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Here's a HQ scan of v15 cover I just did (had to keep it 250KB to fit on tinypic though): http://i4.tinypic.com/15cj9uf.jpg The volume itself has 4 extra image pages as well (one with some text too). There's also 3 pages which I think are about historical background only. I don't think it'll necessa...

Yumemaru should have died ~10 years ago. So by now should be a collection of bones. But clearly the body is still intact. So I think that's Souhaku's power at work. Well, judging solely by appearance, Yumemaru looks like a papillon dog breed, and those can live up to 15 years, so it's not completel...

btw, later, on page 22 there is an explosion - something the people inside the castle did. Maybe with Yumemaru left there, he got caught up in the explosion which is how he got separated from the fan. Well, he isn't separated from it. On the last page, the dog picks up the fan right away after gett...

What's the blurb for next month say, I really hope this is the end of the past arc I really don't want to see the future adventures of Yumemaru/Souhaku the wonder dog. Well, the "next month" stuff doesn't mean shit... But anyway, it talks about walking out into the rain, and how this connects with ...

That could be correct. Look here: http://img454.imageshack.us/img454/9315/0418zt.th.jpg There's our Yumemaru and the fan! Looks like Souhaku was indeed burried there, but got revived when the barrier collapsed with the castle tower. Hmm... Really need a better scan... but the patterns of the cloth ...

It seems he did, Senhime never left the castle and the barrier was constantly up. Only after the castle burns(along with the barrier) and Senhime leaves can Souhaku revive himself. Hmm maybe he was actually a dog the whole time and his human body was fake :D Maybe that fan is somehow his true self ...

But did he actually die 10 years ago when Ichiyou found him and Senhime in the circle? It seems to me that he died and transfered his soul into Yumemaru. Well, that body seems dead. Maybe Souhaku realised he could no longer sustain that body and get out from the circle in tmie - but did just about ...

Given the character ages, it seems like the Red Feathers' attack was about 10 years ago. (Senhime should be 19 in this chapter. She was married at 7 - not sure if she was married or not at the time of the Red Feathers' attack). Ichiyou tells Sanada that he was in the castle in the past (page 22), an...

Couple of other comments... On page 24, notice that Souhaku's right eye socket is damaged badly. Hmm. Also, Senhime is carrying Yumemaru (the dog) at this point. So must be pretty near the edge of the barrier.... Also on page 24, Ieyasu has clearly woken up from some spell and is doing some basic wh...

Yeah the whole mind transfer thing is something I thought he might be doing with Nagi, but as we saw he had to do some certain "cerimonial?" thing with that circle. Something he was rushing to get done. I thought those bodies might be Souhaku's old bodies, but that's all pure speculation right now....

btw... could someone edit the first post with the very wide image - like turn it into a link, not inline. That way, it doesn't mess with the page formatting too much.

Not that I don't like it, but we don't need to keep reloading it a zillion times.

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Doesn't Ichiyou also say in the last chapter "I'm saying that It is a unique "opportunity" ...right now is the best time to truly kill Kago Souhaku" and the blurb at the end" The so-called immortal Souhaku will also become no more than a normal "person",He can be destroyed with a single dagger ". A...

Why can't skill she Souhaku? As Reiki told Aya during this time traveling, this era of the past is the only time Souhaku could be killed because of Senhime's gate. The quote at the end of chapter 90? Hmm. I can't say I fully understand the Japanese for that line myself, but I don't think it means t...

See my explanation above, I don't see how he could do that last move because of Reiki when he's not holding Reiki, and when he was he was getting his ass kicked. Shoujou says "Sorry, but during the battle I used Reiki to read your Ki and copied your skills". In other words, while getting his ass ki...

Ah, I get it. D'oh. I had thought *Shoujou* was going to stay as Onojirou Tadaaki, but instead he turned the Yagyuu guy into Onojirou Tadaaki. Shoujou says something like "If Ono-chan died, there'd be a guy who'd be sad" while tapping the skulls around his neck. He says something about how, as a swo...

Wow... What a chapter! The old guy betrayed Souhaku, which allowed Aya to get in. Looks like there was something special with the letter on the box of crabs to Souhaku. Didn't expect Senhime to take up a weapon (can she even use it?) and that distracted Aya enough for Souhaku to take Aya's own knife...

Translation comment on "de sura" (page 7 / 161). I'm 95% sure that it means something like "even for" or "even in xyz's case". ie, the whole 12 Families ganged up on Susa to take him out. Yet, even such a bad-ass guy couldn't kill little miss Amaterasu. I think the "wa" in this case is not to indica...

With regards to Souhaku's power and any possible Kago family power, I don't remember there being any direct indication of the Kago family having inherited special powers. But maybe I'm forgetting something. If they do, it could be that Souhaku has a "mutant" strain. Otherwise, he's probably like Sen...

Whoo, go-go chibi-Aya! Rather hard to follow all the text in this chapter, but at the beginning, basically Ichiyou now knows that Souhaku has little miss Amaterasu, who is super-bad news since even "true warrior" Susa couldn't kill one who appeared in the past. Ichiyou refuses to fight a pointless b...

Fugu, I'm quite certain that the 'maru' kanji is not meant to be translated as 'circle' or 'sphere'. In Japan, pets are often given the honorific '-maru' (or sometimes '-chan'). A black dog could be called 'Kuromaru'. As such, the zombie dog's name should be just 'Dream'. '-maru' is also applied to...

Maybe Souhaku had something to do with keeping Senhime's visibly young or something... (ie later when she marries she might look young but is actually quite a bit older. Oh Great could be doing all sorts of things...) btw, she seems to have a "mitama" in her chest. I wouldn't be sure if she was born...

It's possible that Aya and Ichiyou's parents are dead, of course. Seems that Nagi and Natsume are the top 2 families (when it comes to missions) though. Dragon Eye and Dragon Fist are both very powerful, even when used by 9 year olds. Anyway, we should be getting some pretty interesting fights comin...

This guy is actually Yagyu Shinjirou Yoshikatsu, a relatively unknown son of the legendary Tokugawa retainer Yagyu Muneyoshi and the uncle of the equally legendary Yagyu Jubei (yes, the one of the "Ninja Scroll" fame!) Jubei also appears in Jubei-chan, one of the Shura no Toki arcs (very cool)... a...

Shoujou will be the second man to die. I think he has no special ability besides stealing faces. That is one hell of skill to have but, once he gets caught. He will be finished faster than baldy. If he dies then the person he's taken over will be officially dead, which will mean the story will dire...

Hmm, so Souhaku's dragon type is: ç„° which translates as flame, blaze means he has power to control death. He's also the only member of the Kago family - ie he's been alive the whole time and it's more like it's "his" power and the "Kago family's" power. By showing dead Tetsuhito shows that Tetsuhi...

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Couple of comments for Fight 91 trans so far:

Page 97, bubble 1:
Jirou: You really are the best there is ... So there really was value in killing off everyone in the red-light district


Shoujou has basically become Jirou - including his instincts and sword skills as far as I can tell. I think what happened here is Jirou's instincts reacted to the dragonfly, which impressed Shoujou. So Shoujou is complimenting Jirou's skills with the "sasuga tenka-ichi" - "just what you'd expect from the #1 [swordsman]" kinda thing.



Page 100, Bubble 8:
四六時中ã￾‚ã‚“ã￾ªã￾®ã￾¨ä¸€ç·’ã￾«ã￾„ã￾¦

If you look up 四六時中 via edict you get:
round the clock; day and night (Note: 4 x 6 = 24)

suggested trans: Having to be with her day and night.



Page 101, bubble 5:
Aya saying â€￾ã￾‚ã￾®æ–¹â€￾ (ano kata), which you've translated as "them". However, this is like a more formal/honerific way of saying "ano hito" (that person). Since Souhaku is a big-shot, she uses "ano kata" but the quotes in the line suggest sarcasim (since he's an enemy and so doesn't deserve respect). So, an indirect somewhat mocking way to refer to Souhaku.

suggested trans: Oh this again ... I just thought I would give that "gentleman" a present.
(doesn't quite work... but best I can think of so far)

I do find these current chapters interesting—especially with new characters such as Aya's ancestor and Ichiyou—but I'm wondering if there's going to be a day when I'll have to regard this as "past arc 2." I'm calling it the "Ancient Arc". But that's just what I'm using to prefix the character n...

When is she "getting naked around her comrades"? In this chapter, she is changing in a separte room to Kabane and Shoujou - and kicked Ichiyou out too. I thought it was the same room. Maybe I was just confused by the image transposition. And didn't Ichiyou just storm out on his own? To quote from m...

I see. It makes sense now how Aya is not ashamed of constantly getting naked around her comrades. She is just too young to get it... When is she "getting naked around her comrades"? In this chapter, she is changing in a separte room to Kabane and Shoujou - and kicked Ichiyou out too. And who's the ...

Wow, she is just 9 years old?! I wonder how she knows so much about sex and seduction then. Of course, she'd been around a brothel for some time, but kids don't generally get interested in this kind of activity untill puberty. Yet Aya struts her stuff out like a true professional? What gives? I thi...

Hah, Oh Great! sure likes to mess with our minds. We had a certain amount of discussion last time about what past Aya could have gotten up to and how it might have related to the Aya briefly shown alongside the sequence when Oda was killed. Well, last chapter we found out that past Aya was creating ...

Okay, with an Aya, naked apart from a modern looking jacket, with her nipples pierced with an old-style hair ornament. Fine...

According to ghost-Aya this events shown on that day in this chapter were critical. But just what was critical and why? Is what has already happened "today" critical or is that coming next? Or is Shoujou taking over the guy's place and entering Osaka castle the critical event? As a side note, the mo...

Unless it's a totally different person (of which I see no evidence), I just can't think of another way to explain all the discrepancies. Given that we have just one page that says little by itself, I think it's probably best to ignore it unless the author decides to make things clearer - there's so...

I don't think that would be unreasonable to suggest that this Aya. .. http://mrprophet.com/images/tenjou/aya90.jpg ...is 10 years older than this Aya ... http://mrprophet.com/images/tenjou/aya89.jpg It's a stretch, but still possible, right? Well, that's just one frame of this "gentle" looking pers...

Hmm this chapter has made me rethink Souhaku's power, we saw him controling Fu, and Madoka with those charms. Then we see Tetsu turn to a dried up corpse after his defeat, and Souhaku had been meditating like when he was contolling Fu in his fight, do you think maybe Souhaku had been controlling a ...

But we just saw she isn't really being whored out, she just uses the dragon eye to make people see what they want. And while I agree the dragon eye leads to some cruel behavior while using it as we've seen from before,but this Aya consciously decided to be cruel. When she finds that girl hiding she...

Whee. That's Oh Great for you - wall to wall sex and violence. Okay, from what I can tell from the text: "Aya the prostitute" is Natsume Aya - 14 generations before current Aya. Our "ghost Aya" tells the current Aya this, and that she is the "myself of that era". Seems to me that our ghost is someth...

Couple of translation comments:

Page 56
English: the "ki" that your sister has been storing up for two years ... Is all within me
Japanese: ã￾‚ã￾ªã￾Ÿã￾®ã￾Šå§‰ã￾•ã‚“ã￾Œï¼’å¹´ã‚‚ã￾®é–“ç•™ã‚￾ã￾Ÿâ€￾æ°£â€￾ã￾Œâ€¦ã‚￾ã￾šã￾‹ã￾«ç§￾ã￾®ä¸­ã￾«

Doesn't "wazuka" mean "a very small quantity"?


Page 59:
English: ... Please husband can you forgive me
Japanese: …ã￾¡ã‚‡ã￾„ã￾¨ãƒ€ãƒ³ãƒŠå‹˜å¼￾ã￾—ã￾¦ã￾￾ã‚“ã￾ª

In general, "danna" can mean "master". This line is basically by the people carrying their client/patron, and "danna" is how they're addressing him. They basically don't want to hang around in the place.

Umm... the plot just gets thicker and thicker. ugly-bitch is talking about re-uniting the blood split up 2000 years ago, using Souichirou, to create a being even more powerful than Souhaku. Mitsuomi tells Madoka to take Reiki to help the two at the gate. The Maya on page 19 (17th image file) is Mits...

I liked the panel where the characters are represented as marionettes, pulled by the unseen arms (of Souhaku, I presume). The way Oh!great drew them could somewhat indicate his attitude toward the characters, but there are also mysteries. Aya is dressed as a Queen (yeah, a drama queen). Nagi is the...

Wow, vol 14 has like 20 heavily re-done or entirely new pages! I guess that's why we had such a big break between fight 87 and fight 88.

Hmm, does Oh Great have a ladybird obsession...? I'm not aware of them having any particular special meaning (legends or anyway).

Sleepy Weasel wrote:wonder why they put life and death in [ ]

It's the Japanese equivalent of "" quotes.

The cover says something like:

Play close attention to it, that "death". Lament it, this "life".


(of course, the "death" could be refering to Souhaku...)