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IT TOOK 80 PAGES BUT WE'RE BACK ON THE KENICHI SUBPLOT LETS GO

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I see you. I hear you. I refuse. Nextworld!Rock is not 15 he is babey to me

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wanted to finish strange boy by the end of the year, and didn't..... but i did make a lot of headway and started the final (longest) chapter

maybe i take a break and read different manga again? i've been eyeing nextworld for eons now, and i got the crater (as well as others) for christmas........ much to think about

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normal duke red momence

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people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

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there's no better feeling than writing something tzk related and being able to cite manga you physically own. feeling like a goddamn scholar over here

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HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

Sabutan is turned Two-Dimensional and has to thwart a plot involving actual time travel? He gets put into a coma by a falling rock which "shocks" him into reverting back to three dimensions, the time travel plot is resolved off screen, AND ALSO he loses his powers because Sure Why Not

(i peeked ahead and it looks like he gains them back really quickly so like. what was the point of that)

one thing about the strange boy is that it REFUSES to think too deeply about the time travel aspect. Tzk's like fuck yall I'm writing 5 manga at once here I don't have time for thought experiments

「時間よとまれ！！！」 only works sometimes with no rhyme or reason? Its because there wouldn't be any conflict if it always worked, idiot! 🙄

Sabutan stops time for the equivalent of 10 years? He doesn't age mentally or physically, he's just stinky because there was no running water 😝

Sabutan gets stuck in a time loop as punishment? He breaks down crying, and then once he starts to experiment, the 4th dimensional girlies stop the loop because they felt bad 🥺

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This is not tzk related but

finding out "shotacon" comes from the tetsujin 28 kid blew my mind more than it should have. like huh? That's the guy?

shotaro I am so sorry. You did not deserve that. I know nothing about you but I know you shouldn't have had that happen to you

but now it makes sense why it seems like eastern tzk fandom-- especially for works i like-- is just infested with shotacon. We are dangerously close to patient zero himself

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been powering through strange boy because i'd like to finish it before the end of the year, and since I have the ~Color Revise Version~ (which presents it as originally published in Shonen Club), I've been reading it that way

BUT an errant ableist slur made me remember that there are differences between the original Shonen Club version and the 400 works version that most other people read. Let's check for them!

said slur was removed, obviously, along with some other minor paneling and dialogue changes. Can I get an F in the chat for this possible Kenichi cameo that was removed

Left: Shonen Club/"Color Revise Version," Right: Kodansha Complete Manga Works

Is that Kenichi? Has he been slandered? vote now on your phones

but there's a BIG difference I saw that leaves me baffled

The story I'm looking at, "The Run-Down Time Machine Affair" (タイム・マシーンのおんぼろ事件), features a diary from the future: 23 years into the future, to be exact. What year, exactly?

Top: Shonen Club/"Color Revise Version," Bottom: Kodansha Complete Manga Works

1985 changed to 1989.....

WHY?

What's the purpose? They changed the year in all panels and dialogue I looked at, this was calculated!!!

The problem is that Sabutan still says that's 23 years into the future! 1985 - 23 = 1962, which was when Strange Boy was published and therefore then-present day, but 1989 - 23 = 1966, which doesn't line up with anythi--

I FIGURED IT OUT MID POST.

STRANGE BOY HAD A REPRINT IN MANGA KING.

IN 1966.

When Kodansha was compiling for their collection, they DIDN'T use the original Shonen Club version, they used the Manga King version!!!

CASE CLOSED! now I can go back to 2D sabutan shenanigans with a clear head

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saw kirija negativity I need to get back on the kirija grind to counteract it

I've been so rockbrained the past couple months that black jack and kiriko have fallen to the wayside but let it be known I love those motherfuckers

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this blog's gonna turn into my collection of rare rocks lol

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FUCK

I FOUND SABUTAN FANART IN 2024!!!!! IT WAS BY A SHOTACON ARTIST DDDDDDD:

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everyday i imagine sabutan in star system appearances he does not have, and everyday i grow sadder

this is about the temporal earthquake chapter of midnight not leaving my head and wanting to insert sabutan/ichiro in the two brothers' roles rather than just two randos

but that also means sabutan would get fuckin DECAPITATED SOOOOO LMAO

this is also about that one SF mix story-- the 3 eyes in the building (?)-- where our lil protag dude looks VERY similar to sabutan but isn't technically him, so in my head i just make it sabutan anyway.

and if we're messing around like this the long-haired architect guy becomes dr. kiriko >:). (i think long-haired architect guy might be a star system character of his own, but I've never seen him named? i swear he was also in that possessed sword dororo chapter)