Chapter 221 Trivia
I hope you like Stanley, because this is mostly about Stanley.
Once again we have Stanley represented as the knight. Sure Xeno was his original princess (even if he denies it), but now his princess seems to be the rocket.
Will Stanley get a fairy tale ending?
Xeno obviously wants to keep up his act as a villain, but Ryusui is denying him the privilege.
Stanley's original criteria for revival were loosely based on society being up and running, which is now the case as Ryusui mentions here. Like they'd agreed earlier, what Stanley did was considered justifiable acts of warfare and thus they trust him as a soldier.
Stanley and Xeno are both said to be 180 cm tall on their character files, yet in this picture there's clearly a height difference.
Obviously, the only explanation for this is so that Stanley could fondly tilt Xeno's head up towards him in the following pages.
Stan's new outfit makes him look less imposing and inhuman than his previous one, and instead mimics the buttons on the the front of a double-breasted military jacket.
The double "V" of his belt buckles could be the zig-zag of the American clothing, or it's two halves of an X.
(Conspiracies for the belt buckle, don't take these seriously:
a marker that he's loyal to Xeno
a simplification of the current KoS crossed-rockets flag
V + V = X
"V" for victory)
Stanley's scar is still here, but it's changed slightly: the line across the bridge of his nose is gone.
However it may fully disappear soon, since he'll be petrified on the rocket. This change will likely mark his atonement.
This is a brand new lighter based off the one Stanley had before they got petrified. For most of the Americas arc he simply used matches, apart from the "gag" lighter that looks like his handgun.
The math checks out.
This is, in fact, Stanley and Senku's first conversation (if you can even call this one).
Before now, Senku's never allowed Stanley to get close enough, and they never communicated directly over the radios either.
All Ryusui has wanted since he was a child was to make one of his models a reality and to pilot it himself, along with the help of his brother Sai.
Now, he's forced to sacrifice that dream for the greater good.
Sai knows this, which is why he's shown in the same room Ryusui was (across the table from him? In the same seat? It doesn't seem to be the same window, but the rocket is aligned the same.)
It looks like Stan does say the exact same thing: "dekiru ne", which literally translates to "I can". The "ne" at the end is used as a form of agreement, similar to saying "right?" in English. I sort of wish it was translated the same...
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“The body is the truest thing; this is indubitable and undeniable even if it should fabricate poetry and philosophy or other illusions and delusions.”
— Carl Jung, (Nietzsche’s Zarathustra)
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Typewriter Series #221. You digging sharing the paper versions? (at Helena, Montana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj6yq_FLEdi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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