Read all the chapters till 41! There are so much to talk about. MnYK is doing great in it's first major arc. I praise Nakaba for what he is doing here. Each and every character in Percy's group has had their own focus arc.
A writing challenge for Nakaba is to keep the powerhouses from the good guys out. Guys like Howzer and Gowther are powerful enough to easily break the plot itself.
Speaking of Howzer, he really gives me Escanor vibes. He once dreamed of becoming like Escanor. He has seemingly made that dream come true.
Arthur is now an antagonist. I used to think I'm OK with him being a bad guy, but it was heartbreaking even for me. That kind sweet Arthur turned into a bipolar genocidal racist, and SDS are now his sword enemies. So sad!
I also wonder where Nanashi is at the time being. He was with Arthur 16 years ago as all the depictions and mentions imply, but we have not seen him yet in the current timeline. I hope he is not killed off offscreen. He was a member of GC, and Arthur hates all non-human races.
Sim the fox is without a doubt a great mystery. It does deserve to have a thread of his own. Too much can be said about his possible role and true identity. I personally think he is Lancelot in disguise. He is the Mysterious lad with no Fixed appearance.
Iirc, he wanted to act like grown ups in the one THE RAIN FOREST INVITES THE BEGINNING one shot. And he was most probably raised by choas beings like lady of the lake. Even before that, he lived most of his life in the Fairy King's Forest. As a half human who did not live among humans for a long time, it's perfectly normal for Lancelot to have biased ideas about humans even if not he is the fox.
He told Gowther he couldn't enter the cave which means he is not very old. He doesn't have any reason to lie to Gowther, but lying to Ann while trying to make her angry is a different story. The way he sat on Gowther's head in chapter 40 was a childish act in my opinion (obviously subjective!)
The bride can't be ignored so easily. Lancelot's relationship with Guinevere is a major plot points in several Arthurian stories, and Sin saw a bride after the audience were informed about Arthur's bride chapters earlier. Now look at the bride's lips when she called Sin by his true name:
Assuming all three panels are related to the name and that bride does not say another word aside from Sin's name, its name can't be Ban!
Although she isn't exactly saying Lancelot in those panels, it's one the closest words we can think of. His Japanese name isn't exactly Lancelot either. In fact, it turns into
Ransurotto. Let's check the brides lips in those three panels then:
1. Ran is said in the first panel
2. N continues in the second panel (her lips are like she's saying M instead of N though!)
3. Either Ro or To in the third panel
I might be mistaken for sure. (There are mismatches between panels and the word Ransurotto, and she might be saying a full sentence instead of a single name!)
But even if we ignore the bride, I think we should search for names or sentences that can be created by such movements of the lips.
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