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vanduckartstudios · 1 year

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#demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer tengen #uzui tengen #rengoku kyōjurō #tomioka giyuu #shinobu ohtaka #demon slayer gyomei #gyomei himejima #anime fanart #tarotart #kny fanart #kny #original art #art #artists on tumblr #taking commisions

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ratsrequiem · 11 months

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Some judar doodles + alibaba

#magi #judar #alibaba #judar my most beloved #bonus points to anyone who knows what da bottom right is from #i saw ohtakas sketch of the student au and went ape #magi: the labyrinth of magic #magi: the kingdom of magic #judar magi #alibaba saluja #judal #judal magi #magi fanart #my art #fanart #fave

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hkryu · 9 months

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shout out to the four other orient fans besides me that exists (pls dont mind the janky anatomy i am TIRED)

#magi #magi kingdom of magic #magi labyrinth of magic #morgiana #my art #fanart #kojiro kanemaki #orient manga #orient #shinobu ohtaka #redraw

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babymagi · 8 months

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y’all wanna see my biggest flex rn?

I've been looking for volume 3 FOREVER (I have 1 and 2 they're just at home right now) and I finally found it at my college-town Barnes n Noble... along with the Manga up to volume 14

I spent like over 50 dollars on this batch alone but I WILL be going back

#ik ik i could just read it online but i like supporting Ohtaka directly and legally and also having the pretty cover art :]#still on the hunt for Magi vol 4 #orient #orient anime #orient manga #manga #manga collection

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psychesdisco · 1 year

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me and who

#licherally his treacherous twin #magi #manga #judar magi #magi hakuryuu #manga aesthetic #manga panel #shinobu ohtaka #magi the labyrinth of magic #judar and hakuryuu #judar x hakuryuu #anime #aesthetic #manga art #shounen #juhyakku

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lord-shitbox · 2 years

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magi week: underrated characters (Ren Hakuren)

more beneath the cut. i love him

#magiweek2022 #ren hakuren #ren hakuyuu #ren hakuryuu #EVERYBODY LOVE MY SON RN. RN.#renren #this is about every single image of him drawn by ohtaka btw. excluding the panels of his dead body (theres about four)#hes everything #everyone say thank you milla for helping me get my feral hands on almost all of these #good chunk of these of these r tegakis / backstage / concept art 🥲👍

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thatsitso · 2 years

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Happy 10th anniversary to the best anime ever actually!!!

Didn't manage to finish coloring this today, I will post the finished version later!

Now pray with me for the third season

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wriochilde · 9 months

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musashi looks cute so ill be watching orient next!!!!!!

#i really like ohtaka's art style so im excited to read orient #finn.txt

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phemeruk · 1 year

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I want to start a challenge because why not? This baby is Aladdin from Magi!

#shinobu ohtaka #aladdin #magi #magi: the kingdom of magic #aladdin magi #aladdin fanart #magi fanart #acbchallenge #anime and manga #digital art #art #fanart #challenge #watercolordigital #ilovethewatercolorpencilofkrita #krita my beloved #kritadigitalart

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lumiosemuseum · 2 months

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~ Playlist for Diathesterius.

Genres: folk, neoclassical, world music.

Yoko Kanno - Mast in the Mist / KOKIA - Siuil a Run / Hajime Mizoguchi - Bathing Day / Yoko Kanno ft. SEKAI - Memory of Time / Cicada - Into the Ocean / Sasakure.uk ft. Asako Toki - Little Cry of the Abyss / Cicada - Remains of Ancient Trees / Kotringo - I Can't Bear How Sad It Is / Cicada - Here We Are! / Masakatsu Takagi - Nurse Them Make a Fire Feed Yourself Express Your Mirth / Sizzle Ohtaka - I Was Watching Summer / Sade - Love is Stronger than Pride / Rebecca Sugar - Love Like You / Masakatsu Takagi - Dance of Your Nature / KOKIA - Be As You Are / KOKIA - Melody of Love / Masakatsu Takagu - Rama

Listen here.

Art by @/goldenshrine | @/yummyeggy

#📜 muse's voice #🌺👑🐂 love in idleness #sorry i don't include spotify links but a lot of the music i put on these just isn't on spotify </3 #for this one i may be able to but i know for a fact i would have to omit kingfisher... hmm #if u listen to one song on this playlist please please please listen 2 Rama. not even saying that for diathesterius reasons #i just think its a gorgeous and moving piece of music

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stepswordsen · 1 year

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JuAli WIP doodles

So, I'm just gonna post my old JuAli doodles from November ~ April. Obsessed with them. I've been thinking about them non-stop. Judar is wearing traditional Chinese hanfu in these :)

Here's my JuAli doodles for now <3 They're pretty messy, so I'll put them under the cut. Also I'm putting my thought rambles under the cut too. They’re snippets of thoughts I had, including ones with friends, feel free to read them if you’re curious!

Some rambles

I was considering whether I should post my JuAli doodles since I usually prefer to keep my art account for finished arts only, but I wanted to show my love for them. I still have to refine and redraw these tbh, but I'm excited to work on these in the future!

I also didn’t know whether to post these rambles under my art or make a new post on my side blog. Well. It’s going here now. I’ll post the rest of my sketches and another rambles in another post

The first two Judar in hanfu doodles are some of my fave drawings ever. I really want to finish this one soon...

I think Judar has red eyeliner in the manga, and the Magi anime has Judar's eyeshadow as purple? In Ohtaka's coloured arts, it looks like a more saturated red colour to me.

I like Judar with red eyeliner/eyeshadow like how Ohtaka colours in the manga. I like how the colours pop and the contrast against his design, and how it matches his red eyes. Also cuz black and red are his image/representative colours to me anyways

I want Judar to wear black, white, red, and gold hanfu... I’ve also been looking into hanfu earrings for him. I'm thinking of red and gold. I want him to have red eyeliner and black painted fingernails.

Also, in the future, I'd also like to draw Desi inspired Alibaba wearing kurta with churidar!

Some thoughts on JuAli

I love how my friends described them as besties and one-sided enemies/worsties dynamic (from Judar’s end lmfao), it’s soooo funny. I feel like they’d have a sort of Love-Hate relationship at first, like when you hate someone so much it’s love...

My friend mentioned that because Alibaba is so different and the complete opposite of him, it makes sense he doesn’t understand it, but it only shows that he’s curious and that deep inside he wants to know.

And Judar would just constantly be like “I really don't get this guy at all” and “I don't understand what he's thinking at all!” Like how he was with Alibaba on the Dark continent. I think it’s interesting how he recognized that Alibaba has qualities that draw people to him, but just couldn't understand why.

I love their Fire and Ice duality. Light/Darkness. Angel/Devil. Hot and Cold. Enemies to Lovers. They’d bicker and kiss and make out. Twink on twink violence is their love language /lh

I feel like in the early stages of them catching feelies they’d both be really awkward around each other and constantly headbutt each other… They'd always be pretty competitive with each other, but they'd warm up to each other over time.

I love their setup, I’m obsessed with them and their vibes. They’re so funny and cute… I love their dynamic, their vibes are impeccable. I could sense the sen-core with them, I love them so much.

I awaken to my final form. Meow meow mf x Empathetic, loving ball of sunshine… It's the sen-core ship formula: meow meow mf x ball of sunshine. Morally questionable/morally bankrupt x morally agreeable <3

Also I love Light/Darkness, Yin/Yang and Sun/Moon/Eclipse themed ships. And Rivals/Enemies to Lovers. Opposites contrast :)

I love Opposites Attract ships that are also combined with any of these tropes: Narrative parallelism (Yin/Yang, Light/Darkness, Sun/Moon/Eclipse tropes), Protagonist x Rival/Antagonist/Opposing Figure, Reconciliation of Opposites, Fated Enemies/Rivals, etc.

Sen-core characters/ships: being a menace to A) the world and/or B) their rival/enemy/lover.

Alibaba is the sun, and Judar’s leitmotif is the black sun (just like Douman). And he’s also technically the moon. One of my friends told me she sees him with Eclipse symbolism, which is really interesting.

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pan-magi · 4 months

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I see that youve been a fan of magi for a long time, how do you cope with the lack of content and pretty much dead fandom? Ive been a long time fan or magi too and ive been trying to get my friends into magi.

Hi, Anon! I guess I have. It doesn't really feel like it though? I got into Magi early 2017 sometime and ran this blog for about 6 months or something until I vanished. This was meant to be my hyperfixation dump blog. The first one was Magi, and it... stayed Magi, lol.

This becomes very long but the tl;dr is Magi was more popular once upon a time and you can track down and return to older stuff with the lack of new content. And be honest to your friends about the ups and downs of what you like or what they could like about the series and keep conversations going with them.

At the time, I'll say Magi content was fairly active. The manga was ongoing but wrapping up, the main anime had ended but Adventures of Sinbad was only a year out or so. It wasn't anything to do with the series of why I left. More so I found new shiny things to focus on -- I had recently graduated college, yes, I'm old -- and fell out of love with tumblr more so than Magi and soon was not producing the content or consuming enough to stay interested in the series after it wrapped.

I'd love to give some great advice to stay interested in less popular series because I feel honored you asked. I can't claim to be good at it myself though. I got back into the series when I was sick late 2021 and binged everything. I re-watched the anime and then reread the manga when I got better.

You can try promoting it to your friends as good binge material. Magi does deal with themes you can sink your teeth into but it isn't super heavy. You don't realize how much you've gone through until you have.

I apologize for such a long answer. Let me try to get to your main point. I don't really think of it as something that's inactive or dead. The anime may be incomplete but the manga is done with. I don't think Ohtaka has much more to say on it, and that's why she has moved on to Orient. The series is wrapped- for better or worse. I'm not here to dissect how good or not the final arcs are. This is long enough and getting off topic XD. If you only have/can watch the anime then that's understandable. Accessibility and availability options are different for manga. For me, knowing the author has a complete version out there in some form and having access to it makes it easier. Content will come and go. Yes, I want more. I at least have a full course meal even if part of the dessert has disappeared into the ether.

Another thing that helps is that Magi is a young series. Not in the age range it appeals to but in how long it has been around. 14-15 years? Baby isn't old enough to drive in most places, lmao. The majority of fandoms I've been in are older or about as old as I am (30s). I am used to droughts in content and things coming in and out of popularity. Both in my ADHD-wired brain and by the fandom at large. I don't mean to say that younger fans are too fickle. As I said, I'm awful at it myself. There's a large gap of time (late 2017-2021) where my interests and priorities were elsewhere. I've only been active in the fandom for a few years at most.

I will say to help out try to explore the backlog of content if you have the chance and haven't already. New fan content may not be the most plentiful. Out of all the fandoms I follow the most relate to Magi and all of the tags are the quickest to breeze through what's new. It's sad. I haven't been active in this fandom for years, and there's stuff in its peak that I haven't gotten around to seeing that is still there for me to find. 14 years may not be that old in the grand scheme of things but that is still a long time for various fan art, fic, and other content to have been put up. If there's not enough new stuff to interest your friends, recommend older stuff you are aware of. Tumblr does not have the best search option and in my experience tags dry up after going back far enough even though I know older stuff exists. That is annoying and don't have a good counter on how to combat it.

Remember the old when you don't have enough new. Cycle through your favorite things at different intervals. Not for Magi specifically, but I reread some of my favorite fic that were over a decade old at the point of me discovering them. Now they're almost twice that age. One day go through one artist's backlog, then the next do someone else's, or read the fic that got you to love the fandom in the first place. If you get tired of older things or seen the same old too often- no worries! You can take a break or watch/read the series again (accessibility or availability again to be determined and yeah that majorly sucks). Scribble your own ideas down, regardless if you want to post them. Scratch that itch for you and no one else.

That is the best advice I can give. Try finding something else you haven't seen before or let yourself enjoy stuff you have. For your friends, this may sound counterintuitive but one thing I do when recommending stuff is give them a heads up as well on stuff they may not like. Like, mine is that I despise Aladdin being a little pervert. I've mentioned before how it turned me off the manga when I first picked it up at random. Don't try to catch them off guard by saying how wonderful something is and leaving out something that may turn them off. In my experience, that leads to annoyed friends. Give them the full picture, with spoilers being whatever you guys agree to, and let the strength of what you enjoy outweigh the caveats they have. Sometimes something is just not for them, and that is okay too. If they do start getting into Magi, keep the conversation up, ask them their favorite or least favorite thing, ship, how annoying and annoyingly charming Sinbad (or anyone) is, etc. Be someone to talk to about it even if they can't find new good shit to enjoy. Be that for each other. I dunno. I don't have friends irl who like Magi. If I did that's what'll I do. *shrug*

I am so sorry for the length and I don't feel as if I have been very helpful. I tried to edit it down and be as concise as I could. I can't do that on short notice or not being able to save drafts on asks. I hope this was a fun anecdotal read at least.

#magi #magi: the labyrinth of magic #magi labyrinth of magic #answered ask #lmao this ask coming in when i already had queued a post dreaming about season 3 #clearly i'm more starved for content than i appear #but yeah best advice is not limiting yourself to only new content #idfk how to answer asks #i'm sorry anon i'm sending you lots of hearts <3 <3 <3 #i answered this on my desktop so don't have access to emojis lol

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apparently-artless · 2 years

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MY TOP ANIME FOR SUMMER 2022

Summer season is almost over and so are some of the anime series that I've watched for these past 3 months! There's not much "mainstream" anime this season which gave opportunity to some series. I tend to give almost every series a try anyway and these are some that I enjoyed watching.

6. HATARAKU MAOU-SAMA!! [THE DEVIL IS A PART-TIMER! 2ND SEASON]

I loved the first season of this anime so I already have some bias regarding this series. I'm even reading the manga so I kinda have some idea of what to expect with the anime. This would have ranked higher but I didn't like the animation that much compared with the first season. I guess that's bound to happen if it took almost a decade to create the next season. Another bias? Voice actor. I love Maou's seiyuu, Oosaka Ryouta. Yes, I've watched a lot of anime simply because of the seiyuu, so sue me!

5. ORIENT: AWAJISHIMA GEKITOU-HEN

The author of this series is the same author of Magi, Ohtaka Shinobu. As for me, I haven't watched Magi yet so I'm not expecting anything from this anime when I first started watching the first season. I only realized these shows were made by the same author when I read the manga. I prefer the art style of the manga way better but anime also did not disappoint in my opinion. I also love Naotora and Kanetatsu so there's that. I read some reviews saying they got disappointed midway because they were expecting it would be as good as Magi. But I've only watched 2 or 3 episodes of Magi and kinda stopped so this didn't stop me from continuing watching the anime and even reading the manga.

4. ISEKAI OJISAN [UNCLE FROM ANOTHER WORLD]

I already got hooked on the first episode and I am still waiting for the next episode to come for this series. I'm not a gamer and I'm not even familiar with what they're talking about when it comes to games but I still enjoyed it anyway. I guess this is one of the reasons why I loved it. It doesn't alienate people who are not familiar with the game jargon as it also focuses on Ojisan's journey in the alternate world. Also, Ojisan's interactions with the female characters from the other world are pure gold and definitely hilarious. Despite some tragic experiences here and there, the series managed to present them in a manner that would not make you feel depressed.

3. YOFUKASHI NO UTA [ CALL OF THE NIGHT]

I was already reading the manga when I learned that this will get animated. The night sceneries in the anime were so epic in every episode. The atmosphere kinda reminds me of Bakemonogatari series. I like the relationship between the main characters and I can kinda relate to the male protagonist. The story features vampires but it's not really something that can be compared to other vampire stories. Yes, Kou wants to be a vampire but he can only be one if he falls in love with Nazuna, which is a challenge because he's yet to experience it for the first time. Nazuna's past hasn't been revealed yet and I also stopped reading the manga. I will probably continue after the anime ends.

2. YOUKOSO JITSURYOKU SHIJOU SHUGI NO KYOUSHITSU E 2ND SEASON [CLASSROOM OF THE ELITE 2ND SEASON]

I already fell in love with this series when I watched the first season and I'm really thankful that the second season was made. If you've watched the first season, you already know that the male lead, Ayanokouji is trying to hide what he is truly capable of. He's quite a strategist and manipulative but his severe lack of emotion is what makes him a very interesting character. The anime only managed to show some glimpses of his past and some of the other students in Class D so I'm still dying to know if this is his nature or simply what he became due to his environment. I'd probably plan to read the light novel if ever I decided that the anime is not enough for me to satisfy my curiosity.

KUMICHOU MUSUME TO SEWAGAKARI [THE YAKUZA'S GUIDE TO BABYSITTING]

With the number of posts I made for this anime, I guess it's kinda obvious that this will be my number one. This anime never really managed to catch my attention until my sister told me about it. So my sister was like, "Aren't you gonna watch that anime with the Yakuza taking care of a kid?" and I was like, "What is that?? So cute! I'd definitely watch it!". Yeah, I know, it's typical but I really love the bad guy + cute kid combo. But setting that aside, there are a lot of aspects to love about this anime. If you hadn't noticed, the Yakuza characters here are kinda hot. Hah! And get this, they're better in manga. LOL. I also love Kirishima's relationship with the other characters. His best friend is his gay classmate and he's his "guardian angel". If that's not such a wonderful relationship, then I don't know what it is. He has his big brother Aoi and his little brother Sugihara and Kumichou and his wife is kinda like his parents! And he has his little angel, Yaeka! It's always amazing to watch how Kirishima can act disrespectful to others but would always switch to Keigo speech when talking to her. The last episode was kinda bittersweet but I still loved it anyway. So if you're looking for a slice of life, full of fluff and a bit of angst anime, then is definitely recommended!

There are still some other anime that I managed to finish this season. They're all good anime but I just decided to mention these 6. There are some that I decided I'll just watch some other time so I guess you could say that these are the series that managed to keep me waiting week after week just so I can watch one episode. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

#hataraku maou-sama!!#the devil is a part timer #orient season 2 #isekai ojisan #uncle from another world #yofukashi no uta #call of the night #youkoso jitsuryoku shijou shugi no kyoushitsu e #classroom of the elite #kumichou musume to sewagakari #the yakuza's guide to babysitting #kmts #artless #mytopanime #anime review #anime recommendation #anilist

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kyogre-blue · 1 year

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Today’s bookstore excursion.

First, my purchases:

Vol 2-5 of Eminence in Shadow

Vol 2-3 of I’m a Villainess, so I’m keeping the Last Boss

Vol 3 of Mortalis:Stella

Vol 1 of Returner’s Magic

I need to check up to where Eminence and Last Boss go, but I know I like them. This is just for collection purposes. Same for Returner’s Magic.

I did read through v3 of Mortalis Stella, which wraps up Orleans. I’m not fond of Turas Realta’s style, and the game version is rather... you know, so it’s nice seeing Orleans told in a more fleshed out way. You can really see how many parallels there are, between Marie and Jeanne, Jeanne and Eli, etc, but also it’s interesting seeing Mash being so blank and unsure.

Read continuations for these. Kaiju No 8 continues to be great, and they sure don’t beat around the bush.

Solo Levelling is..... man. I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be feeling because it seems to be just fights, fights, fights. I didn’t really understand why any of them were even happening.

Tried out these:

Edens Zero is not as bad as I expected, but I also just did not care for how they introduced the driving mysteries, and I do not have any faith in Mashima’s storytelling anymore. The pace and characters also feel rather meh, while the fanservice is distracting when it pops up at random.

Orient is... I stopped after a chapter or two. I love Ohtaka’s work, and it’s very on brand, but it also feels like a big step back compared to Magi. However, that might be because I just did not care for the overall concept. It leans SUPER heavily into a very Japanese spirit and mythos, lots of stuff about samurai that just does not resonate with me at all. I might try to quickly skim further later, since Sumomo only picks up like four volumes in, and Magi didn’t have an amazing start either.

Now, Witch Hat Atelier... This is good stuff. It’s VERY good. Totally recommending.

It has a lovely art style, and the story has a very good pace with engaging worldbuilding and characters. The main heroine is the kind of plucky that just takes me back to shojos of yore. The deeper future plot is 4shadowed in a great way too. (I don’t know what the future plot is, just that they are building toward it.)

One other thing I noticed is how much manhwa there is now. I don’t think we’re on 50/50 split yet, but that’s mostly by virtue of the super long shounens. For stuff like isekais, it feels like we’re approaching parity with manga.

Anyway, bookstores are great.

#reading manga #reading manhwa

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babymagi · 1 year

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someone give me an excuse to gush about how much i love ohtaka's art style and how she draws anatomy and her monsters and environments please please please

#her artstyle is literally so so good #like she can make literal masterpieces with a few pages #aND DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HER COLOURING ON THE COVER ART #ugh to die for #magi #shinobu ohtaka #orient #magi labyrinth of magic #magi kingdom of magic #orient manga #magi manga

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yeonban · 2 years

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I wonder if depravity works the same in Orient as it did in MAGI, because if so...

1) If Naotora meant “fighting reckless” as in merely allowing Shiro to curse him (so he could deliver a fully-powered blow in return), then Ithnan mentioned that if the target of the depravity curse tries to resist falling into depravity, their flesh will start to rot (which happened to Naotora’s entire right arm, I’m sure of this since Alibaba’s arm looked exactly the same when he got cursed) and if the person who was cursed is not strong enough mentally, they can and will fall into depravity, which means they will abandon their “pure” ideals and become a person who lives for chaos or revenge (like the Obsidian Eight in Orient, or Al-Thamen in Magi) - Naotora’s resilient enough to resist, but he is incredibly intent on enacting his revenge, so he might’ve been cursed during his clan’s massacre

2) If Naotora meant “fighting reckless” as in he himself dabbling in the forbidden arts to obtain a power strong enough to become equal to the Obsidian Eight’s paramount fighter in a mere decade and thus applying the curse of depravity on himself by association (since we saw Naotora didn’t like fighting whatsoever when he was 12 years old & presumably his attitude only changed at 17 when he became his clan’s only survivor), then Ithnan also mentioned that only a person who is already halfway or fully fallen into depravity can resist the depravity curse and remove it from their own body, which might be what happened to Naotora if someone else didn’t heal it (which is debatable because I doubt many people lived to learn how to deal with depravity marks), since we only see the rotting flesh during one arc and then Naotora is back in peak condition, and I know Ohtaka just doesn’t overlook important details like that

#muse: takeda naotora.#* takeda naotora. / development.#Naotora reminds me a bit of Sinbad and this sure doesn't help ADHSAJDKDLJ #I actually think Naotora's case might be a case of both 1 and 2... he's strong enough to Not fall for Shiro's depravity curse #hence the rotting flesh being the result... but he also seems VERY intent on his revenge and to top it off oddly secretive about it too?#He didn't let anyone learn about his secret move and lbr there's no reason to keep it secret if it's not something forbidden or v dangerous #AND on top of that the rotten flesh got healed? just like that? by the time Naotora & Naoe went to get their rewards from Tatsuomi #so if what Ithnan said in Magi also fits for Orient's world... Naotora might be partially fallen into depravity already #which would explain how he healed his own arm from the depravity curse & why he didn't fall for it (nor di.ed) as most others probs would've

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