Shita Kanda Toki to Daitai Issho - Ch. 2
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Hold up, just how old are they?
Something about this series seems like lies hidden within truths hidden within lies.
Either way, good chapter. Thank you very much.
Something about this series seems like lies hidden within truths hidden within lies.
Either way, good chapter. Thank you very much.
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She's an adult with only a one year difference with the main character. Younger or older? we still don't know though, but she's an adult regardless
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Went back and read the comments on the previous chapter. Thanks for the clarification both here and there.
Wonder how she came to be so small, knowing the author we'll be explicitly shown.
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So long "terminal disease" vibes I got from chapter one. Hello, nervous breakdown!
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This chapter made me cry so much as someone who enjoys the arts. I like creating and making things that others can see. However, it does hurt when you go past a burn out to end up feeling like a wall crushing your whole spirit. You can't help feeling like wanting to jump over a cliff when the passion you poured your soul into is gone.
I already commented before but yeah, it's like Britney Spears when she shaved her head from her breakdown..... In a light hearted way, some cut their hair when feeling stressed out
I already commented before but yeah, it's like Britney Spears when she shaved her head from her breakdown..... In a light hearted way, some cut their hair when feeling stressed out
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I am unsure what direction this story will take but, wow, I wasn’t prepared for the grief shown in this chapter. HIRO did wonders capturing Tooru’s dispair. Sure, we’ve seen Komichi cry dozens of times but not as painfully as seen here.
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This chapter felt like an invasion of privacy into someone's heart and mind.
Which, HIRO makes grief look beautiful. But the rawness of her facial expressions, the unabashed intimacy of being so close to her eyes and the tears and the twisted mouth....it was uncomfortable, but in the sense that you as the reader, as the viewer, as an outsider, feel like you're intruding on sacred space, witnessing something you weren't meant to see.
And in that...there's a heart-wrenching up-welling of sympathy. For any and every time you've felt lost, or hurt, or scared, or alone, or pained, or tormented. We've all as humans made faces like hers. We've all wanted to hide expressions like these. There's a nakedness to this chapter and the sorrow and pained outrage that is intrinsically universal in human experience, and yet there's a profaneness to it, precisely because so many of us are taught to look away from the anguish of others - that it's private, that it's obscene, that it's meant for "someone else to handle".
The artist takes that idea, that socially conditioned norm, and throws it in the reader's face. It's stark, it's ugly, it's human, it's Art.
Narratively, this is a fairly empty chapter. The plot's moved a little. But we've been handed 40 pages of fairly sparse exposition on the second of the two main characters of this series.
But as a story, this sorta surpasses a lot of what I've seen in manga, and in visual storytelling at large. It's a rare thing to have to confront something this pure even in ourselves and to fully face it - being made to do that for someone else, even a fictional character on a page, and fully identify and immerse and vicariously feel it alongside them, is frankly a special experience, I think.
I cannot wait for more. Whatever her truth and the reasons behind the full scope of her character, the fidelity to not hiding these emotions away, emotions that cleave so to the experiences of any creative individual at a crossroads with their craft, has me craving.
Thanks for the TL work.
Which, HIRO makes grief look beautiful. But the rawness of her facial expressions, the unabashed intimacy of being so close to her eyes and the tears and the twisted mouth....it was uncomfortable, but in the sense that you as the reader, as the viewer, as an outsider, feel like you're intruding on sacred space, witnessing something you weren't meant to see.
And in that...there's a heart-wrenching up-welling of sympathy. For any and every time you've felt lost, or hurt, or scared, or alone, or pained, or tormented. We've all as humans made faces like hers. We've all wanted to hide expressions like these. There's a nakedness to this chapter and the sorrow and pained outrage that is intrinsically universal in human experience, and yet there's a profaneness to it, precisely because so many of us are taught to look away from the anguish of others - that it's private, that it's obscene, that it's meant for "someone else to handle".
The artist takes that idea, that socially conditioned norm, and throws it in the reader's face. It's stark, it's ugly, it's human, it's Art.
Narratively, this is a fairly empty chapter. The plot's moved a little. But we've been handed 40 pages of fairly sparse exposition on the second of the two main characters of this series.
But as a story, this sorta surpasses a lot of what I've seen in manga, and in visual storytelling at large. It's a rare thing to have to confront something this pure even in ourselves and to fully face it - being made to do that for someone else, even a fictional character on a page, and fully identify and immerse and vicariously feel it alongside them, is frankly a special experience, I think.
I cannot wait for more. Whatever her truth and the reasons behind the full scope of her character, the fidelity to not hiding these emotions away, emotions that cleave so to the experiences of any creative individual at a crossroads with their craft, has me craving.
Thanks for the TL work.
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Ooooo I got a tree branch stuck in my eye oooo
