SQUEEE!!! Chapter 41 of the Vampire Knight Manga is out!! HUGE thank you to Sagakure for letting me know, finding the images and posting a summary!
There aren't any really good scans of the raws out yet, but you can find low res pics of the VK chap 41 Raw pages here:
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=415150886 (everything's in Chinese on the site, just ignore that and scroll down until you start seeing pictures :D)You can also
read a summary of the chapter on Sagakure's livejournal.
UPDATE / EDIT: I just found a better quality version of the raws in a zip file floating around online. I don't know who to credit for them as there's no credit page and I just found it on megaupload, but a huge thank you to whoever made these available! You can
Download the Better Quality Ch41 Raws here.Wow... all I can say is... wow... for all of us who have been wanting to see a little action work its way into the series, I'd say that is definitely starting to happen! This looks like a very cool chapter, I can't wait to read it!
SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER 41 AHEAD - DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED
Still here? Okay, then on with the rambling... ;) Obviously, my thoughts and opinions are just being formed off looking at the raws and reading the summary, so who knows what may change when the scanlations come out, but for now I've quite enough to keep my head spinning! Last chapter was definitely Zero-centric, so it makes sense that this one focuses a bit more on Kaname :) and all the others. Actually I was a bit surprised that Zero makes absolutely no apperance at all, but I imagine that's because Ms. Hino is saving the next time we see him for a climatic moment no doubt. :D
There was some really great/angsty Kaname and Yuki moments in this. The cover pic.... um...
*drools, grabs Kaname, hugs Kaname, drools some more* Very cool in an angsty kind of way, especially because Kaname looks so... vulnerable. Although I have to agree with Sagakure's assesment, while I loved this whole chapter (or at least, the pictures and the summary of it LOL) it's also really making me worry for Kaname.
*cringes* I have this dreadful feeling he's going to end up dying and I will litterally be horribly depressed if that happens.
*sighs and tries not to think about it, hugging her fics and whispering that he shall always be alive in them...*I'm not going to repeat the summary already given obviously, but I can't help commenting on a lot of stuff that seems to be happening, and I do have to quietly smile and dab my eyes over the Kaname / Yuki kiss. I know, sorry, not gonna make everybody happy, but it was a really sweet moment that both made me smile and tear up at the same time. Although actually in an odd way this is one of the things currently making me the most afraid for my fav pureblood. Because this whole scene played a little too much like a goodbye on some level...
*really hopes she's misreading that**coughs* okay, sorry, 'nough of the depressing talk. Back to the cool stuff. :)
I loved the Takuma / Shiki / Rima scenes at the beginning! LOL Takuma is cute/scary/awesome having slid into full on protector / battle mode now. And Shiki was cool too, it was great to see him taking a stand and not going to let himself be used anymore (the little flash back with his mom SO fits with the way I like to imagine his past, poor boy). :D
All our NC vamps were just awesome *sighs with happiness* I really adore seeing them all stepping up and going on alert like this, Kain, Ruka, Aido, all of them, it's really cool.
OH! Grin moment that must be mentioned - YenGirl, I thought of you when I saw this in the raws - guess who Kaname has take Yori away to safety? Aido. :D So we get at least two nice little frames where he's holding her arm or kind of her hand. ;) LOL I know, I'm a goober, but I thought it was cool.
Apparently we also get some awesomeness from Chairman Cross and Yagari, which I find unexpectedly cool. I have to admit I'm quite shocked at the idea (if I'm understanding this right) that the Hunter's Association actually intends to
execute the Night Class! Um, hello? Don't they think they're going to tick off just a few vampire families if they slaughter their children? But then, it looks like this is the first stages of a war, so they probably don't care. Plus, they may be counting on the fact that Rido is on their side, and it has already been established that the Kurans could step back in and redemand 'kingship' at any time they chose...
*shivers*I can't say how cool it is though, that Cross and Yagari alone stand against what is happening, that Cross, a former hunter, is fully prepared to fight his own and face probable death to defend the Night Class.
...who are now currently the ones trying to defend all the Day Class students back at the Academy... ooooohhh the whole set up is just awesome.
*quivers in excitment*Hey, on a side note, does it not seem terribly creepy to anyone else that the Hunter's association actually seems to be keeping a reserve of
tamed vampires themselves? I mean, I know back when Yuki, Cross and Zero went to the Association headquarters (and I wanted to kick them all for the way they treated Zero - you know, really, they treated him just as bad as the vampires would, maybe worse) they all seemed to know about 'tamed' vampires, but it didn't really make an impression on me until now that it was possible they might be in the business of taming/binding vampire slaves themselves.
*blinks* I may be totally misreading this, but if it actually is playing the way I'm reading it... O.O (Right now I'm assuming this is only possible with ex-humans like Zero, but I could be totally wrong about that too... oh my gosh, the bunnies, the bunnies...
*tries not to get carried away by them*)
If that is the case though, I guess Zero really did end up in a very fortunate position... not only to avoid being held as the captive/servant of some vampire pureblood or noble, but also to avoid being used by the Association... although it does seem they were trying come to think of it, although Cross was sheilding him as much as he could.
Anyway, Kaname is off somewhere, to face someone...
alone... *gulps* Have to admit, I would really love to have something happen where Zero ends up having to save him :D but we'll see what happens. Looks like Cross and Yagari might just need some saving too soon.
*gulps again* Wow, okay, well, um, I better stop rambling now before I do re-summarize everything, and badly at that LOL but anyway, the chapter looks very cool and I can't
wait to see the scanlations on this one!!
*jitters like she's on a caffiene high even though she isnt* XD
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