#tenkuu shinpan arrive spoilers

[elmaxlys]

Meeting the person behind the cloud... Where is Shika's?

[xchoco-mixturex]

Kuon: Who are you?

Zeon: I’m you but I can say "fuck."

[torishi22]

High Rise Translation: *Chap 34* Meanwhile Magapoke: Here’s Chap 83! HOLY SH--

[ohworm-writes]

Could I request sniper mask with a s/o who had a tubal ligation b4 coming to the high rise world? Like would he be protective of her? Would he walk slower for her to keep up cuz of the pain? Would he look for some pain meds for her? Would he ask the emotionless masks for something to help? Would he find a comfortable place to sleep? Just something sweet and heartwarming.

I just had my surgery today and I need something to help distract me from my pain😖😭 my poor tummy hurts, but I'm still happy I did it😄😁

High-Rise Invasion/Tenkuu Shinpan: Sniper Mask Boyfriend Headcannon

high-rise invasion/tenkuu shinpan masterlist

‼ Sniper Mask with a s/o who had their tubes tied (tubal ligation) ‼

Featuring: Sniper Mask, Yuri Honjo, Mayulo Nise (implied), Kuon Shinzaki (implied)

Warnings: spoilers for High-Rise Invasion/Tenkuu Shinpan, mentions of pills/pain-relievers, mentions of surgery

a/n - thank you so much for the request mate! i had to do a bit of research before writing this (and i was asleep when you sent it in) so sorry for the wait! i hope your surgery went well and that the pain subsides soon enough!

content below the cut!

when you first came to the High-Rise world, it had been a little under a week since you had your surgery

you were healed for the most part, but side effects from it still lingered

it hurt to walk most times, you had constant cramps, you felt dizzy sometimes

it really sucked

thankfully, a few hours upon your arrival, you met up with Yuri's group

she had offered to let you join her friends in getting out of this world

of course, you were thrilled. you didn't want to stay around murderers longer than you had to

but, of course, you told them about your surgery, and how you worried you could become a dead weight on their operation

after some reassurance, you joined them, finding yourself with Sniper Mask more often than not

he was whipped, easily, and quickly became protective over you

he was extremely anxious when it came to you

he didn't want to risk you pushing it or being put in harm's way

when you opened up to him about the side effects you had been experienced, the worry only grew

he stayed at your side as often as possible, slowing down his pace to not rush you

he didn't have a problem with walking a bit slower, as long as it would help ease the pain somewhat

never lets you carry anything

it's a bit frustrating, yes, but again he doesn't want to risk anything

he's worried about you, and he wants to take away any unnecessary possibilities of pain

onto the topic of pain medications

when the pain gets really bad, he'll give you some Ibuprofen

he always makes sure to have some on hand (this being a bottle or two)

whenever he gets close to running out, he either does one of two things

one, he'll start scavenging

he'll go from one building to another with the single goal in mind of finding something to relieve your pain

he'll make a mess where he goes, apartments upturned, furniture flipped, whatever he needs to do to find it for you

or, two, he'll try to go to the emotionless masks for help

they already bring everyone food and weapons, so they must be able to have some medication on hand, right?

surely enough, they do

they usually hand it over without a second thought

at first, he tried to threaten them, but immediately felt bad when they just silently handed it to him

either way, he makes sure he always has medication on hand for you

switching over to the topic of comfort

he always tries to make sure you're wearing something comfortable

something that doesn't restrict you or rub up against your stitches

usually, this results in you wearing baggy shirts and pants or warm sweaters

all gifted to you by our lovely sniper himself

when night rolls around, he always tries to make sure you have a bed to sleep in or something that isn't on the ground

he'll give you any blankets he finds

usually, he just sits against something and dozes off

but for you, he'll lay down and hold you until you fall asleep

he usually falls asleep first though

on the off chance, you guys have to sleep outside

he'll have you lay on him and cover you with a blanket

granted, it's not the most comfortable, but it's better than the hard concrete

backtracking to him being protective

he's very wary of letting anyone around you

the girls you two travel around with being the only exception

he'd kill any mask who even dares coming close

and it doesn't even have to be relatively close

if another mask is in his line of sight, they're done for

when you eventually do recover fully, he doesn't let up being by your side

still protective as ever, but he knows you can handle yourself

he just doesn't want you to be alone doing so

[pleaseshutupaboutsatou]

Before and After Ajin Volume 1

Part Three

[Part One] [Part Two]

This was supposed to be the last part but I had a lot to say on this one particular subject.

Ajin: Human or Demi-Human

Spoilers ahead and I will refer to Tsuina Miura as TM.

Before V2 - Ajin: Human or Demi-Human

Okay, so it’s always kind of perplexed me that Ajin are so objectified. They look like any other person but in the world of Ajin, they’re referred to as ‘another species’, a ‘life-form’, and sometimes even ‘it’. When someone finds out they’re Ajin, it’s not readily apparent and can easily be hidden. Probably the most conspicuous aspect of an Ajin is their IBM if anything -- especially if they can’t control it. 

Anyway, the way I’ve really looked at it, I’ve always kinda assumed that the objectification of Ajin was a purposeful and systemic way of othering people with immortal abilities so that they can be more easily taken advantage of. 

I forget that this thought is just pure speculation and not actually explicitly said in canon. (TBH, I would really like to know the origins of why people see Ajin as non-human.)

This aspect is just part of the unique takes Ajin has on immortality. Immortals can age. To be an Ajin is not seen as a cool or fun but something terrifying and unknown. You don’t want to be an Ajin. In fact, in the first chapter of the manga, when the teacher suggests the possibility that someone in the class might be one, it immediately makes everyone uneasy.

In TM’s part of the manga, there’s a strong emphasis on the idea of Ajin not being seen as human. It’s repeated a lot in Kei’s dialogue with Kai and in the pilot chapter with Shinya. In fact, the opening line in the pilot chapter is ‘Those life forms do not die... They are know as demi-humans’.

The language in the Wikipedia article about Ajin that Shinya reads uses dry language when discussing the relationship between Ajin and human experimentation. It seems like there’s no hint of controversy! 

If you’ve read Tenkuu Shinpan, this cynical worldview will probably be very familiar. Miura’s writing has this sort of color.

Anyway, in volume one, the humanity of Ajin is constantly questioned and touched upon in the dialogue.

What a bizarre question for Izumi to ask, of all people... Izumi could be playing detective a detective role here, but knowing that she’s an Ajin, this almost comes across as self-loathing. Perhaps Izumi might have gone down that path if Miura stayed on?

This bit of dialogue from Tanaka, shortly after the former scene, feels more consistent with the story thus far. Satou made being a demi-human a point of pride for Tanaka and for Izumi to pretend to be one definitely made her less in his eyes. Actually, he was pretty cruel to everyone in that room in this scene, but if you take into consideration Izumi’s anti-Ajin-like dialogue and her explicitly saying she’s from the Demi-Human Control Commission (the ones responsible for his imprisonment), I can see where it comes from.

Anyway, much of the compelling dialogue on an Ajin’s humanity is between Kei and Kai. On the run after being outed as an Ajin, Kei is constantly questioning his own humanity.

And, as long as Kai is around Kei, he constantly reassures Kei that he is indeed human and even if he isn’t, he can be human if he wants to be.

Now that I think about it, perhaps the idea of demi-humans not being human comes from the human fear of death and the loss of its universal certainty. Death is scary, unpredictable, unavoidable and not really something a lot of people like to dwell on. However, despite those feelings, it’s ubiquitous and maybe some comfort comes from that - that it will happen to everyone. Not to Ajin though (as far as the public knows, they don’t really know about aging or natural-death Ajin). In fact Ajin can tiptoe between death and life. Perhaps that comes across as grotesque and maybe that’s a reason why they’re feared? A scene that exemplifies this is Kei’s first suicide - or reset, as it’s later called. 

Kai’s expression is of sadness, worry, and terror because he just witnessed Kei, someone he’s trying to protect, harm himself. He obviously knows that Kei will likely be fine but you can’t really logic away the visceral reaction to seeing such a thing. Meanwhile Kei, is excited, almost ecstatic, because he sees he’s able to walk on his own two legs again and not be such a burden to Kai. His relationship to death has totally changed. Does the lack of ability to die correlate with a loss of humanity?

Perhaps, TM wanted that to be constant question in their story. Are Ajin really human? Or maybe TM wanted Ajin to actually not really be human and for us to mistakenly think they are? TBH though, it doesn’t really seem like TM’s fast-paced action writing style... but maybe those kinds of questions piqued Sakurai’s interest.

After V2 - Ajin: Human or Demi-Human

I think Sakurai is interested in exploring the theme of humanity and human experience in general through these immortal characters. 

As the story progresses, he seems to go with the notion that Ajin are just people who can’t die. I think this is emphasized with Tanaka’s increasing mundaneness. His very first appearance is incredibly striking. He looks diabolical.

And he doesn’t seem that way to just the audience but to Kei as well, who sees Tanaka with a mean face and a knife in their first encounter and is instantly scared. In Kei’s dreams, Tanaka becomes a symbol of aggressive masculinity.

It’s all a front though, and through Tanaka’s flashback a handful of chapters later, it becomes clear that, like Kei, he’s an ordinary person put through extraordinary circumstances.

Satou, however, comes across as a force of nature and inhuman. Physical obliteration and philosophical ideas of death do not phase him at all. His flesh body is a tool that he takes apart and puts back together with casual indifference. In the end, though, he is a human being, though, damn, does he make it difficult for other people, ourselves included, to believe that.

Last, but not least, Sakurai spends a great deal of care on Kei’s transition from teen to young adult throughout the story with all the self-doubt, risk-taking and awkwardness that comes with it. What kind of person will he become? What does he really want? 

He puts on a front as a disinterested, self-serving person whose no-nonsense, but, actually he does care and maybe he likes a little of nonsense (but not too much). As for the person he might become, it’s interesting that Kei has two older, contrasting figures in his life who serve as influences: Hirasawa and Satou. Hirasawa says he’s fine the way he is and that it’s okay to run away; he kind of indulges Kei and tells him what he wants to hear - maybe he sees himself in Kei and tells him what he wish he could have heard.  Meanwhile, Satou wants to challenge Kei, though, for entirely selfish reasons and maybe, he too, saw some of himself in Kei. Though, lmao, he got bored with that towards the end.

A big part of Kei’s journey is self-acceptance. Self-acceptance as a person coming-of-age and as a person whose an Ajin. To a person like Kou, he probably seems like he has a concrete idea of who he is, but that’s not the case at all.

Kei starts out as an incredibly reluctant hero. In fact, he only came into the role out of necessity as Satou grew to be a bigger and bigger problem that could no longer be ignored. In the period between the attack on Grant Pharmaceuticals and the attack on Forge Security, his lack of enthusiasm is very explicit; he even dreams of being whisked away. Nevertheless, he begrudgingly concocts a plan for defending Forge Security. 

It’s in the aftermath of Forge Security that he starts to change and aggressively pursue Satou. However, this change of heart will be repeatedly tested as Satou continues to evade him.

Sakurai has also had some things to say about the question of a demi-human’s humanity on a grander scale, particularly, through a character like Ogura. When you first meet him, he’s very blunt and sarcastic and seems to have little value in his own life. To Ogura, life has lost its meaning. It’s heavily implied that this is in large part due to the death of his 8-year-old son.

The only thing that he really talks about with any kind of enthusiasm are Ajin and his FK cigarettes. 

His fascination with Ajin could be, in part, a way to cope with his grief. Ajin defy death and the human spirit seems to play a large role in how they function. IBMs are invisible but can be seen if a strong emotion is present. Floods of IBMs are triggered by death along with an accompanying strong emotion. He states outright that life is meaningless, but his obsession with Ajin seems to come from a part of himself that doesn’t want to believe that.

Whether or not what Ogura says is true or not, it’s undoubtedly true that Ajin are inextricably linked with their own humanity. This is where Sakurai arrives at with the question of a demi-human’s humanity.

This ended up being wayyyy longer then intended but thoughts kept coming and coming. Hope I didn’t go off on too much of a tangent here. I will make another part with Kai, Tanaka and talk briefly about gore before and after volume 2. 

I think Miura is really good with coming up with concepts, but I think, personally, I’m glad that Sakurai was able to take those ideas and make them into what we have today.

[little-crybaby-lolita]

Everyone! Tenkuu Shinpan is FINALLY BACK!

It goes under the name of “Tenkuu Shinpan Arrive” now, there are two chapters out currently, and most of us are still wondering if it’s a prequel or a sequel to the original manga. I pray that it’s not a prequel since I was hoping to see the main cast again in all of their glory. The cast was one of the many main reasons people loved Tenkuu Shinpan so much. Ya girl is gonna be pretty upset if I don’t get to see my dear Kuon. Just saying.

Only time will tell if this becomes a legit good story to go along with the original manga or if this is a “As the God’s will” manga situation and poor Yuri and the cast has been kicked to the curb for a new MC to take over the spotlight. We’ll just have to keep reading and find out!

Spoilers and updates will be posted regularly as much as I can. ❤️ Please support Tenkuu Shinpan

[elmaxlys]

Kuon: I refuse to use the energy to make myself a new body

Yoshida:

Yoshida: yeah well I gotta get my hair back somehow

[elmaxlys]

I did not include Floor 1 because we've only seen a shadow of them but if you wish to vote for them anyway, leave a comment

[elmaxlys]

So I was reading Tenkuu Shinpan Arrive, and (spoiler alert, watch out) I am sure that the Miko Mask just fricking died? Or at least that's what I was able to understand by just seeing the panels and not understanding the actual context (the manga was in chinese). Anyway...if that's truly the case, what are your thoughts on that? Personally I was so happy. I couldn't stand her at all lol.

Dear Anon, *hits you with the EVEN BIGGER SPOILERS beam*

So I'm pretty sure you're talking about chapter 80 (vol 7), with Kawamura cutting her in half, right?

Yes this character did die. No this wasn't Miko Mask.

I think there are fanslations of TSA but I'm not sure where they reached, but basically the whole Thing of TSA is clones. The main Bad Guy creates people out of energy. Hence why we got a Yuri lookalike going around killing Aya and putting masks on people, and why we got an Apostle Rika lookalike with a rifle, and why we got Maid Mask suddenly back but with different stocking and a motherfucking axe, and why we got a Kuon lookalike not only with a body but also with both Swimmer's gloves and Yayoi's whip, etc etc etc

So basically: there are multiple God Factories (high-rise realms). Og Tenkuu Shinpan followed one, Tenkuu Shinpan arrive follows another. The Bad Guy came from og realm and was close to god when the game was stopped, hence why he has all that info about all the characters, their strengths and who their biggest enemies were (there's a whole subset of clones that were designed to reminisce Yuri's strongest foes) and basically the OG Crew came to the arrive realm as well to stop him, looking like blobs of goo. We don't talk at all about what the guardian angels from the og realm are doing but they're not in the arrive realm.

So I'm sorry to disappoint, but Miko is not dead. A clone of her is.

[elmaxlys]

Thinking about arrive volume 7 in relation to these panels..

Stage 3 throwing the cigarettes away meaning he's not human

Stage 3 throwing the cigarettes away was a feint to take Senya off guard. Maybe then does he still want to smoke

Sniper still smoked as a mask

(but masks are still humans i guess, see chapter 18.5)

Sniper having recovered his body (but lost Senya) not saying a word, just like in the above scene

Sniper showing off or Sniper having lost his humanity?

🤔🤔🤔

[elmaxlys]

God watching his favorite reality show

[elmaxlys]

the protags: and then with our hard work we achieved all this! we can win!

the higher powers: actually i allowed you to do that because i thought it’d be fun to watch. and it was! i’ll go to bed now, bye, enjoy the trauma

[elmaxlys]

Man I love Tenkuu Shinpan...

There’s something about the characters’ lack of agency... Everything they do, carefully crafted and predicted by some higher power.. And if Admin and Taisei really had an actual goal, God really was just playing and man. It all ties to the fact the protags have killed none of the antags, despite their body count. They’re just pawns, none of their actions matters. It’s all the higher powers’ doing. I said Admin but Admin was playing right into the metaphorical hands of Supervisor. Tenma was playing in Taisei’s, Taisei was playing in God’s and God and Supervisor are nothing to Creator in the end.

The way Juo, who broke free of the mask’s commands because he hates obeying that much, was actually one of those who followed the rules the most? It’s killing me. Also Yuri, when she became the Devil? Yes she broke all the rules and became something beyond, but that meant she’s now tied to the world and in arrive? oh man, she played right into Taisei’s hands, then into Tenma’s, all of which was orchestrated by God, all because Supervisor allowed her to put the game on pause, and all of that in Creator’s world.

They are nothing.

[elmaxlys]

The Previous God’s Revelations

Tenkuu Shinpan Arrive ch70 and 71, just transcribing the French translation (Kana) to English.

The pics are screenshots I took of magapoke when the chapter was free to read.

Note: where I wrote “mechanism” the French actually says “organism”. I however chose to write “mechanism” because it seems to be the same term used in the original series, chapter 50, which has been translated as mechanism by Mangabox. As I do not have access to the Seven Seas translation, I chose to use the Mangabox term.

Chapter 70 - Page 14

Panel 1- Here.. I must be in my mental palace... It really looks like the cosmos, I wonder why...

Panel 2- Maybe because the human brain and the cosmos are alike? What even is the cosmos in the first place? This is fascinating...

Panel 3- Stop! This is not the time to think about that! I have to go back there to help the others...

Page 15-

Panel 1- No, Senya... The role you had to play has been over for a while...

Page 16-

Panel 1- You need to keep wandering just a bit more... until the “winner”’s emergence... If you make your consciousness emerge right now... There’s no doubt that you will disappear...

Panel 2- Who’s talking to me? Ah... this time it’s an alien!

Panel 3- Stop saying nonsense... I am...

Chapter 71- page 1

...in this dimension... and of course in the parallel world in which you’ve entered... I.. even before that this situation was born... In this death game organized in this world... I am...

Page 2-

Panel 1- The winner. You can consider me the “previous” god...

Panel 3- Huh? I don’t understand anything you’re saying...

Panel 4- You didn’t know that you were in a mechanism to create a god, didn’t you? What use is there for me to leave traces of my fights on the signboards if it’s not to create my legend?

Page 3-

Panel 1- Well, saying “god” is a bit much... Beings that are born in this world are merely functional: their role is to eliminate threats... The fact I came out as the winner of this game complicated everything.. I didn’t intend to act until danger appeared.

Panel 2- However... The world which was supposed to have ended slowly reactivated... That doesn’t concern me.. This is a bit like it demanded new sacrifices...

Panel 4- At first, I thought I wasn’t recognized as a god, but... I was probably mistaken... Because in fact, to ward off the dangers that are born in this dimension, several gods are needed.

Page 4-

Panel 1- Wait a second... This mechanism... this world... It was created, but... By whom?

Panel 2- That, I do not know... A being that’s in an even higher dimension? Unless it’s only a phenomenon, similar to the universe, born from a vibration between being and nothingness?

Panel 3- Or even... a thing born from the collective consciousness of more and more numerous humans demanding a god?

Panel 4- The collective consciousness of humans?

Page 5-

Panel 1- But I’m getting off topic... I learned afterwards that there existed another world. And I also found out Yuri Honjo’s existence, a kind of devil in that world, and the battles she had fought. I assume Sniper already talked to you about it.

Panel 2- So I then wanted to oppose her. She used a different method from mine to stop the deadly game: the invasion. And I disliked that immensely.

Panel 3- This is the reason I guided Taisei to this world, he who was wandering through dimensions. Because of Yuri Honjo’s actions, he had become powerless and I felt bad seeing him like that.

Panel 4- Wait a second... If I sum it up... All the horrors we had to go through were your fault?

Page 6-

Panel 1- I indeed carry part of that responsibility. This is why I’m currently protecting you right now... I gave you powers, to you but also to numerous other people. Senya...

Panel 2- This is you I pity the most here. Because you’re the one Taisei used the most.

Panel 3- Who? Me?

Panel 4- The school’s arrival was Tenma’s doing, but Taisei predicted it. He had been watching you [plural] for a while. And he spotted you on the school roof.

Page 7-

Panel 1- He then decided to make out of you a being that would fight with all his strength in the middle of the despair and whose prowess would create a huge increase in energy. Tenma was already acting like that, but Taisei went even further. He really tried to create a hero in this world.

Panel 3- And a hero cannot die easily... This is why Taisei led you to Sniper. To Sniper’s spirit, which nobody had seized... Your very meeting had been arranged by Taisei!

Panel 4- Then, for you to understand the rules of this world... he put a young girl on your way and he pushed her to suicide.

Page 8-

Panel 1- Indeed... Your friend too...

Page 9-

Panel 1- Taisei created beings of “stage 1″.. Of course, there are other ones apart from Tenma or her men that are inferior to them. They’re not strong, but they make the perfect pawns for Taisei... The one who killed your friends was one of them... The goal was to generate despair in you.

Panel 2- A hero plunged in despair by an external force... This is what you are. However, to be used and then emptied of all energy, even I think it’s too cruel.

Panel 3- After all, if everything went according to Taisei’s wishes, it would be no fun. This is the reason I gave you additional strength... To others, too: to the astronauts, to Kyouko Oribe, to the super cute blind girl...

Panel 4- What?! To Kyouko too?! So she really is in this world too...

Page 10-

Panel 1- You went beyond what Taisei expected... But you’ve been “killed”... And your consciousness is on the verge of disappearing...Your brain and vital functions have been regenerated by Kuon Shinzaki, but this goes way beyond now... If you recuperate your consciousness and continue to fight, you will end up disappearing.

Panel 2- I advise you to stay here for some time, where it’s calm... I’ll keep you up to date with how the fights are going. We still have some time before Yuri Honjo manages the “fusion”... But if it really happens..

Panel 3- Yes, I know... I will have a chance to survive, but... What will happen to Kyouko and my classmates?

Panel 4- Kyouko is fighting “Stage 2″ beings... I don’t know what will happen to her. The middle-school students have largely tasted despair... Taisei should act soon and appropriate this energy...

Page 11-

Panel 1- In that case, let me out right now. I have faced many hardships in this world! I cannot abandon the others and behave like a loser!

Panel 2- Behave like a loser? In the setting of this deadly game, I admit this is a detail I quickly forgot about.

Panel 3- For you, the way we appear is more important that our own lives and efficiency? Still, if you disappear, there’ll be nothing left of all that.

Page 12-

Panel 1- Wrong! I refuse that the universe I love will keep this memory of me!

Panel 2- That’s right, there’s still a trace. As quantum information.. More simply put, people’s memories...

Panel 3- If you disappear, your being will be scattered... It’ll become impossible to put it back together, for Yuri Honjo or for me. And you still want to go back?

Page 13-

Panel 2- Well, fine...

Panel 3- Of god I only have the name.. I certainly am unable to predict all quantum movements. I am curious to see which phenomenons your action will bring.

Panel 4- And so I am sending you back... to your universe.