#manga I read as a teenager

[abbeyofcyn]

AU: what if Donnie and Raph were the only brothers who survived the apocalypse?: The sequel

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PREQUEL

Some of you already guessed a time machine 💜❤

[alicenpai]

forgotten playthings, forgotten child 🧸

Jack from my series Lost & Found Children 🤍🖤

i hope to showcase more of my ocs in 2024 hehe! im FINALLY getting around to finishing art i left to rot in my folders (the pandora hearts drawing last month being one of em). if you saw the WIP of THIS particular drawing 2 yrs ago... no you didn’t 💔

my charas are very personal to me, but tbh ive always been a bit hesitant to share their stories. over time i realized ... it’s kind of a shame to not make art from one’s heart. which is something i regret a lot year after year whenever i make my yearly art summary reflection. i'm like damn i need to make more emotionally evoking pieces!!! so i'm gonna keep going in 2024 with that in mind ❤ i have to admit, although this drawing started 2 years ago, and there's a lot i would do differently if i were to supposedly draw it now - this concept goes pretty hard.

the final drawing stayed pretty close to the original concept which im so relieved for! i think part of the reason why i left it on the backburner for so long, was the fact that i included so many details, and i was unsure of how to colour the "background". (not to mention stuff like cons & real life getting in the way).

i'm glad for discovering a really handy watercolour brush, it's helped me a lot in my last few drawings, bc i dont have to colour in each detail. especially since the witch hat atelier: eternal ephemera zine piece i did. otherwise if i coloured this back in 2022 with my usual method, i'm pretty sure i really would have included a shading and highlight layer for each individual toy... HAHAHA. much to think about

oh yeah and in the last few days of drawing this i was listening to some visual kei bands. i love how some of the band members literally have been performing since like the 90s or something and DO NOT AGE and are literal vampires. every so often i fall back into visual kei (you can tangentially thank aggretsuko although yes i know it's not the same). and i kind of realized. i like Jack's edgy design so much because he looks like. a visual kei esque vampire.

[leo-kinnie]

Yeah, got your back against the wall... say.... Where's your backbone, brother?

[youngyoo-apologist]

Regressor OG!Cale and Regressor!Kim Roksoo based off of that one Skip and Loafer panel

[tmntkiseki]

Silly redraw of a panel from the Frieren manga with Leo and Mikey because they are literally all I could think of.

[ex35life]

Chainsaw Man pt 2 spoilers!!!! Chapter 181

I want to scoop this boy up and hug him. My mama bear instincts were going nuts in this chapter.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Child abuse and the devaluing and consumption of children is a main theme in this manga. Denji blaming himself for the abuse he's received is a classic response for a child who has repetitively been told that he is trash. This is also the realistic result of "character development" when there is no one loving and responsible around to direct it.

No one who cares for Denji is there to tell him that all the pain around him isn't his fault. No one is there to tell him that the people getting hurt that he loves isn't his fault. No one is there to show him how to grow beyond his simplistic thinking or his pleasure seeking mentality in a healthy way. He knows it isn't working, but lacks the wisdom, direction and love to grow beyond it.

The only thing he knows to do is what has been demonstrated to him. Abuse. His response to seeing a flaw in himself is self abuse. His response to depression was self harm.

I truly hope that Denji grows beyond the abusive cycle. But, I appreciate Fujimoto not just glossing over what a lifetime of abuse would set up Denji to respond to grief with.

As much as I cried seeing this poor boy cry, I appreciate the realness of the writing. I hope that there is healing at some point. But I appreciate that it hasn't been magical.

[unacuentasecreta]

⟡ ┊Kimi ni Todoke - Chapter 26; Birthday

[littlefankingdom]

A crack headcanon I have is that Damian listens to J-Pop.

Just imagine the Batmobile speeding through the streets, windows down, blasting Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's music, as Robin (who neither has a licence or his father's authorization to be driving the car) is behind the wheel.

His love for J-Pop does include Vocaloid, which Tim also listens too, but neither knew about their shared interest until, one day, Damian walks in the cave on Tim humming a Miku's song to himself, while working on the batcomputer.

"Drake, are you also an admirer of her highness Hatsune Miku?"

[daily-hanamura]

[shhhsoftnwet]

Sometimes all a bad bitch want is a silly little short king 👹❤️‍🔥

[petuniapolar]

Blue lock having a character named after inazuma eleven's most iconic villain dub name wasn't on my soccer bingo

[pixxelcatt]

Starshells au but it’s that yotsuba redraw thing !!

I wanna do more things like this in my sketchbook, it’s very fun :)

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

the mask that Light Yagami slathers on while he's in public feels like it was the result of asking someone who had been isolated in a bricked-off room for several years with nothing but a TV and a collection of Afterschool specials to build a person completely from scratch. he reads like a vague imitation of a human being that's been zipped into a pretty boy skin suit. "believe it or not, Ryuk, I'm actually a pretty popular guy-" I don't fucking know how, man. easily the most impressive thing that he ever managed to achieve, and yes, that includes his Almost Successful attempt at world domination.

[devotedlystrangewizard]

the school arc to me is so good because it drags ciel out of his position as a powerful figure and literally places him in the shoes of the person he could have been. the circus arc ALSO drags him out of his position as big bad queens watch dog/head of the phantomhive estate but the school arc feels like a mockery of a future that never was. this is what he could have been had his parents not died. and even then its NOT because he will never be that kid.

he never was.

[anti-dazai-blog]

y'know, it's kinda ridiculous that dazai eventually won without much difficulty. in recent chapters of the manga, we witnessed for the first time that dazai was struggling so hard, which showed him less omnipotent than he was, and more human at the same time. but it turns out that he was making a fool out of fyodor all along!!!! he lost to the power of alliance!!!! ...excuse me? then what was meursault arc all for?

i love bsd, but there are too many things that annoy me, and the flaws of the series are rarely talked about. so im reaaally happy to see you criticizing the series. i love your blog sm, please never stop posting!! 💕

YES EXACTLY!!

Dazai’s omniscience does NOT help humanize him. All that it does is give him more accountability in everything that happens. He doesn’t get the luxury of pleading ignorance because at this point, the story has made that no longer believable. 

No matter what, Dazai knows everything all the time, doesn’t make mistakes in his plans and strategies, and is capable of anything. If this is the case, which I said it was semi-jokingly in the early days of this blog, he really can be held accountable for pretty much anything and everything happening. Which I’d really rather wasn’t the case.

One of the main themes of bsd is humanity. No one’s special or perfect, everyone’s a human being trying their best to get by. The Meursault arc did a pretty decent job of humanizing both Dazai and Fyodor, two characters who were previously shown as (intellectually) flawless, by having them struggle in their battle of wits against each other. Having both of them mess up or miscalculate in some way made them seem like real people and not just two algorithms playing chess. 

Having Dazai reveal in this final episode that he knew everything all along, everything went according to his plan, and there was never any challenge to begin with entirely defeats the purpose of the arc. What are we supposed to take away from this? That Dazai automatically wins any fight because he’s Dazai? That removes all stakes. 

Why continue watching a show if you’ve already been told that one specific character will always win—and not only that, but it won’t even be a struggle for him to get there, because he knows everything about everything all the time. 

I really, really hope that this was an anime-only ending. Asagiri can still fix this. Admittedly, bungo stray dogs has always been character-focused rather than plot-focused, so while I trust Asagiri to handle the characters better than this, I’m not really sure what to expect plot-wise. But I’m gonna hope for the best.

[estrelare]

have you guys ever thought that maybe ai yazawa did want to make hachi and nana have a romantic relationship in the end, but then her agent/entreprise or whatever wouldn't let her???? i'm thinking....