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Blue Exorcist Vol.34

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I did an art trade with a local artist and their request was for me to draw Abuto from Gintama :)

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In celebration of elusive samurai s2 releasing in July of 2026!!! We are so back!

(My piece from a while ago) why is this fandom non existent🫩🫩

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DRAGON QUEST IV: PROLOGUES OF THE CHOSEN

The prologues of each chapter in DRAGON QUEST IV, presented in manga format, now in English!

(Please read from right to left. Enjoy.)

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BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

Enjoy this message from Yuji Horii that was found in this book. I'm pretty sure no one had translated this into English until now.

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Been thinking about how cute and sassy Johnny Joestar looks in this panel of steel ball run

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Chainsaw Man

A boy named Denji is alone in the world but for his pet chainsaw devil Pochita, spending every day eating moldy bread and wishing for toppings, killing devils for the mob because his dad left him in debt. But one day, when he is sacrificed to zombies, his life is turned around when Pochita gives him a new heart, and he is recruited by Makima to kill devils for her. But there's more to devils than meets the eye, and Makima has a habit of exerting control over those around here...

Chainsaw Man is a story that I would call "consistently weird, inconsistently good, often profound". It's a shounen series with a lit of grit and grime under its fingers, and the manga was a wild discovery for me and for the anime/manga community. Its anime adaptation is still going strong and people seem to be loving it, and there's a lot left to adapt in the first part that I think will secure its legacy.

The second part is where things get really bizarre. Spoilers below, but ultimately I think you should just read the first part unless you want to be sad.

So after Makima dies in the first part and is reborn as Nayuta, Denji has to take care of her as an older brother, and spends his days as a psuedo superhero killing devils. But cults still want him, and the stronger devils are seeking him out for their own ends. Asa is also someone he meets along the way, someone who has a terrible time at school (in my mind, due to the autism) and makes a contract with the War Devil.

Part 2 was really weird. A lot of it is just repercussions from Denji's horrible time with the devil-killing association, and trying to become some semblance of a person when deep down, he's still a sad, horny teenager. Lots of things just kept getting worse and worse for him until, by the end, he's a shattered shell of his former self, and he no longer believes he can have a good life. Even Asa, who is supposed to kill him, can't bring herself to do so because he's just in such a sad state.

And then Pochita eats his own heart, erases himself from existence, and Denji is thrust back into his old life as a devil hunter, his dearest friend Power coming back to life. The end.

The story really felt like it was going someplace with Denji's suffering, like once you hit rock bottom you would have to build yourself up again. In hindsight, it seems a lot of the themes of the story were about how Denji's life could get worse in free-fall, and erasing the thing that keeps ruining his life is the way to go, hence Pochita's sacrifice. The ultimate worst-case scenario for Denji is not something Pochita could allow, and so he got in the way of it. But it's not as natural a fit to the story.

(I had thought it was going to be a thoughtless ending, since Pochita is gone and the concepts he erased would come back, but the ending implies the things he ate are still gone, so it's not like that evil star that breaks children's minds will come back.)

This is a new one for me. I've read bad stories, good stories that fell off, and series that lost their way into new themes. But to have a story kill itself so completely over two chapters was nothing like I've ever seen before; I'll go to bat for the endings of My Hero Academia or Jujutsu Kaisen, but this is such a betrayal of the story being told that I can't really recommend it to anyone. I would have followed the story through to its conclusion, but when a conclusion is so utterly thoughtless it leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

For this reason, I will recommend you read only the first part of the Chainsaw Man manga. That is such a masterclass in corrupting and dirtying the hero's journey that I think it's well-worth your time. But the strange foray into darkness and nihilism the second part provides ends on such a note that it makes the entire song and dance worthless. Even now, knowing I didn't like the ending, I can't help but wonder if the bitterness and anger is something intentional in the story, that a happy ending override could come and take away from the bleak themes of the main story. I've seen some posts and even a friend suggest that allowing the story, which was so harrowing and dark, to have a happy ending come in at the last second is something that upturns our previous expectations, but at the cost of a relationship we never thought our main character would lose. But I can't help but wonder in my heart if this is coping with an ending that's just kinda bad.

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fan re-colour of the cover of volume 36

New chapter drops in less than 2 weeks!