#kgrb

[bondustries]

hiruhiK.O.

[rect-bibi]

hakuri's ass last chapter

[orangejuuuice]

Lightning Menace

[paxeas]

has this been done yet?

[ddelline]

kneel in loose dirt 2/2

work: kneel in loose dirt fandom: kagurabachi rating: E relationship(s): uruha yōji/misaka natsuki tags: canon divergence | relationship study | manga spoilers through ch92 | explicit sexual content | wet & messy

work summary:

The lure of going there was enticing in the way of giving into anger and inflicting bloody murder; like wedging a blunt nail beneath a barely-healed scab and tearing. Exhilarating like exerting your emotions was, just before you chose to act on them: that split second before your actions took you somewhere you could never come back from.

Or: for Misaka Natsuki perennially, always, Uruha Yōji.

ch_01 preview:

It couldn’t be him. Uruha was dead. Natsuki’s thoughts stalled out on that tangent, He’s dead, Uruha’s dead, it can’t be— He felt the words tactile enough to touch, a near-tangible mantra, each individual character so impressed upon the fore of his mind that they soon appeared nigh-visible before him. Superimposed over the tall, clean lines of the ghost who now stood before him. It couldn’t be Uruha. Uruha was dead. But it was, and Uruha wasn’t.

ch_02 preview:

“Really—why the hell does it matter? Why do you care?” And then Natsuki turned his chin up and his head to the side, and he faced Uruha for what might’ve been the very first time by own volition. Relented to look at him and see him. See what the humiliation ritual, corpse excavation, two-fold vivisection wrought as they rendered it expressly alive, let it loose to wreak havoc.

kneel in loose dirt | here

[tyga-lily]

i love how in kagurabachi there's all these super cool sorceries and shit and so many things you can do with the characters and here comes Azami whose ability is "he just throws them hard bitches"

AND IT WORKS

[sanzu-sanzu-sanzu]

my mind is still here

[starmanleo]

new kagurabachi is good. But it also uses tropes that are bad. Kagurabachi is not a bad manga, it has been really good, but unfortunately with said goodness, comes the dissapointment that it uses tropes that play into real life issues.

It is also dissapointing that Iori didn't get much in terms of confronting her father as well, and while I can see that as being the point of Samura's whole arc, I don't think anyone would be against Iori having a few more lines or even just taking a couple of swings at her father for being selfish.

I think I am able to acknowledge that I still like the chapter while also realizing that people are within their rights not to because of how annoying it is to see once more an example of "disability is written as something to get over rather than a part of the character' especially when you have a character like Samura who has had his blindness so interconnected to his character in both good ways and bad (not bad as insensitive, but bad as in there are in universe drawbacks that makes his disability real instead of just flavor text like certain other characters.)

I don't know, I still like the conclusion and junk and thought it was heartfelt, but if it came up in a video on missed opportunities in Kagurabachi, I wouldn't be fighting that hard against that claim.