#autobiographical comic

[morphmaker]

W.W.W.D.

[emhoover]

This is my fan translation of Kairi Seidouitusei Shougai no Chiguhagu na Hibi by Tokin! I love this manga so much. It’s a wonderful autobiography about DID and a representation with a tone we don’t usually get in English. Tokin-sensei gave me permission to translate the prologue and share it with an English audience because I know so many people would want to read it! I am not going to translate the entire text, but I do really really want to encourage people to submit it in this month’s Seven Seas interest survey!! Please help support Tokin-sensei’s wonderful work!

May 2024 - Seven Seas Entertainment Survey

As a special bonus, anyone who takes this survey gets a 30% off coupon for Seven Seas, Ghost Ship, Steamship, and Airship ebooks on BOOKWALK

(Submitting with the Japanese title I wrote above or a link to this post would be best for clarity, my English title is not a literal translation)

[humblegoatart]

maybe it will help. maybe. maybe. daily sketch 5.31.25

[renlo]

I recently confessed to a friend that in the past, whenever I drew my sona with a gap, banjo music would start playing in my head. It doesn't help that I'm actually from the South either.

I've actually come to like having a gap, and I long lost the urge to correct it with braces. (My front teeth also used to be much more bucked - I resonated heavily with Timmy Turner, Spongebob, and Goofy as a kid.) That being said, it still took me some time to stop feeling like I was injecting my comics with hillbilly essence whenever I drew it.

(For anyone unfamiliar with the screaming cowboy.)

[epikowlofficial]

Part 1

[Part 2] [Part 3]

[katertotcasserole]

[nonbinary-octopus]

brain being slow today

[cricketdrawings]

Just realized I never posted this. Another autobiographical comic about guilt, memory, and creativity.

script below cut.

Transcript:

"It may have once been there, but it isn't there now."

"Why not?"

"What do you mean, why not?"

"How do you know it's gone?"

"I can feel that it's gone. I know it's gone."

"Feel it where?"

(Points to head) "in here."

"Hmm, well, that is pretty huge."

"What is?"

"The DOUBT."

"The DOUBT?"

"Yes, yours is quite large. How long have you known it's there?"

"Ages. It's like a vital organ."

"Does it surprise you?"

"Not even a little bit."

"Of course not. You know who put it there."

"I suppose that's true."

"It isn't possible to leave behind. But you can make it smaller."

"How?"

"By surviving."

"It's all I've done thus far."

"Then you're on the right track."

"I am?"

"Yes."

"You're doing everything they hated, and you're alive."

(The first speaker's identity returns. Their eyes open.)

"Okay."