#hatou manabu

[saccharinescorpion]

this scene in Qualia The Purple is not only sweet but imperative in showing just how strongly Gaku cares for Yukari because i can not think of any other reason she would be okay with having that dorky haircut

[anulithots]

If each lemon is a minute, how many whole lemon could you eat for a qna with your fav character

I like lemons. And QnAs with characters.

... hmmm.

around 10-15 whole lemons I think would be my limit.... if you're counting my really bad acid reflux then maybe 10... I'd gladly sacrifice my sanity for a QnA

and as for which character... hmm..

I think Marri Yukari from Qualia the Purple. Hatou Manabu and Cheng Xiaoshi would be close seconds

[gamesd3]

Bisexuals will literally become a thing as unto a god, beautiful and terrible in their vast and divine radiance, instead of going to therapy.

[illegitimate-sword-of-god]

Fffffuck man, I've been rolling at the Renko generator for a week and I'm on my knees with my head in my hands because I still somehow haven't pulled a Renko Usami (SSR) All I have to show are too many Sorawo Kamikoshis and Hatou Manabus

[yurimother]

Yuri Sci-Fi Manga 'Qualia the Purple' Released in English a Decade After Its Original Release

On Tuesday, June 13, Seven Seas Entertainment released Qualia the Purple: The Complete Manga Collection in English digitally and in paperback. The manga is illustrated by Sirou Tsunasami, who also illustrated the original light novel by Hisamitsu Ueo.

The publisher describes the manga:

Through Yukari’s uncanny purple eyes, all people look just like robots. Her talent is both a blessing and a curse–she’s an asset to the police, with her “skill” allowing her to evaluate humans at a glance, but her strange sight has cost her the friendship of her peers. Luckily, she does have one friend in her corner: Hatou “Gaku” Manabu, a girl at school who cares deeply for Yukari. But when Yukari is recruited to join a secret organization, the real trouble begins. Gaku is thrust into a realm of mystery, quantum experimentation, and alternate universes, with only her wits–and her love for Yukari–to guide her along the way.

The original breakthrough Yuri science fiction series was originally serialized in Dengeki Daioh from 2011 to 2013. It is an adaptation of Hisamitsu Ueo's light novel of the same name, also published in English by Seven Seas. Kadokawa publishes the manga in three volumes in Japanese.

Qualia the Purple is translated into English by Daniel Komen, with adaptation by Carly Smith and letting by Arbash Mughal.

The series is notable for being one of the first Yuri stories to include hard science fiction concepts and elements. It is a precursor to modern sci-fi Yuri like Otherside Picnic and Last and First Idol. The series is highly reviewed and well-regarded for its characters and plot.

You can check out Qualia the Purple: The Complete Manga Collection in English digitally and in paperback today: https://amzn.to/3NaC3Us

Reading official releases helps support creators and publishers. YuriMother makes a small affiliate commission from sales to help fund future coverage.

[the-yuri-librarian]

Review: Qualia the Purple by Hisamitsu Ueo and Shirou Tsunashima

Summary: Hatou "Gaku" Manabu is just an ordinary high school student when her life is changed forever by meeting Yukari. Originally strangers, they become fast friends after Yukari crashes into Gaku in the hallway of their high school, leading to an unexpected kiss. Gaku quickly learns that Yukari is far from ordinary; her bright purple eyes are extremely special, as they cause her to see all humans as nothing more than robots. This ability allows grants her many talents, including the ability to fix anything, but it also makes her valuable to all kinds of people. When Yukari goes away to join a secret organization, Gaku goes on a deadly mission to bring her back, and she will do anything to achieve that goal.

Review beneath the cut

The Good: Qualia the Purple is undeniably original and steeped in philosophy and allegory. The narrative takes its audience to places they would never expect, and with each turn, this manga gets weirder and weirder in the best possible ways. This makes it enjoyable from the get go and very difficult to put down. However, the value of Qualia goes much deeper than being a wholly original work. As the story develops, this manga subtly transforms from a quirky work about a girl with strange powers, to quite possibly the most poignant and powerful allegory for grief that I have ever experienced. The heartache the characters feel is visceral, and as you watch the characters struggle, you can't help but see the natural conclusion of their actions: a hopeless and futile struggle that only leads to more loss.

The Bad: This story relies on very complicated concepts from both quantum physics and philosophy, which leads to the characters lecturing -- internally and externally -- for pages at a time in order to provide exposition and definitions that the audience needs to understand the events of the story. Unfortunately, due to the contents of these speeches, the lectures themselves are difficult to follow, sometimes bordering on nonsensical, and interferes with the pacing of the story.

Overview: Qualia the Purple is a must read manga. it is weird, and gut-wrenching, and dense, making it not only entertaining, but also uniquely memorable and long-lasting. Gaku is an excellent protagonist; it is through her eyes and thoughts that allows the reader to lose themselves in this story and experience this wonderful tragedy that will keep you guessing to the final page.

Rating: A

[lgbtqmanga]

New Releases June 13, 2023

At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self Discovery by Shou Arai

At age 30, Shou Arai came to a realization; they had no gender. Now they were faced with a question they'd never really considered: how to age in a society where everything is so strongly segregated between two genders? This autobiographical manga explores Japanese culture surrounding gender, transgender issues, and the day to day obstacles faced by gender minorities and members of the LGBTQIA+ community with a lighthearted, comedic attitude.

The Dragon's Betrothed vol. 2 by Meguru Hinohara

Troubled writer Chiharu Izunome is betrothed to Rin, the local water dragon god. Despite Rin’s gentle demeanor, when a supernatural intruder threatens his husband-to-be, the angry deity unleashes the full might of his beastly fury, injuring Chiharu in the process! With Rin’s destructive power so clearly laid out, fear displaces the fragile affection growing in Chiharu’s heart. Can he truly learn to love someone monstrous?

Even Though We're Adults vol. 6 by Takako Shimura

It’s finally time: Ayano tells her parents that she has left Wataru and has fallen for someone else. And that someone is a woman. When the news breaks, Wataru finally gives up on trying to make things work, which means the wall between Ayano and Akari’s love has now been knocked down. Meanwhile, Eri struggles with her feelings for a married man. Is there a way out of this labyrinth for anyone?

If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die vol. 1 by Auri Hirao

When it comes to idol group Cham Jam, Eripiyo is the oldest — and perhaps only — fan of Maina Ichii. Despite Eripiyo's enthusiastic support, Maina is the least popular member of the group, but that doesn't deter Eripiyo, even though she spends so much of her money that she only has a single outfit of her own. But her love for Maina doesn't waver, even if she knows she might never be noticed for it!

Last Gender vol. 3 by Rei Taki

Welcome to "BAR California", a place where people with different genders, propensities, and sexual orientations gather to find a certain "something".

A transgender bisexual who has been hurt by the voices of others, a pansexual looking for true love, and a person who identities as both male and female. There are as many sexualities as there are people.

FINAL VOLUME

Old-Fashioned Cupcake by Sagan Sagan

A visit to a pancake shop leads to an unexpected May-December romance that breathes life into the monotonous routine of an older salaryman.

At 39 years old, Nozue lives a routine, if not melancholic, life of sleep and work. Togawa, his younger subordinate, finds it troubling and takes it upon himself to shake up Nozue’s routine. During a lunch outing, the two go to a pancake shop full of exuberant young ladies to “do what girls do,” and it’s just the thing to breathe life into Nozue. The two men start an unlikely friendship - and perhaps something a little sweeter!

Qualia the Purple: The Complete Manga Collection Omnibus collects volumes 1-3 by Hisamitsu Ueo and Sirou Tsunasima

Through Yukari’s uncanny purple eyes, all people look just like robots. Her talent is both a blessing and a curse–she’s an asset to the police, with her “skill” allowing her to evaluate humans at a glance, but her strange sight has cost her the friendship of her peers. Luckily, she does have one friend in her corner: Hatou “Gaku” Manabu, a girl at school who cares deeply for Yukari. But when Yukari is recruited to join a secret organization, the real trouble begins. Gaku is thrust into a realm of mystery, quantum experimentation, and alternate universes, with only her wits–and her love for Yukari–to guide her along the way.

The Summer You Were There vol. 3 by Yuama

At Kaori’s gentle urging, Shizuku reaches out to Ruri, the girl she bullied back in elementary school. All Shizuku wants is to apologize, but it soon becomes clear that even that won’t be so easy. Things take a dramatic turn when Kaori faints, and Shizuku learns that Kaori’s been keeping a big secret. Now, with everything out in the open, will things between the two girls ever be the same again?

Why I Adopted My Husband: The True Story of a gay couple seeking legal recognition in Japan by Yuta Yagi

As a gay couple living in Japan (where gay marriage is not yet legal), Yuta and Kyota have found a unique loophole in order for the government to recognize their union: Kyota adopted Yuta.

This nonfiction manga depicts how the two men met and fell in love, their life together for the last twenty years, their struggle to communicate their relationship to their families, their anxieties about the future, and their determination to live happily and carefree as any other married couple, while they strive for independence and equal rights in a changing cultural landscape.

X-Gender vol. 2 by Asuka Miyazaki

Covid-19 has hit Japan, and Asuka is struggling. Not only has the serialization of X-Gender been delayed due to the virus, the closure of Poker Face and other bars means they’ve lost access to their community. Can they find a way to stave off the loneliness, while also dealing with their fear of getting sick?

[tenobscure]

Slay The Princess in Death Battle (well, kinda)

Some people here may be familiar with Death Battle - animational show where authors make 2 characters from different shows/games/comisc/etc fight to the death, explaining their abilities and characters/backgroung before and the reason for one of the opponents to win after. It's 10th season has ended literally yesterday, it's a greath show if you like this kind of stuff.

So, some time after playing Slay The Princess (and being obsessed with it since) I got back into the DB, and it' all kinda mixed together, and I came up with an idea for a matchup that I now simply can't forget - Hatou Manabu from Qualia the Purple vs Princess from, well, Slay the Princess. It's just so perfect! I even wrote down the reason why:

Connections:

both are girls with powers based on perception and alternative possibilities, archiving some sort of truth at the end

both changes their forms to those from other worlds

both in their base forms are not very high-scale

both on their peak are abstract multiversal beings existing in every moment and place

both have endings where they abandon their multiversal selfies and become mortals to be with their loved ones

both have love as one of their main motivations, ready to hurt the object of their love for the greater good for them

both have death as a major theme of their narratives

Differences:

Hatou changes her forms on choice, while Princess changes based on how others see her

Hatou wants to prevent death, while Princess IS death itself

Hatou is a human who achieved godhood, Princess is god sealed in human form

But I know that those two works of fiction are two niche and they would never get an episode. And so, I remembered a simple principe - "if you want it done right you should just do it yourself".

So now I'm making my own episode. Khem-

And with all titanic depth of my feelings toward Slay The Princess, I shall make this happend, and shall this episode be the best it could, no matter how many time, work and blood it will take, so that I may express my love for our beloved!

Khem.

So, anyway. Here's the progress for a first week of development:

- I found a person to be a second writer (and potentially second host). By this time we got somewhat of a main idea for how the battle would go, and I've even pitched some ideas for specific scenes.

- After getting some experience with organization of an art-collab I'm hosting at the moment (more like I got hit in a face by reality, but whatever) I decided to take more time in organizing things and making storyboards. It would hopefully make the result less messy, but would take more time because of other stuff I need and want to do.

- On note of music, I have a good friend who could write it, although he could be busy. So there are a few ways: we can use some free music, we can hope that my friend could write music for us, or I could speedrun music theory myself.

Think I will post updates onces in a week or two

Oh, and as bonus - a little sneak peek into some storyboard.

Thanks for reading.

Update: right in a day I was writing this text I foudn out about DLC... it seems curse of Death Battle* has it ways even with fan works * meme in the community, appeared because of how many times after announcement/release of a new episode one of the combatants/series featured in it would get an announcement of new content that could change the results

[orangelemonart]

“I act now in imitation of light.”

Qualia the Purple

[yurimultiship]

Qualia The Purple

In this 3 volumes manga adaptation of a Japanese SF novel, we follow the lives of Hatou Manabu as she desperately tries through space and time to save her friend Marii Yukari, a girl who has the pecularity of seeing people as robots, amongst other powers.

The first volume starts with an accidental kiss meet-cute and develops the budding friendship between those two, making us discover Yukari’s powers alongside Manabu.

The second disrupts the statu quo with Yukari’s disappearance and the introduction of some quantum physics through Manabu gaining a power of her own, that lets her interact with parallel universes, giving her the capacity to search for a safe future for Yukari. The third volume further develops that idea, to some really impressive and surprising lengths, before concluding the story.

Whether their relationship at the end is romantic stays a bit ambiguous but it can certainly be read through such a lense, especially given what happens in other timelines and the fact Manabu canonically has relationships with both men and women.

Her realizing her possible bisexuality happens when another self contacts her to say she’s in love with another important female character in the story. It comes with some internalised homophobia in a comedic tone that bugged me a bit (her getting ‘comedically’ angry and repeatedly calling the other a “deviant”), however I did like that the other self made her question the nature of her relationships with the three other main female characters of the story. It brought the possibility of her getting into relationships with any of them and she has pretty interesting interactions with them all so that’s pretty nice to open that door!

Alice is the character we see getting explicitly into relationships with Manabu in different timelines and those can get pretty messed-up. With Alice being a younger genius who is very much linked to the separation between the two protagonists, the reason Manabu gets close to her isn’t always out of pure love but often to use her for the benefit of her goal.

The power that Manabu gains really twists her perspective and lead her to do some horrible things all for the purpose of saving Yukari, as she becomes over-fixated on it. This evolution is really interesting (and creepy!) to follow.

Comparison has been made with Madoka and Homura’s relationship in Puella Magi Madoka Magica and it’s a pretty fitting one, with the “time travel” and obsession in saving someone that seems destined by fate to always perish. Though Qualia obviously goes at it in a very different way and within a different genre, as well as the characters not having the same personality at all.

I found the conclusion pretty satisfying.

While we’re pretty focused on Manabu’s perspective, the relationships between the other characters also get enough context that I think they can easily be shipped. Alice and Yukari get very close, as two geniuses who see the world pretty differently from everyone, and Yukari’s fraught relationship with her first friend, Nanami, is also very interesting.

[my-queer-collection]

New License: Qualia the Purple by Hisamitsu Ueo and Sirou Tsunasima

Seven Seas Entertainment acquired the license to the light novel and complete manga collection for Qualia the Purple by Hisamitsu Ueo and Sirou Tsunasima.

Through the uncanny purple eyes of Yukari, all people appear to her as robots. Her talent is both a blessing and a curse. She is able to assist the police in sizing up threats, since her “skill” allows her to evaluate humans’ quirks and physical capabilities like cataloging the parts of a machine–yet her strange sight has cost her the friendship of her peers. She does have one friend in her corner: Hatou “Gaku” Manabu, a girl at school who cares deeply for Yukari. When Yukari is recruited into a secret organization, the real trouble begins. Gaku is thrust into a realm of mystery, quantum experimentation, and alternate universes, with only her wits–and her love for Yukari–to guide her along the way.

Title: Qualia the Purple (Light Novel)

Mangaka: Hisamitsu Ueo and Sirou Tsunasima

Price: $14.99

Planned Release Date: November 2022

Title: Qualia the Purple: The Complete Manga Collection

Mangaka: Hisamitsu Ueo and Sirou Tsunasima

Price: $21.99

Planned Release Date: June 2023

[devilfromthestars]

One of the things I want to draw

Brax in a time loop, except that it’s his own making. Like Edge of Tomorrow. 

His future self tells him to reset every time something gets fucked up, which if done constantly, is basically a loop. Game over, restart, game over, restart. 

I’ve read ‘Qualia the Purple’ and I think Braxiatel is living in a life much like Hatou Manabu. Reset, reset, reset. 

Everything is like a written play and Brax can only feel superficial feelings about the world around him.

[random-things-y-know]

Manga: Murasakiiro no Qualia

By: Hisamitsu Ueo (Story), Shirou Tsunashima (Art)

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Shoujo Ai, Shounen, Tragedy

Description: “Hatou Manabu has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger. However, Yukari insists that the things she says she sees is true, and her vision seems to give her insight into the abilities of others. Manabu thinks she’s just weird, but she soon realizes that Yukari has unexpected talents. Her eyes allow her to view the world in a different way, and even the police come to hear her insights. Eventually, her eyes also get Manabu wrapped up in dangerous plots, and force Manabu to not only step up and take a much more proactive role in her own life, but also to question what being a human or a robot actually means.”

Status: Completed; 18 Chapters

Personal Thoughts: I remember hating some parts of this story (including the ending) but still love it at the same time...

[thecomicon]

Love Transcends Time And Space In Qualia The Purple

Qualia The Purple is a SciFi romance manga written by Ueo Hisamitsu and drawn by Tsunashima Shirou. The following pages should be read from right to left. Marii Yukari sees the world differently. She sees living beings as robots. This gives her an uncanny ability to fix machines and even upgrade humans as if they were machines. To help understand how Marii Yukari feels, her friend Hatou Manabu…

[athousandblueshells-blog]

Finished reading Murasakiiro no Qualia. I feel like my brain is in a knot. 

[yurimother]

Classic Yuri Sci-Fi Story 'Qualia the Purple' Released in English

On December 13, Seven Seas Entertainment published Hisamitsu Ueo's seminal Yuri science fiction light novel Qualia the Purple (Murasakiiro no Qualia) in English under its airship imprint. The publisher will also release a complete omnibus of Sirou Tsunashima's manga adaptation in June 2023.

Seven Seas describes the light novel:

Junior high schooler Marii Yukari sees all humans, aside from herself, as robots through her vivid, purple eyes. Yet even with such a strange perspective on the world, her classmates treat her like an unassuming, strange girl, including Manabu “Gaku” Hatou, her sole friend. Yet strange things start occurring around Yukari, and when she is recruited into an underground organization due to her unique talents, Manabu finds herself tangled up in a realm of dangerous experiments and quantum physics unlike anything she could have ever imagined! Yet is her friendship with Marii enough to save them both from whatever awaits them in the scientific underbelly of the world?

Qualia the Purple was initially released in 2009 under Kadokawa’s Dengeki Bunko label. The series is notable for being one of the first Yuri stories to include hard science fiction concepts and elements. It is a precursor to modern sci-fi Yuri like Otherside Picnic and Last and First Idol. The series is highly reviewed and well-regarded for its characters and plot.

Sirou Tsunasami, who illustrated the original light novel, created a manga adaptation of Qualia the Purple. The manga was serialized in Dengeki Daioh from 2011 until its conclusion in 2013. Kadokawa publishes three volumes of the manga in Japanese. Seven Seas will release the full manga series in a single omnibus volume, Qualia the Purple: The Complete Manga Collection, on June 13, 2023.

You can check out Qualia the Purple in English digitally or in paperback today: https://amzn.to/3YYwjC3

Reading official releases helps support creators and publishers. YuriMother makes a small affiliate commission from sales to help fund future coverage.