I have copied over the most recent relevant posts here for convenience in order from oldest to newest descending.
I don't think it works that way. The seals seem to be some sort of Doomsday Clock. The more Takamiya fights and uses magic, the faster the process
Pretty much this is what I am thinking. It goes with out saying but his power is not his own. A borrowed power from some sort of all powerful malevolent being. So unless he destroys/absorbs/dominates/whatever her consciousness/soul/sentience/whatever with some kind of super uber amazing plot twist or another to wrestle control over her powers. He will just be more of a temporary pseudo cool guy that ends up being the herald of destruction in the end.
Not to mention if he does become a permanently strong and powerful MC in anyway depending on how the author wants to take this plot. It will be a 180 to the overall climate of the manga of this particular story. 28+ and whatever more chapters of a manga series just to build up a MC to take the manga in a whole separate direction? Nah... unless the creators are desperate to keep things fresh or it becomes some sort of retake on the "Legend of Maian" or the like. I am sure that will be very unlikely.
Oh god you mentioned Legend of Maian. That was a good story that was turned into a disater by IDY's award winning formula.- Men are weak and meant to be powerless and defenceless with out a strong woman by thier side! Or men who acctualy have power are unforgivable bastards.
Guy just loves shitting on his own story's with his man hating agenda.
(Acctualy surprised thou I thought IDYwas an extreme Female Feminest. The more you know~)
But Unbalence x Unbalence was just awesome! >w< But the formula was implemented in that story aswell. When that dude slapped or choked that guy's childhood friend for no reason and got his ass whooped. Didn't ruin the story thou.
Anyway time to focus! After reading this page I have to say a Yuri story would have been awesome! =w=
Now continuing in response from the above post by Maffa.after all that has been said in the latest chapter, im more convinced that he has more hidden power (of his own) that you think.
my theory is that witches retain their own personality after each reincarnation. We know that Kazane is "hundreds years old", or something like that, there was a reference of her being a very very old being) but she attended high school with Katamiya's mom so she had a normal life cycle. My theory is that both Katamiya and Kagari are witches of old whose memory has been wiped for some reason. Once they regain their memories, they will regain their powers, and i suspect Katamiya will be the one gaining more from it.
This is a valid point.
Whatever higher power of the manga/anime universe knows that certainly it is a all to common plot device. I agree that it is suggested that witches do reincarnate or otherwise live long lives and assume perhaps a life cycle of sorts. However as things stand as we know them currently there is at least a few obstacles in the path of your theory that need to be cleared up.
They retain their personality perhaps but its hard to gauge the nature of how this may work. What are the details? Do they reborn without memories? I know that was not the case for Kazane as she clearly recalls the crusades and her old associates as well. I guess they come to them later but still that does not explain Honoka's mother.
Also I do not recall there being anything at all suggesting that any of the Katamiya's where at all reincarnated or of any special decent. On the contrary its been vividly portrayed how ignorant and (for the words of the creators) helpless Honoka and his mother are. His mother and Kazane where portrayed as having a fateful meeting and becoming rather close during their school days as shown. The young Honoka was seen taken under the wing of Kazane in hopes of helping the "helpless/weak" boy to "become a man". For what the details may have been during this time is still a mystery currently. Though it is confirmed this all took place before the famed memory wipe.
As for Honoka's sister. Well in her own words its been implied that she is new to witchcraft and recently only perfected her magic. Also she admitted she did this and joined the workshop only for the sake of her brother.
One could say he is weak because he is a man. In Mikage's own words males have a lower standing in the witches society. Indeed this could imply they are just less adept at magic to whatever extent. However we have seen Honoka's potential and as a contrast to this point we also seen Mikage defeat another female witch. So they are absolutely not what you call helpless.
In the end though. For all the points I could toss around it is just as you said yourself a while back. There is simply too much we do not know still. As much as I enjoyed the recent filler chapters I am eager to see how this plot unfolds. It is a very interesting story and makes me appreciate conversations like this.
Edited by Valdeir, 12 March 2014 - 05:55 AM.