HSDK Battle 559 Released

Did Michael and James suddenly disapeare in this chapter? I did not notice them in any panels!

That being said, Poor Raki for having to deal with Kensei Mas perverted tactics and its funny how the knight marmaduke came to her rescue! You would think Kensei ma is the bad guy and Raki/Marmaduke the good guy if you didn't know this manga better

Nah, it is still unmistakable who was the good and bad guys to me. Raki exudes an aura of someone who loves violence, from the facial expression, and Marmaduke is cold and forbidding. Ma, though creepy, never seemed malicious.

Took me twice reading to realize that Ma broke the panel to get to Raki, this is probably the first woman in this manga that made Ma put in so much effort

Who is the Okamoto guy now, actually. The way Miu seems to be turned on makes people speculate that he is related to Shou Kanou somehow, but that would be way too far fetched to me.

Anyway, great chapter with good pacing and action that makes you want more.

Love the battle that is happening everything is so intense, speaking of which didnt see any announcement did anybody else?

I noticed that Matsuena forgot Apachai's shirt on the last page.

I didn't see anything about an announcement, either. There were supposed to be colored pages, too. Usually, Mangapanda posts colored pages when issues have them and this time they didn't.  I guess we'll have to wait for Mangastream to see.

I can't quite tell what the groups fighting are so if the bow girl is out it'd be eleven on Yami's side and seven on Ryozanpaku. So does that make it Sasaki and Apachai vs Rahman, Hongo and Agaard / Danki and Kagero vs Mikumo, Raki and Rin / Akisame and James and Ma? vs Michael, Ogata, Sougetsu, Marmaduke and Edeltraft?

Definitely need a Manga Stream release for this one.

Ms version is up.  With the big picture, you can see that James is fighting Michael.

The groups are as such:

James/Akisame/Kensei vs Marmaduke/Michael/Poetic-swordsman/Sougetsu

Sakaki/Apachai vs Hongo/Rahman/Agaard

Old-man/Kagerou vs Kushinada/Rin/Raki

Ogata is unaccounted for by the pictures.  Don't know where he is.

Hey, does anyone think the blind man who was a placeholder for sougetsu will show?

That isn't Michael that's fighting James, it's Ogata. These look like some interesting matchups as long as Yami members have enough honour to let some fights be 1v1 though that isn't likely. Now would be a good time for Shigure to break herself out while the masters are distracted. Maybe Mildred will retreat to retrieve her special hidden bow or something and run into escaped Shigure. Though we know that Shigure will easily win that one so I'm not sure if that is likely. I just feel like Mildred was trolled and should have has a bigger part.

Anyways, Manga Stream also translated the announcement which can be found on page 19 of there version. Looks like the Anime's coming back and it has a new website too.

EDIT: It looks like the old website and I can't find any new details on it. Also a second read of the announcement appears to sound like it's just the OVAs being aired on TV. But hopefully if that gauges enough interest then an anime will come out of that?

So does it mean that we will get a weekly basis of OVA's of Kenichi or we get another series or are they just gonna play the Ova;s that are out and that it

Yup its Ogata vs Shiba! I am not sure what happened to Michael though...

Also, it seems like Mildred is still in the fight since in the beginning with two sides rushing towards each other we can see her getting in there as well!

This is looking intense! can't wait for next chapter

Where is Mildred? I don't see her anywhere in this chapter.