#Thomas Ikeda

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Collage which contains the fabric of my soul I fear ... Muppet Christmas carol is so so so perfect also

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greetings vintage shoujo manga fans!

something I have wanted to do for a while now is create a database / wiki which documents as close to every single pre-1990s shoujo as possible, as every english-language manga database is severely lacking in this regard... and I have started it! however, because this is a giant project, I need to inform as many people who may be interested in contributing as possible. I have created a Miraheze wiki to host the content, and am very slowly adding the information I have accrued to the pages. (Its completely bare bones right now, I'm basically just testing things)

Please comment or message me if you have any interest in helping out with this as I want to spread the word as much as I can! If it's just me editing I'll literally never add everything at this rate lol.

(obligatory keiko takemiya illustration to catch your eyes sorry)

I mainly need help with adding the basic information to the articles, biographical information, plot summaries, etc, but once again, absolutely anything helps and I would really appreciate it if anyone would be interested in contributing to this wiki.

manga and mangaka tags added for visibility :)

[lucrezianoin]

List of Year 24 complete manga work in English or Italian

I made this list mainly to myself, but you can easily use it too. I am on a mission to read every Year 24 group manga available, so here I collected:

licensed manga (in English and Italian)

online scans

Every licensed manga has a the name of the publisher too, and you might find the Italian translation easier than the Japanese.

I added an "online" to the ones you can definitely find scanned online. Every title is linked to where to read the story nearby, keep in mind these websites come and go and might have ads.

If you see a licensed title in italics it means that the manga cannot be found anywhere online and scanned (and translated). Or that some short stories in the collection (if it is a collection) cannot be found anywhere online and scanned.

Let's start!

The authors are (in order): Moto Hagio, Keiko Takemiya, Riyoko Ikeda, Ryoko Yamagishi, Yasuko Aoike, Yumiko Ooshima, Minori Kimura, Kihara Toshie.

MOTO HAGIO

Licensed in English

They Were 11! (JP Oversized and Viz)

The Complete Poe Clan (Fantagraphics, coming out November 2024)

Heart of Thomas (Fantagraphics)

A Drunken dream and other stories (Fantagraphics)

Neo Parasyte m (Kodansha Comics; first chapter is by Moto Hagio)

Lil' Leo (Denpa books)

Otherworld Barbara volume 1 and 2 (Fantagraphics)

A,A' (Viz), impossible to find it seems

Licensed in Italian

Il cuore di Thomas - The heart of Thomas (J-POP)

A Cruel God Reigns, 9 volumes (J-POP)

Star Red (J-POP)

Hanshin, la dea dimezzata, collection of stories (J-POP) (anilist)

Il Clan dei Poe volume 1 and 2 (J-POP)

Barbara, vol1, 2 and 3 (J-POP)

Marginal vol1, 2 and 3 (J-POP)

Online (English only) (chronological order)

-> Full series

The Heart of Thomas (manganelo)

They were 11 (mangadex)

They were 11: Higashi no Chihei, Nishi no Towa (mangadex)

U wa Uchuusen no U (collection of stories) (mangadex)

Silver Triangle (mangadex)

A, A' (mangadex)

Marginal (mangadex)

A cruel god reigns (mangadex)

-> One shots

Bianca (mangadex)

Girl on the porch with puppy (internet archive)

Poor mama (mangadex)

Autumn Journey (internet archive)

11-gatsu no Gymnasium (mangadex)

Unicorn no Yume (mangadex)

Onshitsu (mangadex)

Marie, ten years later (internet archive)

Cabagge Hata no Isansouzokunin (mangadex)

Houmonsha, prequel of Heart of Thomas (mangadex)

Shiro - The Castle (mangadex)

A Drunken Dream (internet archive)

Ragini (mangadex)

Kinyou no Yoru no Shuukai (mangadex)

Kimi Wa Utsukushii Hitomi (mangadex)

Hanshin: Half-God (mangadex)

Egg stand (mangadex)

Angel Mimic (internet archive)

The child who comes home (internet archive)

Slow Down (mangadex)

The false king (mangadex)

Iguana girl (mangadex)

Afternoon sunshine (mangadex)

Yuujin K (mangadex)

Yama e Iku - Going to the mountains (mangadex)

The Willow Tree (mangadex)

Moments of lonliness (mangadex)

With Love to "From Eroica with love" (mangadex)

Neo Parasyte m's short story "Yura no Mon wo" (mangaplaza, first story, which is the free one)

KEIKO TAKEMIYA

Licensed in English

To Terra, 3 volumes (Vertical Inc)

Andromeda stories, 3 volumes (Vertical Inc)

Licensed in Italian

Il poema del vento e degli alberi - Kaze to Ki no Uta, 10 volumes (J-POP)

Verso la Terra - To terra, 3 volumes (J-POP)

Il suo nome era Gilbert, autobiographical novel (J-POP)

Online (English only) (chronological order)

-> Full series

Kaze to Ki no Uta (mangadex)

To Terra (mangadex)

Andromeda Stories (mangadex)

Rintarou Panic! (mangadex)

-> One shots

Sunroom Nite (mangadex)

Hohoemu Shounen (mangadex)

On a snowy day (mangadex)

Star (mangadex)

20 no Hiru to Yoru (mangadex)

Mister no kokori (mangadex)

Natsu e no Tobira (mangadex)

Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (mangadex)

Koufuku no Hato (mangadex)

Toki wo Yuku Uma (mangadex)

RIYOKO IKEDA

Licensed in English

Claudine (Seven Seas)

The Rose of Versailles, 5 volumes (Udon Entertainment)

Licensed in Italian

Le rose di Versailles, 5 volumes (Edizioni BD)

La finestra di Orfeo - Orpheus no Mado, 9 volumes (J-POP)

Anello dei Nibelunghi - Nibelungen no Yubiwa, 4 volumes (Goen)

Claudine (Goen)

Ayako, 2 volumes (Goen)

Caro Fratello - Dearest Brother, 2 volumes (Goen)

Elisabetta - Elizabeth (Yamato)

Eroica la Gloria di Napoleone - Héroïque The Glory of Napoleon, 12 volumes (Magic Press)

Online (English only)

Bara Yashiki no Shoujo (mangadex)

Early Spring Trembling (mangadex)

Porando Hishi Ten no Hate Made (mangadex)

Dearest Brother (mangadex)

Nibelungen no Yubiwa (only 3 volumes, 1 missing, mangadex)

Claudine (mangadex)

Versailles no Bara (up till volume 12, mangadex)

Summer in Cantenbury (mangadex)

RYOKO YAMAGISHI

Online (English only)

Shiroi Heya no Furari (mangadex)

Yasha Gozen (mangadex)

Harpy, collection of stories (mangadex)

Hatshepsut (mangadex)

Hiruko (mangadex)

Medusa (mangadex)

Hemi no Hire (mangadex)

YASUKO AOIKE

Licensed in English

From Eroica with Love (Cmx, unfinished)

Online (English only)

From Eroica with Love (still being translated, currently at chapter 21 (mangadex)

Vampire (mangadex)

The free shooter (mangadex)

Tasogare ni Kaere (mangadex)

Z (mangadex)

YUMIKO OOSHIMA

Online (English only) (chronological order)

No longer male (mangadex)

To Joker (mangadex)

Banana Bread no Pudding (mangadex)

Grass Crown Princess (mangadex)

He His Him (mangadex)

Across a golden prarie (mangadex)

Summertime (mangadex)

Long long cafe (mangadex)

MINORI KIMURA

Online (English only) (chronological order)

Ame (short stories) (mangadex)

Warped mirror (mandagex)

KIHARA TOSHIE

Online (English only) (chronological order)

I'm fine with dying (mangadex)

Diamond Gojiran, 3 one shots (mangadex)

With love to "From Eroica with love" (mangadex)

NANAE SASAYA

none

MINEKO YAMADA

none

[ceekbee]

Xtra Thoughts

July 17

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

–Daisaku Ikeda

This is the way of peace. Overcome evil with good. Falsehood with truth, And hatred with love.

–Peace Pilgrim

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

–George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

–Thomas Carlyle

Thanks, but I won’t need your help today.

–GOD

To attain Knowledge, add things every day. To attain Wisdom, remove things every day.

–Lao Tzu

[becausegoodbye]

(Mostly putting this here to keep track of it for myself) – the books I read in 2024:

FICTION:

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Alice Robinson - The Glad Shout

Miranda July - All Fours

James Frankie Thomas – Idlewild

Monique Wittig - The Lesbian Body

Caoilinn Hughes - The Alternatives

Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

Lydia Davis - Our Strangers

Julian K. Jarboe - Everyone On the Moon Is Essential Personnel

James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room

Samantha Shannon - The Priory of the Orange Tree

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

NONFICTION:

Jane Ward - The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

Jules Gill-Peterson - A Short History of Transmisogyny

Lee Seong-Bok - Indeterminate Inflorescence: Lectures on Poetry

Rashid Khalidi - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Adrienne Rich - Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

Monique Wittig - The Straight Mind and Other Essays

MANGA:

Sakaomi Yuzaki - She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (vols. 1-4)

Ryoko Kui - Delicious in Dungeon (volumes 1-14)

Tamifull - How Do We Relationship? (volumes 1-10)

Neji - Beauty and the Beast Girl

Batten - Run Away With Me, Girl (volumes 1-3)

Pageratta - She Becomes A Tree

Takashi Ikeda - The Two of Them Are Pretty Much Like This (Vols. 1-4)

Murata - Catch These Hands! (Vols. 1-4)

Tasuku Kaname - Our Dreams At Dusk (Vols. 1-4)

Akashi - Still Sick (Vols.1-2)

Kuzushiro - The Moon On a Rainy Night (vols. 1-5)

Keigo Shinzo - Hirayasumi (vols. 1-6)

Inui Ayu - Under One Roof Today (vols. 1-2)

Yodokawa - Monthly in the Garden With My Landlord (vols. 1-2)

Inori / Aonoshimo - I'm in Love with the Villainess (vols. 1-5)

Kaoru Mori - A Bride's Story (vols. 1-4)

Arai Sumiko - The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't A Guy At All (Vols. 1-2)

Takako Shimura - Even Though We're Adults (Vols. 1-8)

Ami Uozumi - Pink Candy Kiss (Vol. 1-2)

COMICS:

Jillian & Mariko Tomaki - Roaming

Max Graves - What Happens Next (start to present)

Brian Chippendale - Ninja

Michelle Perez & Remy Boydell - The Pervert

Khale McHurst - No She's Not My Sister vols 1-5 (& Manic Pixie Dream Girl, & Stone Butch)

Natalia Zajaz - Marion (Vol.1)

Safdar Ahmed - Space Jihad (Vol. 1)

Steven Christie - Good Praxis (Vol. 1)

Aaron Billings - Beatitudes of the Beat: A Mystical Boy Scout Story (Vol. 1)

Joe Sparrow - Homunculus

Margot Ferrick - Yours

Blood & Thunder #2 (ed. Leigh Rigozzi)

Emma Grove - The Third Person

POETRY:

Wisława Szymborska - People on a Bridge

Christina Rossetti - Selected Poems

Lilian Mohin (ed.) - Beautiful Barbarians

Elana Dykwomon - Nothing Will Be As Sweet As The Taste

Izzy Roberts-Orr - Raw Salt

Pooja Mittal Biswas - The Maker of Garlands

e.e. cummings - A Selection of Poems

Grace Paley - Begin Again

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I'm overall pleased with the amount of reading I did this year. I was working full-time, so I didn't have as much time as I wish I did, but I got into a decent rhythm with it in the last few months especially. In terms of personal trends, I guess I can identify that this was The Year I Went Nuts For Yuri (amassing a huge treasure-trove of beautiful lesbian manga to read on my tablet), The Year I Got Back Into Fun Novels (books like Big Swiss and Milk Fed and Idlewild were such pure sources of pleasure), and The Year I Started Collecting Bloomsbury Classics (of which I've presently read very few, but they look ridiculously lovely on the shelf, and I plan on reading them all eventually).

[haljathefangirlcat]

Siegmund and Sieglinde in Manga & Comicbook Adaptations of Wagner's Ring: Masterlist

Alice

Azumi

Djief, Jarry, et al.

Ikeda & Miyamoto

Kane & Thomas

Russell

[bl00dngh0uls]

wh0 is the best OC youve ever created hand down and like a total list of all OCS

I wanted to wait to answer this until I had a digital artwork completed of every OC that I have, bc a lot of them I’ve only ever hand drawn (my favorite ,, I love me some good pencil to paper art)

But , I figured I’d be waiting forever, bc with so much going on, and so many other drawing projects I have in the works, this ask would be long forgotten until I saw it in my inbox months down the road and went oh fuck me ,, I forgot to do that.

Sooo , to answer the first part of the question, I don’t think I have a ‘best OC’, because I literally love all my sweet babies so much. They all have their beautiful qualities, and all have their lil garbage ones. They’re all such well rounded characters HHHH, and I want to squeeze them all to death in my arms in one giant group hug.

They would probably hate/fear me if they ever were actually in my presence because, well, I’ve put all of them through some pretty fucked up shit. Some worse than others LOL.

I will now compile a list of all my OC’s.

(I continue to ramble)

Later, I will be adding drawings of my darlings, as I so please, in whatever order, because I really want to try and make my tumblr more of a space for my OC shit. If I could someday get asks directed towards specific OC’s of mine,,,, that,.. would be a dream come true .

But, yaknow, in order to do that, I gotta get on top of actually posting art,, hhhha , that is a goal of mine for the rest of this year, into the following, and forever HAHA ,,my goal is always more art

SO ,, here we go. I’m going to list them in order of creation. (As best I can,, I started making OCs like,, fuck,, 12 years ago almost?? Some were lost along the way.. some were made so close to one another that I don’t know which came first)

1: Thomas James Burns🖤 age: 19

2: Kyle Frederick Hunt🖤 age: 29

3: Lucifer/Lilith🖤 age: n/a

4: Jehovah🖤 age: n/a

5: Esteban De La Cruz🖤 age: 37

6: Percival (Percy) Chauncey Palmer🖤 age: 21

7: Donovan Christian Bell🖤 age: 23

8: Joon Seo Woo🖤 age: 24

9: Ikeda Noboru🖤 age: 40

*Uhm also I have a bunch of OCs that were made to be in the specific stories of these characters,, so this is just a list of the ✨mains✨

Also I’m vvvvery aware that this is a bare minimum list,, just names and ages lol ,, uhm I just want to add a picture of each of them for a better description. So you can see them aaaand get a lil background info on them. I’ll probably start doing a few of those tonight~

Gonna tag all future OC posts with #MYOCDUMP so I can look through all of my own OC shit on my blog like a noob

[dregs-leftovers-parsley]

1, 12, and 14 for the ask game!

1 Your top 5 reads of 2023

I read a lot of bad manga this year but I also found some new favorites. so in no particular order

1a oniisama e - ikeda riyoko: features mariko <3

1b heart of Thomas - hagio moto: I love catholic boarding school drama

1c does rereading devilman count? I read it like twice this year, I am normal about devilman

1d zankoku na kami ga shihai suru - hagio moto: made me actually physically ill for a week 👍

1e dungeon meshi - kui ryoko: just really straightforwardly good. made me hungry

12 A manga that made you look forward to every update

I only keep up with two ongoing manga and they are kaiji and hunter x hunter, and one of them functionally never updates so it’s just me and kaiji out here

14 Newest / oldest manga you read

Newest manga was dungeon meshi, I waited for it to finish before jumping in. oldest manga was the original astro boy which ran from 1952 to 1968 (I didn’t read all of it because there’s an ungodly amount but yk)

[identity-library]

Diverse Sexuality (Comics)

A:

Archie (Comics)

Jughead Jones (Asexual)

B:

Blue Lock (Manga)

Ryusei Shidou (Gay)

C:

D:

E:

F:

G:

H:

I:

J:

K:

L:

M:

Marvel (Comics)

Aaron Fischer/Captain America (Gay)

Aikku Jokinen (Lesbian)

Alana Jobson/Jackpot (Lesbian)

Alani Ryan/Loa (Bisexual)

Albert Moon Jr./Silk (Gay)

Aldrif Oddinsdottir (Lesbian)

America Chavez (Lesbian)

Aneka (Lesbian)

Annabelle Riggs (Lesbian)

Aura Charles (Bisexual)

Avril Kincaid (Lesbian)

Ayo (Lesbian)

Beatrice Bartholomew/Cyclops-Lass (Unspecified WLW)

Benjamin Deeds/Morph (Gay)

Benjamin Thomas (Asexual, Demiromantic)

Brandon Sharpe/Striker (Gay)

Brunnhilde/Valkyrie (Bisexual)

Carl Valentino/Somnus (Gay)

Carmen Cruz/Gimmick (Lesbian)

Cessily Kincaid/Mercury (Bisexual)

Charlie Cluster (Bisexual)

Charlotte Webber/Sun-Spider (Pansexual)

Christian Frost/White Bishop (Gay)

Christopher O'Leary (Bisexual)

Claire Voyant (Bisexual)

Cloud (Queer)

Cooper Coen/Web-Weaver (Gay)

Cullen Bloodstone (Gay)

Daimon Hellstrom (Bisexual)

Daken Akihiro (Bisexual)

David Alleyne (Bisexual)

Dennis Dunphy (Gay)

Doop (Bisexual)

Elizabeth Braddock/Captain Britain (Bisexual)

Ellie Phimister/Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Lesbian)

Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (Bisexual)

Gabe/Bad Guy (Gay)

Gabrielle Diwa (Lesbian)

Gaveedra Seven/Shatterstar (Bisexual)

Gwendolyn Poole/Gwenpool (Aromantic, Asexual)

Heather Douglas/Moondragon (Lesbian)

Heather Tucker/Tempo (Lesbian)

Hector Baez (Gay)

Hector Pullman (Gay)

Heidi Sladkin/Riot (Lesbian)

Hercules (Gay)

Hercules Panhellenios (Bisexual)

Hiroim (Gay)

Ian Soo/Telekinian (Bisexual)

Irene Adler/Destiny (Bisexual)

Isaac Ikeda/Protector (Gay)

Jacob Oh (Gay)

James Howlett (Gay)

Jamie Rogers (Asexual)

Jean-Paul Beaubier/Northstar (Gay)

Jennifer Kale (Bisexual)

Jin Joon-Sung/Kid Juggernaut (Gay)

Judah Miller (Gay)

Julie Power/Lightspeed (Bisexual)

Julio Richter (Gay)

Karolina Dean (Lesbian)

Katherine "Kitty" Pryde (Bisexual)

Kolgoth Antares (Gay)

Korg (Gay)

Kyle Jinadu (Gay)

Loki Laufeyson (Bisexual)

Marcus Roston (Gay)

Max Modell (Gay)

Megan Gwynn (Unspecified WLW)

Megan Ogawa/Kappa (Bisexual)

Monica Sellers (Queer)

Morgan Red (Asexual)

Mors (Bisexual + Polyamorous)

Nadia Van Dyne (Asexual, Quoiromantic)

Nathaniel Carver/Hindsight (Gay)

Nico Minoru (Bisexual)

Noh-Varr/Captain Marvel (Bisexual)

Odessa Drake (Lesbian)

Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Bisexual + Polyamorous)

Phyla-Vell/Captain Marvel (Lesbian)

Priscilla "Shay" Smith (Lesbian)

Raven Darkhölme/Mystique (Bisexual)

Raz Malhotra/Giant-Man (Gay)

Rebecca "Rikki" Barnes (Bisexual)

Ren Kimura (Lesbian)

Renata Da Lima/Bouncer (Lesbian)

Robert "Bobby" Drake/Iceman (Gay)

Romeo (Gay)

Roxanne Washington (Lesbian)

Rūna/Valkyrie (Lesbian)

Satana Hellstrom (Bisexual)

Sera/The Hunter Queen (Lesbian)

Simon Lasker/Pyro (Gay)

Sinclair Abbott/Spymaster (Bisexual)

Steck'ee (Pansexual)

Tamara Blake/Iron Cat (Lesbian)

Theodore "Teddy" Kaplan-Altman/Hulkling (Gay)

Thomas "Tommy" Shepherd/Speed (Bisexual)

Toni Ho/Iron Patriot (Lesbian)

Val Ventura/Flatman (Gay)

Victor Borkowski/Anole (Gay)

Victoria Hand (Lesbian)

Vivian Vision (Lesbian)

Vnn (Gay)

Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Pansexual)

William "Billy" Kaplan-Altman/Wiccan (Gay)

Xavin (Pansexual)

Xuân Cao Mạnh/Karma (Lesbian)

Yelena Belova/Black Widow (Asexual, Aromantic)

Ying Liu (Lesbian)

Yukio/Wild One (Bisexual)

Zoe Zimmer/Ms. Marvel (Lesbian)

N:

Nanbaka (Manga)

Jyugo (Bisexual)

Nimona (Graphic Novel)

Ambrosius Goldenloin (Gay)

Ballister Boldheart (Gay)

O:

Our Dreams at Dusk (Manga)

Anonymous (Aromantic, Asexual)

Ilya Tchaiko (Gay)

Kaname Tasuku (Gay)

Saki (Lesbian)

P:

Q:

R:

S:

T:

U:

V:

W:

X:

Y:

Z:

[scenesandscreens]

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) Director - Rob Marshall, Cinematography - Dion Beebe "We must not expect happiness, Sayuri. It is not something we deserve. When life goes well, it is a sudden gift; it cannot last forever..."

[topquarkintown]

Ok but hear me out....The Secret History is a 1970s shojo manga

So I’m kinda joking here but actually I’m kinda not like The Secret History is actually structurally identical to a 1970s shojo manga, like:

- Takes place in an vaguely 20th century academic setting for rich people and is equal parts about aestheticizing the setting and exposing its dark side - Hapless and relatably dopey protagonist transfer student stumbles into a cool club of older, mysterious students and uncovers staggering levels of fucked-up interpersonal drama between them while also crushing on all of them?? This is literally just the plot of The Heart of Thomas - Hightly Internal psychodrama about murders happening at a school which snowballs tragically because of the absolutely heinous interpersonal dynamics of the main characters, as well as the individual psychological houses of cards they’ve built based on their impressions of each other - All characters except for the protagonist are either Darkly Handsome or Otherworldly And Blonde and dress in exceedingly sumptuous 1970s fashion - Obsessed with the question of Beauty, and exploring the dissonance of juxtaposing elegant Romantic aesthetics and the ugliness and violence of interpersonal relationships - Undeniably homoerotic in a female-gaze sort of way, but its queerness is never really unpacked (definitively queer characters end up dead and queer-in-subtext-only characters end up in straight relationships)

Like this book could straight up have been written by Moto Hagio or Riyoko Ikeda.

Idk what my point is here. Maybe it’s that the dark academia people and the shojo manga people should be talking to each other more and realize that they are actually on about the exact same shit. Maybe it’s that I want a shojo adaption of The Secret History. Actually, if I had a billion dollars, I would purchase the comic adaptation rights to The Secret History and give them to Moto Hagio just to see what she would do with them. I want to live in that world.

[cacaitos]

A Cruel God Reigns (2001). Moto Hagio. Thomas no Shinzou (1988), Moto Hagio. Medusa (1982), Ryoko Yamagishi. Neon Genesis Evangelion (1996), Hideaki Anno. Oniisama e... (1992), Riyoko Ikeda.

[cobotis]

Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end... ~ Daisaku Ikeda

[danganronpacorruption]

I was writing chapter 1 and then i did this instead

[senatorgana]

one time in high school i was paired up with this obnoxious lax bro for an english project but you know i’m a nice person so i was polite and i laughed at his terrible jokes for the like three days we had to work on this project in class

the next week goes by and this kid has told all of his friends that i have a crush on him???? that i was like flirting (even though we pretty much only talked about the assignment)  and he thought it was embarrassing on my part????? and everyone is asking me about it and it won’t go away

eventually i had to pull him aside after class and be like. look you need to stop telling people i’m into you because i genuinely think you’re a douchebag

anyway the moral of the story is never be nice to boys

[lomappreciationblog]

Drowned Dreams: Part 2, now with Basket Fish, Dancing, and Blue Eyes

Continuation from my previous post! Let us now meet the lovely Basket Fish. He's...quite the guy.

I can never get over how LoM has genius character designs (the concept of Jumi? Amazing, and each individual is designed and written so well).

And then you literally have a fish in a basket with legs and he's named Basket Fish.

And he's a noveau rich jerk who loves looking down on people,

I love this game.

Oh, and according to the art book, Art of Mana, character designer Nao Ikeda made his character as a concept of a half-human character. She also finds it funny they just named him Basket Fish lol. According to her notes, though, Basket Fish is actually a hermit crab-type creature that took over the basket as a sort of parasite, which sounds kind of gross.

Oh, and I'm not joking about the "with legs" part. He has them. (insert the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon screenshot here).

Or more like he's got a pair of admittedly nice looking boots to walk with.

Unfortunately, Basket Fish is even more horrible than you think he is with being a creep to Revanshe, and the game does not shy away from it.

Poor Revanshe.

But she comes in helpful with her charms a bit later.

After the whole deal with Basket Fish happens, you can poke into Inspector Boyd's business some more, and he finally reveals what's he's doing.

Unfortunately, he's off the mark as always, asking about persons with blue eyes, and suggesting Thoma might have them will move the plo on.

Episode 4 of the anime is titled Sapphire if I'm not mistaken, so anime-only Mystery Blue Jumi, who's probably the Blue Eye, is also a sapphire Jumi.

I'm still really stoked to see they revisit this quest in the anime and give a face to a Jumi who we don't even get to know.