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New Releases June 3, 2021

I’m in Love with the Villainess vol. 3 (light novel) by Inori, Hanagata (early digital release)

After the revolution, Rae and Claire start a new life together as teachers, mothers, and wives. But soon the political machinations of the Nur Empire threaten their peaceful days. Worse, Rae recognizes them as the inciting events of RevoLily, the sequel to Revolution. Once again, she must rely on her wit, courage, and love for Claire to overcome an evil end.

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I couldn’t agree more, the revolution has finally happened 

– 私の推しは悪役令嬢 (I’m in love with the villainess) Ch.7

Always refreshing to see a yuri manga actually talk about sexuality.

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-after the breakup in junior high, Sayaka’s reaction: " I turned my head down and started walking. I was running away again, as though it were someone else’s problem. I couldn’t hear sempai’s voice anymore. Occasionally, at the outskirt of my vision, there was a combustion  of light and heat. I tried wiping my eyes, thinking that I was crying, but my fingertips weren’t wet. While my emotions had been whited out, my rational mind was gradually calming itself. As my senses sharpened, the path ahead grew brighter and clearer. My defenseless heart was exposed to the-picturesque sunlight. And as I observed my current self neutrally as if from the outside, I finally realized something. I was angry.

Regarding Saeki Sayaka vol.1  

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do you ever get in those moods where you don’t feel like reading and you don’t feel like being on the internet and you don’t feel like watching a show and you don’t feel like sleeping and you don’t feel like existing in general

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How would you prefer to die? :)

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Ssamba’s obituary

“2018 February 20th

Ssamba has passed away after her battle with her illness. She was a very young author at the age of 33.

Ssamba debuted through Comico in October 2014 with Fluttering Feelings and drew a total of 68 chapters until March 2016.

Fluttering Feelings was not only loved in Korea, but also in various countries around the world such as Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia after being translated.

It would be an understatement to say that the Comico we have today was largely due to the efforts of Ssamba and Fluttering Feelings.

Ssamba was an author that we at Comico loved and respected, due to her bright and pure personality, as those of you who follow her are familiar with. There were times when her unexpected sense of humor would brighten up the mood. Her refreshing and pure disposition never changed, from the time we met her until the time we had to say farewell.

Despite this unexpected goodbye to those who were concerned, we realize that there will be no way to relieve this feeling of emptiness. We pray that she is able to rest in peace and offer this farewell, to all of the fans who have supported Ssamba and Fluttering Feelings, in her place.

Thank you.”

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Rest in peace Ssamba. Thank you for everything you’ve done. It was an honor to translate FF. It’ll always hold a special place in my heart and I doubt I’ll ever find something as unique, relatable, and charming as I did FF. -halmoni

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Ssamba’s blog posts 3/26, 4/6, 5/10

3/26/17

It’s nighttime. Lately I’ve been scared of nighttime. It’s the scariest thing ever… When I lie down, all sorts of thoughts enter my mind.

Continua a leggere

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Wow

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Update from Tan Jiu “a daily life extra (4)”, translated by Yaoi-BLCD.

Their Story Character Guide

Previously: /1/ /2/ /3/ /4/ /5/ /6/ /7/ / 8/ /9/ /10/ /11/ /12/ /13/ /14/ /15/ /16, 17, 18/ /19/ /20/ /21/ /22/ /23/ /24, 25/ /26/ /27/ /28/ /29/ /30/ /31/ /32/ /33, 34/ /35/ /36/ /37/ /38/ /39/ /40/ /41/ /42/ /43/ /44/ /45/ /46/ /47/ /48/ /49/ /50/ /51/ /51b/ /52/ /53/ /54/ /55/ /56/ /57/ /58/ /59/ /60/ /61/ /62/ /63/ /64/ /65/ /66/ /67/ /68/ /69/ /70/ /71/ /72/ /73/ /74/ /75/ /76/ /77/ /78/ /79/ /80/ /81ab/ /81c/ /82/ /83/ /84/ /85/ /86a/ /86b/ /86c/ /87/ /88/ /89/ 90/ /91/ /92a/ /92b/ /92c/ /92d/ /93a/ /93b/ /94a/ /94b/ /94c/ /94d/ /95a/ /95b/ /95c/ /95d/ /96a/ /96b/ /96c/ /97a/ /97b/ /97c/ /98/ /99/ /100/ /101/ /102a/ /102b/ /102c/ /103/ /104a/ /104b/ /105/ /106/ /107a/ /107b/ /108/ /109a/ /109b/ /110a/ /110b+c/ /111/ /112a/ /112b/ /113a/ /113b/ /113c/ /114/ /115/ /116a/ /116b/ /117/ /118a/ /118b/ /119/ /120/ /121/ /122a/ /122b/ /123/ /next/

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“There’s nothing I need to wish for.”

by ReySogryHaruka

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I forget how gay I am till I’m around a bunch of straight people.

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Korrasami is canon. You can celebrate it, embrace it, accept it, get over it, or whatever you feel the need to do, but there is no denying it. That is the official story. We received some wonderful press in the wake of the series finale at the end of last week, and just about every piece I read got it right: Korra and Asami fell in love. Were they friends? Yes, and they still are, but they also grew to have romantic feelings for each other. Was Korrasami “endgame,” meaning, did we plan it from the start of the series? No, but nothing other than Korra’s spiritual arc was. Asami was a duplicitous spy when Mike and I first conceived her character. Then we liked her too much so we reworked the story to keep her in the dark regarding her father’s villainous activities. Varrick and Zhu Li weren’t originally planned to end up as a couple either, but that’s where we took the story/where the story took us. That’s how writing works the vast majority of the time. You give these characters life and then they tell you what they want to do. I have bragging rights as the first Korrasami shipper (I win!). As we wrote Book 1, before the audience had ever laid eyes on Korra and Asami, it was an idea I would kick around the writers’ room. At first we didn’t give it much weight, not because we think same-sex relationships are a joke, but because we never assumed it was something we would ever get away with depicting on an animated show for a kids network in this day and age, or at least in 2010. Makorra was only “endgame” as far as the end of Book 1. Once we got into Book 2 we knew we were going to have them break up, and we never planned on getting them back together. Sorry, friends. I like Mako too, and I am sure he will be just fine in the romance department. He grew up and learned about himself through his relationships with Asami and Korra, and he’s a better person for it, and he’ll be a better partner for whomever he ends up with. Once Mako and Korra were through, we focused on developing Korra and Asami’s relationship. Originally, it was primarily intended to be a strong friendship. Frankly, we wanted to set most of the romance business aside for the last two seasons. Personally, at that point I didn’t want Korra to have to end up with someone at the end of series. We obviously did it in Avatar, but even that felt a bit forced to me. I’m usually rolling my eyes when that happens in virtually every action film, “Here we go again…” It was probably around that time that I came across this quote from Hayao Miyazaki: “I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.” I agree with him wholeheartedly, especially since the majority of the examples in media portray a female character that is little more than a trophy to be won by the male lead for his derring-do. So Mako and Korra break the typical pattern and end up respecting, admiring, and inspiring each other. That is a resolution I am proud of. However, I think there needs to be a counterpart to Miyazaki’s sentiment: Just because two characters of the same sex appear in the same story, it should not preclude the possibility of a romance between them. No, not everyone is queer, but the other side of that coin is that not everyone is straight. The more Korra and Asami’s relationship progressed, the more the idea of a romance between them organically blossomed for us. However, we still operated under this notion, another “unwritten rule,” that we would not be allowed to depict that in our show. So we alluded to it throughout the second half of the series, working in the idea that their trajectory could be heading towards a romance. But as we got close to finishing the finale, the thought struck me: How do I know we can’t openly depict that? No one ever explicitly said so. It was just another assumption based on a paradigm that marginalizes non-heterosexual people. If we want to see that paradigm evolve, we need to take a stand against it. And I didn’t want to look back in 20 years and think, “Man, we could have fought harder for that.” Mike and I talked it over and decided it was important to be unambiguous about the intended relationship. We approached the network and while they were supportive there was a limit to how far we could go with it, as just about every article I read accurately deduced. It was originally written in the script over a year ago that Korra and Asami held hands as they walked into the spirit portal. We went back and forth on it in the storyboards, but later in the retake process I staged a revision where they turned towards each other, clasping both hands in a reverential manner, in a direct reference to Varrick and Zhu Li’s nuptial pose from a few minutes prior. We asked Jeremy Zuckerman to make the music tender and romantic, and he fulfilled the assignment with a sublime score. I think the entire last two-minute sequence with Korra and Asami turned out beautiful, and again, it is a resolution of which I am very proud. I love how their relationship arc took its time, through kindness and caring. If it seems out of the blue to you, I think a second viewing of the last two seasons would show that perhaps you were looking at it only through a hetero lens. Was it a slam-dunk victory for queer representation? I think it falls short of that, but hopefully it is a somewhat significant inching forward. It has been encouraging how well the media and the bulk of the fans have embraced it. Sadly and unsurprisingly, there are also plenty of people who have lashed out with homophobic vitriol and nonsense. It has been my experience that by and large this kind of mindset is a result of a lack of exposure to people whose lives and struggles are different from one’s own, and due to a deficiency in empathy––the latter being a key theme in Book 4. (Despite what you might have heard, bisexual people are real!) I have held plenty of stupid notions throughout my life that were planted there in any number of ways, or even grown out of my own ignorance and flawed personality. Yet through getting to know people from all walks of life, listening to the stories of their experiences, and employing some empathy to try to imagine what it might be like to walk in their shoes, I have been able to shed many hurtful mindsets. I still have a long way to go, and I still have a lot to learn. It is a humbling process and hard work, but nothing on the scale of what anyone who has been marginalized has experienced. It is a worthwhile, lifelong endeavor to try to understand where people are coming from. There is the inevitable reaction, “Mike and Bryan just caved in to the fans.” Well, which fans? There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead? Either direction we went, there would inevitably be a faction that was elated and another that was devastated. Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara. But one of those directions is going to be the one that feels right to us, and Mike and I have always made both Avatar and Korra for us, first and foremost. We are lucky that so many other people around the world connect with these series as well. Tahno playing trombone––now that was us caving in to the fans! But this particular decision wasn’t only done for us. We did it for all our queer friends, family, and colleagues. It is long overdue that our media (including children’s media) stops treating non-heterosexual people as nonexistent, or as something merely to be mocked. I’m only sorry it took us so long to have this kind of representation in one of our stories. I’ll wrap this up with some incredible words that Mike and I received in a message from a former Korra crew member. He is a deeply religious person who devotes much of his time and energy not only to his faith, but also to helping young people. He and I may have starkly different belief systems, but it is heartwarming and encouraging that on this issue we are aligned in a positive, progressive direction: “I’ve read enough reviews to get a sense of how it affected people. One very well-written article in Vanity Fair called it subversive (in a good way, of course)… I would say a better word might be “healing.” I think your finale was healing for a lot of people who feel outside or on the fringes, or that their love and their journey is somehow less real or valuable than someone else’s… That it’s somehow less valid. I know quite a few people in that position, who have a lifetime of that on their shoulders, and in one episode of television you both relieved and validated them. That’s healing in my book.” Love, Bryan

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Ssamba’s Blog Post 10/18/16

Hello. This is Ssamba. ^^ The weather has completely turned into autumn before I realized it. I hope you are all doing well. To be honest, I wasn’t feeling great last week. Both my mind and body went through a rough week… It’s hard to explain, but I felt like I messed up on a lot of things. I thought, “I should be more careful”, and I fell deep into thoughts about just how much I had to keep a low profile. For how much longer do I have to be optimistic… I’m actually a bit of a pessimistic person. Rather than arming myself with wishful thinking, I’m just trying my best to not have any negative thoughts. But there are times when I’m overcome with feelings that I can’t cope with. Stuff like big and small feelings of loss and anxiety. While I was waiting for my results before undergoing surgery, I wished that everything would be over. So waiting was both uncomfortable and boring. Because I wanted to go back to living a normal life. But after my surgery, I felt apathetic. My body was having a hard time, and my sense of reality was completly messed up at times. But being able to eat more easily brought about a sense of restabilization. I don’t know why I’m saying all this… I think you would all feel uneasy reading this, but I simply wanted to get everything off my chest. Perhaps because the season is changing my condition seems to fluctuate . In addition to my mood ^^; I didn’t really notice this when the weather was hot, probably because of the heat huhuh…

Ah. I received a package sometime last Thursday or so. It was a present from kkk-nim. They had already sent me a gift last time too… It was a beautiful baby bird lamp and some ginseng. I nearly burst into tears while reading the letter that came with it… I think it was because I was feeling sensitive. I thought, “They still remember and love my manhwa”. My mom also wanted to say that she’s thankful as well! When we saw the lamp, we wondered if it was a baby bird or a chick (t/n: baby chicken) hahah I’m truly thankful. I’ll eat the ginseng and use the lamp while keeping your sincerity in mind. But please stop sending me gifts… That applies to everyone else as well. Do you guys know what it feels like when you can’t say that something is burdensome because you feel sorry… I’m very thankful but your feelings are more than enough. I’d love to return the favor with a work of mine, but it hurts since I don’t know if that’s even possible… As usual, thank you and sorry. I will see you all again next time. Be careful not to catch a cold~ ^^

Since I thought it would be a waste to leave it at that; I’ll upload a picture that I took the other day while out on a walk Lately the temperature differences during the day and at night have been pretty extreme, but the weather is still quite nice ^^/

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The Legend of Korra wrapped up back in 2014, but that doesn't mean the end of the line for Korra, Asami, and the other heroes of Republic City.