#tpn manga thoughts

[juxl25]

🦤A new edition to my shrine was made today!

I got this second hand on vinted

[rayisemo]

Red heads with green eyes are ALWAYS the BEST main character. Likeeeeee

Can we also talk about how similar they all are 💀

(Personality wise… and looks..)

[chidoroki]

me, less than an hour before midnight: oh god, oh fuck, the love day cards!!!

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[unearthedheart]

i don't understand how some people interpret norman and ray's relationship as like. this vaguely competitive thinly veiled rivalry for emma's heart. or even that theyre not friends at All and only tolerate eachother for her. like did we watch the same show??? i know our brains have been rotted by lame heteronormative 2/5 star romances but yall.

Ray did not spend six years planning an escape and literally staking his life on the escape of a guy he tolerated. i guess i understand how people can think theyre not Really friends like they are with Emma from the scene where Ray gets revealed to be the traitor. but Norman's initial thought to use Ray wasn't some plan he'd just been Waiting to use to get his rival out of the way, it was just logic. Norman relies on logic above all else as a default, which is why he needs Emma, but thats a whole other conversation. Anyways- if nothing else, the time between it getting revealed that Norman's getting shipped, and him Actually getting shipped shows just how Much they All care about eachother. Ray was willing to break his arm and get sick to save Norman, he abandoned all logic for their makeshift plan to save Norman. Not to mention Norman's little speech about how he couldn't bare to have either of them die in his place. oh yeah also all the grief when Norman realized what Ray planned to do to trigger the escape. it Is a little more subliminal in the anime though so i can get that being missed. i know i missed it the first time i watched it

[darklight-owl]

Sometimes when I talk about a thing I'm mentally ill about irl I forget that not everyone has read the source material, spinoffs and remakes, seen the stageplay recordings and movies, analyzed every single aspect of the soundtrack, or dissected the characters by painstakingly combing every scene they're in.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Owange... 🧡🍑🧡🍊🧡🥭

Had to complete my heart eyes set with the ones I had for Valentine's and Norman's birthday week.

When you're Ray and this is your canonical internal monologue about your two best friends:

(Chapter 93)

[theclearblue]

16 and 18

Damn putting me on the spot with these ones alksjflsdgl

16. 10 best animes you have watched

In no order and I probs will forget something I hold near and dear to my heart: Haikyuu, FMA Brotherhood, Fruit's Basket, One Piece, HxH, Kaguya Sama Love is War, Mob Psycho 100, Mushishi, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and yeeeaaahhhh I think it's gotta be JJK for the last spot. I gotta mention Monster/Stein's Gate/Code Geass/Samurai Champloo/NGE/Kamisama Kiss those are all bangers too. Never make me rank these lmao

18.10 worst anime you have watched

It's been awhile since I've watched anything I really hate but Darling in the Franxx, The Promised Neverland season 2, Rascal dreams of bunny girl senpai, Food Wars really went down hill, Vampire Knight (my first anime GOD), Sword Art Online I disliked but I heard it got better later on so that's cool, Snow White and the Red Hair (shoujo fans don't come for me on this one pls i'm sorry), The God of High School was kinda bad lowkey. Uhhh I guess it wasn't like, super bad imo but Re:Zero season 2 was like. not that impressive either lol. i can't think of anything else lmao

[nobodycanknowihavethisapp]

Something in TPN that I have heard NO ONE mention is the symbolism behind Ray's attempt, self immolation has been used as an act of nonviolent protest for years, the definition of self immolation is literally "sacrificing oneself by setting themselves on fire usually for religious or political protest or martyrdom." My personal belief was that Ray wasn't so much suicidal, as in he wanted to die just to end his own suffering, but to make a final statement, he said himself that setting himself on fire was going to be an act of intense protest, waiting until he is the top product and ripping it away from them before they can get it, making one last sacrifice before they're taken to freedom, basically a huge "fuck you" to the farms and his mother who he served acknowledging the horrors of what the plantations did. The most famous instance of self-immolation is by Thich Quan Duc during the Vietnam war, he set himself on fire in an intersection on the streets of Saigon during a protest against religious and discrimination and political oppression.

[cookie-fox]

I've finally finished reading The Promised Neverland.

With college behind me I was finally able to make some time for reading and I'm typing this up just after finishing volume 20. With how awkward the pacing had gotten I was worried about TPN ending on an unsatisfying note but the last couple arcs were more than a pleasant surprise. I even thought the ending was pretty good. I totally understand why it's divisive but I really like the bittersweet note the story ends on. This series was a fantastic read from beginning to end despite some of the rough patches. I'm glad my first manga series was this one. I really enjoyed reading the commentaries at the start of each volume and seeing the different side-stories, concept art, and doodles between chapters.

I've got more to say and things I want to go in more depth about but that's a post for another time.

[questiontocertaintyofreality]

I watched children full of dreams in the garden of the House. I realized they were like this from the very beginning when I opened my eyes, I saw the crumbs of reality and dreams disappearing in the grass as the light faded into the dark sky, illuminated by a melody. They became the sacrificial sheep who deceived themselves in the life they were promised

-Ray headcanon quest

Ray while watching a little soul going to die with dreams

Relatable

I think Ray's thoughts were like this when he decided suicide. I watched pure childs die years and year

[frozentothetouch]

if tbhk got a reboot, can tpn? please???

[graphx]

”you know how bad it is that you're wishing the five year old was shot and put into a coma?”

IM DYINGGGGG

😐🤨

Riiiight, okay.

[chidoroki]

May 16th - Happy Birthday to Vanessa Enoteca

(with one Vanessa from almost every chapter she appears in)

[unearthedheart]

there's something incredibly healing about this

[darklight-owl]

So I read the Sonju and Mujika light novel chapter-

[matilsabell]

HAHAHAHA SO TRUEE

duality (problems) of a TPN artist 🎭