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[icestorming]

May I present to you the type of sketches I do in a rush . They are horrible, but they are normally ten times funnier than the cleaned up version. So, AGAIN, stills from @yunuen 's fic "The line is covered in jellyfish" because if I could, I would draw an entire graphic novel.

[cosmickoshi]

What if this was my final straw?

[s30620]

Chapter 96: Motivation

Ah yes, the curry scene. Would you count this as a love confession? In the Japanese version, she says "ダイスキ" (daisuki), which basically means "I really like you", so what do you think?

It's funny that Okarun had to transform just to eat, but also sad to think how in-pain he must be. The out-of-body experience kinda mentally prepared him for everything going on and I'm glad he's not confused and is getting ready to help his friends.

Also, I super loved Acro Aira's pose on this page, what a queen.

[cloudbends]

Now that the new skip and loafer chapter is out in english, I thought I'd write some of my thoughts briefly.

Something I've always very appreciated about this story is the nuanced approach it takes in terms of character flaws. There were stages I was getting worried about shima's mom appearing a little one-dimensional, and this chapter very pleasantly treaded in the same vein the rest of the story has - in showing her interiority in a compelling and fleshed out way. She's a mother who lost herself in trying to give everything to her son, instead becoming overbearing and a stifling, even at times abusive presence in her son's life. This is a tale as old as time, but the careful juxtaposition of this information with what we know of shima so far - how he performs through his daily life, living with a deep sense of loathing and not being able to come to terms with his own kindness, as opposed to his morose, subdued nature as slowly revealed throughout the manga, is very telling.

For this reason I was also very happy with the fact the storytelling leaned back into the aftermath of shima's incident, because at its heart, it's always been about shima's view of the world, and his specifically strained relationship with his mother. In order to fully comprehend the meaning of his upcoming role as frankenstein's monster, we had to - at first - unravel his relationship with his creator, his mother. And I think this plotline and how it's been carefully (in true takamatsu fashion) built up over the last couple of chapters.

Shima's mother noting that he hasn't smiled, or laughed, or cried or gotten angry at her since that incident all those years ago is incredibly apt considering all we know - shima bottles everything up, internalizing the idea that he's not worthy unless he acts, masquerades, dances to the sounds of society's flute. Which is also why I think it is no coincidence that shima's mother notes mitsumi's presence, paralleling the same scene in the previous year's cultural festival - mitsumi is, in many senses, the one person who's able to bring shima's smile back. And I don't mean this in the sense that it's mitsumi's responsibility, but in that... she broke his mold of how he expected others to treat him. He respects her so much as a person because he views her as brilliant. and her light shined through on their very first day of high school - she's unique in her simplicity, nonconforming in her directness and compassion, she's so very real. The narrative ties between the closure shima is about to achieve regarding his past, and his newfound resolve to prove himself to mitsumi and embrace his feelings, isn't just intentional - it's been built up from the very beginning.

[cephiius]

so we all agree hirano is asexual right

[kagiura-akira]

"I probably can't give you what you want. I'm not sure if you feel the same way."

"I want to be with you more than anyone else. That's my 'love.'"

"So it's the same."

—A beautifully magnificent sequence of events brought to us by Harusono Shou and Monthly Comic Gene

[chiisana-lion]

she is soooo cute shes an egg shes a gloomy introverted otaku that works in a maid cafe and he starts bleeding excessively from every part of her face whenever she's flustered he is so so incredibly lame and also melts into a puddle or explodes into a pool of blood every other chapter. isnt she so lovely

[fast-moon]

Noragami Final Chapter Raws

It's here! It's the end! This chapter isn't numbered and is just called "final chapter", but it would technically be 109, I suppose. There's a LOT of talking in this chapter to tie up loose ends, but I also took the day off work to work on it, so hopefully I can finish it in a day, since it's twice as long as normal.

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[b0tsbby]

I think with the release of Ena Dream BBQ Ibe sobered up in terms of the doomism surrounding the creative industry right now because, this game took 4 years and I can tell. I can tell because the love and creativity put into this free-to-play psychedelic experience tells me even in the midst of art being stripped from us by the rise in consumerism we will always be human. And we will always be creative and we will always tell stories. The world doesn’t value art as much as it did once but we have to. It’s a form of self preservation as a creative.

I want to cry everytime I open this game.

[slow-burn-sally]

Liam Garrian. Another actor whose twink-to-daddy slider was so smooth I barely noticed.

[hootiee]

Aoex chapter 155 raws

english version won't be out for another week, so enjoy this in the meantime 🫡

[shantechni]

The chronicles of Lu Guang and fried chicken:

Bonus:

[gabriel-posts-here]

Top 1 manga pannels that fucking haunt me

[maskedjoker]

It's morning in Japan here you go guys

This is very interesting....no translations yet though that I've found

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 783: Advancing ranks

Pag 1

1: “Friends”....

2: “People who trust each other and treat each other as equal”

“People who hang out and chat together”

4: Funatsu-kuun

Huh!? Me... me!? What

You and Kiriya-kun are friends?

5: Ye-yeah, we've been together for three years, so of course

And last year and this year we worked hard together and participated in the Inter High....right?

Yeah

And what about me?

Huh!?

Pag 2

1: What about me?

2: Are we friends!?

3: Uhm, well

4: We also were together for three years with this guy and we practiced and participated in the Inter High together

Uh.... well

What shoud I say? How should I answer this question

But this guy doesn't talk about anything but bikes

5: There they are, Midosuji's “cryptic questions”!!

Thank god this time his target is Funatsu

6: What's the correct answer!!

Ahh, dammit... I'm suddenly shaking

Midosuji!!

7: I'm sorry, Funatsu!! Do your best!! Funatsu!!

Pag 3

1: Of course!!

We've been running together for three years!! You're a great friend!!

How about this!!

3: Fr... iends...

Me and.... you?

6: He's satisfied!? Yes!! It was the correct answer!?

Pag 4

1: What, did you misunderstand?

Me and you are not equal in the slightest!?

Pag 5

1: Our efforts, tenacity, our attitude and readiness, and even our imagination!!

Uwaaahiiii!!

2: Didn't you think about it?

Ah.. was there even a moment when you felt like we were equal!? Surely

Dammit so this is what it was!!

3: You that in your zeal for goodness became nothing?

Puku

4: What's this!? This time

Ahh, dammit, don't spout nonsense!!

This time even my parents came to see me

5: Midosuji-san

More importantly

Pag 6

1: The course is changing

Turning west along the flat seaside road

Pag 7

1: it's entering a hill

4: The Kyoto Pass

It's a hill with a 3.5km climb with an incline of 4%, about 250m above sea level

Pag 8

1: According to my plan....!! Alright....!!

Let's move on....!!

2: Heading for the next phase!!

Yeah!!

Yes!!

Yes!!

4: Kyoto Fushimi are assembling and moving up

5: They didn't move in the first half, Kyofushi is saving their legs

Yet on this short climb they're spontaneously moving up their group's position

Pag 9

1: They're moving up!!

3: Seeing him this up close, this Midosuji really is amazing

His body's thickness is completely different from other people's, and his limbs are so long!!

4: He has such an aura that it makes me feel like there's no way I could win!!

5: I broke out into a cold sweat but at the same time I can't help but laugh a little!!

Pag 10

1: They really are amazing, Onoda, Imaizumi... and Naruko, they fought against him last year and the year before!?

3: Sugimoto-san

Sugimoto-san

4: Ah, sorry, is everything alright?

I was just thinking a little about something, just a little

5: That's right, I'm in the “selected team”!! I need to focus more on bringing these guys together!!

Pag 11

2: Huh

3: The two sprinters who went ahead

4: have turned back!!

We're back... we're back!!

5: Sugimoto-san!!

Yeah!! Kobayashi!! Uchikawa!!

Pag 12

1: We somehow managed to catch up to the lead

Is that so!!

But the remaining 3km... too fast!!

I see!!

2: That guy from Hiroshima let us know a lot of things

I see!!

They're so sweaty and their jerseys are all torn out too

3: They worked hard, I'm glad...!!

4: I couldn't last until the very end, but Kobayashi-san was there too

There were four people in front of me so I pushed as hard as I could in fifth place

5: And I placed ninth

Oh you're in the top ten, amazing, amazing!

Waaa, Sugimoto-san praised me, I'm so happy

Pag 13

1: Hahaha

Ah, that's my line....

I'm feeling so proud, somehow

2: Ninth place is amazing

Well... Ichikawa pulled me

Was the lead amazing?

It was!!

3: I'm aiming for the top ten for the mountain line too!!

Really? Do your best!

5: We're an impromptu team and we still have a long way to go in terms of skill, but with our mutual interest and cheerfulness

Pag 14

1: Maybe we could go far!!

3: It's all thanks to Sugimoto-san

No no, I only asked Doubashi

Doubashi-san also helped us a lot!!

4: That's right, next time we meet him

Pag 15

1: I'll have to thank Doubashi

3: Dammit!!

Sorry, it's my fault!!

4: With opponents like that, if I had gone myself we would have placed even lower

This just shows how hard it is to carry out your words in road racing

Pag 16

1: As I told you, you needed to be careful about that guy

3: The race goes went a low pass and passe through a tunnel

Pag 17

1: They went downhill in a line

2: Waa... this is the place for “three seconds”...!!

Kiji-saan!! Fou!!

3: Looking at the limestone quarry that is the raw material for cement

4: the passed through the coal mining factory that supported the growth of Kitakyushu

Pag 18

1: The ranks went south along the riverside in the inland areas of Kyushu

2: Ah....

Oi, Issa, how long....

3: How long are you gonna feel down!?

Pag 19

1: Naruko-san

2: Stop with the depressing sighs

You'll just have to use your frustration as a springboard to keep moving!!

3: Naruko-san, you don't know what it feels like to lose a sprint!!

5: I've matured, I've matured, I've matured.... or I should have

Naruko chanting magic words to suppress his anger

Two people who feel so sorry for him they have no words

6: What's wrong? You're shivering and peeing your pants?

I wanna kill him...!!

7: Hotshot, gimme permission to kill him!!

I don't have that license

8: Ah!!

I see it!!

Pag 20

1: It's the mountain!!

The first day's..... this Inter High's very first....

2: mountain!!

[sskk-manifesto]

So, it's Atsushi who calls himself a “fool” the first time? And since we know for sure (chapter 35) that Akutagawa was listening in to what was happening... It's compelling to think Akutagawa might actually have been quoting Atsushi himself this whole time, every time he called him “fool”.

I actually think it would be really fitting for Akutagawa. Because Akutagawa stretches a lot on how pathetic it is of Atsushi to always be dwelling on his past sufferings (“Let me tell you why I said you disgust me. [...] You're an imbecile who keeps dwelling on old wounds!”, chapter 35), and loathes him for being so self-deprecating. Then, for Akutagawa to call him fool, but that being a word Atsushi for the first time used to define himself, it would be like Akutagawa was telling him: “you're a fool because you himself call yourself that. You're a fool because that's what you decide to be.”