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thesustainedworldatransverse · 9 months

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Nothing to see here, just a horse in a living room watching some familiar characters on TV in Hiromu Arakawa's new manga Daemons of the Shadow Realm.

Edit: wow, this post got popular! I can tell you that the first two volumes of this is out in print in English from wherever you usually get your manga from, and that in this story there are many many funky CREATURES.

#Hiromu Arakawa #Daemons of the Shadow Realm #Yomi no Tsugai #Fullmetal Alchemist

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howlingday · 8 days

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Saphron: Teenagers today are scary.

Jaune: Normal teenagers don't carry around scythes taller than them.

Ruby: I think every teen should.

Qrow: Same here.

Jaune: Neither of you are normal!

#rwby #saphron cotta arc #jaune arc #ruby rose #qrow branwen #daemons of the shadow realm

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eelektrossfan · 3 months

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Thanks for the food !

#cw depictions of blood #yomi no tsugai #daemons of the shadow realm #gab #yomi no tsugai gab #anime and manga #manga #anime fanart #fanart #character illustration #colorful #illustration #digital art #art #vermiixart

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saiyef · 2 months

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Me Reading Daemons of The Shadow Realm:

Oh my God…They’re being followed by Shou and Nina Tucker!

(And Alexander is obviously the third one tailing them)

#daemons of the shadow realm #yomi no tsugai #shou tucker #nina tucker #fullmetal alchemist #fma #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fmab #hiromu arakawa #mangacap #mangacaps #manga

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ladyloveandjustice · 3 months

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My Favorite New Manga and Graphic Novels I Read in 2023

It's time to take a look at the comics and manga I read this year! I read a whopping 78 manga and graphic novels in all. Here's a link to my Goodreads year in books (the manga is at the beginning, the novels start with Siren Queen) and my storygraph wrap up.

I also read 36 novels! If you want to see my favorites, check out my reviews here!

And finally, I've got the continuing manga series I've enjoyed this year here, so check that post out too!

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

This is a tale about a first-generation Vietnamese-American boy struggling with coming out to his mother. He connects with his mother through fairytales-- she uses them to express her journey as an immigrant, and he uses them to explore his queerness and identity as a Vietnamese kid growing up in America. It's an absolutely gorgeous book full of Trung Le Nguyen's signature stunning art. The fantastical, ethereal fairy tales are weaved beautifully into the lives of the characters. The book explores how fairy tales can form connection, can express culture, can tap deeply into something real and true, and can offer tragedy and catharsis. The protagonist uses fairy tales to write his own story, and the ending is lovely and moving.

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles by Mark Russell and Mike Feehan

You may know Mark Russell from his darker, socially aware re-imagining of the Flintstones, which made quite a splash on Tumblr with this post. Well, I had pleasure of meeting him at a local convention, and I finally got his comic re-imagining of Snagglepuss, also of Hanna-Barbera. He re-imagines the titular pink puma as a closeted gay playwright in the 50's dealing with McCarthyism. It's as wild as it sounds,but also really digs into the politics of the time, the struggle of standing against oppression and how art fights through suppression and censorship. It's tragic, hopeful, poignant and full of historical references. I enjoyed it ! Definitely be cautious if you're deeply disturbed by homophobia and suicide.

The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren

A story about a teenage boy, Yoshiki, who realizes that his best friend and crush Hikaru has died and been replaced by a strange eldritch being who is imitating him. But, missing his loved one and desperate to cling to any piece of him, Yoshiki decides to keep on having a relationship with this mysterious entity. This book's horror is visceral and sublime, especially the bizarre, creepy, beautiful body horror involving the being who replaced Hikaru. It's an exploration of anxieties involving grief, relationships, and sexuality that hits just right, and the atmosphere layered with dread is top notch. I love me some messed up relationships and unknowable queer monsters, and this book delivers.

Chainsaw Man, Look Back and Goodbye Eri by Tatsuki Fujimoto

Chainsaw Man needs no introduction, but I did end up really enjoying the story of the doggy-devil boy hunting other devils. It got so tragic and intense at the end, with lots of great surreal horror imagery and darkly funny moments. I'm impressed it went so hard, though the random powers that kept piling up made what was happening hard to follow at times, especially in fights. I'm also enjoying the current weird arc starring a class-A disaster girl and the demon sharing her body.

Look Back

I really do enjoy how Fuijimoto writes messy pre-teen/teenage girls. They ring so true. The manga follows the fraught friendship between two girls as they create manga, exploring the struggle of art mixing with real relationships, and how someone keeps creating after tragedy. It's a little hard to follow at times (especially since I have to differentiate the leads based on hairstyle), but it's a good read.

Goodbye Eri

Probably my least favorite of the three, but it's a fun read- a weird ride that examines the thin line between fiction and reality in art and makes good use of Fujimoto's cinephile background and signature gaslight gatekeep girlboss characters.

Is Love the Answer? by Uta Isaki

The story follows a teenage girl, Chika, who has always struggled with not being attracted to anyone. When Chika enters college, she meets queer people all across the spectrum of asexuality, and starts exploring her own identity. As an ace, this is the best story about asexuality that I've read. It was a nuanced look at asexuality and queerness and all the variations. Chika's journey and how she found her community was moving and poignant. It's a honest, moving look at relationships and identity, and how complicated and hard to define both of those things can be. I loved the moments of Chika imagining herself as an alien to explore and cope, and how she bonded with people through magical girl shows and other geekery. My favorite new manga of the year, it really connected with me!

The Girl that Can’t Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi

Oh girl, I've been there. This is a fun autobiographical comic about a butch4butch lesbian's struggles finding a partner in a word that favors butch/femme, and it's just an honest look at the messiness of loneliness and relationships. I also appreciate that crushing on Haruka in Sailor Moon and becoming a HaruMichi stan was the beginning the author's queer awakening because uh...same! She has taste, and is truly relatable.

Qualia the Purple: The Complete Manga Collection by Hisamitsu Ueo and Shirou Tsunashima

See my review of the light novel here for my general thoughts on the story, since it's adapted pretty faithfully. I do think the manga is overall the best experience though, because the illustrations break up the detailed explanations of quantum mechanics a bit, and it includes a bit of extra content that fleshes things out, especially withthe ending.

The Single Life: 60 year old lesbian who is single and living alone by Akiko Morishima

Just like it says on the tin, this focuses on a 60-year-old single lesbian. And definitely the shortest thing on here, since only one 30 page chapter is out. It's a grounded story about a woman looking back on her journey to finding her identity, touching on sexism in the workplace and other challenges. It paints a portrait of a proudly gay elder who's still perfectly content being single and feels fulfilled by the life she had rather than regretting past relationships. I definitely want to see more.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm by Hiromu Arakawa

Arakawa's latest, the story is about a boy who lives in a small village with his little sister is imprisoned and has to carry out a mysterious duty...but then the village is attacked, supernatural daemons awaken, and everything he knows might be wrong. I'm enjoying this fun romp so far! It delivers an really nice plot twist right out the gate (and an excellent subversion of the usual shonen "must-protect-my-saintly-sister" narratives). It boasts Arakawa's usual fun cast and interesting world (and cool ladies). There's some slight tone and pacing issues in the first part- there's so much time spent explaining mechanics the lead doesn't really get to react to his life turning upside down. But it starts smoothing out by the second volume. I'm excited to see what's next!

Superman: Space Age by Mark Russell and Michael Allred

This is a retelling of Superman set throughout the late fifties to early eighties that has Superman interact with the political and social upheaval of the time and question his own role in things. It explored the Superman mythos through a lot of cool new angles, and has a good Lois (why yes she would break Watergate) which is how I always measure a Superman adaptation. My one complaint is, while I liked some of the things it did with Batman, the ending with the Joker was pretty weak. The ending of the overall comic will also be bizarre for anyone not uses to how weird comics can get, but I think I dug it.

#DRCL by Shin'ichi Sakamoto

A manga retelling of Dracula that focuses on Mina as the protagonist and imagines the characters at an English prep school. It adds a lot of diversity to the characters and has exquisite, evocative art. I'm curious where it will go and what it intends to do with all it's changes (especially Lucy), because right now it's mostly vibes and creepiness and the direction isn't clear.

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swantranslations · 5 months

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Translation: Bonus comic strip from Yomi no Tsugai vol. 5

The volume five paperback for Yomi no Tsugai is FINALLY out in Hong Kong, so I went to buy it after work immediately today lol. I think people who have been keeping up with the magazine updates probably haven’t read this bonus comic, so I scanned it and translated it for everyone. (I don’t own a scanner though, so I took a photo and edited it on my iPad lol please don’t flame)

It is really funny to know how it wasn’t Arakawa who had decided to make an Edward Elric doppelgänger in her new comic, but everyone around her actually (who are evidently unable to get over Edward) 😂 Gabby is my new little baby tho (whom I picked up from the trash) so I’m NOT complaining. At all 😂😂😂😂

Panel that has meme potential (to use as reaction image for Arakawa’s future updates):

#ynt translations #yomi no tsugai #daemons of the shadow realm #fma translations #hiromu arakawa #ynt gabby #edward elric

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globin--goblin · 5 months

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I'm super tired of protagonists having innate superior gifts so I think it's very cool of Arakawa to just go and say "here's the main guy he has the potential to have an incredible magic ability but he really really really doesn't want to unlock it and the people that want him to are the source of all his problems." I think we need more of that energy in fiction

#yomi no tsugai #daemons of the shadow realm #hiromu arakawa #yuru

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humming-fly · 6 months

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Inktober Day 19 - What big teeth you have

Guess who only just now realized Gab’s red hoodie is probably an allusion to little red riding hood (was too distracted by the obvious Edward elric design parallels haha)

#anyways love homicidal female edward elric #inktober #inktober2023 #my art #doodles #ynt #yomi no tsugai #daemons of the shadow realm #dotsr #gab #gabby #gabriel #normally for traditional art like this I use a regular inking pen and not a dip pen #but i figured it's good practice to use the dip pen for finer lines like this (and all my regular pens are dry oops)

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myk-elric · 2 months

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How are Fullmetal Alchemist fans not screaming from the roof tops about Daemons of the Shadow Realm ??? I just read the first volume and this is FANTASTIC!!! SAME AUTHOR PEOPLE!!!!!!!

#fma #fullmetal alchemist #fmab #edward elric #anime #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #daemons of the shadow realm #hiromu arakawa #arakawa hiromu #manga

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mr-legoman · 7 months

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I love this scary dude.

#daemons of the shadow realm #yomi no tsugai #Yuru #hiromu arakawa

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realitys-ex · 7 months

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Now, Everyone can agree that the Fullmetal Alchemist Manga is a banger (I assume both animes are too, but I haven't watched 'em so no comment).

What a bunch of people don't know is that the artist/writer Hiromu Arakawa has written 2 other original works (one is complete the other is ongoing.

Silver Spoon: About a kid from Tokyo who, to get away from the demands of his parents/the stress of academia, attends a Farming School in the middle of nowhere where he is p.much the only one without a farming background. Hilarity, character development, etc. ensues.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm: A dude is raised in a mountain village, farming, hunting. etc. Until one day a fucking helicopter comes out of nowhere, his village is 50% slaughtered, turns out that the village existed for the sole purpose of breeding him and his sister, and it is not the 1400s anymore. Oh and Demons are a thing. Violence, humour, character development, etc. ensue. (This one is ongoing)

Now they are both 10/10, and I highly reccomend reading them both But that is not the point of this post.

She has drawn hundreds, if not thousands of faces at this point, so it is no surprise that you will see some repeats between the mangas.

BUT DO YOU KNOW HOW JARRING IT IS TO SEE EITHER INCARNATION OF GREED, HIS CREW, OR ROY FUCKING MUSTANG HANGING OUT IN A SCHOOL TALKING ABOUT COW BREEDS?

REALLY FUCKING JARRING! (somewhat less jarring to see them in tactical gear murdering people, or speaking with demons, cause that feels slightly in character)

Anyway, that aside, if you liked her worldbuilding, realism, in depth characters, approach to romance, etc. I do really reccomend them both.

(She also did another one entitled 'The Heroic Legend of Arslan' but as I haven't read it yet and it is a collaboration, I didn't mention it above)

#Hiromu Arakawa #fullmetal alchemist #Silver Spoon #Daemons of the Shadow Realm #I'll skip tagging the characters as that feels like a bit of a stretch #again this is not to throw shade at all #she is an increadible artist and writer #I have re read fullmetal probably 4 times by now #silver spoon twice #and when you are as prolific as she is it is more of a feature or easter egg then anything else #but man did I do a double take the first time I was reading through silver spoon #I still do to some degree but not as much as the first time #also: her afterwards comics about arguing with her editor about when the comic would end #and the lack of love triangles in silverspoon were great

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howlingday · 8 days

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Ruby: (Looks to Velvet, who just beat her)

Velvet: (Smug grin)

Ruby: ...Jaune, how do I catch a rabbit?

Jaune: Usually with a snare trap. My uncle always said rabbit meat is best served in a stew.

Velvet: