It is something AM in the morning and yet I feel compelled to share this cute manga I came across recently. (This is not some serious, in depth analysis, I am only capable of rambling incoherently at this time.)
There are only a few chapters out so far, but it has potential. I like the art style and the story. As the name suggests, there are 2 brothers who are actually aliens in Tokyo. They have disguised themselves as humans to infiltrate and study humans and planet Earth.
Here is the little brother Fuyunosuke:
Seems like the typical cute airhead right? But then there is this:
He is not so simple after all (a trope I seem to love).Ā
And here is the older brother Natsutarou:
Seems like the hot headed older brother figure right? That is actually true. But he is also a big dork.
Since there is only 6 chapters out so far, I canāt really say much yet, other than its been fresh and enjoyable so far. I look forward to the family/ brother bonding moments. Anyway it seems mostly lighthearted with a few rare moments of seriousness. (Perfect for me b/c I canāt handle too much angst and drama at this moment.)
Spoiler Alert!
From the last part of Chapter 6, it seems that the little brother knew all along that he was more capable than his older brother, and that he wants to protect Natsutarou as much as he can. After all, look at this adorable NEET:
I hope this manga lives up to its potential and stays original.
Bonus:
Here is their alien form in case anyone is curious.
To the anon that said the kid Rido possessed was not Ridoās son, I am not 100% if that kid is his son, but in the fanbook it states that Rido does have a son besides Senri with an unknown female.
It is most logical to assume that unnamed kid is that child mentioned in the guidebook. Otherwise if it was another kid, there is no real reason to mention him/her since he/her didnāt show up in the manga.
Also, I can 100% say that whoeverās kid he might be, he is definitely not Senriās uncleās son. It is stated right in the manga Senriās uncle has no children.
As you also pointed out, a pureblood doesnāt needs to be related to a person for him/her to control that person. Ā However, I think that the pureblood has to be related to a person in order to take over their body (e.g. Shizuka and Maria are distant relatives). Because if they donāt need to be related, I doubt Rido or Shizuka would have to go through so much trouble to possess someoneās body, they could have just taken any random personās body.
Hi I'd just like to clarify that the young boy isn't actually Rido's son. He's another child from the Shiki family presumably Senri's uncle's child. Thus making him Senri's cousin or something along those lines but definitely not Rido's son. You don't necessarily need to be blood related in order for a Pureblood to control another individual. Also, because of the Shiki family's loyalty to Rido and the council, Senri's uncle willingly gave Rido access to control the child, but he's not Rido's son
Is this mentioned in the guidebook or something? Didnāt the manga say that Senriās uncle had no children (and thus he wanted Senri to follow in his footsteps or something)? Can you tell me where you got this (which book/chapter/page)? Ā Interesting...I always thought that was his son.Ā
I have a question that sounds stupid : How did Rido make this kid?Ā
Obviously he did the thing, but how did he manage to do the thing? Wasn't his body still regenerating? When Senri first saw him he still looked like this:
Look at that hand! And that was apparentlyĀ āprogressā. I canāt even imagine what his body looked like a few years ago. He probably looked like something that belonged on a dissection table at med school or something. Basically veryĀ āgrossā (in Senriās words).
So did this lady here (the kidās mom) do the thing with Rido when he still looked like a dissection gone wrong?
Because Rido was not exactly looking his best around the time that kid was presumably conceived...
Maybe his head/face was the first thing that was restored? Even if he had his handsome countenance though, I think most people would still run the other way, much less stay and do the do with him...
Anyway, onto more serious questions. Does that kidās mom know her son is possessed by her ex-pureblood lover? Because its kind of hard not to notice when your kidās eyes colors have changed so drastically and when your kid goes missing for a few hours.
As usual there are many questions to be asked in the world of VK...
Yay new VK blog to follow! I'm especially happy to know that you like Takuma, since he's favorite character of mine. What are your thoughts about Hanabusa?
Oh wow, sorry I didn't see this until now! tumblrās messaging system sucks...
Anyway, I think Hanabusa has matured a lot over the course of the manga. I think he is a pretty cool kid overall, but something that I wish he would change is to stop being so slavish/ devoted to Kaname. Its kind of cute how loyal he is, but it gets annoying.Ā
I actually found this story kind of sweet, because it shows that Sara was notĀ always such a conniving, scheming person. She was also innocent when she was a kid. It was also interesting seeing Ichio as a young man. I wonder if he was a very different man back then, compared to the shrewd, manipulative, and cold-hearted man he later became. Time and the harsh reality really takes its toll on the ones that live too long...
Anyway the only that thing that really stuck me was this:
āMy parents too had perished by my own hand long ago...ā
So according to this light novel, Sara also killed her parents like Rido did? Is this a trend among pure bloods? To have children and know that later on their own offspring will likely kill them? Kaname did mention in vol. 6 (?) that he was glad Aidou didn't suspect him to have killed his own parents...so does that imply its something that isn't uncommon? That is very disturbing...
And how could she have killed them anyway? I guess the only possible explanation is she did the same thing as she did to Hanadagi...she took their hearts when they were still slumbering and killed them to gain their powers...Her parents probably did notĀ resist then...unlike Hanadagi who grabbed her arm when he woke up...
Anyway, I always assumed her parents committed suicide because they were tired of life...at least that's the feeling I got from this panel in the manga (from Takumaās POV)
According to what Takuma said, she sounded like she was still innocent when her parents died. If she really killed her parents like the light novel says, then Takuma doesn't know as much about Sara as he thinks...
Anyway, I guess if this is true, than the scenario that makes the most sense to me is that her parents were tired of life like Ouri, and Sara realized that, and that also contributed to her ambition to become queen and to not become aimless and wanting to die, she didn't want to end up like her parents. So she killed them and took their power and did all that other stuff she did in the manga.Ā
That is the only reason I can think of for her to kill her own parents. After all if she was innocent enough as a child to cry over something as simple and childish as losing her favorite hairpin, she couldn't have have just killed them like a psychopath without any big reason.
Thoughts on VK Fleeting Dreams Light Novel [Part 1- Rido]
So awhile back I read the VK Fleeting Dreams novel. I havenāt read the other light novels but my impression is that the characters seem somewhat OOC, and it was like reading fan fiction. I really wonder how canon the light novels are; it seems that some things contradict things in the manga, though Hino does have a lot of plot holes. The biggest problem I had was the story with Rido, the one detailing his obsession with Juuri. From what I remember of him in the actual manga, I didn't think he was crazy to start with. I always assumed he wasn't that bad when he was young but after Juuri chose Haruka instead that was the turning point, when he started going mad and really evil.Ā
The most shocking and rather incredulous thing in the story is that he apparently killed both his parents. First of all, it is true he can be a piece of shit, he killed his own little brother and his infant nephewā¦but still itās quite something for him to kill both his mom and dad too. There must be a LOT of family issuesā¦how did they raise him for him to turn into such a mad man? And from what little is seen in the story, they didn't seem to care for him much even when he was youngā¦ they sensed he was capable of great evil, but seemed to only care about protecting Juuri instead of doing anything to help protect Rido from his own darkness. Thatās pretty screwed up parenting- and if this was 100% canon than I think quite a bit of the blame falls on the parents for not trying to help him but just condemning him straight off the bat. What kind of good parent knowing that their son is at risk doesn't bother doing anything to prevent him from going down the wrong path? Instead, they just sit back and look at their own son in disgust and scorn?
Anyway, the second issue I couldn't get over is how did he manage to kill both his parents? Not just one older (and theoretically more powerful) pureblood, but two? Rido was strong but I doubt he was THAT strong. The only explanation is that he had hidden a hunter weapon with him, like when he killed Haruka. But that makes you wonder how they could not sense itā¦ after all in the manga Isaya could sense that Yuuki had Artemis hidden in her bag.
Besides Rido killing his parents, I also have a problem with how his obsession with Juuri started:
āIt was in that moment - that something in the depths of my being-something abruptly flared to life [ā¦] I was overwhelmed by the urge to devour her.ā
So apparently he picks up his newborn baby sister and BAM, all of a sudden he feels a huge desire to eat her. I donāt understand where those strong feelings came fromā¦it seems so unrealistically out of nowhere. It makes more sense if he looked at his newborn sister and fell in love and wanted to protect her, and lived for a long time believing that she felt the same way and that they will be together, but reality hits, and he discovered to his horror and confusion that she chose Haruka instead. And in his confusion and despair, he was driven closer and closer to the edge of insanity until finally, Juuri and Haruka had a baby, and that was the last straw for him. Because when they didnāt have a child, he could still cling to the hope that something might happen and that he still had a chance with her, but now that Juuri and Haruka had a child, there was definitely no hope left, and that finally drove him mad.
I honestly dislike this story because it makes it so that the entire point of Ridoās character is to be some crazy, depraved,psychopath, who for his whole life was just obsessed with his sister, and that he is someone without feelings and without any realistic character development.Ā
Oh wow, an ask :O Anyway I would have to say Shizuka (that's pretty obvious lol). I also like Takuma a lot. I find Rido and Sara fun and interesting as characters, but I wouldn't list them asĀ āfavoritesā. Tbh I am more interested in the side characters than the main trio (they donāt interest me much). Thanks for the ask!
What was Shizukaās life like before she met her human and all the ensuing events? [Part 1]
It is interesting to wonder about Shizukaās life in her cage prior to falling in love with her human and all the stuff that ensued. I really wonder what her life would be like if she had not met her human. Her encounter with her human meant the end of the monotony that had characterized her life for the past 3 thousand years- that meeting was probably more important to her than an asteroid striking the planet. If she had not met him she probably would be doing the exact same thing she had been doing the prior 3 thousand years, and would have continued doing that until God knows when.
In the official guidebook it says that one of her talents was ākilling timeā- even among the long lived purebloods she was probably the best at it. I wonder if there is any other vampire locked up in a cage their whole life or if Shizuka was the only one. Does she have no more family- is there anyone else left in the Hiou family and if there is, were they also locked up too for fear of them going insane? If Shizuka had been a man instead, would he have been locked up or is this something that happens only to women? Ā I wonder how many other people she got to seeā¦it seems that she could have visitors, like when child Kaname saw her for the first time. That makes me wonder if she even had a choice on who visited herā¦maybe she just had āimportantā people visit her (like other purebloods and high ranking council members). The whole situation is pretty weird; it really is as if she was a rare beast on display, like a zoo animal or something.
Even if she did have people visit her, it was probably once in a blue moon. After all, she had the reputation of potentially going crazy (if she wasn't already crazy) and I doubt most people want to go see a crazy lady. She was probably by herself almost all the time, except for the times when the servants needed to come by and feed her, clean, etc, and the few occasions someone decided to drop by and see this infamous crazy person for themselves. She must have been lonely- if she even realized what loneliness is since that was the norm for her.
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