I feel like... this cover art has Implications....but I don't know what they are.
ohoooohohohohhoho Custas backstory?
............I know the tone has always been present from the beginning (given Coco's mother being petrified and all) but I DO feel like this manga starts off being very..... Cheerful and 'Woaw magic is cool! :)))' and we are now strictly in the "magic is a metaphor. we are now examining class struggle and ableism in a society inherently divided into castes by Forbidden Knowledge".
Which is. Cool. But also. Waow.
oh shit they made him a sylph....jacket?
.........what if he crashes?
........................is there a reason why most commoners don't have access to sylph shoes? Because that might be worth examining.
./......he is about to be MUGGED for those wings. Or something else. Because the comic is focusing WAY too much on how well this is working way too early into the chapter.
..........or maybe I'm being too pessimistic. Maybe it'll be fine.
Damn, that is COOL though. These kids thought of everything!
.....what was that little pause there, Custas?
Also, if he gets tragically mugged while out and about........
...didn't Qifrey chew out Tartah for flying at night like..... three chapters ago?
I'm sure that won't be relevant at all.
I don't know why I'm such a pain in the ass, but I really don't like how long the narrative is focusing on their overall success with this spell.
ohohohoho this is cute. Coco's name is only two identical characters. Which means, presumably, the author made this language a syllabic one, just like Japanese.
.....oof.
................OOF.
Sorry, I keep on not having much to say, because the entire time I read, my only reactions are just that one nervous monkey glancing to the side meme.
This story really took "Coco struggles with knowing something she wasn't supposed to" and cranked it up to Coco STRUGGLES with KNOWING something she wasn't SUPPOSED TO.
The pointed hat is off. I repeat. The pointed hat is OFF.
okay, new theory.
5) Iguin is Tartah from the future
SEE I FUCKIN' KNEW IT
NOTHING GOOD LASTS THIS LONG NARRATIVELY
Okay holy fuck I didn't think they'd KILL HIM!! FUCKING--
ahhh, damn. Dagda is also flying too close to the sun, I see. Why did I think it was gonna be the Knights Moralis with magical arrows? I thought it was gonna be some 'get hit erase memory' type of shit. :T
This is. This is just....fate.
I could say "how come witches haven't fixed slavery yet" but. I suppose there's no magic in the world that could stop bad people from doing bad things for the first time. There's always gonna be someone starting new type of fucked up shit. :/
I don't like. The pattern of beloved-parent-figures being uh. Brutally taken to an end here.
Qifrey, you in danger girl.
.........okay so this girl isn't giving off Helpful Witch vibes, despite not being a Brimmed Cap. So I'm thinking the staff... which she keeps talking to...? IS her master?
And maybe THEY'RE a brimcap?
And what, the apprentice to the brimcaps gets their... brim....? When they graduate?
Or when they cast their first Forbidden Spell?
I don't like this..........
Okay, so she's definitely a Brimmed Cap in training?
.........okay so that's not uh. Horrifying imagery at all.
