#cfyow scans

[hey-cringelord]

cfyow sketches i scanned

please note not all of them are here, these are just my faves

starting with mother aura michibane. she grew on me in volume three when she turned against tokinada and realised she’s technically hikone’s mother, even if it’s by abnormal means. a very fun and very gorgeous character.

shameless hisagi collection!! i loved his bankai, and how it was also a reflection of his soul in the take-and-give sense. the design and function of it is a good reflection of his character as well. he’s so cute without the gray stripe over his nose but he also looks very strange without it!! tosen was on the other side of the page with a matching sketch, but i don’t remember their conversation. then there’s a happy hisagi, which i believe was at the very end of volume three. scanned cus he’s very adorable and smiling for once.

my grimmkitty and kenpachi! seeing grimm so early in the series was nice, i wasn’t expecting it. kenny’s such a badass captain, i’d be interested to see how his fight with hikone might’ve ended if hisagi didn’t step in.

lastly, hikone headpats! they’re such an amazing character. unlike aura michibane, i never held a sort of grudge towards them. from the beginning i felt tokinada was confining them to a very closed off world, so i was glad to see hisagi was able to help them escape from that.

[rangikuxmatsumoto]

Ever since I watched the final episode of the last season, I can’t help but hyperfocus on Rangiku’s additional scene. Was it necessary to add? Absolutely not. Do I appreciate getting to see her, absolutely yes. Because, one, they cut the “Let’s go Matsumoto/Yes, taichou” from their emergence from the containers in the previous episode, but also, canonly Rangiku doesn’t appear again in the manga until the 10 year time skip at the end – don’t quote me but at the same time I know I’m right.*

But it was what they added that really has me in a chokehold. What point is there to show her running with Hanataro – there is none. Could her look towards Gerard be simply dismissed as foreshadowing to the future fight with Toshiro? Potentially, but why use her when she doesn’t even appear in the fight? Just to save Toshiro’s dramatic entrance to the fight? Or is going to be an added bonus in the next season, like the apparent Visored fight – cause Hiyori, Lisa, Love and Hachi do attack and are quickly defeated.

*Okay, yeah just to be sure I literally just scanned through all the chapters from the end of Mayuri’s fight, Toshiro and Rangiku’s emergence from the containers to the end of the manga – excluding the Hell Arc One Shot. AND NO SHE DOESN’T SHOW UP AGAIN UNTIL THE TIME SKIP.

So, maybe, maybe we’re going to see Rangiku fight a little, a little more tag team action would be AMAZING. And side note, Isshin and Ryuken’s appearance was highly pushed up in the anime over the manga, so maybe they’re going to actually do something as well. Oh my god, could we potentially get a Tenth Division Reunion?!

But back to my original intended thought process – could those who possess Soul King pieces recognize others with pieces. This could be why Rangiku looks towards Gerard in such a manner. Now there’s obviously a huge number of plot holes, this is just a vague thought I have been sitting here dwelling on but Rangiku is an oddity when it comes to her Soul King fragment.

She’s the only Shinigami who is named with a nail, all others (that we know of) were stated as being humans/fullbringers in CFYOW. You also have to accept the idea that Rangiku still has a piece of the Soul King nail within her – that it wasn’t entirely stolen when Aizen extracted a piece of her soul. I’d reference another headcanon that I wrote before because the Soul King piece someone holds often seems like a catalyst – without it their life is forfeit. Ukitake lives so long as he doesn’t activate his, Gerard and Pernida are living aspects of the Soul King’s heart and left arm, etc.

It's just an interesting idea that the destruction of the Soul King has sort of sent out a homing beacon to all of those who hold a piece and therefore they can recognize it in others. In the end, does this mean anything? Probably not, JUST LIKE HER ADDITIONAL SCENE.

Thank you to all of those who read to the end of my insane ramblings.

[my-my-my]

[blue-dream-rhapsody]

Can’t wait for the TYBW anime!! You guys better watch out when I finally get to see Kugo’s three lines animated, I’m gonna go feral bc THATS MY MAN 😍

[agallimaufryofoddments]

Update on Narita’s Health

I’m still not going to be able to do much tumblr related + fic related over the next several days but after the tweet I just saw from Narita I remembered I never posted an update here about his November 25 PSA tweet about his health. And...I thought I should at least take seven minutes right now to hurriedly update you guys on the status of his health, and then I’ll share the tweet I saw just minutes ago today:

November 25 Tweet

So, from what I understand (thanks to @toushindai for double-checking the tweet), the PET scan Narita got a while back revealed lymph nodes for which he needed surgery, and for a while he was seriously worried about lymphoma. I’m pleased to report that not only was the surgery successful, it confirmed that the tumor(s) were benign, and not malignant.

After explaining all that, Narita apologized because the recovery will slow down his writing process for the next few months.

Today’s Tweet (December 01, 2017)

Remember how Baccano! wasn’t the only Narita novel postponed? His anticipated Bleach novel was also delayed due to the health problems at the time... In the tweet linked above, Narita seems to be announcing that Volume II of his Bleach series “Can’t Fear Your Own World” is now releasing digitally as of Dec 1, followed by what I think is another explanation-apology about how the serious writing delay was the result of the poor health + hospital + surgery. 

(I’m very tentative about this next bit, but I...think he is also “very sorry” for the word count at present being less than the previous [novel]?)

The tweet is a follow-up of a retweet of the publisher’s promotional tweet for CFYOW II finally starting up again. I looked the publisher’s page and I think the novel will be released in installments bi-weekly on Fridays. 

So what does that mean for Baccano!’s 1935-E? I wonder. I guess it depends on how much work Narita will have to do re: CFYOW II as it releases. I’m not actually sure if this means he a) finished it in advance, b) written enough of a stockpile that he’ll have a buffer for the next few chapter releases, or c) he’ll be writing each new installment as he goes along. If I actually knew Japanese, I might have been able to pick up on more clues... 

(The reason I wonder if he’s writing it as it goes along is because he says 今の所 of the word count, and yomichan tells me this can mean something like “at the present time/currently/so far/for now/for the time being”). To me, that might imply that the “current installments” released so far aren’t as long as their Vol I counterparts...buuutt he hasn’t written all of it and the word count ‘could’ end up being longer.  

Since I, again, don’t actually know Japanese, someone else who does should/will need to get back to me on that. I’m probably not getting any of the nuance. 

Still, the fact that his new Bleach novel is finally publishing must mean that we’re inching closer to 1935-E...yeah? CFYOW II and Baccano! Vol 23 were basically his two really big on-the-horizon publications that were postponed. Fingers crossed he’ll tweet about Baccano! in the near future with info.

[missstormcaller]

Asks Answered under cut

1) I can't say I agree anon, the situation with Giselle and Bambietta is a lot more complex than you may think. There's a number of elements at play here, from Giselle's distorted view of how love works to apparent cognitive dissonance. It's not uncommon to see relationships similar to this in varying genres of manga, I don't think this is some attempt at hentai.

2) The actual chapter itself has been out since late July on the app but I'll have some time to post a translation of it today.

3) Yup, I plan to purchase the second volume too. I know DSTS has been translated already, I'm not sure if it's still available online somewhere though. In any case, I'm afraid It's been quite difficult to find time for writing up CFYOW translations recently, so I don't think I can keep on top of another novel too.

4) Yes that's right, volume 2 is set to be released in winter this year. The "hiatus" was referring to the gap between the last chapter released on the Bleach/Jump + app and the next installment from volume 2 which is scheduled to make an appearance in fall. Volume 2 will probably be more than double the size of volume 1.

5) I got mine from an Animate store for around 700 yen or so, if you're overseas and interested to buy, try Amazon.jp or CDJapan whichever one has cheaper shipping for you.

6) Because… The heart?

7) Thanks so much for your kind message, I'm glad your enjoying it :)

8) Thanks anon! Initially I tried to do it sometime within a few days after a chapter is released on Bleach/Jump+ app but work and other things has to come first so I often have to leave it for quite some time, at the moment I don't really have a timeframe to give you for future Translations.

9) You're welcome and I don't mind at all. To answer your question, nope I actually studied the language before going to my work placement in Japan, I then continued my studies with a language mentor here, and there's still many things I'm in the process of learning mostly through immersion. I'd say about 2 or 3 years with consistent study before you can get comfortable enough with SJ LNs. Even so you may come across unfamiliar kanji, dialects and idioms here and there, but you can always look them up or sometimes decipher the meaning from context.

10) The sketches? I've seen people sharing them online when the novel was out, so someone must have already scanned all of them (I'm 99% sure you would have already seen the sketches by now since I'm answering these asks pretty late)

[missstormcaller]

Asks answered under cut

1) You're welcome, there's no other novelisations that were announced aside from WDkALY and CFYOW I/(II).

2) I believe there are translations available already.

3) I don't know about any scans, I just read the text directly from the Bleach or Jump app on my phone. You'll have to download either one of these apps to see the raw text or once the novel is released people may share scans from the book.

4) Yup, the official jump app is Japanese only.

5) Ah I'll have to disappoint you anon, I'm only doing Bleach on this blog. I don't think I'd be able to find time for it either, sorry!

6) Thanks for sending me this message anon ;)