#what? this is a horror manga

[rmorde]

It's fucking wild to see someone defend Mei Mei and demand people to blame Gege instead for her pedophilia and grooming.

WTF?

If you love a dark character, then accept everything that they are in the story. Mei Mei is one. She is a side character that is dark despite being on the heroes' side of the fight.

I appreciate what Gege had done to her character. I like it because thru her we see how rotten the modern jujutsu society is - that the heroes' side is not exactly great especially with the likes of Gojo and Nanami being gone.

A lot of people already pointed out that Mei is used as a foil for Nanami. I agree. She is everything he is not: - Nanami left stock trading. Mei is doing insider trading. - Nanami fights for the greater good. Mei is only in it for the paycheck. - Nanami protects children. Mei exploits children. - Nanami continues to fight even if he is half-dead. Mei retreats even if she is still perfectly fine. - Nanami has morals. Mei is immoral.

But why did someone good (Nanami) die a horrible death while someone bad (Mei Mei) got rewarded (practically highlighted with her escaping to Malaysia -which was Nanami's dream retirement place)? It's to highlight how broken and bleak jujutsu society is - bad people benefit but good people suffer. It also shows how the only difference between the sorcerers (sans our "heroes") and the curse users are just rule compliance and pay checks.

Speaking of which:

What Mei Mei is doing to Ui Ui is exactly like what that Granny Seance did to her Tojified Grandson. Both women are grooming boys younger than they into perfect tools to complement their CTs. They don't see them as brother or grandson respectively. Those words are mere "titles". It's like how you would call an giant axe "Axe" and straw dolls "Dolls."

Mei is the perfect example of what a peak sorcerer is in modern jujutsu society - strong and smart but selfish, self-absorbed, exploitative, and immoral.

I like Mei for what she delivers in the story: 1) A very dark character that represents the rotten core of the jujutsu society. 2) A complex female character - she is on your side but she is definitely not an ally you'd want. However, you need all the help you can get so you are forced to accept her but deep down you want her to get some comeuppance for all she's been doing. 3) Despite her... Mei-ness, she still has a really cool character design and powers as well as really badass scenes. 4) An excellent foil to Nanami (and maybe even Gojo if I stretch it a bit). 5) A great reminder that with the exception of the sorcerers within Gojo's close circle (Tokyo Tech staff/alumni + Utahime & her students), sorcerers are absolute scumbags. Mei's principle is pretty similar to Sukuna's! They're all about: Me, Myself, and I living it up and having fun at everyone's expense.

6) She is the closest I could get to a "villainess" in JJK. The villains in JJK is male-dominated with 2 gender-neutrals (Hanami + Uraume). Geto's family has very little screen time for me to get something out of them (Lady Secretary, Nanako & Mimiko). Yeah it's shonen but still... Gege is starving me with good villainesses 😭.

So TLDR: Mei Mei is not defensible but feel free to like/love her anyway. Being a fan of villains or dark characters is not a representation of a person's morals after all. Do not blame Gege for using her as a narrative tool to remind people again ( because we have to admit that we always kinda forget): the world of JJK is unfair and it really fucking sucks being a nice person there. Not that Gege is a perfect writer at all. There are plenty of other stuff to be angry about in his work like the pacing for example or the underutilization of interesting side characters or the story being so "scattered" into various mediums.

#sorry for the rant #it was just such a wild 'defense' #it was just pure wtf for me #blame the author for making a dark character? #what? this is a horror manga #characters like that is a given #gege just shook things up because it turns out one of the heroes' allies has very dark morality #i think maybe the reasons gojo and nanami and co. have not done anything about ui ui's situation are: #first - there really isn't anything they can do coz mei already has excellent control over him. ui ui won't allow himself to be 'saved' #second - mei hid her grooming very well and no one was aware of it #third - they can't be choosy w/ their allies coz of how few sorcerers are. they let her be so she stays a sorcerer AND NOT A CURSE USER. #i could also talk about in here the insane hot take that 'gojo is a groomer' and that's just no just fucking no wtf is even that take?! #but that ridiculous take is another whole can of worms that i seriously don't wanna get into rn #even if it is one of my pet peeves along with 'gojo has god complex' & 'yuki is at fault for geto mass killing' & the weirdest of all: #'geto was not really trying to kill gojo and his allies and his students' hot take... DID WE EVEN WATCH THE SAME MOVIE?! I SWEAR I aflkhdfa

[rainbow-taishi]

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

#shitpost #jjk fanart #jjk #cioccolatodorima #my drawings #anime #drawing #manga #fanart #gege akutami #santa claus #horror #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #gojojojo #what fun it is to ride and sing a SLAYING song tonight

[chrxnicdaydream]

So… Stormbringer manga next?

please?

#i’m like 95% sure we will but #pls hoshikawa sensei i’m begging #verlaine looks so good in their style 😭 #also it’s so cool to see this scene drawn out. the unresolved hurt. the melancholy #the bittersweet emotion paired with the horrors of what’s actually happening in this scene. TO A CHILD. who doesn’t even remember it #ughhh it’s visceral #bsd #skk #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #bsd chuuya #nakahara chuuya #fifteen phase 18 spoilers #fifteen manga spoilers #bsd fifteen manga #bsd fifteen #bsd stormbringer #bsd spoilers #rimlaine #bsd verlaine #bsd rimbaud #arthur rimbaud #paul verlaine

[two-wizards-in-a-trench-coat]

#ell jee bee tea #makes me think of that “what are they proud of” sasuke fic #the summer hikaru died #also this is a horror manga

[asukachii]

"I have no idea what's going on... but the plant has completely stopped moving, and it looks like his breathing came to a standstill at the same time".

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post these gifs somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use them in edits/videos. Thanks~)

#trigun #trigun spoilers #vash the stampede #vash #trigun manga #gif #my animation #asukachii #i started this project around mid january (as soon as i finished reading the manga) and it counts a total of 60+ hours (more or less) #i always tell myself not to start overly complex projects because i get overwhelmed/burnout but here i am again #do i regret it? yes. am i going to do it again? also yes. #this is one of my favourite scene and i was looking forward to see it in the new stampede adaption #i really like what we got but at the same time i missed the wingss #and the feathersssssss #and the body horror? #but i guess it's ok... it's ok it's ok #beloved wings. #i found the new scene pretty anyway #i love the part where we have the close up of vash with markings on his face and behind him the plant's hands #that scene is really cool and eerie #love that #i'm in love with the ost (!) #and the visuals overall #who's gonna read all these tags #i was unsure of what quote to use #the other option was vash saying 'hey there sister' but everytime i read that panel my brain just goes 'heeeeeei sisteeer' by avicii #the quality dropped so bad why tumblr (i hope it's just my app as usual... eh) #maybe from browser/desktop quality is better 😓 #*favourite scenes // *adaptation

[conchabread]

We need more fanfics of this man. I just know he whimpers

#darry jenner #jeepers creepers #x reader #fanfic #Darry Jenner x reader #movies #horror movie #anime and manga #my fic #I don’t know what I’m saying of why I’m saying it I just know that I need this man so bad 😫 #Ilovewhimperingmen #I love whimpering men

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Dunmeshi #though it IS really worth exploring the ethics of cannibalism in survival situations #The podcast You're Wrong About has a really interesting pairing of episodes #in the Donner Party and Flight 571 Crash episodes #Both about disasters in which people wound up eating their dead to survive #and an interesting connection they drew was that it wasn't the cannibalism itself #that destroyed the lives of the Donner survivors #it was the horror and disgust and societal rejection they got for having eaten human flesh #even the children who had no idea what they were eating were treated with revulsion #and this is clearly the response Senshi feared facing if anybody knew what he'd eaten #But Flight 571 like a century later #the survivors were faced with a lot of understanding when rescued #relatively little condemnation and revulsion #by and large commentators acknowledged that they did what they had to do #and sympathized with how difficult and painful it must have been #which is what Senshi gets from his party #Laios wants to figure out the truth because he knows it's hurting Senshi not to know #But at one point Marcille straight up says that none of them would think less of Senshi if he did eat dwarf stew #Okay so this is Marcille 'ardent student of blood magic' Donato #but Chilchuck agrees #anyway I think that would be a particularly interesting conversation to have in a cooking manga #how do you safely eat a dead friend when that's all you have to survive on? #what are the nutritional benefits other than 'better than starving'? #what are the risks? There's prion diseases and all sorts you can get #they write it off as eating the dragon part but they DO spend seven days eating Falin at the end #ARE there any in/famous cannibalism cases in this world? #Do peopel argue about whether or not it's cannibalism if a dwarf eats a tallman? #enquiring minds (mine) want to know

[captain-astors]

(Walks out of a room with a thousand-yard stare shaking like a leaf covered in blood)

I Read Bibliomania.

(It's only 12 chapters, consider giving it a look if you like well-drawn horror manga.)

#Massive body horror warning if this piques your interest for the series. Oh. Oh my god. #Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh no. #What was that what happened WHY. #bibliomania manga #scopophobia #alice bibliomania #BIBLIOMANIA #So hey everyone AAAAAAAAA #mediocre art #This probably isn't the most disturbing psychological horror manga I've read but I probably shouldn't have listened to #The Greatest Living Show the entire time.

[canadianlucifer]

While I was reading Blue Exorcist I didn't fully register just how dark the Illuminati arc was, but watching it animated... holy shit.

I could not imagine going through what Izumo has and is going through. And being in the place of any of the other students? Dealing with unkillable regenerating zombies speaking to me in broken up bits saying they want to go home? Having so much pressure to do things most adults wouldn't be able to do? AT 15 YEARS OLD??

I feel like this is the turning point for the series bc it goes from "heehoo funny with epic fights and some character bonding" to "everyone you love is going to die if you don't fight right now. This world is bleak and horrifying under the thin veil we have created and the fate of it rests on your shoulders, all of you."

#pspspsps tokyo ghoul mutuals if ya like half human protags dealing with the horrors of what it means to be their other half #and deep philosophical thoughts and violence and the eternal struggle of good vs evil where there is so much grey #then blue exorcist is for you #10/10 highly recommend #anime or manga they're both really good tbh #though the anime is non canon after season 1 episode 17. The rest of the episodes don't make sense with season 2 or 3 #season 2 and 3 follow the manga very accurately if a bit rushed #I really really hope that since it appears like the manga is getting close to the end that we'll get more seasons sooner than every 5 years #I need to see chapters 120 and 126 animated!! #anyways I'm gonna go draw that pink bastard lmao #blue exorcist #ao no exorcist

[iris-drawing-stuff]

Just Shidou

#milgram #milgram fanart #shidou kirisaki #doki doki literature club au #i'm back at this silly au again #i didn't want to put in the effort of making him blend in with the background because i'm really busy this week #also special apology to all shidou fans for forgetting his beauty marks in the first drawing #it probably will happen again #iris draws #I've been thinking about this AU a bit more (even though i should be focusing on upcoming exams i have) #haruka definitely wouldn't like the super dense wordy books like yuri so what would he like? (maybe children's books?) #mikoto reads mystery or horror novels because there is no way he doesn't watch horror movies in canon with an MV like that #although he did say he doesn't like violence so who knows #fuuta reads manga like natsuki but the genre is maybe isekai #he'd love the fantasy setting and wish fulfillment #although admittedly i'm not very familiar with manga as a whole so maybe there are more appropriate choices for him #i'm not sure what shidou would read though

[skyekurisu]

This morning when I woke up I had exchanged bodies with a girl, still confused I went to school, but 3 hours later I saw my body jump off the roof.

Original by @akatokibanji2 on Twitter

#Idk why sometimes I like little horror pieces like this one. #I grew up thinking this is what had happened at the end of Change #the original version of Shishunki Bitter Change. #And I was a little disappointed when the author changed the ending. #elpsykongroo #scanlation #translation #bodyswap #genderswap #i just noticed there's more of this manga #reuploading stuff i translated before on twitter

[waterwizardcat]

I love you let me in

#i want to hold aono kun so badly i could die #brilliant horror manga you should read #pls it's really good #青野くんに触りたいから死にたい #pls read this you don't know what you are missing

[sleepyminty]

I was thinking that phos and vash would be bestfriend if they ever meet but then i realised that the being ‘phosphophylite’ is no longer here anymore (cries at the latest chap of hnk)

#houseki no kuni #hnk spoilers #hnk phos #hnk manga #phosphophyllite #trigun stampede #trigun spoilers #trigun vash #vash the stampede #what if we go through religious horror together as bestie #hnk x trigun crossover #studio orange #studio orange pls give ss2 hnk #after ss2 of trigun finished #we dont deserve these two and the world had failed them #tristamp #vash would be a better friend than all of the gems that phos had #they do be trauma bonding #they did nothing wrong #the fact that young vash and phos have the same VA just add more irony #land of the lustrous #phos and vash being friend is the equivalent of jesus and buddha being friend i have seen saint oniisan to know how this will end up

[heatherchasesyou]

fucc that back stab what if Vincent died like Lisa

#not as sad n depressive as Lisa's death but what if #silent hill #silent hill 3 #vincent smith #silent hill fanart #fanart #sh3 #video games #silent hill series #horror games #manga style #vincent silent hill #silent hill vincent #vincent smith silent hill #silent hill art #digital art #gore #blood #tw blood #tw gore #gore drawing

[tokyo-chainsaw-dragon]

Denji's reached his breaking point.

#tokyo chainsaw dragon #chainsaw man #csm #denji #manga #nayuta #chainsaw man manga #csm manga spoilers #csm manga #csm chapter 152 #chapter 152 #csm part two #csm part 2 #DENJI WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?!?! #nayuta's face in that second panel was the face of pure agony and horror of what her “brother” has become #holy fuck #i mean at least the whip spear and sword hybrids are now “dead” (thanks to my insane boy Denji great job)

[chaika-jpeg-shitpost]

yamazaki-san... a torrey and rian backstory in a foreseeable future... please

#ANCIENT MAGUS BRIDE CHAPTER 98 SPOILERS #........................................................................................................................................... #/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #******************************************************************************************************************************************* #i need to see how rian's first confession went. i need to know how torrey survived this #i need to know how he survived the horror of a 15yo kid hitting on him out of the blue #i need to know why ryan fell for torrey and how he came to the conclusion he liked him #catching a crush on an older guy is one thing. actively pursuing an older guy is another....... #rian's the type of guy who was ready to be turned down. but didn't understand why his age was the issue #he definitely said something like #“is this really the only reason??? i am not a child anymore!!! age doesn't matter!!! and what others will think doesn't matter either!!!!” #please go read “after the rain” by jun mayuzuki my guy #mahoutsukai no yome #mahoyome #the ancient magus' bride #the ancient magus bride #ancient magus bride #tamb #mahoutsukai no yome manga #ancient magus bride manga #mahoutsukai no yome manga spoilers #ancient magus bride manga spoilers