#Taku Kuwabara

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Source: Drifting Dragons Kūtei Doragonzu 空挺ドラゴンズ

by Taku Kuwabara

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Drifting Dragons Vol.18

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currently reading :)

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A new manga featuring Snorlax has been announced for a Fall 2023 release as promotion for Pokemon Sleep!

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Drifting Dragons

Taku Kuwabara

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Manga Review: 'Drifting Dragons' #11

Drifting Dragons #11 by Taku Kuwabara

airship

dragons

fantasy adventure

My Rating: 5 of 5 stars

Best art since the manga's debut volume. Most consistent and reliable character development to date. Most effective drama in a good while. DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 reads like an epic Third Act, but in truth, the book is merely another collection of adrenaline-dump journeys of the Quin Zaza and its crew of misfits.

The near-distant archipelago nation of Arena suffers the throes of civil war, often beneath the hallucinogenic fog of an impossibly deadly dragon. Vannie, the bastard child of a deposed royal, has returned to her homeland to find her only friend in a coma and the authorities bickering endlessly. The hard-drinking stoic thought she would apologize to the one person she sadly missed during her many years away, but apparently, once a draker, always a draker.

DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 posits a pair of converging stories: Vannabelle hunts the Mistmaker dragon in a bid to level the angst of the people; the partial crew of the Quin Zaza likewise hunts the beast so as to open a path to diplomacy between the nations' two feuding sides. Brilliantly, this graphic novel largely eschews the low-hanging political discourse in favor of intense, brutal, hauntingly real action sequences that last for dozens of pages at a time.

The creative team indulges in the miraculous details and sprawling environmental designs that made this manga such an incredible tome at its onset. An overhead shot of the destroyed royal palace of Arena offers a view of an immense curtain wall, rivers of lush acreage, and layers of beautiful architecture left to rot. Intrepid fight scenes of hapless humans against a horde of dragons, full-size and dwarf, tease and toy with shadow, swivel the camera and play with perspective to ratchet up the intensity, and occasionally bless readers with two-page spreads to showcase the sheer magnitude of terror that awaits the crew once it steps into the darkened nest of a massive, ferocious, intelligent creature.

Episode #59 ("Solo Battle") and Episode #60 ("Beyond the Mists"), combined, register more than 50 pages of haltingly aggressive and exquisitely timed action. Vannie reaches the nest of the Mistmaker dragon first, and soon thereafter, the book's one-against-many combat scenes are raw and utterly compelling. The woman skirts a vine-covered stone dais, skids under the tentacled grasp of a dwarf dragon, swings her pile lance into position, and knifes her way through, blood and all. She knees a dragon in the jaw to free herself, she bites a limb to squirm out of another creature's grasp, and in the chapter's most fitting sequence, she dives for the rifle of a long-fallen soldier, the panel angled in her favor (as if to expose and improve her sightline) and fires and hits her target, only for the Mistmaker to seep from the darkness like a massive, Lovecraftian relief etching.

Dynamic and particular panel arrangements, as well as effectively implemented effects and speedlines, generate a level of urgency very rarely seen in the manga thus far. However much this comic book thrives on short bursts of action, DRIFTING DRAGONS v11 gifts readers prolonged adventure at the edge of their seat. The final product is fantastic. The current volume inserts a bit of fanservice, when Mika arrives on the scene to help Vannie finish off the dragon, what with her broken collarbone and busted ribs, but the implications therein don't last too long.

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NEW Kodansha Digital:

☁️Drifting Dragons, Volume 15☁️ By Taku Kuwabara

🐉Gibbs reflects on his life and what drove him to be a draker. Will the crew return with the oil in time? Or are Gibbs’s days aboard airships coming to a close?

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Drifting Dragons T13 de Taku Kuwabara

🌸Mon #avis sur le #manga Drifting Dragons T13 de Taku Kuwabara sorti chez @pikaedition est en ligne 😍

Mon avis : Ce que je préfère dans ce titre, ce sont ses graphismes et ses décors incroyablement léchés. Un peu dans le style d’un Nausicaa de Miyazaki par exemple. Je les trouve magnifiques. Concernant l’histoire, si l’arc concernant Vannie est terminé, on reprend les bases et voilà notre équipage parti pour se reposer un peu le temps de terminer les travaux de reconstruction du Quin Zaza. Ce…

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Snorlax’s Dream Gourmet & Character Introductions Project Kabigon collaboration manga by Kuwabara Taku.

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Source: Drifting Dragons Kūtei Doragonzu 空挺ドラゴンズ

by Taku Kuwabara

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Drifting Dragons Vol.17

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March 2024

Today we're talking about comics i read in March. I mostly read manga, from series i've already talked about before or don't have anything to say about, so i'm going to skip some books.

The Quiet End of the Mundane Age -- Theo Stultz

Probably my favourite comic from last year's ShortBox Comic Fair (the 2024 edition is coming very soon!! can't wait to spend wayyyy too much money on comics). A short story about academics studying an ancient civilisation and looking to bring back magic into the world (if i remember correctly... i really want to reread this one actually). the vibes are: delicious. my only complain is that it was too short, and i wish it was a whole series.

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Minsucule Folle Sauvage -- Pauline de Tarragon

Tiny Crazy Feral Woman. a journal comic about depression and ennui, with cute pastel art. made me want to draw little introspective zines and reread sylvia plath.

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Genderless Danshi ni Aisareteimasu / Mon petit ami genderless -- TAMEKOU, Narihira Kojiro, French translation by Blanche Delaborde

A finished series about a manga editor and her fem boyfriend. This is a cute slice of life story with some funny gags, but it is way less queer than advertised (the genderless boyfriend is Very Gendered, Actually). I liked the tidbits about Japanese queer culture, the art is suuuper pretty, but there are a lot of talks about appearance and popularity and social media which im not a fan of. Overall it's a light hearted read about conventionally attractive people, a good time.

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Kûtei Dragons / Drifting Dragons -- Kuwabara Taku

Another favourite of mine. The adventures of a team of dragon hunters in a fantasy world! This story manages to have a big cast where everyone feels like an actual person. Not vegan friendly.

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The event to expand Cyrus's and Palkia's grid reruns today.

Electrode and Porygon2 are also rerunning in Cafe Remix via event and Deliveries respectively.

Some promo gifs and the storyboard shot for tomorrow's episode. Male Oinkologne seems like a real jerk.

And lastly, there'll be a short manga (Snorlax's Dream Gourmet) for Project Kabigon that will be uploaded tomorrow. The art is by Taku Kuwabara:

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Anime dragon of the day: Unnamed little dragon from "Drifting Dragons"

Little nameless dragon from second episode of anime "Drifting dragons", tv-series based on the manga by Taku Kuwabara.  The series is animated by Polygon Pictures and directed by Tadahiro Yoshihira