Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 164: Those Who Will Never Surrender
I have been neglecting Nanatsu no Taizai for a while, but mostly because it's not really been that interesting. Fighting tournaments can either be really engaging or really boring depending on the fights involved. Chapter 164 was one of those boring ones.
Oh, sure, there's that bit that everyone guessed where the losers will get killed/captured/harvested or whatever, and it seems like they just fall into a hole so we can be worried for, oh, Griamore or Arthur or whichever of the supporting characters that will inevitably lose their match. This chapter, though, is mostly just facing Meliodas and Ban off against... the two stupid bird demons. And while it is hilarious to see Ban and Meliodas literally ignore the demons and accidentally deal damage to them by simply... being in the way... to see it stretched out over an entire chapter and to have the two of them argue about tits and asses is just... y'know... I dunno. Crass, I guess. Not that I'm opposed to a discussion about tits and asses, mind you... it just stretched out way too long for my tastes.
Meanwhile, speaking of tits, King has found himself stuck between Diane's tits while facing off against the Gloxinia and Dolor golem things.
Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 165: Odd Couple
The chapter starts off with Diane trying to protect the 'little kid' King by hiding her in her boobs, while Dolor talks about fate and causality and some Berserk-Lite thing about how despite Gloxinia's desires, fate has given their avatars appropriate opponents. We get some comedy as King tries to convince Diane that he can be a badass (while trying not to bleed out via nosebleeding) and that he's the Fairy King and whatnot, while the Gloxinia Servant is doing some vine things and the Dolor Golem is just Machamp-ing it all over the place.
King (and the readers, I bet) notice the resemblance that the Gloxinia Servant has to... uh... that fairy spellcaster that tried to mulch Ban into fertilizer, whatsherface. Gerald? I dunno. King shows off some badassery with Chastiefol's Increase, Pillow and Guardian forms, breaking free off the root vine things and managing to hold off the Dolor Golem. Gloxinia and Dolor increase their avatars' powers to 'full strength' (which I assume is still a fraction of the demons themselves) while King tries this awkward confession to Diane about how despite her having amnesia he's going to tell her something...
Except Chastiefol gets his head knocked off, and the avatars' power-up knocks Diane around... until King goes Bankai. Well, spirit spear release or whatever. And it seems that every single one of Chastiefol's forms has a released version. For Guardian, it actually turns into this humongous muscle plush bear that doesn't look silly. Again, probably ixnay on the comedy a bit -- which I thought took way too much of the fight proportionally. This one had some really cool action scenes in it that made it superior than the Ban/Meliodas one, though.
Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 166: Strange Fruit
Gloxinia is impressed with King's ability, and so am I -- Bankai Guardian just withstands every punch that the Dolor Golem delivers and actually knocks him the fuck through the ground and down the rock finger pillar thing. Gloxinia tries to strangle Diane to death with vines, but Chastiefol's Bankai Increase form... well, it's still a bunch of knives. But cooler-looking. And I assume more powerful and more numerous. Everyone notes how much of a toll it's taking on King, though, and while Gloxinia gloats about how plants can reform and blah blah blah, it's apparently part of King's plan to get the Gloxinia Avatar to reform far away so he can summon the spirit lance form and just atom bomb the fuck out of the Gloxinia Avatar.
Gloxinia admits defeat, but the Dolor Golem digs up and knocks both King and later Diane back -- and Diane puts herself in the way of an impact meant for King. It's nice that despite the amnesia, Diane's bond with King is actually developing anew and while it's dragged on like a geriatric snail and it's lost its momentum like twenty chapters ago, we might get a decent resolution to the stupid Gowther induces amnesia to find the meaning of love arc.
Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 167: Precious in You
Diane is definitely interested to the relationship that she and King had before the whole memory loss thing, but decides that she also needs to be a badass. She summons her golems, Fillet and Sirloin, but those get absolutely one-shotted by the Dolor Golem. King tells Diane that Golems need a specific form to take to realize their full potential -- feelings from the bottom of her heart and all that. Would be nice if this wasn't randomly pulled out of the ass, but it at least gives 'Friendship Power-up' an actually sensible reason instead of, well, some other mangas I would rather not name.
Diane summons golem versions of Matrona, Elizabeth, Meliodas, King and an adorable little Hawk. We get a short 'aww' moment where King's just happy to be made into a golem. And then golem fight! Golem-Elizabeth does some awesome kung fu tricks but gets shattered. Golem-Meliodas does some hits too, but also gets shattered. Golem-Matrona and the adorable Golem-Hawk bouncing around manages to crack Dolor's Golem a bit, but they too get shattered. Of course King's Golem is the one to deal the killing blow, punching through Dolor Golem's body with that derp-ass expression on his face. And, well, victory. I thought the Diane/King fight could've been done in, well, two chapters instead of three, but this just felt long. Not really drawn-out (I reserve that for the stupid amnesia subplot) but it just felt like a lengthier fight than it should.
Not bad, though.
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