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Vasilisa the Beautiful
https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1026723

Didn't mean to be late, but I'm a bit busy these days.

>>283024422
Imuri for the love of god

>>283024456
Cute Leah, good chapter

Woah!

Can't outrun your past

Chapter End.
This is Vasilisa the Beautiful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful

>>283024805
>you still have to straddle a man just to survive
what?

>>283024514
Marco should be the new MC of this manga. Priest-kun has failed.

>>283024805
I seriously hope the author isn't going to pretend she has a point.
If anyone changed, it would be Priest-kun FOR Imuri.

>>283024899
Nah, imuri is scared shitless because she agrees.
She keeps relying on someone.

>>283024838
If Imuri fucks over Joshua again this manga is irredeemable

>>283024682
>works things out with imuri
>IMMEDIATELY has to deal with her evil ex (without any powers this time)
Joshbros...

>>283024838
>1 fucking chapter for another woman moment

>>283024805
>it's okay imuri, i don't mind you having sex with a m*n :)
>i'm totally happy that you managed to find the love that you wanted :))
LMAO

>>283024285
well, Imuri is a piece of shit, so it's best she does change

>imuri still being treated as a maiden in distress that did nothing wrong, and its actually wrong a woman to be just a housewive
and i just keep losing hope for this to get better

>apparently the fact Mr. Priest gave up literally everything he knows for her doesn't count for shit
bravo w*men

>>283024805
If anyone is getting fucked over by this arrangement it's Joshua

>>283024838
>IMURI 3:16 SAYS I'M GONNA KEK YOUR ASS

>>283024847
>>283024899
>>283025488
Anons...it's clear that Vasilisa doesn't understand a thing about Imuri's relationship with Joshua and thinks she's just in it because she has to. She's just an angry cuck that's mad Imuri moved on from her, that's all.

>>283024899
The main theme of the manga is that the world is a beautiful place despite its failings.

>>283024285
Woman moment of biblical proportions incoming?
>>283024805
>>283024838
YEP
I'd be down for a Constatine approach, trying to solve paranormal devil events without being Superman Jesus again.
In the meantime, thanks for the dump OP, and fuck witches

>>283025555
>quads
AIEEEEEE JOSHBROS

>>283025210
I don't think she was ever treated like that.
Imuri herself has no illusion that she's a good person.

>>283025772
Imuri belief about herself is irrelevant

the irony here is Josh is the one out of the two who is the victim of sexual assault

>>283025806
Imuri isn’t AS bad of a person as she thinks she is, but I disagree that she’s framed as a “good” person.
I think it might turn out that Imuri actually did hurt Lisa in some way given Imuri’s reaction

>>283024805
AHAHAHHAHAHAHA, the penis envy is palpable
>>283024838
>Josh Pilgrim vs the world

>>283025954
It feels like her burning at the stake was on imuri.

>>283024682
So just to be clear, Vasalisa ISN'T the Baba Yaga. She seems to be one of the tormented souls executed by the church for being a witch. And apparently she has some history with Imuri.

>>283025691
>Two different witches are certified cuckqueens

>>283024838
>Genesis 3:16
>To the woman he said,
>“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.
>Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Pregnancy arc incoming?

>>283024838
I assume that woman is too much of a crazy bitch for FMC to just say
>Sorry, but I actually like ex-priest cock quite a lot, so can you forget about us and kindly fuck off to somewhere else?

>>283026771
you forgot about the part where her ex happens to be an incredibly violent bitch (to noones surprise)while her current partner is a submissive and breedable femboy (so forget about him putting up a fight)

>>283027174
Who is this girl again? I don't remember her at all.

Sex with Verge

>>283026748
I think the more important thing is the last part of the verse. Vasalisa may see Imuri as "chained" to a man (Josh) and wants to "free" her from her relationship with him.
(Which is funny because if anyone's chained here, it's Josh)

>>283027198
Anon, the violent bitch he's talking about is this Vasalisa.

>>283026500
Despite people being baited by the yuri implications, I don't see it. It's at best unrequited love, but Lisa definitely seems like an angry feminist roommate.

It's also clear that Imuri fucked her over. Whether it was on purpose or incidentally for one of her "missions" (she pointed the finger to absolve herself from some suspicion or blame, or Lisa learned too much and had to be taken care of) is still unclear.

A bit disappointed as we JUST finished an arc to save Imuri, but let's see where this goes. Will be interesting to see Imuri get tempted for once as she sees herself as tied to her nature and could probably be convinced to tear it all down - she'd be able to get that missing part of Satan or contribute something close enough to Lilith for the ritual.

>>283027583
Yes and I don't remember her.
Did she appear before?

>>283026673
>the blond woman is a cuckquean
Why is so common in Ekouto?

>>283027641
No, this is her first appearance. She seems to be one of the many souls under the Baba Yaga's care.

>>283027583
he probably confused her with other Imuri's ex, the one that messages her in the extras
>>283027592
>A bit disappointed as we JUST finished an arc to save Imuri
feels a lot like scott pilgrim. now little Josh will have to fight off Imuri's evil exes while regaining his powers!

>>283027691
Why do people automatically think this was Yuri then?

>>283027592
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking as well. It could very well be there were in a relationship, but the short flashback in the beginning made it seem like Imuri saw her as a friend at best.
>>283027730
>vasailsa spends her entire appearance this chapter claiming she's gonna "save" imuri from her "destiny" of having sex with a m*n
It might not be reciprocated, but Vasalisa seems fucking furious that Josh managed to score before her.

Is this manga good

am i retarded and not reading between the lines or is she really Imuri's ex
or is it just a theory

>>283024838
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful
I don't get it. I read it and it seems to had a good ending.

>>283024838
>vasalisa is seething that imuri found love beyond herself
>meanwhile leah is just happy that joshua is doing well
Leahbros...I'm nooticing......

>>283027851
There's not enough to tell if they were actually in a relationship, but Vasalisa certainly seemed to be in love with her.

>>283024838
Who is this woman? After literally fighting with Lucifer himself we supposed to meet literally WHO as the next big thing.
baba uga and vasilasa even connected to Christianity?

>>283027541
There are other verses in the bible that focus specifically on women needing to bend the knee to their husbands than Genesis 3:16. The first part might just hint at where this arc is going

This arc's only just starting and it already feels like it's not working because there's absolutely no way I can ever feel bad for Imuri nor see anything "bad" that happens to her as anything other than exactly what she deserves.

>>283028439
In the context of Ekouto, Baba Yaga was originally a nun who tried to save the tormented souls of those wrongfully executed by the church on the grounds of being a witch. However, the wrath of those souls eventually overwhelmed and consumed her, turning her into the Baba Yaga.
I think the Wrath arc will focus on how the witches feel they're justified in what they do because of what happened to them.

>>283028651
I think Genesis 3:16 was chosen specifically because the whole reason God made women subservient to their husbands was because of Eve first getting tempted by the snake. And considering this is the Wrath arc and Satan is the demon lord of Wrath, the verse might've just been chosen because of its connection to Satan.
Although if you're right, it'll be really funny if Josh manages to knock Imuri up and Vasalisa explodes in a cuck rage

>>283027658
Leah lacks the anger and jealousy to be a true cuckqueen.
She knew she’d only hurt him if she got too close to him (cause she expected she’d die fighting Beelzebub) and just wanted him to be happy.

Char and Lisa though? Absolute cuckqueens.
>Char being completely incapable of taking the hint that Verge doesn’t swing that way
>Lisa full-on denying the reality that Imuri’s actually happy with her boyfriend
Verge is arguably a cuck too since he’s seething Dante chose the priesthood over him. He got cucked by God, you could say.

>>283028725
Funny enough we both can be right because we still don't know what Satan's deal is with his own wife. Maybe he froze her to avoid a Nephilim scenario and has been seething for millennia to find a way to have an normal kid? Or maybe it is Imuri that is going to have a pregnancy scare. Maybe all of the above.

>>283028828
Imuri's the descendant of Satan and Lillith, so they would've had to be able to produce a non-Nephilim baby.

>>283028804
That's true.
Leah needs to have more wrath in her heart for the upcoming arc.

>>283028871
>so they would've had to be able to produce a non-Nephilim baby.
My understanding of Lilith only comes from video games and manga. But wasn't her deal that she was originally human until she transgressed against God and was turned into a demon? If that is anyway accurate to religious texts, this could make some bizarre loophole where an original human like Adam and Lilith were exempt to certain problems like the Nephilim situation compared to the descendants of man.

This could explain why Imuri has no demonic aura, she really is just a human with some minor mutations.

>>283029029
I think her demonic traits come more from Satan than Lillith. She shares his snake-eye pupils and fangs.

>>283028017
"Being straddled to a man" is too vague. Given the time it was in, it could mean something as simple as having to get hitched because supporting yourself, like with your own art, wasn't viable. It could be a case of the rral implication being lost in translation.

Any anons have the JP scans to cross-reference?

I hope we get a church chapter soon, crazy that a new character was introduced and we still know fuck nothing about Barbara

>>283029125
>Any anons have the JP scans to cross-reference?
You can find them on the Shonen Jump + website.

>>283029148
>witches spend so much time bitching about how horrible their lives are and how society is to blame
>meanwhile my fucking heroes go through the most insane shit and just make quips about it
Sasuga

>>283028828
My crack theory
>The reason Satan tempted the other angels was because he fell in love with Lilith and wanted to create a place (Gehenna) where they could be together
>Rebellion happens. Satan and Lilith got together and were happy for a while.
>Eventually their marriage went to shit. Satan blamed Lilith for “making” him fall from grace and grew to hate her.
>Froze her in the depths of Gehenna to make her suffer, and everything he does is out of some warped desire to take revenge on her
>Currently they have a love/hate relationship, leaning way more towards “hate”
The whole question of this arc is “what happens after the happy ending?”
Chapter 101 was Josh’s and Imuri’s “happy ending,” but their story isn’t going to stop there. I think Satan/Lilith are going to be the worst case scenario for their relationship.
Also just from a meta perspective, I doubt Satan is going to be written as a sympathetic character.
>>283028917
I think she’ll be angry at Imuri, but not out of envy. She clearly saw Imuri as a friend, and she has a LOT of trauma about demons luring her into a false sense of trust.

>>283029066
That still calls into question if Lilith was a human or if she only could conceive with Satan after she was cast out from Paradise and made a demon (assuming I have a valid interpretation of her myth).

>>283029196
>The whole question of this arc is “what happens after the happy ending?”
It's starting off well then because the answer is clear. I love that Josh has his whole conspiracy theory board in full effect because despite Imuri wanting to dominate his thoughts so he could be "happy", he can't let go of the obvious world ending elephant in the room.

I'd like if Satan's endgame was a Gog and Magog war scenario.
Basically he gets most of mankind to follow him to battle against God with the unsurprising result that both Satan and his army get nuked into oblivion.
Point being Satan doesn't think he can win (unlike Lucifer), he just wants to drag as many souls down with him as possible even if that needs weaponizing God's wrath against mankind.

>>283029196
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Leah's probably just happy that Josh is (presumably) doing well.
Doesn't seem like it's going to last long, though, with Vaseline trying to fuck things up between Imuri and Josh.

>>283029354
Now that Josh is doing intelligence work, I hope we get a scene where he reunites with Aleksandra and compares notes.
I wonder what Aleksandra would have to say about that considering that's her shtick.

>>283024874
>Next arc is about making Marco fall in love

>>283030074
Should be that braids nun turn to get the spotlight now

>>283030096
As long as we have a new exorcist that can be made to fall in love. Our current MC is already in love and not an exorcist anymore, the title doesn't work anymore!

>>283024838
She's making a big mistake trying to steal Josh's used bicycle. It may be worn out, but it belongs to him!

>>283030137
It's also the final arc, so it's fine.

>>283030158
>he gets his powers back just to pull another Asmodeus-tier beating on the gender studies dyke

>>283030197
It's an in-between arc, pride ended bu we still haven't started wrath and there's still love after that one

>>283029196
>Eventually their marriage went to shit. Satan blamed Lilith for “making” him fall from grace and grew to hate her.
>Froze her in the depths of Gehenna to make her suffer, and everything he does is out of some warped desire to take revenge on her
Not sure I like that. Lilith being frozen is clearly a reference to Dante's depiction of Cocytus as the frozen final layer of hell. In Dante's work this layer was reserved exclusively for traitors like Judas, Cain and Satan himself. I think Lilith's frozen prison is meant to signify that she betrayed Satan somehow.

>>283030361
>I think Lilith's frozen prison is meant to signify that she betrayed Satan somehow.
So what you're saying is that this whole story is Satan's salty runback for being made into a cuck? Bonus points if an exorcist fucked Lilith back in the day.

>>283027849
Yeah it's pretty good, has a lot of Shonen tropes but the story is less meandering. The plot doesn't waste time.

>>283028804
Here I thought I was the only person on the board reading Narco Wars, a shame no one cares enough to dump it weekly (including me)

>>283030533
Narco wars is probably not horny enough to warrant a thread.

>>283030216
Call it now:
El Josh gets his God power back using the power of love and interpretation of the bible that fits his narrative
Adam Angelus taps into his demon lord powers through rage power up and demon lord support

>>283030361
Assuming the nephilim flashback was about Satan then his wife regretted having a baby with him which could count as betraying him

>>283024637
>Joshua's doing all the Baba Yaga research in their bedroom
what the fuck dude

>>283029029
Lilith was the "actual" first woman in medieval jewish mythology. Basically she was intended to be Adam's wife before Eve, but refused to obey him and ran away. God then offered her the choice between returning to Adam or having 100 of her children die every day. She refused again and was whisked away by Satan to become mother of demons and so apparently 100 demons die every day. She got her revenge by cursing the process of childbirth and is explained as the cause for high infant mortality.
The whole thing apparently came from a discrepancy in the text of Genesis which says that on the 6th day God created both man and woman, before the story of God creating Eve from Adam's rib.

>>283030777
Gamble Satan noticed...

>>283024285
Failed woman moment

>>283024838
And nearly everyone dies, how very Russian

>>283027913
Context for the character name and how it's tied to Baba Yaga and the cat familiar

>>283030328
We still have Prudence, Temperance, Justice, Courage, Faith and Hope arcs to get through before the Love arc starts.

>>283031842
We're only doing the sins and love is the worst one

>>283031952
Love will be both the final sin and the final virtue.

>"Saving" your ex from her loving boyfriend
What level of delusion is this?

>>283029615
Despite Beelzebub trauma, I don't think Leah can come to outright hate Imuri otherwise she would've aimed true back in the Bel-dimension. She already accepts that Josh chose her and, worst case, Imuri is just going to keep them out of things.

But if Imuri is going to help the witches out of her own volition, she nor the others necessarily need to intervene past stopping Baba Yaga. Anything else is Josh's problem.

>>283030777
Imuri knew the autism she was moving in with.

>>283030625
Narco Wars only now got it's title plot rolling. There's not much to talk about, but I have hopes.

>>283032357
Literal brain frying by being burned at the stake.

>>283025732
>Constatine
Well he IS in England. Get that boy a trench coat, a pack of fags and a bottle of whiskey
>Josh does pic related in the final battle with Satan
I will buy every volume

>>283024569
Congratulation. You're a normalfag, Josh.

>>283026673
I want a wife witch who doesn't go around like a skank and doesn't participate in orgies. However I'm not uptight. Murder, cannibalism and heresy are fine by me.

>>283028725
Imuri is going to give birth to the antichrist!

>>283030533
>>283028804
its pretty nice, for some reason i have such a major boner on the Hoshino and i don't even know why

>>283033139
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>>283033196
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>>283033244
back to /wsj/ with you

>>283033244
Now do Dante! And Vergil is crying in the back!

>>283024838
Surprise surprise, the Church was right. You can never trust a demon.

>>283033269
>one (1) instance of cuckoldry
>thread is filled with BBC NTR
Anons, we're not surviving Vasalisa's mini-arc...

>>283034053
Probably the weird Evangelical "Christian" guy who comes by every chapter to bitch

>>283034196
No it's the /wsj/ AI cuckspammer
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/282821476/#q282837089

>>283024838
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilisa_the_Beautiful
>This doll is not simple
What the fuck is this, a manhua translation?

>>283034242
Ah another schizo, wonderful

>>283024637
Baking > whores
>>283024805
Give her the burnies

So was the cat Vasilisa the whole time?
I thought it was Baba Yaga but maybe I'm tripping

>>283025237
Its not enough, Mr Priest doesn't have the three sixes that will satisfy demonic whores

>>283035064
eh,this one isn't new asmodeus was a thing for a while

>>283035662
Erm Asmodeus was an evil bisexual
Evil lesbians is new

>>283035710
how do you know the witch isn't just another bisexual? Or that she is romantically into it to begin with, she just sound mad that Imuri found a man tthat can provide her

>>283035935
>"Don't worry my dear imuri i'll save you from the wretched tyranny of cock!!!"
I don't know man, you tell me

>>283036566
she sounded more mad that Imuri found happiness with a guy while she burned at stake than anything

>>283028725
Its apocrypha, but look at the story of lilith.

>god originally makes man and woman equal
>They end up fighting, but they're too equal which becomes a problem
>Lilith curses the world, curses everything, grows wings and becomes a demon and flies off
>god sends three angels to go track her down and see if she'll come back
>Three angels find her and ask her to come back
>She snarls that she'll kill 100 of the children of adam every day, but only infants, and she's become a demon now who fornicates with other demons like Samuel I think
>Angels are like "Well we can't stop you I guess, but if you ever touch a child that bears any of our names upon their body, we will show up and beat the shit out of you" and they leave
>Next time around god decides to make woman weaker than man because power imbalance is actually necessary in order to create proper roles in a relationship.
>Just like god and the church are not equal, man and woman aren't equal, however they both serve each other, and they're meant to protect each other, just because there's imbalance doesn't make it evil. Rather strife can often be created by things being too equal

Then Lilith is used to explain the concept of stillbirth, why children randomly die a few days after being born. If they die then its because of lilith, so people placed the names of angels upon young children so they wouldn't die in their sleep.
Sometimes stories are used to give reason to tragedy

>>283036731
>Your crush fucks a cute priest while you're burning in Hell
grim

>>283024285
I don't see her as a lesbian.

>>283025974
More like Josh Pilgrim Gets It Together since that was the one with the ex girlfriend. Personally I'm glad at least one adaptation explored the "ramona treated it as a phase" thing outside of one off jokes

>>283028652
Is this the manga that had the "talking about a women's weight is basically assault" or something? Anyway, even if you haven't bought into the mangas premise that Imuri is actually a good girl surrounded by assholes or whatever, Josh is still going to get fucked over because of his bitch girlfriends ex.


tangent:
>Josh
Jesus. Well, it's a memorable name.

>>283039320
To be fair, the character who was saying that very clearly carries some personal trauma in regard to her appearance

>>283039320
Well technically it's Joshua. I do appreciate how long and embarrassing the full name is.

>>283040522
I love that we only found out like 2 weeks ago bit everyone just calls him Josh and El Josh now, very endearing.

>Still no arc title drop
Bets on not being Wrath but being something like "Intermission: Baba Yaga/Witches"

>>283041324
It does seem to be about how the witches rage at the world/god so it probably is at least part 1 of the wrath arc.

>>283024838
She's going to force her to cheat on Josh.

>>283024285
Honestly she's right here.

>>283041324
Vasilisa is SEETHING

>>283032357
Josh is gonna die of old age eventually and Imuri's doomed to keep fucking people over, Lisa's not doing anything wrong.

Josh i such a shitty name
At least call him Joshua not fucking JOSH

>>283042993
say that to El Jawsh Spinyback and see how quickly he inserts lame comments into his scans. I dare you.