Do you like witches in cute hats?Do you like free speech activism?Do you like watching children bounce between whimsy and pure fear?Do you like pretty pictures?Join the "Party"!Today is Agott's day. All hail our tsundere queen. Use spoiler tags where necessary. Dumps start between 1:00-2:00PM EST
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First for Richeh
Needy girl. >>289159793Well said.
>>289159796Are they about to make babies?
>>289159692This thread didn’t reach the bump limit though >>289159763
Is it normal to imagine your best friend giving you the sweetest blushing smile ever?A smile that isn't a reused panel but one drawn entirely from scratch just for this page?
>>289159842That's probably a principles violation
>>289159793I have no strong feelings for any of the apprentices but I guess I'd go with Coco if I had to pick.>>289159860It was close enough for a storytime.
>>289159722>two virgins offered on a grailwhat did they mean by this
>>289159830In this issue: free set of cutout'n'keep Agott reaction faces for your social media group chats
>>289159860Too close to bump limit for a storytime. Just let it die with grace.
Agott gains the F in her name this volume.
>>289159887oh she's in love alrite
>>289159967FAgott
>>289159918I wonder if the anime will do this part with a "quiet shouting" voice since Tetia and Richeh still don't wake up from Agott's outburst.
>>289159860Truly a crime punishable by full memory wipeWho gives a shit you smelly snivelling tattle tale. Get the fuck out of here.
What an otaku.
>>289160004The next few pages are one of my favorite scenes in the series, enjoy.
>>289159722Well that's a cover page
This is what made the anime's choice to cut Qifrey's water flower so totally inexplicable.
>>289160054>Anon has an autistic spasm out of nowherekek
>>289160077It is very comfy and sweet.
>>289160012Isn't what she thinks here exactly what Lorogo says to her later?
Its over for fAgott.
>>289160158Exact same words
>>289159967Artist autobiography
>>289160122The left page should be mandatory reading for every shounenshit author who intends to write an asshole rival who becomes the MC's friend.
These two have a very fun relationship.
>>289160234What if they say it at the nigh end of the series?
Olruggio is a good mother hen. >>289160234Her redemption arc is well executed.
Olruggio not remembering anything about Qifrey's condition is brutal on pages like this.
>>289160430Fuck you Bel, Dean is right.
>>289160324Qifrey stop taking advice from someone who you MINDWIPED TO BE SPECIFICALLY UNAWARE OF THE SITUATIONObviously he's not going to have a correct perspective on the danger of sudden secrets!
>>289159722Very European page.
Seethearuit.
>>289160464Told status?
>>289159967Guys, I am not 100% convinced this is a hetero manga.
>>289159887Damn, she really is gay.
>>289159918>>289159967Some author venting.
>>289159887See, this one page is the only reason I take the ship at all seriously. This genuinely seems to imply that Agott has a crush on Coco, though I don't imagine that Coco thinks about Agott in that way at all.
>>289160073The animal sigils are interesting.I wonder what the sigil for human looks like.
Agott has accepted that Coco brain moggs her at this point.
>>289159722What a feast
>>289160122>>289160154More series should have the rivals maturely handle their conflict resolution like this.
>>289160581>seems to implyexplicitly confirms*
>>289159830This is just Shirahama venting
>>289160581>though I don't imagine that Coco thinks about Agott in that way at all[Spoiler]With that in mind, you think it’s gonna end without acknowledging Agott’s feelings and leave everything ambiguous?
>>289159918How no one wakes up from this I have no idea. Maybe Richeh and Tetia just slumber like hibernating bears
>>289159967Give her the dic-the finger
>>289160683This sort of panelling feels like it'd be better suited for a volume ending cliffhanger.
>>289160004Taking bets, is that a Richeh foot or a Tetia foot?
>>289160464The hair acting as a panel divider is so fucking great
Mommagott
>>289160198This girl is too gay.
>>289160073Aestheticsmaxxing. Wonder if one of the reasons she chose to join Qifrey is because he also seems to like that stuff.
>>289160727Hey I just noticed that the hands drawing the line are Agott's. That's her pen.
>>289160254Toxic old man yaoi hell yea
>>289160234I think it's fine to keep the asshole rival a bit of an asshole, but you need to have the other characters acknowledge that
>>289160292>>289160324Cute 'Rugger
>>289160220>you think it has something to do with that metal band she's wearing?>nah couldn't be
>>289160254Cute baby Agott. Bagottby.
>>289160747They heard it all but are enjoying the show too much to intrude.
>>289160347Pages like this must make Qifrey want to kill himself
>>289160073>LiongoatOh god, not again
>>289160292Oh shit they do mention them. Well from here on out it's all Olly's fault
>>289160392>>289160430>>289160464>>289160496>>289160529Dean is cooler than I expected.
Maybe people overestimated how smart Tartah was.
One day Jujy will do literally anything.
>>289161005>>289160936I'm glad Qifrey is still trying to talk to them and not just letting idiot-plot miscommunication run rampant. I don't think Ininia even said they can't tell anyone, right? They should have just asked for his help, but Coco has emotional issues and Tartah rightly doesn't trust adults
>>289160638Coco seduces all young lesbians with her coolness and brains.
>>289160254>Chapter 26?
The Boy is back.
>>289161103Fuck off kid she has lesbians backing her up now
>>289161088I wouldn't worry about it.
>>289160613It's probably forbidden magic, somehow
>>289160800I love her hair.I would fill it with my semen.
Poor Agott....
>>289160828>i'm telling ya >i was framed!
Deja Vu.
>>289160936>>289161005Qifrey's basic common sense is enough to almost break these two instantly.
>>289161206Oh no he's an incel
>>289161041Very cool page.
>>289160800>Iguin shaped earringHmm
>>289161257He's like 10 or 12.
>>289161268Librarian would be a dream job for a secret brim
>>289161103Our real hero.Fighting against the tyranny of the protagonists.
>>289161295He's starting young
>>289161137I love how Coco just enters the conversation like a wreckingball and he's just completely overwhelmed by her sheet fucking aura even though he has no idea who she is.Lots of stories tell us that a character is charismatic, or simply confuse charisma with charm. But Coco has legit charisma in the fact that she just naturally gravitates to the center of the room and everything else revolves around her. Even the people who don't like her can't deny that the spotlight always finds her.
>>289161206LmaoLiterally the same words.>>289159887
>>289161169>her legs are always restlessThat's a very interesting thing to comment on, Coco. Could you possibly enlighten us as to why you were paying attention to her legs?
>>289161169Holy crap Coco, you just finished her off.
>>289161169oh god they're so precious
He solved the riddle.
>>289161103>>289161137>>289161169>>289161206I actually find this scene way more on-the-nose obnoxious than the peeping witch preaching. Loroga is basically a plot device who shows up for one scene, does nothing other than give an excuse for the main girls to defend each other while doing that "I AM SILLY" meme, and then disappears from the plot.
>>289161374>then disappears from the plot.SOON
>>289161374Are you up to date with the chapters? He's back and he's now Easthies's new apprentice.
>>289161376Another win for Olly, must be easier to focus on his work without plot stuff to worry about
John Snow would be pleased.
>>289161327Coco is written quite well as a character with a real actual strong personality. That you could imagine meeting in real life and liking.A lot of 'charismatic' characters are just loud and annoying.
>Coco throws shit all over the audience
>>289161395>>289161402Yes, I read them recently. Who knows what he'll do in the future, but at least for this arc his involvement is done, which left a bad taste in my mouth.
>>289161495The peasants are revolting.
Coco stops cholera outbreaks.
>>289161495fuck priviliged people, selfish cunts
Its Cocover.
Should I read the manga or watch the anime?
>>289160794Based on third panel on the right page here >>289159854 the one on top of Coco is Tetia
>>289159796I'm surprised that last panel hasn't become a meme
>>289161528Yes.
>>289161528Watch the anime, then read the manga from chapter 1 to appreciate how much the anime expanded certain moments.
>>289161528This series has a very solid anime adaptation that cuts off about 1/4th of the way through the manga right now. With a season 2 that will probably get up to 1/2 of the way through coming out anywhere from a few months to a couple of years from now. The manga has very high fidelity artwork and stylish paneling. Both are worth following.
Always remember to sort your recycling, guys.
We're so Backgott.
>>289160392Why does Richeh's brother turn into a lower quality version of himself in the third panel?
>>289161679Ahaha it's time
>>289160496>talking about balance of power while knocking over a pair of scalesSYMBOLISM!!
>>289161679No idea how that got spoilered, lol. >>289161696He donated his ink budget to another page.
>>289161497True.I guess some of it is the slow pacing of the series making it so that side characters don't do a lot until it's their time to shine. Which might take years.Like neither Jujy nor her Master have done anything significant and they have been cast members for like a long time now.
>>289160496Bel's got hands
>>289160529You know you could have said this to Bel...
>>289160563>let me tell you about this place called Angband
>>289160638Fococosed
Babu
Wonderful.
>>289159842Silly anon, you need a boy to make babies.
>>289161885Guys I think Agott is winning the cocobowl
>>289161527I notice none of her friends are raising their flags either
>>289161909You're walking down the street and a bunch of water fish rush you
>>289160800Adult Agott is gonna look like THAT?!
>>289160863Imagine if Agott spills spaghetti here
Total Agott Victory
>>289161885The best pages in the manga. Yes, I ship them but I'd think so regardlessly.
>>289160936>>289161078>>289161236A liar can sniff out fellow liars
>Bad case of diarrhea>Everyone see water birds flying out of your house every few minutes
>>289161760He's got that old man strength.
>>289160122>anime cuts a seemingly small part>this ruins a scene laterTale as old as anime
>>289161041https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-UN6uRMBRw&t=10
>>289160680this is what hero aca was missing, I don't think that asshole 'rival' who told the MC to kill himself multiple times apologized even once, and if he did I still wouldn't take it lmfao
Tartahbros I don't feel so good about our chances anymore
>>289162124>mom sees you've grown into a fine young lesbian
>>289161103Someone rape this boy on stage
>>289162118I'm still booking a ticket on the Tartanic
>>289161374I mostly agree but it's a nice Coco moment
UN hat atelier
>>289161949She'll never be that gorgeous.
The Real Silver Eve Festival Starts Here
>>289161169Coco stop verbally molesting her
>>289162062>>289162092Look at this wonderful natural character development.
>>289162197This is probably fine
>>289162197ITBEGINS
>>289160910yes anon, it really does.
>>289162025>>289162092Fantastic
>>289162197Fun is over.
30 year old man, btw.
>>289162222Get fucked, pervertboy
>>289161295Phat witch
>>289161320>the king is an architectLike he couldn't get more based
>>289162197>Twin towers9/11 allegory?
>>289161320I love Dean's cute fat wife.
Even Olruggio has his own closet full of skeletons.
>>289161402>that little girl is pouring her poop into a vase!
>>289161495You misjudged your audience Coco
>>289162367Foreshadowing. Spoiler, even.
oh deer
>>289162367That lower right panel is some wonderful foreshadowing in several ways.
>>289161527Spilled spaghetti
>>289161679Agott going on the offensive
>>289160828>olly's pose: zesty>quifrey's pose: cuntythe difference between life and death, folks
>>289161707Wow moralis REALLY suck at their job. Seriously you never investigated his ring? Didn't do a thorough check?
>>289162332Even the most reasonable person in that atelier has a fucked up past, which makes me wonder what Tetia's major is going to be.At this point it would be a twist if Tetia is just... normal.
Very nice
>>289160800strong contender for both worst mother and witch award
>>289161885Justifiably smug Agott
>>289162332So Quifrey has a fear of water so he became a water focused mage to control it properly and Olru saw people freeze to death and became a fire focused mage to never deal with that again? Wonder if this means Coco will specialize in earth in the future since her mom became stone
>>289162422I feel like it's set to foreshadow even more than it already has with Tartah turning to the brimhat side. Agott being split down the middle between pointed caps and Coco's third way while looking at her will come in play too, I bet.
>>289161996Lol I like the parent's reasoning
>>289162575She did make and earth wall to stop galga
>>289162508It was a failure of imagination. He has no paper, so obviously he couldn't cast, right?
>>289162197https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBZeb_1rhJ4
>>289161495Ayy chapter 1 callback
>>289162092Extremely pretty and helpful Agott
>>289161072its enough that she exists to begin with. just an adorable design overall
>hey should we take this guy's stuff in case it's a magical device?>nah
>>289162575The main spell she uses do seem to be earth and wind (both need many straight lines)
>>289162177I like that Custas had the same response and reaction to this
Volume 11, ovaToday was Agott's day to shine. I hope everyone enjoyed it. A very cute volume all together. Today was also the calm before the storm. Next time we're going neck deep into the chaos. I hope it was a good read.
>>289162197Don't worry I'm sure that's always been there
>>289162635In fairness they just thought he was an old crook who abused his position to get rich.
>>289162222RIP voyeur connoisseur
>>289162308God living in that atelier must be comfy
>>289162663Thanks, OP.Will read the chapter dump now!
>>289162635He's being held in a castle where magic doesn't work, had he not learned to cast magic on the body it wouldn't have mattered one bit.
>>289160483It's Ancient MediterraneanEurope as a concept didn't exist at the time
>>289160496>the Fulcrum and all it bears will tumbleLooking more and more like the Wise hold the pact as a thing that if broken would cause mass destruction.
>>289162332This was supposed to be the comfy bonus chapter!
>>289161901>anon doesn't know about the Cocock
>>289162663Thanks OP, and this one was super fun. Agott's been defrosting for a while and it's nice to see the payoff
>>289160529I have to say, that while a lot of the panels are creative and cool.It's the simple "hold your hands on the edges of the panel as you pass a door" that I enjoy the most.
>>289159796>>289159830>child savant experiences a mental setback for the first timeIf Agott wasn't cuckoo for Coco, she probably would have slapped her
>>289161440did she shit in the vase? How exactly was the wastewater collected?
>>289160529Take note SJWs, you can create your own cool world and nobody cares that you populate it with gays and browns.
>>289162534Ominous Coco panel. Also Agott posing like she's on a runway
>>289162870You forget that muggles don't get the fancy space portal toilets
>>289162873Some shitposters on here did bitch back when these chapters were coming out.
>>289162663Thanks OP! We're approaching the part where I stopped last time, only a few more chapters to go. Really exciting to see where it goes from here, even if I've been spoiled on some bits.
>>289160581>though I don't imagine that Coco thinks about Agott in that way at all.Did you not see how she went into a gay panic the moment she heard that Agott liked the shoes she fixed?
>>289162873>nobody caresI wish that was true.
>>289162663That was some delicious development for her. We don't talk about the giant monster.
>>289162620All Agotts are pretty and helpful.
>>289160683
>>289162117Stop seething about a shitty manga you didn't even read.
>>289162965Thanks for posting the correct page.
>>289160198So fluffy and comfy. Surely the series will remain this way going forward, right?
>>289160936Didn't even notice that stealthy Ininia
>>289160932Olly is the key behind basically everything that happens in the manga
>>289161041Wonder and whimsy! Nothing bad will happen!
>>289159830mmmmm... Coco's barefoot soles...
>>289159967More Coco feet!
>>289160392Knowing how to properly take care of bed-bound loved ones? That's a one way trip to Adanlee for you!
>>289162979you're so right, let's leave that shit in the past. It's over now.
>>289160073So what's there to stop one from mixing that dragon seal with a fire seal and making a fire dragon?
>>289162862Geniuses are the most fragile.
>>289160800Those book shoes are stylish
>>289163372Nothing. Qifrey basically did the same thing with water.
>>289162873You are new here, aren't you?
>Witches can make a portal to outer space>So common it's used for toilets>Can create livable spaces in extremely hostile environments like on the bottom of the sea floorIf I was that king I would be pissed too. The witches could effectively end resource scarcity with asteroid mining and shit or start an interstellar civilization.
>>289162873This manga was dead on /a/ for a long time because of stuff like that.
>>289160581>>289162933Coco obviously has standard shonen protagonist obliviousness.
>>289161374It would be terrible he would join forces later with a huge moralfag hahaha wouldn't it? hahaha!
>>289160529>isn't that right?>as he looks to us, the readergoddamn this king
>>289160683>for the magic i swear to make minenow thats a villain line if i ever saw one>for the magic we must pry from the hands of our foesinteresting parallel with the king's line>no bubble for custas meaning no thought head emptyheh
>>289162092now kiss
>>289160828why is coco gaze so sex
>>289163833Custas is more of a doer than a thinker.
>>289161169This means Coco knows a lot of similiar incriminating information about Richeh, Tetia and Tartha because she spends so much time with them.
>>289162965Why is he like that?
we can agree that Coco and Agott is the endgame
>>289161005I think Qifrey doesn't know that Tartar actually entangled with Coco, but Olgy clued him in by saying that they're wearing the same band
>>289163964No, my favored endgame would be Agott dying to truly traumatize CocoThat and I hate any and all lesbo options
>>289162762For good reason, I think. If society at large gets the use of magic what will be the first thing they cast? Thing they lack currently: magic murder tools.
>>289162283I'm surprised they don't have more kids. He must love to see her pregnant.
>>289163964I doubt that the 'romance' is going anywhere. The writer treats the girls like they're real children. Agott's crush is very cute, though.
>>289161374what are you talking abouthe's part of agott backstory, agott dealing with him is a huge step forward in her personal developmentnow that the bullying of her peers has been dealt with, she can focus on the whole parent abandonment issue
>>289163964Sure.
>>289161376I wonder how long that flame will last
>>289161679Is that the pervert glasses vendor?
>>289162261There is just more to love!
>>289162222If I'm not mistaken this was the last chapter I read before I dropped it, so it's a new stuff for me from now on.
>>289164133>agott dealing with him is a huge step forward in her personal developmentThe problem is that's all he is, at least at this point. He's not his own character, with his own ambitions or ideals. He's merely an obstacle for Agott to overcome, just another step in her character arc. Shirahama conjured up this caricature of an annoying antagonistic brat to make Agott and Coco look better by comparison. Them beating him down doesn't feel cathartic at all because we're given no reason to even consider his point of view, it's completely one-sided.
>>289161707why would you put your anti-magic prison on the edge of the anti-magic barrierput it right in the center underground, ffs
>>289162301She's pregnant anon...
>>289161206Believe in Coco who believes in you.
>>289161327Now that you mention it, I do know one real life "Coco". Too bad he uses his power to party hard and to infiltrate any con and meetup he can sniff out.
>>289164447I mean yes, but you don't get that double chin from pregnancy alone
>>289164087She looks like she is, to me.
>>289162197what the fuckinvisible golem?
>>289164432It's not their castle, all they could do was ask for what's available. And telling the guards that the cell was not acceptable because it was too close to the outer walls would just raise suspicions, and it would probably come back to the King
>>289164519I mean, they only have Eoleo and the one in her belly. They should have more!
>>289160004I don't like it when characters interact with the panels, i don't want any sord of 4th wall break
>>289159887>girl explaining her crush in some pretty cringey terms>cute>>289161206>boy explaining his crush in the same exact cringey terms>actually cringeWhy does this happen?
>>289160683Iconic page of the arc.
>>289162222RIP fellow garment glimpseryou a kaiju now
>>289161495What a bunch of cunts. >>289162092Awww. Twice, even.
>>289164634I want there to be a discussion between the characters, and mid-dialogue a sudden random panel of Coco looking straight at the reader.
>>289162451Hey, you're doing the same thing, Agott
>>289163163
>>289160877yeah, it's ridiculous he hasn't noticed
>>289164718>>289160292oh shit
>>289160800>gets a hot outfit>no screentimeIT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR
What a few months with Coco do to a motherfucker.
>>289162124>>289162145>yes that's all very well and good but where are my grand-daughters coming from??
>>289164705I want Coco to look straight at me and say my full name and address
>>289160477>>289160324Yeah. Let's have a light touch about this girl that is a constant target of the brimhats, i'm sure there is little chance they'll come back
>>289164582even for non-witches, that cell placement is still suslike, c'mon, right in the outer walls, facing the sea even, where the only thing separating you from freedom is a mere windowbar? i'd fucking gnash on that bar every tight for a chance for freedom
>>289162197This whole arc did not feel very long reading all at once but the daily feels like slow motion.
>>289160347Did he make the dude forger everything related to the brimhat attacks they suffered?
>>289162197>NO REFUGE
>>289162663Thanks OPCurrent Agott is unrecognizable from volume 1 Aggott holy shitAnd who the fuck is that qtpie, you can't tell me that's child agott
>>289162283>>289162283Greatest doctor in the land doesn't understand obesity isn't healthy?
>>289164826You have touched the tiniest sliver of the pain experienced by reading this as it updated. Congratulations.
>>289164847Come on anon, she was even in the anime.
>>289164857Bro she's pregnancy sized. You want meat for heirs.
>>289164842clearly, and it's backfiring
>>289163482I disagree, they look dorky as fuck
>>289161885This is getting a little too whimsical, almost like nothing bad will happen.
>>289160430the king reminds me of Sinbad. Hyper competent dude who had good intentions and turns everything into hell.
>>289164816Olruggio has massive shojo goggles and Qifrey is the king of dumping WIS.
>>289163860She's a coquette
>>289164816The Knights Moralis are tightly patrolling the festival, there's no way they'd miss brimhat activity!
>>289164291One day past warranty
>>289164826Each daily took half a year in real life.
>>289164407Ye
>>289164967you know i'm starting to think that maybe the mindrape gestapo is not all that effective against the secret society of cool magic
>>289164431we got a glimpse to his own motive alreadythat he's just a tsun to agott, just like the way agott was to cocoand just like agott needs time to flesh out her character, this guy also needs time to flesh out his character, not every character needs to have depth from the very moment they're introduced, they just need the right hook, and he got one right there
>>289164826Now imagine getting like 1 chapter a month if you're lucky
>>289164989
>>289162257>30 year old manHe is LITERALLY me!
>>289164759She even started looking more girly
>>289164874nuh-uh, i refuse to believe agott experienced CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT before the series even starts
>>289164771A very not-forbidden process I assure you
>>289164989bro...
>>289164759This is like seeing a wolf and a dog next to each other.
>>289161885The anime better blow a small country's GDP worth of budget on this scene.
>>289162762Pretty clear they do. Question is, is all the bad they're causing though both inaction and their own actions outweighing it?
>>289164057I don't mean just society breaking down, they seem to think it will unleash something.
>>289161679Gayer and gayer
>>289164820There's something else outside the window, though, that acts as a deterrent. Come back tomorrow to find out what it is.
>>289161856
>>289160073Y'know, it never occurred to me before but where do these seals come from?Did witches just doodle random BS and discover through trial and error that certain seals create certain effects or forms?Or is there a way to hypothesize what a seal might do before it's ever been drawn?Or are they created, and somehow witches in ancient times linked new seals to new effects? If that's the case, is that still possible today?
>>289161909How the fuck does it know to find the pool?Also, i wonder if the cleaned water is 100% clean, if it is then just plug all the sewage back into your home in a close loop
>>289160563THE WITCH KING!
>>289165460Foreshadowing.
>>289165460whoa...
>>289165501There's probably, like, seal algebra, or something.
>>289165460That was me, sorry
i love them so much
>>289160828Coco's gaze here is extremely alluring...
>>289165501They do mention in their myths that magic was given to humans, so maybe the sigils really are divine in nature, or there's a way to influence magic itself and that's how they managed to create the Pact.However I think that for brimhats trying to discover lost signs, it's either a matter of searching old forgotten books that managed to escape the purge or they literally doodle on their page until something happens, then it's probably iterations after iterations on the shape until its effect becomes clear. Obviously this would be extremely dangerous.
>>289165594They are both getting married on the same day! TO BOYS WHO WILL GIVE THEM CHILDREN, MUAHAHAHAHAHA
>>289162451>i could learn to program something useful but i'll learn to use blender and make animations
>>289165641Maybe the pact itself is what confines the magic to only work in drawings.
>>289164967Yeah, i bet that emergency tool he gave ME is meaningless when taking my brimhat baitchild into account
>>289165703Really doubt that since we see some ancient spells like the amplification lens and that seems to work on the same principle.
>>289165703Probably not, we saw a pre-pact civilisation in the Serpent's Cave and they were using sigils.
>>289160430Even if outsiders can't learn the secret of magic, the idea that they can't be friends is pretty absurd.
>>289165460whew
>>289162222What a retard, i would write the wallbusting runes on my shirt and pull that out the window, the dude really was too dumb. Giving him magic was like giving a gun to a chimp
>>289165514>How the fuck does it know to find the pool?Agott secretly got the black girl and the brown master to hang out by the main purification seal for the sake of her bit.
>>289161760Compensating for his lack of feet.
>>289161169THAT'S MY AGOTT!
>>289165703That seems an unlikely development, given how the idea of the series was conceived.
>>289165514Even if you know the water is clean I think people would find it a bit iffy to immediately start reusing the same shit water. It's like how if you had a cart and filled it with shit, doesn't matter how thoroughly and perfectly you clean that cart, you're not gonna be transporting your nice lettuce on it
>>289165768That'd just turn your shirt into slime, though (is that a spoiler at this point? Oh well it won't be tomorrow, IIRC.)
>>289165641For trying out random sigils an automatic writer, maybe something that mimics your hand movements, would be really useful. Write it out on your own with regular ink from a safe distance in a protected area and have the machine use the real shit
>>289165874Whatever he drew on his hand would be the same on a shirt so i guess the retard tried to liquefy himself and thought that would end up well for him
>>289161357What if you break the crystal and see that the fireball doesn't burn?
>>289165922Breaking the cristal probably breaks the spell too
>>289165895So like the brim furrys cloak and Bels walking sand castles?
>>289160073
>>289162222So what the fuck happened to glasses guy?
>>289166304He got whoopsied
>>289166304There'll be a flashback showing what happened. And the funny thing is, is that if the knights had actually gone through with mindwiping the guy instead of making a deal with him and putting him in the prison none of this shit would have ever happened. And Custas and Ininia's plan wouldn't get interrupted either
>>289164989Holy fuck. No wonder you guys were calling this Festival Namek.
>>289161357The fact that the random civilians explain out loud what makes it okay is a little funny to me.Also, I've definitely hurt my hand as a kid from touching the glass part of a lantern. I'd be afraid to touch these fire crystals.
I wonder if Oly would think electrical outlets are too dangerous?
More like woke activism
>>289166304Dangers of forbidden magic
>>289166770I miss when this manga was just about cute girls drawing magic circles and figuring out cool spells. Now it feels like Shirahama is just shoving real-world politics
>>289166728He'd like those British outlets that have a gate on them. Good Bong outlets have a gate built into them that covers the hot contacts unless the ground plug pushes in deep enough first. It is almost impossible for a kid to put a fork into a Brit socket.>>289166859Like volume 1?
>>289162197Sigh... Well, it was nice while it lasted...Welcome to Namek, green readers.
>>289166859Did you even read chapter 1, tourist? The entire premise of the series from day one is that magic is violently gatekept by a cloistered elite class to maintain power, and the ignorant masses are left to suffer or get their memories wiped. The politics were always there. Your media literacy is literally zero.
>>289166451So what you're saying is that the Knights Moralis having one moment of mercy out of practicality was a mistake, and they were right to be ruthlessly tough on crime and give lobotomies for misdemeanors?
>>289166920>media literacy doesn't exist
>>289166920Retard. There's a massive difference between standard fantasy worldbuilding (rich vs poor) and making every single new arc a heavy-handed soapbox about discrimination, social justice, and accessibility. The recent chapters feel like they were written by a Twitter committee instead of a mangaka.
>>289166974fuck off, seriously, go fuck yourself and fuck off, you're a loathsome piece of shit and everyone wishes you were dead
>>289166974Bro is actually having a meltdown that a magic wheelchair exists in a high-fantasy world. Imagine being this fragile. The entire magic system is based on drawing runes to invent tools to help people. No duh they're going to invent things for people who can't walk or have chronic pain.
>>289166974The lobotomy police show up in the second volume of the manga. NTA, but I thought you were just trolling for a giggle, not that you actually believed it. >>289167030Don't be a total spastic moron.
>>289167058stfu
>>289167038You NPCs will consume whatever slop is put in front of you and praise it as a "masterpiece" as long as it hits the right modern buzzwords. It ruins the immersion when an ancient fantasy society suddenly starts acting like a bunch of twittard snowflakes.
>>289166974Lord of the Rings was about how much Tolkien hated industrialization. The story ends with the Scouring of the Shire that parallels the enclosure and industrialization of the British countryside (combined with some Norman harrying of the North). It was a big political statement and Tolkien is clear in other writings that he dreamed of the industrial modern world collapsing so that people could go back to simple lives and stop homogenizing. Shirahama uses fantasy to deal with the Japanese criminal justice system and how society handles the disabled, among other things.Well written fantasy stories are always topical and almost never just vaguely generalized.
>>289167129You're just mad the story has actual thematic depth instead of being a generic isekai power fantasy.
>>289167240>comparing Shitrahama to TolkienActual retardation
>>289167287Is being obstinate a hobby or a compulsion for you?
>>289167241>depthLol. The mom has been a rock for like 50 chapters while we get side-quests about magical ADA compliance and how muh police bad.
>>289167464my brother in christ, the ONLY way Coco can save her mother is by using forbidden magic, which means she HAS to clash with the Knights Moralis and the fundamental laws of their society! How do you not connect those dots? You literally cannot solve her personal problem without addressing the systemic one. Your reading comprehension is actually in the negatives.
>>289167464The lobotomy cops are a bedrock part of the setting. The entire premise is that magic is trivially easy to cast but it is sociopathically gatekept by extremists because it is so easy to use that a child could kill their entire neighborhood on accident and an army can scar an entire region and break the laws of physics forever. Coco's mother is a victim of illegal magic, but in being so, she's also off-limits for Coco to study and fix because of that gatekeeping. So until Coco can cause a systemic change, she can't save her mother because her mother and her would just be immediately hunted down and lobotomized for breaking the law.
>>289167287the tolkien allegory quote is one of the most widely misunderstoof positions in all of literature, it's also the surest way to know you're talking to a bookless pleb
Nooo don't fight anons you're all hot
>>289167240>Lord of the Rings was about how much Tolkien hated industrialization.There's a fun letter to his son during the war about how he thinks airplanes are more evil than the entirety of Mordor
>>289167372Oh hey I was just reading the Shigurui storytime archives
>>289167782My favorite Tolkien quote comes from one of those letters to his son. >Hump, well! I wonder (if we survive this war) if there will be any niche, even of sufferance, left for reactionary back numbers like me (and you). The bigger things get the smaller and duller or flatter the globe gets. It is getting to be all one blasted little provincial suburb. When they have introduced American sanitation, moral pep, feminism, and mass production throughout the Near East, Middle East, Far East, U.S.S.R., Hither Further and Inner Mumbo-land, Gondhwanaland, Lhasa, and the villages of the darkest Berkshire, how happy we shall be. At any rate it ought to cut down on travel. There will be nowhere to go. So people will (I opine) go all the faster. Colllie Knox says 1/8 of the world's population speaks 'English', and that is the biggest language group. if true, damn shame__ say I. May the curse of Babel strike at all their tongues till they can only say 'baa baa'. It would mean much the same. I think I shall have to refuse to speak anything but Old Mercian.December, 1943
>>289167765>source: trust me broIf you're going to be an idiot at least put some effort to back up your stupidity.
>>289167842Wonder if he'd get along with uncle Ted
>>289167240>Lord of the Rings was about how much Tolkien hated industrialization.It wasn't and he hated it when people made this assumption.
>>289167842Funny because that sounds just like the mangaka is doing. Importing shitty globalist politics that she doesn't actually understand and turning manga into western slop.
How do you think the knights moralis will save everyone from this giant monster? Surely they will come to the rescue!
>>289168000Police can't be good in modern leftist manga, please understand.
>>289167851Tolkien's view of allegory is closer to how we'd say analogy. Like Animal Farm, by Orwell, is what Tolkien would call an allegory. Where it is literally just Orwell's retelling of the birth of the Soviet Union, with the names all swapped around and the differing factions of the USSR being represented with blunt stand-ins. We wouldn't call Animal Farm an allegory today because we'd consider it to literal to be an allegory. Instead, it is basically an analogy for the rise of the USSR with animals used to simply the dynamics. Tolkien's view on the term was that it was very literal. Allegory meant literal stand-ins for concepts. >There is no ‘symbolism’ or conscious allegory in my story. Allegory of the sort ‘five wizards=five senses’ is wholly foreign to my way of thinking. There were five wizards and that is just a unique part of history. To ask if the Orcs ‘are’ Communists is to me as sensible asasking if Communists are Orcs. That there is no allegory does not, of course, say there is no applicability. There always is. And since I have not made the struggle wholly unequivocal: sloth and stupidity among hobbits, pride and [illegible]among Elves, grudge and greed in Dwarf-hearts, and folly and wicked-ness among the ‘Kings of Men’, and treachery and power-lust even among the ‘Wizards’, there is I suppose applicability in my story to present times. But I should say, if asked, the tale is not really about Power and Dominion: that only sets the wheels going; it is about Death and the desire for deathlessness. Which is hardly more than to say it is a tale written by a Man!Letter to Herbert Schiro (17 November 1957)
>>289167724While true, she could also put on the brim and skip all this nonsense
>>289168086>pride and [illegible]among Elves,What was it?
>>289168122Being mean
>>289168092The issue there is that just because you are a rebel against the system, doesn't mean that you are any better than the system. Sasaran isn't a better person because he got turned into a cat monster. It just made him angry and bitter and spiteful. Iguin might think that the witching world is a mountain of hypocrisy, and be right about that. But he's not a nice guy for it. He's amoral and is more interested in flipping the table than building something better. He's not a good person even if he's opposed to other bad people. Its what makes the story interesting and not another strawman rebellion fantasy like Star Wars.
>>289168092Where would she go though? she's still a 12 year old and Iggy doesn't seem like a great dad.
>>289167945Yes, and Tolkien was a devout Catholic, despite that being a Levantine-cum-Italian religion that wiped out the native Anglo religion. Shirahama is influenced by liberal politics. That isn't a sin nor a flaw. It is just a stylistic element and influences what she depicts in her story. A particular focus is given to society's blindness to disabilities and interpersonal differences (expecting everyone to fit in the same box) and the State's willingness to crush dissent in the most brutal or intrusive ways.
>>289168215>Iggy doesn't seem like a great dadYou take that back!
>>289168224>Shirahama is influenced by liberal politics. That isn't a sin nor a flawCome on now, anon lol
>>289168265No, I'm right!
>>289168219Unless your fantasy is walking around pre-Confucian and pre-Buddhist Japan dealing with local yokai and kami, your fantasy is already tainted by ancient globohomo. If someone has buttons on their clothes, it isn't authentically Japanese.
Are you actually this naive? It's called market incentives. When a series gets popular globally, the publishers and authors start catering to foreign localization teams, Western award circuits, and streaming platforms. Globalization forces everything into the same boring, progressive blender so it can be sold to a global mass market without offending anyone.
>>289168265>with forbidden magic you can go anywhere
>>289168304Nice strawman, retard.
>>289168279>she's not hecking red and basedpilled and that makes me mad
>>289168317Gosh Iguin, where are we going tonight?
>>289168399Please, woketard. It’s the most safe, conformist, corporate-approved worldview on the planet. Real depth requires actual friction and moral gray areas, not just lecturing the audience with HR-approved talking points. When every piece of media from Hollywood to Tokyo starts preaching the exact same message using the exact same buzzwords, that isn't just "influence"
>>289168509And exactly which part of WHA pertains to these>the most safe, conformist, corporate-approved worldview on the planet>lecturing the audience with HR-approved talking points>preaching the exact same message using the exact same buzzwords, that isn't just "influence"Please keep in mind that the main force of the WHA world are trigger happy cops going against rebels giving nuke to children for the lols
>>289166930The Knights Moralis spent their mercy on an old man because they hate children. They were wrong again for the same reason.
>>289168380So lets go historical. Japanese fantasy in the sense of knights and big titty mages fighting dragons got its start in the 80s based on importing European and American games and toys. Stuff like D&D, Ultima, and Wizardry. This gave you games like Sorcerian, Dragon Quest, and Xanadu and inspired anime like Lodoss War, Arnis, and Bastard!!Do you think this was a bad thing? >inb4 that was good this was bad because of my subjective opinionThat is just retreating from your stance. It isn't the influence that is bad, it is just that subjectively you don't like her influences. In which case, who the fuck cares what you think?
>>289168624Again, you're too stupid so you can only use strawmen. One thing is to be influenced by a western work, and a different is one is too be influenced by a globalist idealogy that is pro-censorship. She objectively IS pro-censorship. Next time post using a tranny flag so I can filter your idiocy.
>>289168509>actual friction and moral gray areasBy the end of Silver Eve, every single point of view is balanced out by a poignant counter-experience, and that's the way the series has always been. Have you even been reading along?
>>289168708You literally did exactly what I said you were going to do. >influence is good except when they're not influenced by stuff I personally likeJust braindead solipsism. If you were at least consistent in saying, "Japan should never be influenced by America or Europe", there'd be an argument there. But this is just sad. The story is literally about free speech vs the gestapo that want you silenced. And how characters handle living in a police state where they have to manage esoteric and unreasonable rules that limit their ability to achieve their very reasonable goals. This is more about free speech than most manga ever written, lol. Do you think its only free speech if you use it to bitch about spear chuckers or fudge packers? It is only freedom when people say what you like them to say?
>>289168813>you're free so you can cut your dick and enter the women's bathroomYou're free to use common sense, but it escapes you.
The woke corporate formula ruins everything it touches because it prioritizes ideological conformity over genuine, localized artistic expression.
>globalist>leftist>western>progressive>wokefunny how this guy rants about media preaching the exact same message using the exact same buzzwords yet he's the one that actually brought those buzzwords into the discussion in the first place, while preaching about the exact same message about how them western globalist woketard is evil using the exact same buzzwords
>>289168909Hit a woketard nerve? What are you so sensitive?
>>289168861The witches are genderless and doesn't actually have genitals down there
>>289168943Maybe if you stop using buzzwords, your seals would actually have sigils to it
A major focal point of inclusivity in the series is the representation of physical disability and the development of assistive technology. Through characters who navigate the world with physical impairments, the manga explores the concept of social disability models.Rather than treating a disability as a tragedy to be magically cured, the characters utilize the magic system to create adaptive devices, such as magical wheelchairs and customized tools. This approach reframes magic not as a weapon for dominance, but as a practical medium for problem solving, accommodation, and enhancing human autonomy.
>>289168861>>289168898You're free to read the words on the page of the manga. You claimed the series is anti-free speech when the entire conceit of the conflict is man vs state censorship. You have the same drive to make everything the same because in your mind there is only what you like and what is verboten. You even gave up on actually making an argument and just referenced transsexuals as a gotcha and shibboleth. Sure, they're mentally ill weirdos. But it doesn't actually matter. Because now that you've associated this manga with them in the argument, you can just loop back on that repeatedly as a way of avoiding actually saying anything of value or defending your asinine opinions or demands. At this point you've basically given up doing anything but making announcements you can't convincingly back up.
>>289168980Thank you ChatGPT.
The series incorporates a broad spectrum of representation regarding gender expression, identity, and background. Characters outside the traditional archetypes of mainstream fantasy are given prominent roles, agency, and complex backstories. The narrative consciously avoids tokenism by ensuring that diverse characters are integral to the plot progression and thematic development, reflecting a broader, more globalized approach to character design in modern manga.
>>289168980Thank you ChatGPT but yeah, Shirahama could've easily fallen into the trapping of having magic fix a disability but she's smarter than that.
>>289169016ehemcustas legs
>>289169016>Shirahama>smartNo, you're just too dumb and impresionable
Inclusivity in the text also extends to its critique of the justice and penal systems within the fantasy world. The Knights Moralis, the enforcement arm of the magical government, represent an absolute adherence to law at the expense of human empathy.The story contrasts their punitive, often draconian methods with a philosophy of rehabilitation and systemic reform. By questioning the morality of memory erasure and state enforced isolation, the narrative champions a more compassionate, inclusive approach to governance and community accountability.
>>289168980Are leftoids so dumb that they have to use chatgpt? Damn.
>>289169030They aren't healed, he has a cool wooden implant around them but it also threatens to kill him.
>>289169072>The story contrasts their punitive, often draconian methods with a philosophy of rehabilitation and systemic reformwhere
>>289168999It's the other way around tho.The author also associates with them, are you a big dummy?
>>289169108we dont know that just yet
>>289169030Now he can't warm his feet by a campfire. So is it really an upgrade?
>>289169072It was kinda funny the first time but please stop anon. We don't need automated repeats of the obvious because of 1 dumb shitflinger.
>>289169143Fuck, I forgot to spoiler-tag. Hopefully the shitposter has drawn people who are just following along away for now.
Kamome Shirahama’s masterpiece shines brightest in how it elevates progressive ideals from mere subplots to the absolute emotional and structural core of the universe. The manga offers a stunning, deeply compassionate vision of leftist political philosophy and radical inclusivity, proving that fantasy can be a powerful vehicle for imagining a more equitable world.
>>289169163>free tentacleswhy yes it is
The structure of Qifrey’s atelier serves as a beautiful blueprint for collectivist education and community care. Instead of the cutthroat, hypercompetitive environments typical of elite magical academies, the atelier prioritizes mutual aid and horizontal cooperation. The apprentices are encouraged to view each other as equals rather than rivals, turning the act of learning into a collaborative effort. When one student struggles, the entire group shifts to support them, demonstrating the socialist principle that individual well being is inextricably linked to the well being of the collective.
>>289169176Still crying, idiot?
>>289168265I wonder if this is gonna be another crazy fuck living in hiding or if he's gonna hide in plain sight and be a character we already seen
>>289169219>Instead of the cutthroat, hypercompetitive environments typical of elite magical academies, the atelier prioritizes mutual aid and horizontal cooperationvol 1 agott aint got the memo
Shirahama delivers a masterful, deeply progressive critique of prison systems and state violence through the conflict with the Brimmed Caps and the Knights Moralis."True justice cannot be found in the erasure of a person's identity or the enforcement of compliance through fear."The narrative consistently illustrates how punitive justice fails to solve root causes. By showing that forbidden magic users are often desperate individuals pushed to the margins by an unforgiving legal framework, the manga advocates for restorative justice. It positions state enforced isolation and memory modification as systemic evils, championing rehabilitation and the addressing of systemic material needs over draconian punishment.
>>289169258have we ever seen iguin and qifrey in the same room?
>>289169288Uh, yes? Iguin almost drowned and electrocuted Qifrey.Iguin and Olruggio however...
>thread about popular anime is just 3 or 4 pedo losers talking about their favorite loli
>>289169304>Iguin almost drowned and electrocuted Qifrey.thats "iguin" using "remote" magic from "afar"iguin himself aint in that room with qifrey
The text explicitly challenges the monoculture enforced by the magical elite. The dominance of the Pointed Caps represents the erasure of alternative, localized, and historical magical traditions.Celebrating the reclamation of these marginalized practices functions as a powerful allegory for anticolonial resistance. The story consistently argues that true safety and progress come from a plurality of voices and traditions, actively dismantling the conservative notion that a centralized, authoritarian power structure is necessary to preserve peace.
>>289169258100% in plain sight. Some background character that pops up in illustrations that no one cares about or noticed.
>>289169309
>>289169329Okay you can stop using chatgpt like a retard. I already now that the mangaka loves "muh inclusivity"
>>289169329and yet we have seen those so called anticolonial resistance giving nuke to kids which leads to said kid destroying their home
>>289169441Aiiieee don't say that. Our wholesome author like those countries.
>>289169465>leftist>having a consistent ideologynot once
>>289169441Sometimes your anti-colonials are Robert Mugabe, sometimes they're Ho Chi Minh.
VEILED BRIMHAT WITCH HAS MASSIVE TITS
I would say ignore and report, but I doubt anyone actually part of the daily is responding to this.
>>289169496who's the mugabe of the brims
>>289160919He just wants a good meal.
>>289169505Her tits are ink sacs.
>>289169258He's probably undercover in Witch Society with the pointed cap. He might even be a Watchful Eye like Olruggio
>>289169511I sure hope not, but there's probably some that are
>>289169511>report things i don't likeNice job, Moralist retard. Sorry but I'm not moving anywhere, snowflake.
>>289162197Damn, what a cool cliff hanger. The series needed more big stuff happening because it felt really small scale till this point>>289162222Its a good set up but this feels a little contrived. I assumed he was going to put his arm through the window and draw a wall breaker sigil on the backside, drawing signs without looking is a whole thing in the lore. Instead he used explode my body into sentient blood spell, quite the mistake. You'd think wise in friendship would be smarter than this, unless he drew it on the guy as revenge (he was drawing on himself in the lead up to this scene)
I can't complete my w*ke bingo without some used goods apologism. I hope I see some of that in the next volume. You pedo losers can get your loli sex scene.
>>289169511Is this what happened with the anime?
>>289169638knight moralis censored that shit a few volume ago with burqa, where were you
>>289169622Humans can become hosts to the parasitic Silverwood trees. Because Qifrey needs constant anxiety and responsibility to prevent the Silverwood from taking over his body, he realized he couldn't live alone or just with Olruggio
>>289169664For the first three or so weeks, yes.
>>289169664For the first about month or a bit less maybe. But it vanished by the midpoint of the adaptation once people realized how beautiful the show was.
>>289169604off to the island with you
>>289169676Don't post unmarked spoilers to parts the storytime hasn't reached yet.
>>289168509>>289168792>>289168614Shirahama herself with her irl politics is fucking retarded. Her art and writing with WHA is not as she balances the viewpoints out. Yes theres the odd clear indicator of her irl influences and the one blatant chapter but its mostly balanced. I can separate the author from her work for the most part. The central narrative conflict in WHA is actually interesting on its own and well presented. Its only poisoned if you view it entirely through her retarded irl political views rather than the abstracts logic of: authority, flawed rules and systems, bureaucracy, power misuse etc. through other lens be they centrist or rightwing. In this thread most people here mostly broadly agree with the Brimhats PoV except for the odd retarded thing, and yet they agree with the pointed hats on others. Which side represents whatever in irl can differ. TLDR: Apply death of the author where appropriate.
>>289169622>he was drawing on himself in the lead up to this scenewait, i missed that, where is it
>>289169720Her retarded politics blend into her retarded work. They are one in the same.
Most active thread you ever had. You can thank me for that. See you in the next one.
>>289161679>>289169723In the bottom left panel he's using the wand ring on his own hand here, he doesn't draw a sigil but yknow
>>289169689>once no one gave a shit about it anymoreFTFY retard
>>289169720I wonder if it's mostly the editor works reigning her.That one chapter is blatantly hamfisted, sure, but there are also a couple odd points that stands up>the cops can be bribed with information>the cops mete out the exact same punishment for everything>the cops doesn't even bother doing proper investigation before handing out punishment>the cops are strongly prejudicedAnd later on, it also shows that said "illicit magic" actually might have proper usage at the right placeSo it kinda blurs the lesson that she's supposed to give.
>>289169720>>289169745Takaichi proved Shirahama was right about everything.
>>289169835She's still seething about Takaichi non-stop lol
>>289169805oh, i thought that's just him testing/warming up the hardened cruor ring so it's usable
>>289169831How does this blur the lesson?The lesson is that the police are not your friends.They are martinets that enjoy dishing out huge punishments because they are stonger than you.The compromise regarding the basically illegal magic that Coco comes up with is due to some strange supernatural event that the top Knight and Beldaruit sensed that we aren't privy to all the details to. Something stronger than the cops.
>>289169904I thought the supposed "woke" lessons is that peeping is sexual assault and therefore bad.
>>289169809Denying reality is just a form of psychosis.
>>289169745Youre ignoring the point Im making. Her work doesnt have it bleed into her work to an unreasonable degree like others and this makes it Refreshing. For example I live in the shithole that is the UK. I can just as easily tell her to fuck off and imagine the cucked leftwing globalist government to be the pointed hats censoring everything instead of them being a right wing allegory. Or better yet as you claim I can ignore both of these and just enjoy the work for what it is within its own context and simply ignore and manually shift any crap I dont like as the reader. She hasnt wrote it to such an extreme that this isnt an option which is why I and many anons here who likely agree with your views can somewhat forgive the work. As a newfag since the anime Id heard about the author's views long before I watched or read WHA. I think her irl views are retarded af. However the work is mostly (Id say >65%) clear of the bullshit. Even the sexual harassment chapter whilst blatant for its irl connotations I felt was justifiable within the context of the world. Only the focus of it and know her views and being aware of irl politics did it come of as distasteful. Youre painting the work as if its modern AAA videogame slop like modern blizz or bioware where its very clear/explcit within the context of the work/product itself that its shilling western modern liberalism etc. when its simply nowhere near that extreme.She could go down that route more and itd ruin her work but the current level of restraint is acceptable. At least in my chud view.
>>289169925Only if you read the surface value. It's about believing victims and muh trauma.
>>289169928That's what the trannies your author likes so much do.
>>289169973See, that kind of lessons also got blurred out when the cops shows no restraint about mindwiping victim of brimhats
>>289169925Shogakukan just lost an entire manga website because they kept shuffling around sex criminal writers whenever people would figure out their identities.Including one guy that raped his student when he taught at a highschool up to the point of smearing his shit on her.You might be a brain dead American that doesn't understand the world is larger than you, but Japan has a huge sexual assault recognition problem. Her chapter was extremely relevant to Japanese society.
>>289169904>The lesson is that the police are not your friends.>They are martinets that enjoy dishing out huge punishments because they are stonger than you.To go along with my irl example here I can frame this abstract conflict in the opposite "rightwing" lens with the events of my own country with pathetic immoral useless police. Same could have applied to people under the USSR or modern communist shitholes. Her work is abstract enough (or as the other anon mentions her editor cleans it up) that the question can be shifted however you wish for the most part which is why its refreshing and well written.
>>289170002>unfair stasi are unfairNo shit?They're repressing information first, getting justice second.
>>289170006See, the problem is that the whole spiel is delivered through Knight Moralis that has been painted as lawful evil all this time.And said chapter also doesn't help their impression a little bit
>>289170006>muh big social problem You're actually retarded. Her chapter didn't change the mind of a single person.
>>289170038By putting justice second, you're weakening the whole "believing victims and muh trauma" lesson, because in the end, those doesn't matter much compared to repressing information.
>believing the peeping thing is anything other than an attempt of painting the knights in a positive lightYou guys are as dumb as the author
>>289170047Bad people can have good reasons why they stepped on the path to Hell.Luluci is a woman that was almost raped and no one cared except for a few Knights members that took her in. But she has now become a part of a system that would lobotomize a child without a care. This is a very basic type of humanization.Why would a normal person join the Lobotomy Cops?Because of some trauma they seek to defeat. But in doing so they have now become perpetrators of injustice themselves.The story is very obvious in its vision that there are no totally evil sides to the conflict.
>>289170057Why should a chapter on its own setout to drastically answer the problem? It would be narratively rushed and be even more hamfisted if it attempted to do this. If anything she made a rather generic statement that stands out from a meta PoV but within context is perfectly fine. Youre essentially overly bleeding your view of her into her work. You can dislike her retarded irl views but like her art and writing.
>>289170077>>289170110Do you think that chapter was meant to convince you that the Knights Moralis were the good guys?Are you dumb? What manga do you think you're reading?
>>289170125Her writing is awful though.
>>289170157You are too illiterate to even be allowed an opinion about that.
>>289170152He's right though
>>289170183You haven't ready anything longer than a twitter post, imbecile. That's why it looks good to you.
>>289170191He's a moron that doesn't understand basic humanization of the antagonists like this is the first story he's ever read.He's utterly moronic.
>>289170222Try to sound less salty next time, pussy whipper
>>289170219>why didn't the author change the world or convince molesters to quit with a single chapter
>>289165534Wait holy fuck no way. That must be coincidence. I can't believe the mangaka actually thought ahead in that direction.
>>289170270The it wasn't important. See how dumb you are?
>>289170258Why shouldn't I be salty when someone too dumb to understand basic writing techniques thinks that they have found a great flaw in a work and then you proceed to spout off the dumbest criticisms ever on a public forum?
>>289170222See, imagine thisYou have this bloodthirsty killer that kills children for fun, and tortures them evenThen suddenly, you're given a chapter where said killer donates to a charity about curing cancer because cancer is what killed his wifeAre you supposed to suddenly think that donating to a cancer foundation is cool and dandy?
>>289170157Its not, its not peak either but the worldbuilding is interesting enough to compensate along with the amazing art. If you think this is slop you clearly havnt read much actual slop.
>>289170279It's called the Oda effect. It tricks illiterates shounentards (You) into thinking the mangaka isn't an aimless idiot.
>>289170288Did you know that STALKER didn't cause the USSR to collapse even if it was made to be critical of the regime and to stir up opposition to it?Do you put in effort to be this retarded?
>>289170304Now say it without tears falling from your eyes.
>>289170313Only a brainlet cant separate the two things and view humans as multifaceted. A quicker solution to this is to ask what your issue with the work? Is it:>The intent of the author adding the chapteror>The manner and or the none meta context in which its implemented
>>289170362My issue is people thinking that the author's main goal with the chapter is to make people think that sexual assault is bad
>>289170338If it helped it was important. If it didn't then it was made so idiots like you can smell your own farts because no one who matters gave a shit about it. It was so non-important that the author included a note saying you can skip it. Lol you're too dumb to use internet.
>>289170313Imagine this.You have a corrupted police force whose members believe that they are upholding order against the forces of chaos that would doom the world.Imagine that they would go as far as to wipe the minds of children to do this.Now, imagine if you had a chapter explaining how someone could come to want to be a part of that police force. Imagine if you saw them experience some trauma that scarres them greatly.Imagine if you then combined that backstory with what you knew of this police force. Imagine if you were literate enough to see how good intentions get corrupted into brutal irrationality.Imagine if you realized this was a way to humanize the inhuman and to show how good intentions could still put you on the path to evil.
>>289170362Least schizo apologist
>>289170399Name some important literature for me.Literature that literally reshaped the world as it was published.Now compare that to what you actually have read answer me why you're wasting your time here and not rereading Uncle Tom's Cabin.
>>289170399>the author included a note saying you can skip it.and then the author made galga chase dagda because of the information given in that very chapterand the pervert glasses vendor appears again as kaiju in the last chapter of this volumefunniest shit i ever see
>>289170344You are just too stupid to understand basic writing techniques. It is pitiful.
>>289169886It really just exists to show he has ink on hand, he could've drawn on anything but it is a weird coincidence.Perv witch should've just drawn on something else and put it out the window. I'm sure they have time delayed magic or he could've just completed the circle outside. Then again, we wouldn't have had a cool blood ghost so it all works out really
>>289170467>moving the goalpostU dumbI never said you can't read basic bitch slop. You're too stupid to read a post.
>>289170480Tbf you could just have the guy as any other witch prisoner that wasnt mindwiped for whatever reason. You could have it be the other guy's subordinate. Him being the voyeurism guy is utterly irrelevant and can be handwaived by the rest of the plot.
>>289170480Is as if the mangaka was an aimless retard who included the trigger warning to please her fellow woketards.
>>289170535Sorry, retard, you have no ground to stand on and have made that painfully obvious with repeated utterly insane complaints and arguments.Why couldn't you at least be intelligent if you were going to spam?
Within this universe, magic is fundamentally defined as labor and artistic expression rather than a commodity to be hoarded for capital accumulation.The protagonist, Coco, embodies the complete democratization of this labor. Her journey proves that access to the tools of production should belong to the global working class rather than a cloistered, privileged elite. By framing magic as a tool meant strictly to improve everyday human conditions, the series beautifully aligns itself with the core tenets of Marxist and socialist humanism.
>>289170426>Imagine if you saw them experience some trauma that scarres them greatly.See? The whole thing is based on the assumption that said experience is widely accepted as traumaBut apparently it isn't and the fact that it ain't one is a big problem and the chapter is supposedly intended to mend that???
>>289170576>I can't read so I'll just call you dumbKeep crying all you want but all least read my post before embarrassing yourself.
>>289170587Can you fuck off with the chatgpt copypastes. Which side of the debate you agree with isnt helped by you being too retarded to write your own take on the matter.
>>289170587>rather than a commodity to be hoarded for capital accumulation.eh, nandatte
>>289170610That's the fucker himself astroturfing
Within the contemporary landscape of sequential art, Kamome Shirahama’s text functions as a radical destabilization of the bourgeois fantasy paradigm. It transcends the limitations of traditional narrative to present an interrogation of the neoliberal subjectivities inherent in institutionalized magic. By reframing the act of inscription as a site of anti-hegemonic struggle, the manga constructs a profound critique of Western epistemic violence.
Qifcooooooooo
>responding to bait
>>289170628Id disagree unless he has a phone to post on as well given the 2 posts are within the same minute.
>>289170657There are two fuckers
>>289170656Anons itt aren't very smart
>>289170657that's exactly what he wants you to think
>>289170656>posting brownoid
>>289170656>portrayed as happy go lucky guy>except when pact is involved, suddenly he's bloodthirsty zealotthey must've put something in that magical jug of water
>>289170588Are you for real?Yes. That is the entire point of the chapter you retard.The character experiences something that we as viewers can see through her eyes and understand the traumatic nature of. Then that character is put out into the greater world and has that trauma exacerbated with unsympathetic treatment and a lack of comprehension.The chapter is intended to out you in the place of a character that is experiencing sexual assault and then put you in her place when members of society don't care.This is the scarring experience.This experience pushes said character into the lap of the magical gestapo who help her in a small way and then indoctrinate her into being willing to lobotomize a child for the sake of order.This is demonstrating how trauma and good intentions can lead you to doing evil things once you lose sight of real morality.This is also addressing the treatment of the sexually assaulted in Japanese society where they are commonly met with apathy or even blame for being victims.Jesus, man. This is basic stuff.
>>289170656>>289170670Responding to bait is some of the fun of the site. Good takes in response to the bait sometimes yield decent talking points or views.
>>289170719Not an important topic to discuss.
>b-but muh victims aieeeeee
>>289170719This. I was shocked why people were sperging about the chapter to such a major degree after having read it. Yes the meta context of her other views and it maybe being hamfisted can be annoying to some degree but its tastefully written and doesnt drag on for long or try and make a grandiose point out of it.
>>289170781>doesnt drag on for long or try and make a grandiose point out of itAre you stupid? Is a manga written for little girls too complex for you that you can't detect the forced discourse?
>>289170740Yes, it's a trigger warning so that if you did get sexually assaulted you don't have to relive that vicariously through Luluci.
>>289170835Oh the horrors!
>>289170818>something added to a story because the author cares about it is forced when i don't like it
>>289170861>author cares about shitThe author cares about looking good on twitter for impressionable idiots like you, little anon.
>>289170818It is forced. My point is that its so weak and irrelevant to the wider plot that I can forgive it as its corrupting influence doesnt fuck over the rest of the work enough for me to sperg out over it to the degree that other people are. Are you that incapable of applying death of the author? Again youre portraying the whole work as being comparable to AAA vidya slop pandering when its nowhere near extreme. I think she shouldnt have done it and that its clear why she did it in a meta sense. Except I have the ability to overlook/ignore this when its so small a thing within the wider context of the work. Youre being way overzealous.
>>289169856What did Takaichi do besides antagonize China and suffer Trump's Pearl Harbor joke?
>>289170908>everyone is inauthentic except for meWhat are you, 15?
>>289170915Try and create a Japanese NSA to spy on Japanese citizens.
>page 10See you next thread, bozos. Hopefully I'll catch you during the dump.
>>289170915Nothing. Leftist just like to cry and victimize themselves.
>>289160392Why does he need to go to the super doctor-king in the anti-magic castle who might use this to thrust social obligations upon him rather than his usual in-house doctors who are already paid for this?
>>289170983The doctor king is the best in the world
>>289170983the conversation makes it sound like this is a thing that has occurred after he came to see the doctor king for silver eve and if you're already in the doctor king's castle while being a very important big deal why not have him doctor you?
>>289170997My point is that you don't need the best for bedsores, especially when the best comes with implied costs.
One way to know that this manga is great is that everyone that bitches about is dumb as a sack of hammers.You can really tell the quality of a work by the quality of its critics.Witch Hat Atelier has the dumbest motherfuckers alive as its shitposters. Therefore it can only be great.
>>289171038That depends on how good the local doctors are at handling bed ridden people like Beldaruit.As well, the check up could have been more general, too. Joints, bone degradation, etc. With the bedsores just being called out in specific.
>>289167851If you read the full quote in context it's obvious that Tolkien said it as an off-the-cuff remark out of irritation directed at superficial interpretations of his work. There are just as many instances of him clearly articulating that there were in fact influences from his life experiencea in the world he wrote, and that there were undeniably allegorical elements. What he objected to was the idea that allegory should be the primary lens of interpretation, or that the text be reduced to just that one aspect. Furthermore, Tolkien scholarship has never seriously entertained the idea that a one-off comment by the author in any way invaldiates a major methodological tool for literary analysis, it's mainly discussed because it's a pop-culture meme about Tolkien that just won't die
>>289167927>>289167851see: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48839394
>>289169496Mugabe wasn't as bad as white people think and Ho Chi Minh was one of the greatest heroes of the last century
>>289169525Sasaran/cat man>imma turn myself into a cat>shieeeet this is the fucking pointed hat's fault
>>289170191No he isn't and if either of you read any other chapter you'd know that's ridiculous
>>289170338>even if it was made to be critical of the regime and to stir up opposition to it?No it wasn't
>>289171230It's just mindless bitching and affected ignorance.Literally nothing you can do about it.
Very retarded thread.I hope we get a better one tomorrow. You are all useful idiots who fall for the bait too easily.
>>289171306I like arguing against retards that can't understand basic writing.Make an after party thread if you want more chapter talk.
>>289171353That's because you're a retarded shitter yourself. Something something staring at the abyss.
>>289170950What the fuck I hate Takaichi now.
>>289170110I thought it was just about establishing that particular character in order to have her dedication tested later.
600 posts? That’s rareAlso…>>289132382Got some BITES ZA DUSTO vibes looking at this
>>289171498It's our first Trainwreck thread.
>>289159722>Coco and Aggot tied together by red ribbonWhat does she mean by that???
>>289160896>up-doot flags
>>289171531It was made in heaven
