I've wanted to gush about this topic for a while and i have no organized thoughts but a lot of feelings i need to get out. First and foremost being "Holy shit this manga is so damn loud" which is a weird feeling to have since manga is generally understood to be a silent medium.
And yet the Mangaka MokuMoku Ren has filled their work to the brim with sound. Now comics using onomatopoeia (words that echo a noise ie: crunch) is nothing new the sound of a fist hitting it's target and walls being wrecked is nothing new. But usually onomatopoeia is worked into whatever action is resulting in the noise
adding both a sense of motion as well as sound. Which is what makes The Summer Hikaru Died's use of it so unique and compelling. To utilize onomatopoiea you have to give up on space that could otherwise be going to deatil work in the background or foreground. Now this is fine with smaller unobtrusive effects like Wolverine's claw extending, and there's numerous example's where a sound will take up large portions of the page to show how loud something like a bomb going off is. But i've yet to see another comic western or otherwise so consistently use this facet of the medium to instill such claustrophobia and dread. As a slower paced horror manga The Summer Hikaru Died builds it's suspense mostly through atomosphere, the supernatural happenings weighing on the surrounding evironment until they break the surface
The use of sound is heavy, it's harsh, it's a vehicle to show how wrong things have gotten from the whisper of "it's coming" heard in the ringing bell of a train crossing to the omnipresent call of birds, bugs, and frogs that pushes in on the paneling shrinking the world with their cacophony.
the way sound shrinks the world making reader and character both feel suffocated by the drone is matched by how the manga uses silence as a way to make the characters feel exposed and vulnerable. the page is now empty of distraction the world of the story on full display and it still feels wrong it's agorophobic, at least amidst the din there was some sense of anonymity being just one voice among hundrends.
even the speech bubble feels out of place as it wanders off desperate to fill the space. The manga is full of these moments of sound and silence in some dance with eachother always too much or too little, never comfortable. It adds a lot to the horror of the manga, and is just one part of many that makes The Summer Hikaru Died such an excellent manga, every chapter I can feel my skin crawl as the setting becomes more hostile to the charactres while they uncover more of the truth of their circumstances.
i know i am on record as the biggest ‘buck’s blood kink enjoyer’ around but honestly buck’s puppy play thing is so infinitely special to me. i really think being eddie’s puppy would fix him.
Created this abhorrent Striker variant in some ChemJet 185MM fume-induced fugue state last night. Sent the specifications to inspection, apparently. By the time I'd gotten there, I'd apparently gone completely nonverbal, and just sorta mumbled at the desk staff, slapped the necessary papers on the desk to get it approved, put on a welding hood and left. I woke up later with a light tank in my garage and no recollection of why i have several Guardian ECM computer components in my hands and a mostly completed custom Striker in my garage. Fun times! Taking this out dune-riding in a hot minute. Gonna go grab a hotdog or two on the way there cause there ain't shit in my body except whatever was in there from last night.
Was joking with some friends that if you beat 101% of the game you should unlock a crop top outfit that redoes every single sprite in the game and, well, one thing led to another and here we are. In totally unrelated news, I may attempt to learn how to mod this game when I'm less busy.
HOENSTLY I LOVEE YOUR SELFSHIP BOARDSS YOU DO FOR OTHERS!!!!! WE NEEEED YOURRR SELFSHIP IN ACTION!!! ATLEASTTT TEASEE US W THE HOT LOVER's NAME 😌🙏
omg thank u sm i rly enjoy making them (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)♡ i decided to make them ever since i downloaded this app called ‘paper by we transfer’, it’s a digital journal, it’s pretty cool! here’s what it looks like:
as for my own selfship…tbh i’m new to it, didnt know it existed until i was commissioned to make one (*/▽\*) so i haven’t quite figured out mine yet haha i’ll probably wait for the universe to give me as sign laksjsksksks but this is probably the best u can get hehe the drabble that inspired this was inspired by me so the person u see in the art, that’s me in my teens ( ˶ˆ⤙ˆ˵ )
hey teeth are spykes scars new? i feel like i havent seen them on your art of him b4 :0 (theyre lovely tho i hope they stay :])
yes they are!! i'm surprised it took me so long to add them, but i couldn't figure out how many and how they'd look until i sat down one day and decided 'just fucking do it'. im glad you fellas seem to like em because i sure do :] it makes happy to be able to draw my favorite guys with scars of any kind.