#Violence Jack

[sillyzubat]

Finished reading Violence Jack and I am definitely ready to get stuck back into Fallout!

(Heretic Town and New Vegas have similar vibes too!)

Now where can I find a mod that adds massive sideburns and bell-bottoms to all the NPCs 🤔

[oocdevilman]

[seventhman]

Tatsuma Mido and Mondo Saotome share a kiss.

[tatsuma-forever]

[snailyslime]

the devilman stuff in violence jack is crazy tf do i even do with this information

[darkstalker-elise]

Jun from Violence Jack is my escapist fantasy

[refractionfish]

doing some research and learned an important lesson about always reading the footnotes. how could you leave the go nagai pretty princess theory in the footnotes.

Yurkari, Fujimoto, Linda Flores, Kazumi Nagaike, and Sharalyn Orbaugh. "Female Hermaphrodites and Male Androgynes." In U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, 76-117. University of Hawai'i Press, 2004.

[carouselpony]

[mikasaysehe]

Redraw

02/07/2024

Denial…

[rivalcobalt]

Semi-Open Violence Jack Book Club!

Have you wanted to get around to reading Violence Jack but just never had the drive to power through it alone? Do you want to read or reread with the chance to discuss with others? Are you too daunted by the horrors of relying on google translate to get through the chapters that haven't been scanlated into English without people who can read a language it has been released in to ask if something isn't making sense? Come join us!

Discussion will be run through an existing Devilman server, which you are also welcome to participate in. We're generally open to most new members, but we will be vetting people because we want to avoid both those who violate the rules below and who spend a lot of time participating in online drama or harassment.

Additional info below:

Rules of interest:

18+ (both for the content of VJ and the current server age range being 21-40)

Discrimination in any form will not be tolerated

We're obviously fine with "problematic" content in fiction, but we don't want to interact with anyone into ship content involving pedophilia, incest, or rape. We know this is ironic given that Nagai's works include all of these topics, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with his use of them for shock value or people who like them in romantic fan work contexts

No excessively violent sentiments towards Go Nagai. We just don't wanna hear it, even knowing how bad his works can get

No jokes framing Ryo as violently misogynistic for being a gay man, calling characters derogatory terms for being mentally ill, or other similar sentiments directed at characters for any marginalized identities

Please for the love of god have a nuanced view of Japanese history as a country that has both committed and been a victim of imperialism

Zionists fuck off

General biases:

Ryoakira, mikimiko, kairene

Reading Ryo as a gay intersex man, Akira as a bisexual, Miki and Miko as wlw

(We have these rules in place due to some unsavoury behaviour from others in the past, and we really don't want to deal with that in a small space like discord again. Conflicting interpretations are not necesarily invalid, but if your opinions or interests strongly oppose these, this may not be the best group for you.)

Please DM myself, @astr0nomically, or @royasuka if you're interested in joining!

[missn11]

I make dumb Devilman memes again, enjoy! XD

[abuddyforeveryseason]

Now that's some good stuff.

I'm not a huge fan of Go Nagai or anything. His art's not my favorite (too rubber stamp-y for my tastes), and his manga, well... I'd like it better if it was more serious. I mean, I know they're comedies, but, I think a more grounded story ends up being more interesting, there are more stakes.

Though that's a problem I have with a lot of stuff nowadays. After all, if anything is possible, nothing is interesting, right?

Take this manga, for instance, Sukeban Boy. It sounds interesting, a boy having to dress up like a girl in a new school. But, when you read it, the comedy's way too broad, there's monsters and ninjas jumping around, so much that the plot concept itself is lost. In a way it's a bit like a Waco O'Guin/Roger Black cartoon.

Of course comedy never survives crossing the language barried unscathed.

But at the same time, for all of Go Nagai's faults, he did make manga. Like, say, Violence Jack. It's not my favorite either, but it was the inspiration for a lot of great stuff, such as Fist of the North Star and Riki Oh. Nagai's concept was influential enough that a lot of good stuff came out of it.

So, I guess what I'm saying is, even if you don't like something, it can make the world a more interesting place, later down the line. I guess.

But the coloring looks great!

[gyuocji]

HUH?????

"Quit talking like that and I'll give u a smooch" ass response

[tatsuma-forever]

[sillyzubat]

Now Jack has joined the party too! 🔪

[snailyslime]