Cirque du Freak is a Japanese manga series illustrated by Takahiro Arai and based on the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by Irish author Darren Shan. The manga was published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from August 9th, 2006, to February 4th, 2009Chapter 93Previous thread: >>272613760To find the other chapters that were posted thus far; https://desuarchive.org/a/search/subject/%20Daily%20Cirque%20du%20Freak/
Google drive folder that contains the complete Cirque du Freak manga:https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1J6EO5ZrQUGq1hDQ71g6xTSYsbsdgTlCq
Chapter 93 - END
>>272648724Murlough very momentarily getting fished from the lake, seeing Darren and going right back lol
Makes me feel real dumb for not noticing the 3 scratches before this volume
>>272649199But how? Kurda was alive when Harlat was around. Don't tell me it's time travel or some shit like that.
>>272649583He only got them this volume when the panther attacked.
>>272649807It's Time Travel. Little people are made after the person dies.
>>272649808Wait...what?!
>>272649851Even better is that it's in the original novel as well. Shan knew what he was doing foreshadowing like that, I just wish there was MORE than that and there being basically no other people it could be.
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>>272649954>>272649241The master himself indeed.
>>272649241and then a deus ex machina.
Tiny is such an asshole and yet, he's entertaining despite being a walking deus ex machina
>>272650013This was a good page for coloring. Never really visualized that frozen in time flame.
>>272650048Considering it's been treated as a video-game style quest where accomplishing your objective grants almost immediate support to escape, maybe a little. It was always Tiny's game for them. They won the game, so Tiny gives them an out.
>>272649199Impossibru
>>272649199ENTER yaoiman
>>272649222Even confused Kurda can't stop beeing a bishonen. What a prettyboy.>>272650559Ah, thats none. THIS is a proper ENTER Moment. >>272649241 >>272650013Great Work. I love how Mr. Tiny becomes more and more this overhuman, insane figure as the series goes on, bit of a Judge Holden and the colour composition has a good underlying creepiness, him prancing over a dragons head.
Vampires are cool! They can live for centuries without growing old, and they have many magical powers, and they can do whatever they like — except walk about in the daylight! However, some can walk in the day light it just depends on the writer in which your are reading!I have 62 books about vampires, or with bits in them about vampires. I'm not sure how many vampire movies I've seen, but I must have seen at least 50, probably a lot more. My favourite is Salem's Lot. The vampire in that film is really scary — bald and ugly, with long claws and very sharp fangs. I had nightmares when I first saw it, and I love having nightmares, so that was great!My Mum isn't too keen on vampires, but maybe that's because of the time I squirted loads of tomato ketchup under the covers of her bed – so it looked like a pool of blood – and left a plastic vampire bat in it!!There are lots of legends about vampires. Many of them, I think, are made up. I doubt if vampires can turn into fog or don't cast a shadow or turn to ash if they are hit with holy water or touched with a cross. And I'd be very surprised if they don't have reflections or if they can turn into bats and fly. I mean, bats have to learn how to fly. If a vampire turned into a bat, he'd probably just fall flat on the floor or bash into things while he was trying to fly.I think the stories about bats started because vampires are friendly with bats. The books I've read – the serious, true books – say that bats and rats and wolves are kind of vampire pets. Vampires feed and look after them, just like humans feed and look after dogs.I'd much rather have a bat than a dog for a pet. I asked my Mum to get me a bat or a rat for my last birthday, but she said "Not in this lifetime, buddy!" My Mum is soooooooo boring!
>>272650944Vampires have to drink blood to survive. This is DEFINITELY true. I don’t know how much they need to drink, or how often, but a vampire will die if he doesn’t drink the right amount of blood. Drinking blood helps vampires live so long. I think that maybe humans might live longer if they drank blood too – then again, maybe they’d just get sick and die!My best friend Darren Shan says he’d rather eat mud than drink blood, but I think drinking blood is cool. When I have cuts on my knees or elbows, I like to pick at my scabs and drink the small bit of blood that comes out. It’s very tasty!Vampires are super-strong and super-fast, much stronger and faster than humans. They can punch through brick walls and run 100 metres in three or four seconds. If a vampire entered the Olympics, he’d win every gold medal in every event.Most vampires are men. There are a few women vampires, but most women who want to get magic powers and live a long time prefer to become witches. I don’t know why this is so. Maybe it’s because most vampires feed upon adults – there’s more blood in a grown-up – whereas most witches eat little children. Since good women love to have and mind little children, I guess it’s only natural that evil women love to eat them!
>>272650944Don't trust this poster. He is Steve.
>>272650944Hi Steve!
>>272650978To kill a vampire, you have to drive a stake through his heart. The stake doesn’t have to be made out of wood — hard plastic or steel will do too. Another way to kill a vampire is to cut off his head and stuff it with garlic. Or you can burn him. Or, if you can find him while he’s sleeping in the day, you can drag him out into sunlight and leave him to burn.I feel quite sorry for vampires. They’re always being hunted and killed. I think people should leave them alone. Long ago, people sacrificed beautiful girls to their gods, and the gods left the rest of them alone. I think that’s what we should do with vampires. If we gave vampires a few beautiful girls every so often, I’m sure they’d just drink from them and not bother anybody else.There are a couple of girls in my class I’d like to give to a vampire — and one or two teachers too!!!To become a vampire, you have to drink the blood of another vampire, or else he has to do a blood transfer on you. It’s not true that you become a vampire when a vampire has drunk all your blood. All you become in that case is dead!I’d love to become a vampire. I think it would be wonderful. I’d roam the world for hundreds of years, seeing loads of stuff I’d never see as a human. People would have to do what I said, or I’d drink their blood and kill them. I’d become a wrestler or a boxer and win every fight because of my super-strength. I’d have dozens of pet rats and bats, and I’d teach them every trick in the book. I might even marry a witch if I got lonely, but if she tried to cast a spell on me, I’d throw her to my pet wolf!It would be great to be a vampire, but I don’t think I’ll ever get the chance to become one, not until I grow up and move away from home. I mean, where are you going to run into a vampire around here?!?
Fuck is going in my thread.
>>272651257Your fucking boyfriend's boyfriend is liveblogging, you dumb cuck.
>>272651257
>>272649048How could he forget the fire breath?
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>>272651429What?
>>272649241Fucking love Tiny.
>>272649199So Kurda/Harkat just has the same soul in two different bodies both in the past and now? Shouldn't Harkat lose his soul once Kurda is revived?
>>272651787Yes. Yes.
>>272648683Arai's dragon art is top tier.
>>272648781>Throws bottles of boozeReally is Irish...
Can't they fish out Larten?
>>272651868Larten flew to paradise.
>>272650944>>272650978>>272651012The following is a recently discovered essay, written by Steve Leopard when he was at school. The date is missing, so we're not sure what age he was or what class he was in when he wrote it, but we think he was about 11 or 12 years old at the time. A teacher's report was attached to the end of the essay. He or she wrote: "B-. Very good, Steve, very imaginative, but a bit on the dark and miserable side. Why don't you write about clowns or something fun next time?">>272651529Sorry, I was posting from the wiki instead of the darren shan site. I wanted to post the actual teacher's note
>>272651895kek
>>272650226>>272650749Thank you. Making Tiny look disturbing was half the reason I started doing this exercise.>>272649199This isn't as impactful, but it's still a very big moment. Best boy Kurda is back.
>>272651942Harkat always had the I'm HIM movement.
>>272651979>Harkat is introduced pulling off bear DDTs>his next act is suplexing a boar>Kurda has surprising agility and fighting prowess as displayed on the barsWe should have known from the start the only one badass enough to be Harkat was Kurda "10:0 Matchup Record vs Arra" Smahlt.
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>>272651802Okay so it's just bad writing, aka Mr Tiny bullshit.
>>272649199So, is this going to be explained next chapter? Apart from the scars, i don't see how this was foreshadowed in any way. Kurda and Harkat acted pretty differently the only common thing they had was the desire to protect Darren, but Harkat was much proactive in that regard.
>>272652540Woah you might anger the novelanon apologist.
>>272652556>the name>the scar on the cover>scarce "the vampire mountain feels like home" comments
>>272649156Damn..
>>272650980He really had a lot of fun drawing Steve.
>>272655553Don't you start this shit.
>>272653064The name is the only one i accept. He only got the scars right this volume. A vague comment about vampire mountain feeling like home could have been for any vampire or even guardian of blood. This feels like an asspull, at least to me.
>>272648698Really makes you think how many souls in the lake are now little people. Imagine Murlough having to sell candy at CdF lol.
>>272657706Kek
>>272657706Murlough does get turned into a little person in the movie
>>272652556>i don't see how this was foreshadowed in any wayThe name is literally an anagram anon
>>272658869Explain it in zoomer terms.Like this...Undertale...Deltarune?!
So in Japanese the anagram thing is less obvious>Harkat Mulds -> 「ハーキャット・マルズ」 (Haakyatto Maruzu)>Kurda Smahlt -> 「カーダ・スモルト」 (Kaada Sumoruto)The English spellings of their names were surely used in places like splash pages or promo material, but they're not something readers would pay much attention to.
>>272658869>>272658904I said the name i get, but that is not that much to go on.
>>272659315Interesting. How did they then wordplay with DESmond TINY? In the german books they he calls himself - Seconds Name SCHICK (Which means Pretty, Neat in german), First Name SALvatore - friends call him just SAL - so Mr. SCHICKSAL which means Fate or Destiny.
>>272660491Don't post this semen demon ever again.
>>272660491I'm Czech it's Osmond Sudd shortened to O. Sudd ("osud" meaning destiny).
>>272649199Now that we've gotten to this point, I just wanted to point out that this post from back then was very funny. It was so funny, I wasn't sure if it was bait or not, and I was surprised nobody spoiled it there.
>>272660669Can confirm it wasn't bait, I didn't know Harkat was Kurda until someone else mentioned the anagram at some later point. After seeing the author notes from volume 4 I partly expected it to be Sam.
