#manhua = Chinese comic

[taomubiji]

The Iron Triangle in the Restart Comic

[the-astral-express-archive]

[RAW] Honkai: Star Rail CN | Promotional comic strip for the "Argenti" breed of rose from the Beijing Academy of Garden Sciences collab

Artist: Inkmo

[xin-zhan-xxx]

Xie Lian: Why do you guys feel the need to fight all the time? Say something nice to each other and make up right now.

Feng Xin and Mu Qing:

Xie Lian: At least say ONE nice thing about the other person.

Mu Qing crossing his arms: You go first.

Feng Xin with a sarcastic smile: You’re really good at cleaning. I admire your extreme skills, haha.

Mu Qing: YOU LITTLE SHIT-

Xie Lian: Hey, that lasted three seconds longer then when we tried this yesterday.

[diamondnokouzai]

posters on r/otomeisekai are inventing racisms faster than the human mind can comprehend

[apollolewis]

I started reading what I thought would be just a typical romance that takes place in ancient China. I’m like 20+ chapters in and turns out it’s basically an Isekai involving a reborn businessman who is trying to take over the fashion world of ancient China, who also happens to be in a romance with an imperial prince. You never quite know where webcomics will go

[meiryen]

La concubina del Faraón

Bonus:

Bai Mo Tao

[nolee24]

Steel rose (2000-2004)

[random-anime-obsession]

ABSOLUTE DEVASTATION

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @woshibai @woshibaii 我是白 Woshibai (Shanghai, China). Snippet from 20 km/hr, an edition which is expected in Spring 2023 from @drawnandquarterly. Felines are not the major theme of this underground comic, but I appreciate this representation of a tiger.

[heavenfalling]

He is so pretty ♡ᜊ♡

Source : unabiding to the husband's virtue

[floatyhands]

So, instead of being productive, I decided to check out the first issue of the 1980s wuxia manhua series Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by Hong Kong comic artist Ma Wing-Xing. It's nominally set in early 20th century China and the USA, and follows the exploits of Hua Yingxiong/Hero Hua (yes his name, 華英雄, literally means Chinese Hero), a martial artist dude and blacksmith's son who possesses the heirloom Blood Sword/Crimson Sword (赤劍), called so because it gleams a dazzling crimson red once it tastes blood.

This opening issue involves him avenging his (very badass in their own right) parents by fighting and slaughtering the greedy tycoon and the (perhaps a bit cartoonishly racist) western imperialist who killed them, then becoming a wanted man and fleeing to the US, meeting cool villains and really cool allies along the way. Oh, and fighting sharks and meeting a guardian water god.

(That other guy is NOT the water god)

That being said, I'm not sure I'd... recommend this to anyone. Not until I understand it better anyway. The aggressive Chinese patriotism might have had its place back in the 1980s, but its treatment of the topic of racism is pretty questionable. I know it's basically a given at this point that any Chinese martial arts story which features foreigners will inevitably result in an arrogant foreigner underestimating the hero (usually for being Chinese) getting the lights kicked out of him by said hero, proving that Chinese martial arts is thus superior after all, but the emphasis on avenging national pride, means we get a black antagonist (長人, "Tall/Long Guy") behaving exactly like the pure evil white ones and assuming he's physically and culturally superior... Except he's also extra threatening because he's Really Tall and Long-Limbed. At least he actually fights honorably, unlike some of the white villains? There's some outdated racial language as well. Then again, with a title where the hero is literally named Chinese Hero, I'm not quite surprised, so if you do read, do so with caution.

[jadenerd]

Historians would call them really close friends

[apollolewis]

There’s a concerning amount of manhua i started reading thinking it was a normal historical manhua only for it to be like “We’re actually an Isekai”. They should have mentioned it in the summary or I need to start reading summaries better

[moony-rabbit]

Someone please ask me about my profile and header pic I'm getting desperate to ramble about SDIP

[theg0ddesspersephone]

Would anyone be interested in me dropping a manga recommendation that I’m currently reading every once in a while? I’ll post a couple basic pictures and a short synopsis of the manga

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

is there a way to experience arknights that doesn't involve playing a gacha game? i kinda wanna see what it's deal is the girls in it are really hot

Yes there is!

There’s an online tool that lets you read the visual novel story sections: https://akgcc.github.io/cc/story.html. It lets you read the main story, event side stories, operator records (mini stories focused on specific operators), it even has modules (upgrades to operators that cost a lot of resources but also give you a short story blurb when you unlock them). It usually takes a bit for new stuff to get added, so it can’t really let you read along with the current ongoing events (unless you can read Chinese, the CN server is 6 months ahead of the global server and I think the story reader gets updates for their stories but I haven’t checked, it might just be the ones on global).

There are 2 8-episode seasons of an Arknights anime covering the first 2 parts of the main story. They’re called “Arknights: Prelude to Dawn” and “Arknights: Perish in Frost”

There are a handful of official manhua covering various groups of characters, including one for the main characters at Rhine Lab (American science company with a lot of well meaning characters working for a flawed corporation with ethics issues) and one for Blacksteel (the mercenary group with Franka, Liskarm, Jessica, and Vanilla, who I’ve been posting a lot about. The new event side story is about Jessica so that’s why. The mangadex fan translations of this one were tagged as “girls love” and then the official translation made it even gayer, highly recommend for foxgirl dragon girl yuri). As well as a few others. There’s even the mostly lighthearted Rhodes Island test kitchen series about different operators making different foods from their cultures and backgrounds and stuff, it’s very cute. Official translations are here https://www.arknights.global/comic but for the ones that haven’t been fully translated you can usually find them fan translated on mangadex.

Speaking of mangadex, there are also 2 other comic/manga/manhua things you can read. There is the light hearted 4 panel series “Arknights Operators!” that has short, usually comedic, comics about various operators and their lives on the Rhodes Island land ship. I don’t think it’s explicitly canon (it has a gag about Hoshiguma bumping into door frames bc she’s so tall, but her “canon height” is 5’11” [no one likes the canon heights]) but it’s pretty fun and cute.

And what I think is the last thing I have the mention is the Arknights anthology manga series. It’s explicitly non-canon as the comics are all made by guest artists, but it is officially published by Arknights. It was only published in Japanese but scanlators have translated a large portion of it and it’s very good.