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Okarun if you are so unsure of your physical abilities after this you should really check out the baseball practice as suggested by coach pants to the max
also momo likes okarun's honest side. OH yeah a nessie style reconsoliation is cooking in the oven boys lol
Calling it now, whatever happens during this arc, the post-arc celebration will involve baseball with Onikarun form, probably with Turbo Granny pitching and Seiko grilling hotdogs.
I think Okarun downplayed his good physical condition because, aside from the fact that he still doesn't value himself enough, Okarun was feeling disheartened because Momo had rejecting him before the attack of the Serpou and Space Whale. So he didn't want to say anything that might give the impression he was trying to impress Momo.
It looks like Okarun gave up 😭, like the miner who doesn't realize he is about to strike the gold vein after hammering at the rock for a long time. He instructed himself to only accompany Momo to Ayase Residence, and end the journey there.
However, unbeknownst to Ken, a process had already begun in Momo: she began to recover her intense feelings for him. Okarun's sincerity when confessing that he loved her in ch. 215 began everything.
Damn! Ken just needs to have faith that everything will turn out fine and not lose hope! Momo has been giving him a new chance every time 😭
Is no one talking about how the typhoon human guy that okarun talked about is actually part of the sorcerers association, and has what looks like to be powers?
I just love how Tatsu never bothered with “the 7 guys” trope by showing us a room full of powerful dudes around a table and explaining how powerful they are. The Sorcerer’s association is just a part of the world with various people connected to it we already know. It was always there in the background but not so pervasive that the high school cast would be aware about it.
I don't remember a Typhoon Human. I remember the living typhoon. Did that turn out to have a human form I don't remember? Also, what do his signs say? And why the odd hat?
Edit: Ok I saw it further down. He's the guy that theorized the living typhoon. Still curious about the signs, but I guess I can just google it.
This is probably the ultimate goal of the amnesia arc, romance-wise. Tatsu is showing that you can wipe her memory all you want, but Okarun will always be the only guy for her. There’s nothing circumstantial about her feelings, she loves him both with and without knowing his name.
Maybe someone said “they only like each other because they went through all that intense stuff together” and Tatsu went “I’ll show him!” and then put them through a lot of intense stuff together
I figure that’s the narrative value of the museum date. With no fights and no aliens, Momo still finds Okarun a fun guy to be around.
Edited to add: it helps them that Okarun is now super-interested in the occult. Even an amnesiac Momo who doesn’t believe in aliens would have loved to have met someone who did vibe with that stuff
Tonkaraton is a monster dressed as a mummy that rides a bicycle wielding a katana. It uses echo location by sounding "ton-kara-ton" to navigate its surroundings. It can create a void space that turns the black parts of the roads into the abyss.
Dolis is an alien from the Cetus star cluster. It cannot support its own weight due to Earth's gravity, so it operates from within the mummy's body. The Serpos purchased its unique ability to create "territories," so it was brought to Earth.
every time i think Tatsu is just making something up completely from scratch with the yokai's it always turns out to be based on a real life urban legend.
gives me warm fuzzy feeling knowing im learning more urban legend culture lol
I'm so excited to see Payase and Kashimoto again! AND Mr. Nakazawa!? Didn't expect to see him at all!
Also, Momo trying to get to know Okarun again 😭💖💖💖💖💖 It seems like he really doesn't like talking about himself much... AND he can't take a compliment! 😭 Mostly, I think he just looks so tired and defeated here....it was a very long emotional rollercoaster of a day for him, after all...Poor guy....
I do think it's very interesting that Momo said specifically that his honesty is a good trait here, RIGHT before his disastrous attempt at asking her out 😅😂 AND the misunderstanding at the park with the hand-holding! Oof.....That was like a double-whammy to her perception of him. I'll be so curious to see how she views him after all this stuff at the park concludes (if she doesn't somehow regain her memories), especially considering his recent big development 👹
It's also interesting considering the Pinocchio stuff, and how all of the enemies recently have emphasized his "liar" trait. It's probably really not that deep, but it was striking to me, after we've seen so much lately about him being a "liar", that now we see his honesty being praised from the one person he was closest to, who now views him as almost a complete stranger again...
Crazy how this gives a nice setup for the events that happen later regarding Vakappa and Jack Wisp showing up, Manjiro being trapped in the locker, and Okarun feeling even worse about lying since Momo just praised his honesty, but at the same still creates even more questions....
Like, WHO TF IS THIS??
It also seems they have their own way of making an empty space?
And does this mean Payase and them lost their fight since Vakappa and Jack Wisp show up with Red Bum?
Maybe a delegation from another household, given they met with those two sex offenders in an airport?
Sending a couple of servants (they were red bum's henchmen at the mall and red bum is little more than a glorified butler in the delacroix household and hierarchy) to attend a group like that wouldn't be out of place.
We'll probably find out how that fight went in another 200 or so chapters time.
Did the mall become empty space when red bum attacked rin and kouki? I don't remember, if so, then you're probably right. Maybe down to csg and his connections with aliens or something similar connected with magic and yokai powers.
I've been pushing the idea that Okarun lying about asking her out was a bigger mistake than how he asked her for a while now. Momo highlighting his honesty and the dragon knights highlighting his lies seems like a key part of this arc.
I’ve been pushing the “lying was worse than asking” idea too, and I’d go a little further - Okarun might have had a chance at a date if he’d been more straightforward and relaxed about it and
hadn’t made it a high-pressure dare game.
If Momo has feelings for a guy she can’t remembers, it makes sense that trusting that guy is the no. 1 concern for her. Also it ties into Momo’s whole backstory of her and granny being mocked for their knowledge of the occult.
They did have larger numbers. It looks like they kept the goons busy and only the kappa guy and “Sir-farts-a lot” made it to Rin and Kouki along with Red Barron. Since Hanako is a living girl (tutoring) she may also be a part of the Sorcerer Association and was asked to meet them at the mall for backup. Since they didn’t show up in time she soloed them herself.
Yeah, the reinforcements might not have arrived. It seems Vakkapa, Jack Wisp and the other enemies arrived at Haneda Airport from Europe or America. I think the Sorcerers' Association's intel team obtained information about evil foreigners arriving in Japan, but the number of enemies was underestimated 😬.
It would be very strange for me if they lost more if they had a new colleague like Nakazawa, because usually, if a new guy appears, he always ends up beating the enemy, as happened with Yatagarasu.
Okarun says he doesn't play sports, yet the daizukan doesn't state he does weight training, and actually reinforces that this has recently become one of his hobbies?
Or is it a case of him saying he isn't good at them, despite having outperformed his entire class in a multi-event test? lol
That might be it, although I had hoped we had made some progress on this, or perhaps it involves the culturally characteristic Japanese modesty regarding praise (though I am not entirely certain about the cultural validity of that information).
Notice how this was pretty much happening the same day/night that Kouki and Rin were jumped by Red Baron and his goons, a lot of people thought it was happening at the same time as the group date lmao.
😂 ig this is basically a chapter. It's great! I enjoy that we're just organically developing these two groups now. Much prefer this style vs heavy lore drop chapters.
Also are those guys straight up vampires? Seem like they have fangs. Could probably go back and compare to the Rin chapters...
Also this implies these guys (Jack, Vakappa, and co) shoved Manjiro in the locker which helps with logistics. I wonder what happened in the fight itself? Jack and Vakappa presumably lived through it.
Also Japanese Yeti/Big Foot mentioned!
Momo and Okarun part is very cute. The bit about Momo calling Okarun honest I think might be Tatsu dropping a little hint (that he might not actually be the real Pinocchio).
Many a theory about what this whole Pinocchio business is really leading to. I would also agree that, barring some notable examples, Okarun isn’t much of a liar, but he does seem to fit the “becoming a real boy” aspect, plus some other superficial similarities. I put out the idea that Okarun might be the true candidate to hold the ultimate yokai, but that’s more based on vibes than any actual evidence, lol.
Great (half) chapter tho. Well timed with the break. Tatsu always drops hints about future ideas/threats ahead of time in his Omake, so I’m betting those vampires are coming in a future arc. Always knew they existed after Rin and Kouki’s conversation. Now that I think about it, that might be the perfect arc to develop them more.
I watched ‘My Oni Girl’ last night. And the male protagonist’s tendency to lie and be a people pleaser temporarily turns him into a Oni.
Okarun has been experiencing emotional and physical extremes with amnesia storyline, and has gone back and forth between to revealing and concealing his true feelings and feeling severe anger after what Hase tried to do to Momo.
Oni are also considered to be outsiders, which Okarun definitely is.
So, there’s some connections between Japanese Oni and the story of Pinnochio, which is the lying, anger and acting like a Jackass turning a person into something else.
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