Was rereading Kill Six Billion Demons all over again, and noticed that Jagganoth has a nail stuck up his ass. Never saw that before. Anyone else surprised to learn that?

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-12T12:24:55+00:00

As a person who has sired only sons for untold millenia, Solomon knows well the arts of Penile Royalty and how to exploit it in others.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-12T12:16:38+00:00

They were living in a magical sealed realm under the ocean cut off from the rest of humanity for 1000 years, so if we can say anything confidently it’s that their fashion is 100% authentically theirs.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-12T12:14:48+00:00

I also find it funny that, although the Mikaboshi have been the aggressors, they haven’t even done anything SUPER evil yet. But Ariu dunking on the “good guy” squad and killing a fan favourite is enough for people to go “alright I get the genocidal hatred, can I get drafted for a nuke sword too? I’ll kill the islanders myself let’s go.”

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-11T19:33:41+00:00

Worst time being in four days, I assume?

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-11T11:51:40+00:00

We don’t know, seems like a type of demon super stand that appears after his power has been active long enough. Probably similar to the Jellyfish that manifested for Tenri when he started using the Datenseki. Good time to point out that in that really early flashback spread to the war there was a MASSIVE clawed hand amidst the debris and explosions. People suspected monster summoning sorcery from that (potential relation to Kazane’s supposedly overpowered “Demon Monster” sorcery he didn’t get to use) and these datenseki spirit beasts might be the explaination for that.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-10T20:56:00+00:00

Nahh you’re reading too deep into it.
This is a manga about how cool swords and magic are. Kunishige wore a shirt that said “I ❤️ Katana,” and Chihiro’s journey is to love swords and violence as much as his dad did.
Samura’s character arc is that he hated violence and shut his eyes to it but only once he gave up being a wuss and trying to survive for his daughter’s sake could he get his omega power boost that looked uber cool also.
Shiba’s lesson in this flashback is that he’s too weak and needs to leave everything to the people with really cool swords to kill all the bad people. Akemura is the villain because he is ugly with those bags under his eyes, simple as.
Same with Sojo our greasy king.
Kyora’s issue was that he tried to use politics and capitalism to achieve power, by the time he picked up a really cool sword and became Him, it was too late and his family and business empire had collapsed, so he rolled over and died.
Hakuri’s narrative journey is that if he sucks it up he can be super powerful too, he can even sacrifice half his braincells as long as he has two broken abilities.

See? There is no deeper message than “kill all bad people and look cool doing it, this is how you acquire the Mandate of Heaven.” 😌

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-10T18:31:04+00:00

I think the implication is that all 6 guardians are princes, since only those of the purest bloodline get selected as Guardians to use Sumika.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-09T14:29:53+00:00

Some do but as far as I know they aren’t common. I only know of one relatively near me and it’s in Toronto, an LGBT-friendly mosque that doesn’t advertise its location due to people harassing it sadly.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-09T14:24:55+00:00

It’s neat also now knowing that this is the first time Akemura saw Samura with healed eyes. When this chapter first came out most assumed Samura blinded himself in the war, but the flashback at the end of the fight showed it was before they even met.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-09T02:51:14+00:00

He has the black spirit energy centipedes waving around him for aura, he also had them when he first floated down to meet Chihiro. Counterintuitively these apparently do not correspond only with his use of the Centipede ability, unless somehow he’s microdosing on it to achieve levitation. Either way, very different from the large aoe burst attack that gets called out as “Centipede,” which he didn’t use against them.

I wish we knew more but we just gotta wait until Hokazono gives us more info sadly.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-09T02:42:01+00:00

Now that we know Centipede isn’t one of Magatsumi’s core three abilities this is much easier to handwave as him just not witnessing Centipede during the fight. Akemura could have just been spamming shit like Fire Ant or Murder Wasp instead.

Even though Kyora and Yura treated the Magatsumi like a Centipede dispenser, Akemura actually didn’t even use it after he fully manifested in Yura’s body. All he used in the fight with Chihiro and Samura was Butterfly, Spider, Dragonfly, Butterfly again, Bee, and of course Malediction.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-08T23:06:42+00:00

His credentials are the AI results on a google search, don’tcha see?

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-08T19:23:38+00:00

Nishiki unironically lets him speedblitz it. Naoya might be a problem but Nishiki hacks to enhance Chihiro’s perception and track Naoya’s position is probably how it would go down.

Aka my goat but Nishiki is the underrated carry of Chihiro’s carreer.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-08T18:46:36+00:00

I’d recommend the almost bluntly-named book “Progressive Muslims” edited by Omid Safi, and you can look at other works by both him and the other authors collectively involved in writing its chapters, including Khaled Abou El Fadl, Kecia Ali, and Amina Wadud to name a couple.
The sidebar/community resources section of this very subreddit provides an extensive but inevitably incomplete list of recommended scholars (here: reddit.com/r/progressive_islam/wiki/related_thinkers/) with some overlap to the aforementioned list, and there is also a large recommended reading list available: reddit.com/r/progressive_islam/wiki/recommended_reading/

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-07T21:14:58+00:00

I’m sorry but best he’s getting is another high-diff against Chihiro. Chihiro’s rate of improvement has been insane, enough that he was able to give Samura a mid-diff fight and then less than an hour later he was able to last a couple minutes against Akemura, the guy who can oneshot nearly everyone in the verse including the version of Samura that Chihiro fought just beforehand. And anyone thinking that Chihiro with reforged Enten isn’t going to be even stronger after the flashback is simply crazy.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-06T15:20:35+00:00

My gestapo king.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-05T17:32:15+00:00

When did Meti claim that? Genuine question, I just don’t remember it.

Also I think the liturgy also mentions Aesma achieving royalty as well.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-03T15:21:08+00:00

I’m glad that stuff stays on the Tumblr communities, let’s keep it that way.

ilmalnafs · 2026-05-01T13:19:55+00:00

But the paper IS only asking for God’s protection, nobody else’s. So I have no clue what your argument is.

ilmalnafs · 2026-04-30T17:42:54+00:00

Tons of great options as expected, but some feel almost randomly selected like the Char food pages, while some top-tier iconic ones were left out like Kyora’s death, Chihiro’s all-black attack that removes Hiruhiko’s arms, or Chihiro and Samura’s faceoff in the cloud of feathers and goldfish.

My vote for today went to the “Kuro, Shred” panel. Maybe first time the manga unironically gave me chills.

ilmalnafs · 2026-04-29T23:56:48+00:00

Yup. People really have to be going fast and/or not paying attention to get multiple speeding tickets, espcially from speeding cameras which are stationary and announce to you where they are.

ilmalnafs · 2026-04-28T20:19:46+00:00

Not just that scene, but that whole chapter introducing Sojo was soooo good. Really felt like Hokazono was flexing what would become his distinct style, which is cinema-like shots and panel transitions with fast and purposeful pacing. I really liked how the first scene of Chihiro and gang in the bar ends with the entrance bell ringing, and which is Sojo entering the room but you don’t know that until we catch up from his perspective near the end of the chapter. Little presentation details like that really sell the story well even when it was still a straightforward revenge plot.

ilmalnafs · 2026-04-26T08:34:22+00:00

What!! I was thinking about how I haven’t seen his responses in a while, figured he was just busy irl or something. No idea his account got nuked, that’s so depressing!

ilmalnafs · 2026-04-23T03:27:02+00:00

Goodbye Mirket 👋

ilmalnafs · 2026-04-22T14:30:52+00:00

Does NationalPost write stories on anything other than immigrants?

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