Babbling Branches

Older than 20, younger than 30 artist that sporadically posts art and whatever media catches my attention.

[babblingbranches]

It's almost disorienting how the adults of Higashi village can go on worrying about and comforting the other kids in the village, then in the very next breath, talk about how to go about killing Yuru so they can just get their dang hands on Seal already.

[babblingbranches]

As painful as it is being a manga reader watching anime-onlies reacting to Yomi no Tsugai episode by episode, it is a bit funny seeing a bunch of people take issue with how little the characters value human life when that is indeed an issue of some of the characters of the manga, but it isn't the Kagemoris, or even Gabby, who are the worst offenders of this...

[babblingbranches]

Given this is the same mangaka that turned a little girl and her pet dog into a warped and wretched creature from which there was no salvation, what are the odds that Asa and Yuru's parents were killed then turned into daemons by Mineyama's soul-roller daemons?

[babblingbranches]

Reading anime episode reviews by people who haven't read the manga makes me appreciate the writing of Yomi no Tsugai. Reviewers are asking a bunch of questions (as they should) and they aren't dumb questions, they are good understandable questions, but manga readers know the answers to those questions. Things are the way they are, not because "We need to move the plot along," but they are the way they are because of the plot.

[babblingbranches]

Asa running up to Yuru going, "You're not dead?! You're alive?!" kinda hits different when You Know. Before that, it's just silly. Obviously, he's alive. You can see him right there. He wouldn't be up and about, walking and talking if he had died.

Right?

[call-me-rucy]

I enjoy a lot the face they made Hana make in the anime when she says "I can't exactly sell it" because in the manga it didn't show and originally I thought it was like a tradition thing that would not be that relevant at all. And then you discover what her "Higashi odd jobs" are, and of course she can't exactly sell it and her face is exactly the vibe.

[babblingbranches]

It's nice how we can retroactively see that, even before he became his guardian, Dera always valued Yuru over the interests of the village. Because if Dera had truly prioritized the desires of Higashi Village, never in a million years would he have ever made Yuru the master of The Divine Left and Right. He would've made himself the master every single time, because Yuru being the master of the very Daemons meant to check Break and Seal means that no one can truly control Yuru. There's also the fact that Daemons are incentivized to prioritize the lives of their master, lest they become strays, and Left and Right are some pretty beefy obstacles in the way of the people who want the power of Seal and need Yuru to die at least once for that to happen.

[babblingbranches]

Now that I think about it, if people are capable of accidentally wandering into Higashi Village, isn't it possible for someone to accidentally wander out? It's kind of a wonder they let Yuru go out hunting at all when that's a possibility.

[littlebigmouse]

Yomi no Tsugai fandom wiki being fucking hilarious on main.

[litera1lywhat3ver]

hey so you know how gonzo married akane so that his sons wouldn't grow up without a mother and yet she ended up leaving him anyways while she was pregnant. and you know how gonzo had an investigation to make sure jin was born safely, and how gonzo would talk about akane and never say a bad word about her. do you think he mentioned jin as well. do you think hikaru and asuma grew up knowing they had another brother that they most likely would never meet. do you think that when he showed up at the manor, they were ecstatic over finally being able to spend time together with him. do you think they did their best to include him and make him feel welcomed. do you think they wished he could've grown up with them. do you think they wished they had more time together.

[litera1lywhat3ver]

lost time

[omnybus]

of course the expert computer programmer would be a furry

[babblingbranches]

I kinda like the sort of truce/acknowledgment between Yuru and Gabby of "God, you piss me off, but Asa is important to me, and you're important to Asa, so I will tolerate your existence and even see you as being important myself."

[blackbelles-world]

[niixell]

[samtheviking]

Both of these

[whitmerule]

[the-bafflement-of-scotland-yard]

I’m sorry, it had to be added

[aquilacalvitium]

Every single discussion about a good villain/hero dynamic ALWAYS comes back to these two

[nymbells]

Pokemon doodles and style exploration. I am helly hyped for finishing Blaziken in color!

Also if you like to see a certain pokemon just write down in the comments!

[easterndaylighttime]

if I just had the presence of mind and the wherewithal and the chutzpah and the bandwidth and the executive function and the energy and the mental resources and the spoons and the right attitude and the capacity and the gumption and th

[epicsause-official]

was on the wikipedia page for charleston red rice and i noticed the photo they used was blurry. i went to the talk page to see if this was brought up and stumbled upon this banger of a conversation