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this manga really said dumb and dumber 😭

From: Randen to Saga

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Extraordinary You 

Also known as: Suddenly July, Ha Roo Found by Chance, Suddenly One Day, A Day Found by Chance, July Found by Chance,  ‎어쩌다 발견한 하루

Air time: 2019

Episodes: 32 (but they are 30 min long and were aired in pairs)

Cast: Kim HyeYoon, Rowoon, Lee JaeWook,

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy, Manhwa

quick points about the show.

super funny

found the plot very original

you’ll want to hate a charecter but you won’t 

loved the aesthetic and visuals

had me on the edge of my seat

I cried a couple of times

there’s (a kind of) reincarnation involved

based on a webtoon named July Found By Chance by Moo Ryu that you can read HERE

SYNOPSIS

As everyone knows, every prestigious highschool has their own Popular Guys Squad, and this high school has A3, which is formed by Oh Nam-Joo (Kim YoungDae), the leader, Baek Kyung (Lee JaeWook) and Lee DoHwa (Jung GunJoo). Girls want to date them and boys want to befriend them. Eun DanHo (Kim HyeYoon) is Baek Kyung fiancé, but it seems as it is a one-sided love since Baek Kyung can’t stand her.

Eun DanOh suffers from a heart disease, and when she experiences some short-term memory loss and seems as she can see the future, she confuses them as some of her syndromes. But they aren’t.

Little does she know the future she thinks she sees is in fact the storyboard of the comic their whole life is. Not only that, she also discovers she is not the main character of the comic but an extra.

The main plot of the comic is one of many clichés: poor girl – Yeo JooDa gets a scholarship to the most prestigious high school and the hot popular guy Oh NamJoo, who doesn’t care about girls, falls for her, but she is not that into him. And as always, there’s also another popular guy who likes her (love triangle enters the room), who is nicer to her, but as every cliché story, you just know they won’t end up together.

Eun DanOh’s only purpose on the comic, as an extra, is to be the one who always defies Oh NamJoo to support Yeo JooDa. But when she learns that the author has planned her heart disease to be terminal, she’ll do anything to change it.  And it may involve falling in love with who she wants and not who the writer tells her to.

OST

I liked its OST. I was always singing along. It really suits the drama and is really sweet. Here are my favourites:

My beauty by VERIVERY 

A Never Ending Story By Stray Kids

(pls don’t miis their live performance) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dk-27B5Uzg

You can listen to its OST on Spotify HERE

REVIEW

I watched the show while it was being aired and I DON’T KNOW HOW I SURVIVED NOT BEING ABLE TO WATCH IT ALL AT ONCE!

(from now on there will be spoilers)

Eun DanOh is the highlight of the whole drama. She is pure energy. Far from being that weak girl who needs a saviour and is crying all the time, she really will do anything to change her set-up. Moreover, as nobody seems to remember what actually happens between scenes whatsoever, she will start dancing and singing in the corridors, even mocking people and stamping a statue on the floor tearing it apart. She is energetic and charismatic, completely different from what the author portraits her.

What I also liked about this drama is that the main characters of the comic aren’t the main characters of the drama. And yes, bit cliché, but each story – comic and drama – has its own love triangle.

Those who gain self-awareness make fun of all the clichés the author is drawing and are really tired of them all. They might be in scene saying their lines and when it ends, the ones that are self-aware burst out laughing at how absurd the situation is.

THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS AND THOSE CHARACTERS YOU DIDN’T EVEN THOUGHT COULD GAIN SELF-AWEARNESS, DO. It enables the show to explore even more both worlds, and you can really relate to the characters trying to figure out who they really are.

As it is all the world of a comic, there are a lot of scenes when a sudden music or spotlight appears to add dramatism, which only those who know the truth can see, which makes the scene even more ridiculous.

There is a really beautiful friendship between Eun DanOh, Haru and Lee DoHwa. And at the last episodes, I really felt sorry for Baek Kyung and part of me wanted him to be with Eun DanOh.

The cast was soooo cool. I really liked their acting even though they are rookies. I previously watched Kim HyeYoon on SKY Castle and was really amazed at how different both characters are. She did a really good job on both dramas.

I have enjoyed this drama so much that I have started reading the Webtoon. I don’t know if there are any major changes on the plot but I am enjoying it so far.

I give this Kdrama an 8/10.

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do you know of any good anime/manga that features gay characters?

Hmmmmm I mean yes but it depends if you mean official canon explicit gay, or like lowkey creator confirmed gay but they can’t be explicit because of censorship laws gay, also if you mean gay men specifically or other kinds of queer people

I’m going to give you some and assume you mean gay men but if you want more other stuff send me another message

Cardcaptor Sakura - Sakura’s older brother is bi and his endgame relationship is with a boy named Yukito, Sakura’s eventual boyfriend also starts with a very explicit crush on Yukito

by extention - Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle - kind of an au of cardcaptor sakura that have those characters in it, but also feature two other men in an explicit relationship

Doukyuusei - movie about a highschool boy finding out his classmate is gay and developing feelings for him. they kiss explicitly so this is probably the firmest one on my list in terms of anime

Mo Dao Zu Shi - I only watched the anime which is unfinished and they haven’t gotten together yet but it’s based on a manhwa/webcomic where they full on get married at the end so have at it 

Yuri on Ice - I’m sure you already know about this but if u don’t… there it is. basically a gay romcom about skating. they kiss but in a lowkey plausibly deniable way.

No.6 - the two main character’s relationship is kind of left ‘up to interpretation’ but they also do explicitly kiss so 

Evangelion - main guy has a lot of female love interests but his only real relationship with any depth to it is with a boy and they do kiss in the manga… I forget whether they do or not in the anime

Tales of Zestiria - a video game but also they made an anime adaptation. Not explicit but the main characters Sorey and Mikleo are childhood friends and obviously in love, the creators have said that Sorey is Mikleo’s “one and only” and that “a female romance wouldn’t work for Sorey” so

Free! (the swimming anime) - ok I know but track with me… this particular studio is the best I’ve ever seen tbh at making romances (either m/m, f/f, or m/f) where they never really actually kiss or say that they’re together explicitly but the emotional depth that they all have is so much more developed than so many relationships I see where they do actually kiss, and like as someone who’s demiromantic these relationships mean a lot to me. of my favourite pairing, one of the writers said that he “couldn’t write just the two of them together alone for too long, or something would happen” so

Banana Fish - disclaimer I have not watched this one because it does not end well for them and i’m not about that, but the two main guys get into a relationship so it’s up to you if you want to get into that

Rose of Versailles - this is gay if you read the main character as a trans man which I do and I’m right and everyone else is wrong

Star Driver - this anime sets up a love triangle between two boys and a girl but then at the end they all actually end up in a three-way canon poly relationship and the two boys love eachother as much as they love the girl so yeah

bonus: Magical Girl Ore - so…… this is about magical girls that turn into super buff men when they do their magical girl transformations and it’s ridiculous and so technically it’s a girl in love with another girl but they are both in the bodies of men so there u go 

Those are the confirmed gay ones that I know of excluding basically all of the yaoi and shonen-ai genre, which even though they might be more explicitly gay they’re so chock full of unheathly and abusive relationships and also written for the specific enjoyment of straight women that I can’t stand them so…. yeah. I hope any of that is what you’re looking for! If you want more other stuff just let me know

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ignore if you dont feel like answering, but do you have any recommendations for manga with either lgbt content or characters/stories that give off those vibes? i really love ur taste & reading ur commentary on stuff :3

Hi, Thank you i’m honored by the compliment!! ^_^ I’m currently in the hunt for lgbt friendly mangas myself. This got long bc i wanted to include a small summary + content warnings, so i’m going to put it in a read more.

First I would recommend what i reblog the most, like:

#1 obviously is Our Dreams At Dusk (cw self harm ideation & homophobic/transphobic discussions) beautiful, beautiful work of art, the epitome of manga, really. put it in the MOMA.

Boy Meets Maria (look up content warnings too! biggest one is the topic of csa & lgbt-phobia. but it’s a happy ending, generally comical, has jungian meta, nothing explicit is shown, but csa is still a tough topic to go into, i went in thinking it was gonna be a fluffy shoujo 🧍) beautiful, beautiful art and metaphors. Author sadly passed away young during the pandemic. A great legacy to leave behind tbh.

Boys Run the Riot (coming of age story about a trans male MC and his friends. they riot through fashion. covers a lot of topics, it’s kinda cringey but like, it’s because the characters are all young doing young ppl mistakes.

cw: transphobia [no harsh bullying or hitting tho, is more like verbal inacceptance. it’s not trans trauma porn or too heavy, is what i’m saying!]

“It is licensed in English by Kodansha USA, who hired an all-transgender localization team to edit and translate the manga”. The author is a trans man himself, as well. )

I look forward to new chapters! The MC likes to throw his middle finger up a lot and he’s so young & awkward things. It genuinely feels like they’re highschoolers tbh.

In the Clear Moonlit Dusk (the author is sus to me bc of another manga, but hm, canon bi boy, a gnc girl who passes as a boy finally gets treated with interest. There are various ways the character can be interpreted.) i haven’t been able to finish it yet, but so far i would recommend it. Lovely art style.

Love me for Who I am (mostly a coming of age story about a cast of trans femmes, feminine men, and lesbians. very ‘uwu’, the art style seems kinda tailoring into uhh sus stuff, but the actual story is very chaste, sweet, with surprising depth? i liked the friendships, i feel like it would be a relieving introductory story for questioning teens tbh. it’s very innocent! but with that art style, i wouldn’t trust anything else the author works on.

With that warning in mind, my favorite plot point was between the brother and sister ^_^ Also, a nonbinary MC!! so rare for a transfemme nb spotlight?? it made me realize how starved the world is of lighthearted transfemme stories 🥺

Princess Jellyfish

no content warnings, pretty popular. i personally interpret the love interest as a trans woman.

Very cute art style and fashion and romance etc. Very Gay too

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Also, I haven’t read these 100% but i’ve been meaning to:

Wandering Son

Manly Appetites

After Hour

My Love Mix-Up!

Runaway with Me Girl

Sailor Moon

Ao no Flag

Bloom Into You

Bangou Stray Dogs (?? the gnc character design mostly lol)

Given

Alita: Battle Angel Gunnm Last Order (manga has canon trans man clone that’s important to the plot, he’s so funny too.)

Black Butler (there’s been a lot of content warnings abt it idk if i ever will read it in its entirety, but i love Grelle & Doll & Finny)

Black Lagoon

Drhdr

>> I know theres a lot of lgbt webtoon/manhwas nowadays, but in general, the art styles & story pacing are hard for me to get into. Also they seem to be mostly about highschoolers, and like. I’m not that fascinated by that stage in life, I prefer more adult settings I could relate to.

these r the ones i’ve managed to like so far! it’s rlly a trial and error type of thing, i end up just skimming most of the time & forgetting titles. Sorry I don’t have more to give!!! Hope they help!! if i find more i’ll add to this list in a reblog.

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HII i see that you read some manhwas and i wanted to ask if u have any recs

i doo !! tho do be warned that 99% of the ones i mention are romance since that’s my cup of tea 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️

1. omniscient reader’s viewpoint - an apocalypse webtoon whereas a man named kim dokja, a reader who finished a novel with a lot of episodes, tries to survive his world that’s plunged to the premise of said novel with the help of his knowledge of the story and certain characters that he befriended as they face life-or-death situations/scenarios. (amazing plot, amazing characters, amazing everything. def a 100/10)

2. the first night with the duke - a romcom isekai webtoon whereas an average college student wakes up as an extra and resolves to enjoy the luxuries of her character’s fortune with no purpose on intervening the novel she’s stuck in, only to wake up next to none other than the male lead. (very stress free AND completed !! it currently has a spin-off that’s on-going. 20/10 for me !)

3. revolutionary princess eve / the princess imprints the traitor - a fantasy-reincarnation-romance manhwa whereas the seventh imperial princess, evenrose, wakes up eight years before the fall of her kingdom by the hands of homunculus and is determined to change the future. (ml is a w and the manhwa is pg-13 with suggestive themes, but overall its a 100/10 for me)

4. i will be the matriarch in this life - another fantasy-reincarnation-romance(ish) manhwa whereas florentia, an illegitimate child of the richest family in the empire, reincarnates as her child-self after her family has fallen and decides to become the matriarch in her current life. (first manhwa that made me sleep happily after reading it, it’s def wholesome and sweet. the fl is a girlboss too so its a 1000/10 for me)

5. the way to protect the female lead’s older brother - a fantasy-isekai-romance manhwa whereas fl becomes roxana agriche, the older sister of the sub-villain of the novel, and decides to save the female lead’s older brother who was kidnapped by her family. (pg-13 as far as ik, not so wholesome but not too tragic either, has violence and blood, but the story is 🙌🙌🙌 so its a 10/10 for me)

6. father i don’t want to get married! - a fantasy-isekai-villainess-romance-comedy manhwa whereas fl wakes up as the villainess of a novel and tries to avoid her death flags by breaking up with the og ml. she then finds out that her father is going to pair her up with the crown prince — aka the person she last saw before she killed herself in her previous life and is rumored to be a bad person — causing her to try and find a way to not end up being with the crown prince. (very wholesome and funny, but there’s a lot of misunderstandings between fl and her father, but overall its a 20/10 for me)

7. death is the only ending for the villainess / villains are destined to die - a fantasy-isekai-villainess-romance manhwa whereas fl plays an otome game and suddenly woke up as the villainess, leading her to try and find a way to get out of there as she encounters various of male leads and obstacles along the way. (amazing plot line, amazing fl, and amazing drama, def a 20/10)

8. seasons of blossom - a modern-slice-of-life-highschool-romance au that has several different stories with each characters being related to seasons by names and focuses on their love lives and coming of age conflicts. (20/10 for me, i havent read season 2-3 yet but based on people’s reactions, season 2 will prolly make u cry)

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First and foremost, Bones ATE with these shots

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BSD SEASON 1: FISHEYE COMPILATION

TOTAL: 15.5

6 Atsushi // 4 Lucy // 2 Akutagawa // 1.5 Dazai // 1 Kunikida // 1 Higuchi

Controversies: Dazai wailing at the loss of the young detective woman was received with divided opinions regarding its fisheye-ness, was given 0.5 point.

Episodes featuring fisheye shots: 8/12

Average per episode (featured): 1.94

Average per episode (total): 1.29

Honorable mention:

>all fisheye posts<

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the ship of theseus wikipedia article in 2003. 20 years later, after 1792 total edits, 0% of its original phrasing remains. (x)

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#christmas

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nobody:

carlos sainz, at all times of day, for literally no reason at all:

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GHHH THE INTERVIEW!!!!!

THE INTERVIEW

1.) Harukawa talking about the designs is always a treat

This one's a personal favorite! Harukawa's response to Yosano's backstory/design. I think it's pretty interesting to hear her analysis on Yosano's current personality i think

also the part abt chuuya and kouyou is sooo interesting too bc A. favorite character and B. underacknowledged character:::::

abt Kouyou:

AHH so THAT's why Kouyou's literally the most colorful bright looking character in the mafia. Something about despite saying she's part of the "dark" through and through, she's still innately very good at heart, subconsciously showing it through her clothes.

** also i appreciate that Asagiri clarifies that it's because of her respect for Mori that Kouyou stays

about skk:

(honestly i don't get why Asagiri says that the only thing that Dazai and Chuuya have in common is that they are both smart bc a lot of what he wrote in the the LNs show a lot more similarities than differences. but okkkk)

another about chuuya:

im so happy that Harukawa-sensei said straight up he's typically very thoughtful and doesn't actually have anger issues.

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Their crashes were so similar

#carlos sainz jr #carlos sainz #lando norris #carlando #mclaren #scuderia ferrari #f1 #formula 1 #abu dhabi gp 2023 #las vegas gp 2023

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carlando is carlandoing, in expense of guanyu. again.

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Puki will you leave tumblr because everyone’s acting like it’s dead now :(

oh yeah its SO dead.

1000 notes this post. Now

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I'm sorry kim dokja 😔

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This is the best thing ever!

Just Max flirting with half of the grid 😅