#Manga Insights

[kyouka-supremacy]

Me the next manga chapter: Okay can we skip everything else and get directly to the cool sskk scene

#Unless the manga doesn't follow the anime the next chapters are going to be so boring ;;;;;; #Like. Not really. Of course reading the manga will still be enjoyable & insightful and it's probably a better medium compared to the anime. #But there will be a loss of enjoyment for not knowing what's going to happen next... #Especially since one has to fill the time between one chapter and the other which is one month. #What else is it to do if one already knows what's going to happen #Read another manga ig #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd s5 #mine

[13eyond13]

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

#im talking about griffith btw #guts i feel i get intuitively - maybe because i have some personality traits in common with him #and we get more about his life concretely told to us in canon. so he is a bit easier to pin down as a character and feel attached to for me #but whenever i was reading the manga i just kept wanting more insight about griffith's actions and feelings #like ok yeah its fun to have mysterious antagonists and suspense /tension etc but its also fun to feel like you deeply understand them too #and i felt like that was a bit missing from him for me in canon #so reading about him in analysis and fics is the most fun for me rn #he always felt kinda half unreal to me- which maybe was the point of him - but i wanted a bit more about his childhood or something? #and wished we had more stuff explicitly from his pov in the story to read or explanation about his transformation or wtv #and now he's so much more closed off to me even than he was in the golden age. i keep waiting for him to explain stuff and he does not #ANYWAYS all this rambling to say some people out there are very good at interpreting him and making his like. insecurities #more obvious to me bc i didnt really get that side of him from canon intuitively well #also im really enjoying reading the first few berserk fics ive read #there may not be a ton of them out there but there is def writing talent in the fandom #i'll share some recs once i'm done sifting through most of what's out there to read #also (not to tie everything back to death note but it IS my home fandom after all) #i feel griffith is obvs the more light-like character here and L maybe a bit guts-like? but unlike berserk in death note #light is the one you get to know best and L is the mysterious / unreal one you don't get a lot of concrete insight into #and in the DN fandom I can read the more mysterious character intuitively but had to warm up to the less mysterious one instead #and the mystery of L makes sense to me and doesnt bug me as much due to like - he HAS to hide a lot about himself or else he will die lol #so some similarities there but also some opposite feels as well #berserk spoilers #p

[ruminiscence]

Character Analysis of Johan Liebert - Monster, Naoki Urasawa (2004)

In my opinion, Johan represents Jung's concept of the shadow, which is why both Tenma and Nina couldn't kill him in the end. Despite tirelessly, and relentlessly going after him. If they did end up doing so, they would be destroying themselves in the process. The constant fear on Tenma's face once he heard the buzz words 'monster' and 'inside of me' highlights his underlying fear. It is, of course, aggravating, considering how close they both were to killing Johan (multiple times, might I add). But, to them, it would have come at too high a cost.

Consequently, Johan was not the monster he and everyone thought him to be. The forgiveness Nina offered to Johan (as well as) Tenma’s acceptance (in a way) gave Johan that validation. In my opinion, Johan had an identity problem, not a complete lack thereof, as most people say. Johan completely understood how senseless the world is; the picture book from his childhood made sense of that senselessness. That narrative (mostly born from the book) gave significance to his existence, whether he knew it or not. I found it interesting that he went through several names throughout his life, but ‘Johan Liebert’ was recurring. Whether this is just for convenience's sake, I don’t know.

The scene where we see his reaction when re-reading the book (likely the first time since he was a child) furthers this notion. Johan's facial expressions are to be paid attention to, every single one, even if they barely change. We see the most significant change in his face in the final scene: that of sheer disappointment, hopelessness, and defeat. His master plan did not go accordingly; the plan was for him to be completely wiped off the face of the earth, rendered fictitious. The drunk man who unexpectedly shot him stripped him of that. So did Tenma, in not allowing Johan to kill/destroy his (Tenma’s) altruistic nature.

Johan's perfect suicide ultimately fails because he is not the nameless monster he believed himself to be; this is shown merely in the fact that he does not kill (nor even think about killing) Nina & Tenma; he realised that they are the only two people to understand him in this world. This also explains Johan's bizarre attachment to Tenma from the get-go (which also makes a lot of sense). In the scene where we listen to the tape, we're made aware of Johan's desperation; he does not want to forget 'Anna'; he believes they are the only two people in the world. Later on, Tenma was added to that list. Hence, every other person's life is rendered meaningless to Johan; this is the reason for his remorseless killings, of course. He killed everyone that could eventually be tied into his and Anna/Nina's existence, and arguably Tenma, too.

I also think Johan eventually lets go of this (seemingly) obsession with names in the final scene. Whether the last scene of him and Tenma speaking was a dream or not remains significant. Before Tenma reveals his potential real name to Johan, the subject is changed. This is when we learn about the biological mother's sacrifice. Despite her not choosing to sacrifice Johan, he still doubts the decision. All of this is to say that perhaps the failure of his perfect suicidal plan was, in fact, the real success after all. He successfully kills everyone who does not know him but knows of the nameless monster's existence. This explains why the only two people on this earth who did are still alive and were eventually saved emotionally.

In a way, they also saved Johan too. Hence the *seemingly* peaceful disappearance from the hospital. He just wanted to be understood. This is also why I believe he asked Nina to shoot him as a child and then again all those years later. His mother placed this seed of doubt, which he seemed confident in, but because of Nina's existence, he could extend this and not be entirely solid in this sense of doubt. He latched this on to Nina's being, hence merging their identities. As a child, he did seek her forgiveness despite his contradictory actions (asking to be shot). When she finally offered forgiveness in a similar situation later on, the doubt was gone. That little spec of forgiveness and acceptance was all he needed. Acceptance is not to say that he wanted her or even Tenma to accept his actions; hence, Johan says, 'We can't turn back now' when Nina does forgive him. Other people and their deaths (at his hands) simply did not matter to him; he was utterly indifferent to it. So evidently, that one thing mattered to him, which he mostly did not believe to be real; it turned real, giving him what he had so desperately been looking for since childhood. He is saved. The only three people that mattered in the show (concerning Johan's essence) are saved. 

#johan liebert #monster anime #anime review #character analysis #kenzo tenma #nina fortner #anna liebert #naoki urasawa #nihilism #carl jung #anime and manga #anime recommendation #thriller #psychological thriller #psychology #philosophy #human behaviour #insights #thoughts #my thoughts #dr tenma #monster #monster manga #anime #johan monster #tenma monster #naoki urasawa's monster

[wondrousmay]

An interview with Shihei Lin (manga editor of SPY x FAMILY) and his relationship with Endo Tatsuya

Translated by Twitter user: jewelbean_jp

Original article

#spy x family #tatsuya endo #endo tatsuya #sxf manga #a very good interview which gives us an insight into Endo-sensei’s work ethic! #he takes his work very seriously! #i hope he takes all the break he needs #revising the entire movie script on top of being a supervisor on the anime AND working on the manga is just a lot of work!

[fumifooms]

fumi i hope you know that in an extra of how laios' party is formed he is explicitly banned from getting a crush on marcille.

like i know you went in depth on the trauma he has because of humans on your laimar post about the succubus but please know that he was explicitly banned its so goddamn funny.

im crying laughing while typing this out happy laimar love loses 🥂

Lmao yeah 🥂

It’s a very fun comic! The marriage seeker mystery can finally be put to rest 😌 I don’t really think it changes much, that it overrides anything we knew or that I theorized, esp since we already knew about the party-wide romance ban, but the meme potential (and fic potential) IS so strong now that we know Laios was the one most targeted and distrusted of all… And trust was the biggest issue, romance brings nothing but trouble in their minds but the trouble they experienced with the marriage seeker was because she was disingenuous and manipulative and Laios was oblivious, and as time went on the party realized that Marcille was trustworthy and they stopped worrying about that particular scenario happening. It can def bring a new meaning to the "This is my succubus?!! No one can see it no one can know AAAAA" line though lmfaoo. It’s so funny and honestly such a win for aroace Laios

#I’ve been wanting to make a post detailing the history/timeline of the Touden party and its members so it helps out so much #Ask #Laimar #Spoilers #Laios going for her throat when she tries a kiss because of his workplace conduct contract #Laios post-canon going to Chilchuck like So if i wanted to date Marcille…… Am I allowed… #Chilchuck ‘… Laios the party disbanded a year ago. You’re the king’ #‘Whew ok thank goodness’ #Dungeon meshi manga spoilers #Honestly Chilchuck in that extra comic takes up all my brain space the rest is just sprinkles on Chil’s introduction. I love the insight #we got on how he does business. HE LOOKED LIKE A MEAN COWBOY WHEN YOU ENTER THE WRONG SALOON #Oh might as well say it here but i think many ppl are following me lately expecting laimar content and </3 #You’ll have to send asks to pry laimar content out of me bc I have moved on to greener pastures. #Aka overanalyzing every pixel of marchil interactions #Meta

[twixfamily]

ok but here’s the thing. twilight probably assumes that a REAL FATHER would run home to his REAL DAUGHTER after a near fatal hostage situation and shower her with affection… oh he HAS to give her a hug with yor there watching! what if someone asks what his reaction was and it isn’t convincing enough? operation strix could be compromised if he doesn’t react the right way!

so if we get any emotional reunion between the two of them i think he’ll use that as an excuse. of course i believe he wad genuinely worried about her safety (he left a mission early to help her!!) but there’s no way in hell he acknowledges those feelings to belong to twilight rather than loid

#this is how we can still win #ofc i think his reaction at the end of chap 75 is very realistic to his character and agree 100% with his reaction #but #i truly would be surprised if endo doesn’t give some sort of insight into twilights feelings #but like my other post. i don’t think it’ll be some huge tearful reaction #it also is dependent on anya’s reaction when he gets home #all i need is a panel of him admitting he was a teeny tiny bit afraid that she would die especially after seeing a BOMB around her NECK #do y’all remember the two week gap where we all thought it was a real bomb #anyway sorry for clogging up the tag i just really love the resolution of this arc #spy x family #twilight spy x family #loid forger #yor forger #anya forger #spy x family manga spoilers #sxf spoilers

[miodiodavinci]

taking a break from working to say man. if the end up having to cut content to fit everything in 24 episodes, my favorite chapter of dungeon meshi is almost certainly getting cut skdjfhglj

#again i have no idea if they're going to try to fit everything into 24 episodes #or if they'll come back next season with another 24 to finish it up #but thinking about the story as a whole #i feel like my favorite chapters are some of the least crucial to the story overall in terms of broad strokes #which has me like damnb . . . . . . . . i was really hoping for it skdjfhlgkjsdf #again ! ! ! there's no use in me exhausting any thought over it #because either it happens or it doesn't and it's not like me thinking about it will change that #but man. i want. the changeling arc animated to badly it's so funny and one of my favorite bits of the story sdfjhgljksdf #shapeshifter arc too because oughhhh the insights into everyone's perceptions of one another ksjdhfgljsdf #like of course i am awaiting griffin soup like a hungry dog because WAILING WAUHHGHG #and the chances of them cutting that are Low unless they're like #speed running the end of the story or pulling an original fma and just outright writing a new ending that gets them out of dealing with #(gestures) literally everything that happens in the second 50 chapters of the series #though that feels less likely considering that they've been sticking to the manga pretty closely even after The Tone Shift #um. i. um. #i should probably get back to work and stop worrying about dungeon meshi huh. #um. i just hope we get the changeling arc that is my final message change da world goodbye

[ourhouseishaunted]

my brain for the past like 2 weeks

#.txt #trigun #specifically #trimax #i am rotating her in my head always she is so fascinating to me i have so many thoughts i could write a novel #shes captivating to me. as a person #tbh her and tesla and the dependant plants as like. catalysts for so many emotions in the story but we dont get real insight into #their internal lives #and rem captivates me specifically bc shes so complicated wrt her actions with tesla but also the way she talks about leaving earth #and the idea of giving up on her home planet and putting her whole fresh start into seeds and then immediately making #the worst mistake of her life (tesla) and then starting over blank Again with vash and knives and how that all turned out #like!!!! the emotions going on there for her must be insane. i think about it Literally Constantly #and how it all ties into the mangas theme of the potential to be better vs the people you hurt before getting there #im literally obsessed with her #also she dresses like a lesbian electrician and i really like that vibe for her. im not immune #rem saverem #holding her in my hands i just think shes neat #also i have a whole incoherent google doc filled with random scenes from idk iguess the rem pov novel that lives in my brain?? #maybe ill clean them up and post them one day that is a threat #also i love fat baby knives in the itty bitty manga screencap i chose. i just know hes the densest baby alive #normal looking baby who you pick up and handles like a bag of wet cement

[youremarvelous]

tbqh I started reading skip and loafer because...well, okay, initially because I saw it on the shelf at kinokuniya and thought it looked cute...but then after reading up on what it's about, I thought it might deliver on examining the dynamic between a secure attachment style girl and an insecure attachment style guy that mlb fails at so spectacularly.

and you know what? I was right. there are certainly differences, but the core dynamic is there. our lead, mitsumi, grew up surrounded by unconditional love and has a healthy self-esteem as a result and our male lead, shima, was raised as a child actor in an abusive household and learned to prioritize everyone's wants and needs over his own to keep the peace. the way their dynamic plays out is messy, realistic, and so satisfying. if you're an mlb fan who finds the adrinette dynamic to be dull as dishwater as woefully underexplored and bland as I do, I highly recommend skip and loafer as a palate cleanser. (with a bonus of queer representation and wonderfully realized, dynamic, and realistic side characters)

some bonus adrien and shima parallels:

#mlb salt #what mlb could be if we ever get to have insight into adrien's emotions outside of their relevance to his romance with marinette #full disclosure: I haven't watched the anime - only read the manga #but I've heard good things about it #mlb writing salt #katy watches mlb

[severeweatheralert]

Chishiya's childhood neglect being such a core part of his character that it's one of the few insights into his backstory we get. Chishiya following in his father's footsteps to become a doctor despite (because of?) that neglect. Chishiya chosing to specialize in pediatric heart surgery because at some, entirely subconscious level he recognized he should've been treated differently. Chishiya immediately becoming complicit in the death of a child who should have been granted a donor heart. Chishiya, in the Borderlands, numb.

#i am blending show and manga chishiya as i see fit lol #look this is a bit more emo than he actually is but im having emotions. its been months since i last consumed the entire canon but. still. #this man has zero emotional insight in both himself and others #i just enjoy the Themes they are There and i choose to believe they are there on Purpose #alice in borderland #chishiya

[ame-gojo]

HES SOOOOO ASKSHDJSHK

#you don't understand...their r/s is so dear to me #i think it gives alot of insight into gojou's character #jjk manga spoilers #ame.ramblings

[muninnhuginn]

The thing about Nightfall is that yeah she needs further development, but if you look at the bones of what's there and compare her to both Twilight and Yuri you can still find some fascinating insights.

If you start with Twilight, he was her mentor and taught her to compartmentalise her emotions away as he does. Twilight hasn't yet realised himself but he has been slowly moving past that to feel genuine emotions with his family (something that Nightfall herself noted). By contrast, Nightfall hasn't. She's stagnant, her only real deviation from Twilight's teachings being her crush on him.

(That said, we know the position Twilight was in when he joined WISE and that attempting to lock away emotions is an unhealthy coping mechanism designed as a teaching. We've seen how both Twilight and his own mentor Handler have been affected by their prior experiences, so what's Nightfall's story? How did she end up in this same unhealthy postion and will she join Twilight and Handler in starting to break that cycle?)

In terms of how Nightfall compares to Yuri, it comes down to their relationship with their most important person. Yuri latched onto Yor because they lost their parents at a young age and Yor had to step in a provide that role, sacrificing her own childhood in the process. However, he's still locked into that childhood phase where he idealises Yor and doesn't listen to or accept that she's moving on with her life. She still wants him in it, but she wants him to get the hint when he's making her uncomfortable or being rude to Loid.

If we then look at Nightfall, we can see the same behaviour of idealising and not seeing the person for who they are. Nightfall does see that Twilight genuinely feels something for his family but she then spins that into a further idealisation of Twilight and condemnation of Yor. This is a repeating pattern with her. She believes she could do a better job than Yor and yet she demeans the very aspects of Yor that Twilight appreciates, showing that her own understanding of him is paper-thin.

The part of this the story hasn't yet explored is *why* she latched onto Twilight. She latched onto him as Yuri did Yor and allows herself this one breaking of the doctrine. If you look at all the pieces it seems that she was in a dark place and feels that Twilight, a kindred spirit, saved her. The question now is: now that he is moving on, can she start to move on too?

#spy x family #spy x family manga spoilers #(playing it safe) #anyway I do think Nightfall will have further development but at this point Yuri is getting the exploration (away from Yor) #there is enough there that can provide insight and the more other characters begin to grow the more apparent it is how she's frozen in time

[iris-nonsense]

I don't know one of the most primordial fears is the fear of death, if there is something that is common to every living creature, no matter how week or strong, is trying to survive

#i would like for sukuna to elaborate on this it can be an interesting insight on his character #also the nnoitra vibes are strong in this one #iris reads jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk manga spoilers #sukuna ryomen

[wardenkader]

“Please don’t get bored with me.”

#dragon age #dragon age: inquisition #varric tethras #Lavellan #varric #cailen lavellan #my art #da:I #anyway self indulgent something or other for my own needs #I was reading too much romance manga this weekend and while I’ll never achieve that sort of emotional devastation #I will try dammit #anyway Cailen is low key terrified that Varric will see him as ‘boring’ #aka not worthy of attention or deeper insight #meanwhile his heart goes doki doki any time he looks at that stupid dwarf’s face

[miserye]

I found out gilyoung doesn’t call dokja hyung in the official webtoon and it’s killing me

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #I’m falling apart #they can’t do this #the whitewashing of manga is so real and personal to me #you’re telling me they couldn’t bother to keep any of the korean integrity in this webtoon???????? #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #rye uses this tumblr like fucking twitter #I’m so #not only this they got rid of the last names #I’m so sorry to say but I actually support reading orv illegally because at least they keep korean honorifics #they are so deep and personal to me #it adds depth and flavor to their characters #it provides so much insight #English is so Surface level in terms of referring to relationships #if you get rid of the honorifics you lose so much nuance it’s insane #we are already losing so much by not being in korean #I’m going to cry #oryev #chatterye

[irlkisukeurahara]

sojun kuchiki should've showed up in turn back the pendulum and the koga flashbacks in the zanpakuto rebellion and i will stand by this until the day i die

#we need more of byakuya's wholesome dad #we need more insight into the kuchiki family #we need to see how father and son interacted #WE HAVE TO KNOW KUBO #kubo did him dirty real #bleach #bleach anime #anime #byakuya kuchiki #kuchiki byakuya #kuchiki clan #sojun kuchiki #kuchiki sojun #turn back the pendulum #zanpakuto rebellion arc #bleach manga #rambles with miles