Mahouka Volume 23

Illustrations are out. Tatsuya VS Katsuto at last.

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That's all

Oh nice.
Besides that what's happening on and ?

Dunno.

Is that his arm?

Yes. Tatsuya regrew it after though

That's what you get for crossing Onii-sama

Its almost like the comment in the previous thread of >Haha, good joke. But no, the brainwashing magic used on Tatsuya backfires and he annihilates Huge Man Jew's arm, but Mayumi gets knifed by fodder and he saves her, then he bones her.
was true. Except for the boning part.

After this volume it looks like both Mayumi and Miyuki have both taken a Huge L in the ship war.

Mayumi by being part of the trio to persuade/capture Tatsuya (although its not clear if she was willing to capture him) and then trying to help Katsuo after his arm is blown off, only to be attacked by Miyuki and co. need more info to know her state of mind though, but from my perspective, Tatsuya would not be liking her for getting in the way, even if he knew the reasons.
A shame, until the Umbrella scene, she kept appearing and shown to care and fall for Tatsuya both in his company and within her own thoughts (like bath scene). Now those scenes of her are almost non existent.

And Miyuki because its clear she's getting fed up with the way Tatsuya is being used and abandoned by Yotsuba and others, while being hunted by the rest.
apparently the next volume is titled "escape" and this pic :is apparently Miyuki crying that Tatsuya has to leave in order to protect them both, or Her telling Tatsuya to leave her for his safety. Don't know why she leave with him though.
Not sure if its about cancelling the engagement, but it looks like the 2 will be distanced for a time.

And nowadays, it seems like Lina is becoming more prominent after the parasite arc and will be a more serious contender for Tatsuya after he saved her friend, and now she's worried about him after his identity as Silver is revealed.
Honoka is also doing well since she's actually doing something, but i still dont have alot of hope for her overall, but she's still in a better position than the other 3 since Mayumi was allied with Mari and Katsuo, Tatsuya is (apparently) leaving Miyuki and Lina is in America.

Who dis?

Thats all in the volume or all for now? i thought Volumes had 10 images.

Is this the Kuroba crossdresser?

Can't he just stay at the Yotsuba Mansion?

I thought it was like a place with no listed address and pretty much impossible to invade?

Or what about one of the Yotsuba training grounds which also has no address and not listed on any map?

Sasuga Onii-sama

Kinda funny on how a Japanese fan pointed out this color illustration composition is similar to vol.1 Tatsuya vs Hatori color illustration.

Sasuga Onii-sama

Can Miyuki survive without Tatsuya?

Apparently there is a Battle Royale SS. Anyone knows what happens in it?

I thought Katsuto was smarter than to fight Tatsuya? How did he fucking think he wouldn't push his face in?

Because Tsukasa told him he could definitely beat Tatsuya in the last volume. Too bad Tatsuya developed Baryon Lance for him since Yotsuba Succession Arc.

Because he's an overconfident ass who had his ego inflated. Godsuya sent him back down to Earth real quick.

He has never been afraid of Tatsuya to begin with, but he preferred pacific methods obviously. His chances of winning disappeared once Tatsuya created Baryon Lance.

Even without Baryon, does Katsuto have anything that could keep Tatsuya down? At worst it'd be a stalemate.

Well, Phalanx can crush you infinitely when used offensively but there is no way he would go that far, they are not exactly enemies.

Katsuto turned into fodder tier when he embarrassed himself during the Parasite Vampire Arc and he was completely useless and made the situation much worst.

Also, the fact his magic is double edged and he is fated to become bald and lose all his magic once he turns 40 to 50 years old.

Something like a hydraulic press? Can't Tatsuya keep canceling them with trident?

You don't need Baryon Lance to kill Katsuto.

Maya's magic is also capable of bypassing Katsuto's barrier and killing him.

You could argue that Tatsuya's grandfather's Death God Illusion Magic could get Katsuto to commit suicide as well.

user, I was talking about Tatsuya you know.

What's the translation status?

Slow as fuck for volume 19.

More of her when?

I'm a handful of volumes behind but now I'm excited to get reading again.

Baryon Lancer is defined by the author as the fastest spell ever, and more he even says it breaks inherent speed limits of spellcasting, it means that Phalanx can't be faster than it, its the literal greatest trump card ever

Most underappreciated girl in the series.

How did he embarrass himself? It's been a while since I read the Visitor Arc.

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>apparently the next volume is titled "escape"
Isn't that the name of Tatsuya project? Maybe he'll announce it now that is known he is Taurus Silver.

Watch the movie and you will see how fast Phalanx can crush you.

Phalanx can be Omni-directional.

Who's got a good source and subs?

Overlord is translated within 2 weeks. Mahouka takes 2 years...might as well get yen press.

Why are people trying to capture Tatsuya? I thought the twist was that his aunt, head of the Yotsuba, actually loved him and was on his side.

sasuga
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Kimochii

Aniplex.

tatsuya x mayumi otp

>Tsukasa
Who?

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SASUGA

This is the only thing that matters.

I wish i was re-incarnated as that hand.

Hey that be a great LN idea. I got killed by my best friend and got re-incarnated as a hand that gropes JKs.

Wait, Tatsuya could have just killed him and revived him too though.

>the twist was that his aunt, head of the Yotsuba, actually loved him and was on his side.
It be reasonable if you think that, they're letting or rather make Tatsuya go against the world that keeps going after him.
He was made to destroy the world, that destroyed hi mother's life.

Nope. It is explicitly stated that once someone is dead Regrowth doesn't work. Regrowth restores physical properties but it can't bring back someone's conscious. Besides, if it did then that gets rid of the threat of death, negates the reason for Tatsuya's super-protectiveness of Miyuki, and removes the threat that is she dies he would Material Burst the entire world if he can just bring her back.

Does mayumi really not win?

No. Juumonji needs her now more than ever.

Unlikly now. Since the Umbrella scene, her thoughts of love and caring for Tatsuya have been greatly reduced. And now that she was part of capturing Tatsuya, and went to aid Jumonji, his opinion of her is likely to be that of an enemy than associate.
And after trying to defend Jumonji but being stopped by Miyuki, she might actually start to care about him.

No, from the very beginning he knew she was manipulative and actually wanted to be free of her, Miyuki too.

Its only recently that Maya says all these things, but Tatsuya obeys her for Miyukis sake. The engagement to Miyuki was to help ensure this. Tatsuya knew that both he and Miyuki are actually real borther and sister with the same parents, and Maya affirmed it. Also pointed out that If Tatsuya leaves Miyuki, it leaves her Vurnerable which could cause Tatsuya to destroy the world for her, or he can go along with it and be a functional member of the Family.

Maya wants more than anything to get revenge on the world, which is why she was so happy to learn of his magic when he was born. She's on her own side more than anything. With ordering him to attack a Japanese compound to release prisoners, she managed to put a huge target on his back, which isolates him, gets others to attack him, and may eventually turn him against the world like she wanted.

Does she look eager to try?
She's human like everyone else so sure. She lived well enough before she even truly knew him.

Maya told the Yotsuba last volume that they should not be naive enough to believe they can win a war, and named 3 families, including the Jummonji, as potential adversaries.

And now that Tatsuya is black listed by the military, his identity as TS is exposed, and beating a mead of an MC clan, the entire country, and other countries, have painted a massive bulls eye on him.

Even if the Yotusba has unlisted adresses and hidden islands, it'd be only a matter of time before their ground is found. With entire countries after them and families with just as capable intelligence gathering abilities, they wouldnt be hidden forever.
And while the Yotusba are powerful, their numbers are small. They'd be overwhelmed since its not just one clan or country they're up against this time, but several.

a shame, but does not look like it.

You're forgetting this image and another one.

Here's the other one.

And you better not ask about the status or boy someone's throwing a fit

>And now that Tatsuya is black listed by the military, his identity as TS is exposed, and beating a mead of an MC clan, the entire country, and other countries, have painted a massive bulls eye on him.
Wait what the fuck can these translators pick up the pace jesus christ

>Miyuki, stop being so sexy, it's distracting
>I can't help it, Onii-sama...uwu...

It's not his fault the imouto is so sexy.

>negates the reason for Tatsuya's super-protectiveness of Miyuki
How is he even protecting her? He's always going off doing missions for the military, leaving her alone.

I came to this thread only to post this. Sasuga Oni-sama

>She's human like everyone else so sure. She lived well enough before she even truly knew him.
That was back when she was still ingrained with the Yotsuba, though. For the past several years, her life has revolved around onii-sama and onii-sama alone.

At least try to spell it correctly.

Sasuga onii-sama!

>o
>Lower case
Kill yourself.

YES

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Did you bother to read the novel?

Only recently, Maya and Tatsuya discovered the fact that the Jummonji eventually lose all their magic due to the flaw of their magic.

So anybody over 40 years old in the Jummonji family is either in the process of their magic abilities diminishing over time or they already lost it completely and are forced to retire.

So yeah, Jummonji are potential adversaires but new information about the biggest flaw in the magic makes only the young people in Jummonji clan, potential threats, and none of the powerless geezers forced to retire.

At least that country isn't China though since they lost so many magicians already, including famous ones.

America isn't that much of a threat either since they lost a lot of their suicide soldiers and the Parasites managed to infect some pretty famous powerful soldiers as well, making them irrevocable.

It's literally just Lina and Benjamin left for America.

The only threat viable right now would be either Russia or South America since South America has that radiation magician.

So, really who cares if other countries have painted a target on Tatsuya when some of the major powers like America have lost of lot of manpower?

China may as well not even be mentioned anymore.

I thought Erika was taking drugs at first.

Oniisama is back.

see, thats the naivity Maya was pointing out last volume, the whole "lets not assume we can win a war" thing.

She's being smart, so saying "who care if other countries have painted a target on Tatsuya" is the naivity she talks about.

And china? they had a whole volume of Japan and China working together where it ends up that China took the opputunity to measure the skills of many of Japans Military people.

Even with some sort of plan in place, the It took the scorched Halloween to properly defeat them, and thats what lead to Tatsuyas current predicament. And now he's black listed by Japanese Militaries, hated for creating the "Mine field" magic by the 9 magic schools, and is seen a threat to Japans own interests after attacking one of their facilities and is looked down on for refusing the Russian space project.

Not sure if you noticed, but the title of the volume is "Isolation" And Miyuki is pissed that so many people are turning on Tatsuya, and that the Yotsuba arn't lifiting a finger to help him, even making decisions to explain why he attacked the prisoner facility, or convince to take up the Russian project, which just makes it worse for him. Thats why Miyuki un-does his seals are per the volume cover.

Theo nly thing that might help him, that Maya is doing is thinking about assassinating Richard Clark for revealing Silvers identity. But she's doing so out of rage for his actions (throwing and destroying her tea with meteor shower) and angered that this has come about of her trying to work with the current "magic system" of politics, and wants Richard dead because he's part of that system.
But honestly, depending on how, that could just make things worse.

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Enjoy it while it lasts. her love story is slowly being written down as of the last 5 volumes. I'm wondering if everying in previous volumes was just to set a solid footing to make her a serious contender even after everything thats happening. But who knows.

the whole part of he engagement was to ensure shes ingrained to Yotsuba.

But honestly it is a good question. Before the engagement she was literally talking to herself about freeing Tatsuya from the Yotsuba by becoming the heir, But knew it meant being paired with someone else.

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>美処女魔法戦士プラズマリーナ
>Beautiful Magical Warrior Plasma Lina
Is this a legit spin-off of a loli Lina? scans where?

wtf...!?

So Mayumi betrays Tatsuya?

>hated for creating the "Mine field" magic by the 9 magic schools,

Tatsuya's female cousin who graduated from the same highschool submitted a supewrweapon thesis and even though she wasn't allowed to win the thesis competition, nobody hates her even though her thesis was about developing a superweapon.

Yeah, Mayumi choose Katsuto over Tatsuya.

She was fine with brainwashing Tatsuya and when Tatsuya was about to lay down judgement on Katsuto, Mayumi defended Katsuto's actions.

No. She is with her family and the others but she doesn't know the details.

China's best magicians were already killed by the Yotsuba a long time ago.

The remnants's best magic was a fake anti aging magic and his student's best magic was literally a magic spirit dog he spent 10 to 15 years making which ended up being destroyed by Tatsuya within seconds.

Sorry but Chinese magic hasn't really impressed anybody in Mahouka.

It's good for taking out fodders though.

Tatsuya's grandfather already ensured the best Chinese magic died with their owners in his generation so you can thank Tatsuya's grandfather for that.

dahan != china

>Mayumi choose Katsuto
>She was fine with brainwashing Tatsuya
Haha. So she's gonna end up with gorilla in the end. What a pile of shit.