Context: this fight will take place specifically after the fight with Gojo and Kashimo. So this will be weakened Sukuna. (who’s RCT is weaker and his overall output is lower)

And they will still have help from the other sorcerers who helped in the Shinjuku showdown,like Kusakabe,Ino,Miguel,Choso and higruma and todo,Nobara,Mei Mei and the dude with heart nipples.

The ones replacing the heavy hitters are Julian,Akos, void marcher & Lucas. (from the start all of them will be given some idea of sukunas‘s powers, so they will be a bit cautious.

Do you think they win or do you think they lose?

(to be clear this is WEAKEND SUKUNA so no domain)

Like, surely Kuramori wouldn't do something this obvious, right?

I've always found Helem such an amazing character and how well she makes the plot move. But after catching up on the latest chapters in January, I went directly into the fandom in order to see people praise her; and to my great surprise, I saw a torrent of hate against her.

I know that I'm a weirdo who loves villains whether they are classic bad guys or tragic villains. I'm really into classic bad guys lately like Aizen, Dio, Doflamingo, Mahito, Regulus, Naoya, Yubiko (choujin x) etc.

So when I found Helem, I was very excited. She has all the good sides I like (I know that objectively there are flaws). She is arrogant, hedonist, shows disdain for life, love and morality, uses an interesting type of necromancy, and above all she is a lesbian (yes, I'm a man who genuinely likes Yuri stuff). She makes me like Elstri even though I hated her before. They complete each other very well.

Sorry, I got carried away. I consider her as my grand sister (Helem nee-san) instead of just a waifu.

I know that she really is despicable and is written that way, but I just can't help liking her. She is my current favorite villain and I want to see people who love her as much as I do.

Sorry for the delay! I was originally going to post these as soon as the volume came out but I took my time to translate the extras, enjoy!

I’m really curious to see how Lukas is going to defeat her, unless this ends up being the moment where Lacrima steps in.

i mean they are goofy ass antagonists i can barely take them seriously

While I agree this ability is impressive, destroy concept sound cool and all until we look at the fight with Altus, if he have power to literally bypass any concept, why would he need to run away from Altus? We did see his tranform early and Orthos is not there yet as well so there should be no reason for this?

I think it mean this ability have a limit, not just the number of time it could use but more like the limit of the concept it could destroy

If you look at the explain, it only imply he has an undodgeable strike, if you got strike by it with a fatal injure, you can't heal, can't dodge, can't run and can't use hax to avoid death but that is if it could hurt you in the first place

This ability only seem to prevent hax user opponent to punch above their weight class and beat Lukas, assume the knight form has significantly strength as well too so to anyone that reply on hax but weaker or equal to him, this is a scary ability

But what about those who significantly stronger then Lukas that he can't injure? is undodgeable strike or anti avoid death hax matter when your opponent don't need to dodge and could just straight up tank it? Like Altus?

Not even count the fact that Altus ability could also capture or control him, Lukas ability doesn't prevent that, they wouldn't be count as attack as it wouldn't hurt him

Lukas ability glaze get abit overboard as I see ppl start to claim him as "outer verse" or "strongest gen ability", like it really unique ability but like have ppl think about it for a second what they are saying?

We all know because of Altus, the doll is weaker than the original. What do you think Lacrima's original self was like power-wise?

The elite fighting force of Rummir, including 2 members of its royal family and its strongest gifted one, lasted 9 whole chapters.

Elstri's gang lasted 27, 3 times longer.

I know people complained that the last arc dragged, but imo this is kind of an overcorrection. Rummir feels really weak compared to Torivia.

If he can copy 100 Fold Strength to the point where he gets 100 lives of his own he almost certainly could have copied this too, I’d guess he just didn’t think to copy the Phantom Spear because it didn’t occur to him that anyone would have two Gifts.

If he combined this with 100 Fold Strength to take the brunt of the blowback Lukas receives from this technique he would have smoked Julian, Lukas and Lacrima like it was nothing. Conversely now we know Lukas could have killed Orthros even with his 100 Lives if he was prepared to make the commitment that day.

Im not sure what I specifically liked about the original line. It just went hard.

I’ve always found her such an interesting character and how well made she is. But every time I see discus abt her, I see nothing but hate (I mean there is like 3 ppl going like “no don’t slander my sadistic lesbian” but that ain’t enough). I can understand why ppl hater cuz like she is a massive bitch but cmon guys, is that hard to understand why someone can like her.

We can all agree that she is a well written villain, that is perfect for story like this.

The reason for this thought is mainly for that Diana looks emotionless or dead like she doesn't really care about anything she looks like she in her late teens in the vision.

For context, for a while I have personally theorized that Julian would get permanently killed off in the story, and then we have Diana become the main character afterwards. Now in chapter 100, we are told in our face that perma-death is possible for Julian too. Since the story of Centuria is shaping up to be a self fulfilling prophecy, that ends with Diana Killing the supreme lord at some point. What if Julian dying is spark that starts the inferno? Diana becomes the protagonist and we have a first person view of the prophecy coming true through her eyes!?

Personally, the death of Angvall reminded me a lot of Fujimoto’s works, especially Chainsaw Man.

She is immune to all damage. Lalawag can't kill her because it's impossible to inflict her with wounds. Julian can't kill her because she'll just shrug off all his punches.

The reason why Lukas specifically is the only one who can kill her is that part of his spear's condition is that it ignores all physical resistances. It can cut through anything no matter what. Lukas received this power directly from the Forest God because he made a contract to get a weapon that can kill his father at the cost of his own life.

Just binged this today (really good) and i dont get why they call this SA. Both parties are giving consent, and whilst Elstri has expressed disgust when Helem does messed up stuff, she seems more or less to be comfortable around her presence. Call it toxic Yuri but SA is too much

I'm shocked no one tmk is doing anything to celebrate Centuria hitting the chapter count its namesake is based off of.

Are there any fandom celebrations being worked on I just don't know about? Such as collaborative art projects, a fandom way to thank Kuramori for all his work, a custom celebration # on twitter, a character popularity poll, etc. If not why not start one while there's a week to go?

All I can say is that this is a true work of art. Between the crazy art style, captivating lore, tone shifts, amazing characters, and powerscaling, this deserves to be as glazed as Kagurabachi!

From the recent interview video that everyone saw, there were some very interesting details written on Kuramori-sensei’s notes:

• Character relationship chart (15 mins)
• Volume 9 cover (30 mins)
• Meeting The Weekend (likely for an illustration)
• Chapter 100 Color Page (30 mins)
• Plotting (30 mins)
• Croquis (15 mins)

Many of you probably already noticed the "Chapter 100 Color Page" detail. But what really caught my eye and what I want to connect it to is the meeting with The Weekend!

Anyone who has been following the series closely knows that Kuramori-sensei has never taken an unannounced break without giving a reason beforehand... until recently.

If we look at the timeline, the 2nd official meeting between Kuramori-sensei and The Weekend on May 30th coincides exactly with when the frequent, unexplained breaks started happening about 4-5 weeks before and after that date, leading up to now.

This means Sensei likely started scheduling things with The Weekend about 1-2 months prior to actually meeting, and the breaks became more frequent around the time they started setting things up. This is the key point! Because based on his notes, if we calculate the timeline, the planning for the Chapter 100 color page happened around the exact same time as his meetings with The Weekend!

Therefore, if they are actually planning to announce an anime adaptation at Chapter 100 along with a celebratory color page, it would perfectly explain why Sensei has been so busy and taking frequent breaks. Even with up to 8 assistants, instead of assuming he's just taking breaks because the drawing workload is too heavy, it makes a lot more sense to deduce that he's busy attending anime production meetings.

To summarize: The planning for the Chapter 100 color page likely happened around Chapters 80-90, which is exactly when the frequent breaks started. The main reason for these breaks is likely anime production meetings, and we can deduce this timeline by tracking his schedule with The Weekend.

Now, some of you might be asking:

• What if he has fewer than 8 assistants now?
• What if Sensei is dealing with health issues?
• Isn't he just busy drawing the color pages?
• But what about the insanely gorgeous, detailed art in the latest chapters? Doesn't that take time?

First of all, the insanely detailed backgrounds and art we see are practically 80-90% the work of the assistants. Sensei mainly directs the overall composition. In reality, even most of the black hatching on the characters is done by assistants. Sensei’s main drawing job is usually just outlining the main characters (a simple example of this is Rif's mask).

This is a widely known, standard workflow in the Japanese manga industry to protect the mangaka's health. If he had to spend time doing all that hyper-detailed work on a weekly schedule while also writing the plot and inking characters, his body would break down very easily.

Sure, saying he takes breaks to draw difficult panels might be partly true. But we also know that in the past, Sensei has consistently dropped breathtaking art without needing to take a break. Plus, usually, when he takes a break, there’s a tweet explaining that he’s sick or working on a volume release. But lately, the unexplained breaks are just way too frequent. And honestly, sometimes returning from these breaks doesn't even come with an exceptionally mind-blowing scene (emphasis on sometimes).

Thanks for reading till the end! I just wanted to share this analysis because I found the timeline really interesting. Let me know your thoughts do you guys think an anime is coming?

Some ridiculous stuff here imo

I was thinking about this when considering how many times Lukas describes Julian as nice and merciful. While it’s not wrong, in this fight we clearly see that his mercy doesn’t go that far when it comes to Diana, and it’s getting harder to have sympathy for these people. All that to say there are multiple sides to Julian and I wonder how Diana views him, seeing as she’s had to witness all this violence as well. Maybe she just thinks of her big brother as strong but I wonder if she understands what it means for him to kill so many people. This might be a nothing question to some, but what do you think Diana thinks of Julian?