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reread otherside peaknic and started picking up the ln heres how im failing my finals

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maybe the real horror was being part of sorawos circle

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crunchyroll hasnt been working very well for me lately

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had grand ambitions of doing textless versions of every manga cover until i started glitching IRL so this is probably all I'm gonna do (missing 3, 6, 9, 10. 11 unfinished)

vol 11 still has the credits because I can't draw plaid worth a damn and vol 7 is rough as hell but that's all I've got in me

begging for them to just release official textless covers 😭 they've started doing them from vol 13 onwards but the old covers have so much good shit and I just want to see themmm

What I did was stitch the English covers w/ the Japanese covers as they (mostly) have text in different areas. For some all that was needed was some clone tool magic others were pure redraw hell. Once I hit vol 4 I realized that the mangaka probably draws the backgrounds first and then slaps the characters on top because they move around between versions (sometimes in very annoying ways).

now praise me. my head hurts so much

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waiter waiter more yuri please

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SOMEONE get her to pay her student loans i'm so nervous she hasn't done it yet

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Kozakura's is 11.11, there's no way there's not a Skyrim Collector's Edition hidden somewhere in that house

Okay, I just realized that Sorao's birthday is 05.05, and Toriko's is 06.06. There's nothing serious about it, but the numbers are cool!

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Original illustration (right) and colored version (left)

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Otherside Picnic vol 9 definitely delivers on the series' je ne sais quoi of Sorawo doing something like idiosyncratically describing amatonormativity as a kind of ghost story on one page and arguing with Toriko over whether a skillet is any different from a frying pan on the next

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@short-for-melancholy Good news, vol 9 is already out in prepubs (proper release 24.03), and vol 10 drops in Japanese in under a month, no need to miss em you can go say hi

(sorry if this ends up double pinging you I have no idea how tumblr works)

Has anyone ever told Miyazawa he’s written the actual funniest characters in the history of ever

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Has anyone ever told Miyazawa he’s written the actual funniest characters in the history of ever

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Has anyone ever told Miyazawa he’s written the actual funniest characters in the history of ever

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this is the same person

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If Sorawo fucking Kamikoshi can open her himejoshi third eye, then there's still hope for you all

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Otherside Picnic vol 9 spoilers. If you haven't read vol 9 yet, it's some of the best stuff in the series so far.

The way Runa goes from genuinely fearing for her life because she thinks "camping in the mountains" is a code-word for "we're going to fucking kill you", to genuine excitement to finally being freed and accepting the camping trip with no reservations, to, within a day of getting to do something useful and receiving genuine praise for her work, deciding that no, you know what, actually, the kindness is worse - please, just kill me instead, is MADDENINGLY, BRUTALLY depressing to witness.

Within a day. And even when she's begging for death, literally MIND CONTROLLING SOMEONE TO SHOOT HER, the person aiming the gun at her isn't giving her the hate she's looking for. She was about to get blasted in the face with the same intensity as being handed a piece of candy. How fucked is that? How fucking sad is that?

What a perfect fucking tragedy. Holy shit.

That entire sequence was so insanely evocative I straight up forgot to breathe. I don't know how Miyazawa does it but I hope he never stops cooking.

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ハッピーバレンタイン！

Happy Valentine's!

I'm super tired, been busy a lot, and I'm so out of practice drawing digitally, so this is rougher than my usual work.... TT^TT