Today is Nakaba's birthday. Let's see if he will celebrate the occasion with a particularly good chapter.
Hopefully we get some backstory for Lancelot soon. I'm curious about why he's looking for Dubs and the knight with the star-shaped visor. Most of the attention has been focused on the knight, but I think Dubs could be more important. He was responsible for building the CoeD that could seal an entire clan, so perhaps he could also build a device that can seal Arthur's powers? It could also be that Lancelot wants Dubs to make weapons for the party to help them in the war against Arthur's knights. Or maybe he just wants Dubs to enchant his bow, or perhaps fix/strengthen the wooden spear he made in the one-shot. I kinda like the last idea because depriving Lancelot of his weapon of choice would be a believable way to nerf him a bit. That's something that was already established in NNT, where the Sins couldn't access their full powers without their Sacred Treasures. Lancelot's spear being broken would also explain why he had to borrow Donny's knife to use Shining Road. Otherwise he just seems kind of dumb to not carry the tools needed to use his own magic. Whatever the case, this focus on Dubs is interesting because it means we might see more of the giants in the not too distant future. Megadozer was said to be the home of the eastern tribe of the giant clan, which means that there must be one or more other tribes somewhere out there, maybe even in central Britannia. It could be a way to bring Diane back into the story, or perhaps to introduce one of her kids.
Diane actually gives me an interesting idea. A little while ago I mentioned that Lancelot's estimate of Paysan being 200 miles from Liones was off by 100-200 miles. One explanation for that is that Liones has been moved, but another option would be that Lancelot never intended to travel the entire distance. This is where Diane could come in. Remember back when Vivian kidnapped Elizabeth, and Diane literally threw Mel, Ban and Gowther to Liones? Back then it was said that they were over 40 miles from the kingdom and yet Diane said she could throw them there no problem. She's now more than 10 times stronger than back then, so perhaps she could manage more than 100 miles this time around with a serious throw? The group should be able to land safely by using Percival's cape.
There was an absence in the archangel ranks whilst Mael was a child in training, so Nanashi was probably the fourth archangel and then left for some reason.
Not a bad idea, but I wonder how that would fit with Nanashi being from a foreign country. When and how did he get there, how did he survive for 3000 years and why does he look Asian if he's originally from Britannia? Nanashi being a massive weeb who's just larping as a samurai would be somewhat amusing I suppose.
Lancelot and Tristan not being 16 would be strange considering it's been the age of all the mains so far. Percival is 16 and he is the oldest of the three but their birth dates are close.
Percival is the youngest. He turned 16 in chapter 1, which means that it's currently late April or so in the story. Donny's birthday is in June, so he'll be turning 17 soon. He's about 10 months older than Percival.
And oh, would you look at this too:
From left to right after Percival we've been saying this is Lancelot, Tristan and most likely Gawain. It's the same order.
Looking at that picture, it kind of seems like the Knight of Famine is actually stepping on people, whereas with the other knights there are just people dying somewhere off in the background. This might hint that Famine is going to be a giant, or perhaps more likely a half-giant to match the other hybrids among the KOTA.
The situation in which another person can manipulate this power completely devalues the uniqueness of Escanor as a character and kills the remnants of intrigue associated with his ability not to die from this power.
Escanor was never meant to be unique. Not only does Mael share his power in-universe, but Escanor is based on Escanor the Large from the Arthurian legends, whose strength increased during the day and who shared that power with Gawain. You say that another character with the ability to withstand Sunshine would kill the intrigue around Escanor, but that just means addressing the hanging plot thread. It kills the intrigue in the same way that revealing the answer to a mystery kills the intrigue around it, but that doesn't mean mysteries should never be answered.
Is there any evidence for what you're saying? The power levels of the heroes at the end of the manga were not named even in the latest fanbook. The same goes for the hand. I am tormented by vague doubts about your sincerity, so I will ask you for proof of these statements.
They're referring to
this post by sobreno last week.
I highly doubt Nakaba would use the same self destruction trope again .
People are too expectant on getting the Graces back in action via the main characters . I honestly don’t see the hype . They’re just underdeveloped element powers .
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I was expecting Escanor to find some way of overcoming Sunshine's destructive effect on him and get his happy ending, because that's how things usually work in these types of stories. The fact that Escanor failed gives me the impression that someone else will have to take up the torch for him and find a solution to that problem. There was also another similar plot point in that Escanor's last wish was for Merlin to find someone to love. That more personal element could suggest that the person who will finish what Escanor started will be none other than Escanor himself. Reincarnations are an established part of the setting, so we could see something like the Rou-Oslo situation where he came back as a different person but with the same desires.
I agree that the Graces are a bit overhyped by the fans and I also don't expect to see much of them in the story, with the exception of Sunshine since that was already teased back when the sequel was announced. I just hope that the new user will handle the power in a way that is different from what we've seen from Escanor and Mael, to give the ability a fresh coat of paint that keeps it from getting stale. An idea I like is that Sunshine would be stored in a weapon. That's what happened in that Rising Impact special where Gawain found a sword that contained the power of the sun. That solution also addresses the problem of Sunshine killing the user, because the power is not stored in their body, while leaving room for the user to developed an additional set of abilities to go along with the weapon's magic.
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