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"Black Butler" manga by Yana Toboso is on cover of the upcoming G-Fantasy issue 7/2025

Source

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Kamijo 2025 - Desk Calendar

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Kuroshitsuji: Green Witch Arc – Episode 6 II

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What sort of demon was aroused at the thought of a human owning them fully and completely? It was one thing to be submissive with another demon, but to be so with a human? Shameful. But the shame was what made the demon shiver. And his master knew it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64936897

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atsushi sakurai x

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Atsushi Sakurai 2003, Tour 2003 Mona Lisa Overdrive

scanned by me, credit appreciated

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Rock and Read vol 68 featuring Atsushi Sakurai 

part 2

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atsushi sakurai 1998 x

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Is that a tattoo on the neck? 🤔 if so I wonder if he had it before his death or he made it when he became Polaris

Ch214 (p3); Must have forgotten?

The earl decides to stay and investigate, starting with inside.

They take the elevator down to the ground floor, and they see a cloaked figure with what appears to be a transfusion/infusion kit on a stand.

So, I've been discussing this person with others on Discord. My theory about the mystery person from ch137 has changed yet again, and it means also changing my theory about the Phantomhive butlers and Polaris' identity.

What if the butler shown dead at the manor isn't Polaris... but the other blond butler, the one not shown among the dead, is Polaris? Much like how Baron Kelvin wasn't at the ritual that night of the sacrifice and demon summoning...perhaps this Phantomhive butler wasn't at the manor when it was attacked? But he's fiercely loyal to the Phantomhive family, so he does his own investigation, making him decide to infiltrate the demon cult. He perhaps knew some of Vincent's inner circle were into the occult, perhaps these guys: https://www.tumblr.com/abybweisse/166605681479/if-queen-victoria-is-behind-the-events-of-the.

Then, mistaken as a cultist, he's killed by Sebastian. Undertaker collects his body and sees the devotion to the Phantomhive family in his cinematic records and turns him into Polaris. He also would have taken note of how much this guy would seek personal revenge against Sebastian.

Thoughts?

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Sakurai Atsushi on Gender and Sexuality

A highly-edited version of this interview has been all over Tumblr for ages, but I wanted to know the context of the quotes. So I emailed Cayce (who was the un-credited translator) and this is the rest of the interview showing the context:

Ongaku to Hito March 2018 Sakurai Atsushi No. 0 Interview translated by Cayce

OtH: We finally get to hear the real version of the single. (Note: this is a discussion of Moon Sayonara wo Oshiete)

Sakurai: The “real” version? (laughs) Was there a fake version?

OtH: No, but this song was first released as a remix by Mr. Takkyuu.

Sakurai: That's also the real version (laughs). But, I guess you're right. You wouldn't know the original song from Takkyuu's version.

OtH: It was quite a tease! (laughs) It's a nice song.

Sakurai: It is. This was the first or second song that we wrote for this album.

OtH: Was “Moon” part of the working title?

Sakurai: No, not at all. The working title was a much vaguer word that I'd never heard before.

OtH: Never heard before? Please, tell us. (laughs)

Sakurai: Please ask Imai.

OtH: So you were the one who chose the title “Moon – Tell Me Goodbye.” What kinds of feelings were you having when you wrote the lyrics to this song?

Sakurai: Well, the song has a gentle melody and chord progression. So I started there, and then there were various situations on the days when I was writing, and information I'd absorbed, and all of that informed the lyrics I wrote.

OtH: The moon is a motif you've worked with again and again over the years.

Sakurai: It is… maybe this is obvious, but it's the opposite of the sun. Shadows exist precisely because there is light and brightness. Somehow, that's where my sensibility always ends up. I think I find it calming. When the sun is shining bright, I always feel like I have to begin something, like a new year… a new semester...

OtH: Hahaha. Just because of the sun?

Sakurai: I just feel that way compulsively. But on the flip side, the moon always calms me. In the evening, when I see the moon come out at twilight, I feel like I can finally relax.

OtH: Like it's “your” time of day.

Sakurai: That's right.

OtH: These lyrics are written in women's speech. Does that mean this is more of a story than a song about you, personally?

Sakurai: That's right. Yes. You could say I'm fully performing a role, but the gender doesn't matter. It could be a woman, or it could be a man. But I felt that women's speech was gentler and softer and fit more easily into the song. So I decided I would play the role. It has nothing to do with gender.

OtH: I get the sense you've been using women's speech more and more in recent years.

Sakurai: ...doesn't it? I feel like I did it earlier, too, though.

OtH: You definitely did it earlier. But now you're able to get all pumped up to sing the role of the entirely fictional image of a woman in Imai's “The Seaside Story.” I think that kind of style has made more of an impression lately.

Sakurai: Uh… well, I guess I want to transcend gender. It's part of the job. I think it's more interesting for the audience if I have fun trying out different sorts of things. The moment I get embarrassed about this kind of thing, I'm finished.

OtH: True. You getting embarrassed would be a turn-off!

Sakurai: Yeah. But I think it's only recently that I've really become able to get pumped up about it like I do now. It's become more fun for me, too. I feel like I'm transforming into something else.

OtH: I suppose your image is similar to David Bowie's pansexuality. Or maybe it's a more Japanese image of femininity.

Sakurai: Yeah. ...I think it's more Japanese style. Bowie's calculated androgyny was certainly surprising as a work of art, but when I act a role for myself, it's the refined femininity of ancient Japan, but with power. That's what I become. In fact, I have a number of friends and acquaintances like that. Men, but with women's souls, something like that. When I look at people like them, I think… “it suits them so naturally,” or “I quite like this.” They also seem very gentle to me… what we were talking about, again? (laughs)

OtH: Hahaha. This is interesting. Please continue.

Sakurai: I suppose I have a bit of that element or quality myself. When I was a child, I felt more comfortable playing with girls. Even now I sometimes get told that I'm “feminine.”

OtH: If you went down that path, do you think you could love a man?

Sakurai: Yes.

OtH: ...what kind of interview is this, anyway? (laughs)

Sakurai: Of course, it's a bit different from sexual romantic love. But when I look at someone like Issay, he doesn't have exactly the same aesthetic as I do, but when I talk with people like him I think, “oh, I love this person!” I think that's fine. I think we should be free of the “men should be manly!” line of thinking.

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櫻井敦司 -2004

Book Sacrifice

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