Akane-banashi - Ch. 177 - Even Deeper

[MangaDex]

 

[brndndss]

shes becoming the opposite of what shiguma taught her, and exactly what issho wants

 

[faaresemo]

well, the yurirot has progressed to the point that the one panel with Hikaru clutching her thumb has me going "ooh, that's gay"

 

[katajaton]

It's quite interesting what Akane is doing there, fading away and allowing the audience to immerse themselves. I suppose the same principle applies to any form of art, the boundaries and the method of delivery fade away as your mind enters another world.

When you watch a really good movie you forget youre watching a movie, when you get really immersed in a video game you don't see the tv or the controller, you are in the world. Being able to bring the same effect while performing in front of a live audience is a feat that certainly warrants the sheer aura Akane emanates on the page

 

[skywardgem]

think this is gonna be my favorite Akane performance by the time it ends lol, which is wild because we Know she still has more to improve on. The day we get to see her mix the lessons taken from removing herself from the story here with her father's focus on empathy in storytelling is gonna be So good

that said I did audibly yell out "oh fuck you!" when Issho smiled at the end lmao, hate his dramatic ass but his methods have worked here so that's gotta count for something

also yet again screaming about the art, that double page spread is simply beautiful and the lead up to it with the simple rectangle panels for the story and more standard manga presentation for the audience/backstage shots really helped it land

 

[SuperOniichan]

I wonder how anime will animate all these rakugo moments. There's plenty of scope for sakuga and all sorts of stylistic experiments.

well, the yurirot has progressed to the point that the one panel with Hikaru clutching her thumb has me going "ooh, that's gay"

It's okay as long as you don't get this thought just by seeing two female characters in the same frame, lmao. I know people who called "BL moment" when two male characters simply stood next to each other.

 

[SuperOniichan]

It's quite interesting what Akane is doing there, fading away and allowing the audience to immerse themselves. I suppose the same principle applies to any form of art, the boundaries and the method of delivery fade away as your mind enters another world.

When you watch a really good movie you forget youre watching a movie, when you get really immersed in a video game you don't see the tv or the controller, you are in the world. Being able to bring the same effect while performing in front of a live audience is a feat that certainly warrants the sheer aura Akane emanates on the page

I still remember Bruce Dickinson' words from a documentary about metal music, where he said that the point of a metal vocalist is to make even the person furthest from the stage sincerely think that you are singing for them personally.

 

[CheesiBoye]

I like that most art made abput art is predictable to the cycle of making stuff in the narrative progression. Context from story has akane identifying rakugo as an art where she can play and have fun, seeing her dad become down trodden at his rejection had her practice the skills and learn mastery of the art form, putting in work for memorization and living her life to make the performances more lively while also identifying both having skill and wanting to play as a way to better hone her craft. And again at that point of the story we have her facing a harsh reality with the master's sudden debilitating sickness that had her confront an aspect of her art she wasnt too keen on practicing; intersectionality and knowledge sharing. Then she goes off, relearns performing rakugo as an abstraction having to perform for a foreign audience in a very non-traditional method and goes back home and finds herself struggling to reconcile how she could reintroduce aspects of play to her new mastery. Here we see her showcasing an absolute mastery of the art as a performer/rakugoka, at the very least in the aspect of allowing the stories to tell themselves and allowing the audience to enjoy the work. i'm very interested to see how the narrative tries to justify re-introduction of play, hopefully nothing too much of a loss or a hardship comes her way.