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packing up the stakes and moving on from here. kinseijoshi on cohost

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alcohol and ogre-girls just doesn’t miss

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More Otherside Picnic drawings. I love Soratori so much🥰

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I’ve been doing the draw-everything-June challenge (where you use a pose reference every day, and, no I’m not on time at all). Two of those turned into Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass! Slapped some colour on them for the vibes. Mahit is in her angular white intimidation outfit, and Three Seagrass is encountering a kauraanian Kitten.

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soratori funnies

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Happy 20 year anniversary to the posting of the Kisagari Station legend :O

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Okay it's been a while since I did some Otherside Picnic analysis posting so tonight I wanna touch on *that* scene from vol 8, particularly a subtle aspect of it that I think really helps sell the emotional intimacy of the scene:

Toriko briefly co-narrates.

Throughout the entire series, we get very little perspective on who Toriko is as a person. What we know about her is filtered through Sorawo, who doesn't exactly have a great perspective on who Toriko is as a person either. Otherside Picnic is great at putting us in Sorawo's headspace, and I think from the perspective of writing mechanics it's largely accomplished by limiting how much outside information we get on other characters. There are the side stories, which gives us some perspective on Kozakura, but there is a very large, Toriko-shaped hole in the reader's perception.

Vol 8 changes that approach a little. Sorawo realizes how little she knows about Toriko, and starts realizing she needs to put some effort into understanding her. During their long heart to heart in File 26, we see Sorawo slowly softening her almost willful ignorance of Toriko, as she starts to realize how a person's past shapes their present, their insecurities, their motivations.

And then the big scene happens. Most of it is very much Sorawo's narrative voice: detached, analytical, almost as if it's something happening to another person. But towards the end of it, that narrative style evolves. The perspective slightly changes. "I" statements become "we" statements. It becomes more poetic. Long thoughts about the anthropological function of the evil eye give way to swirls of animals merging*, of galaxies colliding. May I remind you that Toriko is studying English lit? And finally, at the very end of it, we get "Nice to meet you, Sorawo. Nice to meet you, Toriko."

(*As an aside when Sorawo and Toriko are cuddling, Toriko says "We went at it like animals. Wrapped around one another, like we were melting together...")

I think it's a genius bit of writing. We have nearly eight full volumes training us to Sorawo's limited perception. A moment of Toriko's thoughts, unfiltered by what she chooses to say or Sorawo chooses to hear, does far more to sell the intimacy of the scene than any line of dialogue ever could.

#Otherside Picnic #sorawo kamikoshi #toriko nishina #literary analysis

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clingy wife miorine

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It's interesting that in File 2, Harrashaku's emotional attack is nostalgia, like she conjures up huge amounts of unattributed nostalgia in Sorawo. But, despite that, Sorawo does not start thinking about her mom, or the days before the cult, and the thing that ultimately draws her in is the image of Toriko.

Ik that's prolly because the role Sorawo's mom played hadn't yet been fully established (though she does say think of her while she's drowning in the Lie Down Bath Of Death), but it does still say something about Sorawo. From the very beginning, Sorawo is someone who does not think about or care about people's pasts, leading to the whole moment in volume 8 about her not engaging in first contact with Toriko. But it's also true for her own self perception - she worries much more about who she is now than who she was then, to the point where those lost relationships matter less to her than this burdgeoning one with the beautiful woman she mistrusts.

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Suletta + Miorine moments. Ep 22.

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It me

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Hiya!

Love your art, it's really cool and dynamic.

I remember seeing you on Pixiv! Would it be possible to see some of your Shimeji Simulation/Girls' Last Tour art here on tumblr?

Have a good day!!

thank you!! i need to get to draw them more

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