#soryo

[undecim13ber]

[buunloon]

Mars

This doesn't embody the vibe of the manga, but I tried to illustrate my love for the intimate scenes, when rei and kira would spend their days together in the old apartment.

[strangemonochromes]

Taiyou no Ijiwaru (太陽のイヂワル) // Fuyumi Soryo

[bearfully]

No Promises - MMV MEP

Seasalt's MEP is up so I can share my part in it! The theme was taking a chance on someone or something despite fear of failure, so I wanted to embrace the runaway and renegade elements in Rei and Kira's relationship.

It...was hard! Editing Mars is hard! I don't know if I like this edit or not! But I'm happy I stuck it out and tried some new things.

Full project linked above, please give it a watch!

[leodanbrock]

this may be a long shot due to the fact that it exists in about three languages (that i know of) and also seems extremely niche, but have any of my borgias loving mutuals read cesare by fuyumi soryo? or if anyone happens across this and just loves history and has read it, what are your thoughts on it?

i picked up two volumes today and i am so extremely curious about it. this is going to take me quite a long time to get through but the art is absolutely stunning

[chocoxcaramel]

[bellilou42]

Kiki's Delivery Serivice (1989)

♪ City Lights by the Moonlight - Tomoko Soryo

[shojoandtell]

This episode discusses MARS volumes 9-15 and the prequel story, "Horse with No Name"

How many suicide attempts can happen close to Kira and Rei? How many car crashes and motorcycle accidents? Shojo & Tell host Ashley and CLAMPcast in Wonderland co-host Lucy are back to discuss the second half of the melodrama MARS by Fuyumi Soryo, and their biggest question is about whether the series accurately portrays the way trauma stacks (both Ashley and Lucy lean toward no). Ashley and Lucy share their thoughts about Kira seeming to give up her dreams to be with Rei, and so Rei can pursue his, what they wish "Horse with No Name" had been about instead, how they're glad Tatsuya made it out unscathed, and more.

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/QrTbvbGyLHI

[mangapageappreciation]

[animefeminist]

Love Him to Heal Him: Heterosexual wish-fulfillment in Mars and I Sold My Life For 10,000 Yen Per Year

Content warning: discussion of suicide, sexual assault

Spoilers for Mars and I Sold My Life For 10,000 Yen Per Year

There is a meme that recently made its rounds again on X (formerly Twitter) with the caption “the best ship dynamic.” A muscly man drawn in earthen shades stands imposingly to the left. A text informs us that he’s scarred, big, went through a lot, and tries to act tough and emotionless. To his right is a woman, endowed with impossibly big breasts, shadowed only by faint lines of blue and green. She is “just a decent woman” and has motherly vibes. In the lower half, the man lies on the lap of this motherly woman. She tells him, “It’s going to be okay.”

The romantic archetype of the scarred, strong yet secretly sad man being nursed emotionally by a female love interest is one so ubiquitous that such a meme evokes fictional examples near instantly. There are dozens of archetypes—hundreds of male characters—worth loving, but this one endures in anime, manga, and beyond. It speaks to a fantasy about “saving” this broken man. But if he gets saved, what about her? Is she saved by him from whatever sadness she has? Or does she just exist in the narrative to prop him up?

The shoujo manga Mars, written and illustrated by Fuyumi Soryu, and the manga I Sold My Life for 10,000 Yen Per Year, adapted from the novel Three Days of Happiness and published on Shonen Jump+, approach this question—the sad boy— in perpendicular angles. Looking at these series side by side, we can see the same archetype and corresponding fantasy play out in different hues for their specific target audiences, in all its glories and pitfalls.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[pekoeboo]

man. I've been reworking a lot of content involving Act II of Home Is Where You Are and like. ugh. it'd work so freaking well in novel form but I just Do Not have the dedication or the drive to start from scratch and rewrite everything that happens.

idk how else to share the updated version of that part of the story with y'all tho, considering that Khalan's journal is insanely outdated now and isn't entirely canon anymore, so I'll probably just have to accept that I likely won't ever be able to update the story for y'all in the way I wish I could. >n<;;

[buunloon]

I really like this tv filter

[strangemonochromes]

Taiyou no Ijiwaru (太陽のイヂワル) // Fuyumi Soryo

[ducavalentinos]

hm, any fans of Soryo's manga about Cesare out there? I need to know which volume a certain frame is from.

[highresshojosei]

Mars on the cover of Bessatsu Friend || January 1997 || マース

[chocoxcaramel]