#overlooked manga

[fairy-bard]

i just realized something. zepo (from pedro’s flashback with big mom) was definitely bepo’s older brother, who bepo originally left zou to search for. when bepo returned to zou with the heart pirates, he learned that his brother had died (although he had already decided to stay with law). law reaches zou and reunites with bepo and the hearts, and they all go on to fight kaido and big mom with the strawhats. law teams up with kidd to defeat big mom.

law literally killed the woman who murdered bepo’s brother. hell fucking yeah

#trafalgar law #trafalgardwaterlaw #law one piece #one piece #bepo one piece #bepo #heart pirates #wano arc #zou arc #one piece thoughts #idk i just feel like that would privately be very important to bepo #their friendship is really overlooked before 1081 i feel #also don’t talk to be about chapter 1081 my heart can’t handle it #one piece manga

[yuesya]

Mechamaru is a sad character, even though his anger at Shiki, to me, is honestly misplaced and more like self-loathing, envy, and commiseration.

It’s honestly sad what happens to Mechamaru because he did get the short end of the stick when it comes to Heavenly Restriction, didn’t he? He only wanted to have a healthy body, and in canon, he got it.

But what did it cost, really?

Because in the end, Mechamaru did in some way betray the jujutsu sorcerers. He can tell himself that he was desperate and he had the right to try and better his life when no one else cared to or was able to help him. He was in a shitty situation and tried fixing it first chance that presented it, but it doesn’t erase the fact that he betrayed his comrades. He indirectly (?)aided in the tragedy that happened by facitilating information to the curses, which HELPED Kenjaku’s plans, and he died for it. Here, he’s alive to suffer the consequences of ill-fated choices.

He wasn’t wrong to want it. He’s wrong because ultimately, his actions were an act of betrayal.

He feels remorse for his betrayal. He feels guilty. He feels angry at Shiki, because his gamble failed and here she stood as a shining bastion of a “perfect” life.

Though as seen in here, Shiki probably doesn’t give a single fuck about Mechamaru’s feelings. Only that his betrayal put the jujutsu society - and in turn, her family and friends - in jeopardy and that it went against the rules that Shiki was following ONLY because her family and friends wanted her too. Her moral and logic is pretty skewed, after all. Her first reaction to him being turned into a monster is to render him immobile VIA limbs breaking which honestly is NOT the first thing people do, but it’s admittedly in a twisted way the most optimal way to subdue transfigurated!Mechamaru.

TBH wrong is wrong. Betrayal is betrayal. Mechamaru isn’t an innocent victim who tried saving himself. How many more people would die and did die in the jujutsu world because he aided the curses? How many people died in Liyue because here the curses tried getting rid of Shiki?

Which brings me to another point: Whether it was voluntary or not, because of his betrayal which fed the curses informations and had Shiki hunting after them, Mechamaru ended up as a tool in the ambush against Shiki. Mahito tried using him as a shield, but unfortunately for him and the curses, Shiki’s reasoning is far too settled in pragmatic reasoning and logic to a certain point, after which she settled into brute force or death. She wouldn’t sacrifice herself for just Mechamaru, after all, nor be squirmish about breaking some limbs or killing some people.

Kinda shameless to be angry at the girl who you involuntarily aided in ambushing, no?

It’s just. The first time I read the short about Mechamaru (which was STILL amazing btw) I felt sorry for him.

The next few times I reread it though, I was like wait a minute, this doesn’t sound right, this guy is making Shiki to be the bad guy in interrogating him when he “just tried helping himself and he didn’t truly mean to betray the jujutsu society qwq!!!” because she has a perfect life but BITCH so many people just died LMFAOO Shiki here just doing her job and being hated, my poor girl (though she doesn’t care).

Mechamaru lost his gamble in using Mahito and turned into an even worse monster.

Likewise, the curses lost their gamble in trying to delete Shiki and were all basically wiped out in minutes lmao. They probably didn’t expect the Gojo Satoru Expy to actually be a Gojo Satoru 2.0 lol.

Shiki just doing her job, stuck in another world. :( And she had promised her cousin to make a detour to buy sweets, too rip. :(

(which brings me to another point i’m not gonna expand: Satoru and Shiki’s relationship? I LOVELOVELOVE IT!! The opposing powers they present! Satoru is not truly the sole “honored one”! Satoru has someone who somewhat understands the way he looks at the world! Who will stand by his decision and trust! Who’s willing to murder a bitch or a few for him! They’re two peas in a pod, sometimes HE has to be the moral compass for Shiki even! HIM! THE Gojo Satoru! A moral compass!!! 😂😂😂)

!! I am bouncing a bit in excitement from this haha.

Mechamaru! Is a very very unfortunate character. His attempt to outsmart Kenjaku and the Special Grade curses was not something that ended well for anyone. The information that he provided them allowed Kenjaku's faction to set up the test run at the Goodwill Event and break into the warehouse, stealing the Death Paintings and Sukuna's fingers. If we think about what happened in Shibuya, where Sukuna was able to cause as much devastation as he did because of ingesting the additional fingers... arguably Mechamaru played a definite role in allowing this situation to occur in the first place.

Mechamaru wants to be healed. He wants to have a normal body, and be a normal student of Kyoto High with his friends.

In exchange, he betrays the school -but he's not really betraying them, Mechamaru tells himself. Look, he's even been careful enough to extract a binding vow for his friends to be unharmed. And it's not as if he really intends to throw in his lot with Geto. As soon as he gets what he wants, he'll turn on them. Mechamaru doesn't need to kill them in order to win; all he needs to do is escape and find sanctuary with Gojo Satoru. And with the intel that he'll have in his hands, Gojo will definitely protect him. Then, they'll be able to counter their enemies properly from there-

We all know how that turns out in the end, though. The many casualties that result from Kenjaku's plans... Mechamaru might not be responsible, but he's certainly not blameless in allowing Kenjaku to set things into motion.

Mechamaru strikes me as a character who has a strong confidence and ego, which is balanced at the same time by a helpless sense of inferiority and anger. He knows that he's a powerful sorcerer, and he's the only sorcerer whose range covers an entire country -not even Gojo Satoru can do that! And Mechamaru is observant, and intelligent. He hates the limitations imposed upon him by his body, and he wants ever so badly to see for himself the world that he can only interact with through his puppets-

Shiki gets the brunt of that, in this particular AU.

Mechamaru lives. He lives, but he's angry and guilty and oh how he regrets, without truly regretting. Sorcerers are selfish creatures, and Mechamaru is no different.

Here Gojo Shiki stands in front of him, beautiful and powerful and perfect, looking down on him like Mechamaru means absolutely nothing. Given the turmoil that Mechamaru is currently experiencing... it's only natural that he lashes out at her.

(It's no excuse. But it is a reason.)

In contrast to Mechamaru's complicated feelings towards her, Shiki is fairly indifferent about him in return, despite his role as a lure in the 'ambush' for her. She simply protects him because she was assigned to retrieve Mechamaru for an interrogation. Shiki can't retrieve him if he's dead.

... So that just means she'll need to do her best to keep him alive, until she manages to find a way home.

#QA #zenith of stars au #liyue au #mechamaru #i am super happy at the details you're picking up here anon #and yes you are right on several counts!! #mechamaru isn't wrong in wanting a healthy body #he's wrong in how he went about it #he also overlooked all the other victims that would result from his actions #the guards to the warehouse who were killed horrifically when mahito broke in for example #i wonder if mechamaru felt any guilt about that? #there's absolutely no mention about it in the manga #which is either an overlooked detail #or points towards mechamaru being egocentric #or perhaps even similar to shiki in this respect -callous and unfeeling as long as the ones they hold dear to their heart remain unaffected

[mazojo]

I wonder how much of the spinoff reflects on Opera's original believes, values and world views before meeting Iruma and Sullivan

#its very interesting because I didnt expect opera to be this angry at the demons #it could just be for the sake of the spin off but I always took them as more of a cool and collected mind #(yes they are physicall strong) but not emotionally driven with anger like in the first ep #I know we had that Kalego spin off and we saw a bit of them but this feels a lot more Opera centered I love it!!!!! #it took me a while to read this I hadnt had time to sit down and do it but I love it !!!!! #m!ik truly my favorite form of media ever in all its forms I fear #it kind of bothers me the translation didnt keep the they/them pronouns but maybe it was overlooked anyways Opera nonbinary legend !! #opera #m!Ik #mairimashita! iruma kun #welcome to demon school iruma kun #iruma #manga #Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun: If Episode of Mafia

[pancake-breakfast]

One of the things that fascinates me about the counterattack on the ark in Chapters 3-4 of TriMax Vol. 8 is, best we can tell, it's not exactly a coordinated attack.

You have Luida and the people from Home timing their own attack to coincide with the attack from the Federation Military, but Home isn't exactly talking with the Federation. Whether that's because Knives already destroyed all communications or because Home wants to continue preserving their own isolation is anyone's guess, but the point is they don't have a Federation representative at their war table and they aren't sending a runner or anything the Federation's way. Their plan is just to show up at the right time and the right place.

Luida knows it's a gamble. She's taking it in hopes that Vash shows up, but it doesn't seem like she knows what's become of him. She suspects he's been captured and/or is somehow fighting Knives on his own and needs their help, but she doesn't know that. She's just hoping that, if they give this their best effort, they'll tip the scales in Vash's favor so he can take care of the rest.

Except he can't.

He's being physically restrained, and seven months of constantly battling with Legato's telekinesis has left him drained and weary. Even as the ark comes under attack, Vash remains stuck in his little oubliette, unable to do anything to help. Luida's guessed much of the situation, but one thing she doesn't know is they need a man on the inside to actually get Vash free.

Enter Wolfwood.

We don't have any real insight on how Wolfwood got on the ark at this point, so since the last place we saw him was fighting side-by-side (sort of) with Chapel and Livio, we kinda have to guess he's still working with the Eye of Michael, especially since those two are shown to be on the ark, as well.

But that begs the question: why did Wolfwood wait so long to make his move?

I think Wolfwood kind of answers that himself as he goes up against Legato.

Wolfwood knows that, on any given day, Legato outmatches him, big time. If he's gonna go after Legato and have even the smallest chance of success, he's got to do it while he's worn down.

Maybe seven months seems a bit excessive, but Legato isn't Wolfwood's only concern here. Aside from the Eye of Michael and Chapel, specifically, trying to make sure Wolfwood falls fully back under their influence, Wolfwood also has to worry about Elandira, who's determined to see this through and outmatches him on a similar level to Legato. And then, of course, there's Knives, who could not only make mincemeat of him as soon as look at him, but has the kind of keen awareness that makes it extremely difficult for anyone to do anything in his general vicinity without him noticing.

What Wolfwood needs is an opportunity. He needs a moment where not only is Legato worn down, but all three of the parties with their eye on him are distracted with other things.

We don't really know what the Eye of Michael is up to before they show up to try and stop Wolfwood from escaping with Vash, but presumably they're a bit distracted by the sudden fire the ark is coming under. Elandira is also distracted by the attack, but it doesn't really become a focus for her until a fourth ally decides to make their move.

The Plants. All Knives' sisters that he's been absorbing take this very moment--while Knives is trying to defend the ark--to hit him with another vision, one of all the humans they remember. There's a lot to take in with these people, but I want to focus on just one.

This lady here. At first glance, it might seem like she's holding up a cloth of some kind, but if that's the case, why isn't the cloth bunched and draped where she's holding it? No, this woman is cleaning the glass on the plant bulb, and smiling as she does it.

The plants are bombarding Knives with all their good memories of humans.

This takes Knives down so effectively that Elandira goes from having a light bit of fun to having to compensate for the defense and offense Knives is no longer providing. She's good, but she's not as powerful as Knives, so she's a bit overtaxed trying to fill his role while he's out of commission.

And that's what clear's the path for Wolfwood to finally make his move.

It's difficult to say what exactly the Plants were thinking at this time. Their consciousness is a bit of a mystery to us as readers, and even to their brothers, who are the beings in the narrative that they are closest to. But I like to think they saw this opportunity to help their one brother and fight against the other, and they took it. It would explain why, when they showed their vision of the child and her mother thanking one of them, it was seen not only by Knives and Vash, but by Wolfwood.

But the one thing that really gets me is how this uncoordinated counterattack just flies in the face of Knives' conclusion about humans in Chapter 2 of this same volume.

Knives concludes that if the strain he's about to put on them just causes them to murder each other, then all they are good for is their own self-destruction. On the one hand, there's been a LOT of death because of what he's done, and a good chunk of it is absolutely due to human-on-human violence. But plenty of it is also due to exposure, with the bodies lying where they fell from exhaustion and heat and dehydration rather than due to infighting over what little was left.

When an organized chunk of humanity actually gets an idea of what's going on (which is no small feat with their main source of communications destroyed), they don't decide to hoard resources or thin the population further. They decide to put themselves at risk against superior technology to do their best to defend those who are left.

The Federation Military had no way of knowing they had help on the way. They weren't planning for it or counting on it. Luida and the people from Home knew they risked their way of life and the continued preservation of their cryopods and their own resources if they helped, but they spent three months pulling every spare resource they could to build something that would help, and when they saw the opportunity to back up the Federation forces, they immediately decided to take it.

And Wolfwood... he probably could have lived out his days more simply (I hesitate to say "more easily," since there's nothing easy about what he does) if he'd just bowed his head and gone back to Eye of Michael. But he can't just leave Vash there, even if it's to save his own skin, even if chances of him making it out alive are slim.

When Knives takes away what slim resources humanity has, it absolutely causes more chaos and strife, but it also causes people to band together to do their best to look out for each other... for people they hold dear and for complete strangers they'll never meet. Knives expects it to only bring out the worst, but it also brings out the best.

It's that one thing Vash gets that his brother seems entirely incapable of seeing.

#wolfwood is just the perfect stand-in for humanity and for all the potential vash sees in people #and all the potential knives constantly overlooks and tries to force to be nothing but cruelty #gods i love this story sm #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigunbookclub #trigun maximum #volume 8 #manga analysis #pancake thoughts

[maagicmushies]

Desperately wishes that mei terumi was a naruto character that more fans cared about because when you start thinking about it, she probably had one of the most crazy and interesting lives in the series.

She came out of the Bloody Mist village as a Nine Year Old. That means she had to KILL SOMEONE before she was 10. That's not the end of Mei killing people as a child because she's the same age as Kakashi, meaning that she's in the perfect spot to be a 3rd War child soldier. She's also the only character to naturally be born with two nature release Kekkei Genkai which is not really a good thing given that she's from the Land of Hunting People With Kekkei Genkai Down and Killing Them. Anyways, she somehow survives that and has to go back to the mist who had just lost one of their tailed beast due to the idiotic plan with Rin. And then they lost another tailed beast because Utakata decided to cut his losses and abscond. The mist village in this era is essentially defenseless and probably only avoided being conquered because they're an island nation and there really isn't much to gain from trying to take over a blatantly failed state. The Fourth Mizukage luckily gets Isobu back... and then unluckily gets put into a Genjutsu that made him turn everything bad about the mist up to eleven and this is right around the time that the Kaguya Clan planned their assault on the mist (and lost). Right after THAT assault, there's another assault with Zabuza trying to kill the Fourth Mizukage which they honestly should have just let him do? Anyways, all of that is done, Ao comes back and releases the Fourth Mizukage from the genjutsu and he dies a couple of months after that (meaning Isobu is gone again lol). This is the mess that Mei has to inherit. No tailed beast, most notable ninja dead, captured or turned rogue, 0 goodwill with other nations and despite everything she kind of begins to turn stuff around. Want to know the really sad thing though? We get to see her Infinite Tsukuyomi dream and it's her finally getting have that wedding she had to put off her entire life because of the everything constantly happening in her life. That's not the sad part, the sad part is that is the people she sees attending it is the other four Kage. She met them like two months ago and yet they're the only living people she could imagine attending the most important day of her life.

#mei terumi #naruto #kirigakure #mei got hit with the one two punch of mangaka misogyny and manga fandoms overlooking even the well written women #many cases in naruto!

[istan-idraw]

So y'all remember this Kai?

Ever wondered who did this to him?

She did (⁠*⁠꒪⁠ヮ⁠꒪⁠*⁠)☞

Misaki is the president of Kai's fanbase and the biggest fan herself and nobody will convince me otherwise (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠)

A side by side view because Yes.

Mama-Misaki loves her emo baby (⁠ ⁠˶⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ꁞ⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠˶⁠ ⁠)

#the only refrences i could find for misaki were from manga panels and there seems to be no official art of her either #so her colours are basically what i THINK they would be like #coz if you notice susumu's hair are dark colored in manga panels while misaki's are left light #now if you compare it with Kai's hair and overlook the fact that he might've dyed his hair #ita safe to say that susumu has black/dark bluish colored hair while misaki has bluish-greg hair #but grey hair makes it look like she's in her grandma era #and kais mot giving his biggest fangi- his mama the joy of a daughter in law #how sad #ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ #also i hc that kai gets his fashion sense from his mother 👀 #wow so many tags :| #k byee #kai hiwatari #misaki hiwatari #bakuten shoot beyblade #bey art

[blee-bleep]

How does somebody whose only shipped lesbian ships before become so obsessed with Erehisu?

Y'see, anon, it's a little something called "bisexuality"

#i actually watched aot becuz of yumihisu but then i read the manga and i slapped my head and said #'shit why did they cut off so many scenes of them together' #them being erehisu #and then ymir fritz dropped and THEN i listened to that Linked Horizon song where a baby wailed at the end #then im like yooooooo fcuking hell theyre future parents to this poor girl omggggg #honestly i stumbled into erehisu by my own becuz after reading the uprising arc in the manga i felt like i had to do the ship justice #just cuz how overlooked it was and how i realized that they probably had the better chemistry #the more i looked into their characterizations and parallels to each other #like them being burdened putting up a fake facade just for others and having to come to terms to it #as well as the way their family shaped them (carla frieda and freckled ymir are the goats) #it wasnt much back then BUT THEN i read apple and lamp theory #and its soooooooo fucking beautiful it just seared into my mind forever. #Enemies To Humanity is something so unbelievable yet fascinating to me as a dynamic but it all clicked the moment i put it in its context #i dont support whatever the fuck the alt-right part of the fandom has of it thats another ball game #i ship erehisu in the way i percieve it to be the most fitting to the mature themes of the story #its not the first 'straight' ship i liked but it IS the first ship where i think it's ultimately superior to others including the wlw ships #thats why im so obsessed with them

[mettywiththenotes]

Everybody knows Gunga Mountain is where the gay shit happens

#it's like Lovers Lookout on cliffs that overlook cities or whatever #just yknow. a little more remote #and if there's a little blood and dead bodies scattered everywhere well it just adds to the character of the place. pay it no mind #bnha #togachako #afohawks #mettys posts #metty posts #bnha manga spoilers #kinda sorta #afojiko

[everyryuujisuguro]

#ryuuji suguro #ryuji suguro #ao no exorcist #blue exorcist #suguro ryuji #suguro ryuuji #bon suguro #manga ryuuji #chapter 19 #kyoto ryuuji #i know this is setting up that he has a hangover for the next scene #which is also overlooked a lot in favor of rin's because rin's really is fuuny #but he looks so alone in this frame #and that's what i always notice #home again but not really. he can't return to the way it once was and what he's trying to reclaim he won't find

[thehandymen]

i really don’t think tokyo revengers gets enough credit for how absolutely emotionally DEVASTATING it is. the whole plot literally revolves around a guy who, after watching the most precious people in his life die horrifically, repeatedly travels back in time to his middle school days in an attempt to change the timeline and save them. he does this over and over again, spending weeks to months living in the past with friends who will never be the same, trying and trying to change the world with desperate precision to ensure no one dies again. and then every time he travels back to the present to see if it worked, it never does: if he saved one person, then he ultimately sacrificed another. it honestly sounds like the worst possible loop to be stuck in, constantly playing chess with people you deeply care about, knowing that no matter what you do you’ll never get it right. as to how takemichi hasn’t lost his marbles yet i do not know but he has my respect

#i am an animeonly but the ominous vibes from recent eps have been insane #i cannot wait for the next episode i NEED to know what happens #i know s1 got a lot of hype for mikey draken etc etc #but i feel like people really overlook the emotional quality of tokrev #like it's so obvious all the characters are so devoted to each other #which makes the tragedy aspect so much more heartbreaking #tokyo revengers #takemichi hanagaki #tokrev #tr #anime #manga

[guideaus]

i try to look something up about viking women, and it says academics arent sure about if they were warriors or not, but almost all these pages talk abt foreigners surprised at the liberty of women in these areas, and then i think abt vinland saga and the women in general, much less them being possible warriors, feel very irrelevant all together

#personal #not that they had more rights or equal to than men but i feel if historically all these other places are surprised there should be a bit #more emphasis on them? and also its not supposed to be realistic completely #ketil's farm arc the wife is overlooked and rarely there. ylva feels like an exception w blacksmithing but is rarely there too #thorfinn's mom didnt have much abt her... and i cant really remember any other women. canute's sister didnt do much #then gudrid is shown as failing at household work. #the manga is MUCH goofier than the anime too. its not exactly trying to be truly realistic.

[thedevilsrain]

actually taking the time to read through what would be considered the antagonist's motives in eroica, only to find out theyre more sympathetic than the main characters (major specifically) will ever be. you mean this nato engineer became so moved by the pope he stole US secrets and ran away??? by all means let me shake the mans hands

#i love it as much as the next guy but fewl is deeply deeply conservative #it is way more on the side of the major than eroica's #that meaning natos side than the side of a gay man #like it goes beyond the kgb plots. anybody who disagrees with nato or the cia or even the sis in fewl is considered an antagonist #which is fine. but they are not given a sliver of sympathy from the writer #like its been a while but in emperor waltz theres the character of the cia officer who literally had a breakdown and leaked state secrets #and hes just treated as a crazy man. theres no explaining his motives other than that hes a nuisance to the major and nato #but overall what im tryna say is that eroica never was 'progressive' ESPECIALLY by our standards #an it feels wrong 2 me so sell it as anything more than 'oh theres a couple gay characters and a fun dynamic' #cus i feel it leads to overlooking things like these #which are quite interesting to me. like taking a glimpse into how the world beyond europe and the us perceived nato #considering most spy stories are from those places #and um yeah it sucks. even i feel bad reading it sometimes! #but its part of it; i like what i like #either way what bliss #led zeppelin shoujo yaoi manga tag

[prettyboykatsuki]

oh man. so we're finally getting an expansion of the quirk prejudice? i think the full chapter needs to be released before i go in depth but i will say on a personal level im pretty happy to see it.

i will also say, i don't think hori is really trying to make a real world narrative about discrimination through this. while bnha has always to some extent been about quirk discrimination - this type of specific story doesn't seem appropriate or in line with the direction of the manga. this chapter is meant to be a story device that specifically touches on in universe issues.

it's about story-building much in the same way shinso has a villainous quirk or deku being quirkless is. i think people expecting like.. an indepth depiction of real-world issues are a bit delulu in this sense (everyone on twt..)

but it's a part of the bnha universe that i've very personally wanted expanded upon so i think this chapter accomplishes that. mostly im excited that we're actual getting an entire few chapters dedicated to the issue and to the story and im very very excited to see shouji!!!!!!

it's a bit mind-boggling that so many people found these leaks boring? im always delighted by chapters that expand story-building elements and appearance-based quirk prejudice has been something that i've found very interesting since it's appeared in bits and pieces for so much of the story.

either way i thought the chapter was very engaging !!!!! and it made me excited in a meta way!!!

#aristotle.txt #im just like.. pleased that hori didn't make this subtext you could say #because well. i think a lot of people just like... overlook quirk discrimination as a major theme #you would think thats not true but like. KJDFJKS many people kind of overlook it #people were very weird about this chapter because i think they were expecting some like one-to-one narrative tale about oppression #which is just. not how BNHA was ever setting itself up like in the history of ever #PLENTYYY of fics do that but canon doesn't it #canon more arbitrarily answers 'whos a hero and whos a villain yadda yadda' #either way i thought this chapter was really engaging #the actual following chapters im expecting to be a bit preachy but maybe ill be surprised #good chap tho #bnha manga leaks #bnha 370 #fang.meta

[misteria247]

So I'd just finished the entire manga series, Maison Ikkoku and holy shit.

It was so good.

Like Maison Ikkoku is an underrated gem from Rumiko Takahashi's long line of works. It's different from her other stories which involve teenagers going on adventures or having comedic events happen to them. Maison Ikkoku's story has adult protagonists and it's a story about life and death and moving on with life while also finding your way in it. It's a comedy romance yet the actual story has some serious undertones to it and its story is honestly quite beautiful as well as heartbreaking and hopeful.

For a brief summary here-

You basically follow the main protagonist, Godai Yusuke. A college student who's just trying to get by in life and graduate school. He lives in an apartment complex like place called Maison Ikkoku with some of the world's most wild neighbors and it's here that he meets the second protagonist of the story as well as his love interest, Kyoko Otonashi. Who becomes the apartment complex's newest manager, though her reasons for it are something that no one could have ever predicted. It's basically the story of people trying to find their way in life as well as growing up and maturing from the experiences they face as well as the budding romance and friendship between Godai, Kyoko and the fellow tenants at Maison Ikkoku. It's just-

It's absolutely amazing and I felt so much emotion and bonded with the characters so much and hell even related to some of them and their struggles with things that I myself am experiencing. Seriously y'all need to check out Maison Ikkoku, it's such a good story fr fr omg.

#oli talks #ooc #muns ramblings #mindless ramblings of a madman #maison ikkoku #maison ikkoku anime #maison ikkoku manga #classic manga #classic anime #godai yusuke #yusuke godai #kyoko otonashi #otonashi kyoko #rumiko takahashi #rumiko world #rumiko theater #70s manga #80s manga #seriously it's so good and such an underrated gem that's sadly overlooked

[obstinaterixatrix]

I was reading an m/f isekai where an OL in her 30s goes like ‘I wanna make a book cafe if you’re sending me to another world give me all these perks’ and I actually really enjoy it but in the second volume there’s a. mega racist aspect of the worldbuilding. they introduce it like ‘ooohhh there’s this power hungry country in the east who can’t get saviors because they’ll try to conquer the world’ and it’s very obviously… west asian (?) (I think the term might’ve been updated) and there’s even a line of ‘well people from that country are dark-skinned so the person you met probably wasn’t one of them :)’ like. it’s very egregious. and keeps getting more relevant

#was gonna put it in the rec tag. until then. #misclb #orlbs #now that you’ve been warned of the hot stove the manga is #the savior’s book cafe #but again. first volume is pretty enjoyable (if you can overlook that the only other female character is shallow and antagonistic and 2D) #you don’t really get hints. of the mega racism to come. #I’m gonna drop it. author you didn’t have to pull a racism and weave it inexorably into your story’s main plot.

[sweetescapeartist]

THE THING ABOUT THE PSEUDO CELL JRS ON MONSTER ISLAND

The DBS manga doesnt even call these creatures "Cell Jrs." They are called "Pseudo Cell Jrs." And use the words "perhaps" & "maybe." This simply means that this is a what-if idea of Toyotaro.

If the Cell Jrs. did have regenerative capabilities, then the RR Army would've tried to locate them ASAP. Yet, they didn't. Not only that, but if they were capable of regeneration, then they could've regenerated soon after Gohan destroyed them to help Cell attack Gohan. Plus everyone at the Cell Games would've noticed them & sensed them. Yet that did not happen because they cannot regenerate.

So them being on this island makes no sense. Its just Toyotaro wanting to draw Cell Jrs.

The idea of the Cell Jrs. possess similar abilities like Cell came from a video games. All we were shown is that they were weaker & smaller versions of Cell who couldn't handle a single hit from SSJ2 Gohan while Perfect Cell could. (Kinda similar to King Piccolo's mutant children being weaker than him & lacking certain Namekian abilities.)

This is just like how Toyo's bonus page of King Chappa training Uub isn't canon & those pages ARE NOT meant to be taken seriously. These bonus pages & bonus stories are simply Toyotaro thinking up what-if ideas.

And the bonus page of Bardock's crew. When translated, Toyotaro uses "Just an idea" "could've" & "would've." Nothing concrete. These are just his ideas for fun & these ideas ARE NOT to be taken seriously at all.

SIDE NOTE:

This inclusion of these Pseudo Cell Jrs is stupid because 17 could've gotten his own niece killed.

Its said by 17 that the Pseudo Cell Jrs dont attack Rangers. And Marron wasn't wearing a Ranger outfit.

And even though Goten & Trunks were wearing ranger outfits, they were still attacked. Why did they attack ppl wearing the Ranger outfits? Why didn't they attack Marron? A better way would've been for Goten & Trunks to be in their gi while Marron is in the ranger outfit. The Pseudo Cell Jrs. attack Goten & Trunks since they aren't in uniform. Then, Marron yells for the Pseudo Cell Jrs to stop & they listen to the person in the ranger uniform.

Also... These Pseudo Cell Jrs. would have been desteoyed when Buu destroyed all life and later the planet. They are evil like Cell, so they wouldn't get wished back when Dende made a wish for everyone to come back except the really bad people.

Another thing is that it doesn't make sense for the Pseudo Cell Jrs. to be tamed by 17. One single Cell Jr. could defeat SSJ Grade 2 Vegeta with ease. 17 was weaker than SSJ Grade 2 & he wouldn't be able to fight 7 Cell Jrs. and tame them.

Regardless... Nothing here makes any sense. As expected of Toyotaro.

#pseudo cell jrs #cell jrs #dbs manga #wtf toyotaro? #db #dbz #dbs #ppl want to call things filler & non-canon in the anime continuity but overlook tha fact that the manga has what-if ideas as bonus pages #if anything the manga continuity has non-canon filler