If a Ashikabi forces a Sekirei to become winged ( to be their Sekirei) what happens to the Sekirei's real Ashikabi if they meet? Can the Sekirei still react to their true Ashikabi?
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I've been looking for information forever in regards to what happens when, how long it takes to do phase 1, 2, etc. I think I caught my first glimpse of it today in the Anime during a re-watch.
At the begining of the series, both Anime and Manga, Minato is looking at the results of the entrance examination posted at Tokyo University.
This tells us two things. He's already attempted, and its already posted. If we check the Tokyo Universities website, we find out quickly that one round of entrance exams happen Jan-March of the year, with the results being announced between February and April of the same year. We also know "The blooming of the cherry blossoms varies each year but it usually starts in late March and lasts for about one month." from http://blog.gaijinpot.com/significance-of-the-cherry-blossoms-in-japan/. So this would confirm late march, early april where Minato discovered he didnt get in, and informs his mother. Its this same day he meets Musubi, and has her winged 'within the week' if not the next day.
Now, at the end of the first season, Tsukuimi and others are seeing Minato off. "I don't know why you insist on..." being stated by the erstwhile water sekirei while their Ashikabi departs to "WRITE THE ENTRANCE EXAM". We already know Minato's shown no interest in OTHER schools since he'd failed at least twice to get in. This is his third try.
We also know that its not nescessarily been two years, just 1 year as Tokyo U allows it to be written twice a year. At least according to their website.
So from all this, I suppose we can presume that the first season (and the similar chapters in the books) takes place from mid-late march, until the 2nd entrance exams. A quick look at Todai's website... give the impression at least that written and ORAL exams for entrance, take place last week or two of August. Assuming its not Medicine (which is later, May/june/july & Sept/Oct/Nov vs other tracts)
So either (and this is believable) Minato is trying for medicine (I recall somewhere it saying 'the second blossoming' which would be later in the period, like the autumn summer), meaning summer is nearly coming to an end by the time the first season is done. 1-4 months max. It takes about 2 months to write the exams and get the results (again I'm guessing).
If anyone here knows my assumptions above to be wrongly presumed, let me know. I love to pick apart timelines like this to get a better gauge on how long Minato has to REALLY change and man up to help his sekirei survive.
We also know Miya Asama, leaves to visit Takehito's grave site at least twice if not three times that is MENTIONED over the course of the manga where Season 2 would have hypothetically ended (Before the boat SS Minaka). In fact, even before the Jinki's are being given as prizes.
Point - Karasuba visits Musubi and scares the crap out of Matsu in the first season. Where is Miya? Visiting her deceased husband's grave.
Point - Higa's sekirei attack Maison Izumo in the second season when Matsu, Ku and the others are trying to rescue Uzume's Ashikabi from Higa's control. Where is Miya? Visiting her deceased husband's grave.
We know at last TWO months have passed by the time season 2 ends. The first Jinki hasn't even been awarded yet. Hell its just after Kagari gets winged when the 'award' for the first jinki is hinted at for stopping Minato's group from entering MBI Tower.
So, 3-4 months isn't really that long to try to wrap your head around this small group being suddenly 'yours', while trying to understand an insane game.
I am having dark thoughts about that man, and I think he is an insanly angry man. I'm also thinking that he was antagonizing Minato Sahashi possibly for being a ronin. Later one night he discovred that Minato had Musubi with him and he evicted him almost without reason.
And if he learned about the Sekirei and finds out that his ex cilent Minato is a Ashikabi, he would ether halved Minato locked up in prisson, forced in a work camp, chased out of the country for good, or worse put to death in the electric chair, and become president of Japan and turn it into a communist country.
Yen Press haven't fixed their website yet, but we can deduce that Volume 4 will (hopefully) be released along towards the end of May.
Release date is 3/29/16:
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/Sekirei-Vol-3/9780316270540/?yen
Should we use the "official" manga translation's chapter titles or stick with the ones already there? Here's a list of the "official" titles, with the current ones in parens if different:
Vol. 1
Chapter I: Sekirei
Chapter II: Wings of Light (Feathers of Light)
Chapter III: Blooming Town (Burning City)
Chapter 1: Maiden of the Moonlit Sky (Girl Under the Moonlight)
Chapter 2: Gate of a New Home (The Door to the New House)
Chapter 3: Musubi
Chapter 4: Girl of Green (The Green Girl)
Chapter 5: Inside of the Dream (Inside the Dream)
Vol. 2
Chapter 6: The Second Man (A Charming Man)
Chapter 7: A Calling Voice (A Calling Sound)
Chapter 8: A Chance Meeting (Unforeseen Encounter)
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Chapter 10: Winging (Getting Wings)
Chapter 11: Sekirei Talks (Sekirei Chat)
Chapter 12: By My Side (Next to Me)
Chapter 13: Yukari Invades (Yukari Attacks)
Chapter 14: All Sorts of Situations (Everybody's Situation)
Chapter 15: The Colorful Tale of Izumo Inn (Story of Izumo House)
Chapter 16: Angel in a White Coat (Angel in White)
Apparently this goes on sale January 26th.
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sakurako-gokurakuin/sekirei-vol-2/9780316270526/
Here is a link to Yen Press' official page for Sekirei Vol. 1, which is scheduled for release on 11/24. Apparently it's a digital-only version, which is too bad...
http://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/Sekirei-Vol-1/9780316268226/?yen
Chapter 171 has been released on IRC and on bato.to.
More news at: [LetItGo Scans]
According to a post on Sakurako-san's blog. If I can believe Google Translate... :)
There are other threads on a potential third season but they are closed. This one though I think I'd like to focus on WHY I think there should be a final or third season...
The first main reason is that the second season was left wide open! I hate it when you get into a series and it turns out its an incomplete series!
Spoiler Alert: As to "would the main character be able to revive the fallen sekirei? I believe so, that was why in part they went to the MBI tower to begin with! I think that's also why they made a point of showing off the contents of those jars in the end of Season 2. I also think that if something was saved from them, then it would be possible to return them as full fledged sekirei! It really wouldn't make sense to bring them back as humans.
Potential Spoilers: This brings us back to where could they do this? If indeed they do return to the island, it would make sense that the only facilities left where they could be revived would be on the ship. Assuming there weren't other facilities built elsewhere. But what I have heard elsewhere is that the plan was to bring the masters back to the island with the crashed ship anyways, it would then make sense that there would be something there that would allow them to do so! They alluded to the possibility in some of the episodes of being to revive those that have fallen.
Here's an afterthought These beings sent eight ships to Earth in the past... Assuming that the original race is still around "out there" what's to say that they wouldn't come back to Earth to find out a progress report of what's been going on here? And who's to say that they wouldn't be pissed that some schmuck madman has taken over their projects for his own enjoyment? Course there is also the other side of it, what if they DIDN'T have benevolent reasons for sending the ships to Earth? Or at least that some other faction that may come into the Earth's realm of space may have ulterior motives? Why exactly DID the ships crash? Maybe these are questions that the manga answers, but I've only seen the show.
If there is a season 3 or final season, I would like to see another ship arrive to give their judgment on the mad scientist fellow! There would be bitter sweet revenge if the creatures/people/beings that sent the ships in the first place saw to it that their technology could not be missused, or would at least have something built in if things didn't go according to plan...
Apparently there was a leaked version of the next Young Gangan containing an editorial by Square Enix saying that the final chapter of Sekirei will come out in that issue, which ships on the 21st of August.
I want to know this because I haven't seen it, and I want to know which type of powers it has, and I would love to see this character again because it was so sad to see her go.