r/zatchbell

I was sure that Penny's magic bracelet was being retconned into existence, but then I went back and checked ZB1 and, sure enough, she's wearing it during her introduction in Chapter 100 (and E52 of the anime).

The colour is golden in the anime but an indigo blue in the front and back illustrations for Volume 16 of the tankobons and on the new kanzenban cover. The design does seem to change slightly depending on the image: sometimes it looks like it's engraved with squiggly writing or hieroglyphs, and other times it looks more like coral (appropriate for a water dragon's talisman). Based on the cover illustrations and how it appears in ZB2, I'm guessing the coral-like appearance is how it's supposed to look.

It makes me wonder whether Raiku planned this little piece of lore from the start. He clearly put a bit of thought into the design at the very least, despite not drawing attention to it in the original manga.

Just because like,, they all are some kind of robot.

Coral Q being robot-robot

Kido an Android robot

And Robnos an Cyborg

* GUYS I MEANT TRIO

Suffice to say, Mochinoki General Hospital is probably one of the most messed up places in all of Mochinoki City, especially when it comes to workers and staff. Not even counting the nurse assigned to Kiyomaro's room that he had to deal with, this whole moment above is straight up insane and incredibly censored from the original Japanese manga and probably for good reason. IT'S ALMOST A MURDER LOL

When Zatch chases Yuuta at one point, he crashed into the nurses station and caused havoc like he had been doing since him and Kiyomaro got there. Cue a horde of genuinely angry medical staff chasing the six year old demon child with random objects to punish him for his behavior but then next we see of Zatch, he's in the elevator confronting Yuuta with an ice pack on his head. MAN, THE MANGA VERSION WAS WAY DARKER OF THIS MOMENT.

In the OG manga, instead of just an ice pack, there's full-blown scalpels and even a syringe sticking out of the kids head. These nurses straight up STABBED Zatch and the scalpels are one thing but an unused syringe? That's going REALLY FAR.

Hypothetically speaking, let's say that syringe had air in it. A syringe with air or gas inside it can actually kill someone via something call an "air embolism." When one or more bubbles of air or gas enter the circulatory system, it can block the blood flow and then lead to enough tissue damage to cause someone to die. And this syringe is injected straight into Zatch's head with it sticking out enough to look like it pierced the skull and probably entered his brain, where the circulatory system IS connected to in our bodies. Whomever was the nurse who did that to Zatch, this hospital would be tied up in so much litigation from malpractice, all of the workers GRANDCHILDREN are going to need lawyers because DAAAAAAMN, that's messed up.

No wonder the anime version toned it down. It's actually kinda nuts when you spot this comparison with the original work.

When i was playing Zatch bell: mamodo fury, i went a VS mode using Robnos, it made me noticed that: he is one of (if not THE) slowlest mamodo at the game.

I didnt gave a thing abt it, until i rewatched ep 16.

When Robnos is in his tiny form, he moves around quite a lot (moving arms, dodging...) because he's lighter.

When he finally gets in his true form, Robnos DONT move around at all (only moving things like his arms, head and his back) he stands still on the same place! He only "moves" when the scene cuts to when he already lost his helmet!

Now its my hc that robnos is so heavy that he lowk walks slow, explaining ehy he lowk didnt just sprinted at zatch and knocked him out, lol

I think i already posted it months ago, but its good to repost sometimes, right?

I'm still flabbergasted i got it from the tiniest fair i've ever seen inside a local mall in Brazil, can't pass the opportunity of Gash Bell related merch in the wild.

Think about this for a minute, the main premise of this episode was Yuuta stealing the spell book and putting it on the roof extension and then riding off to destroy it with fire, we have the whole chase, yadda-yadda-yadda. But when you think about HOW Yuuta stole the book and the placement of events... He did that faster than Usain Bolt could have.

Kiyomaro goes out of the room to get juice from a vending machine on the same floor, right? Walks back to the room while thinking about previous events and then comes back to discover the book is gone and starts to scramble looking. Next we see of Yuuta, he's in his bed behind the curtain while they're panicking.

While Kiyomaro was gone, Yuuta: took the book off his bed, wheelchair-rolled to a closet to get a crutch (he got one during the chase sequence so he has to need it to climb), took the elevator on the same floor up to the roof, climbed the roof extension, drop off the book, climb back down, take the elevator back to the original floor he's on, return the crutch to the closet (because he's shown getting it again during the chase) and then roll back into his bed to hear Kiyomaro and Gash freaking out that the book is missing... HOW LONG WAS KIYOMARO GETTING THAT JUICE FOR?

If Yuuta had done all that in the span of time it took for Kiyomaro to get that juice, either the kid is a superhuman Paralympian or Kiyomaro is a slow walker because at most, that only could have taken 5 minutes to get a drink and then head on back to a room Kiyomaro knows the location of. And yes, I know Kiyomaro is supposed to be "injured" too so that could explain a "slow walk" but the doctor at the beginning of this whole episode said he's perfectly fine aside from some flesh wounds because of how well he patched himself up.

The whole idea of the episode is centered around Yuuta not taking care of himself with proper nutrition or physical therapy for his broken leg but if he could pull off all that in the span of time it takes to walk back and forth between a vending machine, there's definitely something else wrong with him to make him stay in that hospital for 6 MONTHS.

Clearly, I screwed up my vinyl on the bottom Q.Q
Not sure why I thought it was a good idea to take the iron directly to the vinyl instead of using the plastic transfer sheet.

other photo is my bookblock :D Give me your thoughts

Spine and back will be done tonight!