Here is some SPOILER info for the upcoming UQ Holder Chapter 124, courtesy of 2ch. (My review of UQ Holder Chapter 124 should come out late Tuesday night or Wednesday, U.S. time, depending on when Crunchyroll publishes the chapter.)
UQ HOLDER Chapter 124 SPOILERS
The UQ Holder Chapter 124 goodness begins. This looks to be the chapter’s spoilers. ^_^
そうやって決まります!
もはや着替えなおす余裕などなく
キリヱたち3組は刀太の手ブラガードで追撃
俺に勝たせろ!ともめる刀太たちをキリヱが一喝すると
刀太は3人ともみぞれの動力源になり、残り2機も軽量化
近衛双子の脱げ魔法を刀太3人がかりで反射すると
反動で大混戦状態になり、不慮のキスで時間停止
機体放置で自分たちだけゴールラインを通過するキリヱ&き刀太ところが、キリヱたちしか動ける者がいないはずの中
“妹”が二人に近づいてくる■スピーダーレース決着後、怒涛の展開へ!!!!ついに最強の敵と対峙!!!27号につづく!!!
The race does conclude this chapter and the ending of the race…well, I’ll let a gracious translator provide the details since I’m not sure. Looks like some strong enemy is coming. Cutlass maybe?
Update #1: Translation from DerGilga.
It will be decided that way!
they don’t have the time to change clothes and
Kiriwe & rest are making a persude with a hand-bra guard from Touta
// google is your fried: 手ブラガード {nsfw}
when Kiriwe shouts at the Toutas who are fighting over “You’ll let me win!”
all 3 Toutas become a Mizores power source and the remaining two crafts become light weighted too
the three Toutas reflect the stripping magic of the Konoe twins back
with a recoil/backlash it becomes a big free-for-all battle, and time is stopped by an accidental kiss
Kiriwe & Ki-Touta leave their machine behind and pass the goal line only with their bodiesHowever, while Kiriwe and Touta should be the only persons who can move
“Imouto” is approaching the two■following the conclusion of the speed race, towards ‘stormy’ developments!!!! At last, the confrontation with the strongest enemy!!! Continuing in issue 27!!!
That’s kinda what I thought — Cutlass returns.
Update #2: MK seems a bit more enthused about the chapter than last week;s chapter since he’s got images up. Either that, or he had more free time 😉
Hopefully, Crunchyroll has a translation out on time and I’ll get a review up Tuesday evening, U.S. time.
I used that weird translate thing but did not post it for it looked more broken than it already was.
So, to try sparing the eyes the last bit is like this:
However , in that we should not have a person who can move only Kirie is
” Sister ” is approaching two people
■ After a speeder race settled , !!! following the confrontation !!! No. 27 and finally the strongest enemy !!!! to the deployment of the angry waves
I edited small bits. I would just post the full thing to edit it but, I gotta leave for work in 5 minuets. from the time I write this anyway.
The race is finished, but something else is happening as it seems after the race.
I was expecting this development going into Golden Week.
Yeah, machine translators are pretty bad. They have a hard time dealing with Japanese.
It will be decided that way!
they don’t have the time to change clothes and
Kiriwe & rest are making a persude with a hand-bra guard from Touta
// google is your fried: 手ブラガード {nsfw}
when Kiriwe shouts at the Toutas who are fighting over “You’ll let me win!”
all 3 Toutas become a Mizores power source and the remaining two crafts become light weighted too
the three Toutas reflect the stripping magic of the Konoe twins back
with a recoil/backlash it becomes a big free-for-all battle, and time is stopped by an accidental kiss
Kiriwe & Ki-Touta leave their machine behind and pass the goal line only with their bodies
However, while Kiriwe and Touta should be the only persons who can move
“Imouto” is approaching the two
■following the conclusion of the speed race, towards ‘stormy’ developemts!!!! At last, the confrontation with the strongest enemy!!! Continuing in issue 27!!!
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I have a headache
and a new 長門. Power of big 7!
Japan day was worth it!
So in other words, wait another week for the really good stuff. Ahhh Ken…
Heh!heh!heh! I was actually expecting him to put this plot development in going into Golden Week so that we’d have two weeks to wait.
More like we should have expected him to purposely continue with the (nice) fanservice until the last moment?
I still think Cutlass is gong to become a ally, through force or ‘fists’ i guess?
Or maybe even better, she allows herself to get caught, get taken to the hideout, and she destroys UQHolder! HQ, takes Evangeline, and Touta and co are forced to ally with Fate and Neo Ala-Alba.
BOOm, plot.
That wouldn’t surprise me. Touta’s harem always has room for one more. 😉
Ha!ha! That’s funny.
Thanks for the translation. I presume “Japan day” is some kind of festival thing?
not really a festival,
http://www.japantag-duesseldorf-nrw.de/en/
I was only a couple of hours there, too many people and too much sun, but it was nice and I got a Nagamon *hihihi*.
Ah. OK.
This is going to be good!
Hopefully.
I really hope she tears them apart. Touta literally.
Ha!ha!
From one of the images… It was a four way tie?
I don’t think the others had quite crossed yet. But I may have been mistaken about that.
Well It seems that I and the Japanese fans have reached utter apathy for the series, I really didn’t think it would happen within 3 years.
I think UQ inherited a lot of Negima’s fanbase and a fair amount of them are here for that exact purpose. Ken loves to tease tidbits every so often to keep us interested. But fluff like this does nothing for me and it sounds like most people. A one-off chapter of this race would’ve been perfectly fine but eating up most of a volume with it is dull, especially when there’s no real implications or consequences of it. At least Yue’s race served a purpose back in Negima. This one is just loli ecchi stuff that most of us could do without.
Negima as a whole benefitted greatly from the hybrid of the shonen/harem genres. UQ doesn’t seem to, especially as characters are continuously pushed to the background (First Santa, then Karin/Kuromaru, and the other, unintroduced members of UQ Holder) and Touta shows interest in no one other than Eva (and Karin to a much lesser extent), thus making the harem seem rather pointless. This is in contrast to Negima where there were at least a few girls in serious contention for his feelings.
I still read this series because overall Ken is a good writer and I feel like a lot of leftover threads from Negima will be resolved or expanded upon, and the cast is mostly enjoyable (though I don’t care for the current Kirie/Shinobu/Mizore focus), but there is a lot of potential being wasted here. I actually think (shipping goggles here) that Kirie and Santa make a much better pair than Kirie/Touta, but this only gets minor focus as Santa has become all but irrelevant since his inclusion into UQ. The other UQ members (I can’t even remember their names) have had little to no focus despite being intriguing characters with interesting abilities… Though that could change at any time.
There is a sizeable amount of irony that Ken’s superiors necessitated Negima’s genre shift into something he wanted to do… And now he’s doing the reverse with UQ with considerably worse results. The series started off very strong and there was little to no reason to resort to harem hijinks, unless Ken thinks that will win back his audience (which it isn’t). This, coupled with minimal marketing and no sign of an animated series in sight (which often greatly boosts popularity of relatively unknown series), is dooming this series.
Of course, Ken being who he is, is very likely throwing his audience for a loop. Because damn if that man isn’t a massive troll.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but I suspect that purpose of this mini-arc is to have Touta decide on the harem route. Just my opinion.
As to UQ Holder, I was fine with it until all of the sudden, the UQH folks showed up to whisk Touta, Eva, and Kuroumaru to UQH HQ. I was looking forward to a continued road trip where Touta learned more about immortality through Eva and Kuroumaru, but alas, that didn’t happen. Plus, Touta kept being Super Touta with no efforts, combined with his “I’m going to do whatever and up yours ’cause I’m the MC” attitude was irritating.
It really is a shame because I had believed Akamatsu-sensei would explore immortality through Touta, but instead, we got cliched, OP MC, which is boring. I think that’s why in desperation, Akamatsu-sensei has gone back to the harem and ecchi stuff to try to garner cheap boosts in ratings.
@Yue Ayase The well of creativity is finite whilst man’s lust infinite.
It is just meandering, which is what fans aren’t looking for.