I really like this costume detail that Olruggio binds up his sleeves to secure them when it's time to bring out the really big guns(/dragons). considering his main work is with fire and often open flames, the choice to sport big billowing sleeves at baseline is either a flex or an 'one must be willing to suffer a bit for fashion' thing haha
hey there witches, have you ever wanted to know what orugio would look like with longer hair? or perhaps you'd like to see his baby face again? shirahama hits us up with this nice spectrum illustration! gotta say, orugio rocks coco's hairstyle pretty nice haha
each note is a fun descriptive name for each 'gio (from left to right)
1. shavedgio (using the word sori, which means "shaved" in this context)
2. defaultgio (parentheses says "the usual")
3. growingio (using the word nobi, which means that something is extending i.e. growing)
4. unkemptgio (using the word bosa, which is part of bosabosa which refers to something being messy or disheveled)
tanaka ai, author of tengu's kitchen, left a really funny comment of just "！？！？！？？？！？！？！？！？？１？！？！"
can't have a 'gio without his 'frey! here're qifrey's long-hair versions, from right to left (cuz of course he mirrors orugio)
defaultfrey (in parentheses, "the usual")
ponytailfrey. below shirahama notes that this one might look the most "witch-like", though in parentheses she also says he kinda looks like a researcher. clearly shirahama thinks a proper fantasy man needs hair below the shoulders
sunday bestfrey (according to the notes, he took a bath lol)
scruffrey (parentheses notes he'd probably cancel his bath. this is probably also referring to a recently trending term called "bath cancelling" or "bath cancelers", where japanese post about deciding not to take a bath due to being too lazy or tired. bathing is an intrinsic part of traditional japanese culture, and it's normal to take a bath daily)
admiring his daughters' technical and conceptual grasp on magic and contemplating their idea's wider theoretical implications as he is passing the fuck out may be olruggio's most iconic moment honestly. magic nerd of all time
Just me talking about mostly Jujy and also Hiehart in the Leech arc because I love them
this is the funniest possible way he could have said that. I really like the contrast shirahama sets up here of letting us see how serious he actually is about protecting jujy while still having that spark of humour shine through for now, transferring hiehart from the purely comedic character he's been so far into a more dramatic serious light to carry the rest of this scene. also heart wrenched by jujy thinking it was her fault, and I think it speaks well of hiehart that even under these circumstances he takes a moment to stress that it wasn't. we see her take on a lot of responsibility before this, but it's nice to see that when it really comes down to it hiehart steps up.
this is so well observed as to how children experience the world!!! the scariest thing for jujy isn't the horrible leech that has eaten the sky, it's seeing her attachment figure be overwhelmed by the situation and not responding to her as he normally would. she's understandably freaked out before this but this is where I think she starts to get frightened.
agggggggghhhhh.... :'''(
listen I know hiehart is dying (with to his knowledge no recourse) and has no choice but to give an obi-wan speech about it in the hope of giving her the confidence and hope and drive to survive this without him but buddy NO she won't be okay by herself she's literally twelve 😭😭😭
the way she shields him with her own tiny body I'm gonna die actually
the ages in this comic are mostly deliberately vague which I expect is on purpose, but looking at him here you do get the sense that hiehart is also quite young, as masters go. jujy is his first apprentice. her crashing through the stages of grief in this scene is so painful, and the uncertainty that lingers through it -- the promise that there is maybe a way to fix this, but it's not one he wants her to take -- makes it so much worse for all that it turns out to be a salvation.
5000000 points of emotional damage dealt by shirahama's mastery of expressive hands
godddd this got me straight in the heart because it's such a child's cry. she's so smart and capable and has the straight man role in the dynamic with her master but she is just a child, this is so far above anything she should have to think about
before dagda and luluci show up custas pushes jujy away to start in on the counterclock spell, so she just scrambled to get back to her master when what could be a new threat showed up to protect him. I feel normal about this 2. it's SO good what shirahama is doing here with narrative mirrors. coco, custas and jujy are all children who'll do anything, including contemplating committing forbidden magic and breaking the laws and norms of society, to keep their parental figures. because of course they would!!! nothing could be more human than that. and the parent and child relationships are all different -- coco's biological mother, custas' adopted father and jujy's teacher slash parental figure, as the roles of apprentice and master are entrenched in witch society, they're all treated with the same gravitas because it's all love. jujy's arc supports and illuminates custas' and vice versa here.
*through tears* baby girl baby.... I'm so glad she didn't have to lose him like this after all, though their appearances in the new arc are maybe hinting not everything is quite as it should yet. be safe to both of them and hiehart be good to her she's been through the fucking wringer.
playing saros with the repeater crossbow alt fire and dispiritor as your power weapon is so satisfying. actually I think you'll find you're living in my bullet hell now motherfuckers
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