Blattodea - Vol. 4 Ch. 19 - There’s No Point in Making Them Slaves

[MangaDex]

 

[DLRevan]

I think my reaction to this whole chapter can pretty much be summed up by mantis's face on page 5 lol.

 

[PokeHeroRed]

Meet Serena Cervantes from Himenospia. The biggest retcon in the series. We still don't know if she's also a mutant with phallic vagina dentata in this universe.
Murata rewrote Arachnid as Himenospia so he could rehash Himenospia into Blattodea and, most likely, eventually rehash Blattodea into Himenospia 2...

Also, this is one of the chapters that remind me that whenever Alice says her own name, it is emphazised in kanji, unlike how every other character spells it in katakana. One of those things that don't get conveyed even in the official translation.

 

[mushroomers]

I'm convinced this takes so long to update because the author is just doing research on animals/insects to create bs abilities for his different series. Wonder if there's a plant-based series in the works 🤔

 

[PokeHeroRed]

I'm convinced this takes so long to update because the author is just doing research on animals/insects to create bs abilities for his different series. Wonder if there's a plant-based series in the works 🤔

The author Murata is a funfacts manga machine who sends detailed storyboards for a bunch of series each month, but the illustrators working for him aren't as tough (the former one for Caterpillar actually died).
The current illustrator, Tokisada, keeps having various kinds of health and work troubles (his bike got stolen sometime ago) and either releases Blattodea chapters in two parts or takes break months. They even put the Kamikatsu spinoff in indefinite hiatus because it clearly was overworking him that much.

Now the scanlations, those were dead for years because Ravens Scans went inactive and no other group cared. Even the official translations at Manga Up stopped with Caterpillar. There was also a person scanlating it to Spanish but they stopped at chapter 40.

 

[sassinos]

Meet Serena Cervantes from Himenospia. The biggest retcon in the series. We still don't know if she's also a mutant with phallic vagina dentata in this universe.
Murata rewrote Arachnid as Himenospia so he could rehash Himenospia into Blattodea and, most likely, eventually rehash Blattodea into Himenospia 2...

Also, this is one of the chapters that remind me that whenever Alice says her own name, it is emphazised in kanji, unlike how every other character spells it in katakana. One of those things that don't get conveyed even in the official translation.

I was thinking the girl on the cover of volume 8 looked familiar, guess I just blocked Himenospia from my memories. I really hope he's just re-using the character name and design here. I've found most of Murata's works entertaining or interesting in some way or another, but, not that one.

 

[BatNova]

That woman from the beginning of the character looks like Alice. That can’t be her mother? And looks like Serena (from the Himenospia series) is a part of this. Shared Universe I guessed? Hopefully the author give her more yuri moments in this manga than in the Himenospia manga.

 

[voltaseca]

lmao Himenospia crossover confirmed

 

[yatanogarasu]

I was so annoyed when Arachnid ended what seemed like a cliffhanger, Blattodea is the saving grace.

 

[T-sama]

So if she's the same Serena Cervantes from Himenospia does that mean all the insect bullshit everyone pulls is also due to aliens?

Actually, it can't be the same due to how Himenospia plot goes, Himeno was pretty open about all the shit she did later, people literally knew she was mind controlling people

So either Murata is basically reusing Serena basic character or he did some big retcons to connect the series

Alternative, this is same Serena but it's an alternative timeline where Himenospia plot didn't happen

Eh, who are we kidding? Murata plots have always been bullshit from beginning to end, it doesn't really matter much either way

Really, next we know it he'll put Killing Bites, Jackals and so on in same world too, Murata shared universe of animal kingdom bullshit

 

[Rashalom]

So if she's the same Serena Cervantes from Himenospia does that mean all the insect bullshit everyone pulls is also due to aliens?

Actually, it can't be the same due to how Himenospia plot goes, Himeno was pretty open about all the shit she did later, people literally knew she was mind controlling people

So either Murata is basically reusing Serena basic character or he did some big retcons to connect the series

Alternative, this is same Serena but it's an alternative timeline where Himenospia plot didn't happen

Eh, who are we kidding? Murata plots have always been bullshit from beginning to end, it doesn't really matter much either way

Really, next we know it he'll put Killing Bites, Jackals and so on in same world too, Murata shared universe of animal kingdom bullshit

He loves reusing designs. Crazy wasp scientist is also in Himenospia.

But really, the only canon universe of shared works is the Arachnid universe with Jackals and that one shinobi manga being canon prequels to Arachnid

 

[T-sama]

He loves reusing designs. Crazy wasp scientist is also in Himenospia.

But really, the only canon universe of shared works is the Arachnid universe with Jackals and that one shinobi manga being canon prequels to Arachnid

You're right, I forgot he does that

Where it shows they're shared universe? Only thing I can think of is that onsen chapter, which I'm pretty sure is not canon, at least I think that was the crossover chapter, don't remember super well

Think you can find Shinobi manga name? :v

 

[PokeHeroRed]

You're right, I forgot he does that

Where it shows they're shared universe? Only thing I can think of is that onsen chapter, which I'm pretty sure is not canon, at least I think that was the crossover chapter, don't remember super well

Think you can find Shinobi manga name? :v

Killing Bites mentions Cicero City from Jackals as the place the Pomario/Orchard child soldier orphanages originated from, but otherwise it doesn't have a shared universe with Arachnid.

Jackals was confirmed as part of the Arachnid series in Caterpillar, where Kabutomushi's Heracles weapon is said to be based on the Alligator blade that Nichol and Roxy owned.

Majo ni Ataeru Tetsui, which is about witches and torture devices, is its own thing but was the first story Murata used Serena Cervantes as a character. I've always assumed she's really an expy of Princess Serenity from Sailor Moon due to how he's drawn a series of fancomics titled "Sailor Moon: The War" about her several years ago.

Himenospia is some kind of parallel universe compared to Arachnid, with Himeno and Nagisa taking the place of Alice/Kuramoto and Megumi/Yoriko. Dr. Fujimoto (aka Jigabachi/Sand Wasp) and Serena are the only characters who appear in both series mostly unchanged.

Choubu no Shinobi is a distant prequel to Arachnid set in Feudal Japan with a bunch of ninjas senselessly killing each other and most of the hot naked girls getting ero-guro'ed. The ending spoils Yoriko's identity as the Organization Boss to say she eventually takes over the last ninja village in Japan to build her evil gang with. So then, all the wacky bug assassins in the series were "modern ninjas" the entire time.

 

[Rashalom]

What PokeHeroRed said.

Choubu no Shinobi will also get relevant in Blattodea, with a character originating from the shinobis appearing in a couple chapters.

 

[T-sama]

Killing Bites mentions Cicero City from Jackals as the place the Pomario/Orchard child soldier orphanages originated from, but otherwise it doesn't have a shared universe with Arachnid.

Jackals was confirmed as part of the Arachnid series in Caterpillar, where Kabutomushi's Heracles weapon is said to be based on the Alligator blade that Nichol and Roxy owned.

Majo ni Ataeru Tetsui, which is about witches and torture devices, is its own thing but was the first story Murata used Serena Cervantes as a character. I've always assumed she's really an expy of Princess Serenity from Sailor Moon due to how he's drawn a series of fancomics titled "Sailor Moon: The War" about her several years ago.

Himenospia is some kind of parallel universe compared to Arachnid, with Himeno and Nagisa taking the place of Alice/Kuramoto and Megumi/Yoriko. Dr. Fujimoto (aka Jigabachi/Sand Wasp) and Serena are the only characters who appear in both series mostly unchanged.

Choubu no Shinobi is a distant prequel to Arachnid set in Feudal Japan with a bunch of ninjas senselessly killing each other and most of the hot naked girls getting ero-guro'ed. The ending spoils Yoriko's identity as the Organization Boss to say she eventually takes over the last ninja village in Japan to build her evil gang with. So then, all the wacky bug assassins in the series were "modern ninjas" the entire time.

I see, guess all of that, thanks for all the info