#manga muse

[tokufan400]

Anime/Manga Muses

Konosuba Darkness, Aqua, Megumin, Yunyun, Wiz, Luna, Eris, Chris, Slyvia Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Kobayashi, Tohru, Lucoa, Elma, IIulu Re:Cutie Honey Honey Kisaragi/Cutie Honey, Natsuko Aki Kill la Kill Ryuko Matoi (Junketsu version also available), Satsuki Kiryuin, Mako Mankanshoku, Nonon Jakuzure, Ragyo Kiryuin, Nui Harime Little Witch Academia Atsuko"Akko"Kagari, Diana Cavendish, Amanda O'Neil, Ursala Callistis/Shiney Chariot/Chariot De Nord, Croix Meridies Delicious in Dungeon Marcille Donato, Falin Touden Ikkitousen Sonsaku Hakafu, Ryomou Shimei, Ryofu Housen, Kan'u Uncho, Ryuubi Gentoku, Chouhi Ekitoku, Bachou Mouki, Chouun Shiryuu, Kakouen Myousai, Kyocho Chuukou Senki Zesshou Symphogear Hibiki Tachibana (also including Another Hibiki Aka Edgbiki), Miku Kohinata, Tsubasa Kazanari, Chris Yukine, Maria Cadenzavna Eve, Kirika Akatsuki, Shirabe Tsukuyomi, Kanade Amou, Elfien (physically aged up), Ryuko Sakurai/Fine', Carol Malus Dienheim (physically aged up), Saint-Germain, Vanessa Diodati Yugioh Alexis Rhodes, Akiza Izinski, Carly Carmine Edens Zero Rebecca Bluegarden DBZ Zangya, Android 21 (Good and Evil selves)

[tofixtheshadows]

Sorry but Kabru is so fascinating to me as a character, in a pure mechanical sense, because of what Ryoko Kui does with him. Everything about him is a red herring. He's deliberately introduced as some kind of rival for Laios, a party leader who is hopeless against monsters but absolutely brilliant with people both in and out of combat, and who has good reason to oppose him.

By the end of chapter 31, you might even think Kabru's going to end up as some sort of anti-villain, an antagonist with the best of intentions who nevertheless tries to foil our hero's plans. He wants to defeat the Mad Mage himself, he suspects Laios of being too irresponsible to be trusted with control of the dungeon, and his crew even thinks that Laios's party stole from them (and they're kind of right!). All signs point towards an inevitable showdown.

And then ... none of that happens.

Confrontation over the stolen treasure? Kabru is literally too smart to fall for the classic miscommunication trope and correctly decides it's not worth making a big deal of.

Kabru's deadly PVP skills? Aside from trying to take down Falin, he never fights another human again.

Wanting to be the one who defeats the dungeon? Turns out he was only doing that because he didn't think any other adventurer would have people's best interests at heart, and he's more than willing to play a support role in the whole affair.

Thinking Laios is up to no good? He really did just want to get to know the guy more. He has his misgivings, but ultimately ends up trusting Laios with his life.

Is Kabru going to get some sort of comeuppance for hating monsters and not appreciating their ecosystem? Well no, he has good reasons for hating monsters. He ends up wanting to learn about them through Laios's eyes, but he's never forced into any "Wow, guess I was wrong about them!" revelation.

Hell, even his implied ladykiller ways, which might lead you to think he'll end up being the stock "chivalrous lech" type of character, don't really manifest. He has a lot of opportunities to act flirtatiously around women, but doesn't. He's just a guy whose natural charisma makes him into human catnip.

And that's all hysterical to me, to pull it off. It's a fascinating way to tell a story. To introduce a character explicitly as a rival, potentially even a villain, and instead make them a deuteragonist. It's like a magician making a coin disappear, then slowing down their trick to show you the misdirection. "Did you see what I did there?" they ask with a wink. "The coin was in my other hand the entire time."

[blood-starved-beast]

love how the only naked tiddy jiggle fanservice we get in Dunmeshi is when Falin is a large quadrupedal chimera monster. Ryoko Kui is not beating the Monsterfucker allegations and will continue to not beat the Monsterfucker allegations.

[flxrartsstuff]

Tears in the rain

It’s really something with Levi Ackerman and listening to The Weeknd. Inspiration hit me so hard again and I kiss Levi my muse for that 🥰 Also I didn’t ever draw him with his cape and uniform before, definitely gonna do that more often.

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[verum-artifex]

Spooktober | Anime Edition | 010

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[beaulesbian]

one piece chapter 1118 spoilers

i absolutely loved the last two pages of this chapter!

luffy telling bonney to become like him, and bonney to get the future of being free! seeing herself completely free!

that's the whole deal of luffy - not only bringing freedom to people, but slowly helping them see what it means, to want to free themselves!

and it works - bonney can imagine that future, and become the most free - when luffy is most free, he's nika. so she becomes nika, too. i adore this storytelling!

we don't know how much her fighting style would be similar to luffy - but the iron giant possibly reacts to her too, the gorosei feel something is wrong, and i love that it could mean this power is not just luffy's, but maybe whoever who can get into that mindset of freedom (or like bonney adapt with her abilities) - because that's what nika inspired, "he will take you out under the sun to the freedom of the sea" (from ch. 1095).

i love it because luffy doesn't want to be the hero, or worshipped or celebrated. he just wants to be the pirate king, and this - the sharing of the power or its similarities - is something that feels so fitting for him to make happen. he won't share his food (with almost anyone), but he will share these powers to fight for his goals. he doesn't know what or who nika is, (and bonney calling him that twice now is still fun), because it doesn't matter who he is - it matter what he is, and that is free.

[caturnmoon]

Viewing myself through the lens of ✨anime eyes✨

[note-boom]

See here. BSD is a story about how all of our characters were once children. How the scars and wounds and secrets of their past will always haunt them to the present. We see it with Chuuya, Yosano, Ranpo, even Odasaku briefly, Atsushi, Tachihara, Akutagawa, Kyouka and Kenji right now, even Kouyou just a little bit. They've all overcome it or they've allowed it to consume them. And yet that brief glimpse into a past where they were young and scarred shows us once again just how human they are...every criminal, ever person, was once a child wounded by or protected from the world and doesn't that count for something even if it doesn't excuse the atrocities they commit today?

[lunaetis]

hellu hellu ! could you kindly LIKE and/or REBLOG this post if you’d be willing to interact with an independent MULTIMUSE BLOG featuring CANON CHARACTERS from various medias such as honkai: star rail, wuthering waves, fate series, final fantasy, tales of, pokemon & more ! run by a floof, awkward pupper named hina ? if you could help pass this around it’d be much appreciated, thank you !

[ RULES. | SELECTION. | REQUEST ONLY MUSES. ]

[nozoxshii]

Some (REDRAWN!) concept art for a fanfic I’ve been finally getting back into!! I decided to combine both design aspects of the Ova and Crybaby to make my ideal Ryokira for my fic!! I posted the first chapter AGES ago but plan on rewriting a bunch of it to fit with the new canon. I absolutely love these two and plan on drawing more of them soon!

[tofixtheshadows]

Constantly rotating Falin Touden in my head as one of the best examples of "haunting the narrative" I've ever seen. Schrödinger's maiden. Schrödinger's chimera. She's the saintly little sister they have to save and the savage dragon they have to slay and the girl they love that they have to eat.

They literally fridged her and defrosted her.

[blood-starved-beast]

Was wondering yesterday if Falin knew about Marcille's black mage-ness and interest in ancient magic. I imagine that since it's illegal stuff, Marcille must've had a fake major at the school to cover up for her goals/interests. Apparently not only does Falin know, she straight up tells Laios this (Chapter 57):

Laios really is so incurious when it comes to anything not-monster related. A bit of digging into what "ancient magic" entails in Dunmeshi universe would likely lead to "necromancy" or "body controlling" spells or at the very least would be ~ BANNED ~ or [redacted].

[mostlymilkwood]

y'know nothing speaks louder to the amount of money going around in the 2000s anime boom than the fact that 2006 had three yuri anime's airing, two of which were 26 episodes, and all three of them got ps2 games.

Kashimashi and Strawberry Panic both got visual novels, and that's pretty standard as far as anime licenced games goes, it's still a lot of work to make but manageable under a certain time-frame and budget.

But Simoun? Simoun got a strategy RPG! which makes sense for the content of the show itself, it's a war story (with a lot of trauma, gender, and girl kissing thrown together) but how you know people were getting stupid with money is that Simoun... Was Not Even That Popular??? Like, even in yuri circles, which are niche themselves, it's not super well known!! you're way more likely to have heard of, and possibly watched, Strawberry Panic than you have Simoun. And listen, I say this as a Simoun apologist who has a soft spot for the series but it's truly wild that it 1. got a game at all 2. was not just a visual novel.

There isn't even a dedicated witch from mercury game on the horizon but the mildly well known within to yuri watcher anime Simoun has one?? honestly? bring back the this energy of 3 out of 5 licenced games, no more gacha tie-ins or games as a service, just games that are Totally Fine overall but fun to fans of a series.

[verum-artifex]

🤍 Dynamic Duo. 🖤

[millenniumcrows]

Did a little redraw of this panel 🤍

[beaulesbian]

Something that came to my mind because of the chessboard Strawhat cover:

I mentioned before the Strawhat's relations to demons/hell/monsters and their symbolism of being in opposition to gods/heaven, but this time it's interesting how multiple Strawhats already have a title somehow related to rule or ruling pieces - but it's always a little bit twisted, that trope is a bit flipped upside down.

Obviously Luffy will become the King of the Pirates, (but even Big Mom in one of the Wano flashbacks mentioned she would become the King of the Pirates - not a queen, so this particular title is probably always King.)

Luffy just wants to be that, and not rule in the typical sense of the word, or how their world understands that title.

Then we have Zoro and his King of Hell title. (I think that's pretty self explanatory and i've talked about him before probably the most. (also smth smth, becoming the King for Luffy's and his dreams.))

Now we have Nami as the Queen on the strawhats chess board. Queen, which is the deadliest and a very important figure in chess (beside the King - and even there Oda broke the rules again - saying the 'King is the fighting piece', which usually it is not as much.) She's their navigator and the symbol of what they need to protect and how they let her move to attack in the best formations, in the most strategic moves.

We have SogeKing, who is a veeeery similar to the character of Usopp, practically the same guy. (Even on the chessboard he's with bow & arrow as the SniperKing.)

We have Soul King Brook. King of absolute slaying with his music!

We have Jimbei First son of the Sea, which sound like important (ruling) title as well.

With Sanji I don't really want to point at his family - the connection as Prince of Germa Kingdom connection, because he renounced that, but

-he did call himself a Prince all the way in Alabasta. So, prince he is, self appointed, in whatever sense he means it. (And something very fun is how he trained under Emporio Ivankov, and beat Queen in Wano, both who are also interesting characters in the case of breaking the stereotypical gender of those titles/names).

Nico Robin has one of the epithets 'Light of the Revolution', which I find beautiful. She's illuminating their journey with her knowledge, and at the same time her connections with the Revolutionary Army speaks about the breaking out of the typical roles as well.

(I couldn't think how it would be for Franky and Chopper, but they're kinda similar in the way they've altered their bodies. Franky building so much of his body, cyborg who had a dream to built the ship for the King of the Pirates; and Chopper, a reindeer with human knowledge of medicine to become the best doctor.)

Just to say that even when they're gathering these titles/names/positions, they're not meant in the generic sort of meaning. It's always looped around, broken out of the mold of how their (and ours) society views these roles. And that's what makes it their unique thing. Their way how they grasp their skills, the future and their dreams.