xparrot | GB - more on shounen mag 7 (Reply)

gnine gave me &

chirachira an extended rundown of the latest GetBackers manga chappie. Since she is currently busy at a con in Tokyo seeing Yamaguchi Kappei and Paku Romi and calling me from Tokyo Tower (KILL KILL KILL plz excuse me while I die of envy) I'm posting it for her.

[J-chan's Japanese is a fair bit better than mine but she was doing this on the fly as she chatted, so it may not be entirely accurate.]

Okay, so summary so far....
Starts with Kazuki-tachi and Akabane and Hevn, etc, all standing around going "'Earthquake' or whatever has stopped, is it over? Lets go find out"...and from what I can tell Akabane might pass on the going to see, wasn't positive.

Anyway, flip to all the people that were watching watcing Ginji and Shido fight. They're all sensing the spirit of Kabuto saying he doesn't wanna die and then they're like OMG his real form is this little bug. And then Ban shows up and I *THINK* he's like "so this little bug has been the problem".
Then there's a WHOLE bunch of talkie talkie...the bug is talking about the strength of humans, something about living for eternity, I think that's what the bug wants...
Ginji goes to destroy it, and Ban tells him to stop, that their business is concluded: "It's not your burden anymore, so sleep." And then Ginji/Raitei (who is holding dead Shido) collapses into Ban's arms and he catches both of them. There's this little adorable shot of both Shido and Ginji unconscious on the ground and Ban is crouching over them with this little smile.

Then Shido's tachi all start talking, something about killing over and over again and it's their grudge ...or maybe it's actually Ban talking to all of them about repeatedly killing. Ban is saying that it's human nature and pride that brought out Kabuto's evil, and now Ban's like "Leave it to me, it's what Shido asked me in to do so"(...well, actually he says sarumawashi but...) And then there's something about Shido giving his life to save Madoka and Ban's saying Shido's an idiot now for dying, how will that make her happy--"Don't you understand, your dying so she can live is bad, it's just your satisfaction, it makes no one else happy".
...and now Ban grabs dead Shido and is shaking him and yelling, shouting "What good is you dying" or something equivalent.

Then a whole bunch of people show up, and Emishi comes running up going "Amon, you live" kinda thing, and Hevn's like "is everyone else all right?" Kaoru goes, "Everyone's fine...but"
and Hevn's like "But?" and Ban's like, "Monkey trainer's dead?" (I don't know why there's a question mark) And Emishi freaks out, "usoyaro!"
I think Hevn's telling Ban to do the kiss of life, actually, but Ban's like, "I can't, last time Maria and Lucifer were there, there's nothing I can do." So Emishi is all sad, and Amon looks serious and then smiles and tells Emishi to move aside.

Amon: "It'll be okay, I can let Shido live again."
Emishi: "Really?"
Amon: "Yeah."
Then Ban flips and is like, "Masaka!" and the other guy of the Shido tachi says, "It's Amon's choice."

And Amon does this cool thingy and kinda transfers the kimera thing to Shido.
Amon: "This is good."

[Then J-chan realized she was going to miss her class, so she rushed the end] Anyway, Amon says, "I'm gonna die, probably" and Emishi freaks and then they have a few exchanges that seem to be half puns. Then Amon disappears, and Emishi says something about even at the end he was still using bad kansai.
and there's something about not laughing...I think...Emishi is almost IMPOSSILBE to understand...stupid kansai...anyway, it's sad.