HSDK Battle 554 Released
Jan 24 2014 09:03 AM | Red Duel in Kenichi News
History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi Battle 554 has been released by Mangapanda. The disciples of the Hachiou Executioner Blade make an appearance! Battle 554 is titled, "Cultural Exchange".











35 Comments
Cam
Jan 24 2014 09:09 AM
You know you're good at talking in metaphors when Ogata gets confused. XD
Red Duel
Jan 24 2014 09:12 AM
Ogata
Jan 24 2014 10:49 AM
You can say that again!
That being said, I NEVER imagined a lunatic like Michael Schtilvay would have a disciple of his own! The kid must be a brave soul since Michael seems like the type of guy who would rather cut your head off if you make a mistake in his scythe training.
Woooo Sai kagerou,James Shiba, Dankichi are now all involved and BIG UPS to Berserker for having Lughs back! Great guy along with his master!
EDIT: Just saw Kenichi and the Shinpaku alliance and they have Ukita but not Seigried....Like really!!!
Baby Joe
Jan 24 2014 11:10 AM
My favorite weapon master's full name is finally revealed!
Rakiho Shinano, The Ecstatic Martial Arts Princess! And I just noticed this, but the Executioner Blade has two armored guys. I thought Rin was the only one.
Cam
Jan 24 2014 12:16 PM
One is Shigure's brother with the huge Samurai armor; the other is the Medieval armored guy.(I think he was the one who ran on water when they were fighting the military on their ship)
Ogata
Jan 24 2014 12:20 PM
Rakiho is sex on legs, lots of ppl confuse knight with axe with Rin for some weird reason. Not sure why since kight with axe has a medievel look to him and just an axe while Rin is a armoured samurai.
Though in the "Witch" chapter when Rin showed up behind shigure at the end, the translator refered to him as "Hachiou armour knight" that confused ppl.
Anyway, this is getting really good ad if nickname deterimed who is the most power fighter in Hachiou then Michael would win by being called "The king of martial arts who dances with the Shinigami" you think with a look,weapon and a name like that he would be at Saigas level but sadly it seems like he is not the top dog among his peers!
Bw: What did the guy want to ask Kenichi in the last chapter? It seems as if we skipped a chapter since the Shigure phone call was in the last chapter and this chapter they are already at the base.
citizen_lion
Jan 24 2014 12:23 PM
Michael's disciple does appear to be a lunatic too, after all.
Sieg most likely will come on his own by another route. If there is something we know about Sieg, is that he is insanely resourceful. I mean, he flew a Cessna close enough to an island protected by radar and SA missiles, and then jumped out of said plane, dodging the missiles on the way down...
Ogata
Jan 24 2014 12:35 PM
Michaels disciple reminded me of Sho Kano in a sense that they both look like a lesbian.
I agree with you on the Seigfried, when seig made his d&d apearence he jumped out of a plane without a parachute if I recall correctly and all Ryo masters including Shigure,Akisame and the elder had a Bewildered expression on them.
After all Seig is a master of entrance and for all we know he may have gone to england and in england he may have become Mycrofts disciple.
Alright enough fanfiction, back to the main topic, I have no idea why satsujinken masters just try to kill each other since there is so many of them. What I mean by that is, Katsujinken idealogist can fight each other and improve each other in this manner and satsujinkens can do their own thing.
Kind of like price fighters and no holds barred fighters doing their own thing seperatly. Don't see why it has to be "us vs them" type deal.
Saiga
Jan 24 2014 12:56 PM
I think I'll have to reread this chapter again later when I have a lot of time to think about what was said. The wordings were rather confusing. :<
Regardless of that, I'm glad the names of all the weapons masters were revealed and I'm also glad we've finally seen their disciples. I like the bow user. c:
Haru Glory
Jan 24 2014 03:09 PM
yes yes and more yes!!!
I totally can't wait for the next chapter.
Red Duel
Jan 24 2014 03:52 PM
Cam
Jan 24 2014 04:47 PM
I'm going to nickname the Bow-disciple Katniss...
InjuredPelican
Jan 24 2014 05:21 PM
I am officially excited now! I am glad to see old allies in the ranks of Ryouzenpaku!
citizen_lion
Jan 24 2014 05:21 PM
Interesting observation. Michael's nickname is "the martial art king who dances with the Shinigami"... almost confirming the previously speculated relationship between him and Apachai.
And yes the bow-disciple is cute indeed
Red Duel
Jan 24 2014 05:34 PM
Delirium Trigger
Jan 24 2014 10:07 PM
I swear this better be the greatest entrance ever and Sieg better be master class. Hell, Fortuna level! Nonchalant Hermit was cool, though. I want him and Tirawat to have an alliance of some sort, since he's kinda like the sith version of Natsu...
Rimi
Jan 24 2014 10:48 PM
Does anyone feel like hsdk is kind of...wrapping up? ._.
InjuredPelican
Jan 24 2014 11:13 PM
I really don't feel that. I feel this major arc could be heading towards a finish though.
Haru Glory
Jan 25 2014 10:53 AM
it feels like it'd wrapping up but I hope we get one last arc out of it.
like a new tourney arc or something
Ogata
Jan 25 2014 12:00 PM
Personaly the way I feel is, this arc is not the ending but rather just a giant mission that involves objective:
1.Rescue poor sweet Shigure
2. Confiscate Yamis golds/funding
Really if you take the gold away the eternal sunset will come to a stop for sometime and yami will probably go underground and split in to many pieces similar to Ogatas Ragnarok. Back then, Ogata was not a member of yami and so he had to rely on a structure of recuriting street kids and their hideout was a crappy abandond building.
With this logic, it seems that without the gold, guys like Agaard,Rahman,Alexander,Edletraft and Michael would be stuck in their own country since they are not like ryo masters who are together do to sincere care for one another.
If you ask me, to me this who Eternal Sunset= Winter Wars arc from Bleach! For those who are interested in bleach but haven't seen it, I wont spoil anything since it has like the most epic antagonist but long story short, in the winter wars arc EVERY supporting character has a one on one fight. After the winter war it seems like Bleach was gonna come to an end since the main antagonists plans was stopped and him defeated and the main character loses his power forever.
But rest assured the series has continued ever since and with some uninspiring arc after the winter wars, but the current story of the manga and the new main antagonist has re-kindled the franchise it seems.
This gives me hope that, after this eternal sunset arc, things can go back to normal for the ryo house which is gonna allow Kenichi to grow stronger and remindes Kenichi that his masters might not be around with the Shigure incident and as for the enemy, you can have yami civil war arc which focuses on covering all these satsujinken masters backstories while they try to take each others heads off.
Red Duel
Jan 25 2014 02:54 PM
No Rush
Jan 25 2014 10:05 PM
Things are finally getting interesting again. Siegfried better show up.
Ranemoraken
Jan 25 2014 11:44 PM
This will be an interesting, but long showdown. It's a little weird for all the disciples to go, since they're usually left out by the masters, but it's more fun this way.
Anywho, we got a picture of the 8 disciples of the weapons' division. The girl partnered with Short-blade disciple, unless Rin has two disciples, would be the student of the evil superman. Miu vs girl with glasses anyone?
We're also missing Renka... and...I guess a couple of the Alliance disciples no one cares about...like Shiratori...and the guy with the flag.
Anyway, this should be a bit of fun - but it might be a slow starter.
Haru Glory
Jan 26 2014 12:20 AM
I hope renka shows up with the other disciples of the phoenix alliance
would be awesome
Red Duel
Jan 26 2014 12:34 PM