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(novels) pointlessly getting my hopes up

Nothing has been announced. But comic-growl (previously comic-bushi that was going to release the kyou kara maou S manga in 2021) has a new 'novel' section. ttps://twitter.com/comic_growl/status/1781231269382340789 Could it actually happen? It's been 14 years... This year I celebrate my 10th anniversary as a marumafan. I remember the first couple of years I thought "any day now" the next novel would come out. I'd be reading the forums in Japanese and everyone too speculated about it. But every time the twitter account announced something it was a cd, or a musical or something else. One day, maybe, I'll be able to buy novel 18.

#kyou kara maou s #kyou kara maou #maruma

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Aww!

Let's go! You have to see it!)))

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a fire broke out during the dispute💜💜💜

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"Аs for me, you are the best candidate for this role!"👑

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Helloo! So, I'm just getting into this fandom as of like... a day ago. I want to read the light novels, but I keep getting hung up on the fact that they're unfinished. It's just I don't want to invest so much time and energy into somethig that I will ultimately be left unsatisfied with closure-wise, you know? From the research rabbit hole I've found myself in (how I came across this blog to begin with) it seems like the story has a few different arcs. If I were to read up to the last complete arc, would it wrap up in a nice place or would I still be left on a sort of cliff-hanger?

Thank you!

Hello! I would say: maruma is a journey, not a destination. Picture it as a mildly BL Dragon Ball.

Technically, the last available novel ends in cliffhanger. However, if you read the manga, plus all the novels, plus all the extra stories,+ listen to the drama cds, (everything's available online), you might get a pretty good idea of how it's meant to wrap up. The last arc available pretty much foreshadows how it will end, plus some of the extra stories throw in some nice stuff.

If you'd like to consume everything: - I'd start with the anime, which is the worst adaptation of the novels. However the Japanese seiyuus are amazing, and if you listen to the drama cds those lovely voices will be easily recognizable and you'll associate voices and character design to what you will read in the novels.

If you'd like to skip the anime completely: Understandable and you will miss very little, the character adaptation in anime was garbage. (the plot changes completely after episode 40) . However, if you'd like to know why a lot of people in the fandom have a completely weird idea of certain characters' personalities, well... that's because of the anime adaptation (which, as you can imagine, is the most popular format to consume this series).

As for my recommendation... I mean... I love this shit. Watch it all, consume it all, bathe in it, roll in it.

If you wanna skip the anime, my recommendation would be, read all of the manga first to get an overarching idea of the plot/characters. Then, read the novels. along with the extra stories+ drama cds. Here're some links to guide you a bit in terms of drama cds and extra stories Drama cds: https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/626611889351327744/list-of-drama-cds-canon-rate-and-when-to-listen

Extra stories: https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/174365388404/hey-how-are-you-doing-i-found-out-about-kkm-some

I'm always here to answer questions, also my DMs are open.

tl;dr: anime-> manga-> novels+extra+dramacds (There's more stuff like musicals(3), radio shows (6 seasons) and games (2?3?), so you can get really into it if you want to... there's a lot of media to get through) If you only read the novels... please read the extra stories too!

#kyou kara maou #kkm #kyou kara maou s #maruma

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~ may we all remember what fandom culture should be ~

#kyou kara maou #kkm #maruma #and all other fandoms

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The Kyou Kara Maou Anime turns 20 in April

List of animes that turn 20 in April https://twitter.com/oricon_anime_/status/1774579932053610840

#kyou kara maou #kyou kara maou s #maruma #kkm

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ToT

"I'm not scared behind your back" 😏)))

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Chibi Wolfram and Chibi Yuuri)))

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Hello! I have a kkm question if you don't mind; has canon confirmed at what rate Yuuri is aging?

Hello!

Japanese fans had the same question and asked it to Takabayashi-sensei, who answered it in "Maru maru maru-MA", page 68.

Question: "Mazokus real age is "5 times that of their appearance" but Yuuri's appearance is that of his age, will this continue to be so? And if that's the case, does that mean that in 15 years he will look like a middle-aged man in his 30s and look older than Conrad and Wolfram and everyone else?"

Takabayashi-sensei: "While he's on Earth it's unlikely that Yuuri's aging process will change unless due to some extreme circumstances, but since Shin Makoku is in another world, where time passes differently, there is a possibility that coming and going from one world to another causes a gap between his appearance and age."

The canon itself though does make a point of Venera, a normal human, ending up living an extremely long life due to interacting with the forbidden box. As of novel 17, Yuuri has touched his box, so… most likely his age/life span has already been altered in several ways.

If I'm not mistaken (and I could be) even Greta's aging seems to have been altered due to being in a place full of maryoku... but please don't make me look for that source,,, cuz it might not exist XD "The lady is a witch" might be a place to go digging for that... maybe "do you want an exorcism" or something. On earth, however, aging occurs for everyone equally :)

Edit: WAIT A MOMENT, that's not true, damn Bob has lived way longer! wtf! XDD

I guess the right answer is, aging will occur depending on whether the author thinks it should or not XDDD

#kyou kara maou #kkm #maruma #goddamit sensei!

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Yuuri & Wolfram in modern clothes based off of stxticxoxo's post on tiktok!

The kkm brainrot is real

& also this is their song and no one could tell me otherwise

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-What is it, Yuuri? (quickly closes the book with the recipe for the love potion)

-Wolfram-san, I don't want to distract you, but could you help me with Gunter's homework, please🙏

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Hello! I think you're now the Yuuram prophet XD so I think you can help me with this. Is it ever explained what is exactly the Maou? I mean the Maou who shares a soul with Yuuri. What is it exactly? Where did it come from? Why was Cheri the previous Maou if technically Julia was the vessel before Yuuri? It just never made sense to me because the anime never explained it

Hello! Oh wow! Plot points explanations, okay.

The 'maous' are just a 'kings/queens' chosen by Shinou to rule the land. (this has nothing to do with being 'keys/vessels')

The 'keys'(vessels that you were talking about) are people with 'pieces of soushu' attached to 'souls' that 'open the boxes that contain the soushu'. These people were NOT related to Shinou.

The soushu according to the novels and the MaHon Encyclopedia Maru-mania (you can google that to find it) are 'entities that tried to swallow the entire world'. So when they were defeated by Shinou and a 'group of brave people' they were sealed into four boxes.

Why Cherie? Well… Cherie gave birth to 3 out of the 4 keys for Shinou and (in a cd "Secret" (written by the author) and novel story Gaiden04, Chapter 7.1, ) it is implied that Cherie is Shinou's descendant. This means Cherie following Shinou's command had 3 keys with potentially his blood (this is likely to be a plot point, but we never got there in the novels). (And she probably wouldn't have been able to do so if she wasn't the maou.)

More info about Cherie here https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/164589863984/cherie-post-kkm

more: https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/639340971871600640/i-just-read-the-post-about-cherie-andwow

-In 56. Kyou Kara MAou! Seisakoku DX! Return Trip, Disc 01 , track 8 Shinou and the Great Sage (these cds were written BY the author, also I think this is in manga?), Shinou and Daikenja talk and you can see why Murata left with boxes and keys…

-Shinou is just a 'strategist' trying to get all the boxes and keys back. And if you ask me, making the keys have his blood through Cherie just has something to do with that.

-Also in one of the gaidens, I think Gaiden 2, it's said that Yuuri's parents were chosen according to Shinou's specifications. So Shinou wanted something from Yuuri's parents specifically *(it's not said what), and chose them to make the body for the soul with the key.

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-What about the 'maou' (Uesama)? According to the encyclopedia

"Uesama (上様)The personality that appears when Yuuri activates the super maou mode. It has a low-pitched voice, speaks in difficult and complicated words, with the characteristics of half-assed historical drama lines. (Novel 2) "

It's interesting to note that they listed his first appearance in the SECOND novel although there was a Uesama in the first novel (when he fights Wolf)

Here's more info about Yuuri's soul and the soushu and all that over here:

https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/169402082789/about-the-boxes-and-the-keys

https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/169401741489/info-about-yuuris-soul

https://marumafan.tumblr.com/post/176647242649/maruma-analysis-soushu-what-is-happening-here

Lastly about Yuuri and soushu: Murata tells Yuuri in Gaiden 4 - Chapter 7,2 about how Yuuri 'may end up like him' , with all the voices of the previous lives in his head (and maybe taking over him)? So that he needs to be careful . I think this is mentioned again in Prison arc.

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Lastly, it's important to remember that when the novels started the author had NOT thought about the boxes plot at all, or vessels or anything like that.

The OG reason why someone became maou was "because Shinou said so".

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I have a bunch of analyses here, some about Julia and her life and death too: https://marumafan.tumblr.com/moarkkm

Edit to add: Furthermore Julia was probably a newborn when Cherie was named maou (Julia was about Gwen's age I believe?). Also, sending Conrad to retrieve the arm could have been part of Shinou's plot, killing Julia and using it as a way to make Connie get Berard's arm. (He traveled with one key : Julia, and came back with the other key: the arm), seems like keys and boxes can both travel easily.

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Yuuram still makes me emotional

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Hi! I'm not expecting you to reply but I still figured I'd ask. Could you explain why "people who wear uniform" would mean Yuuri liking boys? At first I thought his mom asked if he had an uniform fetish or something. I do see Yuuri as a gay man but that part kinda puzzled me. Love your blog, by the way! :)

Hi there! I feel it's better to just read the scene to fully understand why.

--- scene from Change--

"TV time is over. Listen, Yuu-chan. MAMA is a little worried about how you're spending the springtime of your life.

"If this is going to be a long lecture..."

In an attempt to retreat to the kotatsu in my own room, I lift my aching hips. Because I was sleeping in a strange position, I felt my spine creak and flinched for a second.

"Okay, don't leave just yet. As I thought, it's kinda weird."

"What is?"

"A high school boy like this? You don't think of anything other than baseball and training and you lie around the house. That's not normal, don't you think? A 16 year old should be wanting to get a girlfriend, going to town to pick up girls... wanting to have sex... no! I don't want to picture Yuu-chan like that!"

I don't want my mother picturing such things. Or rather, I don't even want her thinking about it.

"B-but as the mother of a teenage son, I'm inevitably prepared for such circumstances. I've been prepared since before your cute boy voice started changing. And also, from there on, for the road you'll take to become an old guy."

"It seems like you missed a part?"

Mom released an exaggerated sigh, and scenically brushed her eyebrows.

"But despite that, you spend all day in your room, decorated only with baseball posters and next year's CALENDAR of the Seibu Lions which you pre-purchased. You don't have a single porn book, and what I thought was a DVD for adults labeled "Seibu Lion's path to victory", didn't have any porn in it, but contained what the label actually said."

"You went through my room!?"

"I can't take it, there's such a big difference between you and your older brother that MAMA is worried. Could it be that the reason is 'that', Yuu-chan?"

She lowered her voice.

"... That you only love people in UNIFORMS?"

"N-no! You're wrong!"

"Do you want to go to therapy?"

"I don't~!"

"Oh, my. It's fine Yuu-chan, you don't need to cry. There's nothing wrong with you. It's not like it's a serious illness or anything like that."

It's not unthinkable that I may want to start crying.

Is this what a real mother does? To simply say out loud the things that they figured out about their son? A self proclaimed progressive mother is struggling with this?

--end scene-- That's why.

If you interpret it some other way, sure. For me, it's very clear mom is using euphemisms to talk about sexual orientation, but you know, to each their own.

Also, this story ends up with Yuuri going on a "Christmas date" with a guy. Sure, you could interpret it as 'just hanging out with a dude' but not in Japan. Going out with someone on Christmas is a date. (That's just popular knowledge in Japan.)

As I've stated "here" heteronormative thinking is taught. (don't be the lady in the photo)

One of these things isolated, sure, you're reaching. All of these things together have a very distinct meaning: Yuuri likes guys.

PS. You said "At first I thought his mom asked if he had an uniform fetish or something." If she's asking about a 'fetish' it's one about baseball dudes. She's not asking if he likes baseball, she's asking if he likes GUYS who wear uniforms without saying GUYS.

#decided not to delete after all

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I'm in my nostalgia era and I'm rewatching the guiltiest pleasure of them all...