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I will briefly introduce myself in space and time: I am an extreme being. I follow a conversation on farts with as much interest as I cannot miss a conversation about politics and existentialism.

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Review: Shiseido Glow Revival Cream (no SPF)

It looks like an UFO.

Because I sometimes feel my soul is empty and my job gives me a generous extra compensation every two months to help me cope with that sensation, I like to think that I can fill up my existence and emotional frustration by putting into practice the power of my capacity of acquisition. It is in such moments when I can be capable of anything,

even of purchasing a 75 $ cream.

Am I prettier now?

Nah.

Well, what can I say, it feels nice. It is rich as fuck, Rich as I am not anymore after buying it. But it feels good on the skin and it sure absorves it accordingly.

I have been using it for 6 months now, every night and on cloudy days when I don’t need any SPF. It does not produce any irritation nor any break-out and it does help achieving a more regular skin tone, although the “glowing” result is nowhere to be seen.

Do you need it?

I don’t think so.

I won’t repurchase as I think other branches can do the same for a lower price.

You also don’t want to see the list of ingredients. Let’s say it’s a whole pharma lab inside of a jar.

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Dublin, Fibber Magees

“So what are you doing here?”

“Nothing. But I do it very well”

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Whitewashing in films. Today: Exodus

Hi, we’re Egyptians from 1330 BC-

I know. There are a lot of films (curiously most of them inspired in Ancient Egypt too) I could use to exemplify whitewashing in Hollywood. But this is one of the best to illustrate sooo many things, not only passive racism, but historical inaccuracy as well as a flagrant, almost uncomfortable, terrible, really terrible LAZINESS.

Like, for real.

Okay, let’s begin: we got the Bible. That holy book. Specifically the Old Testament. You know, where there’s this wonderful Jewish patriarch, Abraham, who, among other things, trades his wife to strangers for cheap accomodation every time he travels. There was no Air B&B back then, okay?

Anyways, this famous guy is the direct ancestor of our friend Moses and, according with the number of his offspring, he’s probably the first ancestor of the entire human race...(how come we all are not Jew?).

The story of Moses, we all know. God loves this guy (he usually shows this predilection for the family) and when God loves someone in the Old Testament some things will take place for sure:

(elevator music)

- some people are gonna die

- two siblings are gonna hate each other (probably one of them will die too)

- some city is gonna burn to the ground (sometimes several simultaneously)

- it all will end up with a new clause in our contract with God

Having said this. I will not dedicate this review to the moral or the message of the story of the Exodus, but to how Ridley Scott, with 140 million dollars, has decided to tell it to us.

140 million dollars.

I mean....that's enough money to resurrect Ramses' mummy and ask him what was it all like when he was young and stuff... Because Ridley has shown us SHIT:

1) Black Hittites. Black...Hittites? Indigenous people in the territory of today's Turkey, Armenia, etc.  were no more black than they are today.

That means NOT BLACK.

2) What's this?

Nice Roman armor. Next.

3) Sigourney Weaver.

Tiye:

  4) John Turturro as a pharaoh?

Christ why???

Even when Nubians were not yet a dynasty back then, I prefer Eddy Murphy and Iman in MJ’s video:

Do you remember the tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime

BTW you may find Scotts’ declarations on his movie cast somehow interesting:

"I can't mount a film of this budget...and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such...I'm just not going to get financed"

Yeah.

Whatever, I’m gonna stop it there with the color.

It’s just I am so frustrated with all this! I was obsessed with Ancient Egypt since I was a child. I remember watching Elizabeth Taylors’ Cleopatra and wondering why the hell was everybody so white except for the slaves and some servants. But even at Cleopatra’s time it would make more sense than at the time of the Exodus, mainly because Greeks and other European people had already settled in Egypt. Still it’s weird.

But, to have astronomic amounts of money and make with them such a display of WRONG costume design, battle scenes with weapons that did not exist by the time (and a not so original choreography), God scenes, agh, and such a simple and naive script!

So Asperger.

Another thing I hated about the film is Scotts’s inability to give a significant role to secondary characters. It was all so Moses-centered. That makes it all boring. Bale is duller than ever and the best interpreting scenes were, surprisingly, from Maria Valverde and Joel Edgerton.

I mean, you can all hate on me, I don’t care, I just think: when you make a film which is actually a repetition of other 100 films and series about the same story... at least you could add something new to it beyond 3D visual effects.

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the computer generated parting ocean, the metereology of God’s punishment and the amazing reconstruction of Pi-Ramesses (I would have liked to see more of that). But all that won’t fill up the emptiness of the movie. That lack of emotion and reflexion.

It’s incredible such a big and expensive proyect couldn’t overcome Dreamwork’s Prince of Egypt. Now, that is a masterpiece.

Next post will be my review of Pharaoh by Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz. That’s a good example of how to recreate an impressing historical depiction with less money and less cast ressources than Ridley.

Besos de frambuesa.

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11 Adorable Illustrations of the Circle of Life

Savage. Menacing. Ruthless. Predators get a pretty bad rap. Sure, they prey on helpless animals that never stand a chance. But behind those jagged teeth, powerful jaws and razor-sharp claws, every predator has a softer side. Maybe even an adorable one.

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Raleigh Ritchie

This guy is awesome. I just discovered him (musically) today and I was totally surprised.

His stage name is Raleigh Ritchie but he may be better known as Jacob Jacobson, the actor from Game of Thrones and (playing a less representative role) the UK series Broadchurch.

I personally didn’t like him much at the beginning playing Corconudo (Grey Worm) on Game of Thrones, because the Unsullied were supposed to be big hard men, and he was way too thin and “delicate”, but I guess the series was more realistic on that characterization of a true “unsullied”. He doesn’t play it bad at all either, but I was amazed today when watching his music videos and how he, apart from singing, also acts impressively.

The guy can really sing but the best of him are his lyrics. Stronger than Ever or The Greatest are simply amazing.

I would even compare his music to Kwabs’ (another British singer), flowing in his electronic trip hop sound, but more inclined to rap and stronger melody.

Listen to him and you will feel joy and happiness~~~~

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Guys, I think if I keep writing like this a pair of hipster glasses will start rising up on my nose.

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Review: Clarins Lotus Face Treatment Oil for Oily or Combination Skin

Oil for oil. Murphy’s law is appliable in every sense of life. Check it out.

You know those mornings when you wake up with a couple of tiny red pimples promising a white head or something worse, and in the next morning they’ve multiplied?

Well, you know that if they’ve started making their own settlements they’re not gonna stop there, so you begin using all kinds of creams, alcohol and even tooth paste...but it gets WORSE. SO, I gave a try to Clarins Lotus Oil after reading so many good reviews on it, and now that I’ve been using it for a year, I can finally say: this is the best anti-pimples / weird red things I’ve ever had. You only need to use it once or twice after the break-out and then you’ll recover the balance of your skin progressively.

Clarins usually deals with very chemical and irritating ingredients on its formulas so I NEVER want to buy anything from them. Nevertheless their collection of rebalancing oils: Lotus, Santal (for dry skin) and Blue Orchid (dehydrated skin) are 100% made of natural ingredients and only a little amount of alcohol:

Corylus Avellana (Hazel) Seed Oil, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil, Fragrance, Rosmarius Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil, Salvia Sclarea (Clary) Oil, Lotus Corniculatus Flower Extract, Citronellol, Linalool, Geraniol, Limonene, Citral, Coumarin, Benzyl Benzoate (Lotus Oil ingredients).

How to use it? Very elegantly:

You just need two or three drops on the palm of your hand. You rub the oil and warm it with both hands and apply it softly on your wet washed skin with light press-and-relieve movements. NO rubbing. That’s important. And even more important than that: NEVER apply it pure without mixing it with water or your toning lotion. The oil will clog your pores if it’s not diluted.

I personally always mix it with a few drops of warm water, but I’ll may try combining it with my Primavera Toning Lotion for sensitive skin.

The only bad thing about this oil is that it is horribly expensive (39€-49$) but you can find any discount easily on online-shops, and if you don’t, you can ask for a free sample. They’re quite big and they last forever. I still have a lot of oil in my vial, mostly because I don’t use it daily: only for occasional break-outs.

Benefits:

- It stops the pimples from calling more friends to join them.

- It heals the infection very fast.

- The pimples never leave red spots after dissappearing and the oil helps removing older red spots or soothe acne scarring.

- It will never cause more break-outs if you use it wisely (you don’t need more than 3 drops and you don’t need to use it more than three times per week).

- It doesn’t dry up and even moisturizes the skin. It’s definitely suitable for sensitive skin if you’re not allergic to any of its natural plants. (I never had any reaction and I’m really prone to).

Yup, that’s my cosmetic contribution to this week.

What ya think?

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Aaliyah: List of “rare” songs

Don’t think they know ft. Digital Black

Yup, the original song was a duet with Digital Black, former member of Playa. I don’t think the song is totally complete. Aaliyah’s voice is somewhat weakly recorded and you can feel the chorus in the end are a little chaotic. Nevertheless Digital Black released the song in his album Memoirs of a R&B Thug (2005) and 8 years later Chris Brown sampled Aaliyah’s voice and made “They don’t know” to support the fight against poverty and gun violence in the guettos.

Time

Time, unreleased and incomplete song where only the chorus can be heard. It all sounds very much like Aaliyah. A very simple 90s beat joined by an earwormy hook. Nobody knows what would have been of the song if she could have finished it. Here my contribution.

Enough said (?)

The only track ever known from 40 Shebib and Drake’s project, which had been supported by Blackground Records. I’m still curious about the real title of the song Aaliyah had recorded her voice for. Let’s just say Drake tried his best (although his “wassup” is f*** nerve-racking) and 40 really heightened Aaliyah’s low key with his hypnotic beat and the introspective echoes (maybe too ghostly). I wish we could have heard more of that album.

Quit hatin’

This is the last unreleased track I’ve discovered. It sounds like Missy’s in the background shouting “Chariiiiiiissssmaaaa...” and Aaliyah sings about some guy she’s hanging up with and thus being criticised by some people. The beat is by Knotch and Dre Sinatra. I couldn’t ever find a version with enough quality to judge if it’s a mash up or not but it really sounds like one. The Aaliyah Archives hints it’s a mash-up of two other unreleased songs called “Don’t be jealous” and “He keeps me shakin’“. I couldn’t find either of them, but I guess Drake and 40 were also working on them.

Where could he be ft. Missy Elliott and Tweet

The song was supposed to be included on Aaliyah’s final album (2001) but it didn’t make it to the final cut. Blackground claimed its rights and radio stations cannot play it anymore. It’s a cool track, but somehow boring.

True Entertainer by Static Major*

Originally written for Aaliyah, but finally sung only by Static. The song is dope, it would have rocked it with her voice.

Steady Ground ft. Static Major

Very cool song, one of the latest posthumous releases. The song is complete and the lyrics are beautifully well-written.

CEO by Static Major*

Another joint composed for Aaliyah but later sung by Static. It’s cool too. It sounds somehow like TLC to me.

Giving up

Aaliyah recorded this version of Donnie Hathaway’s song for the film soundtrack “Sparkle” where she would act together with Withney Houston. It is one of her most impressive songs because she sings with a special strong voice she had never used before on studio. It was included on the posthumous album “I Care 4 U” together along with the song which gives name to the album, “Don’t worry” and “All I Need”. This is one of my favs.

Messed up

Another one that didn’t make up to the final Aaliyah album. Aaliyah really liked the song, but she decided it was much better to release it as a Bonus Track with  “Erica Kane” and “Don’t worry”. It’s actually also included in her Japanese album “Aaliyah: Secret Tracks & Visuals” (2005), which by the way, I’m reviewing next week~~~

Death of a Playa & Man Undercover

"Death of a Playa” was written by Aaliyah and her brother Rashad and recorded on the B-Side of “4 Page Letter” (another very distinctive track). I love its groove and its smoothing sound, and how Rashad and Aaliyah complement each other. Everything is original in it: Timbaland’s simple but misterious beat, Aaliyah’s extremely low key voice, Rashad’s whispered rap... It belongs to one of my favs.

“Man Undercover” goes in the same slow, deep, smooth style, and was included on Timbaland&Magoo’s album “Welcome to our world”. A must-hear song. Pure R&B.

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Aaliyah :  cancelled posthumous album

Lots of rumours have been going around in the last few years about a future post-humous album of R&B singer Aaliyah. Anybody could think “What for? It’s not like she’s been singing something new lately...”. Well, obviously she hasn’t, but the curious thing is that every year one or two “new” uncompleted songs of her are being released by this one or another, and rapper Drake is being criticised by Timbaland, Missy and (most of all) DMX because he was up working on an Aaliyah’s album, and although the singer’s brother doesn’t want to know about it and Missy and Timbaland are totally against it (I guess the real problem was that they weren’t called to collaborate nor even informed about it), the fact is that Aaliyah’s uncle must have a reason why he’s shared this material with Drake... But why not with Missy and Timbaland? They were the ones in the music industry Aaliyah was most close with.

The project was already pretty much planned. It would have 16 tracks, mainly composed by fragments of songs music producer Noah “40″ Shebib would arrange and complete. This was at the request of Aaliyah’s uncle himself. Drake joined the project later after asking Shebib for permission. I think that was the beginning of the end. Drake was an uninvited collaborator.

Here the album cover CEO Barry Hankerson from Blackground Records published on Twitter in 2012. The album was due to be released in one year.

40 is a music producer and songwriter but I don’t think he had originally thought about accompanying Aaliyah’s voice with someone else’s. After Drake published “Enough said” the critics started. I must say he’s not a very respected artist in the R&B and HipHop industry. He doesn’t sing well and his rap is normally quite loose (as Aaliyah would say). Maybe it’s because there are some artists who atract more hate than others although they are not worse than them. (e.g.: Nicolas Cage is the most hated actor in the world, but not the worst).

The main thing is: If another voice other than Aaliyah’s must be heard on the album, that should be Timbaland’s and Missy’s, but not Drake’s. If you collaborate to make a posthumous album with unreleased material from another person you don’t take that opportunity to make an album for yourself. And it seems that Drake had planned to rap on all songs (I personally think I couldn’t endure it).

It’s very disappointing to know now that the album will not be released after 40 gave up to the pressure and Aaliyah’s mother saying she didn’t “want that out”. I really believe if Drake hadn’t had a hand on the project, 40 would have go on with it. He would have been more discreet about it and surely more respectful with the manipulation of the material. I mean, 16 tracks is a lot! How many songs had Blackground hidden?

I would very much like to see another album with Aaliyah’s unreleased songs. I don’t think it would be so offensive if it was arranged by artists she admired and worked with. As long as all benefits of the album were directed to social causes Aaliyah supported in life, I think it would be a very well-received work, maybe even by her family.

What do you think, fans of Aaliyah?

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New Artists: Jhené Aiko

JhenAYE! What a great artist. Jhené Aiko is fresh air in the world of modern R&B. She makes music to breathe, relax and fly.

I can tell by all her album covers she’s quite obsessed with water (because she’s Pisces?) but it certainly goes good with her style. Her riffs are amazing, like flowing water, even similar to Arabic riffs but softer and lighter. She’s got a very smooth and soft style, combined with explicit lyrics spread all over a swaggy flow.

Just like Tinashe, she’s also a songwriter. I admire the way she plays with the meaning of the words expressing a thousand of thoughts in two lines, a lot of contrasted feelings like determination or confusion, hate or love.

Jhene is a very special artist making up her own way, and I hope that she goes on like that. She’s also been doing a few commercial things, but even when she does, she’s still keeping her style. Some of her videoclips are very cool too.

Her last LP Souled Out is a totally mature work if compared with her previous albums. Totally hypnotic, pure soul and... highly recommendable.

My list of favs:

You vs. Them

The Vapors

Stranger

Wading

Comfort Inn Ending (Freestyle)

To Love & Die

The Worst

Feel like a Man

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Review: Primavera set for sensitive skin

I must admit Germany and Switzerland rock it with their natural cosmetics. Now Primavera has come to be the brand I like the most next to Weleda. I was actually very comfortable with my routine facecare with Weleda’s Soft Cleansing Milk, Coldcream (Winter) and Almond Cream (Summer), but I was having a look at the shelves in a cosmetics shop and I saw Primavera’s Starter Set for Sensitive Skin only for 10 € (the bigger dosis cost each 25€ aprox.). The dosis are small (28ml Cleansing Gel and Toner, the Cream is 8ml) but you don’t really need a big amount of each to use everyday. I have been using my set for 2 weeks now and they’re still almost full!

Now I could definitely write volumes about my skin type and all the weird reactions I’ve had in all my life. I’ve had acne, dry skin, oily skin, red skin... (yeah, like Hellboy)...

My skin only started balancing when I started using Weleda and realized that I had acne because I hadn’t moisturised my skin well enough all the years I had been drying it with treatments for combination and oily skin. I found out I need to cleanse it well but hydrating it more. So in the end I had no oily, combination or dry skin. I am the sensitive type. (I guess it’s because I’m so emotional~~~).

The set is great, it won’t work miracles like “Oh, my Gosh, I got a perfect skin now”, but it will maintain your skin moisturized and protected over the day and the night. It’s not comedogenic and therefore won’t cause break-outs. Surprisingly the cream is not oily at all and you don’t need much to get a nice feeling of matte softness.  

The cleanser contains Polyglyceryl-3 Stearate and it’s one of the first ingredients on the list. I didn’t like that but it’s not the worst of the chemical cosmetic ingredients you can find. I didn’t had any reaction with it neither. The rest are natural oils and some alcohol, which isn’t necessarily bad for everything. They usually need alcohol to stabilise the formulas.

Cleanser, Toner and Cream seem to complement each other perfectly. I used to get red skin ALWAYS after bringing it into contact with hot water and cleansers or creams (even with Weleda) but with this set of Primavera I didn’t get red, nor even once.

I highly recommend it for you, people with weird skins like mine.

Ingredients:

Cream Cleanser: Water (Aqua), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil* org, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Water* org, Glycerin, Alcohol* org, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Water* org, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter* org, Polyglyceryl-3 Stearate, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil* org, Decyl Glucoside, Stearic Acid, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil* org, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil* org, Beeswax (Cera Alba)* org, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil* org, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract* org, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil* org, Jasminum Officinale (Jasmine) Flower Water* org, Fragrance (Parfum)**, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil* org, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract* org, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract* org, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice* org, Xanthan Gum, Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract* org, Tocopherol, Lactic Acid, Lecithin, Limonene**, Linalool**

Toning Lotion: Water (Aqua), Alcohol* org, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Water* org, Glycerin, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Water* org, Jasminum Officinale (Jasmine) Flower Water* org, Zinc PCA, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil* org, Fragrance (Parfum)**, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil* org, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice* org, Centella Asiatica Extract* org, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract* org, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract* org, Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract* org, Xanthan Gum, Lecithin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Limonene**, Linalool**

Cream: Water (Aqua), Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil* org, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter* org, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Water* org, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil* org, Alcohol* org, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Hull Powder, Borago Officinalis Seed Oil* org, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetearyl Alcohol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil* org, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil* org, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Oil* org, Beeswax (Cera Alba)* org, Lonicera Japonica (Honeysuckle) Flower Extract, Xanthium Sibiricum Root Extract, Cyperus Rotundus Root Extract, Centella Asiatica Extract* org, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil* org, Chamomilla Recutita (Matricaria) Flower Extract* org, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract* org, Fragrance (Parfum)**, Anthemis Nobilis Flower Oil* org, Glycyrrhiza Glabra (Licorice) Root Extract* org, Jasminum Officinale (Jasmine) Flower Water* org, Hamamelis Virginiana (Witch Hazel) Leaf Extract* org, Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Extract, Bisabolol, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice* org, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Water* org, Salvia Officinalis (Sage) Leaf Extract* org, Salix Alba (Willow) Bark Extract, Hydrolyzed Milk Protein, Lactic Acid, Cyamopsis Tetragonoloba (Guar) Gum, Magnesium Stearate, Sodium Levulinate, Sodium Anisate, Lecithin, Tocopherol, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Citrate, Citral**, Citronellol**, Limonene**, Linalool**

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New Artists: Tinashe

A couple of months ago I bought Tinashe’s album “Aquarius” after listening to it on Youtube and having decided that it was veeeeery interesting. The first song I ever heard of her was “Let you love me” from her first album “In Case We Die”, and I was impressed with its somewhat smoothie style. She actually produced this one and “Reverie” at the music studio she built in her own bedroom, and if you listen to any of those albums you can conclude this girl is incredibly talented: Composer, dancer, songwriter and music and video producer.

I even love her ad for Bigelow Tea.

Tinashe’s style is fresh and purely innovative. She uses a lot of electronica and experiments with dark sounds. Sometimes she even samples noises or mixes “erroneous” tones without losing the song and its rythm. Her sound may be similar to FKA Twigs but less dark and definitely more elegant.

Her voice is smooth but strong, sometimes exaggerated as she tends to try too hard to sound sexy, but her live performances are stainless and she’s one of the few artists that can sing and dance at the same time without ruining the song, so yay for that!

The only thing I don’t like about Tinashe is that she usually sells herself as if she was a porn star, but I guess it’s just part of the role an artist chooses to play. She sings mostly about sex and love but she can also suddenly come in with very introspective songtexts.

Now she’s released the preview on Youtube of her surprise LP “Amethyst”, so I recommend you to click on it and enjoy it!

Here my favorite Tinashe tracks:

Indigo Child

Let you love me

That

Bet

Vulnerable

Stunt

Ya ain’t ready

All hands on deck

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Vagabond: Takehiko Inoue and his story about everything

There are few manga series that I have admired as much as the awesome “Vagabond”.

It tells the story of the greatest Japanese samurai of all time, Musashi Miyamoto, who lived around the 16th century, worked for different Shoguns, invented his own martial arts style and wrote books about philosophy. This guy was so cool that whenever he wasn’t reading, carving sculptures in wood, working or killing, he would spend years living in the forest just thinking about life. That’s it, and he died in a cave, surrounded by his writings. Well, I must recognize Takehiko has not yet dealed with that part of his life because he has been exactly 12 years writing the manga, and Musashi is still 27 by now, so you can imagine how long this will take.

Although Takehiko Inoue based his work on the 70s novel by Eiji Yoshikawa he didn’t follow it entirely. Instead, he chose to focus on several other aspects, change some storylines and enrich the personality of most of the characters. Yoshikawa’s “Musashi” is centered in the most classicaI and romantic representation of the samurai world and I really recommend to read it before or after reading the manga because it is absolutely a very beautiful and original novel, even surprisingly funny at some moments. But “Vagabond” is something different. Inoue applies the traditional samurai philosophy and the thoughts of the characters about death, life and love transcend the time of the story to our modern era.

The drawing is amazing. Although I read a lot of mangas I never found the manga style particularly beautiful, if I read them it’s because I found them funny or interesting but never attractive in an artistical way. (Yeah, sorry, HATE ME, I know it’s art, but still I don’t like it). But the first time I saw the tankoubon of Vagabond, that was blaze. I had never seen that kind of drawings in a manga before.

The style is very realistic but he makes use of a lot of manga expressions for comic scenes:

Actually, “Vagabond” is like “Game of Thrones”. This is the most experimental work of Inoue. It is his darling and it has stressed him so much not doing it well enough that he’s gone through 3 hiatus in 5 years. Just like George R.R. Martin tells us every day to leave him alone and constantly announces delays in his publications, so does Takehiko Inoue. He even got sick because of the pressure and had to rest for almost two years due to it.

I’ll just say the same as for George R. R. Martin: We love what you do, take the necessary time to finish it as it deserves.

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Da jitt et nix zo kriesche!