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Hell, it's definitely gonna be frequently used by me, at least

today I used the phrase "breasting boobily" in casual real life conversation and everyone was shocked asking how I came up with that and I had to explain it. ive been at the devil's sacrament so long that I forgot he wasn't god

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I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we'd have so much fun with it.

Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going "I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them"

and then all the comments would be like " girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀"

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can you guys watch my squab for me im gonna go on my smoko

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Nothing like the friendship between a lesbian and her straight guy friend that calls her “dude”

Seimu and Enjin from Gachiakuta chapter 131

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Gachiakuta | OFFICIAL TRAILER

*incoherent screeching*

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I fucking love this manga

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In my review for Ichi ch.22, there was one topic I wanted to cover that I couldn't think of a good way to work in, so I decided to make it a separate post

Ichi's comment about not being able to conceptualize the future is, as far as I know, very unusual for a shonen protagonist

Most of Jump's heroes are defined by their ambitions, their dreams, their vision of the future

Even in Undead Unluck, where Andy's original end goal is to die, it's still portrayed as a plan for the future. "Some day, I'll be able to die, and when I do, it will be the Greatest Death Ever"

Ichi, on the other hand, isn't trying to die, he's simply accepted that one day he will die

Under normal circumstances, the acceptance of death would be the end of a character arc, the lesson to be learned, and yet Ichi already has that mentality

This does not mean there isn't a lesson for him to learn though. The problem isn't that he's at peace with the idea of death, it's that he's complacent about it

He claims to be terrified of the thought of dying, but he knows he has no control over it. Something's going to be stronger than him, or he's going to be in a situation he can't get out of, and death is just going to take him suddenly one day. And if it's going to happen someday, what difference does it make if it's today?

This mentality causes him to play things fast and loose. Jumping into a shark's mouth, allowing himself to pass out in front of a malevolent god just for the chance to land one hit on a hunch, these are the kinds of reckless actions that are par for the course for a "brave" hero, but most heroes act like that because they have absolute faith in their abilities

Ichi, though? After he failed to kill the World Hater, he basically just said "whoops, guess that's it for me!" He just doesn't seem to care too much

However, that's still not totally unique to Ichi

One Piece's Luffy also had a moment very early on where he found himself in a situation he couldn't escape, captured by Buggy and shackled to the gallows out of reach of his friends, and once it became clear that he had no way out, he simply smiled and declared "sorry guys, guess I'm dead"

Both Ichi and Luffy made an effort to survive and to win, but when faced with a death they couldn't avoid, they accepted their fate with a smile

So why is Luffy's reaction to the same scenario treated by the narrative as a heroic trait while Ichi's is treated as a lack of self-preservation?

There are a ton of thematic reasons for this dichotomy, like their dynamics with the people around them who they'd hypothetically be leaving behind, but I think the most notable in this instance is the very premise of this analysis: because Ichi has no ambition

When Luffy is faced with certain death, it's because he was working to achieve his dream. He knew the risks of living his life that way, but it was his choice, and complaining about the outcome would be the same as admitting he regrets that choice

"If I die, then that's all I was worth anyway" is a recurring sentiment from both Luffy and Zoro, meaning that if they want to be the best, they have to prove that they're better than everyone else. Dying would just prove that they weren't, but it's better than living without trying

Ichi, on the other hand, is just...dying. He's not dying for anything, he's just fighting something outside of his wheelhouse because he's curious what his own ceiling is. He knows something is going to be strong enough to kill him, but it's just fun to push that boundary. He's not trying to prove anything or make anything of himself, he's just after the high, and like any illicit drug, he runs the risk of an overdose when chasing bigger and bigger dragons

Luffy has an end goal, accepts the possibility that he'll never reach it, but wholeheartedly believes that he will

Ichi has no end goal, finds considering anything past today stressful, and instead lives so fast that there's a real possibility he won't have to worry about tomorrow ever again

In video game terms, Luffy is living his life on Story Mode and going for the Best Ending, while Ichi is living his on Arcade Mode and is just seeing how high of a score he can get before he runs out of quarters

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Hehe... BOOBies

why are ghosts always person-sized in the movies? they don’t have bodies anymore. one of ‘em should have figured out how to work that shit. one of them could be … her 😳

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I clocked this series as being "on some Jojo type shit" almost at first sight and honestly the more I see the more right I think I was

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Look how cute she is.

She has shot three people in the head already at this point, including herself.

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This is what we call a long lasting romance

when you both forget your wedding but you know the other definitely forgot too so you turn it into a competition because you’re the exact same sort of freak

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OKAY. PLEASE READ UNDEAD UNLUCK. CLICK THIS TO SEE HOW INSANE I AM

SO THE BIG THING IS THAT IT'S CRAZY HOW GOOD ALL THE PLOTTING IS? ITS SO INTRICATE BUT IT STARTS OUT SO SIMPLE WITH TWO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUPER POWERS JUST RUNNING AWAY FROM A SECRET SOCIETY THAT WANTS TO CAPTURE THEM. BUT THEN IT TURNS OUT THE SECRET SOCIETY ARE THE GOOD GUYS? AND THEY'RE PREVENTING THE APOCALYPSE? BUT ALSO THERE'S A TIME LOOP AND ANOTHER SECRET SOCIETY THAT OPPOSES THEM AND A MANGA THAT PREDICTS THE FUTURE AND IT ALL GETS SO INSANE. AND ALL THE WHILE YOU HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL BLOOMING LOVE STORY INTERWOVEN THROUGH IT ALL. AND EVERY OTHER EPISODES IT HITS YOU WITH THE ENTIRE LIFE STORY OF SOME CHARACTER YOU ONLY JUST MET AND YOU COME OUT OF IT FEELING LIKE YOU'VE KNOWN THAT CHARACTER YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. LIKE TATIANA AND ANNO UN ARE TWO OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS EVER NOW. TATIANA SPENDING HER ENTIRE LIFE INSIDE THAT BALL NEVER BEING ABLE TO TOUCH ANYONE BECAUSE OF HER POWER AND THEN FINALLY SHE ENCOUNTERS THE ONE PERSON WHO GOES OUT OF THEIR WAY TO REACH HER AND MAKE HER FEEL SPECIAL AND WANTED. AND HOW HER AND FUUKO BOTH CANT FREELY TOUCH ANYONE AND THEY BOND OVER THAT. AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON ANNO UN AND HOW THEY SAW THE FUTURE AND SPENT LIKE 40 YEARS PREPARING FOR THE MOMENT THE TIMELINE WOULD SPLIT SO THEY COULD CREATE A BETTER FUTURE. AND ALL THE WHILE NOBODY COULD EVER PERCEIVE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR POWER? AND THE ONLY WAY TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE WAS THROUGH THEIR MANGA. AND AFTER THAT NOBODY WILL EVER PERCEIVE THEM AGAIN. OH MY GOD. AND ALL THAT ASIDE THE ACTION IS JUST REALLY GOOD??? AND I LOVE ANDY AND FUUKO'S ROMANCE IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL. HER FINALLY HAVING THIS ONE PERSON HER POWERS CAN NEVER ENDANGER. AND HER CONSTANTLY CHANGING HIM FOR THE BETTER. IM INSANE. I AM INSANE. I NEED SLEEP

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Source

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This chapter is gunna end me. There are no words to describe the feeling of anticipation that this image gives me.

Undead Unluck final color page 😭

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Don't mind me just sobbing and crying rn

Undead Unluck ch.237 thoughts

[GAME! Final Results...]

(Topics: thematic analysis - loss/acceptance, speculation - epilogue)

nOOO!!! Clothy!!! My son!!!

I failed you! I thought for sure I found a way to keep you alive, but we still lost you...!!!

Hic...no...no, it had to be this way, didn't it...loss was always a part of this story. The acceptance of death, found through the reflection of one's life, is one of the primary themes of the narrative, someone had to go, and Clothy's circumstances provided a perfect opportunity for that

Say Yes to the Dress

He represents the loss of the UMAs as a whole while also giving someone for Fuuko to grieve. He gives Tozuka the chance to illustrate what the world looks like without UMA while also letting us, the audience, feel the weight of that change. But most of all, he primes us for what's to come

You may have noticed that Clothy's once monstrous face has significantly softened over time. In recent chapters, his eyes have been ovular and cartoonish, but in this chapter in particular, he has a familiar distinctive brow and toothy grin. In this chapter, Clothy looks exactly like Andy

Clothy has gained the same mentality as Andy. He's lived more than long enough and achieved far more than he was ever meant to accomplish. He has nothing to regret, and his legacy is secured. All of humanity will still have clothes, but more importantly, in his final act, he leaves a parting gift for his friends to remember him by: a wedding dress, for Andy and Fuuko's union, keeping him alive in the hearts of those who mattered most to him

Seeing such a dear friend pass on with literally the same smile as Andy feels like foreshadowing for the main event to come. By showing us the event in miniature, Tozuka prepares us mentally for the real thing, helping it to feel less sudden and easing the pain of it: giving us time to accept it ourselves

But like I said last week, there's still one member of the cast who may not be ready to accept these losses

It's All Ruined

With the removal of all Negation abilities, the logical conclusion is that Ruin, who presumably is still floating in the thermosphere, immediately died upon losing Unruin. Funny as that is to think about, though, Ruin was surely brought back to Earth and restored the same way that everyone else's bodies were healed

How he'll reunite with the cast is unclear for now, but I think his role will be to question the value of the final outcome, to illustrate what the cost of losing this fantastical world really was. We take at face value that this is the ideal outcome, but like everything else, it's a matter of perspective, and Ruin's isn't invalid just because it's unpopular

Japanese fans have been quick to point out that the kanji that Luna uses when she says that Negator abilities will be "extinguished" are 消滅 (shometsu). Extinguish is a fine translation, but the first kanji alone would suffice for that; the second kanji carries the connotation of destruction, complete erasure, and most interestingly, ruin

Yes, it's the kanji that is specifically used in Unruin. This implies that, in some way, this action is ruinous, so some folks believe that Ruin's Negator ability will overcome this "reward," and as I suggested last week, he might be able to use it to bring back at least the UMAs if not other Negator abilities and Artifacts. On some level I feel like that would invalidate the emotion of Clothy's "death," but I also think it would make for an interesting final philosophical debate

If nothing else, I think the conclusion of Ruin's story will play on Luna's last words:

"We will no longer intervene in this world. We will simply continue to watch over it as the Sun and Moon from here. A place no one knows. A place with no Gods."

The Great Beyond

This line implies the existence of an afterlife, and may refer to the Subspace that souls have been established to go to since, presumably, no one actually remembers Subspace after death. Everyone has conversed with their predecessors' souls at this point, but that's all anyone remembers from Subspace, so there's no evidence that anyone actually knows anything concrete about it

If that's the case, then it's likely that the UMAs that became the laws of nature also passed onto this afterlife. I don't think that Ruin is actually going to revive the UMA, but I do think he'll have a way to reach or communicate with Subspace, giving us a glimpse at how the UMA have established their own world distinct from that of humans. I wouldn't be surprised if Ruin himself even finds a way to travel to that world, abandoning this one for good

The idea of Ruin giving up on life in our world may seem antithetical to the messages of the story, but remember, Fuuko said she wanted to make a world where people could make their own decisions without being subject to the whims of the Gods. A place where people who want to live can live, and people who want to die can die

If Ruin doesn't want to live in this new world, because he can find no place in it, then it should be his right to leave it and pursue the life that he does want. Again, it may show the downsides to the world that Fuuko created, but even this is a matter of perspective

Regardless of what happens if or when Ruin comes back to Earth, though, there is one much more glaring downside to the rewards Luna gave out: the loss of Fuuko's memories

Will You Love Me Again?

Because they're just items, the loss of the Artifacts seemed like it was going to be a bit of an afterthought, the least impactful of the three Rewards. If Apocalypse were still around, he'd have a moment like Clothy's, but he got his months ago, so he didn't need to compete for screentime here

However, the presence of The Heart, even depleted, was the only thing keeping Fuuko's memories intact. The moment it vanished, as its shell shattered, so too did Fuuko's memories, their fragments fading away in one of my favorite panels that Tozuka has ever produced. If we ever make it to the anime, this is the moment I'm most excited for

To drive the weight of this moment home, we see Akira bidding farewell to Anno Un, we see Shen and Mui fall from Kinto'un as they try to make their way to Fuuko, and we see Latla running to her only to trip as Blade Runner is replaced with her original leg. The Artifacts were not an afterthought, they were a key component of this world and these characters, and their loss cannot be overstated, even if everyone is ultimately better off

While some of the cast are impeded from coming to Fuuko's side by the sudden change and others are simply paralyzed, the only one who makes it to Fuuko is Tatiana. Fuuko's first friend and her final recruit to the Union, finally wearing clothes like Fuuko wanted to see her in, and Fuuko doesn't even recognize her

The tables have completely turned. Though Fuuko can finally touch whoever she likes, she's the one who can't wear the clothes she wants to, completely unaware of the significance of the dress in front of her. Now she's the one who can't remember the pains and the joys of her life before now, the one who is no longer the person she was before that everyone wanted to be with

"I want to wear that dress the way I am right now." That line, echoing what she said before initiating the loop, "I want to live in that world with everyone as they exist now," is simply heartbreaking. The saddest line in the entire series in my opinion, as it highlights how Fuuko is the only one not to reap the benefits of her own efforts

And yet...it carries hope

Because that line doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's not a lamentation, it's a request, her final order as the boss of the Union: "bring me back." And of course, Andy responds: "leave it to me"

As Luna fades away and Fuuko looks on in confusion at the bittersweet expressions of the gathering of strangers, the man holding the dress catches her attention: "yo, brat. You free right now?"

With Fuuko's memories gone, the man known as Andy is dead. All that remains is a long-lived man with no name and no place in the world, a wanderer looking for meaning. Fortunately, he knows where to find it: with the girl who gave him his name and a place to belong, a reason to live. The goal is the same as it always was: get her to fall in love with him, make a happy life together, and see it through to the end

The Greatest Death Ever

Until next time, let's enjoy life!

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Hhhhnnnnnnnngggggg...

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*dies of the agonies*

*Vomiting and Screaming*