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Blasian Momo Ayase

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Happy Holiday's everyone!🎄🎁

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*gasp* I was thinking about making a Danmara board game, and I am super happy to see that there’s an official one in the printed manga! I’m so excited to play this with my boyfriend when he finally reads this arc!!

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Is anyone else surprised by Jiji’s voice? I expected him to sound softer. His voice is deeper and more handsome sounding than I expected, in both English and Japanese! It’s definitely not a bad thing. It’ll just take some getting used to, since I had a different voice type in mind while reading.

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Kouki Yukishiro looks a bit like Zuma’s mom, with the way her hair falls into her face. I wonder if Zuma will notice…

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“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

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The ultimate lifeform vs shadow

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Am I just forgetting, or did Momo never tell Zuma her name?

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Am I forgetting something, or have they not given any backstory for Okarun yet? We don’t know where he lives, if his parents are alive or who he lives with. Momo never asks him where he’s from or where he lives or if she can meet his parents or hang out at his house. It’s a little surprising that she’s not trying to learn more about him, but… This is the perfect recipe for them revealing that he’s part yokai or alien or such. I’ve seen that done in other anime… not always done well… but I trust Tatsu to do a good job. Okarun has to have something special about him, or else his parts wouldn’t be sought after by everyone. I would have expected his genitals to be the DanDaDan if they didn’t seem to indicate otherwise.

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Someone on another site left a comment on a picture I did of Zuma and Momo that sounded surprisingly hateful towards Zuma, and I’m just kinda… confused? Like I would understand if this person was like “no, only Okarun is acceptable” but they were like “ugh, no, anyone but HIM.” And I’m like… did I miss something? Did he do something wrong that I overlooked? I’m guessing either that fan just happens to not like Zuma due to their own personal preferences, OR… my more interesting theory is… what if they haven’t even met Zuma yet, and they mistakenly thought I was drawing Momo with her awful ex boyfriend??

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Zuma has at least 3 distinct sides to him, so it makes it hard to really pinpoint his personality. His main, modern day self is casual, reserved, stoic, and kind. His second self is his yokai form, where he becomes a brave, romantic hero and can even come across as a bit of a Casanova. His third self is his past self, the hatred and aggression that he keeps bottled up until the Fairy Tale card brings it back.

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Right before reading the Danmara arc of DanDaDan, I was going through a rough patch of feeling pessimistic about life and seeing the world as a disgusting place full of pain and horrible people, and it felt like every little thing felt extremely negative to me. So seeing Unji, who was feeling like that but a thousand times worse, and who has way more reason to hate the world than I ever have, find a way to turn his life around, was really inspiring to me.

I’ve also just been struggling with my emotions in general lately, even in regard to fiction. I used to love dark fiction and its ability to make people feel. But recently I got so swept up in my emotions and negativity that everything negative in media would make me think of bad things in real life. The Acrobatic Silky episode of the anime made me sob so badly as if my mother died, or as if I was the mother of the child who died. I wanted it to make me feel, but not like that. I want to be able to enjoy media. A day or two before reading the Danmara arc, I made a conscious decision to try to get myself to enjoy dark media like Berserk again. To remind myself that these things aren’t real and that I’m able to enjoy fiction and the power it has. And then Unji came along and had exactly the kind of story I needed, where it was devastating but had a silver lining. And I felt like, since I had this in mind, I’m clinging to his darkness to give me strength. I want to be able to watch his episodes of the anime with strength and courage when they come out, to prove that I’ve gotten emotionally stronger.

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Animatronic Donkey Kong treehouse used at the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show. The treehouse would constantly shake in a rhythmic motion while Donkey Kong’s silhouette could be seen in the window.

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Saiyuki, Tang Sanzang - Masako Natsume

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I noticed it’s ironic that I love the Danmara arc so much, since I generally don’t like isekai. But the things I don’t like about most isekai anime are the fact that the main character dies and it’s seen as a glorified thing… and that they supposedly aren’t in a game, yet there’s inexplicably a bunch of game-specific stuff in the world, like gaining levels. But with Danmara, nobody dies to get there. It’s not a symbol of the afterlife being better than being a working adult, like so many isekai seem like they’re saying. And Danmara is actually in a game, and things are explained as being caused by a yokai. So things make more sense to me. Plus I absolutely adore Candyland. I also love the stuck-in-a-game stuff from Dot Hack and Jumanji, which I consider different from the modern isekai that I was referring to.