He drank poison out of curiosity
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He drank poison out of curiosity
Takahashi and the symbolism of pomegranates
In chapter 103 Akira is strongly linked to pomegranates so I wanted to talk about the symbolism of them.
Pomegranates are very paradoxical and dualistic fruits in terms of their meaning and symbolism.
Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism all turned the pomegranate into a symbol of mediation between life and death.
They have also been renowned throughout history for representing the medical field, fertility, and success. It makes perfect sense that Akira's character is depicted with pomegranates.
Now this is the most interesting part for me.
In chapter 103 we see him cutting and eating a pomegranate in a very creepy way, clearly the pomegranates are not what he really wants to cut and examine but are a replacement.
Even Kurai is afraid of what his brother might do (rightly so).
Which brings us to the story of why Takahashi became a doctor.
He himself admits that if he had not become a doctor on someone's advice he would probably be a serial killer by now.
So just like the legend between Hariti and Budha where he teaches her to sublimate her forbidden desires with pomegranate s, thus turning her from a devourer of children to a protector of children, the person who told Takahashi to become a doctor (Haru probably lmao) to satisfy his need to know (because what Takahashi wants is to know, to know what they all are made of, how they work, what they are like inside, whether that ends up hurting them is a side effect not the goal) by becoming a doctor and helping people/youkais instead of hurting them has turned him from a potential killer to someone who saves lives.
Tanamai-sensei's recent twitter arts (Sept - Nov 2023)
1 | Ebisu
2 | After work
3 | "It would be cool to see Dr. Takahashi reading with glasses in the middle of the night... is what I thought drawing this, but now that I think about it, his vision is probably great because he's an eye youkai."
4 | Pajama merch promo
5 | Idiot teacher trio's mothers
6 | Beniko coloring practice
7 | Sensei's dream
8 | Picky eater Ebisu
9 | Hungover Acchan
\ Yohaji Special Promotion / Tanaka Mai draws youkai that haven't appeared in Yohaji yet ♪ Today's youkai is… 🔸 Ippon-datara 🔸 A one-legged youkai with a saucer-like eye. Apparently only appears on December 20th. Like Santa Claus?
The guy who can cheer someone up just from a trip to the convenience store ☀️
Episode 19 promo art & "We finally meet again"
Mandragora Investigation Report 18 - Ebisu Isaburou
Ebisu gets along a liiiiittle bit better with big-brotherly-types (doesn't have to actually be a older brother) Like Hatanaka, Amaaki, might get along okay with Takahashi Akira based on the train arc, 🤔 as for the students maybe Hijita Mii-kun and Yuuta are in their own special tier They're like oases in his sahara desert
What Ebisu thinks of others 🦐: Special tier: Mii-kun, Kurahashi Likes: Hatanaka Wouldn't say he dislikes: Akira, Amaaki, Hijita, Beniko, Tamao, Ogata Kou Thieves who are trying to steal the water from my oasis: Haruaki, Toubyou Dislike: Principal, Ranmaru Straight up hates: Miki, Mame In conclusion: Doesn't get along with the shady scheming type.
Ebisu liking Ogata Kou (white hair) over Rin (black hair) isn't about who's the older brother, but because there aren't many scenes where Rin is doting on Kou, whereas there's a couple scenes where Kou dotes on Rin.
He drank poison out of curiosity
Happy birthday Rintarou!! (3/3)
two more pics from my Everglow zine I hadn't posted yet! ✨
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where the apple falls is a fic that is a MANDATORY read if you’re a klance shipper, hell, even if you’re a casual enjoyer.
1) the writing is beautiful. it’s so visual and metaphorical in a way that guides me into such an immersive state. it doesn’t leave me confused and nothings ever over explained. also, the suspense and build up? INCREDIBLE. i could call out a lot of foreshadowing in the moment and i LOVE when i can do that. It doesn’t matter that i know whats gonna happen- and even then im not 100% sure- i dont know HOW. this fic is perfect at showing you what’s going to happen/how things play out by slowly feeding it to you throughout rather than telling you outright. with no spoilers- the way that a certain thing is finally revealed is so emotional and impactful. it was chosen to be done at the perfect time and in just the right way.
2) characterization. it’s hard for me to like fic characterizations of keith and lance. there’s only one other author who’s gotten it right for me (not that im the end all be all of klance characterization im just gorl). europa is the second. i love that keith is snarky and sassy still but has so so much depth. same with lance. they have this love and care to them and for each other that just makes so much sense. also lances family? PERFECT. SPOT ON. i LOVED rachel SO MUCH. you can tell how much the author loves every single character and has a genuine passion for not only klance but writing itself.
@jupiters-junipers i hope you know how absolutely talented and wonderful you are. here are real life pictures of me crying reading where the apple falls. i’ve never felt more moved by a piece of literature.
me when friendship and friends and platonic love and
This is a really specific post but i just wanna talk about how much i like a specific design detail of ichi's witch outfit: the fur pelt
Obvi the fur pelt is there cuz ichi is fucking crazy and loves hunting (it was present on his metaphorical normal uniform too) but i love its function in the silhouette. Usually magical girls have a big dress or big hair giving them a powerful vibe. Not ALL magical girls obvi but more contemporary ones
Heres the cast of wonderful precure for an example. Big hair big dress big personality. But usually magical boys lose that and are kinda stuck being the sleak variety cuz they have no big hair and no big dress
Heres pretty cure dancing stars (the anime poster for consistency) theres an effort to make their silhouette bigger with capes but its still typicially smaller than magical girls
Also heres tokyo mew mew au lait even tho the tokyo mew mew magical girl outfits were always in the sleeker variety more of a sailor moon than a smile precure.
Theres nothing bad with that but i think its good for magical boys to have options rather than only being 1 style of typical magical girl which usually makes them their outfits feel all samey cuz the silhouettes have the same basic shape.
Okay back to ichi
This is why the fur pelt is so cool cuz it bridges that design gap while also seemlessly conforming to who he is a character
I can see here its not stationary either. It moves as tho hair would were it magical girl hair.
i think its just a really neat design choice i wanted to highlight
Also i love that its red i feel like we never get red and black magical girls or boys and it really shows off his bloodlust
Guys for real though I simply HAVE to scream about 'the hunter's gonna lay low,' because the hunter genre is giving me all the emotionally rich superhero content the western pop culture sphere has been gradually sapped of in favor of commercialized multiverse, but it is ALSO giving me all the emotionally rich gay yearning that is a crucial part of my diet, AND it's hurting my heart with burnout and trauma and the way people change in the face of the inevitable passage of time, and--
Let me back up. This is actually the first korean webnovel I've read so thoroughly! It's not finished yet, because the original novel isn't finished yet, but there's a solid 450k of text and I'm pretty sure the ending is imminent. Technically, i started orv before this (but paused/stalled about a hundred chapters in) and also started the novel for 'the guild member next door' (and then lost my internet tab lmao). So i really did intend to try to stick to first-in-first-out reading, but oh man. This story GOT to me, i was incapable of putting it down.
Technically, i started with the manhwa, just something casual to check out while I was bored on my business trip. But the comic is brand new, there were only fourteen chapters at the time, and I finished and didn't even pump the brakes before powering on to the novel. No regrets at all, i even used my in-flight wifi to keep reading as i came home.
I can only give you a sprinkling of the plot without wandering into plot points I don't think should be spoiled, but i REALLY want to encourage people to check it out, I'm also in the middle of 'i became a god in a horror game' and 'evil as humans,' both of which are EXTREMELY good, and this one effortlessly shouldered them out of the way
The genre! If you're not familiar with the hunter genre, the oversimplified explanation is that some people awaken as 'hunters,' who have super powers of various strengths and rarity, typically administered by a system of some kind. They usually use these to fight monsters, sometimes in dungeon-esque settings, often with magical tools and weapons either dropping in these dungeons or being made from monster materials.
The story! In THIS hunter setting, eleven years ago, a magical rift of some kind opened, and monsters came out and started wreaking havoc on the world. However, gradually, among the survivors, some of them began to awaken with new powers that gave them the ability to fight back. Our hero, cha eui-jae, was the first S-class hunter to awaken in south korea, in the aftermath of one of these early attacks where his parents were killed and he (age 17) narrowly survived.
As an S-class hero, and one with combat-oriented abilities, he had immeasurable value, as a weapon, as a figurehead, as a symbol for the people to rally around. By a significant margin, he was the most capable fighter in the country, and he worked hard to live up to those needs and expectations as the hunter "J". Again, he was seventeen. The one saving grace was that he had an adoptive aunt who helped shield him as much as she could, and a mask that hid his face and changed his voice.
This lasted three years. At the end of that period, among all the other dungeons and rifts popping up, there was a strange new rift, one that was expanding, and would start eating into the country eventually. Cha eui-jae led dozens of hunters in, and eventually the rift closed, but none of those hunters ever came out.
Until! Eight years later! Cha eui-jae wakes up outside the rift, back in seoul, lying in a pile of garbage, with NO idea how he got there or what happened in those intervening years.
In some ways things are.... good. Authorities have the ability to predict rifts now, and push alerts to people's phones to warn them to seek shelter. Kids ignore the warnings to stick around and film videos of cool fights to upload online. All the monster- and human-driven chaos of the early days is gone. And that's good, right? That's all cha eui-jae dreamed of all this time.
Cool! Things are under control! They don't need him. When he woke up, he was starving, and stumbled into a nearby hangover soup restaurant (a classic korean comfort food) to ask for something to eat. Now, he's helping out the elderly owner and helping look after her granddaughter and basically running the whole restaurant to let the old lady rest. The place is a major hunter hangout spot, but whatever, it's not like anyone ever knew his face, and most of these people awakened long after he left the scene. He's just a normal! regular! guy!
Yeah, when is that ever allowed to last 😂
Eventually, he ends up showing that he has SOME kind of powers in front of the wrong person, another rare s-rank, the number one ranked hunter in south korea, lee sa-young. If you look up this series and see an edgy try-hard hot topic guy with purple eyes and a purple gas mask, that's him. He's perfect. I would DIE for him.
He's also a mouthy motherfucker with a bad attitude! And he is also, non-metaphorically, extremely poisonous. And venomous, I assume. Restaurants have to throw out the utensils after he uses them, so it's safe to assume it's bad news either way! And folks... i didn't think the bratty little brother archetype was ever going to be my thing, but i was so very wrong. He's perfect, he's fascinating, he's engaging as HELL. Cha eui-jae is a WONDERFUL protagonist, i was happy to read whatever he was up to, but lee sa-young is an amazing foil, and the chemistry is great. I love the manhwa, but their dynamic in the book... chefkiss. And also the manhwa currently cuts off while they're still getting to know each other.
But for now! Lee sa-young actually needs someone like cha eui-jae. It's illegal to be an unregistered awakened person, but lee sa-young is trying to hunt down a drug ring right now, but he's a big-name celebrity and needs someone totally off the radar to work with him. Also, even if cha eui-jae is living quietly, the system knows that J is back. And besides, nobody ever figured out what the deal was with that expanding rift. Sure, it closed, but what CAUSED it? Annnnd I'm going to stop there.
This story is very much its own thing, but to me, it hits emotionally like the love child of svsss and madoka and no I won't elaborate. Cha eui-jae's backstory is one of burnout and trauma, and he himself struggles to recognize that, but he emerges into a world with a MUCH more nuanced understanding of trauma than when he went missing, and none of the chaos that made everyone who was asking him to step up to the plate over and over look the other way. He's in a world where he's a celebrity and a formative aspirational figure to many modern hunters, but also feels adrift in a world where he was left behind! He's still the same person he was before, but time has inevitably changed everything and everyone he knew.
This story is also about loneliness and community. Lee sa-young is made of poison and is hazardous to even the most powerful of his peers. Despite that, and despite his personality, he's a little brother to the third power, and has founded a guild of hunters who care for him and look out for him. He also looks out for the people around him, despite how rarely he chooses to get close. Korea has recently had its fifth all-time S-ranked hunter awaken - but her identity is under wraps because she's still seventeen and in high school, so she's going to graduate before they even THINK of giving her work, and cha eui-jae has a lot of complicated feelings he doesn't want to examine about that.
(there is also an artisan character whose abilities are adhd (positive) and adhd (negative) and I've never seen such a personal callout for me specifically i love him so much dhjgjhjh)
I started reading this book for fun, but it genuinely has themes I'm still chewing on as i start reading the translation again. I'm not done thinking about this, I'm not NEARLY done. And i promise that my summary stops before most of the plot even starts spinning up. The flow of how the worldbuilding and story and characters are gradually revealed it's absolutely wonderful, and I can't rec this book strongly enough
Belatedly, here's a link to the translator's site!
Happy (late) new years 🎆 !