#perfect world

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Cat from Perfect World

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Shiptober ( illegal )

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Schöne Pfingsten 😋😋😋

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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

-- Guy de Maupassant

(Prague)

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Perfect World | パーフェクトワールド - chapter 45

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Cale : * takes Clopeh prisoner, all sorts of tortures and so on, in the end he goes crazy and ... you know.*

Lololoshka: ... YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME.

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Shoujo/Josei manga featuring a disabled protagonist

Perfect World (Rie Aruga) - During a company get-together 26-year-old Tsugumi is shocked to encounter Itsuki, her crush from high school, and is even more shocked to learn that a SCI has left him paraplegic. Slowly, they rekindle their relationship… (12 volumes, complete)

A Sign of Affection (suu Morishita) - A chance encounter on the train leads to Yuki meeting Itsuomi, a boy who goes to her university. Something about Yuki makes Itsuomi fascinated, and something starts between them, as quiet as the falling snow. (Ongoing, 9 volumes, receiving an anime in 2024)

I Hear The Sunspot (Yuki Fumino) - College student Kohei is HOH and knows he may lose his hearing entirely one day. He tries to keep everyone at arm’s length, but is unable to do so for Taichi, the classmate he hired to be his note taker. (Ongoing, 6 volumes)

Veil (Kotteri) - Depicted as a series of short vignettes, Veil tells the story of the love between a policeman and a beautiful woman through glimpses of their quiet, intimidate moments away from others. (Ongoing, 5 volumes, recieving an English release in 2024)

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Do you have a favorite book with disability rep? Drop it below! (Title and author, please.)

July got away from me and I didn't get this disability rep post finished before the month ended.

The rep listed is by no means a comprehensive list, but what I could remember. I know there are a lot of other lists out there with several of these books on them, but some I hadn't seen and wanted to include.

• Photo 2: Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert (OCD), Turtles All the Way Down by John Green (OCD), The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (anxiety, depression, and OCD)

• Photo 3: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (anxiety), Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei (anxiety and depression), Teacher of the Year by M.A. Wardell (anxiety and ADHD)

• Photo 4: Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (anxiety and PTSD), The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen (anxiety and depression), Heartstopper (anxiety, depression, and anorexia)

• Photo 5: A Neon Darkness by Lauren Shippen (depression and PTSD), The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (depression and PTSD), Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo (depression)

• Photo 6: Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan by Gaku Kaze (depression), Perfect World by Rie Aruga (spinal cord injury), Vicious by V.E. Schwab (chronic pain)

• Photo 7: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (blindness), The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (partial deafness), The Whispering Dark by Kelly Andrew (deafness)

• Photo 8: I Hear the Sunspot by Yuki Fumino (deafness), A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard (deafness and select mutism), Everything You Never Said by Jordon Greene (mutism)

• Photo 9: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (dyslexia), Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade (dyslexia), All the Feels by Olivia Dade (ADHD)

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SHOJO RECS

I feel like shojo manga's bad rep is caused by the fact that the shojo manga that was getting adapted back in the early 2000s used a lot of the same tropes... even though there was PLENTY of INCREDIBLE shojo manga that didn't have these tropes. These manga were the ones that introduced me to shojo:

Shugo Chara (which has a LOT of problems but I loved it as a middle schooler it was my first shojo manga and my second manga ever first was Chi's Sweet Home).

Komomo Confiserie (probably had some issues but I'm nostalgia-blind to it so idk). An anime for this would've been cool!

Tokyo Mew Mew (INSPIRED MY ART STYLE SO MUCH OMG)

A Devil And Her Love Song (um... don't read this one unless you're... 16+ It's good but really dark and has a lot of triggering topics). I don't think anyone has the guts to adapt this though.

Kimi Ni Todoke (got an anime adaptation but I still would like to mention how good it is)

Meteor Prince (MY PFP it's a little weird but it's such a cute series Hako is one of the best shojo protagonists EVER I love her so much!) Short but really good, if it did get an anime I honestly would love some filler!

So Cute It Hurts! (AMAZING MANGA ONE OF MY FAVS OF ALL THE TIME! DEAF REPRESENTATION AND JSL BEFORE A SILENT VOICE DID IT! I love how most of the main cast learned JSL just because one of their friends was deaf. (For the main girl it was her crushes sister, for the main male character he learned because he was accidentally rude to her and wanted to apologize. BUT ON BOTH SIDES THAT SO CUTE OF THEM. Also ptsd rep. Megumu is another one of the BEST shojo girlies of all time. She did not "fix" him she just patiently waited for him to work out his trauma on his own and supported him through it LIKE A GIRLBOSS I COULD TALK ABOUT THIS MANGA FOR DECADES AND IT WOULD NEVER BE ENOUGH) THIS NEEDED AN ANIME SO BADLY IT WOULD'VE BEEN SO POPULAR GUYS. IT WOULD'VE BEEN A SHOJO ANIME CLASSIC!!!

Voice Over: Seiyu Academy. Don't remember too much from this but I remember really enjoying it and thinking the fact the anime about VOICE ACTING SCHOOL never got an ANIME WE WERE SO ROBBED GUYS.

Young Miss Holmes. Amazing manga. The characters the feminism the absolute girlbossery that goes down in this manga. Annemarie's "GO TO HELL" will always live rent-free in my mind. (Um some trigger warnings with this one too though I don't recall a lot.) I think if this got an anime adaptation announcement I would scream.

Now these were all the ones I read in middle school (Some may be flawed I haven't read them in awhile)

And here are some other great shojo recs for you all:

Fruits Basket (duh)

Honey So Sweet (remember when I said I was fine with problematic themes as long as the story ACKNOWLEDGES that they are bad and explores them rather than justifies them. This is what I'm talking about! And as someone who has read the whole manga NO SHE DOES NOT HAVE FEELINGS FOR HER UNCLE she just couldn't imagine loving someone else as much as she loves about her family (in a normal way) and got confused. I reread vol 1 and forgot that it had that whole subplot where she rejected a guy because of that HONEY SO SWEET IS SUCH A GOOD MANGA THO-) THIS NEEDS AN ANIME.

Perfect World. The manga that made me start thinking about wheelchair accessibility everywhere I go because one of the main characters works in creating wheelchair accessible places. Anyway this was an AMAZING read I LOVED IT. I love disability rep in shojo it's *usually* really good. THE FACT THIS HAS NO ANIME IS A CRIME.

A sign of Affection. Really cute manga with JSL rep! Have really enjoyed thus far!

Kodocha: Sana's Stage. Another manga that covers problematic topics with a lot of grace. Somehow manages to balance comedy and serious stuff perfectly. I LOVE KODOCHA SO MUCH OMG. Trigger warnings in this one too though. NEEDS A REBOOT PLZ

Honey Lemon Soda. Started reading this one recently. It's pretty good thus far.

Why am I not describing the premises? BECAUSE I'M TIRED. But also you should check them out for yourselves! :) :) :)

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love it when you genuinely cant tell the gender of a character. its so special

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Baby Hamster from Perfect World

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Caleb, moment from «The perfect world»

May 17, 2023

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Notes From The Artbook | Arcane

So funny, that they based the relationship about Vi and Caitlyn, and I quote here, "about what the fans wished for" and "what they suspected/discussed". p. 78 of the artbook.

Hm weird. Why is it so wrong to s p e c u l a t e about Jayce and Viktor being more than partners. I do get the ambition the writers wanted to make the (mostly) male fans happy. After reading that part I get the feeling it is what I thought it was before: they didn't want a gay couple, visibly gay, in the show to not offend the playerbase so much. And as far as I can tell from reddit posts, they were gay characters, but not really ingame relationships. Why would I be even surprised. It's so funny to me because Studios like Larian, where you can basically bang a goddamn bear, don't bat an eye and all the characters do not have a preference (except for polygamy), which is based on their characters (Halsin being the nature is for everyone and blah) and again, it would have been a nice thing to do.

So for me the basic discussion is more the question: Why not including a gay couple, even on the sidelines? And I don't think Vander and Silco are a gay couple, lol. I mean like showing that. Or did I probably miss that? I think that was not in their mind because the writers (like Linke) are... I don't want to say they are homophobic or anything, but I do think they don't like portraying something like that. They know their audience and we all know that f/f relationship are more accepted than m/m. I guess that's why I am clinging to them. It would have been nice to see a healthy relationship, born out of companionship and friendship and not those with rapey-undertones, gay-cliché-tropes or whatever. Tja.

Like, maybe not Jayce and Viktor, but someone else with a major-ish role, you know? I think that's why I do have an issue with them a) making a fuss about people s p e c u l a t i n g about Jayce and Viktor and b). vehemently claiming they are not while others are like: interpret what you want.

So I do have to thank Overton for making a stand. I do think that, too. For example, if I draw a piece with an intention and someone interprets it differently, I won't judge. Because we all have different backstories and see the world differently. It is out of my control as an author, writer or artist what people "do" with my art after releasing it into the world (I don't speak about stealing or anything).

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