Just picked up Vol. 53 today (unfortunately the SPedia had some hiccup in shipment so I don't have it yet).
The subtitles:
532 Legendary Tornado
533 New Sword Player
534 Chorus Competition
535 Angry Boy
536 Storage Battle
537 Colress Machine
538 Therian Forme
539 Frozen World
540 Flying Ship
A few highlights:
1) the preview confirms that Vol. 54 will wrap up B2W2
2) from the 'Aspertia school materials' between chapters, we see a notice board for school activities
- the hiking club will visit Mt. Coronet of Sinnoh at some point
- the flower arrangement club will arrange the Gracidea
- the cycling club shows an image resembling the silhouette of Red on his bike
- the astrology club shows an image of the Bouffalant zodiac, but the words say 'we will also arrange accomodation to see the Litleo meteor show'. Now this is a bit strange since the Litleo meteor show already occurred in ORAS (which was way before B2W2). Unless the Litleo meteor show comes frequently, this may be a typo?
3) Another between-chapter school material shows student association council member jobs such as cleaning/food/health, we see the special guests as Baker Chris, Doctor Logan and Janitor Geoffrey
4) Whitwo's hails from White Forest, her more proficient subject in school is 'Pokemon Status', echoing her use of Clear Smog in the Sewers
5) Leo is 11, birthday in Feb, best in Pokemon typings class
6) Hugh is 12, best in Pokemon abilities and battle class
7) At the beginning (where the previous chapter recall is), we see the International Police's 'assignment letter' to Lacktwo, first to apprehend the Seven Sages, and second to retrieve the memory chip
8) At the very end, we have Lacktwo's Kyurem report back to the HQ, detailing his encounter with it at the Cold Storage (I wonder when he managed to write it, maybe when he was wandering on the Frigate), a note on Zinzolin being Grey 2 years ago, how Kyurem's powers have powered up the Frigate's weapons and sail, and finally a query on the keywords 'absorb' and 'fusion'. He mentions that Kyurem's body is highly unstable, which is why it constantly generates freezing air to maintain its shape (interesting take on Kyurem's biology). However, it is 'apparently looking for better ways to stabilize its body', which clearly refers to abso-fusing Reshiram and Zekrom
Retcons compared with the online version:
1) P.15 of Chapter 532: Lacktwo's Xtransceiver is drawn, previously his wrist was empty
2) Chapter 533: Keldeo now uses Icy Wind (a legal move it knows) instead of Ice Beam, though this shouldn't have freezing effects
3) P.76 of Chapter 535: Whitwo's Xtransceiver is drawn in similarly
4) P.74 and 80 of Chapter 535: just retcon of Leo being previous League's Top 8 and Hugh's 'I'm getting ready to unleash my rage' Japanese wordings to match the game's
5) P.184 of Chapter 540: somehow they decided to redraw Whitwo and Lacktwo riding on Genesect, with Whitwo having her eyes clenched shut here
6) P.185 of Chapter 540: Keldeo's horn 'sword' aura is drawn, where it took down the Plasma Grunts' Pokemon while on Genesect
7) P.187 of Chapter 540: again, somehow they decided to redraw how Techno Blaster blasts through the Grunts and their Pokemon
8) P.193 of Chapter 540: they added more shades to the walls and warp panels in the Frigate
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All in all, a long-overdue formal Vol. 53, but honestly, it doesn't deviate too much from the online version bar some aesthetic retcons which honestly didn't mean much. The only notable change is Keldeo's Ice Beam retconned to Icy Wind.
And in case my long paragraph made you miss the details, the one thing that really caught my attention was the mentioning of the Litleo meteor shower, which seems out of place unless this nebula(?) gives off meteors on a regular fashion.
P.S. oh and of course there's that obvious error of listing chapter 534 as VS Deerling when it should have been Sawsbuck (with its photo highlighted at the back flip)
Coronis~
