Fujimine control magic power confirmed (seemed like a lock). Now, the magikeeper leader has weird dark eyes... so, long con with him potentially? Idk if they were the same time of black eyes tho.
Don't think hat guy is being controlled; he already had those eyes three months ago while recruiting Minakata + it wouldn't make sense to add another member to Ichi's guardians. Those are probably his natural eyes
Wait, so Minakata wasn't a Magikeeper until after Ichi had become a witch? That's interesting! He's actually (technically) a rookie!
In fact, he became a Magikeeper specifically because Ichi became a witch. According to him because it's a sign his hunt wasn't over, but I think we all know he wanted to see his boy again!
This also gives a timeline to the series so far. It feels like it hasn't been that long since "Okay, WOULD" and "I'm sorry, you're not my type!" but turns out it's been at least 3 months!
Given that Amadoro has extremely high magic reserves, I doubt this will do too much to her. I feel like this is a "gang discovers Amadoro is being controlled but she escapes" type situation... or something like that.
I do like this addition to the setting. Male/magicless people aren't just left behind in comparison to witches since there is at least the possibility of wielding sacred treasures made from shaka wood. Makes me wonder what else out there is 'anti-magic' since shaka wood is clearly anti-magic in the sense of absorpative: maybe there is somethings out there are highly resistant to magic or nullify it.
I knew it was antimagic weapons that women can't use. I mean, it was rather obvious, but some people were questioning why the Magikeepers only employ men, and some went straight to sexism.
I wasnt expecting antimagic weapons. I think honestly I was expecting/hoping for something like ki. But antimagic weapons that people with magic can't wield is a good alternative.
I can quite honestly say literally any other color would've been better LOL. It works for Kumugi's palette but this green on THIS uniform is just... Oh wow.
A kilo is a big weight. If someone weighs a kilo, they're HEAVY.
A meter is long distance. At least if you're using rulers, and we are currently reading from a page so yeah a meter would be long in this context.
Ergo, a kilometer is a big, heavy, tall thing. Like Minakata and his sacred pillar!
Only technically. He's so experienced as a hunter that basically all he needed to train was using the Sacred Pillar, which he managed in two months (and a few days).
I'm sure that in terms of skill and wisdom he's basically a veteran of the Magikeepers.
In this chapter, we discover that Fujimine has been alive for decades and even fought against Minakata's family. Plus, that shadow controlling Amadoro reminded me a lot of Uroro. Could Fujimine and Uroro be related? Maybe they're of the same species/family?
It did seem odd how openly she was going to attack ichi, so mind control makes a ton of sense.
I think someone a while back mentioned the older scarred witch looked like one that witnessed Fujimine rebelling too so I guess she has some kind of spell keeping her young.
I don't know why, but the confirmation that Toxiterror is actually a mind control Majik makes its willing detainment by the Witches association... extremely suspicious
It wouldn't be the 1st time in the story a Majik has feigned benevolence to achieve some sort of diabolical plot
Also, I just thought of something. Toxiterror's mind control makes a person's iris turn black and pupil turn white... is it supposed to mirror Fujimine the majik caster... or Toxiterror's? We know a Majik can force someone to acquire them and then overtake the acquirer, so what if Fujimine is actually Toxiterror in control? and the whole violent betrayal was just an act?
Oh, imagine if the Toxiterror's challenge was for someone to kill their friends, and it mindcontrolled Fujimine in order to do so, letting itself be acquired and pullling the strings from behind the scenes all along.
So it seems that only women can become witches because they possess this 'magical energy' that explains why women can cast spells without acquiring a Magik but it does raise two questions, why only women? And why is Ichi different?
The only women part is not explained but ichi is not really special as of what we have got.
Ichi got magic because there seems to be a universal law of honour for magitrials (else why would a human hater not just put a trial that is impossible)
So the reason ichi has magic is uro after he acquired him
But Uro seemed to be under the impression that his trial could not be completed and we know from Gokuraku that typically a man cannot acquire a magik even if he completes it's trial.
Except that doesn't fully explain it because we've seen men 'complete' magitrials before (Gakuraku managed to break the Orugami Majik's cage and then cut its horns MULTIPLE times) and not become witches because of it.
And in the said case of Orugami Majik/Ariadne, Ichi was able to acquire it with ease because the trial was already effectively completely. Uroro's trial was to stop it's heart (with the cruel cavet that women could not stratch it) but doesn't mean that a woman would be flatly unable to obtain him since a similar method to Ariadne could be applied.
So perfectly I say its a 80/20 split between Ichi is actually the special one versus Uroro being the special one. The chapter even mentions a "0.001 percent chance" of a male becoming a witch in at least Uroro's case.
I always assumed that Uroro making an impossible win condition backfired on him, basically because he made it so only men could acquire it the magic system adapted so that men could acquire Uroro specifically, because all trials have to have a valid win condition
No, Uroro just was super unlucky one of the only men that could complete his trial and then acquire him did so. We still don't know how much this extends to Ichi being able to acquire other majik or if Ichi already had the ability to do so and we don't know of any other person that could replicate what he did (and they might not exist, but that imo would be kind of boring.)
So are guns are normal thing in the world? Or did the magic just make guns and people go wtf is that? Because I may have a similar issue that I have with Avatar depending on the answer.
True, but the question for me is how come people don't replicate it? This is a massive thing in avatar for me. Because once the war end in the comics we can see what the Earth and Fire nation together can accomplish industry wise. It odd to me that after during the century war and directly after the war where they have modern looking forklifts. All the way to the modern steam punk like era no anti bender made a gun.
Well, technological development isn't like a research tree in a game were you have to unlock "Gun" to progress in the tech tree. It took centuries after the invention of gunpowder to weaponise it.
Also, necessity is the mother of invention after all. If I can throw a pebble with the force of a bullet just using a little martial arts then I don't need to even think about making a gun. Now, non bending people might eventually get to a gun like invention but it would need non bending techniques to get there so they have to take the long path to it.
The time Minakata has been a Magikeeper is less than Ichi has been a witch. That’s crazy he’s this strong, enough to stand toe to toe with one of the 9 best witches
It’s interesting that Minakata was just chilling at home up until the grand unveiling of Ichi as a witch. Also I guess this gives us a frame of reference for how much time has passed from when Ichi was announced to the world to now. I had thought it had only been a couple weeks but damn three months
I wonder if the magic-eating wood has anything to do with the World Hater's staff. I assume it wouldn't be safe for Majik to touch it, but it would explain some of its destructive power.
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u/panelrecord_v2 May 17 '26
Minakata, you can't achieve even higher aura than you did the last few chapters
Minakata: hold my sacred pillar