Quote from: Micki! on April 25, 2013, 06:44:14 PM
I read it tonight..!

Gotta say, happy something actually happens now..! Spoiler below, so please be careful to read on if you want to read it yourself:

[spoiler]
To start with, I'm happy it didn't stay almost passive like volume 24 did... While I liked vol 24 for obvious reasons (just seeing my favorite characters talk is cool afterall), it lacked the feeling of progression, actually going somewhere, this volume had this..!
First half was a long winded build-up, for what became the incredibly funny second half of the book, where we get a ton of the otherwise very rare interaction between almost every important character, and the imprisonment of them later on was hysterical, I never thoghut I'd see Sumiyoshi and Watanabe be THIS vile... Maybe Watanabe, but surely not sumiyoshi, and even Misaki lost her senses..! All in good humor, and without feeling too awkward or as I feared, forced in as a cheap way to interact with the "other side", but it feels very fitting for them to be in this situation,  and of course there's even more speculation going on, 2 il Palazzo's..?! Is one a puppet and one real..?! Miwa seems to mess with us, I can't get a hold of who's in control of who anymore..!

Only 2 volumes left, I honestly can't see this being wrapped up in just 2 more books, but I'll hang on to it, if anything, not for the story, but just to see all the characters together like this, I love seeing the characters talk, and generally just do stuff, and I honestly couldn't care less for the context, but admittedly, the story does make me curious as to how it's supposed to end, or whatever Rikudou has in mind (Hey, One can dream for a continuation of SOME kind right..?)

Also, Now we need a blushing Ropponmatsu/Isshiki 1 Le emoticon  :ropponmatsuI:[/spoiler]

Anyway, overall, I think the last half of this volume makes up for the kind of dull happenings that occurred in volume 24, which just felt like it was dragging on and on, which I wouldn't have minded if it was split up with some stuff going on at least, or done in an earlier volume, and not so close to the conclusion of the series..!

With regard to your question ...
[spoiler]... about the 2 Il Palazzo's: I have the impression that the second one (seen only from behind) is female, wearing a very similar, but slightly feminized (?), outfit. [/spoiler]

:il_hahaha:

We're such a twisted species.

Ahhhhh! I am so pointlessly happy to have read it! (six times)

I wonder if there is any connection between Iwata's behavior in this Volume, and [spoiler]the underground secret door he touched (while in Isshiki's body)[/spoiler] in Volume 21?

^is secretly recruiting for the rebel alliance because he needs more enemies

^tripped over an acronym and fell down the rabbit hole

^is looking for more broken water heaters.

:ropponmatsuI: The ACROSS Statistics Department will once again summarize with little faces! ( :) means "has volume"; :( means "missing volume"; 8) means "has volume in French")
Accuracy has deteriorated somewhat, since Iwata keeps messing around in my head.

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:ropponmatsuII: I helped! I can think by myself now!
Stay out of my head, Iwata!!!

Quote from: Lord Il on May 23, 2011, 02:13:51 PM
^Damn! That's some mad detective skillz! :e_shocked: Very impressive.

:elannoyed: "The hell is going on here...? You know nothing of Elgala's age! Th-that magazine means nothing."

^Very interesting! And not inconsistent with my age estimates.

:e_annoyed: "Elgala! You know you're almost 27 by Volume 22!"

Wut wut?
The End of the World was "predicted" with earthquakes and exciting stuff like that.

NO. I died - fortunately it wasn't fatal.

We're not out of the woods yet, since the Gregorian calendar jumped ahead 10 days (March 11 to March 21) in 1582 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar). We need to wait a couple of weeks, just in case!  :hpleased:

Quote from: Randamo on May 22, 2011, 12:24:13 AM
On the other hand, they are replaced by companies that know what we want and work to deliver it, be it good voice acting, uncensorship, ect. I mostly buy off Viz, but one thing I wish they did is putting the translated sound effects on the page. I don't bother looking it up, so I wonder what I'm missing.

Unfortunately, in many cases these companies are deciding for us  what "we want".

Also, while I sympathize with your comment on sound effects - since I have a hard time reading small white characters on a black background - I prefer the original Japanese characters. 

Tokyopop will be missed.  :sumysad:

In spite of what the recent spoilers might imply, I am sticking with my somewhat fanciful interpretation and time-line for events (and made-up events) leading up to the beginning of the manga:

http://www.excelsagaforum.com/index.php?topic=1242.msg50470#msg50470

Since it may be totally wrong, it probably doesn't need a spoiler warning!!  ;)

^ Has escaped the Cybermen, who are now very sad.

^Is being chased by Cybermen, who have no Taste.

Pamplemousse, a silly goose;
Lord Il, with a gear loose;
Pointless follows, like a train's caboose!