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[untilyouremember]

Firefly Wedding by Oreco Tachibana is the story of a sick woman and an assassin. Originally published by ComiKey (who are still simulpubbing the chapters), a physical version was picked up by @officialshojobeat / @vizmediaofficial . I absolutely love this manga, and I'd love to have her other work printed as well! (Wink wink)

Rated: Older Teen

[ridley-was-a-cat]

155. Firefly Wedding, Ch. 1-9 - licensed - Yandere month marches on for me, as I saw this manga about a rich girl proposing marriage to the assassin hired to kill her got licensed, and I read all the available chapters immediately. He is legitimately frightening, and I love it.

[lycorogue]

Latest Writing Blog Post is Live: March 2024

Kept me about two weeks to write the darn thing, but my "March" blog update is officially live. Here's hoping you have a beverage, some food, and you're comfortable, because this one is a doozy!

Wait. I Wrote Something?!?

Est. Read Time: 65min! 🤯

What could I POSSIBLY talk about for an HOUR'S worth of reading!?

Well, for one, I ACTUALLY WROTE SOME NARRATIVE PROSE! First time in, like, 10 months!

All thanks to getting back into reading, via Comikey and Webtoon.

I take up a LOOOOOT of time recapping the MULTITUDE of isekai manhwas I started reading in March.

I recap 5 different Webtoon Originals, 1 Webtoon Canvas, and 1 manga I'm reading on Comikey.

It's a LOT, but I hope it gets you as excited as I am about these stories. (Does include spoilers for the start of each of the recapped stories)

Finally, I of course talk about the actual writing I've been working on. I'm super excited to keep going and maybe actually have a nice handful of new stories for you fine folks throughout this year! 😁

[ljaesch]

Comikey Media Inc. Announces It Has Licensed the Kengan Ashura Manga in Ebook Format

Comikey has announced that it has now licensed Kengan Ashura for eBook publication. The company plans to distribute the series on multiple platforms such as Amazon’s Kindle, Play Books, Rakuten Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and BookWalker. This comes after the company previously licensed The Princess of Blue Roses, and My Engagement Was Called Off Under False Accusations, but Who Ever Said My Face Was…

[redsnerdden]

This Week In The Nerd Fandom: Anime Expo Edition

This Week In The Nerd Fandom: Anime Expo Edition #anime #manga #AX2023 #DCComics #Comics #AnimeExpo

[internetfunnyname]

“Maybe living a boring life and dying a boring death isn’t so bad after all.” — Kyouji Kyousuke’s thoughts upon seeing his friend turn into a massive fuck-you dragon to fight God

[deanwax]

Exhausted by predatory microtransactions

Saw some campy violent psychological thriller manga hyped in a video and it's only 39 chapters so I was like, sure, I'll give it a shot. Let's find out where to get this legally. I'll pay money to read this work.

But you can't just pay money, can you? It can't be that simple. You can't just pay a subscription either. The only place this manga is hosted is Comikey, which has a model I would describe as "dogshit tier".

First 3 chapters are free. Then you get one free chapter per day. Cute. What about those other 35 chapters? At the end of every chapter you get told it'll take 3 keys to unlock the next chapter. Buy some keys, get a one-off bonus of extra keys (those extra keys only last 5 days though, so Watch Out). Those keys run out. Did you know you could've bought multiple chapters at once and got more extra keys? You stupid bitch. Better buy some more keys, in a pre-set quantity that doesn't match up to how many keys you need to read JUST this manga, the only thing you want to do. Whoops! Those are gone too, but there's still chapters left in the manga! Some of those chapters are 4 keys, and some are only 2 keys because they're a shorter part-chapter instead of a full length. But don't worry about it because it's just silly little keys, right? Want to make a THIRD purchase for more silly little keys?

I gave up. I just abandoned the story because the means if access became such a confusing headspin that I no longer felt secure that I was being treated fairly as a consumer. They could've just slapped an upfront price on it, probably much higher than I spent in my failed attempt to read a completed work, and I would have been happy! I would have loved to purchase access to the content and not be bothered for micro transactions between EVERY. SINGLE. CHAPTER. For FUCK'S sake.

[fafalcon]

collage of ch15 hands bc I think they're neat

[qualityrain]

is the new hny chapter coming out in an hour or two hours because hny usually updates at 11pm for me but comikey is saying its out at 10pm this time?

[theannypetite]

This Villain Emperor's Gotta Charm the Male Lead to Survive (Manhua) (Final Thoughts)

Time to Read: 1 minute Xiao Yu’an got terminally ill and, at the end of his life, he chose to read webnovels to pass the time. Just before he passed away, he commented on one of them… only to wake up as the villain of the story he just finished?! To ensure he avoided certain death, Xiao Yu’an tried to treat Yan Heqing, the male lead, well, while saving many people… But it appears that the…

[untilyouremember]

Strawberry Love

Available digitally

[ridley-was-a-cat]

32. Firefly Wedding, Ch. 10-19 - licensed - There are yandere guys in manga, and then there are Yandere Guys, and the borderline psycho ML in this one is the latter. Our couple is still stranded on the brothel island, and I'm interested to see how this new guy shakes things up. Really enjoying this.

[lycorogue]

Latest Writing Blog Post is Live: Feb 2024

It was a struggle, and it ended up relatively shorter than most of my other posts, but my latest blog update is live.

Happy Leap Day (Thanks, 2024, for the Extra Day to Write This Up)

Est. Read Time: 15min

I talk about my current writing drought and general burn-out. But wait! I also talk about some new manga I started reading... so... that should be entertaining! I also give some thoughts on the ATLA live-action series on Netflix.

.... and I included a LOT of bitmojis (those cartoon versions of me) to add length 😅....

[ljaesch]

Comikey Adds the Firefly Wedding Manga

Comikey has announced on Twitter that it has added Oreco Tachibana’s Firefly Wedding manga. The service is hosting 10 chapters of the manga on launch. The manga is described as: “The daughter of an upstanding family, and an assassin… A romantic suspense about the contract marriage between two who should never have crossed paths!” It is currently the Meiji era. Blessed with both heritage and…

[oro-kapi]

after god observations

so I've read After God 6 months ago but recently in October it just absolutely out of nowhere FULLY seized my hyperfixation to a level so intense I'm genuinely so startled. I haven't felt this normal about a piece of media in YEARS holy moly.

the English fandom is so miniscule so hella I was SO happy to find there's an After God tumblr corner. anyway first post, hello anyone who stumbles across these ramblings... warning this gets kinda rambly but it's just me being gushy about the series.

abt me I don't actually frequent tumblr that much, I'm kinda new in terms of experience, although I just have some social anxiety over talking about things I like publicly so I hope this sideblog gives me a little bit of strength talking to the void. I need a place where I can go INSANE over this series anyway WAHOO!! maybe will also post fanart in the future also, maybe!

there seems to be a much larger fanbase in Japan (mangaplus/urasunday where the original Japanese is posted gets hundreds of comments as opposed to English's official publisher on comikey. albeit I don't think comikey's the best at making it accessible either). Mangaplus/urasunday do post the latest 1-2 After God chapters for free on the website btw for folks who like to read ahead. Unfortunately anything before the latest 2 chapters is region-locked to the app and I don't really want to bother trying to figure out how to get it but that's what I'm mostly aware of.

I've seen some mixed reviews in the English side, though there's only a handful really out there, but most times I feel people are missing the point!!!! AHHHHHH!!!

when I first read the series 6 months ago, I didn't think of it that much except it shared some similar ideas to my own existing original work I thought would be cool to draw some inspiration off of. I'm honestly not really sure what happened in october, but I think it started because I gave it a second reread. And SO MUCH suddenly clicked. I didn't skim the dialogue as much and began to reexamine scenes and panels with the foresight of the later chapter events. And I fell absolutely in love. preordered and got the first volume in english on release date yippee!!

the first volume or chapters 1-8 is admittedly pretty much an exposition dump, but I think that rough start is kinda to be expected for most series trying to get a reader hooked into a new world. chapters 9-20 are really where things start kicking. It leads you to think Kamikura Waka is shounen-type protagonist like one chosen hero vs the big threat, but then breaks down into a more raw, mature look at the complicated lives of normal people who're just trying to survive, find their own happiness, and fight threats they only somewhat comprehend.

are IPOs really that different from humans? But not in the sense "humans are worse and gods are better" or "humans are better and gods are worse", but in the sense that "we're all equally messy in the same way, just trying to exist because that's all we know what we want to do."

I feel it's a story that needs to be read with the attempt to understand the characters as people with layers of contradiction and their relationships with one another. That's where so much of the meat and the weight of After God comes from for me, and many of these "this was disappointing" reviews don't really seem to even notice that part at all or tend to be confused why the characters act the way they do.

/// spoilers ahead!! talking about some of my observations and thoughts

I can't really remember where it was if there was a more explicitly stated spot that Ahu'az takes the form of what people see as most beautiful (at this point I'm wondering if I'm hallucinating this up oh god). Closest thing with the implication this is the case is in Chapter 34 when Yako/Furuya asks "what form did the God Ahu'az take for you?"

if this is the case though and it changes from person to person's perspective... then oh all the more tragic when Shion went to see Ahu'az and saw Waka/Alu'la as her most beautiful person.... DOOMED YURI, FUCK

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obikawa saying "wow it's cooler here than I expected" back in chapter 9 really gets a new perspective when you apply the later reveal how IPOs are basically born

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silly thing to wonder about, did the florescent banana tee Obikawa gave Tokinaga somehow become the saving grace that stopped him from getting eaten lol?

he is such a loser (affectionate) though like TOKINAGA YOU'RE LITERALLY 10 STEPS AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE YOU CAN GET CHANGED!!

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Tokinaga talks about being afraid of bathtubs chapter 17, and then on a reread I noticed he is standing in front of a bathtub in chapter 3. what kind of hell happened to you my guy omfg

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I know that damn Default CSP Rubble Asset when I see it!!!!

pattern recognition throws me out of the loop a lot I work on comics in CSP as well and now I don't read webcomics the same way anymore oops. right off here I think it's pretty safe to determine After God was drawn in CSP; assets can't really be converted to other programs.

more CSP assets I recognized:

this hatching brush for the outline of Tokinaga here is ベタ線新 from this set

Nayuu's tree branches are from this set

and I'm pretty sure the water here is from this blood set, which might appear elsewhere a few times (i see these shapes in my dreams. this blood set haunts me so bad)

to be clear this isn't a critique or "using assets is bad" at all. normal readers are not going to notice these things. (in which i'm not normal i study Eno's art so intensely because i admire it so much). when making comics or other repetitively drawn works, artists will take shortcuts and should absolutely take shortcuts. it's just neat to share what tools were used for those curious!

off topic on the topic of csp if anyone would like the link, she's shared the brush she made for drawing Vollof here too!

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I can't freaking imagine how it feels to have your beloved friend melt away on your lap between your fingers like that unholy

if you squint much, you can make out both Yoriko and Tokinaga overlaid in the speech bubble, though I'm not sure what the next one really says

but ahfjhfgifgh!!! the book being animal anatomy is such a stab in the leg cherry on top

(and it's probably an art error but tokinaga's pinky is back/weirdly has a solid shape there instead of it being flabby glove. wani asks how did tokinaga get there before he and yoriko so silly weird theory its tokinaga from a different time iterative loop? wonky. probably still an art error though)

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so how did Alu'la get "reincarnated" within a human? How does an IPO get reincarnated at all? We've seen orokapi needed to eat a human to become a specific human. Alu'la definitely didn't eat a human.

We hear from Orokapi he drank seawater mixed with sewage and gained the intelligence that way. Closest I could think of are the microbiota that make up an IPO and their abilities. Maybe Waka's parents or Waka drank shit water of the sort and got the microbiota inside her that way or idfk

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Thanks Tokinaga for the "uses chopsticks to eat everything" rep ����🔥

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i'll leave you on that this is getting too long AHHAAHAJF thanks for reading, hope you got something cool out of this post! :]

[kossanctuary]

After god is back on Comikey!

Chapter 57 is available for 3 keys. Chapter 58 will be out in two weeks!