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So as a side note, I found out that the group that scanlated a lot of Negima has disappeared from everywhere but IRC. Website, forum, it's all gone. Weird to think Negima was so long ago that entire communities started and died.
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PerrineClostermann posted:So as a side note, I found out that the group that scanlated a lot of Negima has disappeared from everywhere but IRC. Website, forum, it's all gone. It's really weird because I worked with Meow when I was back in middle school and now I'm finishing grad school.
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Sep 11, 2015 20:29
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New chapter out. Talking immortality and the death of humanity while playing mahjong. Slow chapter, but still amusing.
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Sep 16, 2015 04:09
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This chapter was hilarious. "So hey, lets say one day the earth explodes." "That was abrupt." 
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Sep 16, 2015 04:20
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So what do you know, Touta actually has a concrete goal now. It is completely impossible for him but it is still better than nothing.
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Sep 16, 2015 04:22
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Kirie owning herself was pretty good.
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Sep 16, 2015 04:26
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Serious Frolicking posted:It is completely impossible for him but it is still better than nothing. 
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Sep 16, 2015 04:59
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I'm pleasantly surprised they brought up the issue with being immortal for so long you live after the Sun expands/consumes the Earth.
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Sep 16, 2015 13:00
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Chapter was so good
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Sep 16, 2015 13:11
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Nate RFB posted:I'm pleasantly surprised they brought up the issue with being immortal for so long you live after the Sun expands/consumes the Earth. Mildly surprised they didn't pass mention at Kars.
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Sep 16, 2015 14:11
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ConanThe3rd posted:Mildly surprised they didn't pass mention at Kars. He did die, technically. It says in his epilogue that he eventually stopped thinking. The body lived on but everything that was Kars died.
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Sep 16, 2015 14:52
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Nyaa posted:Not until he meets Jack. I was talking about getting through Eva's ingrained tragic heroine schtick. Strongest in the world? Sure, why not, he is a shounen fighting manga protagonist with an infinite life span. But Eva's got centuries of baggage that lead her to believe she doesn't deserve to be happy. That poo poo is impenetrable.
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Sep 16, 2015 17:26
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Nate RFB posted:I'm pleasantly surprised they brought up the issue with being immortal for so long you live after the Sun expands/consumes the Earth. On the other hand, nobody mentioned they could just get their rear end to Mars and wait out the sun's Red Giant phase. Of course after that, it collapses down to a white dwarf and it'd probably get real, real, cold on Mars.
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Sep 16, 2015 23:20
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Shugojin posted:He did die, technically. It says in his epilogue that he eventually stopped thinking. The body lived on but everything that was Kars died.
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Sep 17, 2015 07:00
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Kirie's not really immortal, right? She'll live to a normal human age. She just has infinite retries.
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Sep 17, 2015 07:40
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HellCopter posted:Kirie's not really immortal, right? She'll live to a normal human age. She just has infinite retries. If she encounters a death that she cannot escape from, the universe will be stuck in an infinite loop. After an infinite number of tries, she'll either find a way to stop aging, or a way to die and stay dead, or time will cease to exist.
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Sep 17, 2015 07:52
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Avulsion posted:If she encounters a death that she cannot escape from, the universe will be stuck in an infinite loop. After an infinite number of tries, she'll either find a way to stop aging, or a way to die and stay dead, or time will cease to exist. Or snuff out the candle if she didn't set a return point that prevents her from reaching it.
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Sep 17, 2015 07:55
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Kirie's seems like the weakest of the "better" immortality gimmicks. She can survive her entire body (and soul?) being destroyed, which puts her above the ones who can't like the android, but if she forgets to place a save point after the last one burns down it's game over. It might even be possible for other people to snuff out the candle if they find it. Also she has to deal with idiots in a time loop. A fate worse than death.
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Sep 17, 2015 08:04
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She has a horrifically vulnerable immortality, and I'm mostly just amazed she's confident enough that it will work each time to actually use her power. I'd behave like a mortal at all times with her power.
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Sep 17, 2015 08:08
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That's why Kirie is basically the Intel team. I doubt Dana was teaching her any kung-fu. But yeah, I'd be incredibly cautious if my main source of power could be erased by a stiff wind. Akamatsu is good with not killing off characters, but Kirie really is the most likely to have her immortality threatened. HellCopter fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Sep 17, 2015 08:26
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Does it have to stay lit? I always thought it was one of those RPG game things where as long as you can light a candle and do your little save prayer you're good to go.
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Sep 17, 2015 08:31
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I'd be paranoid as hell that I'd get murdered two seconds after using a save point, making it impossible to escape and be stuck in the loop of endless death forever.
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Sep 17, 2015 08:47
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nftyw posted:Does it have to stay lit? I always thought it was one of those RPG game things where as long as you can light a candle and do your little save prayer you're good to go. She set up a ridiculously large candle when they met up during training, so that would imply it only works as long as it burns.
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Sep 17, 2015 09:08
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I feel like they would have brought it up at this point because that is such an obviously conspicuous weakness of her powers as-is.
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Sep 17, 2015 11:41
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Nate RFB posted:I feel like they would have brought it up at this point because that is such an obviously conspicuous weakness of her powers as-is.
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Sep 17, 2015 13:48
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I assume that her save points can be deactivated somehow, since she set a special one for the test. And yeah, otherwise that means eventually she'll hit a death she can't avoid and the universe will be stuck in an infinite loop. Though on the subject of aging, even if she has no special defense against it she's surrounded by other immortals. I know Touta is special circumstances, but was it ever clear if Touta/Eva can turn normal humans? If so and she decides she doesn't want to age she could always ask one of them to do it. Or ask the other guy where to find some mermaid flesh.
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Sep 17, 2015 17:06
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I'm going to guess that she has to set a save point, but once it's set it will be good for a given duration. It wouldn't matter if it was destroyed after that. But after that duration if she died it'd be for keeps. In the case of this recent arc they knew they would need a week or so so she had to set a bigger one. Like going to the grocery store every now and then to avoid starving, as long as she keeps a buffer (or stores up in the case of a bigger candle) she'd be fine.
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Sep 17, 2015 17:23
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She has infinite time to research and a wide variety of immortals to consult. I dunno how she could fail to obtain another form of immortality if she was so inclined. I'd say that the mermaid flesh thing would work out pretty well for her, as that guy is only immortal in the sense of not aging.
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Sep 17, 2015 17:41
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Dunno, what if instead she automatically loops back once the candle burns out? It fits better with her actions.
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Sep 17, 2015 19:08
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From what I gathered, Kirie has infinite loops. The size of the candle just determines how much time she can go back. So if she has a giant building sized candle in a cave somewhere, conceivably, Kirie could loop back years. For the issue of vulnerability, I don't even see why she can't have multiple redundant loops. I like the idea of returning automatically if forget to set a new one. I wonder what the source of her immortality is though. If it's just magic then this is something anyone could acquire after all. ChronoReverse fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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Sep 17, 2015 19:14
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Pretty sure time magic is still out of the reach everyone in that universe. Aside from Dana or some other unspecified immortal.
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Sep 17, 2015 19:25
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InfinityComplex posted:Pretty sure time magic is still out of the reach everyone in that universe. Aside from Dana or some other unspecified immortal. Have you read Negima?
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Sep 17, 2015 19:32
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ChronoReverse posted:Have you read Negima? Chao's time travel is technological, not magical.
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Sep 17, 2015 20:01
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Silver2195 posted:Chao's time travel is technological, not magical. It's a technologically controlled device (for Chao, Negi magic-controlled his) but it's powered by magic. Also, time-displacement bullets.
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Sep 17, 2015 20:15
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Silver2195 posted:Chao's time travel is technological, not magical. Well, it was magitech I think, but it required the power of the World Tree at the peak of its 22 year mana-gathering cycle. So yeah, completely unfeasible unless there have been new developments in the UQ Holder universe.
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Silento posted:Well, it was magitech I think, but it required the power of the World Tree at the peak of its 22 year mana-gathering cycle. So yeah, completely unfeasible unless there have been new developments in the UQ Holder universe. Only for long time jumps (you can do 24 hours jumps with a single person's power). But it's not like the World Tree is the only way to gather large amounts of magical energy. Either way, it's a magical effect with technology being used to make it precise. Which someone at Negi's level can substitute using more magic. It's not really different from any other magical artifact at that point.
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Sep 17, 2015 20:19
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I'd say the time travel is the easy part in Kirie's power. The full thing's prolly trickier to replicate.
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Sep 18, 2015 00:50
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http://kissmanga.com/Manga/UQ-Holder/Stage-095?id=242507 New chapter, and some familiar faces.
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Sep 26, 2015 00:31
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So, barring weird poo poo Setsuna and Konoka probably didn't get married. The most obvious explanation is that their kids did. That's a shame, really.
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I give Touto an 8/10. Reverting your body from a fine red mist to deliver both a feint and overhead slash is  as gently caress. But he still can't really nail the final poses. Plus his detached arm took way too long to reattach after he used it for a distraction. The blood spiral is a nice touch, but ideally he should have both his arms in case he needs to defend himself from further attacks. Also, Is that Ayaka?
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