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[nightheartcomics]

Lady Snowblood by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura

Set in Japan’s Meiji era of the late 1800s, Syura Yuki cuts a path of bloody vengeance against the people who destroyed her mother’s life…

Sure, I could’ve easily bought digital copies, but there’s a thrill in hunting down these print editions and the satisfaction of completion only a collector knows.

Originally published in Japan in 1972, these 2005 Dark Horse English editions superbly reproduce the manga, keeping the orientation right-to-left and subtitling the sound effects (it’s how all translations should be handled IMO) 🤘🖤

[m0ccachina]

Hermosa edición

[pervysenpaix]

I’m so sick of people complaining about reading fucking mangas. If I don’t want to watch stationary pictures then that’s my fucking business. You fucking neanderthals.

[justfinishedreading]

A Bride’s Story, volume 4 by Kaoru Mori

This series was always good from the start but since volume 3 it’s really picked up and moved into ‘addictive reading’ territory. In the beginning of this volume we discover that Amir’s old clan is having trouble after losing land to grace their sheep, this plotline isn’t developed much but the groundwork has been laid down for future volumes. When I picked up this series I thought Mr Smith would be travelling the silk road route and we would meet new characters but ultimately they would be left behind as he moved on, I’m pleasantly surprised that it’s the opposite, characters introduced are going to be with us throughout the series, their story is not just a moment in time, we will see their story evolve as their lives do. So we get a short scene with Amir herself and then with Pariya as she struggles to behave herself during a meeting to discuss her possible marriage. The majority of the rest of this volume centres on Laila and Leily, two trouble-making twins who save Mr Smith from drowning.

As we move on to couples that are more age appropriate for each other, we now see romantic comedies and romantic dramas played out and I’m getting engrossed in these different love stories. I’m also starting to appreciate the variety of female characters that Kaoru Mori has created: Amir is kind and a good listener but also a skilled hunter and resourceful woman, uninhibited in many ways. Pariya is outspoken and brash but self-conscious of this and regretful as she struggles to keep her anger in check. While the twins Laila and Leily are free spirits, hyperactive and with a scary lack of mindfulness when it comes to other people. While Talas in the previous volume was a shy woman struggling to reveal her feelings and take charge of her life, in this volume we find out how many women have secretly done all manner of things to secure a marriage in a time where marriages were decided on by the male heads of each family, it’s an excellent example of how woman are not passive creatures when it comes to their future, even if they have to deal with a highly patriarchal society.

As always these books are also rich in history and culture of the various countries Mr Smith travels through, in this volume what struck me was the importance of the Aral Sea for the community. The Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, it began shrinking in the 1960s due to the rivers that fed it being diverted by Soviet irrigation projects, by the 2010s it had largely dried up. The fishing industry that depended on it, collapsed, the water and surrounding areas became polluted. UNESCO has added historical documents concerning the Aral Sea to its Memory of the World Register as a resource to study the environmental tragedy. For more information check out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea. A Bride’s Story doesn’t go into the recent history of the Aral Sea, it just shows the beauty of what the Aral Sea once was, and this is enough to encourage a reader to find out more for themselves, and once you do the various casual comments made by characters throughout the books about Russian and British presence and interference start to resonate even more.

Review by Book Hamster

[dionitro]

I fuckin get it girl

[wintergrofyuri]

"(blank) hates laios!" WRONG WRONG WRONG. SHUT THE FUCK UP

shuro is just as awkward as laios and it is made So clear he considers him a friend and likes him. he defends him when the canaries start talking shit and actively readies himself to physically fight them so they dont get to him.

namari also likes laios. she respects him as a leader and also defends him and readies to fight the canaries.

ive not actually seen anyone claim izutsumi hates laios, but a lot of ppl Are weird abt them. izutsumi and laios' relationship was rocky at the beginning. he struggled to figure out how to interact with her. but by the end, she actively seeks him out to talk with during the lead up to the feast. she hides behind him when falin wakes up. she has already realized shecan do what she wants and does not need to stick around, yet she does. she sleeps near him on the windowsill, waiting with him and marcille for falin to wake up. she has accepted him as part of her life and wants to keep him in it.

marcille does not hate laios. let me say this again.

Marcille Donato Does Not Hate Laios Touden.

marcille Loves him. in a platonic, familial sense. laios returns this just as readily. she yells at him. she whacks him. she tells him whats on her mind. she uses healing magic to ease his pain during the parasite fiasco. she reattaches his leg when he loses it. she teaches him magic. she lays her head on his corpse and cries before reviving him. she launches herself at him two times, when the canaries interrogate them and when he talks her down in the tower. he is a comforting presence to her. she trusts him, she cares about him, she worries about him, she imagines him as a big fluffy dog that loves and protects her. laios is her rock when falin is taken from them time and time again. and she tries to be his as well. she whole-heartedly, unconditionally, loves and trusts laios.

chilchuck does not hate laios. laios pays him his rates, no questions asked. laios trusts and respects chilchuck's job as a lockpick. laios does not see him as a child (at least, i cant think of an instance where he does so). chilchuck states, outright, he sees him as a friend and doesnt want to see him hurt. he actively worries about him as the falin situation gets worse. chilchuck respects laios. he shows almost 0 hesitation in helping get falin back, nor eating her by the end. he does not think of leaving him once, until he realizes he could lose him. chilchuck is cowardly with emotions and prefers to bottle things, so his first instinct was to bolt. he was angry because he was scared of watching someone he cares about destroy himself. laios is his Friend.

and holy shit. holy Fucking shit. kabru DOES NOT hate laios. kabru has the rockiest start known to man with him, and he Still helps him by occupying the canaries. he warns him about them. he hides the black magic from them just as shuro does. his whole Thing is trusting laios despite himself. kabru has his own baggage regarding other people, just like laios, yet he tries so hard to believe and trust this man. he Wants to. kabru is not very hopeful, but laios makes him Want to be. he states like 3 times he wants to be close to him and sees him as a friend. he stays through the entire feast!! the man who hates monsters, whose biggest trigger is monsters, actively, consciously, Willingly stayed through the entire monster meat feast. all to help his friend get his sister back. he could've left!! the feast was like an entire week!! yet he was there for every single day. he was one of the closest people to the door when falin awoke!! after reuniting with her brother, her friends, the people who knew her the most (plus senshi and izutsumi), the first person she greets is kabru!! he wants to be close to laios, he likes laios, laios is his friend and he cares for him, he wants to meet his sister!!! kabru fucking stays on the island with him as one of his closest, most trusted advisors when he becomes king!!!!! he wants to help him succeed!!!! he wants him to be happy!!!! laios is his friend!!!!!!!!

im just. people like laios!! laios is a nice guy! he is friendly and cares about people! he is weird, he doesn't understand most social cues, he oversteps boundaries, but they stay beside him, because they like him and he is their friend. he is their friend!!!!! friendship is not all sunshine and rainbows, relationships in general are not sunshine and rainbows. you will upset people, people will upset you, you will get into arguments, things will happen, but at the end of the day, the people close to you like you! they love you! they care for you! they want to work it out and get through it because they love you, but they will feel those emotions first! human relationships are complex and messy and life is complicated. even shows for toddlers know this.

if you truly believe any of these characters hate laios you are worse than a toddler. watch some fucking oobi or something. god. fuck.

take this

thanks

[thesapphiccrytid]

Falin?

[kensatou]

women………….. | DOROHEDORO

(by the way. this is noi.)

[juiche]

a moment of peace before the whole world shatters 😇

get your own print here ❤️

[nightheartcomics]

Venus In The Blind Spot is a collection of ten stories by master of horror Junji Ito. Check out those colour pages! 🤘🖤

[matchaizuku]

i’m sorry but i had a vision

[totallyoli]

laois when the dungeon meshis or something

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[justfinishedreading]

Sweat and Soap, volume 7 by Kintetsu Yamada

Warning: Some Spoilers.

Kotaro and Asako continue to adapt to living together, moving from the dating phase in which both people try to be their best selves all the time, to now always being together and trying to learn to relax and just chill in their shared home.

One of the things this series does well is introduce side characters that we want to know more about and that we’re happy to see again, enter Tsubaki chef of the product development’s cosmetic division. In the office cafeteria she happens to meet Asako for the first time and compliments Asako’s skin, part of me hopes Tsubaki is being flirty and we might get another gay character, hopefully this time openly gay in the narrative (looking at you chef Okura). She’s confident, stunning, and as it turns out, kind. Fingers crossed. (UPDATE after I wrote this review I read volume 8 and not only is there no indication of Tsubaki being gay but there’s a hint that Okura is straight… oh well).

We also meet Kotaro’s family, three wonderful people, I’d love to know more about his father who’s the quiet serious type. There’s not a toxic person in the whole series, yet everyone has their own personality, troubles and flaws. We even get a return of the foreigner who hit on Asako last volume, Henrik, giving us an opportunity to get to know him better, his personality and general attitude towards life and love -there are no villains here, and Kotaro gets a chance to get past jealousy but also explain to Henrik what Asako means to him. While the encounter with Asako was fleeting for Henrik, it wasn’t for Kotaro.

Review by Book Hamster

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SIGHHHH BSD REREAD…................I MISS THEM SO MUCH :(((