#have never touched the manga

[drbtinglecannon]

See Frieren x Himmel is canonically doomed and that's part of the overall narrative, Frieren will outlive almost everyone she ever meets but she slowly starts to build more and more relationships in spite of that and Himmel was one of the biggest catalysts in her changing in this way

But they also have this "this is how it can still win" vibe to it because Frieren is literally traveling to the afterlife specifically to visit Himmel, and along the way she's changing and very slowly embracing love in all these different forms from the people around her, one of which was from Himmel

So it's doomed but it still feels like they'll definitely have a happy ending too, it's an interesting dynamic

#frieren: beyond journey's end #frieren x himmel #frimmel #never have I been so desperate for the straightbait to still work out haha. it's just such sappy genuine romance and I love it #save me doomed elf/human relationship #this isn't even touching upon the most recent manga arc where she's traveled back in time and the marriage illusion. like. christ #tc posts #anyway they'll reunite one day after frieren eventually passes and share a long embrace

[kingofanemptyworld]

y’know, I can understand people not seeing the appeal of grimmichi, as much as I adore their dynamic myself. I can even see why they might prefer ichihime, beyond the fact that it’s the canon pairing. but I have to say, the thing that really cements grimmichi for me is that fact that, of everyone ichigo knows and loves, it’s only grimmjow who never once flinches in the face of who, and what, ichigo really is. I always think back to when nel has to remind orihime that ichigo is fighting for her, he’s trying to protect her. the fact that he’s drawing on his hollow powers shouldn’t matter. and she needs be reminded again at the very end that’s it’s still him in there, the hollow hasn’t taken over. but like, grimmjow? grimmjow wants the whole package, right from the start. the more ichigo shows him the more excited he is. (to kill him, yeah, but when has that ever been a deterrent for romance in fiction?) I don’t know, but it’s something i see reinforced in a lot of fics, and I love.

no matter what ichigo does, how he evolves, grimmjow won’t flinch.

#bleach #grimmichi #I really have nothing against Orihime or ichihime #it’s just never been my preferred ship #and when I finally finished the manga over the summer something about grimmichi just grabbed me by the throat and hasn’t let go since #I wish the manga touched on the fact that Ichigo isn’t just a human more #that he’s part hollow and that’s going to color who he is and how he acts #I think it would’ve been way more fun than him just. using and losing the powers as needed

[blaiddraws]

talking about Gun yesterday made me start thinking about. Gun Show of all time, Trigun. and. what if. trigun submas au

vash role ingo and knives role emmet,,

- designs Very subject to change. tried a weird mishmash between submas coats and trigun outfits

most notable thing is how DRASTICALLY DIFFERENT the dynamic between ingo and emmet vs vash and knives is, lmao. especially since emmet isn't. yanno. murdery and evil.

anyway welcome to this unholy and strange amalgamation of the trigun anime and manga and also pokemon train men. plus a whole bunch of entirely different stuff because there's not the whole. conflict between brothers where one turns evil and the other is Good. thing.

the main conflict between the brothers is more due to the fact that ingo vanished and got amnesia'd, and the miscommunications that happen because of that, than anything else really

#for the record. ingo didn't intentionally blast emmet's legs off. #the july incident happens. similarly but also wildly different than in canon trigun lol #submas au #ingo #emmet #pokemon #submas #trigun #there's. a Whole Lot more here that i do not have the space to mention lmao #like how other pokemon characters come in #or what the heck happened to seeds if 'knives' didn't intentionally sabotage everything #etc #ALSO kinda on that note i DO wanna bring in tesla. really bummed the anime literally never touched on her #and also the funky feathers stuff. but without the blackening and dying thing because i want ingo to have black feathers #for the aesthetic(TM). yanno? #and that obviously doesn't work with the whole. thing. in the manga. whats it called. world building. how the 'magic' works. whatever #gunsmoke au

[gemharvest]

(id in alt - do not repost)

#artings #mp100 #ekurei #reigen arataka #ekubo #dimple #arataka reigen #mob psycho 100 #// kitty ekurei because the grind never stops 💪💪💪💪💪 (<- needed to kill time at work) #anyways i might tough up the id when i get home. kinda rushed bc i gotta get back to work but wanted to post now or id forget tk #touch up* forget to* #this keyboard FUCKING SUCKS oh the things i deal with to have a reigen manga bit as my keyboard

[owlf45]

what if kudou built yoichi a prosthetic hand 👀

YEAHHHHH THAT'D BE SICK

#im lowkey obsessed with romance involving hands tbh #kisses? nah. cradling someone's hand because youre not a touchy person at heart and its the most affection you can convey? dude. dude. dude #the love of building a prosthetic that is so complex and so detailed. building a hand that can hold? a hand that can grasp? #a hand that will never have the touch or capabilities of the old one #but a hand that creaks every time the prosthetic fingers move in their sockets #a hand that wont run through their own hair because strands will catch in the grooves #but a hand that can hold another hand. #the fingertips are cold but the metal holds the heat of the rest of the body; so if you pressed your lips to the palm it might just be warm #a prosthetic hand. a hand made from love. #my asks #duo holders #bnha manga spoilers

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

#paldean winds seems to mostly be making fun of the infodumping fat pokemon nerd character until he gets his own episode #y'know. the one that represents a lot of their viewers #while nemona is right there outside the window hyping up little kids about battles as usual because they don't hate her like her peers #honestly her overhearing the conversation and looking a little uncomfortable about it would've been a good touch #confirmation that the subtext i noticed is actually considered part of the canon and not a happy accident they'll never talk about again #something i have only gotten from pokemon masters so far #pokemon sv #pokemon #nemonaposting #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet and violet #yada yada ten million other tags #'well at least there's the manga' the manga that inserted its own wacky main character that will probably also revolve around him #idk that one could still be good but it's also an AU and not the versions of the characters i'm invested in if that makes sense #i've been begging for pokemon to feel in touch with its audience forever and as soon as it is they treat it like a hot potato #i feel fucking obsessed because of how long this tease has been stretching on for no good reason #they could've just let us ACTUALLY hang out with the friend trio in vanilla postgame and shown them in the DLC a single time #and i could have had a normal social media presence for the past 3-6 months #instead of dreaming about a pokemon npc last night because of how little faith i have in her getting any justice outside of a fucking gacha #i am so sorry that this is who i am now except for the 2-3 of you who follow me specifically because i post these things #pennyposting #arvenposting

[peridyke]

I am kinda excited about the idea of moving to the city partially because I wanna be in an area with more comic stores so I can buy more physical copies of manga lol.......there's some places where you can find stuff here but it's nothing compared to what you can find in actual civilization

#txt #i struggle to get myself to finish books but i have an easier time getting thru comics and theres like #so much thoughtful and life changing manga that ive just never touched. very exciting prospect

[dirt-apple-productions]

The biggest plot twist of AssClass by far was Professor Bitch being a Christian

#‘i identify as christian’ is always a red flag #like girl i know you’re russian and it’s part of your culture #but also girl you have never touched a bible or gone to church in your life #no shade tho i love her #assassination classroom #irina yelavić #irina yelavich #professor bitch #irina assclass #assclass #christianity #god #jesus #anime #manga #irina jelavic #irina jelavich #irina jelavić

[pioponii]

what a nice picture

#how is this never discussed #the toyota society could have flourished with this single image and nobody knows about it #van gogh too. HOW DID ANYONE MISS THIS #i dont even ship it but like #this image touches my soul in such a way #and ive found it just now 🙁 #smh(strong distaste) #blue period manga #yatora yaguchi #yotasuke takahashi #yatoyota

[codenamesazanka]

that fact that this caress is SO different from every other time AFO give someone a quirk.

The cradling. the gentle turning. Grazing the cheek. Much less sense of a giant claw looming from above.

oh my god

#nalslastworkingbraincell #Spinner #AFO #All For One #bnha #mha #heroaca #I have no coherent emotions #when the summary leaks came out #it was phrased like: #‘while Spinner is slowly touched by the hand of the demon lord’ #and #‘All For One’s hand -> Spinner’s face’ #i was like #why all the dramatic phrasing #then i saw the panel and was like #OH #spinner brings top notch homoeroticism to the manga without fail #actually #tho we never see Shigaraki receiving the AFO quirk #that's also the one other time it wasn't giving with iron claw gesture

[gensokyogarden]

I found this Twitter thread discussing Reimu and Autistic traits quite interesting. As someone both with Autism and in the process of getting my master's degree in clinical psych, I both found it relatable and think the OP made a lot of good points in their analysis (though I will note that you can't really diagnosis a fictional character but it's all for fun). So I thought I'd share it.

#beyond the border ~ ooc #They mention later that some folks on Reddit accused them of cherry picking information but in my opinion with how Reimu has been depicted #Across over a dozen games and a dozen manga where ZUN ... tends to be (intentionally according to interviews) inconsistent with how he #Depicts Reimu you kind of have to look at specific instances if you want to assign Reimu much of any character at all #And really the stuff they highlight (such as Reimu seeming to have AP issues) are WAY more consistent than most other traits for Reimu #As someone with Autism I picked up on a lot of those littler traits as I iconned the different mangas but since that's been over a drawn #Out time it never really clicked all together until I saw it laid out in this thread #I'd notice things and be like 'wow that really feels like an Autistic life experience to me' but then just kinda move on but seeing it all #I would say it definitely fits (of course my interpretation of Reimu always has been Autistic but most of my muses kinda are because I am) #Honestly what I found most interesting was them pointing out Reimu's insistence on keeping her upper arms/shoulders uncovered in every #Outfit which is a feeling I can deeply relate to #I highly favor shorts even in inappropriate weather because I strongly dislike stuff touching my lower legs #Also the point about how much Reimu loves reading is something I had not caught before but it's honestly quite interesting #Though it makes me think. With how much interest she's shown in detective mysteries in FS and WaHH I'm shocked they didn't have her be more #Involved in the opening mystery of FDS. You'd think she would have been all over there. She and Satori could have even slightly bonded over #Having detective interests (and the fact that Satori is IMO probably the strongest Autistic coded character in the series) #Though honestly when you consider the idea that Reimu could be Autistic it makes sense why she seemingly uncharacteristically cries so much #At the thought of her shrine being threatened. Being very defensive of special places and getting more upset than would be warranted over #One being threatened is a very common trait and I find that quite interesting to think about

[basslinegrave]

found more old promarkers art (2017?) of my long forgotten zhen guy (i dont even remember his name and i drew him like twice 💔 had a full lore about him at some point)

i hate how clashing the colors are but i like the bg

i did some quick color edits on my phone cuz the og drawing has terrible contrast imo its just all merging together vvv

i think its unsalvageable like this i would still add more shadow and better balance like either make the top bg even darker or the ground much darker and separate the whites

#old art #i think i ended up just calling him Zhen all the time anyway #definitely inspired by that one zhen manga i forgot what it was about but this guy was like a lil poisonous bird kept in a dark cage #one day being sold after his old owner died or something and a guy just walking past saw the big crowd trying to see the bird man #he got super angry that a human (he didnt see the difference and thought its more like a costume lol) was being tied and caged so he made a #scene and cut up the ropes/chains and destroyed the cage or whatever and fought the seller cuz he noticed that the bird man is looking #a bit too sad to be in on it and he would just stand there looking like 😳🥺🐦 so he just tossed him over the shoulder and ran away #and like it obvs wasnt easy to outrun a crowd but they somehow managed and it was like #so are you a bird thing? cant you fucking fly? #then he learns he doesnt really speak (he does know human speech but was never allowed to speak out loud so it doesnt come easily) #anyway bird man thinks damn someone finally treating me like a person is this real? and rescue guy being like damn this guy is a handful #and then they eventually got together cuz i had the yaoi disease #nooo dont touch me im poisonous >< #for that you have to actually eat poisonous stuff and its only your feathers you dunce #noo im poisonous all over nooo dont bite me youll die bfbgdhdgdgg #zhen lore

[piduai]

i dont genuinely dislike the gk endings bc i know they could be a thousand times worse, its just disappointing bc they were kinda mid. anti climactic for an absolute banger of a series

but i love being a hater. top three most unsatisfying character endings? for me its tsurumi (shouldve died) tsukishima (shouldve died) and hijikata (shouldve been killed by literally anyone else)

yeah exactly that. i can't complain too much because everything could have been sooooo much worse (#rakugotrauma) but the ending just lacked impact... the it element that the rest of the manga had in abundance 😪 which is like not the end of the world but was a 減点 thing kinda sorta. as i said since it set the precedent of going over the line so many times the fact that it didn't in the end was just meh whatever. noda said that he just wanted it to be one of those works that is beloved because it has a happy ending but imo [10 paragraphs of incredibly off the wall things nobody in their right mind cares about]

as for whose endings sucked the most... tsurumi takes the first spot of course, as in anything else. he should have died. there is no value in him surviving, it only cheapens the drama towards the end, there is no sense of fulfillment in this particular villain surviving... i disagree with noda's choices here and there, and this one was the most awful still. in my opiniòn. sugimoto should have died too i think. solely for reread value... like you reread the thing and he's saying "i'm immortal!" so many times, and you get sooooo sad but in a good, loving way... oh reckless hero, you weren't immortal, after all........ as it is you're just oh so he wasn't lying huh 😐... um ok.... anyway. and inkarmat becoming breeding stock idgaf. the only(!) surviving woman besides the mc is there shitting at least one kid per year for the next 15 years. awesome. like that's literal unadulterated domestic abuse - to keep your wife constantly pregnant for over a decade, there's a reason women don't do that anymore and live with a 50% elevated cervical cancer risk taking OC for years. "maybe she wanted it and was happy!" shut the fuck up you know nothing

#tsukishima didn't make the list solely bc idgaf about him and his fate. but he was the worst like objectively speaking #i know that if i were a tsukigirl i would have washed my hands off this manga and never touch it again lmfao but that's just me #strongly disagree about hijikata tho... i think the opposite is true. koito's overall story & development SUCKED but he was the only one #fit to take hijikata down. solely because he was the only swordsman on the enemy team and playing w swords is hijikata's thing #the alternative would have been what shot by tsurumi or tsukishima? nah where's the character quirk in that #tho i do agree that the fight was super anticlimactic #like... ow this old man is kicking my ass this is so sad... but wait! i can just level up on the spot because i want to. #for my friends :) whose names i don't even know. i am so strong suddenly. awesome. now die you old shriveled piece of cod #those chapters were so bad 👍legit the worst in the entire manga #anon

[naomiknight-17]

Chainsaw Man is definitely something I will only read and probably never watch the anime of because. Ew. Blood and gore

But when it's black and white and not moving I can handle it

#yeah if this was in colour and had sounds i probably would have yarfed by now #... might look up that little denji/aki fight scene tho i bet that's funny in motion #chainsaw man #manga #mod post #disclaimer: i am not judging anyone who enjoys blood or gore i am just a big wussypants and i can #can't handle it #which is HILARIOUS when we study cadaver photos in medical support services class 🙃 #thank god i don't have to actually touch cadavers or watch live surgeries. just look at photos #that's upsetting enough #i didn't need to know what a spinal column with all its nerves and ganglia still attached looked like but. i sure do know that now #and can never un-know it #i am babbling. i should go to bed

[diseasedcube]

*adding another 300 images to my cutthroat album in one go, like a normal sane person without a hoarding problem*

#rave ramblees #I AM RUNNING OUT OF PLACES TO FIND IMAGES #if I could afford to buy every individual chapter of the manga I would #but I hate that #if they make a physical english version I will buy it #but renting each chap for $1 makes me not happy #I've gone through tumblr #I've scavenged twitter to the best of my ability #instagram didn't have much to offer me #I've scavenged over 50 pages from [insert chinese site] #all of google image results #+some other rando sites I don't remember #I'm sure there's content on tiktok but I don't want to touch that app in general #I've gone through so. much. pinterest #and my computer lags sm with pinterest so that was a pain #pinterest is an endless rabbit hole #you can never escape it once you enter #also searching in japanese somehow gives me LESS content than searching in english #300 images is actually kinda sad #when I was in the prime of hoarding I could get well within the 500-700+ range #there's a shocking amount of art for this one character in a small fandom #like I don't even think I found this much art for Daniel Camp Camp #and that fandom is much bigger #and if yall thought my cutthroat album is big #my gore folder is much much much worse #like concerningly so

[mutalieju]

I am rewatching Hellsing, both the 2001 anime and the OVAs, and comparing the two. I never realized some things they changed around.

Like how the first Alucard/Anderson confrontation comes about differently.

In the manga/OVA Integra sends Alucard on what should have been a standard mission, finds out Anderson has been dispatched by the Vatican to take care of the same problem, realizes it will be a clusterfuck if Anderson runs into Alucard, and goes to try to stop them from causing an international incident.

In the 2001 anime she only sends Alucard in after she finds out Anderson is the person Vatican sent, which comes across very differently since Anderson is on legitimate business (at that point at least). Is the fact the Vatican sent an Iscariot agent meant to be an overreach? The dynamics here are different at the very least, and I am not sure why some changes happened.

OVA/manga Integra definitely comes across as more badass and competent, while also making mistakes. She is still playing by the old rules, while Enrico is starting to make it clear he is no longer willing to play nice and respect the old treaties.

My memory of 2001 anime Integra is that she comes across as a less competent leader and a less interesting character but I’ll see how I feel after watching the Valentine brother’s assault on Hellsing HQ in both versions. (It’s my least favourite part in Hellsing so I usually skip it even in manga so I don’t have a clear memory of it)

#hellsing #also of course anderson is a different character and his relationship with alucard is different #like integra being less competent or badass or whatever can work for the story #but so far it feels like the changes lack direction idk #probably some changes are because the 2001 anime didn't want to touch the whole ireland thing #but you could have still kept the manga dynamics without getting into the troubles #also i will never shut up about how seras should have fought anderson in the finale of the 2001 anime