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Date # Chapter Title (original・bunko)
2024.11.25 4 (48) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ①・ストレイツォの野望
2024.12.02 5 (49) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ② ・ゲームの達人
2024.12.09 6 (50) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ③ ・不死身の化け物
2024.12.16 7 (51) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ④ ・冷酷非情ストレイツォ
2024.12.23 8 (52) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ⑤ ・ナチスと"柱の男"

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Chapter 4 (48) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ①・ストレイツォの野望 Questions
  1. What does Smokey say about the man regarding his occupation and Smokey’s feelings about him?
  2. How does the man respond?
  3. How is the pillarman described?
  4. What rules govern the pillarman? What could happen to those rules?
  5. Why are Joseph and Smokey troubled by the magazine?
  6. What does Joseph notice about the man outside? What’s odd about how Joseph talks (and acts)?
  7. What does Joseph notice about the man outside once he’s also outside?
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Last week of the arc!

Araki somehow always manages in to sneak a naked man and body horror in every arc, and I’m in for it

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Chapter 5 (49) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ② ・ゲームの達人 Questions
  1. Why is Erina upset/worried?
  2. What does Joseph tell Erina he will do?
  3. What are the 3 ways to defeat vampires? What word does Joseph use instead of defeat?
  4. What does Joseph tell the women at the shop?
  5. What does Straizo say Dio’s problem was?
  6. What comparison does Straizo draw about killing his plan to kill Erina?
  7. What does Joseph reveal about the situation and specifically about the lack of care that Straizo exercises?
  8. What insult does Joseph create (p17)? How does Joseph throw Straizo’s words back at him (p18)?
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Araki’s got his priorities sorted and I love that for him

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CW gore and nudity. Perhaps not the best chapter to read in public

6 (50) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ③ ・不死身の化け物 Questions
  1. What is special about Straizo’s scarf?
  2. What comparison does Straizo draw drawn between the scarf and hamon vs lightning and earth/the ground?
  3. How old is hamon?
  4. What does Joseph say he thought hamon was? (8) What on the previous page might have caused him to say that? (7)
  5. How and why does Smokey freak out?
  6. What is Joseph’s fallback plan?
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Chapter 7(51) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ④ ・冷酷非情ストレイツォ Questions
  1. What does the large man plan to do and why?
  2. What does the woman with the camera plan to do and why?
  3. Why does Straizo have the woman?
  4. What does Joseph want out of this encounter?
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CW for nudity and nazis

Chapter 8 (52) ストレイツォVSたいジョセフ その ⑤ ・ナチスと柱の男
  1. Why does Joseph grab Straizo? Do you believe him? Does Straizo believe him?
  2. Why did Straizo dump the bodies in the river?
  3. What was Straizo afraid of? What did he want in life?
  4. What does Straizo do to himself?
  5. If you want to skip the page with all the info dumping about nazis, you’re probably fine to. A very short summary would be they want to take over the world and subjugate “inferior” peoples and they’re studying all sorts of stuff to do it. Think Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Arc
  6. How does the woman shaving speak to the nazi major and what does it reveal about their relationship?
  7. What did the nazis find and what’s the new status of what they found?
  8. What does Joseph do?
  9. Why is the woman angry? Do Joseph’s actions and words help or hinder? Why?
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I also seem to have forgotten to add song refs here, so let’s so for 2…
James Brown, where Smokey’s last name comes from

and for Straizo, Dire Straits’ Sultans of Swing, which I can’t believe I didn’t share before…

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Those are some pretty nice references, thanks!
I had finished the arc in the original schedule so I’ve been kinda gone, I will join back for the next one!

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I’m glad you enjoyed them!

Ah, I see. I’ll have the next arc posted in just a moment. Idk if I’ll be able to read 2 chapters today, but I’ll try.

The next thread is up! Sorry for the delay