#my soul would leave my body during the 2nd to last bullet point

[fire-dwelling]

Fire Force, Chapter 151: ‘Young Man, Assault’”

...I give up.

Ohkubo, go fuck yourself, you misogynistic hack.

Triggers if you hate a shitty mangaka perving on a 17-year-old and trying to hook her up with the older dude who keeps creeping on her.

This is the writer who gave us Maka, Crona, and so many characters--and he’s reduced to this. Seriously, someone, anyone, get Ohkubo some therapy.

Translated from Japanese to Portuguese to English to snarky translator’s notes to maintain my sanity getting through this utter depraved incoherent shit-fest of a goddamn awful manga series.

Goddamn it.

Page 6

Jonah: “Have you finished training? Training, suited to a true hero? The time has come...The bullet of flames will rise. No…”

Page 7

Jonah: “He has come.”

Narration: “Out of the darkness, he arrives: the strongest warrior, Assault!”

Page 8

Assault: (thinking: “During the fight in the Nether, I should have been a support troop and exterminated the 8th...But they had a blessed killer...Tamaki Kotatsu. Despite her innocent face, she is a shameless individual.”) “Grrr. Disgusting.” (thinking: “To defeat the 8th, I need to put an end to her. I’ve trained...Day and night, I have trained endlessly...All to deal with that vulgar, coarse woman.”)

Page 9

Assault: (thinking: “I read porn.”)

Woman: “Aaah...Oooh…”

Assault: “I examined inappropriate magazines and videos...Non-stop...I surrendered myself to those female bodies. Wait for me, Tamaki Kotatsu. I’m coming for you!”

Page 10

At the 8th Cathedral

Tamaki: “?”

The envelope says “A Challenge.”

Tamaki: “ ‘I'll be waiting in the Old Wasteland of the 2nd District.' A love letter from an admirer?”

[Translator’s note: A writer who wasn’t a misogynist prick wouldn’t write this character to be this fucking stupid looking at a note that says “Challenge.” Or the writer would have set up Tamaki as lovestruck or haughty and therefore assuming any letter to her is a love letter, hence the “challenge” is of her own making. But what do I know--I just analyze this shit for a living, and Atsushi Ohkubo is a fucking hack.]

Page 11

The sign says “Wasteland.”

Tamaki: “The Bloody Flame, Assault?!!”

Assault: “You came alone. You’re brave, Tamaki Kotatsu.”

Tamaki: “How are you…”

Assault: “There’s no need to explain to the dead. Die!!!”

Page 12

Tamaki: “AH!”

Assault: “Her panties. Carnal sensation...Damn...I cannot lose here…”

Page 13

???: “In real life, it’s different.”

Tamaki: “Ai.”

Assault: “GUAH!”

Hood 1: “Assault failed?”

Hood 2: “It seems his current opponent is powerful…”

Hood 1: “What will he do now?”

Hood 2: “He begins new training.”

Page 14

Assault: “It was absurd to think that I could overcome with just paper and images...Real life is... very different...So!!! I have come!!! I have arrived!!!”

The location is Chupa-Cabra Cabaret.

Page 15

Manager: “What’s your preference?”

Host 1: “Bring out a bottle of wine.”

Host 2: “Welcome.”

???: “Have your breasts gotten bigger?”

???: “Ahaha, you’re silly!”

???: “Saizu-san, are you crying again?”

???: “It’s just that my daughter doesn’t speak with me…”

Assault: “What kind of place is this? I’m shivering all over. But this is training.”

Page 16

Host 3: “Hi, I’m Saki! Nice to meet you.”

Assault: (thinking: “Like dynamite.”) “Ugh.”

Saki: “Huh? Hold up. What’s with the suit? You just run away from a wedding? You hardly seem like a man at all.”

Assault: “I...I don’t?”

Saki: “I would know! You’re different from other men who come here.”

Assault: “I’m not really a man...So I cannot be defeated by Tamaki Kotatsu.”

[Translator’s note: ...A clever writer would work through this idea about the really gross conception by rightwing jerk-offs who think they have to be sexually pure out of their misogyny towards women. Or a clever writer would consider how pornography addiction can debase men as they objectify women. But Atsushi Ohkubo is a fucking hack.]

Page 17

And now, Assault is Forrest Gump. This is not a box of chocolates: it’s just a box of shit.

Assault: “I didn’t think I would be able to converse so well with a woman...I may in fact be a genius. I’m coming for you, Tamaki Kotatsu.”

[Translator’s note: ...Please, for the love of God, tell me these aren’t puns.]

Tamaki: “No!!! Why?!”

Assault: “...”

[Translator’s note: ...Someone, punch Ohkubo in the dick.]

Page 18

Tamaki: “D...Don’t look…”

Assault: “That is such...an innocent, embarrassed face...It’s different when they’re young.”

[Translator’s note: JESUS FUCKING TAP-DANCING CHRIST, SHE’S 17! AND HE’S OLDER THAN DIRT! WHAT THE FUCK?!]

Page 19

Narration: “She’s strong...Very strong...Tamaki Kotatsu...I have never faced such a strong opponent...That is why I have to overcome myself...I am the killer emerging from the depths. I'm the bloodshot Assault! After my third defeat, I waited for the strong winds to blow. This moment cannot escape my vision.”

Woman: “AH! What a weird wind!”

[Translator’s note: You know how people say “I feel unclean, I need a shower”? Is there a way to substitute water with fire and just burn the unclean off of me?]

Assault: “The panties of the young...Her shame is seared into my eyes.”

[Translator’s note: SHE’S 17, YOU SICK FUCK!]

Assault: “My training is complete. There is nothing that can stop me.”

Page 20

Jonah: “So...You finally got it?”

Assault: “Yes.”

Arrow: “His arm didn’t move...He stopped my arrow with one finger…”

Jonah: “Assault...has arrived…”

Jonah: “?!”

Page 21

The note he leaves is “I’ve come!”

[Translator’s note: ...I’m leaving.]

Jonah: “Assault…”

Page 22

Set up for a dumb joke incoming.

Page 23

Tamaki: “Enough of this! What’s your problem?!”

Assault: “This time will be the last.” (thinking: “I have evolved...I can handle this, no problem.”)

Tamaki: “You’ll never get it!”

[Translator’s note: Tamaki, the dude is super violent and powerful, and you’ve come alone. Seriously, is everyone at the 8th just stupid this week? This ruins the entire fucking point of the series when you can’t hold up a barometer to know when something is truly dangerous and should be taken seriously. Akitaru would let her do this? She didn’t tell anyone? No one follows her? Just...What is this crap? What is the point? How do we go from Soul Eater to this garbage? It’s Chapter 113 all the fuck over again.]

Assault: “Oh, I know ... Like you said, I can’t.” (“I know that oh too well...I can see the result...No matter how many times I try, I can’t win because…”)

Page 24

Assault: (“It’s different when it’s someone you like.”)

[Translator’s note: … *vomits*]

Assault: “Come.”

Narration: “No matter how much you fall in love, you have a battle from which you can not escape! In the next chapter, a new arc begins! And stay tuned for the anime announcements! To be continued in Chapter 152: ‘Oze Family.’”

[Translator’s note: This entire chapter sours me on any idea of an anime: this series doesn’t deserve it. Ohkubo doesn’t deserve to be rewarded when he can’t mature as a writer. What a fucking disappointment; what a waste of a person.]

#fire force #enen no shouboutai #enen no shobotai #fire brigade of flames #enen no shoubotai #fuck atsushi ohkubo #tw: rape #tw: assault #tw: gross old men

[bloomngloom]

Guess Who Saw Les Mis and wrote down all the crazy shit to share with you?

Boy oh boy was that An Experience. I can’t even right now (never thought I would say that unironically). Ok so all the longer shit I’ll bullet here and then other little things will be under the cut. Please keep in mind that this was my first live Les Mis and I do not know what is normal and what is unique to what I saw. Here goes:

Gav shows up about ½ through A Little Fall of Rain. She doesn’t see him. Grantaire eventually follow, and puts a hand on his shoulder. When she finally dies Gav whips around and wraps himself around R. Eventually, after they take her body away, only her hat and- a few feet away- Marius remain. Gav picks up her hat and hands it to Marius.

In Drink With Me, R starts out like your usual drunkard, absurdly. He smiles a bit, joking grabs some woman’s ass (keep in mind Enj is staring intensely from the top of the barricade). Then he riles up the crowd in a different way. His tone turns bitter. You can see he is visibly shaking up the people. By this point, Enj has climbed down the barricade. He reaches for R (I thought at first he was going in for a hug, but he was more likely reaching to touch his shoulder) and R steps away. He then wanders to the sewer/door/exit to stage left (drinking all the way) and makes as if to leave but Gav stops him. They spend almost the whole song hugging, then take a nap together.

[If you read below the cut before reading this- boy oh boy] When Gav goes to get the ammunition, you can’t see him. I had a feeling that that is normal, but it was unsettling all the while. Especially in the silence after the first shot. Then he starts singing again. Eventually you see him climbing over the top of the barricade. Even I thought he was gonna pull through. Then he stops for half a second- then he falls limply into Enjolras’ arms. Enj turns, cradling him to his chest, and steps slowly down the barricade, til he gets to the 2nd lowest point. R stands on the ground. There is a long pause- perhaps the 2nd longest in the show. They stare at each other. Eventually, almost reluctantly, Enj hands Gav over to R. R makes it to center stage and holds Gav and just… looks at him. I thought he was going to scream in agony. Perhaps that would have been kinder than the silence we were left with. Then they move to the direct right of center stage. Things go on, but R grieves for a long time.

Once another person dies (by falling off the barricade next to Gav and R) Enj finally comes down. R moves from Gav to this dead man. They straighten him out together. There is a subtle pause as they look at each other. Something happens. Maybe they touched each others faces. Maybe they touched foreheads. Maybe they kissed. I couldn’t tell, and will forever regret that. Enj goes back up the barricade. The story goes on.

You know how Enjolras is iconically the last Barricade Boy to die whilst holding the flag? How he usually falls and hangs backward off the barricade? Not this time. I know for sure that this is A Way to do this scene. 

Once the bullets really start flying, things happen fast. First, there he is with the flag. But he is shot, and the flag falls off the barricade. He tries to straighten up, fist held aloft in the air. He falls limply face first off the barricade. He is perhaps the second or third of the men remaining to die. After that it is chaos, but one thing is clear in my mind. As the fall of the barricade winds down, two men attempt to climb from the ground to the top, to their deaths. One barely makes it halfway. The other reaches where Enj stood, but can’t even pull himself to his feet before he is killed. He raises his hand high. Instead of the blood red flag, or simply darkness, the last image of the rebellion is a green glass wine bottle, illuminated by two spotlights. Everything else fades to black. For a half a heartbeat, the bottle is burned into your mind. 

The longest pause of the show happens just before Javert’s Suicide. He climbs out and over the barricade and sees all the dead students. He then goes to the stage left sewer entrance as if he knows Valjean is down there. The barricade goes away and it is just Javert and Gav’s dead body, the only body he hasn’t seen (kind of). You think he is going over there, but no. No, at that moment two men come on with a giant cart. They whip it around and there, finally in that iconic pose, flag clutched in one hand other hanging limp, is Enjolras. There is something startling about seeing him like that without the grandeur of the barricade or the power of the window. He seems smaller, realer. Javert raise his torch above him but you could hardly tell because at that moment the two most brilliant of spotlights hits him and he glows. He is bathed in the purest light. You can barely see anyone else on stage except for perhaps, Gav. Everything is frozen like that for a long time. You are hardly aware of time at all. It’s how Hugo would have wanted it.

Turning was a funeral. There was a little girl. The women leave candles out and Marius joins them. They leave. He is alone, surrounded by candle light for most of Empty Chairs. Then, as he sings “the very words that they-” and out come the boys. They each stand behind a candle. He doesn’t notice them until “Phantom faces at the window!” That line has never seemed so loud. The boys hold their candles up as if toasting him, and by the time their candles return to their hearts they are out. Eventually, all but Enj leave. Marius sings the rest of his song facing away from us- to Enj. When E leaves and Marius turns, his lit candle is all you can really see.

When Gav says Larmarque is dead he is standing on the table. Before he sings Enj gently picks him up and puts him back on the ground. It feels v parent like.

When Ep enters a man grabs her from behind Lovely Ladies style. She like, elbows him in the dick and pulls his knife out of his pocket, threatens him with it, and then graciously hand it back to him. This is only the first time in the show this happens.

When Ep screams and is punched to the ground by Thenadier as he leaves, Cosette is the first to help her up and comfort her. Marius basically drags Ep away and honestly seemed like an asshole

Mdme. Thenadier was psychotic??? When she sang “but there’s not much there” she rips off the tip of a baguette and spends the rest of her part hacking it violently with a knife??? 

The Thenadiers grind up some blind guys canary lmao

Mdme T trying to seduce Valjean is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.

When Valjean gives Cosette the doll and then swings her around in the air I actually felt my heart melting

When Enj says “Marius you’re no longer a child” he doesn’t even sing it its so motherly he’s like scolding him its iconic

Almost all of Patron-Minette was there and they made sure we knew by having Thenadier do role call every single fucking time they showed up thank god it was only like twice

There were women holding guns on the barricade but left before they got to shoot them.

When Javert is singing “And I am Javert! Do not forget my name.. do not forget me..” another guard is holding Valjean’s face, forcing him to look Javert in the eyes. Its so clear that this moment will define these two men’s lives and Valjean literally cannot look away. it was a v nice touch

the part where the Bishop tells VJ that his soul is God’s now actually made me shiver?? I usually find it so unremarkable

I have heard a LOT of Bring Him Homes. That was the best.

Enj was Enj. Tall, higher voice than you would think. Not to mention his hair. The most luscious golden locks.

During the end of Red and Black and the beginning of Do You Hear Enj is standing on a large pile of boxes (mini barricade?) in the Musain. The others are crowded around him, except for Grantaire who clearly stands apart. He is paying just as much attention as the rest, but you can tell for different reasons. He pulls Gav away from the throng of people and holds him to his cheast. 

During Red and Black when R sings his Don Juan line, he holds his ever present wine bottle to his crotch and violently mimes jacking off

WOAH this is long! Sorry! Tagging @r-we-taire-yet cause you mentioned you hadn’t seen it and I felt you might appreciate a thought dump.

#Les mis #zora babbles #woah this is long sorry #Enjolras #enjoltaire #grantaire #jean valjean #cosette #eponine #marius pontmercy #javert #gavroche #my thoughts on the show #IM STILL UPSET ABOUT THE BOTTLE THING