temporarily replaced by Tai was something unexpected, but in terms of lore it served a purpose: it shows how Kubo is evolving as time passess, too. So it makes the goal of Yayoi not just to take time to reunite forces to beat Kubo, but to gather forces faster than Kubo to reach that point.
The ghost conspiracy is more likely linked to the origins of Kubo in the first place.

>>281305191
True that. I never felt like Dark Gathering's plot got off track personally except for Shuten Douji's fight with Seimei, although that did characterize Bleached Head and serve as setup for his evolution. Kubo's always in the peripherals, no matter what.

>>281301076
Same. Hopefully the author is just biding his time with it.

Hopefully Yayoi and co will lose soon

>>281307077
Found a replaced

>>281306877
I think it's the fact DG is monthly. The series is 6 years old now. Christ.

>>281307077
>t. Replaced

brutal mating sex with dorothy while the doll watches

>>281301660
>Yes, but this very chapter directly addresses the fact that a white aura = divine. Even Tein displays a purely white body.


Waiting for the transformation when /ourguy/ go from graduate to Ph.D. and get a proper white aura.

>>281301660
Hariti doesnt have a white aura.

>>281266101
It's probably a god

>>281280492
Imagine if we had crossovers.

>>281300080
>Kinda funny now that Yayoi has a piece of Kuubo and chooses to not turn it into a substitute
It could be that she can't. The reason why ghost substitutes only work is because dolls have a humanoid body shape which lets ghosts possess them. Which then let's the substitute system work.
Unless she can find an umbilical cord doll to shove it into and even then, Yayoi doesn't have an umbilical cord to reflect the damage off of.

>>281311407
I personally don't want to see the DG cast get eaten by a Gray.

I love Yayoi so much bros

>>281309833
She's the odd one out. And even then, eating her allowed Kuubo to attain divinity so I think she still sorta counts.

>>281169398
gats

>>281312767
>>281309833
Probably because she was corrupted by the baby spirits.

>>281312765
She is both cute and cool.

>>281313417
It's true!

>>281313417
A cool beauty.

>>281312735
>implying Grays will do the eating

>>281237092
cute chuuni god enslaver

>>281316224
>Spirit demolishing any Gray who comes near Yayoi
Our greatest hero.

>>281318465
Truly the embodiment of the suffering 1 trillion unborn chinese children

>>281311407
I've been thinking about this

>>281319873
Why's Keitarou sweating?

>>281319260
Kek

>>281261194
yandere always sucked

>>281167653 (OP)
good

>>281321883
Controversial opinion but I mostly agree. I like Eiko though but she's not full on.

Can't believe Yayoi has the same VA as Curren-chan.

>>281324157
Wait, she is? Holy crap

>>281324157
Nani?!

>>281237092
Very cute Yayoi.

>>281324157
I will always consider that voice Yayoi first and foremost.

>>281307551
What? No, that can't be right...

>>281289635
Western Demons are usually way nastier than the (obvious) Eastern ones

>>281167669
why are there so many ghosts so high up what the fuck

>>281332534
AIIIIIIEEEEEE EIKO DON'T LOOK

>>281332788
Ghosts are more exciting

>>281209208
What an unusual cover.

>>281332788
Ghosts are cool yo.

>>281332788
They are very cool.

>>281332788
Well, if there was a poll for Pokemon characters the Pokemon would rank higher than most humans

eiko sexo

>>281340871
Keitarou...

>>281339789
Look at her go!