snotbaby

free Palestine, jojo villain, she/her, pp creds @ m0chiron on insta!!

[asukillua]

i want to hold aono kun so badly i could die is the best thing that happened to both horror and romance genre. i literally couldn't ask for a better story that mixes those two genres its just THAT good

[stackslip]

you are masayoshi fujimoto. you had a weird best friend who was a bit creepy and had odd taste in girls, but he just up and died. it turns out he had a girlfriend he never told you about, and she's weird, really fucking weird. one day a coin starts flipping around you and guides you to the girlfriend, who's all bloodied up, so you take her to the nurse's office only for something to crawl into your skin to make out with the girlfriend with tongue, still covered in blood. days later, the girlfriend tells you your weird ex bestie has become a ghost, and he crawls right back into your skin to flirt weirdly with his gf, and then proceeds to turn evil and mutilate a classmate of yours. you think, i want to help my ex bestie stop being a ghost and turning evil occasionally, and would like him to not possess me to make out with his girlfriend. you get locked up as an offering to him instead by your stupid classmates, and some ungodly abomination claiming to be him bangs at the door hissing at you to let you in. the girlfriend suddenly turns around and claims to be your bestie and starts wailing at you about what a sweet person she is and how your bestie and her need to be far apart, and begs you to lie to her about disappearing. he reappears like two days later, after having committed a few more evil crimes. you are starting to fall for the girlfriend, which is a problem because she is dying now. you get called to a babysitting job and three kids decide to summon a headless demon and now they can all see ghosts. you still can't see or talk to your bestie, which is probably a good thing because you'd have to learn a lot more about he and his girlfriend's sex life, as well as hear him whine about his evil alter ego. the girlfriend, your crush, tells you she wants to have sex with someone to break their bond, and that someone isn't you. then bestie asks you to have sex with her in the world's most miserable threesome. sex doesn't even happen bc she's now marked for death or whatever. the kids start seeing more ghosts. one of them gets stuck at home, and when you go in you are locked in a house of monstrosities with your bestie's evil alter telling his girlfriend she's got to feed him her eyes. despite your best efforts, girlfriend feeds him her eyes. you spend the rest of the night on a haunted mountain praying that your crush and the kids you're babysitting are not gonna be offered up to a human sacrifice. your bestie can type now so that's fun, until he starts continuing to wail about how he's a terrible boyfriend, and you concur, and wish you could date his girlfriend, but she's probably going to die. you are sitting through another 50 page powerpoint about the intricate rules of Ghost Rituals, wondering all the while if your crush and your bestie are playing ghostly footsie under the table while also lamenting being terrible for each other. you are a normal dude with no family trauma. this is your life now, suffer.

[wildrbst]

[idiotsonlyevent]

it is completely understandable to be uncomfortable with the sexual assault in dandadan. it's important to discuss how it's framed, whether it's handled poorly, or if it could be been portrayed better. but the number of people - even fans - stating that it is only fanservice, irrelevant, or could be removed is frankly bizarre to for SO many reasons, starting with the fact that this parallel exists.

the anime made it even more obvious by interpolating cuts from the first scene into the second one.

i thought this scene showed that momo gaining her powers by believing in her relationship with her grandmother gives her the strength to fight back against what is basically a horrific, much more aggressive and abstract (maybe even absurd?) representation of her shitty gross ex - who was demanding she 'put out' and pay for the love hotel in very first scene.

while the escalation from one scene to the next is surprising, it's not something that comes out of nowhere. this first scene is meant to be a set-up to what will happen later. it sets the tone, though significantly more lighthearted at this point. it tells you that sex, sexuality, etc. is something dandadan will touch on - though you don't know what the scope and depth will be until later in the chapter.

i cannot recommend this video enough, as it discusses some interesting interpretations of what the serpoians and turbo granny represent in their respective assault scenes, as well as how right now the treatment of both scenes is unfortunately uneven.

more notes about plot and thematic relevance below the cut. spoilers for anime-onlies (up to chapter 8, will probably be covered in episodes 4/5).

momo was assaulted, and almost cut up by the serpoians, much like the other victims turbo granny appeared around. this is an intentional parallel. turbo granny goes to momo because that is what she does. again, SUPER unclear how that factors into turbo granny's assault of ken, but if we keep the video's interpretation of cynicism in mind, it could be related to that; maybe turbo granny has a cynicism toward men - similar to momo in chapter/episode 1 - and this is why she chose to attack ken. unfortunately, it's still too early to really understand and explain a lot of her motivations.

again, completely understandable to not like how the sexual assault was handled or portrayed, and it's important to keep discussing it. but this is what dandadan does for many different types of trauma and difficult life experiences. this is a huge part of dandadan's identity. if you don't like it, that is fine, but calling the sexual assault 'just fan service' is blatantly untrue.

[florencenotthecity]

Sad to see that things are still getting worse for Denji in the "things get worse for Denji" manga

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

Everyone else at the beginning of Scavengers Reign: doing pretty well for themselves all things considered. learning to work with the world on which they find themselves, and preparing to escape it.

Kamen, the entire time:

[toothwormfactory]

what if we saw shapeshifter versions of izutsumi?

Explanations under the cut

#1 is Laios' Izutsumi:

extra detail on her cat parts

more monster-y traits present

outfit mistake

#2 is Marcille's Izutsumi:

influenced by their time in the Golden Country

a little more chill than the others

softer hair

#3 is Senshi's Izutsumi:

details of puffed up fur

this izutsumi is skinnier than the others (ribs showing)

^^ senshi must take care of the child

#4 is Chilchuck's Izutsumi:

rounded ears like marcille's

eyes kinda look like his kids puckpatti and flertom

stanced

[burnazog]

[lagomoz]

[mercepsycho]

This is so me

[ellie-tarts]

shonen rivalry for girls

[oceanvuongs]

tatsuki fujimoto

[fikkyun]

hard line to end on an episode

[snipdoodle]

Dungeon Meshi and Frieren are fantasy anime's strongest soldiers in the fight against generic fantasy isekai

[untitled-google-docs-document-d]

The Holy Trinity of Authentic Fantasy Manga

[sky-scribbles]

Something I love about confronting Cazador is how he obviously never processes that Astarion has friends until it's too late.

Petras and Dalyria must have mentioned that Astarion wasn't alone when they met him, but when you read Cazador's journal? He's 100% fixated on Astarion. How Astarion stood in the sun, how Astarion was willing and able to disobey him. And when Astarion shows up, Cazador barely acknowledges the party at all - and sure, that's partly because this is Astarion's moment in the narrative, but Cazador doesn't so much as ask why these random strangers are there! They're not part of his plans, so they don't exist.

And then they immediately save his errant spawn from the ritual and start beating his ass.

Just. What must have been going through Cazador's head when that fight starting turning against him? 'Is that... the Blade of Frontiers? Why is a monster hunter - and is that a cleric? - helping a vampire spawn? An undead? Ah, but they must be treating it as a necessary evil to have a chance to slay me, of course - hold on, why is the cleric healing Astarion? Why does that wizard keep Counterspelling everything I'm casting at Astarion, why waste the spells when I'm not even targeting him? Did... did that druid just cast Daylight on Astarion's weapons? And that brute of a tiefling - that's not just disgust in her eye when she looks at me, it's fury - and she keeps putting herself in front of Astarion, why in the hells would she - she's running right at me- '

I hope that one of the last things Cazador ever knew was the choking realisation that Astarion didn't just come back strong, or free. Astarion came back loved.

[tastysemochka]

from that day on I was his