Sentai Daishikkaku - Ch. 167 - Shinya Kiritani, Age 28, Part 5

[glueweeb]

HOW TF HE MANAGED TO BUILT THAT THING???????????????????????????????????? AUTHOR'S NUTS

 

[Potatoo]

I don't know man, living a happy life with wifey together with miko sisters seems like the better dream

If only they communicated their grief

 

[Amaiar]

Holy shit. Okay I didn't predict that one, but that's part of what I like about the series.

Now, my interpretations.

First of all, Kiritani clearly said he could only build the incubator thanks to the divine power of the dragon, and how truly "divine" it is. I'm guessing one of the many blessings from the dragon that Yellow Keeper has in the present has to do with gaining knowledge, thus why the Yellow garrison deals with the I+D of the Dragon Keepers. I'm also guessing this is how he gained the skills to convert the priests into divine tools.

Next, I was expecting him to live a double life with DID, but he went too insane and split himself apart. We have only seen one Yellow Keeper so far (IIRC, "guard" Kiritani is still Yellow Keeper, just inside the dream) so maybe the "Family" Kiritani died at the hands of "Yellow" Kiritani, or suicided after his family all got turned into weapons? Or maybe he's just hidden and waiting for revenge or something. But I think it's pretty clear that both clones are going into conflict of interests...
(also kind of a stupid move to leave them at 10yo, how the f is going a child to live with his much older "wife"?)

And finally, it was pointed out in comments on other chapters, but Yumeko couldn't be Kiritani's child, and now it's confirmed it was a boy. It seems he died anyway, but if the "Family" Kiritani kept trying to revive/clone the child, it could be possible that he is present currently in the story. And as someone pointed out, there's this weird new dude in the Yellow Battalion with an uncanny resemblance to Kiritani...

Anyway, seems like the flashbacks are finally coming to an end, and Soldier D probably slept through most of it 🤷

 

[Highorse]

I uh... what the fuck?

 

[Artimid]

So I can go along with a lot of stuff, I can forgive a lot with the series, but... there's gotta be a line, right? They couldn't have just introduced a NEW character? Maybe had them make a sacrifice to the Dragon God themselves to resurrect the child? Have him work with a scientist to explore the power with his wife on the sly, so they can fix the "Boys must die" curse the family has?

Could have even had the child reborn as a girl and BOOM, you have the daughter who is being cloned and turned into Divine Tools. It also allows another character to have 'implanted HIS memories in a Yellow clone, explaining how he became like he is and leading his creations and masterpieces to become reviled and twisted. 'I can't... escape... the original memories of Kiritani, but MY will is reigning supreme!' so it became this weird mix of world control and TV show.

That would have easily set the stage better than: "So yeah, I just happened to ALSO be a brilliant magitech bio-chemist that has mastered both cloning and age control technology, as well as uploading memories and personality. It took me an afternoon, so... you know, I was slacking. I'll just go ahead and Oof myself and let my sonclones deal with it."

 

[Kampfarsch]

Writer turned actor, turned farmer, builds a cloning machine using ancient dragon magic and then kills himself

5 parts and still nobody cares
This is slowly turning into absolute dogshit oof

 

[Tych]

This is just the sitcom plot of creating clones of yourself so that you can do two things at once. Except here he just went “you be the family man, you be the writer. Aight imma kill myself, good luck dealing with my mess”

At some point I think we might’ve jumped the shark, but I’m not sure when

Pretty sure the shark was jumped last arc with the resurrected executives being used by a monster lover cult that turned all the members into monsters and when D learned he and the other grunts are just single entity scattered into endless grunt soldiers am still have convinced its going to be revealed all the grunts are actually the final boss and D will have to deal with it waking up an devouring all the grunts and him into itself and trying to keep his individuality

 

[Kampfarsch]

Pretty sure the shark was jumped last arc with the resurrected executives being used by a monster lover cult that turned all the members into monsters and when D learned he and the other grunts are just single entity scattered into endless grunt soldiers am still have convinced its going to be revealed all the grunts are actually the final boss and D will have to deal with it waking up an devouring all the grunts and him into itself and trying to keep his individuality

footsoldiers arent one entitity, they just share an energy source

 

[SatchelBagman]

People complaining about wild shenanigans and Kiritani being absurdly multitalented and I'm just sitting here as a relative amateur in the field of tokusatsu working under the assumption that Concrete Revolutio and Samurai Flamenco were riffing on that exact sort of thing being commonplace in the genre.

 

[2hu_ism]

so OG yellow has 2 personality that can't co exist due to extreme-ist of his art side. and he don't know and can't find answer which one should be the "right" him.

so he let his clone with his memory(the peaceful one and extremist one) decided it(whoever get better result is "right") then off himself before even knows the answer cuz he himself is failure and shouldn't be on stage with these two ?

Idk, sounds like the art extremist persona gonna kill peaceful one in next chapter but I might be wrong? since it was the "peaceful" one who did hit a nail to first by reporting to police about red after all. OG yellow is so schizo that his "peaceful" might be dangerous than extreme one

 

[Flost]

I think, I`ve missed the point, where he became a technical genius...
Did he just... decid to build a clone incubator - and then he just built it? Just like that?

 

[onipuck]

Well that's a refreshing change to the mad scientist cloning themselves plot.

 

[huntercheco]

I think, I`ve missed the point, where he became a technical genius...
Did he just... decid to build a clone incubator - and then he just built it? Just like that?

"It's Divine Dragon energy, I ain't gotta explain shit"

 

[Jagabond]

I'm just gonna assume the first part of the chapter and the part about the clones had a sizeable time skip in-between. Only thing that makes sense

 

[satsukiyamikisho]

Holy shit. Okay I didn't predict that one, but that's part of what I like about the series.

Now, my interpretations.

First of all, Kiritani clearly said he could only build the incubator thanks to the divine power of the dragon, and how truly "divine" it is. I'm guessing one of the many blessings from the dragon that Yellow Keeper has in the present has to do with gaining knowledge, thus why the Yellow garrison deals with the I+D of the Dragon Keepers. I'm also guessing this is how he gained the skills to convert the priests into divine tools.

Next, I was expecting him to live a double life with DID, but he went too insane and split himself apart. We have only seen one Yellow Keeper so far (IIRC, "guard" Kiritani is still Yellow Keeper, just inside the dream) so maybe the "Family" Kiritani died at the hands of "Yellow" Kiritani, or suicided after his family all got turned into weapons? Or maybe he's just hidden and waiting for revenge or something. But I think it's pretty clear that both clones are going into conflict of interests...
(also kind of a stupid move to leave them at 10yo, how the f is going a child to live with his much older "wife"?)

And finally, it was pointed out in comments on other chapters, but Yumeko couldn't be Kiritani's child, and now it's confirmed it was a boy. It seems he died anyway, but if the "Family" Kiritani kept trying to revive/clone the child, it could be possible that he is present currently in the story. And as someone pointed out, there's this weird new dude in the Yellow Battalion with an uncanny resemblance to Kiritani...

Anyway, seems like the flashbacks are finally coming to an end, and Soldier D probably slept through most of it 🤷

I'm still banking on D being kiritani and hitoko's child, well at least a fragment of him

 

[MuffinL]

I think he's offing himself because even though he created 2 of him to do separate things, the original still have the same conflicts. Since he only copy and doesn't transfer to two new body

dang, kinda reminds me of Soma a bit ngl

 

[PhallusHydra]

this has gotten so insanely dumb lol

Oh what you want Divine Dragon power to have a super detailed explanation? Really? You want this manga to waste several pages of panels on a reddit tier explanation of the power system?
No, I really don't think you do. I think you would mock that if this series did that, because it would be stupid.
Use your brain for 2 seconds to fill in the blanks.

 

[PhallusHydra]

I'm sorry, but you can't just "so anyway..." the part(s) between "I used to write kid's shows and lost my infant child." and "Me and my wife built a magic-powered cloning device, and it's the pro version so it ages the clones too."

Like, we don't need a 5-chapter technical presentation on it, but we need a bit more than a "and then"!

He found out his wife was connected to god like power he didn't fully comprehend, then told a murderer everything is fine and then reported him to the police in an unknown order, because he gradually and completely lost it from the stress of being a fanatically dedicated creative on a show that absolutely flopped ugly style.
It was building to a boiling point the entire time.
Every scene with the shrine maidens is trying to communicate absurd cosmic power hidden away to all but one very broken man.
Only manga fans could find this difficult to follow istg

 

[PhallusHydra]

I don't know man, living a happy life with wifey together with miko sisters seems like the better dream

If only they communicated their grief

That's the point brah, Yellow is broken to a degree he would throw this away.

 

[omatic]

He found out his wife was connected to god like power he didn't fully comprehend, then told a murderer everything is fine and then reported him to the police in an unknown order, because he gradually and completely lost it from the stress of being a fanatically dedicated creative on a show that absolutely flopped ugly style.
It was building to a boiling point the entire time.
Every scene with the shrine maidens is trying to communicate absurd cosmic power hidden away to all but one very broken man.
Only manga fans could find this difficult to follow istg

Yep, those are all parts of the story that we can see on the pages of the manga chapter under discussion in the thread this message is in.

The part of the story where the former kid's show writer with no apparent scientific or magical background successfully builds a magic science machine off-screen that's able to perform science-magic is what I was talking about.