Generic synopsis:
>When a gate to another world suddenly opens on Earth, Mikado City is invaded by strange creatures known as "Neighbors," malicious beings impervious to traditional weaponry. In response to their arrival, an organization called the Border Defense Agency has been established to combat the Neighbor menace through special weapons called "Triggers."
Opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIT3HdkBK1k
Reminder not to post spoilers until the entire volume is done.
So without further ado, let's start.
Vol. 1 >>149996248
Vol. 2 >>150019175
Vol. 3 >>150055432
Vol. 4 >>150092587
Vol. 5 >>150135557
Vol. 6 >>150171727
Vol. 7 >>150209494
Been waiting for this
>>150262287
Starting a little late today
This volume has the first popularity poll, so look up to that if you're interested
love this
>>150262667
>>150262792
The old man ain't fucking around
The anime did these entraces amazingly hype with the OST.
Can't remember the episode
>>150263612
Should be ep 28
>>150263707
I'm going to rewatch the scene
>>150262436
So that's how Meteor and Spider work together
>>150263793
It wasn't as hype as I remembered, but it was pretty good
>>150264028
Neat isn't it, even if you lose you can blow people up
>>150264274
This is why I like world trigger.
Nice one reiji
>>150264654
You know you are doing a good job on character design, when the MC is intended to be overshaded by his peers, but still manage to win the early polls
>>150264311
It's important to remember to the reader how OP Yuma's Black Trigger is, especially now that we saw other ones
>>150264970
I love how Jin messes with him here.
>>150265087
Me too, but he's always like that. If you read the black trigger battle he tells the squads he's going to win.
Hell his catchphrase
>That's what my side effect tells me
Is basically that, for the people that know what his side effect is it basically just means that he'll win, so I assume it's not good for the head fighting being scared of Jin's prediction
>>150263169
>using magnets to propel themselves
Pretty cool.
>>150265802
This is the only part of the fight I didn't understand. If the room simulates trion, why would the walls absorb Enedora's trion attacks? The room isn't simulating his trion since he's not a part of their system, so his trion attacks should be the real thing.
>>150266517
>H-Hayai
>>150265911
It's a training room. You don't want your training session to destroy the base each time a trion shoot misses and finish in the wall.
It's logical that a function of the room is to absorb lost shots.
Also Kinuta said that Amo had enough power to destroy the town during training. He didn't really do it though.
>>150265911
Because "Training rooms" in World Trigger isn't holo chambers.
They are forced feedback loops.
They are "Real"
>>150267026
That cat totally ruins the immersion
>>150267351
>even the cat's surprised
I need to leave for about 20-30 minutes.
Please keep the thread alive
>>150267542
Okay
>>150267542
Read all 8 threads so far, THX op
>>150267542
I thought it said, "drawing dogs," as one of his likes for a second.
Keeping it alive
>>150267875
>>150267895
>>150268122
Thanks
>>150268413
Hadn't seen this one before
>>150268733
Alector means rooster.
Organon means instrument.
>>150265975
>>150266082
Shit man, if Shinoda gave me that look before heading off into battle I'd also fall in love with him. Good luck Sawamura.
>>150268790
Yes, it's greek I think. But the way they're written in Japanese gives them other meanings
Egg Crown and Staff of Stars
It seems the fact Earth doesn't use trion soldiers has actually made them stronger despite the fact they're behind on Trion tech
>>150268902
Do you ever wonder what the other squads sent from Afto had for trion soldiers?
>>150268972
Eh... It takes 10 of them to take out a normal trigger user
>>150268972
Its just a sign of having real manpower.
And having home ground advantage.
If you payed attention, you would have spotted that they spoke a lot about that.
>>150268902
Yeah i know about how they japanese in general use words written in a way to convey two meanings.
Just a fun fact.
The author must have done a bit of research on it because the names are somewhat related to what they are assigned to.
>>150269283
Their names are greek too.
And yeah he does research, since the beginning he has the whole story done.
>>150269359
He's a goddamn genius
>>150269528
broken as shit too
>>150269359
Yeah. Just saying.
Another fun fact is that leoforio means bus. Fitting for the kingdom specialized in mounted combat.
Are fried rice crackers good?
>>150268972
Well you generally don't use trion soldiers for defense. Trion soldiers are great for away missions since they can be transported inexpensively.
>>150270252
Man I love this entire sequence
>>150270311
Osamu is truly the best boy
>>150270252
>>150270311
Yeah, it's pretty nice, especially when you consider that Osamu is outclassed and outnumbered
>>150269777
They are mediocre.
If they are flavored properly, might be good, but its still a rice cracker. It chews and cracks like a rice cracker.
>>150270575
Thanks. Sounds disappointing.
>>150270438
I wanted to ask how he could do that, but then I remebered his name is replica and felt stupid.
>>150270681
If you can find a asia store, they might sell variants.
But i think finding Higashi is hard.
oh shit
>>150270342
>won both popularity polls
>won two out of three Valentine's polls
I'm glad that several people agree.
That was a cool entrance
End of Volume 8.
See you tomorrow
>>150271453
Thank you
>>150271453
thx for the volume
>>150271453
Looking forward to it
>>150271453
See ya.
Let's play a game, let's pretend that due to his neck problems Arashihara can't draw anymore, but instead of ending WT he decides to pass the art to a different artist. Who should be the new WT artist?
When is the high quality color version of the volume 17 cover going to go up?
>>150271954
I don't want to see other artist doing this though
>>150272266
2 december, like the volume itself.
>>150272655
I agree with you, but the art is one of the weakest points in WT. It isn't bad, just mediocre and isn't eye catching like other battle shounen.
This is kind of a less grimdark Gantz.
If the horned guys had sent this crew from the start instead of sending drone kidnap missions for years they could've conquered the planet, spanish conquistador style. Knock over one country, use the locals as cannon fodder, rinse, repeat
>>150269831
>Trion soldiers are great for away missions since they can be transported inexpensively.
I get that, but surely they could establish a beachhead and build a soldier factory.
The whole series is 16 volumes? This seems like they're only setting up the scene at this point
>>150272902
I disagree. It's easily distinguishable even with the mix and match facial features and hairs, and I think his eye for paneling action has improved tremendously throughout the span of the series. And I can't think of another series or artist that utilizes digital tools this well for both backgrounds and effects (polygonal trion shit)
>>150273012
Trion soldiers are used to attack, Border main focus is defence, so is more worthwhile train versatile soldiers that waste a lot of trion in fodder.
>>150273012
>I get that, but surely they could establish a beachhead and build a soldier factory.
Border doesn't have that amount of money, jesus they don't even have enough money for triggers and you want them to get super trion soldiers. This is adressed after the invasion, C ranks don't have bail out because there's simply not enough money.
They have small trion soldiers though, and a ship. But there's literally 1 ship.
Not to mention that it's bad for PR, remember that nobody knows what Triggers are, they think they belong to border, nobody knows that neighbors are actually humanoid, they think neighbors are the trion soldiers.
>>150273019
So it's a matter of taste then. I prefer hand drawn and the overly digital art in WT always bothered me.
I think that WT would be a lot more popular if it had a more organic art style
Ashihara is really good with digital, but that doesn't make his art less plain, which isn't exactly a defect, but it might throw some people off
>>150273012
As far as we know this is Aftokrator's real first attempt attacking Meeden. The only thing they did before this was scout and set up Rads. The other attacks before this could have been any of the other worlds.
>>150273417
Digital allows him to draw the art easier however which is good since he probably couldn't handle anything more with his health.
>>150273417
I've never seen anyone complain about his art though.
And the artstyle fits really well for the sci-fi setting, if it was middle ages or some shit I agree digital probably wouldn't be as good
>>150273544
Yeah, his lines are almost perfect, he seem like perfectionist type of guy. If he fucked up his neck doing digital he would be dead if he drawn by hand.
But what he lacks as an artist he compensates as a amazing writer.
>>150273700
We've been lurking in different places then, one of the biggest criticism I've heard about WT was that the art as plain and boring, though I disagree in the boring part.
But I agree with the fact that his art fits the setting, Ashihara know how to work around his limitations.
>>150273254
>Border doesn't have that amount of money,
I'm not talking about Border, I'm talking about the neighbours
>>150273436
Hmm, maybe but the old guy here >>150264521 says "it used to be simple to capture Meeden people" so they've been at it for a while.
Hell, this dude with his black trigger could've probably soloed the planet 30 years ago when he was young and no one had a clue about other dimensions
>>150273012
>Q.214
>Does the world on this side have research on the creation of Trion soldiers?
>A: For the most part yes. However, due to restrictions of the main purpose of defending Mikado City, compared to one time use Trion soldiers, it is decided that it is more reasonable to allocate resources to human agents that can regain Trion through eating and resting.
>>150274063
Because they don't want people, they want trion and to collect trion (aka kidnap people) an Trion Soldier is more lucrative than an humanoid one, 'cause you can send 200 TS in the space consumed by a humanoid one.
>>150274093
B-Rank Four-Eyes Harasser on the lead once again.
>That gap between second and third place
man, oh man.
>>150264274
I really do like how research matters.
Chika's thighs.
>>150274063
Viza could be referring to their vassal nations probing the planet. Meeden is a isn't a planet with a World Trigger so actually capturing and holding a planet would take a bit of manpower. And Aftokrator isn't united so that manpower might be needed to fight other worlds or other Afto kingdoms.
>>150273012
The structure of the Neighborhood makes that difficult. This attack works because Aftokrator itself is in range of Earth. Otherwise they'd need a much longer ranged ship, or need to stop at other worlds to refuel.
Aftokrator also has competition in the Neighborhood who'd likely interfere. And given the size of earth compared to the Neighbor countries, it'd be a huge headache to take and hold.
>>150274996
Oh, hello Yuzuru.
>>150271126
What a fucking beast. He's wasted in the commanding chair.
>>150274213
Katori very nice.
>>150274996
Here is something for you, Yuzuru.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLbkT1zihys
It's shit, but you asked.
>>150275176
So if I understand right, other worlds aren't full planets like Earth, so much smaller? And humans are a resource, as slaves/energy sources?
In that case Earth should be a huge prize, ripe for the picking, send a team, establish beachhead, conquer and consolidate for the next time the worlds come back into alignment.
Instead they pecked and pecked at the virgin world until it got alerted and acquired it's own trigger tech, and now their landing in force is being heavily contested.
It's literally worse than giving rifles to the indians, there is no conventional defense against trion tech.
The old guy is 65 years old, that means that at any time in the last 50 years he could've led an invasion team and taken the planet.
>>150276043
Taking earth is impossible anon, it's a huge planet.
Have you read the manga? The neighborhood is composed of smaller worlds, I mean they're not the sized of a flea but they're a lot smaller than earth.
If they invade earth there's no fucking way they can control the whole planet the moment someone else tries to invade them, you don't know WHERE they will invade.
>>150276043
A planet like meeden, in which trion tech hasn't become mainstream, will have a population with generally poor trion glands. Afto went after trigger users here specifically because they are worthwhile.
>>150261712
Man I missed the 7th since all these CG fiasco. Thank you for the good work
>>150276043
You don't have the slightest idea of what the technology level was the five or 10 years before.
To conquer and rule something as huge as earth without back up with the trigger technology doesn't sound like doable before, and maybe even now with what Afto showed.
Just doing raids seems like the most practical thing for them.
Also we don't know what the neighbourhood knows about earth (or if miden is our earth and works the same way).
>>150276017
I messed up :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTy2xguR4-g
>>150274166
So let's take the bet :
Katori is a redhair. Who agree ?
The answer is this friday.
>>150276205
>Taking earth is impossible anon, it's a huge planet.
I disagree, a Trion body is unstoppable by conventional means, arrive, take over several countries by basically walking into the president's office and threatening him, use them to conquer others. Spanish conquistadors and other colonial armies took over vast empires with a smaller tech edge. Give low power triggers to your colonial forces, they'll steamroll other countries. Grow Trion soldiers locally, again unstoppable by conventional forces.
>>150276228
>A planet like meeden, in which trion tech hasn't become mainstream, will have a population with generally poor trion glands.
There's six billion of us, they can shop around for Trion monsters once they rule the place
>>150276252
>You don't have the slightest idea of what the technology level was the five or 10 years before.
We know the horn thing is a recent innovation because the old guy doesn't have them, but he likely has been a Trion user all his adult life, starting at... what age was Yuma when he got shish-kebabed and age frozen? 11? He'd already been fighting for a while.
Didn't they say somewhere that adults couldn't become Trigger users? If we assume the old guy is a first generation user that's still at least 50 years of Trion tech
>>150276885
Was for >>150274213 .
>>150276885
The cover will be up earlier than that. It was up 2 weeks before release last volume.
>>150276910
You mean like how Spaniards got BTFO out of SA, or bongs from NA?
You're talking like these guys are still on power when giving resources to their colonies is what fucked them over.
You invade earth with your small forces, then what? What do you do when someone wants to invade the other side of the world? Go fight him? what do you do after a couple alliances come knocking your door? Ask the colonies you invaded to fight for you? because they're clearly not going to betray you.
>>150276910
Not talking about their level of trigger peformance, but about the travel.
If you can't have at minimum around twenty people to establish a secure base and rest, I think that conquering a nation is going to be tough.
And with the distance between afto and MIden, it was most likely impossible 5 or ten years ago.
And today, with Border, they would fail.
>>150277091
>And today, with Border, they would fail.
Well they wouldn't Ashihara said that if Aftokrator took us seriously we'd be fucked.
Still world domination is just stupid, it's a big problem to control an entire planet, it's completely retarded.
>>150276885
Wait, we haven't seen Katori official colors yet? I always assume it was red since every single fan art has her as a red head. Gonna be awkward if it turn out to be purple or some shit.
>>150277157
They also don't have the luxury currently to take us seriously either
>>150277190
Nope. But World Trigger isn't the kind of series that uses crazy hair colors anyway. Not even for the alien humanoid neighbors.
>>150277324
Though, they could if they wanted to mess with the trion bodies.
>>150277324
Eh.. Hyrein has blue hair
>>150277560
Oh, right. But at least it's a dark color instead of some bright, glaring shade of blue.
>>150277491
>Katori modded her hair to be purple with red highlights
>>150262436
if only Osamu could do shit like this.
>>150277560
In manga or in the anime? Because I know Toei changed Kitora's hair color from black to purple for no reason.
>>150274093
Is this the poll they just did?
>>150278058
Yep, it's the second character popularity poll
>>150265705
How can one neighbor be so based?
>>150274093
Glad Nips know Konami is best girl
>>150274435
>they just copy pasted his BBF profile pic
I really shouldn't be asking for something better considering the author's condition, but dang it. Was looking forward to something in color
>>150264765
Normally I'd argue that MCs are fairly prone to getting the top spot in a popularity poll, but in this case it's amazing that he's been consistently beating the designated poster boy MC of the story.
>>150277973
>In manga or in the anime?
Manga
>Because I know Toei changed Kitora's hair color from black to purple for no reason.
No, she has purple hair in the manga too
>>150271453
Thanks dude.
>that viza description
>>150274166
Wow Kitora dropped hard.
Katori took her spot
>>150278357
Looks pretty black to me
>>150278477
Just in that one
It's purple here too
>>150278477
Huh.
Unrelated but isn't Katori's pause a mirror of Kitora's ?
Both of them even have their weapons in hand and the same half smile.
Just that Kitora is reversed.
>>150278712
Kitora is not smiling
Katori only has 1 weapon in her right hand, her left arm is doing a sexy pose. Her legs are also together
>>150274093
>>150274125
>>150274166
>>150274213
aw loved the author comments but it seems there's none this time?
>>150278908
There's none in the first one either
>>150279014
ah so we'll get them later like
>>150263672
>>150262828
>>150264654
?
>>150278908
Gotta wait for the volume
>>150279171
That's for volume release yes
>>150278617
Maybe it is just incredibly dark pruple
>>150279468
see >>150278412
And in your pic she has a purple line there. Her hair is not Medaka purple, she has a really dark purple hair, you can notice it being purple in the highlights
Almost missed today's thread.
>>150276885
a true purple would be fine too, but will it match the uniform color?
>>150280333
I could see her brown-haired, or a bit dark-haired like Yuri or TeruTeru.
>>150279595
It's weird the volume cover dosen't have the purple sheen
>>150274996
Go away Yuzuru
>>150276885
>just realized there was no official color
Shiet, but it's probably red though
>>150281225
The mobage has actually really good anime graphics doesn't it?
The animations and effects are really good too.
>>150281225
Translate it weebs
>>150281225
>tfw Osamu NTRs him
That's just funny. Sorry Yuzuru but you can't compete with a sexy man, you're just a cute kid
>>150282282
Osamu isn't competing for Chika
>>150282346
Agreed, he can do much better anyway.
>>150282282
Osamu isn't interested in chika like that
Even in this volume the main drive for helping her is because it fits his "Is the right thing to do" motto
Tamakoma 2's personal operator when?
I like the current one, just feel that the team would look better with more "originality" and "uniqueness".
>>150282628Miwa
>>150282684
B-but every operator is a girl.
>>150281591
It's really good. Even better than the official Vita game, from the looks of it.
The people behind this game seem pretty passionate and up to date with this series.
>>150282346
He doesn't need to
>>150282628
Not going to happen because T-1 now has Yuri
>>150282742
They don't have to be- it was in one of the Q&A's.
>>150282282
>that confident, borderline smug smile
This is what that golden Osamu is gonna look like isn't it
>>150282773
Chika has no interest in him or anybody for that matter
>>150282544
Well, that and he promised her brother he'd look after her, and he's sort of serving as her surrogate big brother at this point.
>>150283112
Osamu is single handedly raising two suicidal kids who have both lost their respective guardians
Gotta give the guy some credit
>There exists a chart of wins and losses from A-rank rank wars from a year before the current timeline in the story.
Will we ever get to see it?
>>150282830
The last time I recalled Uchimi is still the operator for both T-1 and T-2, I couldn't remember when that got changed, is it before the 2nd invasion?
>>150282840
>Q&A
I would be hyped if Ashihara even bother to actually introduce one.
>>150283410
Yuri was Tamakoma's original operator, Shiori is new and she was just covering while Yuri is out scouting
>I would be hyped if Ashihara even bother to actually introduce one.
Yomi
What's with the sudden surge of posters in this thread? I like it when WT gets more love. TvT
>>150282628
>Wanting to change Usami
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
FUCK OFF
How the fuck does the neighborhood work
>>150283608
Trion
>>150283278
Chika still has her parents, I think.
>>150283608
They're like little planets the size of countries, that orbit outside of 3 dimensional space.
>>150283608
What I want to know is how Meeden works.
It's not like the other planets, is it?
>>150283560
It happens when something worth discussing comes up.
>>150284185
?
It works just like our universe
>>150283560
There'd be even more if the thread started with the 2nd poll results
>>150284653
We've had the results since Thursday though
>>150284361
That's the thing.
Why? What makes it special?
>>150284881
Meeden doesn't seem to have a world trigger.
>>150284881
to be clear: I mean it's special from all the neighbor worlds
>>150284881
Nothing makes it special. It just happens to be the focus of the story.
>>150284771
ah I didn't bother to check the other story time threads.
>>150285977
So who's god of meeden
>>150284881
Probably is something like meeden being the first thing created then neighbor dimension ended being created from the trion that nobody used, the place only works because trion exist too and the planets needs a god so they were always artificial too. Probably humanoid neighbors are just decendant of humans that ended there in old times and developed the triggers and the planets to survive (this could explain the names too). This is just my speculation anyway, probably the mangaka is going to talk about this in the future.
Btw didnt the author released a databook? probably talks about this there, or maybe not, is even in english the thing?
>>150269875
>>150269916
protect the waifu
>>150286014
To be fair, only Aftokrator was said to function that way. None of the other planets were even hinted to have a God Trigger from which the planet gets its power. So Meeden is just another normal planet like any other (except Afto)
>>150286829
The other nations are powered by Mother Triggers too. it's just that Aftokrator always makes sure they sacrifice someone with a gigantic Trion level so that their landmass remains large.
>>150286361
I don't see Kitora in neither of those pages
>>150287319
Fuck.
Galopoula neighbor and Katori
Thanks for the dump ^^
>>150287319
>Osamu threatens to throw himself and his shitty gland into the mother trigger if his demands aren't met
/thread