Thread: +SPOILER+ Aktuelles Chap VK aus Lala Magazin

GOTCHA~ /*0*/ I GOT IT~~!!

I didn't have the time to make a summary or anything yet (Edit: I ended up writing a summary anyway XD), but I can already tell you what's the result of the cosplay contest, which was long awaited. XD

If you remember, there was a contest where people would send in ideas of things they wanted the characters to cosplay as, and the winning idea would be drawn as color pages by Hino-sensei. (Examples given in the contest thingie were doctor, rockstar and so on.)

Well, the cosplay idea that won was "angels and demons", so Hino-sensei drew a two page spread pic with Kaname as a demon with Yuuki in his arms/leaning against his chest and Zero next to her both as fallen angels. (Complete with bloody bits of wings to indicate the fallen aspect.)

The text next to it says "which of you is the one that is falling?" [because of the falling angels/loss of wings], which I tend to think means which one is falling, either Zero or Kaname, rather than either Zero or Yuuki despite them being portrayed as the fallen ones... unless they're implying Zero is falling for Kaname, which is highly unlikely, much as I'd ADORE if it was the case, hahaha~ *endlessly yaoi fangirl* XD


I was kinda disappointed because angels and demons is such a cliche theme that's been done over and over and I find it not as fun as vampire stuff, by far, so... :X There was potential for so many wonderful things with the cosplay thing, I'd hoped it would be more than just that.
(Even if I controlled my pervy fangirl self and didn't send in a paper asking for them to dess in bondage outfits for the cosplay image. 8D; *shot*)

Hino-sensei had mentioned that a lot of people had send papers asking for "a certain male character, crossdressing", and that she was amazed that "so many people wanted to see him dressed that way". XDD
The Japanese fandom theorizes that it's Kaname, which makes a lot of sense since we already saw Zero as a girl before (even if it wasn't truly Zero, since "Zeroko" was Ichiru's performance passing himself for a female Zero, but still it was utterly delightful as well as hilarious to see "Zero" that way. XD<333 *was happy for it both for the fun side and even more for the yaoi side* XD XD *lol*)

So yeah, we lost our precious chance to see Kaname in a dress in official artwork. *weeps* XD;;;

Still, the chapter itself is wonderfully full of tons of tidbits of moe as usual, even if it's an intermediate/moving-into-more-stuff chapter, in some ways.

And it confirms the VK novels as canon, and brings in a character from the first novel, Kaito. ^^/
(I'll say the stuff about who he is and all from the novel when I post, later. :D)



Ah, I wasn't going to say more about chapter 53 yet, due to the epic lack of time I'm having at the moment, but... *couldn't resist letting you know* XD I wrote a short summary anyway. XD;; *lol*




Yori's been showing so much interest/concern in Zero that Kaito assumes she's his girlfriend, initially... then, Kaito later uses Yori as bait for vampires to try and cause a mess in the ball so that Zero gets an excuse to kill either Yuuki or Kaname. O_O

Zero insists he will kill Yuuki, not now to not cause problems for the association, but he says he's just looking for any "proper reason" to be able to do it legally. The chairman was horrified and said that if Zero tries that, he will definitely step between them, regardless of legality etc.
We'd been hoping we were rid of the angst about that issue after chapter 50, but it seems not. O_o

I seriously don't know what Zero is thinking or intends to do, at this point. It's really worrisome, because he's completely unpredictable/hard to guess. D: D: (Which also makes him hot from my strange fangirl point of view. XD;; *is shot* But it's still worrisome, for the story!! Even if it refilled like whoa my energy bar to go write Zero x Kaname rough sex porny fics* 8D *is shot again* XD XD)
In a way, that's part of the role reversal Hino-sensei did with the move into the new arc: Kaname moved to the position of the more visibly vulnerable one, and Zero took over the "hard to read" spot. XD (Both are still the same and as vulnerable as ever deep inside, but it's impressive how it switched so well. It makes it harder for us readers to know what might happen, too. XD; *lol*)

So... Kaito decided to provide that "excuse" for Zero to do the killing at the ball! D: D:
(Of course, neither Yuuki nor Kaname will attack Yori, but problems could happen with the other vampires. And either way, it's highly worrisome he'd use her that way.
Kaito claims he can protect Yori while she's at the ball, but... he's far from being very reassuring. Especially considering how he arranged all that and is using her as bait while claiming to her that he'll help her 'meet her friend' as Yori had wanted!

The chairman has also expressed his concern as to whether the other vampires will obey Kaname or not. His rule is far from being safely in place.)


Also, we get the reunion between Takuma, Shiki and Rima! :D

Rima seems to have developped quite a dislike for Kaname over the past year, because she wanted to go break into Sara's place, and Kaname didn't want Shiki and her to get mixed into it. Kaname had let them know that Takuma was safe and all, but wouldn't tell them where.
Shiki wants to side with Kaname and had Rima come to the ball for that purpose (he also has family that sides with Kaname), which she claims she didn't want to do.

Right as she's complaining about the whole them not knowing where Takuma is, Takuma pretty much bumps into them in the corridor, looking perfectly fine and carrying platters of food while telling them to please get out of the way!! XD;;;
Both sides suddenly recognize each other (Takuma's face was hidden by all he was carrying so they hadn't seen it until he spoke and passed them), turn around and stare at each other in a major "HUH?" moment.

The possibility that Takuma and Kaname are teaming together in secret, either to spy on Sara or for whatever other reason, seems pretty big. XD *lol*
Of course, there's also the possibility that Sara did brainwash him, and that Kaname knows that using force won't work for now, and prevented the other two from going in to avoid them getting screwed by Sara too... at this point, it could be so many things. ^^;

In any case, I wonder what Takuma is up to! XD He had some big covered plate thingies. XD

The chapter ends with Zero angry at Kaito for what he's doing bringing Yori, and then Kaname and Yuuki make their entrance in the hall, looking all prince & princess and gorgeous, and Zero & Yuuki's eyes meet... then the chapter ends!! D: Cliffhanger. XD;


I found that Zero's position and look in the last page made me think a bit of the ball at the school a while ago. The way he watched them from afar, and maybe the expression/feeling. Except, he was already hot then, but he's EPICALLY HOT in this page. 8D (Maybe due to bigger close-up and more details in this scene. XD)
That page should have a surgeon general warning, such as "careful: looking at the sexyness of Zero Kiryuu might give you a heart attack" or something, because he was seriously smoldering hot. XD XD *lol*

Kaname too was immensely hot in the various scenes. (There's an EPIC MOE moment earlier, where Luca is surprised that Yuuki's manicure skills have suddenly become amazing just for the party, when she totally failed at it before..... and it turns out it was Kaname who was super skilled, and who did Yuuki's nails for her that night! XD
Hands AND feet, complete with him on his knees at her feet, holding her foot in his hand and doing her nails with amazing skill while Yuuki is all shy and all "I can do it! I can do it!" but Kaname said he was having far too much fun. XD; *lol*
Both Yuuki and Luca expressed concern over him being so skilled at that of all things, when he should be focusing on other things for his future instead. *LOL*)


There was also an epic moe (although angsty) scene with Zero at the beginning of the chapter, where he's skipping class taking a nap next to White Lily, and he's being all hot & breathing hard.
(I'd like to think it's just because he's thirsthy in his sleep, *_* (Dreaming of Kaname 8D Yuuki, perhaps...?), but it's more angsty than just that, since he mentions his line about "it's not enough..." which he'd said before in the chapter whether he'd mentioned to the chairman his urges to kill lots of vampires and all. D:

Later throughout the chapter, Kaito also says that Zero's aura is full of the urge to kill, especially throughout the time he spent looking at Kaname during the meeting. Sadly, we had no Zero x Kaname fanservice other than that (*desperate Zero x Kaname fan here will fangirl even just Zero looking at Kaname* XD;;;), but when their eyes met during the meeting, Kaname surprisingly gave news of Yuuki, all of a sudden.
It was supposed to be for the chairman, but the way it happened immediatly after meeting Zero's eyes, makes me think it was for Zero too, which was unexpected. He said Yuuki was doing well and would be at the party later, so he would be able to meet her calmly and spend time with her...(That last part was probably more for the chairman only, but still, it was just after looking at Zero. X3 *is in inevitable threesome-fangirling-induced happiness, clings to her beloved trio*))

In other words, the epic angst with Zero continues to be terribly worrisome, but there's also moe for fans of both Kaname and Zero in the chapter. X3



I'll post the cosplay pic as a little teaser too, later when I have another moment. :D

VK53 will be ready for you to read in English sometime tomorrow, most likely~! :D ♥

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As for that, they weren't necessarily super close, before. Well, they were close at times, but not like best friends or anything. ^^/
They spent some time training together, just because Kaito's master was injured in a mission, and he was a friend of Yagari, so Yagari took Kaito in for some time while his master got better. So we don't know how long it was, but not all childhood or anything.
(...time during which Kaito was FAR from being the nicest to little Zero and Ichiru. ^^; He was older than the two and was from a family with problems... and he was under the impression that because the Kiryuus were a nice family, Zero must be a "daddy's little boy" type of kid. He was mean to Zero and was even worse at Ichiru due to him getting feverish and slowing them down. Zero only finally snapped when Kaito made Ichiru nearly cry after humiliating him so much telling Ichiru that he was nothing but a burden on Zero and him and all. ^^; Ichiru hated Kaito after that stuff.)

Zero and Kaito did live through some epic stuff together in the novel (which I would say but it's spoilery, so I'll save it for the post later with the scanlation XD;) and got closer than before, of course, but not as close as Zero and Yagari are, for example.
Later on after he was turned, Zero was kind of wondering if Kaito would come to kill him, if Yagari didn't.
In fact, when they first meet again in this chapter, Zero initially thought Kaito was there to kill him. XD;

Considering how Kaito felt about vampires, perhaps that's why he didn't come during all those years. (Even in this chapter, he tells Zero he'd kill him without hesitating. :X)

He might have been shocked with the president nomination, considering he used to act like Zero was a good-for-nothing weakling. *inevitable Zero-fan-glee at the idea of Kaito all shocked with that* XD *lol*

I hope this isn't making Kaito sound worse than he is... XD XD;; I don't think he was thaaaat bad deep inside, since in a way, he was the rough type that shoves you down with the idea that "you need to get stronger!"... but still, I was never happy with the way he treated little Zero and Ichiru in much of the novel. ^^; Especially since they were just kids, while he was 15. (And in full teenage revolt/crisis. XD)
That and because Zero and Ichiru were so epically adorable in the novel, that I get all protective of them whenever I read Kaito being mean. XD;; (That story was passed before Yagari lost his eye, so it was the adorable idealistic little Zero who actually wished they could live in peace with vampires and all. ;-; *clings to the poor adorable thing*)

Still, by the end of the novel Kaito was far nicer... or if not "nice" per se, at least not mean like before. XD;
(They had some bonding moments as well as field experience while hunting that brought Zero to understand Kaito better and all.
So Kaito stopped behaving as much as if he had something stuck somewhere, and the two were closer by then, but yeah, I'm still worried about what might be his intentions, due to the fact Zero is a vampire and all. :X)

.......Novel spoiler:
Kaito killed his own brother because he became a vampire and fell to level E. ^^;
So even if Zero and him were really close, that might not stop him. ^^;