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Reveries of the Moonlight: drugs and vampires

Not really an opinion but I really want to show you guys about Reveries of moonlight since I think it’s worth reading

Alternative title: Phantasmal tale under the moonlight

“After losing everything to the Vampires, Segun meets the Vampire hunter Silvester to become a hunter for himself. "Welcome to the world of the psychedelic moon.”

The manhwa itself promises an interesting vampire story, it was adapted by a Korean light novel called Wolyahwandam Chaewolya (월야환담 채월야) written by Hong Jeonghun meanwhile the manhwa was illustrated by Ko Jin Ho

If you want a crazy protagonist, then this manhwa is perfect for you.

His name is Segun Han (AKA junkie hunter) in my view, he’s cold and not very kind, he would do anything to complete his goal (eradicate the vampires! spoiler: then later another race lol)

Aside of crazy vampire, how about a mysterious mentor (or to say, older hunter?)

His name is Silvestre, AKA Jinma slayer (tear seeker as well!) do not try to guess his age by his appearance, he’s way older than you might think.

Vampires are much stronger than humans. For hunters to fight them, they use vampiric blood, also AKA physcedelic moon (well uh, what they do is injecting that to them, it’s like a type of drug I would say) once you inject it, your wounds will be able to regenerate and such (probably enhanced movements and more things as well… I forgot)

Unfortunately this is all I have to say, however… one last thing, my favorite panels and artworks! (some of them may contain spoilers)

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Terror man: a deep dive to it’s visual and narrative

Hii after brainstorming ideas of what I could talk about… I have decided to talk about my favorite manhwa Terror man (테러맨)

Honestly I was going to write a simple opinion about it but I felt an little guilty that wouldn’t do any effort to express my opinion about my favorite manhwa, so I decided to do my best to talk every small detail about it (not really hahah)

Terror man is about a boy that has a superpower that can predict misfortune about 10-15 minutes before it happens, and he disguises himself as a terrorist to use his abilities to secretly save people from disasters

Extra note: Terror man is the 5th work of Superstring, produced by YLAB, author Han Dong-woo, artist Ko Jin-ho and some unnamed background artists

I started reading Terror man mid-way 2020

I actually loved every tinniest bit of it, I absolutely love how the way it sometimes goes from the dynamic action scenes to the complicated details of the characters appearances and surroundings.

And what I liked the most, I love how the fact the artist uses vivid colors to create a sense of intensity and drama of the situation, the artist always uses bright colors like red, orange or yellow when there’s a moment of action or danger, it could also show the intense emotions of the characters sometimes

(The last picture is from Terror vs Revival, I just remembered that.)

Small extra note: it seems like the artist loves the color blue haha

I think the aspects of the narrative made it interesting too, sometimes it uses flashbacks and nonlinear storytelling (I’m 99% sure they used that type of narrative) to progress the story and unpack more lore of the story in a interesting way!! honestly, I don’t know what to say but the fact that the narrative is actually pretty well-crafted that I got stuck with this manhwa even to today lol

I think I ran out of what to say more so I’m just gonna show you guys some of my favorite panels of Terror man

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Loneliness and Empathy in the world of Houseki no Kuni

Hii!! I have been keeping this in my head for while and I ended up deciding to do a blog regarding it (my first blog here!) and I think I have everything done to be able to explain my point of view of something have seen in Houseki no Kuni.

I watched Houseki no Kuni in 2020. the anime beautiful landscapes immediately caught my attention, but as I saw more, I had a feeling of loneliness in the series backgrounds even though the characters were there.

I feel like those landscapes actually shows how lonely everyone is

Despite living together and fighting as a team, they’re still lonely, most of them seems to not to care much about each other's well-being. the only thing they care is the work they must do. They wouldn’t even ask someone to hang out, ask how they are doing or anything like a friendship.

In the beginning Phos was weak, so the gems would not be interested to her that much, when Phos got new legs, more gems started talking to her, so pretty much basically they only got interested in her when she became useful and no longer a burden to them.

What I’m saying is that almost no one else cares for each other, so they’re alone.