#yes I'm reading the manga now

[sadlynotthevoid]

Now, one of my favorite parts, the KiryuSaku meet-cute.

What do I mean, you ask? I'm talking about their meet-cute following an old shojo manga/anime formula.

Exihibition A, character A in danger (argueable, but his fce was in danger) gets saved by character B in a badass way, bright light/colors all around:

And you may think "but NotTheVoid, Sakura does that all the time". And yes, he does, but look at the bright colors. This scene does not give despair/crisis-relief vibes, it gives funny-ups-awesome-wow vibes. It's different, okay?

Exihibition B, character B acts like a badass and impresses character A.

And point A (because I didn't screenshoted it): after this they became friends. Which means, Sakura succesfully conquered Kiryu.

This is never not going to be funny to me.

Okay, yesterday's morning I finally finished watching the anime of Wind Breaker (I watched the first chapter some days ago, but forgot and then I watched the others the day before yesterday in one go. I was saving the last one for the morning), so have some screenshots because it was so fun.

First, the Nirei first encounter, because no one told me he was such a little shit.

[amalasdraws]

Amalassss, i was stalking the author of the formula 1 fic on tumblr and saw your art and was like “?? Woww that is really similar to amalas style” lolll then i saw that it was youuu 💀💀 you have such a distinct style!! The art turned out great! Have you ever drawn Gojo? Welcome to the satosugu side of fandom!! You asked for fic recs for satosugu right? Ill come back later with a list for you

Hahah omg I love that!! Especially since it's not colored and doesn't have one of my signature clutter bgs and you still recognized it as mine! Love it! I started the fic and binged it like crazy and now I'm in so deep! If I had the time I would draw so much fanart!! SO MUCH!!

I have drawn Gojo!! But not for the fic, and also only as some doodles. I did them some time ago to see how and if I could draw Gojo

I have some full scene fanart ideas in mind and wanted to see if I could draw Gojo and practice him a little. Sadly I didn't had the time yet to draw the full scene illustration. I want to do something with Geto and Gojo in 2006, but all is well and they are just chilling and enjoying a day together. And now I also want to draw many scenes from the Coanda Effect fic. And I don't even know F1!!! WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!?!

Send me time and energy and I'll draw all the art :D

[oheboi]

Satan as the Allegory of Astrology by Lorenzo Greuter

i have decided I will just post whatever, like I did on my old art account. woe 🫳 gay satan be upon ye

[ibijau]

if I got a nickel for every time I went to see a sport anime movie without knowing anything about the movie and while expecting to get bored, only to be on the edge of my sit the entire time because those characters I don't know shit about are just THAT engaging, I would have two nickels

which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[soullistrations]

[quietlyblooms]

it's late, but i'm back from seeing my friends and ready to fluff up this queue B) as i've been doing, i won't be on the dash much because i'm gonna try to stay focused, but i hope this day's been a good one for all of you <3

[longtimewish]

I decided that I want to be happy in the saddest way possible so I'm re-reading Noragami again! It was my fav manga for literal years, I stopped reading it around 2020 because it was making me too sad (and like, I already had enough with what was happening in my life) but I've always intended to pick it up again eventually. I somehow managed to NOT get the ending spoiled so wish me luck on this read I have no idea what is coming for me.

[angel13xo]

this is so cute 😭😭😭 omg why does nobody ever talk about this ????

[aromanticasterisms]

read through alien space for star rail context and every frame himeko's in you can faintly hear me in the bg trying hard not to think about how much she looks like diluc

[kaisollisto]

i'm just saying I think it's more interesting if exile alien bea has an x amount of time to live and grapples with is it worth living was my life worthy of life? meets ava who is need of a host (because halo is very unstable) and doesn't know how to stop running and they smooch and fall in love and bea is like take my body as a host, you are full of love and you have taught me love and I want my love to continue to live through you and my body will be able to sustain your host so take me on adventures and show me the world that I never got to see and live through. Make me love the world through your eyes so I may possess a fraction of your love for the world that has failed me. And then bea dies and ava does that and that's the end

but i hate sad endings and cannot be what I sought to destroy.

[blorboresidue]

hmmm no I am actually going to spend my entire evening reading manga<333

[iris-nonsense]

Kenjaku new head of the kamo clan! (Or they don't count as a new leader since they had already been in that position as noritoshi kamo?)

So now we have kenjaku leading the kamo clan, the zenin clan doesn't exist anymore and the gojo clan? What happened to them after gojo got boxed? Where are they? What do they think of gojo being considered a criminal? Do other members of the gojo clan exist or is satoru the only one left?

[morphogenetic]

Mediaposting 2023, #35: Banana Fish (anime)

[said while vibrating very quickly and typing out like 20 different bullet points] i like this series a normal amount

okay so. non-spoiler thoughts:

step 1 YOU SHOULD READ/WATCH THIS. it does have content warnings for literally everything you can possibly think of as needing a common content warning (drug abuse, sexual assault, racism, and thats absolutely just the tip of the iceberg) but my fucking god. no wonder it's been such an influential piece of media on literally every jp anime/manga crime story (especially the BL ones) written since

for a series that is literally one of the early genesis points of BL as a genre i was ABSOLUTELY expecting more actual BL than was in this LOL. not that i'm really upset, bc honestly i really like the way that ash and eiji's relationship is written in a shoujo-y "they obviously care about each other a lot but it's not going to be outright romance" kind of way. bc like, honestly? that makes it way more emotionally satisfying (and devastating). i think it would actually make less sense if anything more happened In the story (though more happening in the epilogue wouldnt hurt LOL)

how the FUCK was this published in a shoujo magazine

the time period change to modern day from the mid-80's has both helped and hindered this series bc like. on one hand. much easier to do everything with a phone. also the update to shorter's character design was excellent,10/10 no notes. on the other hand. the Everything About It makes it so obvious that it was written to be a product of its time.

speaking of ^ ash turning from A Guy Who Knows How To Use A Computer into a hacking genius is so. why. i mean you can update it for sure but Why Like This

god i wish this had more room to breathe sometimes bc the exposition goes WILDLY fast sometimes. why did they try and do 19 volumes in 24 episodes. the 39 episodes that the director wanted would have been so nice to have

that said: the emotional moments that i actually give a shit about and that make up the core of the weight of the story are given what they deserve. at least up to volume 5 they are. gestures at ep 9? and 22 with a pained smile

i literally could write an essay about why it works so well as a spin on the american-style gangster story even while it definitely has flaws. and how its influenced so many fucking things. my god.

it has flaws for SURE but the rest is so good that i don't care. which is rare for me (gestures at nirvanai/neo twewy being other examples)

spoiler thoughts under the cut (like full-very-ending-of-series spoilers) but YEAH UH I LIKE THIS THING CAN YOU TELL BY HOW MUCH I WROTE ABOUT IT.

it does kind of annoy me that literally all of the canon-MLM (probably gay but you know) guys are horrible people lol. like wow love how the gay predator stereotype is on full display here. feeeeels baaaaad. i know i know asheiji homoeroticism i am ON THAT TRAIN

however yut-lung being feminine out of a wish to carry on his dead mom's legacy is kind of a slay. ive seen people go "ugh it sucks that one of the villains is a feminine man' but while he is definitely not a good person hes one of the less terrible villains, just like. as a person. hes also a teenager in shitty circumstances just with way more power and sway

here's the part where I admit that I was spoiled on the ending so it didn't hit as hard for me OOPS. however. the anime DOES leave it open-ended and it fucking irritates me that anime-only people are like "boo i hate the ending bc ash dies!!!" when it is LITERALLY AMBIGUOUS. i have heard that the manga is less ambiguous about it but :') oh well. anime-onlys what are you doing

speaking of ^ i actually like the ending. like i think a lot of people who absolutely hate it must not have a lot of familiarity with gangster movies as a genre bc it is a genre convention that the Main Gangster dies in the end. granted this was a hayes code thing which the manga definitely did not have to do LOL but its definitely supposed to feel unfair bc ash's damn LIFE is unfair.

however i'm glad the anime makes the ending ambiguous bc that feels like a more fitting end. like ash's life was always in limbo, considering what he was doing, so making his life in limbo at the end too? Good. Yes. Do That

the fucking. everything with shorter and the sa-yo-na-ra bit. i die. that shit is so emotionally painful

i know this sounds weird but i kind of wish they dragged out the "what the hell does banana fish mean" thing a LIIIITTLE longer but by that i mean like, halfway point of the series. like they could have used a little more time to figure out what it is. also that would have let shorter live a little longer ay lmao that said this criticism also almost definitely applies to the manga soooo. you know

[livefinn]

not a finn panel but shout-out to the fact that ch 161 is called 'mash burnedead and the divine visionary' which is the same title as the one where we first meets/fights rayne.

[leatherbookmark]

ooooh apparently the pjo show is out? or is it just the first episode? i'm not sure but. hm!!

[m00nj3w3l]

Ok so like who was gonna tell me VNC was actually this emotionally devasting cus