#ishdaj reads csm

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 4-6

Hehe

I remember seeing a tweet about how this scene had him singing about unions, but they removed it in the anime. It doesn't appear in this version I'm reading though. Maybe I'm reading the wrong one?

:O

The expressions kill me.

On to Chapter 5

"A certain level of absurdity" 💀

Just taking note of this for future comic paneling. I like how this page switches from flashback/exposition to present, in two columns.

This too, this speech bubble panel zooming in. Cool cool cool.

Hehe

Power visibly scared by Makima. 👀

Character assassination 😭

Power's really more visibly terrified of Makima here than in the anime I think.

Also haha Denji's >_> face.

On to chapter 6

>_>

You two are already bros by the end of season 1.

Highkey love this panel.

And this one. Creepy.

Ok actually pausing the read here for now.

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 17-22

Continued from the previous post

It's really cute how comfortable she is with him now.

How quickly she appears in front of him is funny.

Also Denji's face watching the encounter lol

Not him actually considering it

Kobeni breaking down while Power's :D is so funny when Kobeni and Arai are drawn in intense detail and Power's just like this.

Such a great panel.

Rad design.

And paneling. Ugh so good.

On to Chapter 18!

More stressed Aki than usual

Loove how the hand is drawn between panels here.

;-;

"The audacity"

He's just so annoyed

On to Chapter 19

The design is very Corinthian (Sandman)

Nice seeing more of Kishibe in the Himeno flashback.

It's so sad lol.

On to chapter 20!

Getting close to where the anime ends.

Ahhhh, Madoka. Biggest chad of the CSM universe (that I currently know about)

Huh, I remember the anime saying something about how the other fiend was too reckless/dangerous. But aww, it's scared. I wonder which one it was.

I love him

:D

Get away from him u creepy lady.

That braincell's doing some heavy lifting.

Don't mind me just screenshotting every instance of Madoka I come across. Aki's pretty and all but we stan a man who knows when to resign.

That puke panel is awful : D

I like how flashbacks get a black gutter/background now/

:((

Night at Himeno is just as disturbing as in the anime!

Makima's giving surprisingly solid relationship advice. I know she's evil and just manipulating him but the chupa chups scene was cute.

The alliance is formed!

His face >:]

I did not realize I was at the end of Chapter 22. Makima's 'dead' 🙄

Pausing liveread here for now!

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 1-3

I like the foreshadowing in this panel. And how Denji looks more 16 in here compared to the anime where he looks more... buff?

Also really like these, with the blood and arm going across panels.

This flower is also suspicious >_> People keep saying there's plenty of foreshadowing throughout the manga so I'm going to keep an eye on it.

Low quality faces like these are cute.

her >_>

Okay we're on to chapter 2. Seems to be following a 1-chapter-1-episode format so far.

Hehe low quality faces

Huh, first non-anime content. Makima's more blatantly an asshole here. And it's nice seeing Denji having slightly more self-respect in line with that.

He run.

That's a cute devil. I sure hope it's not secretly violent or hostile.

AH

Love the expressions. Taking notes.

Manga Denji is way more endearing than anime Denji was at this point in the story.

Dammit Fujimoto.

Aand we're back to Denji simping and that hilarious udon-feeding shot.

On to Chapter 3.

Ooh worldbuilding.

First sighting of babygirl. Glad to see the dead-eyed stare was source-accurate.

Makima really gives me Haruko Ichikawa character vibes. Affably evil to the core.

More quality Denji faces.

Totally not ominous.

Yup. That's it. That's the chapter.

Stopping here for now to continue working on commissions!

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 14-17

Thesis proposal just got approved :'). To celebrate, a few more chapters of CSM.

I haven't really been paying attention to chapter titles but this is funny knowing what happens.

Every close-up on Aki's eyes kills me. Mans so stressed.

Blessed page.

I really hope we find out what happened with the prank lol.

Himeno my beloved

This is cute seeing him learn about relationships if we remove the context of who taught him this, and how.

Mans resolve quickly crumbles tho lol

;-;

Kishibe sighting in the flashback!

Once again love this paneling.

Do captions like these continue for the rest of the manga, up to Part 2? I love them.

On to Chapter 15.

Such a cute cover.

Sorry captions but the first thing that comes to mind is that breakdancing cat meme.

Love Himeno's expression and the Aki peeking from the corner. And the angle of this is cool.

Actually this whole page is cool and really good flow of action I love it.

Happy power :)

Man I love Himeno. Cheerful but also really pragmatic.

Kobeni 😭

Also this conversation just continues in the background while Arai is discovering the spacetime loop and I love it.

Once again really great composition, there's Arai on the stairs as the first thing the eye falls on, distinct against the lighter bg, but Denji and Power are also set off from the other members who are wearing black in the foreground.

She's just like me fr

His finger going over the speech bubble is great hahaha

Himeno 🥺

Mood.

On to Chapter 16.

Aw is he actually concerned?

>:D

On to Chapter 17

Really like this panel.

Denji just squaring up like :|

So cool. Also I don't think anime ghost hand had an eye, did it?

Huh, more lore!

Tumblr isn't letting me upload more images so I'll continue this read in another post.

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 26-28

Continued from mid-chapter 26 from the last post.

The manga-readers were right this shot was way more terrifying than in the anime.

Them! They were cool. I hope they appear again in the manga.

>_>

On to Chapter 27

Hello Hydraulic Press Devil

The paneling.

Okay last one, Chapter 28.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Panel bg switching to black halfway to cut to the flashback is cool.

Snake is so cooool. So is Kobeni going 🧍‍♀️

slay queen

Notes:

how the gunshots hitting swordguy are drawn, impact ripples(?) in light

low-quality kobeni in the background and how cleanly she's framed behind sawatari

kobeni herself colored as background/midground while her gun and hand are highlighted

Suuuch a great page and such a great panel.

Madoka 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I am definitely going to draw fanart of this guy at some point. It's basically this comic. I'm a simp for guys with good work boundaries.

💖💖💖💖💖

Makima also has a huge panel with her creepy smile in this page but I've elected to ignore it and take Madoka screenshots instead.

Go king

I guess that's the last we'll ever see of him in the manga. Farewell, dear random side character.

Very memeable image.

That's the end of Chapter 28, and this liveread. Getting closer and closer to where the anime ends ;-;

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 7-10

Made good progress on comms today! Sneaking in a chapter or two before I sleep.

Well the cat looks more stressed in the manga lol, that's nice.

Really nice framing/composition on this one.

Power flashback time!

It's a shorter sequence than in the anime so I appreciate Mappa for showing more Nyako/Power moments.

I like this page too. Sudden Bat grab feels abrupt. Or maybe it's just my anime experience coloring that feeling.

Noting this too, the takeoff being shown by just the roof shattering.

(Idk if all the things I'm pointing out are usual shonen manga conventions but I've read like 3(?) Actual Manga*, so bear with me here as I take down notes.)

:U

Man I really like how flashbacks are done here.

Okay on to Chapter 8.

After reading in the infinite scroll webtoon format for so long seeing paneling like this is such a visual treat.

He's so shocked 😭

I love protagonists who don't give into villain philosophizing.

Okay Chapter 9 now.

Oh so here's where the montage of Power and Nyako come from.

Lol such a weirdly-romantic-looking shot

Hahaha

Dude really got a glow-up in the anime. Why'd they make him more muscular? Fanservice?? I haven't seen a single Denji simp.

These close-ups of Leech's face are killing me. She's just 👄

:D

HYPE

HYPEEEE

Woah fox's design is cooler here. Especially how she's half phased-in and you can see parts of the background through her.

So cool how the eyes are the last to vanish.

Cat being pretty chill with all of that happening is source-accurate too lol.

Okay that's it for this liveread!

*The only other manga I've read are Saiki K, Houseki No Kuni... and Spy x Family. The composition/paneling of CSM really stands out compared to those three so hopefully I can Absorb that and apply to whatever future comics I make.

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 11-13

:)

Mans so stressed

Aw it's the girl who had the 'pet' devil! So cute. I wish they included this bit in the anime, but I guess having the whole Aki morning routine scene is a good tradeoff.

he's so real

and so rude 😭

That's right. You're making ✨family✨

Denji's upset little face in the background.

One of the not terribly lore/plot-heavy details I'm looking forward to finding out is how Makima 'saved' Aki. And also why he's a Makima simp. Sis is terrifying.

A CARROT.

I don't know if this is just a translation thing but "made that vegetable" is such a Denji thing to say. And I also love how much he respects farmers.

>:( >:(

Panels like these really remind me of Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell.

On to chapter 12!

:O

"No getting away from Makima" 👀

D:

Getting to read the dialogue in this part is fun lol. Ahhh, paperwork.

Ignoring the fact that he's talking about boobs, this is a mood.

Makima handholding scene is just as unnerving as it is in the anime!

On to Chapter 13.

There's really this vibe that she's talking to him like he's a kid. Which he is. Which makes everything that happened a few pages before creepier.

:((

Gun hit Japan for 26 seconds and killed tens of thousands? So the fact that they're trying to track it down probably means it's either not running (flying?) around, or is avoiding populated places. Really curious how snake girl managed to make a contract with it.

Me listening to someone infodump about their superpowered OCs

;u;

I hate how they have veins. Cool design, but I haaate it.

Ohhhhh the reveal that it's him happening way after the convo with Makima and the flashback is neat.

Stopping the liveread for now. Looking forward to the hotel arc!

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Been busy moving back into my college dorm for the past week (which is a signal dead zone >_>) and had to deal with a ceiling leak but finally got proper wifi installed + the ceiling fixed today!

Csm liveread continuing soon + more wildbow art on the way :D

(I'm contributing art to glowspider's wormblr sexyman tournament btw so watch out for that)

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CSM liveblog - Vol 1 Ch. 23-26

Today's sponsor is the chainsaw man thread in the Trese discord :')

Suuch a good cover.

Aki's really always like 👁👁 isn't he. I guess the thousand yard stare's realistic considering his childhood (or lack thereof)

Madoka sightings <3

:)

Fox devil my beloved

:(((

Oh this panel slaps.

On to chapter 24.

Yessssssss

Furiously taking down notes for action sequences

Also how cool is it that curse's finger comes from out of the panel

I thought the anime did its own thing but even the lips whispering ominously in the darkness is from the manga. Beautiful.

I liked the slow pan through Curse's spine the anime did though.

We're not even at the peak of this man's suffering and yet he has already suffered So Much.

As much as the Pactposters here have compared Blake to Denji. Aki feels more Blake-ish considering the level of suffering he goes through.

(Bopin if ur reading this go read Worm so you can read Pact too >:( )

The utter lack of background in these panels make them more intense. I love.

It's really funny going from HNK where author notes are like "I got a PS5 :)" and then going to CSM where the equivalent seems to be these excited captions narrating whatever's going on in the page.

On to Chapter 25.

Immediately hit in the feels by this cover. What the hell Fujimoto.

Stylish and practical! (I am trying to distract myself from the pain)

Ooh! This part of her monologue wasn't in the anime. Fujimoto keeps hurting me in new and unexpected ways and I expect he will continue to hurt me more. :')

Even the way he puts consecutive panels like these on different pages, on different spreads, is really smart and makes for great timing (sobbing)

It's really cool getting a closer look of Snake's design since it went by too fast in the anime (weeping)

;-;

Denji is back! My boy!

On to-

They sure are Fujimoto.

Panelling 👌

love how he depicts speed

he's been barbered 😔

And now it flashes across all the dead devil hunters.

And we're back to Makima.

Continuing on the next post I ran out of images