#escape journey

[utoshi-san]

"Путешествие на двоих"/"Escape journey" от Огерэцу Танака.

Последний том манги был самый тоненький и я его проглотила за несколько часов. Хочу сказать, что я в восторге от истории и мне очень понравилось, что всё закончилось хэппи эндом. Я только этого ждала и никак иначе

Ну теперь можно начинать что-то новое.

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: Escape Journey 2

Title: Escape Journey 2 (エスケープジャーニー 2)

Author/Artist: Ogeretsu Tanaka

Release Date: 2021/03/12

Cast:

Maeno Tomoaki x Nakazawa Masatomo

Furukawa Makoto

Yamashita Seiichirou

Hamano Daiki

Nobuyori Sagara

Synopsis: Escape Journey 2: I Did Not Deserve This Pain

Review Proper

Hello, I am back to reviewing BLCDs. I might be taking a little hiatus from scanning for a while ‘cause of the stress recent national elections events gave me, so might as well finish this log that’s gone on for too long lmao.

Anyway, onto the review.

You know, I knew what I signed up for. I was caught up with this when volume two was airing in the mag and stopped because it was too painful to continue. That was way back when I was a freshman in uni, I think, but I still haven’t finished volume two of the manga up until this day, so WHY DID I EVER THINK THAT LISTENING TO VOLUME TWO OF THE AUDIO ADAPTATION, KNOWING THAT IT WAS GONNA BE A CLIFFHANGER, WAS A GOOD IDEA?!

I don’t really have much to say about the plot since this isn’t the last installment, so we’ll dive straight into the technicalities.

Casting was perfect ‘cause hello??? Maeno x Nakazawa Masatomo??? AND WHO THE FUCK CASTED MAKONYAN TO BE THE THIRD WHEEL??? IT’S SO PERFECT, BUT WHY DO THIS??? I actually high-key low-key wanted Naoto to end up Nishina ‘cause first of all he has a big fucking

yea

and second of all, he’s not a rapist asshole with a rude ass family.

Here I said I wasn’t gonna talk about the plot. Anyway, Makonyan definitely sounds like he owns a goddamn 500cc and has been wanting that Tomo ass since time immemorial, so it’s perfect. Also, can we talk about how Hamano Daiki and Tomo loves Ogeretsu enough to the point of being cast repeatedly in their works. Daiki has three, the fuck.

As for the accuracy to the manga, since I used the magazine releases for the read-along, I got lost so many times lmao. The organization of the scenes were so different in the BLCD! There is a chance that Ogeretsu changed the order in the tankos, but the differences are so huge that I don’t think that’s likely. There were also a lot of cuts and adlibs, so it’s definitely not beginner friendly. To those still wanting to brave it, I’d suggest reading the mag or tank (whichever you have) before listening to the BLCD then reading it with the BLCD later. But to be completely honest, I won’t recommend listening to this right now. Again, it ends up at a cliff-hanger, and if, god-forbid, the studios take another five years to produce the last installment, it would hang you dry for a long ass time. Man, I don’t even know if I’d still be alive in 2026. 

[tilldeathdousart]

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[callmegaith]

P A R A D O X

Stills:

Honestly its so motivating to me to see how much I improved in 5 years 😭😭😭😭I hope if u see this U KEEP GOING! U GOT THIS, ARTIST! U GOT THIS!

[euphorictruths]

Female Pentimento

[itsfrenchfornothankyou]

The thing about Trafalgar is that he is determined to be the angsty emo in a series which is, unfortunately, a found family comedy

[markantonys]

the way people go "well, if RAND needs his friends to succeed, then how come the same doesn't apply to egwene, how come she was able to free herself?" as if it's utterly incomprehensible that two different characters might be undergoing two different arcs/learning two different lessons.

rand spent the whole season isolating himself, so he needed a climactic moment of seeing that he's stronger when his friends are supporting him.

egwene spent the whole season feeling inferior/incapable/not good enough and then being enslaved and controlled, and of having other people dictate to her how powerful she is or isn't, so she needed a climactic moment of taking back her autonomy and understanding her own power on her own terms.

this isn't to say that the book version where rand fights ishy alone and egwene is rescued by nynaeve and elayne is bad. it also isn't to say that rand and egwene didn't have many thematic parallels in their journeys this season (egwene also deals with themes of isolation, and rand with themes of power & control). but in my opinion, the Cores of their series-long arcs were different enough that there's nothing at all inconsistent or thematically wonky about them getting two different narrative treatments in the finale.

(also, as others have pointed out, TGH is a really meaty book for egwene but she has relatively little to do in TSR, whereas rand is kind of slowburning in the first 3 books but his arc kicks into high gear in TSR, so it makes total sense to give egwene the biggest moments of the s2 finale because she'll take more of a backseat in s3 while rand comes to greater prominence.)

[peony-pearl]

"Iroh ignored Azula” Well what if I didn’t believe that and the greatest irony of Avatar is that Iroh was one of the folks who encouraged her strategic thinking that she would use to later hunt him down

[burnin0akleaves]

TEAR INTO

[escapedaudios]

Long ass post incoming: I'm fascinated by the idea of a victorious villain's narrative. It's an exceedingly rare thing. Ostensibly villainous narratives usually either dilute the evil by twisting themselves into knots to make the villain protagonist justified or empathetic. I never liked the idea that stories are meant to have morals. Ever since I was a child, I always thought the theme was enough. I found fascination in the idea that the wicked have their own untold stories that people are too afraid to write. There's so little material detailing the victory of evil characters that there is no template. There's no inverted monomyth, no long-standing pattern of The Villain's Journey, and that fascinates me. It's wide open for creative exploration. What would it look like?

A good villain must be formidable against the hero. The dark lord in his tower. But what was the climb to the top of that tower like? Why did they do it? What did they feel? Was there pride? Ambition? Fear, and the courage to overcome it? I think there are blind spots in telling this kind of story, because writers erroneously try to justify the motives of a character unconcerned with justice. They don't have to bother with that. Liberated from this, you can tell something much more raw and unconstrained.

Morality is much more malleable than most people are comfortable admitting. What is considered righteous is usually bound to a changing (and often politically influenced) service to whatever social order keeps people feeling safe. The lines we draw are more arbitrary than we want to think. Shifting perspective can move the line between a cruel invader and a brave explorer, a selfish usurper and a righteous rebel, a dangerous outcast and a fascinating renegade, a ruthless savage and an admirable survivor.

I think a good villain story doesn't come from trying to blur or move that line, but to just look away from it. To not care, to not worry if the audience is going to hate or romanticize the character and instead just tell the story and let it be what it is.

I feel like I intended a stronger point, I might revisit this later. Anyway I've been cooking up a villain story for a while. I want to write a character that openly hates, who regrets their acts of kindness and generosity, who stops caring about good and only sees their goal. Their antagonist will not be another, worse villain. Their antagonist will be a righteous person from the point of view of everyone except our evil protagonist. There won't be a downfall where they are punished, only a dark tower and the steep climb into its throne.

[utoshi-san]

"Путешествие на двоих"/"Escape journey" от Огерэцу Танака.

Итак второй том я прочитала гораздо быстрее. Он был наполнен драмой и сердечными переживаниями главных персов 🥺 а также там появился ещё один офигенный красавчик, к которому я прониклась симпатией. Надеюсь я когда нибудь узнаю его историю (мангака пишет и про второстепенных персонажей что-то типа слайд стори).

А ещё в этом томе парни наконец совершили каминаут и это пошло на пользу их отношениям ☺️ Ну милота же.

[240vo]

crawls out of my grave

[tilldeathdousart]

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[kiivg]

.Origins.