Shounen Enigma by Sakaki Kenji

[jorped]

That's what she said but I would really be surprised if it was used twice. It seems that her ability will be revealed only at the end but so far nobody has revealed his ability before he was forced to. And also I found it ok for Takemaru not revealing it given his character also I was surprised that he it was because he didn't knew about it.
And I agree with saladesu the bleeding is a sign of the awakening and so far it makes it really mysterious

but why havent she told to haiba??

and when she was forced by Kurisu to follow him , if she had it why hasnt she used it?
Of course that the reason can also be that the abilitie that she has wouldnt help her much on the kinda of situation she was.

yeah i also agree with you two, i think that it is a sign of the awakening of his abilitie and i think that withouth his abilitie they are not going to manage to complete this challenge

 

[Divinenega]

Just read Chapter 26.

I must say that I am impressed by the talents the author is making again. Takemaru's ability is pretty interesting and being able to rewind events can definently have it's uses in the future. I wonder how that teacher ties into Takemaru's backstory though. I figured he'd have been the one to give him the scar...

Guess Shigeru's all that's left in terms of talents to be revealed. Wonder what hers will be...

 

[saladesu]

Takemaru indeed has a very interesting, and useful, ability. How they're going to be able to use it to clear the next stage (with the monitors) will be interesting, unless Sumio's ability is the one that will be used here (Hiina's doesn't look like it will be useful, but maybe not).

Maybe the teacher can still tie into Takemaru's backstory... Maybe his role just hasn't been revealed yet, or maybe something related to that will be shown on the monitors?

I can't wait to see what Shigeru can do!

 

[jorped]

nice chapter!!! takemaru abilitie wasnt exactly what i was expecting, but it is pretty cool and withouth it they would most likely didnt find an away out of there, now lets see for what is all that monitors

 

[k-dom]

The ability is interesting but kinda creepy. I hope he won't be able to bleed always that much to use it. Also it does not seem like he can control it so far.

 

[Zatono]

Right? He has quite a bit of blood loss. I'm surprised he hasn't collapsed, for more then a few minutes, by now, especially considering the conditions he's in already.

 

[Jaymie]

Maybe his power is causing his injury to constantly revert? If that theory is correct, the blood isn't really lost, he's just experiencing the same injury over and over again.

 

[hai_Priesty]

(I haven't read many recent messages but I want to update on this first! =P)

http://www.shonenjump.com/j/message/index.html
Sakaki Sensei, among many other Shonen Jump Sensei, has contributed illustration to this special Jump site segment made to cheer the victims of the recent 3/11 Earthquake.
(From the structure, it seems other current Shonen Jump Senseis will continue making the contributions at later updates.)



Back to current mode,
While I find Takemaru's ability interesting, my first reaction to his ability is a "!?!?"..... I also wonder what's with the girl/lady he wants to help.

Also, flipping back to Jump Next Winter 2010/11, the 2 paged scene on "5 months before now", TAKERMARU WAS STILL WEARING THE NORMAL UNIFORM 5 MONTHS BEFORE OUR STORY. So that probably means Takemaru had just gotten this ability recently, and he has gotten this unexplainable bleeding that he wants to hide from everybody, thus wearing this trench coat even in late summer weather.

Shigeru's Ability..... I think she doesn't have a clue about it yet. Either she's in denial (I aruge that Takemaru's WAS in denial - there's certainly something going on within himself and common sense should tell him 6-year old wounds doesn't open up and bleed for no reason).

Or, with reference to Haiba's ability - Dream Diary would have been untellable to himself, except that 1)there are witnesses, and 2)He has a diary for result. My take is Shegeru had past experience of danger but she saved herself with some superpower-like ability after she has fainted, that left no trace for her to tell when she awoke. It fits a unimpressionable Heroine quite well as well.

 

[momogoldfish]

Just a little guess but assuming that they need to use Takemaru's ability to rewind the monitors maybe Hiina's role is to use her third hand to stick the skin figures onto all the monitors? (dunno why but it's a brainwave I jst had...)

 

[Hideko Takamine]

Just a little guess but assuming that they need to use Takemaru's ability to rewind the monitors maybe Hiina's role is to use her third hand to stick the skin figures onto all the monitors? (dunno why but it's a brainwave I jst had...)

Hello I'm new here. Would just like to add to the discussion.

I don't really see that as happening... Considering how painful the ability looks and that it would take forever to do such, given their already exhausted condition, that wouldn't be such a practical solution. Would be interesting if sticking the skin was the answer to their dilemma though.

 

[Negative Syndicate]

Enigma going to have vomic.

 

[hai_Priesty]

I think they'll update more info later on the official Vomic website at
http://vomic.shueisha.co.jp/
Now I eagerly awaits Seiyuu list....

Hello I'm new here. Would just like to add to the discussion.

I don't really see that as happening... Considering how painful the ability looks and that it would take forever to do such, given their already exhausted condition, that wouldn't be such a practical solution. Would be interesting if sticking the skin was the answer to their dilemma though.

While I agree that sticking skin to all monitors will not be practical, it may make sense to apply to just one monitor, once they figured out one was "showing something meaningful".

I also suspect, of so many monitors showing so many scenes, there's one that actually showing a past scene where the lady Takemaru hold dear to (?) was featured and Takemaru finally shown the moment/truth to the injustice the lady was dealt with.

 

[momogoldfish]

Speaking of the vomic, does anyone else have a particular list in mind?

For me its:
Haiba - Tetsuya Kakihara (Natsu from FairyTail)
Moto - Atsushi Abe (Saiko from Bakuman) or Takahiro Mizushima (Rolo)
Matsurigi - Kamiya Hiroshi
Takemaru - Kazuya Nakai (Zorro) or Konishi Katsuyuki (Oga from Beezelbub)
Kurisu - Hirakawa Daisuke
Aru - Whoever did Sealand in Hetalia
Shigeru - Hanazawa Kana (Anri from Durarara)
Hiina - Maybe Shizuka Ito

Strangely, Enigma doesn't strike me as a Norio Wakamoto type of villain so I'd prefer either Nakata George or Yusa Koji (Gin from Bleach)

(Not sure if this is the appropriate place to discuss this but seeing there's only one enigma thread...)

EDIT: Just found out the VOMICS seiyuus from here http://news.nicovideo.jp/watch/nw48774

Haiba is Satoshi Hino (Shuujin from Bakuman) and Shigeru is Yukana (C.C from Code Geass), don't think I've heard of the others...

 

[Negative Syndicate]

Voice actors for vomic:

Haiba Sumio - Hino Satoshi
Kurumiga Shigeru - Yukana
Hasekura Moto - Ichihara Masahiro
Kujouin Hiina - Tanaka Manami
Mizusawa Aru - Taya Hayato
Matsurigi Jirou - Muro Genki (I think)
Sudou Takemaru - Matsumaru Koutarou
Haiba Mina - Hikami Kyouko

 

[Divinenega]

Voice actors for vomic:

Haiba Sumio - Hino Satoshi
Kurumiga Shigeru - Yukana
Hasekura Moto - Ichihara Masahiro
Kujouin Hiina - Tanaka Manami
Mizusawa Aru - Taya Hayato
Matsurigi Jirou - Muro Genki (I think)
Sudou Takemaru - Matsumaru Koutarou
Haiba Mina - Hikami Kyouko

Hmm...very interesting choice for Haiba's seiyuu seeing as he's currently voicing Takagi in Bakuman, but I imagine he'll sound closer to Saito from Zero no Tsukima for this one. Couldn;t really find any info on the other VA's so I guess I'll just look forward to being surprised.

Should be interesting to watch considering JUMP will probably try to get Enigma animated quickly given how much of a failure 2010 was for them. Of course there;s still a good year or so before that happens, but it would be nice to get an idea of what the voices would sound like.

 

[Hamy]

Uh oh... it took them THAT long to finish the unleavable room O.o... While it seems Takemaru's ability could be used at a much larger scale - to affect many monitors at once - I'm more curious as to how much this time issue will cause them problems with the remaining passwords.

 

[jorped]

great chapter!!! Takemaru skills were the only one needed to pass this test, but Haiba intelligence was also extremely important!

 

[Googlez_kun]

This chapter was rather lame,because it was very predictable.I mean,it was good,but there were no surprises for me,because everything just seemed so obvious.

Does anybody know how much time they have left?

 

[jorped]

i also would like to know that , cuz i don't have any idea of it

 

[Jaymie]

This miniarc kind of seemed like a ploy to get the time to go by faster. According to Chapter 17, there were 47 hours left. I have no idea how long the Clock Ticking miniarc took, so I'll just say that there's at least 31 hours left for the remaining 2 (+1, so 3) passwords.