hiruseki & dragons

A garbage blog about Hiei, Yukina, and Yu Yu Hakusho just generally. 

[hirusekidragon]

It’s been real, folks. But I’m done here. 

I hate to just end things. And I hate to feel like I’m punishing a beloved childhood author/artist for something his coworker did. But given Jump’s atrocious handling of the situation I don’t feel I can financially support their magazine in the future. And for me, that means not providing the publication with any of the free publicity that fandom invariably generates. 

So for now, for me, this is where it ends. 

If I ever come up with another rewatch/reread blog for something else, I’ll let you know. But I don’t feel right driving even a tiny amount of attention Jump’s way anymore. 

[hirusekidragon]

After Child Pornography Fine, Rurouni Kenshin Will Resume Publication This June

After Nobuhiro Watsuki was charged with possession of child pornography last fall, his manga Rurouni Kenshin was placed on hiatus. This June, it will resume serialization in Japan.

If you want to know why this blog hasn’t been updated in ages, this is why. 

Shonen Jump, its pet pedophile, Shueisha, and everyone defending the publication or Watsuki’s behavior can all kiss my ass.  

RuroKen was the world to me as a little girl. But I never want to touch another Shonen Jump property again.

[hirusekidragon]

On Hiatus Until 12/17 or 1/18

Because school is killing me slowly. 

[hirusekidragon]

Got a bit of Yukina arc commentary coming up over the next few days if I can find the time.

[hirusekidragon]

I LOVE your blog, I'm still obsessed with YYH, and your commentary is absolute gold. I'm so lucky to have stumbled over you!!

Aww, thank you so much! Sorry I missed this message -- I've checked in on here a lot less than I'd like since the school year started. I'm glad you've enjoyed what I've posted here -- I usually think of it as just me running my mouth (fingers? keyboard?) and overanalyzing, lol. :)

[pikupiku2]

from a card.

[hirusekidragon]

Tru Emo.

[black-megallica-shirt]

[hirusekidragon]

Okay, so, this is one of my favorite scenes with Hiei, and actually one where I think the anime improves on the source manga in terms of characterizarion. It's not that edgelord antiheroes never show any emotion...but how often do we really see them rueful, or tender? This is a character who's been established pretty much from the get-go as rash, murderous, thieving, arrogant...

And then, suddenly, turns out he's also regretful, intermittently compassionate, and perhaps a little lonely.

[yutaan]

Another total dream commission!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧  Yu Yu Hakusho was a pretty definitive experience for me as a kid, and as an adult I’ve always wanted to make a big, elaborate tribute piece. So this was an absolute treat to work on! 

[yyhgaowaranai]

H + Y

scanned by reiwave

K + K version

[hirusekidragon]

FYI this blog is alive; I'm just buried under a pile of Adult Responsibilities.

[hirusekidragon]

Idk if I reeeeaaaally count as a "fandom old" or not since I'm in my late 20s, but there's something really wonderful and comforting about seeing people, many of whom are presumably a few years younger than me, posting and reblogging YYH stuff alongside their Attack on Titan and Naruto or whatever anime The Younger Twentysomethings are down with these days. (God, I feel ancient.) Idk, there's just something fundamentally reassuring that the stories and characters that mattered to you still matter to other people when you thought they might have been forgotten.

[challahchic]

I am a grumbly Fandom Old

Reblog if you are also a grumbly Fandom Old

[kirrua]

Aesthetics → Kazuma Kuwabara

[detective-yusuke]

This scene is so cute.

[hirusekidragon]

This answers my longstanding question about Shiori’s exact age. She’s a bit younger than I thought. This arc ran in…93/94, I’d guess? So if you take the manga’s setting as roughly analogous to the real world, she’d have a birthday in the early 1950s.

This puts how young she was probably widowed into perspective as well. :/

[fatty-ribs]

I’m Botan when it comes to drama

[detective-yusuke]

[hirusekidragon]

What the hell are they wearing?

[romantictensions]