#Louvre no Neko

[taiyomatsumoto]

[xenosagaepisodeone]

[coffeebanana]

i am having such a miraculous ladybug themed normal trip to Paris

saw the ladynoir lookout point Eiffel Tower

AKJBFKSDJB OOOOOH is that the roof is that the roof where Chat Noir left his ring in Kuro Neko wow, le grand palais looks like such a nice and normal building!

WOW OKAY SO THIS IS WHERE ADRINETTE KISSED IN CHAT BLANC. ALSO WHERE OPERATION SECRET GARDEN TOOK PLACE. BUT SHOULD I WALK A LITTLE FURTHER TO STAND ON THE EXACT SPOT WHERE ADRINETTE KISSED?!?! Wow!! What a nice and normal view of the Eiffel Tower from the trocadéro!!

oh heeeey if i squint i can see the statue of liberty on l'île aux Cygnes where marichat kissed

HOLY FUCKING SHIT DID I ACCIDENTALLY GET OUT OF THE METRO RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE AGRESTE MANSION. hmmm. i definitely have no reason to feel any particular way about this random building beside this metro stop. but wow those are pretty gates! definitely no reason to think they might make someone feel intimidated or trapped or locked in or anything like that!!

hmm should i look for the louvre pyramid or should i circle back and cross the ladynoir jubilation dream kiss bridge le pont des arts first

hehehe adrien would totally make a pun out of this metro station

omg WOW it's the bridge ladrien is gonna kiss on next season (weirdly... i could not actually find this landmark 🤡)

[aspiring-holistic-otaku]

Season 2 Ramble#10 - The Wind Down

This month my focus was on the slice of life genre, specifically the subgenre called iyashikei, which from Japanese to English roughly translates to healing

Been wanting to do an episode like this for a while now, firstly cause I've read a few before and they fr changed my life, really broadened my horizons on what manga as a storytelling medium has to offer,,, and that runs into the second reason I wanted to do this which is that often times I feel that the animanga community focuses too much on trying to read “heat”.... and even when a slice of life series does get in the limelight it's usually filled with drama of some sort.… so I wanted to bring the focus to/share my findings on the more exceptionally mundane things so to speak, finding peace, joy and contentment in normal day to day life

how this episode goes is:

usually I try to be very detailed with manga info like author, artist, chapter count, etc. but in the spirit of winding down I'm gonna keep it really simple, first up are 5 older reads ranked then after that reads from this month unranked but grouped by similarity. I also free balled the descriptions in the audio and here I'm gonna give very short and probably inaccurate summaries (my bad, it's the wind down ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯)

Lastly, the intended focus was on iyashikei or healing manga but not that many manga reading sites actually have the subgenre listed, it's all categorized as slice of life so some things in this list aren't exactly fully healing manga but they're all slice of life.

ok now getting into it fr

RANKED OLD READS

5) Yokohama shopping log - lesbian android enjoys the scenery and slips into melancholy sometimes

4) the emperor & I - wouldn't it be cool if you found a penguin in your freezer one day?

3) way of the house husband - former Yakuza REALLY loves his wife

2) 'tis time for torture princess - princess is horrible at keeping secrets

1) Yotsuba - young girl experiences life to the fullest

GROUPED NEW READS (UNRANKED)

[life]

guitar shop rosie - nosey guitar shop

lucky star - not sure if questionable, sometimes funny

yani neko - bum ass cat girl

Shiba occhan - living dog husband

China girl - when will we be free from the language barrier?

nomi joshi - girls drinking a lot of alcohol

takunomi - girls drinking a lot of alcohol

sleepy barmaid - girls serving a lot of alcohol and life lessons

Saint Young men - Jesus and Buddha walk into a bar

Genshiken second season - weebs are people too :'(

[pets]

cats of the louvre - cats in the louvre

she and her cat - she and her cat

rain with you - she and her "dog"

today's walk - androgynous person and their sassy dog

[nature]

haruka reset - writer takes a nature walk when they need a break

that's journey - would you believe another writer takes a nature walk when they need a break?

kabu no isaki - chill dude has a plane and takes in the sights

Mr villain's day off - Mr villain's day off

laid back/yuru camp - excuse to eat food outdoors

that's it, a lot more manga than usual but hopefully there's at least one thing in there that caught your fancy. ftr most stuff I read can be found either on manga4life or mangadex.. besides the manga stuff, as 2023 comes to an end I hope y'all can find some comfort to close out the year with so you can face 2024 recharged.

[teresiel]

Twiggy the Sphynx Cat - Cats of the Louvre/Rūvuru no Neko - Taiyō Matsumoto

[mangacapsaicin]

taiyou matsumoto’s cats of the louvre || 松本大洋の『ルーヴルの猫』

[moegaze]

[deadscanlations]

Les Chats du Louvre - MATSUMOTO Taiyou

I bought the first volume of this, but since there are some 1200px ebook mag raws available, I instead compiled those so that I can put off scanning it. If you want to work on this, let me know and I’ll scan the tank.

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猫 × 松本大洋 × ルーヴル美術館 ! ルーヴル美術館の屋根裏に棲みついた猫達。人間から隠れて暮らしていたが、一匹の白猫がその掟を破り、冒険に出かける。絵画から聞こえる声に導かれて入った世界には…!? 【編集担当からのおすすめ情報】 猫好き、アート好き、フランス好き、に 松本大洋が贈る絵本のような物語。

[overworkedunderwhelmed]

Things that Chat Noir should find out about in history during Evolution:

Marinette making a gift for Adrien 

The Scarf (Bubbler)

The (Unsigned) Love Poem Response (Princess Fragrance)

Chat Blanc’s existence (Chat Blanc)

Ladybug erasing her signature on the gift she made (Chat Blanc)

The Misdelivered Letter (Backwarder)

Ladybug’s furtive smooch (Riposte)

Marinette’s Video Confession (Felix)

LadyNoir Kiss (Dark Cupid)

Adrinette Escape (Oblivio)

LadyNoir Kiss (Oblivio)

Cardboard Noir (Oblivio)

Marinette returning the Grimoire (The Collector)

Cat Walker appears (Kuro Neko)

Chat Noir in the Freezer (Lady Wifi)

Fight in the Louvre (Riposte)

Back to Back in the Sewers (Season 2 Finale)

What am I missing that needs to be on a bingo card?

With thanks to @xiaomao-ai-wo, @ultrakart, @gameguy20100, generalluxun, and Liquified Stars for contributions.

[ladyofthenoodle]

alright so new theory.

i was rewatching gabriel agreste with the idea of comparing it to risk, but while i was watching i remembered about the jammers

marinette starts with an earpiece that she’s using to communicate with alya and her other friends when infiltrating the agreste mansion

but then the signal gets jammed, leaving marinette on her own in a house filled with enemies who are trying to uncover her identity

and her friends, assuming that she’s got this, leave her to her own devices

so it’s only those already inside the mansion that she can rely on for help (in this case, adrien, félix, and kagami, but by the end of risk, it’s just adrien in the mansion)

but in risk (and earlier episodes like ephemeral and kuro neko), we see marinette also relies on an earpiece as ladybug

while regular jammers might not work on a miraculous magic based earpiece, i’m assuming at this point tomoe tsurugi Knows™️ and if she’s the one providing jammers…

maybe something goes wrong when ladybug is relying on rena furtive to pull off a plan, but the signal gets jammed. maybe it’s ladybug in the mansion or maybe it’s rena in the basement of the louvre (or maybe both), but at some point, they’re not gonna be able to talk. i’m of course partial to the idea of ladybug getting stuck in the mansion and thinking she’s alone only to later discover she’s had an ally inside with her all along (since she doesn’t know yet that adrien is there), but that part is absolutely my ladrien clown nose honking 🤡

[taiyomatsumoto]

[philliamwrites]

i could make it holy, make it fine (pt.1)

Fandom: Persona 5

Pairing: Akira/Akechi

Tags: #domestic fluff, #kissing, #wedding, #persona 5 royal spoilers

Words: 1.7k

Summary: Goro can't believe his first marrital dispute will be about the plastic cat dolls in front of their café whereas Akira is a simple man with simple needs like laying out black napkins and wearing a dress. 

Note: Part 2 (work in progress) | Inspired by ‘Make it Holy’ by The Staves.

i could make it holy, make it fine

    “Quick, don’t think. Black or red?”

    “The napkins stay blue. Now shut up and don’t move.”

    Black curls fall to the ground with each snip snip of Goro’s scissors. He tips Akira’s head back with a knuckle to check that his hair is the same length. Not that anyone could tell if it wasn’t once his hair dries into its usual curly mess. Goro assumes Akira gave him this task just to have an excuse to stare at his face from close-up—as if he doesn’t do it at any given chance anyway regardless of day or time.

    That is the luxury of living in a place they feel comfortable enough to lower their defences. Goro is still trying to learn calling such a place home.

    Warm hands roam over his legs, demanding his attention. “What are you thinking about?” Akira asks and presses his chin into his belly, looking up. After seven years, his features have grown sharper and more elegant like the dagger he used to wield. Sometimes Goro looks at him and the sight of beautiful, beautiful Akira Kurusu steals his breath.

    “That you look like a twelve-year-old after shaving.” He pushes Akira’s wet hair out of his face and flicks his forehead, then steps out of his grasp. He crosses their bathroom to take the broom leaning against the wall in the corner, only to unceremoniously drop it in Akira’s lap. “Now clean your mess. I’m done.”

    He leaves the room before hearing a response, brushing off stray black hair from his shirt and pants. Now he has to vacuum again. Why Akira asked him to cut his hair instead of booking an appointment with a professional is beyond him, but it does remind Goro, as he tugs at the end of his ponytail tickling the nape of his neck, that he might need a cut as well. The shop stays closed anyway during their preparations, so now seems the best time to get things done they usually can’t while tending to the café. Repairing the creaking floorboard behind the counter, washing the dark, vintage curtains hanging in their back office. Even though Akira is against it, they need to sort out which maneki-neko lining the front of their entrance they want to keep and which to throw away. He can’t believe his first marital dispute will be about dusty plastic cats.

    The blow drier starts in the bathroom. Akira’s head peeks around the corner, the hot air whipping his hair left and right. “Goro, can you check the mail? Ann’s postcard might have arrived.”

    Goro shoos him away like a fly. On his way to the stairs leading down to the café—a feature Akira insisted on during their apartment hunting to pay homage to his old home—he passes their kitchen where he puts a kettle on the stove for another round of coffee. So far, he’s only had benefits to be engaged to one of Tokyo’s most popular barista.

    Leblanc is abandoned and quiet. He won’t ever admit it oud loud, but he’s glad Akira didn’t change the name after inheriting the business from Sojiro. Anything different would have been blasphemous. But while it is the same name, Leblanc’s replica lives with touches that scream Akira’s name. Bookshelves line one wall opposite the entrance, filled with every book he’s read during Highschool. Customers come and pick one and in return leave a book they have at hand, constantly switching up the collection. Then there’s people complimenting the amazing replicas of famous contemporary artist Yusuke Kitagawa on the walls, asking Akira where he bought them. But if Akira is known for his delicious coffee, he’s famous for his secrets.

    Opening their post box, bills and two cards fall out. The first shows The Louvre lit at night. Ann’s curly handwriting is unmistakable, leaving a short message that she’ll arrive a day before the ceremony. The other card has a simple flower design and one word on its back.

    Congratulations. — M.

    Goro stares at it for a solid minute. It’s been long since he’s seen this handwriting, but he does remember it from torn-out diary pages inside a place that had blindingly white walls and tasted of despair and bitter endings. He takes everything upstairs where he finds Akira with dried, adorably messy hair.

    “I didn’t know you still hang out with Dr. Maruki,” he says, voice neutral as he drops the cards and bills on the table where Akira has already spread out coffee and biscuits from Haru’s shop. He considers the card, absentmindedly stirring his cup. “I don’t. Sumire might have told him.”

    “Not that I really care.” Goro drinks from his cup, eyeing Akira from the side. He’s draped over his chair like a Pre-Raphaelite painting. “He’s not invited.”

    “I doubt he’ll come. Wouldn’t be too much fun if you stabbed him with the cake knife.”

    Goro snorts, but the image does bring a faint grin out of him. It is a time though he doesn’t think too fondly of; a time when he’d felt too much at once and too little words managed to express that. He remembers when Loki and Robin merged into Hereward and the surprise that Robin never really left his side, always with him; the light, the good, the innocent and childlike fantasy to become a hero one day. The night he spent under Akira’s covers; limbs entangled, secrets and fears shared in quiet whispers, thumbs wet from drying tears both pretended were never shed.

    After they defeated Maruki and destroyed the Happy World, Goro woke up in his bed, dizzy and disoriented, still sore from the fight. While staring at his white ceiling, he counted his heartbeat. Every thud in his chest was like a bird trying to take flight out of an ebony cage no one built a door into. He’d only have to tear his chest open and it would be free. It would return to where it longed to be, a little café tucked away in Yongen-Jaya.

    Instead, Goro got out of bed, donned his winter uniform and went to meet Sae Nijima to discuss the terms of proving Shido’s guilt and his arrest. Again. He spent half a year in juvenile hall until Akira paid his bail with the remaining savings from their Mementos ventures.

    “You’re crazy,” Goro had said when he met Akira outside, everything he used and owned during those six months shoved into a single plastic back.

    “I missed you,” Akira had replied and now, seven years later, they’re doing what Goro never allowed himself to dream of; never showed interest in until meeting Akira Kurusu.

    “Will our suits be ready?” he asks now, downing the rest of this coffee. He usually hates when it gets cold, but Akira’s blend is still enjoyable.

    “I’ll check my e-mails later. They should have replied by now.” Akira watches him, tapping a slender finger against the kitchen desk. “I still think one of us should wear a dress.”

    “You also think we need a champagne pyramid which we can’t afford.”

    “Okay, perhaps not that,” says Akira. “But I would make a radiant bride.”

    Goro doesn’t doubt that. If he takes an afternoon off and searches long enough, he’ll surely find the drag cop outfit somewhere in the attic—a real attic, this one—from all those years back. Maybe he can ask Akira to wear lipstick again when it’s time to seal the deal during the ceremony. He can’t think of anyone who would object to that.

    “That’s your cue to say ‘Truly’.” Akira carries both empty mugs to the sink, a slight pout adorning his face. Goro rolls his eyes. He waits until he passes him on his way out to hook a finger through a belt buckle and pulls Akira with a sharp tug on his lap. He blinks in fake innocence. “Oh?”

    “I prefer you looking good in a dress stays between us,” Goro says, shimmying his hands under Akira’s shirt—wrong, Goro’s shirt—where they rest on warm, soft skin.

    Akira thinks about it. “What do I get in return?”

    “No divorce papers.”

    Generous as always.”

    “It’s a deal then.”

    On cue, Akira’s head bends and finds Goro’s mouth. Kissing Akira is still the same as seven years ago: hot, addicting. Like breathing air for the first time after staying underwater for hours. His hands roam over spots he knows where bruised long, long ago and Akira reacts like they never disappeared. Like they never left the Metaverse. Still sixteen and eighteen and too busy bruising their knuckles and knees fighting for their own justice instead of settling down and taking their time unravelling each other. It still manages to untie a tight knot within his chest. He could spend all day kissing Akira. He should spend all day kissing Akira.

    One, two, three tugs on his ponytail and Goro reluctantly relents to free Akira’s bottom lip from between his teeth.

    “We should give you a cut as well,” Akira says, curling the end around a finger. Goro shows his surprise by raising one eyebrow.

    “You’d be okay with that?” he asks. He’s started to believe Akira’s fixation on his hair—drying it after a shower, braiding it when he’s bored, burrowing his hands in them when he cums—is a religious thing, though the prospect of it being short, feeling the cool breeze on the back of his neck during summer and not bothering to brush it every hour to untangle any knots, is appealing.

    Akira wears a dreamy sort of look—though, no. That’s just him being horny, probably imagining Goro with shorter hair and all new discoveries it might bring as he gently scrapes his scalp. It’s as good as any answer. He pushes Akira off his lap and rises as well, turning left and right to stretch and make his joints pop.

    “Fine, but if you mess it up, I’m going to shave you bald.”

    They share a single look, thinking of the only person they know with a bald head and Goro regrets his words already, hates the face of the man he never wants to remember flashing before his eyes.

    Akira takes his hand and squeezes. “I’m going to make you the most handsome man alive, promise.”

    He allows Akira to lead him to the bathroom, the objection that his task will be hard so long as he breathes on his lips.

    Five more days. Five more days and the most handsome man alive will be his.

[hermannsthumb]

Ok this ask is going to appeal to an audience of like 5 people BUT the band Tub Ring is what newts college band sounded like full stop. (I recommend Impress Your Creators or Trying Again for the most Newt energies)

luv this concept...

also, apologies for using this ask as an excuse to post all of these. but. without further ado beneath the cut is every song ive been sent for newt/hermann but haven’t answered the ask for since like....summer 2018

Anonymous said: I feel like One Last Shot - Grim Reminder has precursor Newt vibes

Anonymous said: Idk if y’all are still talking about newmann songs but there’s a version of Dance Me To The End of Love by the Ugly Uncles (my grandpa’s old band) on YouTube that’s much more sad and sorrowful. Quality’s a bit low but dare I say... tragic reprise of a song?

fromagenator said: i know you’re probably done with getting newmann songs but last night i had an epiphany. HERMANN=stupid with love from mean girls the musical

wanahae said: Okay I know this is very cheesy and cliche but I’m a sucker for them, anyways, imagine newt playing and singing the song scientist by Coldplay whenever they have big fights and he wants to make it up to Herman.

Anonymous said: i'll fight for your life by the drums is a Big Newmann song ...... frm herms pov ofc! this has been my psa Anonymous said: The Other Side Of Paradise also gives off strong Uprising Newt vibes to me!

Anonymous said: Okay but the song “wish you still felt that way” by sophie meirers gives me a big newmann vibe!

Anonymous said: Ever hear that song “So Close” from the Disney movie Enchanted? Because I just did and now I’m drowning in angsty 10 year gap/Uprising Newmann feels. RIP

Anonymous said: Do I Wanna Know? By the Artic Monkeys is out here giving me angsty Newmann vibes

Anonymous said: you're somebody else by flora cash

Anonymous said: the louvre by lorde is a newmann song and my heart wont change on it, i literally cried over my breakfast quesadilla this morning when it came on hshs . just thought id share <333

Anonymous said: Okay so I was listening to ‘how to completely disappear’ by Radiohead and got huge uprising newt feelings. In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah it's gone And I'm not here This isn't happening I'm not here I'm not here Could you write something about it? //I love you and your work! //

Anonymous said: okay i’m listening to this song called we never met by neko case and it’s a pru hermann mood and i needed to let u know

Anonymous said: dodie's "arms unfolding" absolutely broke my heart bc i thought about post-uprising newmann

Anonymous said: so my 15-yr-old weeb brain spent the weekend mentally applying Rolling Girl by Hatsune Miku to Newt and now it's stuck there. "The rollin girl is but a mere shadow of who she once was unable to reach the colour on the other side/ The overlapping voices mixing, mixing with each other/ There's no problem." the words she muttered were lost/ How can she possibly turn out fine when/ The hilly roads entice her and cause her to make mistakes."

fueledbymaple said: I feel like this has been said before 'cause it's just too perfect, but that scene in 10 Things I Hate About You where Heath Ledger's character sings Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You to Kat over the PA system to win her over; it's just so Newt

Anonymous said: Both Dr. Wanna do and That Man by Caro Emerald are massive Newmann anthems and nothing can change my mind

Anonymous said: “Robot Love” by Alisson Iraheta is a great “smashing-Alice’s-tank” song, just letting you know. I know it doesn’t sound like it from the title, but trust me.

[therealzeanon]

JoJo na Srpskom(JoJo in Serbian)

Odlučio sam se da počnem prevod mange JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Rešio sam da pišem na latinici pošto će verovatno da bude ljudi koji neznaju ćirilicu. Trenutno sam završio 7 strana i razmišljam da počnem drugu verziju koju ću da pišem na ćirilicu, čim završim svih 8 delova obične mange. Jorge Joestar, Rohan at the Louvre i ta ostala sranja neću da pišem ni da prevodim sve dok nezavršim canon verziju JoJa. Ako me previše ljudi bude forsiralo i jebalo u mozak da završim što brže mogu, imam da otkažem projekat. Ako neko budi video ovo i bude pročitao, možete staviti komentar i reći šta god hoćete. 

Oni koji su pročitali do kraja,

hvala vam,

i imajte prijatan dan!

[mangacapsaicin]

taiyou matsumoto’s cats of the louvre || 松本大洋の『ルーヴルの猫』

[kagayakuseiza]

Copycat Japanese dub... I should have started writing this as I was watching because there were so many things I noticed.

First off: “Ikemen-kun” 😂😂😂😂😂 

She basically called him “hot guy-kun” in the phone message. I’ve seen a clip of this before, and it still makes me laugh every time.

Next is Copycat’s pun as he steal’s the painting. In the original French, he calls the painting “sen-chat-tionelle,” making a pun on “sensational.” (Thank goodness for cognates between French in English, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have been able to pick that out.) In English he calls it “the cat’s meow.” In the Japanese dub, the line is “kono kaiga wa subarashii nya!” which means “this painting is magnificent nya!” The pun is in the “nya,” which is a Japanese onomatopoeia for a cat sound, whereas in a normal Japanese sentence like this, one might add “naa” to the end for emphasis.

Then we have the phone exchange between Marinette and Alya about the Louvre robbery. In the English version, Marinette says “Someone robbed Cat Noir?” In the Japanese dub, she says “Dareka ga Sha Nowaaru wo nusunda wake?” which means “someone stole Chat Noir?” This is actually closer to the original French line, which I wouldn’t have known if not for a post I saw awhile back.

Buginette/Bugaboo became “bagu(bug)-chan.” Meh.

Then after Chat Noir hangs up from the second phone call to Ladybug, in the original Ladybug is left yelling “Chat Noir! Chat Noir!” Nothing special. The English dub decided to leave off the “noir” and have her say “Cat! Cat!” The Japanese dub takes it further, and has her call him “neko-san.” Ummm... ok then.

Finally, “ma lady/m’lady” got translated as “ojousama” in this episode. I could have sworn that I’ve seen other Japanese clips where he calls her “my lady,” so maybe it’s inconsistently translated. I’m sure I’ll have more comments on this once I see more of the Japanese dub.

Edit: The Japanese dub is no longer available where I watched it.