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toast-star · 8 months

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so, i'm currently rereading can't fear your own world, and it's really interesting going back and picking up on stuff i missed the first time. one line really jumped out at me, when shinji first encounters hikone

now, what does this mean? are reiraku... not visible in the soul society? some thoughts under the cut

first of all, let’s clarify some terms, because with all my bleach knowledge, i wasn’t familiar with the term ‘reiraku’. the reason for this is because ‘reiraku’ means spirit threads/coils, otherwise known as spirit ribbons, otherwise known as ‘that thing they do like one time and never mention it again’. so we don’t know much about this technique or how it works. i whipped out my physical copy of volume 5 to check, and…

yeah, that’s it. not much to go on. my interpretation of this is that when a reiatsu is dense enough, it can become visible. or, when a practitioner such as a skilled shinigami or uryuu himself can ‘force’ reiatsu to cluster together tighter, therefore making it perceptible in this way. again, not much to go on here, but it feeds into some bigger thoughts i’ve been having about reiatsu visibility.

(kenpachi and yachiru kindly demonstrating visible reiatsu)

my current theory is that reiraku aren’t exactly invisible in the soul society, but it's definitely harder to see, and even harder to touch. i mean, it would be a problem if just anyone could go around yanking on any spirit ribbon they liked. uryu does mention that a shinigami has to be 'skilled' to touch it. i wonder how skilled we're talking? seated officer, lieutenant, captain level? can he do it easier because he's a quincy?

reiatsu is only visible when a large amount is being released (see kenpachi's awesome skull) or when someone specifically wants it to be. my theory is that for reiatsu become visible, it needs to be denser than the ambient reishi around it. we do know that the soul society has high amounts of ambient reishi, especially compared to the world of the living. in the explanation of gentei kaijo, we’re told that shinigami spiritual pressure is ‘scaled down to match’ the the world of the living, specifically 20% or 1/5th of its usual capacity. so if the living world has about 80% less ambient reishi, it could also mean that the point at which reiatsu becomes visible is about 80% lower. please consult the diagram:

(the numbers i use aren’t Completely accurate, it’s more about tracking the trend. we know living world’s reishi density is about 20% of the soul society’s, but we have no metric for hueco mundo, other than theres More. i just put the value at 100% to compare it to the soul society. i haven't made a graph in like 10 years so forgive me)

so when someone releases a lot of their reiatsu, it scatters into the environment (which is also a good explanation of why characters are often shown having a very bright outline which then dissapates and fades - its diffusion! the particles are being released from their body/skin, so that is where they're densest, as they get further away they become less 'clustered' and spread evenly into the atmosphere)

this would also mean that reiatsu would be harder to see in hueco mundo vs the living world. i wonder if starrk, barragan and halibel’s giant light show came as a bit if a surprise to them, too. what might be a small glow in hueco mundo could be a massive explosion in the living world, since the density of reishi much lower than what they’re used to.

that's a Lot of reiatsu

meanwhile back in hueco mundo, aizen can force grimmjow to his knees, and all we're able to see is a soft glow. this could Just Be An Aizen Thing, but i thought it was worth mentioning!

(i'm aware a lot of this might just be artistic/stylistic choices, but it's more fun to think about this way. just play with me in the sandbox here okay)

anyway, coming back to shinji’s thoughts here, this kind of makes sense considering he’s spent about a century in the world of the living with the other visoreds. he’s only been back in the soul society for less than two years, and he’s probably still adjusting to the higher reishi levels and higher threshold for visible reiatsu and reiraku

reiatsu colours have always been super interesting to me, and we don’t actually know much about how reikaku (spirit sensing) works, but we know from the fullbringer arc that it can work in as ‘sight’ in terms of shape and spatial awareness, but i really wonder what colour signifies? i love picking this stuff apart so there may be more on this subject in the future

well this post got kind of obscenely long and tangential BUT it’s nice to get a few of my thoughts and theories down. theres not a overarching Point here i just like talking about bleach <3

#bleachtoasting #i feel kind of silly posting this but. i can do whatever i want forever #i am insane in the head thinking about bleach and sifting through it makes my brain buzz #i have been chewing on bleach for years and i will not stop. its just so INTERESTING to me #this as also been in the works for a while so if it doesnt make sense then. blehhhh #more of my woke soul on toast-star bleachtoasting....#bleach meta

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thespacialvoid · 1 year

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12/15/22 sasurai emanon by shinji kaijo completed

#sasurai emanon #emanon #manga

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scripturamstellae · 3 years

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"Eu acredito que a minha existência é uma manifestação da história. E a história deve ser uma manifestação da vida por si só."

- Omoide Emanon, Shinji Kaijo e Kenji Tsuruta.

#citação #online diary #frases #mangá #para lembrar #scripturamsrellae #citação do dia

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pattern-recognition · 4 years

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I love shinji kaijo’s twitter. Like the guy is in his 70′s now, and all of his posts are just pictures of flowers and rting peoples’ posts about the emanon manga. A lot of creators become very understandably jaded after many decades of being known for mostly one work, but the idea of emanon still seems to make him happy

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luziiannne · 4 years

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Wow! January flew by so fast. Where did it go? I hope everyone had a wonderful start to the new year. There are a lot of manga that I’m looking forward to reading this year & some of them are out now, but for now here’s everything I got last month.

@kodanshacomics is known for releasing a lot of digital manga. Last year they started to print some of their series & I couldn’t be happier. Drifting Dragons by: Taku Kuwabara, I had a big smile on my face from start to finish. I’m so excited for the anime adaption of this series coming out this April. Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight by: Rin Mikimoto, this is a lovey shōjo manga that sadly ends at 12 vols. I was hoping for more adventures with our main characters Hinana & Ayase, but here we are **sniffs** the end.

The Poe Clan by: Moto Hagio, this hardcover edition is a masterpiece. I’m in love with it, the art style is breathtaking. I’m currently still reading it & I hope we get a vol.2 release date soon. Deep Scar by: Rossella Sergi, written by an upcoming Italian artist Sergi captures the essence of shōjo manga. I love how the art is simple & clean with no distractions in the background. Super excited for vol.2 & can I just say that I’m overjoyed that @tokyopop has been releasing more titles & I’m here for it!

Snow White with the Red Hair vol.5 by: Sorata Akizuki

Requiem of the Rose King vols.7~9 by: Aya Kanno

Takane & Hana vols.2~3 by:Yuki Shiwasu

Seraoh of the End vol.2 by: Takaya Kagami

Deep Scar vol.1 by: Rossella Sergi

Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight vols.9~10 by: Rin Mikimoto

Daytime Shooting Star vols.3~4 by: Mika Yamamori

Yona of the Dawn vol.22 by: Mizuho Kusanagi

Emanon vol.3 by: Shinji Kaijo

Go With the Clouds, North by Northwest vol.3 by: Aki Irie

Drifting Dragons vols.1~2 by: Taku Kuwabara

The Poe Clan vol.1 by: Moto Hagio

Find Me: Insta @luziiannne

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recentanimenews · 5 years

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Bookshelf Briefs 8/21/19

Accomplishments of the Duke’s Daughter, Vol. 4 | By Reai and Suki Umemiya | Seven Seas – Aside from praising Iris’s innovations, this volume focuses more on the political end of things than the commerce end. Iris ends up attending the ball, and it goes better than she expected, mostly as the Queen Dowager is in her corner. In fact, honestly, things may go a little TOO well—the entire ball seems engineered to show off how the guy who dumped and exiled Iris is a hothead idiot, and Yuri seems to be doing an excellent job of manipulating the country into… running itself into the ground. But how invested should Iris be in all this, especially as she has to look out for her own nation, because there’s war on the horizon. Still an excellent political drama. – Sean Gaffney

Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 7 | By Bisco Hatori | Viz Media – I enjoy Bisco Hatori’s humor, but her plotting is not a thing to behold. That said, as predicted, things resolved with the Ruka plotline, followed by a quick epilogue showing the film Goda made (honestly, the plot of the film sounds like a manga I’d love to see Hatori write), and then another epilogue several years later showing the two pairings (mostly) resolved and the two stars at ease with themselves and successful. There’s fun to be had here, but I can’t deny that I think this started a lot stronger than it ended, and I’m glad it did not end up as long as Ouran. I’d still recommend it to Hatori fans, though. Oh yes, and the amnesia arc proves to be as inconsequential as I suspected it would be. – Sean Gaffney

Cocoon Entwined, Vol. 1 | By Yuriko Hara | Yen Press – Hoshimiya Girls’ Academy has a unique tradition. The students have exceedingly long hair, and as the middle school third-year students are being measured for their high school uniforms, the high school third-years are finally having their hair cut, which will be used to make said uniforms. Cocoon Entwined so far is light on plot, heavy on atmosphere. We meet Yokozawa, a girl who seems to be able to sense breathing and/or heartbeats from the uniforms, and Saeki, the princely girl whom Yokozawa has feelings for. We don’t meet, except in flashback, the elusive Hoshimiya, granddaughter of the headmistress, who has locked herself in her room and for whom Saeki seemingly pines, much to Yokozawa’s dismay. I really liked this volume, even though there’s not a lot happening so far. I look forward to more, whenever it comes. – Michelle Smith

Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, Vol. 6 | By Inio Asano | Viz Media – Thankfully, and despite Kadode assuring her friends that something happened, it’s suggested nothing did, and the teacher is leaving the city due to the ongoing chaos. Honestly, the world may not have all that long to go—even if the aliens don’t bring things to an end, can Japan really hold off America and everyone else? This still has a bit of a post-apocalyptic feel to it. Still, Futaba does end up getting lucky, so to speak, though the implication is that her politics and his desire for a non-serious relationship will make that a very short relationship. The best part of the story was Oran’s surprise birthday party, which was sweet as pie. I hope there’s more sweet moments ahead. – Sean Gaffney

Emanon, Vol. 1: Memories of Emanon | By Shinji Kaijo and Kenji Tsuruta | Dark Horse – I initially picked up Emanon due to Tsuruta’s involvement since I’ve been enjoying Wandering Island; I only later realized that Kaijo is an award-winning author. The Emanon manga is an adaptation of a series of stories written by Kaijo (also illustrated by Tsuruta) featuring a young woman who calls herself Emanon. Kaijo’s somewhat melancholic but engaging narratives lend themselves well to Tsuruta’s atmospheric artwork. There’s very little action in the first volume of the manga. For the most part, Tsuruta is capturing a reminiscence of a conversation between two people, a young man who enjoys speculative fiction and Emanon. She intrigues him, not only because of the air of mystery surrounding her but because she tells him that she holds memories reaching back to the beginning of life on Earth. Memories of Emanon, adapting Kaijo’s original story, is self-contained, but I’m greatly looking forward to the continuation of the series. – Ash Brown

Idol Dreams, Vol. 6 | By Arina Tanemura | VIZ Media – It’s been almost two years since I read a volume of Idol Dreams. I’d stop short of saying it has gotten good in the intervening time—there’s a lot of melodrama here, from the death of Hibiki’s little sister and him carrying on despite his grief (leading to the spectacularly cheesy line, “Sayaka, can you hear Hibiki singing?”) to the plotline revolving around Hanami’s pregnancy and the fact that it isn’t Tokita’s—but it’s certainly somewhat better, and I think that’s because this volume puts much more emphasis on Deguchi as an adult interacting with adults rather than her masquerading as a teen interacting with teens. It was even a little gratifying to see this mousey character haul off and smack Hanami for leaving Tokita at the altar. Do I care enough to keep reading? Maybe, especially if the next volume is the final one. – Michelle Smith

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Vol. 37 | By Shinobu Ohtaka | VIZ Media – And so, Magi comes to an end. There were some things I really liked about it, like how Ohtaka-sensei showed how Alibaba’s unfailing determination to fight the spell reminded various brainwashed people of other heroes they had known who had sacrificed everything for goals and countries that would no longer exist if everyone and everything returned to rukh. I liked how Kogyoku was desperately trying to get him to surrender to her before the arrival of the massive army in an attempt to save his life. The rest, though, is not completely clear. I get most of what Sinbad did, but I don’t really get how Aladdin emerged victorious. There was a big flash of light and then… happy epilogue? Which I guess is fine. The happy epilogue was what I really wanted, anyway. Overall, I enjoyed this series and its themes of self-determination. – Michelle Smith

My Hero Academia, Vol. 20 | By Kohei Horikoshi | Viz Media – This is an excellent volume, but it’s definitely a “wrap up one plot and start another” sort of book. Midoriya stops the “villains” and we see the small series of tragedies behind their backstory. He makes it back for the festival—just—and it’s a blast, with Jiro at her best (the redrawn art helps) and Eri dazzled. Then we see the new hero rankings post-All Might, and Endeavor is finally top of the charts, but being #1 also means that people are after you as well, and there’s a pretty nasty fight towards the end. Will Endeavor win the day? And will Todoroki care? Great volume, but I think it’s all about Jiro and Eri’s big grins in the end. Those are wonderful smiles. – Sean Gaffney

Shortcake Cake, Vol. 5 | By suu Morishita | VIZ Media – Ten has realized she likes Riku after all and returns early after summer vacation because he’s alone in the boardinghouse. Meanwhile, Chiaki is getting bolder about expressing his feelings. The great part is that not only does he get this pertain to Ten—including a smooch at the end and a “What can I do so that you consider me?”—but to Riku, as well. Chiaki’s oddball personality is starting to come through, and the best chapter here is a cute interlude where he lies about the origins of a cup Riku broke so that they can go out shopping for a replacement together. It involves Riku winning an enormous bag of potato chips for Chiaki from a crane game. I’m not super invested in the romance angle of this story, but I do like the main trio of characters! – Michelle Smith

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization, Vol. 4 | By Tomo Hirokawa, based on the story by Reki Kawahara | Yen Press – There’s an attempt to ramp up the danger here, given that we’re dealing with the death of NPCs, who technically aren’t real people (though honestly, most of SAO has been built around proving that false lately) and the fact that this time you really can log out and go back to your life. But the threat of the game being hacked, as well as users using drugs to “enhance” their experience, means that this time the Japanese government may finally shut down all these VR games for good—something that Kirito and Asuna in particular are determined to stop. Can they help save Premiere from her fate? And what about Anti-Premiere? – Sean Gaffney

Takane & Hana, Vol. 10 | By Yuki Shiwasu | Viz Media – As expected, Okamon is shot down (very nicely) by Hana. Of course, Takane misunderstands. Indeed, the entire volume is about misunderstandings and poor communication, which is always a good fallback in romantic comedies like this one. We also get the backstory on how Takane met Nicola, and how, like Hana, he was at first completely annoyed by him till he saw his hidden nice side. There are not quite as many amusing faces as previous volumes (though the omake helps make up a lot of the difference). But in return we do get a bit more on the romance front, as a drunken Takane (they had a birthday party for him) ends up kissing Hana… on the nose. That said, the effect is devastating. Fun times. – Sean Gaffney

Yuri Life | By Kurukuruhime | Yen Press – We’ve seen quite a few yuri anthologies about adults lately and this one is a 4-koma one-shot, with each chapter focusing on a different couple, until we come around to the first one at the end. There are couples I found interesting. (One involves the Grim Reaper waiting for a woman to die, falling in love with her, and then having her romance be what enables the woman to keep living… so they have to part.) I will say they are “mostly” adult romances… one is teacher-student, with the student being sixteen, and it didn’t work for me. Nor did the one about the “yandere.” Still, there were more hits than misses, and if you’re looking for cute, sweet yuri that won’t stick in the head, this is decent enough. – Sean Gaffney

By: Ash Brown

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