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[miipopinimii]

Kaiman is such a cutie in this picture ∩^ω^∩

[huginsmemory]

Immensely amusing to me since like. Risu gets this actually insanely powerful magic that's got like reputedly one (1) weakness and then spends the entire manga basically Completely Foiled. Like goes to take his revenge all cool and each time it's like Nope Sorry. Uhhhhh here you get trapped in a mouth for a while. Don't worry about it. Oh sorry yeah that one weakness? Yeah it's happening. Oh sorry! Just your luck, there's a second weakness. Oh you're trying again? Sorry, another one! I'd be so pissed if I was Risu. Which. to be fair. He does spend most of the manga pissed off. Makes sense.

[huginsmemory]

Thinkin' bout the fact that the two kisses we've seen in the last few drhdr episodes mirror each other, on the way magic is used to either harm or heal. In fact I think they also may be the only two (focused on) kisses you actually see within the manga, which I find really interesting. One being Noi with Shin, to save Shin from being mushrooms, because she cares and loves him; the other with Kai and Natsuki, in which Kai uses it to distract and kill Natsuki via mushroom spores...

I think in the parallel between them it v clearly (as does the killing of Natsuki overall) contextualizes that Kai will not stop at anything for his goal, that he sees sorcerer lives as negligible... even those helping him, distinctly proving the point that Dokuga brings up on what Kai killing Risu demonstrated. In contrasting it directly to Noi and Shin, it's interesting because Noi has no scruples in killing people, and Shin basically as well... yet, they still care about each other and help each other, and (to a lesser degree) their friends/coworkers. With Kasukabe, it's clear that Shin doesn't kill him even though En would want him to and he's affiliated with Kaiman, because Kasukabe saved his life before, and he respects that, as does Noi. And Shin is even worried about Kasukabe when he wanders off! He cares, as does Noi, because Shin cares and Noi cares about those Shin cares about... But all of that is directly juxtaposed with Kai. This basic 'humanity' of care to those that help you is completely disregarded by Kai; in fact, there's almost something non-human (cough cough) about him, and the way he cold bloodedly pursues his goal.

[deathbyapples]

He’s so cute

[ghoooooooooooooooost]

kaiman

[miipopinimii]

Uuu I’m really glad that Shindoku got more popular/seen after S2 because I remember reading the manga and thinking how tasty of a ship they’d be and I felt insane over it!! >_>

Especially the bathtub scene… so weirdly intimate and the first few panels can be taken out of context loll

[foglasts]

FAILED POLYCULE GO

[d3athcrusade]

The brutal warmth of Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro.

If you’ve spent enough time digging through the stranger corners of manga, sooner or later you end up at Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro. And when you first open it, the immediate reaction is often confusion before admiration.

There’s very little known about Hayashida’s creative process as she strays away from media attention. But one thing is certain, she embraces a deliberately dirty visual texture through aggressive pen strokes. Part of this aesthetic comes from Hayashida’s background before entering manga. She studied oil painting and has stated she approaches manga more like painting.

At the same time, Hayashida balances this brutal style with a strange sense of warmth. The Hole feels eerily lived-in. Hanging out in the Hungry Bug, making gyoza together, Nikaido riding on Caiman’s shoulders while Natsuki clings to them, a cozy side you wouldn’t expect from its gritty visuals. The longer you spend with Hayashida’s pages, the more that contrast starts to cling to you.

Source: Scans from Q Hayashida’s art book ‘mud and sludge’.