the internet has given me a mindvirus
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Today's Manga: "Ran and the Gray World" ("Ran to haiiro no sekai") Volumes 6 & 7 by Aki Irie
-Localization: Viz Media
-Translation & Adaptation: Emi Louie-Nishikawa
-Touch-up Art and Lettering: Joanna Estep
-Design: Yukiko Whitley
-Edited: Amy Yu
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Ran and the Gray World - Extra
Happy babies this week! Here's a Ran and the Gray World extra for you from Tabi.
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I see a fellow fan of Ran and the Grey World. An absolute banger of a manga in terms of art and story. Some of the pages are just to die for. (only gripe I have is Ran's relationship with a certain character (won't spoil as I don't know how far you've read)
Would recommend her other work like Gunjou Gakusha (more one-shot based, though some stories have more than one chapter) and Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike (very interesting concept, sadly I couldn't find more than 40 chapters, seems to be on hiatus)
a fellow connoisseur of taste! i loooove gunjou gakusha. so much so that i did a presentation on it/irie aki's work in college 🤓 you might've heard a quote by miyazaki that goes like this: “When I clap my hands, you hear the sound of the clap. You don’t hear what is in between the sound of the clap. In Japan, we have a name for what is in between the sound of the clap. We call it ma.” i see ma/間/negative space everywhere in the atmosphere she creates.
the nature of ran and outarou's relationship is very disturbing, but the purpose of it, to me, is magnificent: he has to die so ran can grow up. i can't help think that irie aki wrote ran in the gray world with her younger self in mind, from the perspective of an older woman. and with that perspective comes a desire to luxuriate in beauty and draw beautiful things, to not treat her stories so delicately, to be alive like an old willow tree. a few years ago, i used to think 'i love this story, but still, why would irie aki tie ran's emerging maturity/emotional development with an obviously sus adult man? there are way better coming-of-age narratives than that.' but the older i get, the more i see the letter that is sent across time from an older woman to her younger self. the more i understand what she is trying to say
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god i hope that wherever lucy gray ended up she had a tv signal so that every time she saw what snow did she could go 😬😬 ooohh that one’s on me guys, sorry about that
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Today’s Manga: “Ran and the Gray World” (“Ran to haiiro no sekai”) by Aki Irie
Localized by Viz Media
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I originally watched Carmen Sandiego back in 2019 (I watched the original show when I was little) and looked for fanfiction and anything I could get my hands on. Fast forward to today, I return back to find more Fanfiction, read all of them and find out the fandom is dying. Why does this always happen?
Anywho, look at these dorks, whether they are friends or something else…
My heart! 😭
(Spoilers: And it wasn’t her visiting him in the end! Ugh!)
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when the opening shot of irie aki's seminal ran and the gray world is of an alarm clock. when the next page is of ran sleeping with the contents of her messy room magically floating around her - socks, shoes (the shoes), mr pudding, books, blankets - the alarm clock thumps her on the head, and she falls out of bed, whines about it, but then goes right back to sleep. when the first chapter ends with ran, demanding to visit the shrine to see the new year's sunrise, is unable to stay awake as she waits for her responsible older brother/wolfboy jin to finish washing the dishes, and is carried sleeping to her room.
when first chapter of the final arc opens with ran sitting on the rooftop of her house, before dawn, the sky still dark. when she watches the sunrise over haimachi, and stands up to greet it smiling. 'every morning somebody would come and wake me up. but lately i wake up on my own. today there are many things i have to do.' excuse me i. need to touch a gas stove
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