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Ryota, Himiko and Kira survived another week though thankfully the rapist band leader finally died. He was attacking Himiko but he got killed by a nasty drone and laser cut right in half! Top to bottom!

Still not looking good for the rest of them but of course I fully expect at least Ryota and Himiko to survive happily ever after.

At the moment it seems he's been knocked out so I'm not sure he'll get his wish to die for his sins... yet anyway. I'll keep you posted if I remember when the next chapter comes out in a month.

Old conversation, haven't updated you in a while but since you like Kira. He actually joined up with Ryota, Himiko, Kaguya and others but now they're really in trouble (they were being rescued but of course that was foiled again) and now there are American military drones on the island. The drones are nasty, seems the BIMs don't do any damage to them at all. Not sure how they're going to get out of this one but it looks like Kira is going to sacrifice himself so the rest of them survive, to atone for his sins. Guess I'll see what happens next month.

I'm still buying the monthly magazine as I just can't wait months for the tankobons to come out. They said this next tankobon is the final arc but they said they were entering the final arc in February 2014 so I'll believe it when I see it... several times they have been close to getting off the island but each time they're in an even worse situation. Unless their friends can hack those drones it doesn't look good though of course I know they'll get out of it somehow.

99:

Mr. Schwaritz is showing multiple angles of the goriest parts. People with new TVs at home can choose their own angles.

Oops, Iida actually says he's sorry, guilty but she should accept her death in chapter 99, Tomiyo runs away here, not in 98. Got mixed up...

She says somebody help me! He says you can't get away. But she does run away and when he chases her they come up to one of the worker with a nail gun who shoots at Iida. Again saying sorry, guilty, Iida shoots him in the arm so he drops the nail gun, and pulls the nails out of his hand. He picks up the nailgun and Ryota's stepfather is there.

Tomiyo runs into the control room yelling Iida's got a gun, he's against them, he's on a rampage. Iida runs in, tells everyone to be quiet, says if they fight back he'll shoot them. Takanohashi recognizes the gun Iida picked up on the island. One of Iida's colleages tells him to stop but again he says sorry/guilty and shots him in the leg. Mr. Schwaritz's bodyguards say he's an amateur we can take him out with one shot, shoot him but a voice says nobody move, it's Ryota's stepfather is there with the nailgun to Mr. Schwaritz's head. Ryota's stepfather says at this distance, right to his temple, the nailgun will kill him. Damn say the bodyguards, Iida was a decoy. They tell him to get away from the commander, Mr. Schwaritz but the stepfather says don't move and shoots a bunch of nails into one bodyguard's face, killing him. Another bodyguard says he won't miss from this distance but Iida says excuse me, bodyguard says effing J and Iida shoots him neck out the top of his head, dead.

Iida says again nobody move, this control room is ours, you have to stay out of here until the game ends. A guy yells IIda bastard, lead programmer who do you think you are? He says they are seeking to control the whole world through the killer game, that he's Schwaritz is the evil godfather of it all, that they're all killers, killing people for money, saying they just say it's business but he thinks that people are precious, Iida says from now on he's going to save all the survivors on the island, that the game is not going to complete. He collects the gun from the remaining bodyguard and gives it to Ryota's stepfather.

But all this time Tomiyo under the table has been hacking away on a laptop. Takanohashi says every Tyrannos employee has a microchip implanted like those in the game and they can kill them instantly. Iida says he's bluffing. The posture but the director yells the password to Tomiyo who types it in, she's logged in. Takanohashi says he isn't bluffing, hand over the gun. Iida points it at Takanohashi.

One of the bodyguards left says they should have checked them for weapons, has a gun up his sleeve which he pulls out and goes to shoot Ryota's stepfather. Takanohashi says this is checkmate. But Tomiyo is logged out of the system. She can't get back in, the access code has changed. The bodyguard points his gun at Ryota's stepfather and says die but ... then he foams at the mouth and says how did you... and he dies. Perrier the hacker appears on the screen. He says he has the access code to the killer chips now. Since Mr. Schwaritz is the only one without a killer chip, they have to keep a gun on him. Tomiyo had been tricked, when she'd entered the code it hadn't actually gone in and Perrier had changed the code. Everyone in the control room is sweating, they could be killed at any time. Pierre says checkmate is ours, we can kill you at any time.

Mr. Schwaritz says you must be Matthew Perrier (who I keep writing as Pierre, sorry if I leave some incorrect), the man who stole info from the NSA. Perrier says they're going to destroy THEMIS, expose who Schwaritz really is and his plans, but Schwartiz says the global structure he's built is indestructable, you have no chance of winning. Tomiyo is impressed, knows of Perrier.

The other woman there says there is a time lag, they can't all be killed at once, are you are afraid of dying? She says they're all do nothings but her. But says she's a man. Tomiyo says she'll help. The other woman says Tomiyo is a man too but Tomiyo says she's a girl.

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You don't care for Himiko and Ryota? I love them, love the couple, love the romance. It's my favorite part of the series. As the main characters I think they have good plot armor.

Kira was not really cornered, he was knocked out by Kaguya while he was strangling Yoko. So he was on the ground defenseless when the Komodo dragons bit him, that woke him up. I think Kira is going to lose and will help Ryota and Himiko escape.

Seems like there is going to be a bloodbath in the control room, Perrier trying to kill them off with the killer chips but the rest trying to get Iida and Ryota's stepfather.

14.5 hours of game time left but will all that go? For the final arc it sure is taking it's time. It seems only minutes go by each chapter. I was thinking, keep thinking it's almost done but they way it's going it could keep going for 30 more chapters... we'll see how long Bunch wants it to run I guess. If other people like me bought the magazine to find out what happens then perhaps BTOOOM will go on for a long time. Or it could end in a chapter like happens to so many manga these days. I don't think that will happen as it needs another few chapters before volume 21 comes out in September and I can't imagine it ending that fast... volume 22 next January? The volume after that? Who knows.

98:
Mr. Schwaritz is still bent on controlling the world. Thanks to Ryota's stepfather's information file, the hacker Perrier is free to move. Iida sempai needs to help the notorious hacker Perrier get into the system so he goes to the server room to log into the console but the network engineer Tomizawa Tomiyo (who looks a lot like a slightly older Miho, glasses, probably just Junya's drawing style) has set for him a trap there and an alarm sounds. He runs out but runs into Tomiyo who confronts him about being the main programmer and changing the server's data. But she's restored the original data. She says he's fighting back against them. Iida is running out of time, Perrier can't get in until he takes down the island server completely, he has a remote near the island ready to take over. So Iida pulls out the gun he picked up from when it was dropped on the island and points it at Tomiyo and says "please die. Tomiyo naturally runs away.

Back to Kira who is being bitten by komodo dragons. He takes some medication and remembers Ryota saying not to run away. He remembers his promise and fights off the dragons with a metal pole. He's been bitten and thinks he's going to die. He hopes Ryota doesn't die before Kira can beat him and vows to get him.

Meanwhile Himiko is still having doing it with Ryota. Ryota starts to realize that this isn't the game, this is reality! But he can't stop himself, even though Himiko is doing everything since Ryota is tied down. Himiko says he isn't there, it isn't his fault. She promised to protect him so they would get out of there alive. She tells him to fight, he can do it, that she's his girlfriend. Ryota realizes it isn't a dream, it isn't the game, Himiko is glad he has returned. Ryota remembers now, understands the difference between the game and reality. He says he won't run from reality again, that he wants to protect Himiko. She thanks him and says she wants to protect him too. The band leader wanted to torture them but since they love each other and Ryota has come back it isn't much fun so he tells them to stop. Ryota tells the band leader not to lay a hand on Himiko. He says he loves Himiko. The leader can't stand their pure love and tells them to shut up. Himiko says it's over then, you promised! But he says he didn't enjoy it. They plead with him but he says keep on hoping, it's over, die! But there's a ping! Sonar! Someone's coming! Asks how many and Ryota says 3 people. In fact it's just Kira who ironically has come because he says he will kill Ryota for sure but in coming it seems like he's inadvertently saved him... or perhaps just saved him from the band leader so he can kill him on his own.

As I said, I couldn't wait to find out what happens next so I got Bunch June and July issues. Should have had them Tuesday but DHL did a security check and must not have taped up the box properly so the top of the box got ripped off and they couldn't find it. The guy who was supposed to find it couldn't find it but someone else did and somehow the rest of the package stayed together in its cellophane wrap with invoice so they reboxed it and I got it today!

Want more spoilers for chapters 98-99? I saw 98 on the web this morning when I wasn't sure it was arriving but it was in Chinese... not too useful aside from short sentences as I don't know Chinese grammar so I'm glad I got it in Japanese today.

Of course now I'm dying for chapter 100... I will have to buy Bunch monthly until the series ends. It's kind of hilarious that Junya Inoue announced it was in the final arc over 2 years ago now. There are still 14.5 hours left in the game but... if you want spoilers I'll let you know why the entire game may not end up being played out.

Losing Togo, who was like a real father compared to his own, broke Kira. All the bad old stuff came back but Kaguya stopped him from killing Yoko so perhaps he can be good again some time.

Good luck finding it. I always buy my manga or read it on official apps so I don't know where to find them 'out there' on line, sorry.

Kira is a mess too. He was imagining what he did awful before and then was strangling Yoko until Kaguya knocked him off. V20 is really, really dark. Lots of sex and violence.

They weren't really characters at first, just a device to get Himiko nominated but they are late additions to the island now.

Not really fair, their leader has a sub machine gun and riddled Togo with bullets. He is surely dead.

Ryota is still a mess. Thinks he is in the game. They tie him down and make Himiko have sex with him, saying it's a rape show now. Himiko loves him and wants to protect him so she does it. Cliffhanger there at the end it looks like Ryota may finally have woken up. Not sure how they're going to get out of it this time.

They are not actually new characters. They are the band that invited Himiko and her friends over for some 'fun'. They were nominated to the island too.

You want deep spoilers? Deaths? What those bastards in the band make them do? I didn't imagine BTOOOM would go this far.

Less than 16 hours of game time remains. V21 in September but I may not be able to wait.

Dayum... I've been thinking I wanted to see more of Himiko but... dayum... volume 20, especially chapter 97 is something else. Might have to start getting Bunch Magazine...

my pleasure :)

Added it to my Orokamonogatari order.

And now I see I missed La Vie en Doll v2... ug I hate finding out something in a leaflet of something else I bought, released the same week... Amazon has all kinds of recommendations but I didn't notice it... a future order I guess.

Volume 18 has chapters 86-89. 90 must be in the monthly. 86 is the third Oda side story, final one. Volume 19 coming in January. I thought he said it was almost over LOL