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MANGA : GANTZ by OKU HIROYA Thought your life was bad? Sometimes, death is worse. There is no salvation, peace, nor god waiting to receive you into their care. But wait, a god? Maybe you are talking about that big black ball stuck in the room with you. Now you are thrown into a game, fighting green aliens and robot monsters for the chance to survive. When Kei Kurono is killed, he thus finds himself caught in such a game—a test of his skills, morals, and will to survive. His life is not his own; his death is spat and trampled upon over and over again. What happens if he does not listen? God knows. A word of warning: Gantz is not for the faint-hearted, but neither is it as simple as it looks. Gore, rape, and violence is rampant, as are portrayals of greed, violence, and all the ugliness that one sees in society today. -- #twistedmanga #twistedromance #sweetbutpsycho #mangagore #weeb #berserkmanga #mangarecommendation #mangapanels #tomiejunjiito #mangastyle #mangaartist #darkmanga #animeaesthetic #gantz #junjiitomanga #mangacollection #mangagore #mangaworld #junjiitoedit #artist #berserk #horrorcore #tokyoghoul #darkanime #horrorstories #horrorfan #mangacap #animecore #horroraddict https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnz9vW6oIkV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Swimming Flowers

In the manga, The Bad Candy You Give Me by Kaiko Fuyumushi

SPOILERS!----!---SPOILERS!----!----

“In this stinking town, life is born. Then comes death, and so we shrivel away.”

This manga was a very simple, interesting read. It’s just a series of one-shots and this particular story is about a girl named Shoko (the girl with long hair above). She’s from the city and moved over to the countryside where the ocean and sea life are flourishing. She’s very botanical (loves the life in flowers) as her mother owns a hothouse and hates (like really hates) anything related to the sea, especially the dead stuff. It becomes a conflict to her as she finds it hard to get along with her classmates because they are all into sea food. In fact, she finds it hard to get along with and favor the whole town in general.

Referring to the picture above, her friend, Hotaru is offering some of that dried squid (the good stuff, you know?^^) and as you can see from Shoko’s face expression, she’s loathing it like she’s never loathed before. In secret, of course she throws it in the trashcan later, even though it was a gift. Throughout the manga, her gaze towards flowers are always prominent and I’m sure the author was trying to emphasize the dynamic between the dead and the living.

“By the way, Shoko, did you eat the salted squid I gave you?”

“...I did...I did...I did not...”

“Why not?”

“I don’t want to eat dead and shriveled things.” The next day, Shoko admits the truth to Hotaru, the truth that she was trying so hard to hide and it left her feeling even worse about this whole town. She’s even more grossed out by the sea creatures because of the smell, how people are able to consume it like it’s nothing, and just how everything about the town is so “revolting.” She looks over at the heads of the roses that her mother were snipping off of the bushes.

Yes, she consumes the flowers. The day after, she took the heads of the roses and put them into her lunchbox, took them out in class, and then ate them for herself during lunchtime. Throughout the day, she’s kind of in a daze (tired from all this feeling of disgust), and at the end of the day, it is shown that she is spitting them right back out. Head by head. Petal by petal. (I guess it wasn’t that yummy)

“Shoko...you know...those things you spit out...are dead and shriveled up, too.”

Hotaru reminds Shoko of that fact and she breaks. Like she literally loses it and runs away, so alarmed from the truth. Then she finds herself in a squid drying area, on the floor, so, so hungry (because there’s no way flowers can quench hunger). It turns out to be Hotaru’s residence, and her grandma offers squid to her once again. Hotaru (I don’t know, somehow teleported) came and fed it to her. Shoko admits that “it’s good” all the while crying. Hotaru responds with, ”It’s because we live here.”

I think this story really interprets the theme of how the truth is so very painful. And we have to live with it. We can’t run away from it when it’s literally everywhere. Like death. It comes to everyone and everything.