Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler) Manga Review

Chapter 117: "A Mislead Blade You Cannot Embrace"

Cover page for this month's chapter

Finally, the continuation of the long- awaited manga! I have to say it's a disappointment that this new chapter only has 26 pages. I have no rights to complain though, since writing the story and drawing the manga is complicated (Especially if you're the one doing it all). But here it is! the action scene we've all been waiting for! Sebastian Vs. Elizabeth!

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I just loved the action, the mystery and the art! The story may be progressing really slow, but it'll make you want to stare at the pages longer than necessary. Every detail and amount of effort can be seen on just this one page. I really respect manga artists for their hard work.

The chapter begins immediately at a battle scene where Elizabeth acts as the guard of the four 'stars'. Sebastian is forced to dodge all of her deadly attacks. He didn't want to hurt her since she is after all, Ciel's fiancee. He even thought that things would be easier if she weren't his master's fiancee. On the next page of the image above, Sebastian praises Elizabeth for having amazing strength for human standards. This is very rare. Sebastian praising a human? I don't recall any other events where he had praised a human for their strength. He had most likely said this just because the young mistress was able to cut a small piece of his bow tie. 

After blowing a strong hit on her stomach, Elizabeth was defeated. Sebastian tied her up with his coat for safety measures and proceeded into the prohibited rooms. He had discovered that the fortune teller and his 'stars' were indeed taking blood from their customers. The butler then proceeded to the rooms of the 'stars' to investigate.

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(The facility where they kept the blood samples)

Sebastian proceeded to take Elizabeth back home to his young master's mansion. Elizabeth's brother was worried sick and had stayed in the Phantomhive manor during Sebastian's investigation. Upon seeing his sister in the butler's arms, he wanted that place to be destroyed. Unfortunately, Sebastian did no such thing as burning the Music hall down or even destroying it. He explains how buildings are just a symbolism of the people's beliefs. If he were to destroy it, it will not waver the people's belief of the fortune teller and might even start a revolution because of this.

In the last scene we see that Elizabeth escaped from the manor. I believe that she's not brainwashed, more like she's doing things because someone threatened her. Another thing is that no one can easily sneak past Sebastian. Sebastian was either roaming around at night was aware that Elizabeth is escaping but his master was asleep but made no move on detaining her because there was no order to do so or Ciel specifically ordered Sebastian to let her escape to see if she's doing it out of her own will or is being controlled by the enemies. Either way we'll see what will happen in the next chapter which will be released a month from now or so.

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(Sebastian explaining the nature of humans)

That concludes this review for Kuroshitsuji. What do you think of this month's chapter? I think that it's as awesome as ever. Thank you Toboso Yana for another great chapter!

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One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 VS Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4

Two Popular Anime In Games, Who Will Win This Battle?

The Difference? A huge one. For starters, yes, they're a completely different anime and the fact that they have completely different game plays doesn't mean that they can't be compared. There's this one element that the other lacks. What is it you ask? The story line.

cover of the game

Cover of the game

In One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 we are given a strategic type of game play, wherein the player has to plan out his next move and where to move on the map. With this game play we are able to explore the entire area and conquer enemy's bases. They used this strategic game play to replay the entire series of the anime from it's first to the recent episode.

I wasn't aware of the game play or the story line at first (because at that time I wanted Naruto Storm 4) so I dived into the game not knowing what to expect. The cut scenes looked as if animators grew lazy and decided to make the characters stand there while they added the dialogue and their voices. The better cut scenes though was OK, the graphics isn't at its best and could've done better.Things were fine at first, very Sengoku Basara-like game play until I was almost finished with the game.

Basically majority of the conversations looked like this

When I was at the final arc (Dressrosa Arc) Things turned good to bad--worse even. I was so frustrated that the story line no longer followed the anime. I mean sure, maybe the anime hasn't reached that far but they should've stopped THERE. It was so disappointing. I was expecting that the last chapter of the game would show me the ending of the Dressrosa arc, but NO. It took a major turn once Luffy and the rest landed on that island.

The story line no longer followed the anime. How do I know this, well I've read the manga and have already advanced until Zou arc. I KNOW what's going to happen, but I didn't expect that the creators of the game would be so lenient on the anime. They should have followed the manga if the anime was left behind. If the manga wasn't finished at that time, then they could've stopped at the Punk Hazard arc. They shouldn't be making stuff up that will mislead outdated fans.

Now for the good sides of the game. They have a LOT of playable characters. All with their own combo and special ability ACCORDING to the anime. Another good thing is that this whole game is a summary of the entire series (unlike One piece Unlimited World Red, but that's another story.). There are some mini games that you could enjoy after beating the game. In this mini game you could unlock even more characters to use. Unfortunately that's the only special feature they gave. I guess those were all the good points I could think of about this game.

Moving on to Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, All I could say is that they did a GREAT job of making this game, and I'm not joking! You could already see it in the animations that they mixed CG with traditional (Japanese) art. I personally love how they made the intro <3 <3 So beautiful and well made!

Other than it's beautiful graphics it also follows the story line. At first I was disappointed by the first few cut scenes. It was exactly from the anime itself, like people just print screened the scene added the voices and ta-da! your very own cut scene! What I didn't expect that by the end of the game, where the anime left off, the game followed the actual story of Naruto Shippuden. It made me so happy to play the game that was in line with the story.

Unfortunately, the game only features a certain part of the anime. They only continued their last game Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 on the PS3. Which is a little disappointing but understandable. In this game, it's more of a fighting-styled game play. Kinda like Tekken but with Chakra and items and teleportation and stuff like that. It's like a ninja version of Tekken if you know what I mean.

There's also a minigame that you can play after completing the story mode. It's more of an aftermath of the 4th Great War (Before Naruto the Last Movie). I can't say much about the mini game since Masashi Kishimoto didn't reveal any scenes from that time so I can't argue with them (the game creators) there.

I do especially love the fact that they added new characters (of course). Though the characters that I'm looking for is sadly in a DLC (downloadable content). Here's a video of me battling with a friend of mine ;) (I'm on the left, I just love old Team 7)

Anyway the only downside to this is that most of it's cool features is in a DLC (which is around $2.99 or less) and that it doesn't show much of Boruto. What do you think? Does One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 win? or Does Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 overthrows the battle? You decide! (In my case Naruto Shippuden wins by a mile)

One Piece Episode 746 Review

The Numerous Rivals Struggle Amongst Themselves! The Raging Monsters Of The New World

Despite it's long title for an episode, I have to say it's better than the last. In episode 745, in the last 6 minutes or so, it looked more like the animators were stalling to use up the remaining time for the episode. In this episode we’re shown the continuation of Luffy’s banquet with his newly formed grand fleet. With a total of seven pirate captains from different ships, the Straw Hat Grand Fleet is not to be underestimated. The fleet itself is comprised pf 5640 people who all vowed their loyalty to Monkey D. Luffy.

Straw Hat Grand Fleet celebrating

Even though if Luffy is against having a fleet in the first place, I believe that they'll be helpful in the future. Seriously, Luffy is the first character where I'll ever hear something like "I don't like many people on board because it gets crowded!". Sometimes I wonder why I love this knucklehead so much.

Next we see an insight of Dressrossa's progress. The people were happily celebrating their new king despite the destruction of their country. King Riku and Viola shares an inspiring speech to the people and also formally introducing the faeries to their people. After their program, Rebecca and Mansherry go around town to gather ingredients for the upcoming reunion with Rebecca's small family. In my opinion they should continue rebuilding houses and repairing roads instead of making statues of their 'heroes'.

Viola performing her signature Spanish styled dances

Interestingly we are shown a short scene of the former CP9 plotting in the shadows in Dressrossa. I just hope that they're not going to cause trouble in the future--Scratch that they always do. I hate them for making Robin cry! It's a mystery to why they're still active... I guess Oda will reveal things in the future.

Back to the Marine's, Doflamingo explains to Tsuru that it's only the beginning of the battle to the 'throne'. Presumably the title of being 'Pirate King', which has been the objectives of most pirates who sail out. Doflamingo is officially my favorite antagonist. I just love how Eichiro Oda gave him such a tragic past and a twisted personality. Though sometimes I question my taste for men (or in my case, fictional characters).

My favorite scene is where Luffy boards the Barto Club Ship wherein they saw different features of the ship relating much to theirs and their crew. I can't help but laugh with Luffy as Bartolomeo and his crew 'fan-boys' over 'Luffy-sempai'. It's really funny to see an actual Straw Hat fan in the anime itself. The Barto Club must be Eiichiro Oda's view of fans these days which I can't help but agree with.

Mister Luffy Go (It's the name of the ship)

Even if Bartolomeo has a scary looking appearance and the hair of a chicken's butt, I love his character since he respects our protagonists. It's also funny that we see how he's very rude to other people other than the Straw Hats, like Trafalgar Law. And will only listen to orders coming from Luffy himself or the rest of the Straw Hats.

Though the disappointing part was the ending of the episode. I do not recall any antagonist (?) who looks like Zoro with a bandana on in the manga. I can only assume that the next episode will be a filler.

All the screenshots were done by me! (the laptop I was using had no print screen option)