#a vampire& his pleasant companions

[blushingguy]

Kyuuketsuki to Yukai na Nakama-tachi/ A Vampire & His Pleasant Companions by Konohara Narise & Ragawa Marimo

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[lilpaprikajr]

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[manicali]

I’m going to die if these two split up. Like. Death. I will not continue living. I will have a heart attack.

[oratokyosaigunda]

Melody cover 2024年8月 issue

[maebithebard]

guy with abandonment issues that make him clingy to an unhealthy extent x guy with abandonment issues that make him reclusive to an unhealthy extent: KISS‼️

[cemetery-baccanal]

i will never forgive whoever made the decision to have the spines be like this.

[randomanimeandmangablog]

On Kiev

Spoilers for Volume 5 of The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions

I don't like or trust Kiev. I don't feel like he's necessarily evil on the level of big-bad evil. But he is incredibly self-centered and has some level of evil.

In the story we had of him saving Curtis/Walt, he walks in on a woman murdering a woman he was either friends or lovers with as her incredibly young son watches. He makes them both forget him...then just leaves. He specifically says he didn't care what happened to Curtis/Walt afterward and assumed the murderer had killed him. This was a little kid. Kiev could have scooped him up and taken him to a police station or even left him at a hospital or church, but Kiev left him with a murderer. That's definitely some level of evil.

With Al, we know they shared an apartment for some time. Then Kiev left, presumably without a word. He tells Al in Vol. 5 it was to find more info on Al's condition. However, I doubt this. In an earlier volume, we see him wondering whether he should have given Al some of his blood.

If at the time they met and were living together Kiev truly didn't know why Al was different than other vampires, why should he wonder that? Why would he have thought to give Al his blood back then if he only found out later? I don't think Kiev necessarily owes Al his blood, but I think he lied to him about not knowing why Al was different. And that's low-key selfish.

Whenever he gets tired of a lover, Kiev erases him from their memories. That's toxic. It seems to be done entirely so he doesn't need to deal with a scene. He doesn't ask permission to modify their memories. It's all about him.

He just seems like a sketchy guy. Not in the take-over-the world sense, but in the only-cares-about-himself sense.

[blushingguy]

Kyuuketsuki to Yukai na Nakama-tachi/ A Vampire & His Pleasant Companions by Konohara Narise & Ragawa Marimo

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Kyuketsuki to Yukai na Nakama-tachi Artist: Ragawa Marimo Publication: Bessatsu Hana to Yume (07/2017) Details: Koumori Al ☆ Memo Pad Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

⚠️Vote for whomever YOU DO NOT KNOW⚠️‼️

[allthefujoshiunite]

Hello! I want to give BL recs to someone who is very new to BL. Do you mind if I ask BL manga/manhwa recs that have no smut at all? Sorry, all I can think of until now are only BL manhua. Thanks so much...

Hi! Of course, here are some of the titles that come to mind:

Monotone Blue (Nagabe) - Seven Seas

Wanna Try Dating Inoue? (Fujitobi) - Manga Planet (prev. Futekiya)

House of the Biting Dragon (Hama Kumi) - Manga Planet

Breathless Momentum (Zeniko Sumiya) - Animate Int.

Super Morning Star (Aomiya Kara) - Kodansha

The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions (Marimo Ragawa) - Yen Press

Anti-Romance (Hidaka Shoko) - Seven Seas

Some of these titles might have kissing but they're either all-ages or 15+ titles so there should be no smut. Enjoy!

[bolognamayhem117]

Hot Take: Astarion does NOT hate flowers. You just missed a few subtle hints through Act 1 and early Act 3.

Astarion's negativity is directed toward just about anything remotely pleasant as you move through early act three, starting the moment you leave Wyrm's Rock. First thing after Gortash's coronation he marvels near tears at the colors of the city in daylight. If you ask if he's alright, it pisses him off.

There's other instances I can't quite remember but he's a straight crank throughout early Act 3 and it took me several hours of gameplay to have a lightbulb moment about his newly crappier attitude.

He just spent the last two hundred years seeing everything in the overwhelmingly warm dim tones of indoor lighting via sconces, rushlights, and braziers, or the dingy blue gray of moonlight outside. Daylight colors are something he had more than a lifetime to forget and now that he has a chance to remember that vibrancy in his own home town, he knows he's going to have to forget it all over again either by death or by remaining a vampire spawn forever. The worm isn't going to live rent free in his head forever, and killing Cazador to ascend in his place likely feels like an insurmountable and impossible fight against a literal titan who could stomp him flat without a corm of effort.

He doesn't hate flowers, he hates EVERYTHING right now because it's all going away very soon and if he convinces himself he hates everything then he won't miss it when it's all gone again. He was denied this for two hundred years and he's PISSED at what was stolen from him and PISSED it's all going away again.

He behaved similarly in Act 1 about anyone besides him enjoying physical intimacy. Some of this content was cut, to my best knowledge, but the overwhelming majority of his dialog addressing the PC romancing anyone but him are negative or backhanded. This is for two reasons, I think. A: his Simple Plan just dissolved right before his eyes when you chose someone else which in his mind means he has zero safety net, and EVERYONE gets to enjoy sex (key wording being ENJOY, not simply having) except him... And it pisses him off.

He also gleefully interrupts the bug bear and the ogress, I think for the same reason as the above paragraph, being: If he doesn't get to enjoy intimacy neither do they.

He reacts with anger and disgust at anything he's being unfairly denied. Which... That's fair. His feelings are valid, but his reaction to it is pretty shitty and meanspirited.

The other companions I tend to keep in my party, (that is Lae'zel, Halsin, Karlach, and Wyll) however, are actually appearing to behave pretty patiently with him in Act 3 which I find interesting.

In the instance with the flowers Karlach doesn't bother trying to convince him otherwise of his opinion, she just tells him how they make her feel instead and rather than getting snippy or doubling down he more or less agrees to disagree. I also don't recall anyone disagreeing with Astarion during Gale's last quest tasks when he mentioned that he quit praying to gods who wouldn't hear him a long time ago but to be fair, I think the gods did everybody in this crew dirty and they all know it. It seems like they're consciously giving him the space to be mad about things, is what I'm saying.

Everyone I know including myself who crawled out of a long-term hot garbage situation kinda went wild for a bit with freedom, spoke poorly, behaved strangely, had extreme emotional reactions to things, and made some particularly terrible choices. I think that's just a part of recalibrating yourself, healing and learning how to be okay again.

Point is, I wouldn't conflate too many of the turbo-negative things he says with how he actually feels about anything. We certainly know what he says and what he feels are two very different things.

[manicali]

I love tvahpc covers cause like it LOOKS LIKE ROMANCE. But their relationship is more like Akira is going to kill Al agaij and Al is probably okay with that because he needs a place to stay

[oratokyosaigunda]

Melody cover 2025年6月 issue