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Maeda in pain (from Mars Red).
#manga whump#whump#mars red#exhaustion#suffering#anime whump#chest pain#yes I love this 41 yo man with bags under his eyes and a failing health#whump blog#whump community
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#Mars Red#Fujisawa bunou#Karakara kemuri#shonen#vampire#manga#mangacap#manga panel#black and white#monochrome#manga blog#wt.upload✞
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Artwork from Karakara Kemuri's newest series!
#karakara kemuri#kemuri karakara#shoujo manga#shoujo art#blue flame scavenger#soen no scavenger#i'll add tags for her other works just to help generate some interest in her next series#donten ni warau#rengoku ni warau#mars red#souen no scavenger#scavenger of blue flame
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Anime I've watched so far in 2024:
Trinity Blood
Dance Dance Danseur
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian
Moyashimon
Aoashi
MARS RED
HYPNOSISMIC: Divison Rap Battle - Rhyme Anima
Chaika: The Coffin Princess
Undead Murder Farce
Liar, Liar
Talentless Nana
Berserk of Gluttony
My New Boss is Goofy
School Babysitters
KAWAGOE BOYS SING -Now or Never-
Libra of Nil Admirari
And I have 24 shows left in my watchlist (assuming I don't add any more, which I'm liable to do)
#anime#trinity blood#dance dance danseur#the mystic archives of dantalian#moyashimon#ao ashi#mars red#hypnosismic division rap battle#hypnosismic#chaika the coffin princess#undead murder farce#liar liar#talentless nana#my boss is goofy#school babysitters#kawagoe boys sing#libra of nil admirari
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forgot to upload this on SNS earlier oops
#mars red#takeuchi#suwa#karakara kemuri#yes i will take every opportunity to skip suwa's mask#it is pain lol#2023
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Today's disabled character of the day is Suwa from Mars Red, who has an unspecified trauma disorder and amnesia
Requested by Anon
[Image Description: Drawing of a boy with short white hair and blue eye. He is wearing a black gas mask, black pants, black belt, darkre undershirt, and black hoodie with a cropped stomach and long sleeveless.]
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Dont know how big of a fan base this anime has lol
Subway surfers has taken over my life. No thoughts. Just surf.
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This is a bit of an older thing you were interested in, but now that it's two years past, what are your overall thoughts on Mars Red? Do any characters or dynamics stay with you? Are there any bits from the show or the manga that you would point to as being The Good Stuff? I loved seeing your thoughts on it as it came out and now I hope that me being nosy gives you an excuse to ramble a bit
Hey! Sorry this took me a bit to answer. Overall thoughts...man, it's interesting to think about Mars Red two years after it came out. Which. Okay. I say this as if I ever really stopped thinking about it.
I think Mars Red was a fantastic 12-ep, contained story, with an ending that was satisfying enough that I wasn't frothing at the mouth for more and yet open-ended enough that it lived rent free in my brain. The cinematography was experimental for an anime and I think it paid for that in unpopularity but god, it was worth it. Choosing to animate Mars Red as a film-type anime with theater references that were certainly not as obvious in the source material was a risk but god it came out gorgeous. Like...I can't point to anything that does anything similar with the shot comp and subdued color palette.
It's also one of those anime where there's not a lot of talking or yelling and yet it's so...dense. Weighty. You watch this show and the weight of everything gone unsaid sits with you.
The grief, too. I'm a sucker for stories that are just drenched in it but never really address it by name, never look it in the face, just skirt around the edges of it in a way that colors the entire thing. Mars Red uses vampirism to talk about the grief that comes with losing people, with your life changing in ways you had never wanted nor expected, and even the country-wide trauma that comes with rapid modernization and change. Like. Violet Evergarden is about grief in a way that has the characters wrestling with it in full view of the cameras, howling and spitting and sobbing until they come out on the other side a new person. Mars Red is about grief in a way that's more like sitting in your bedroom, dissociating under the weight of it, and then going about your life even as it drags you down.
In that way, I think it reminds me a lot of Chainsaw Man? Or Chainsaw Man reminds me of Mars Red. Stories that don't say the horrible things out loud and yet you know they're there, stories absolutely pouring heartache, stories where the blood and the fighting is really about mourning. Maybe it's the twin film/theater influences.
The meta aspect of Mars Red can't go understated either. Defrott's position in the anime as a sort of outsider/storyteller who nevertheless has skin in the game lends the whole thing an almost make-believe touch. Defrott outlines the stage for the audience--here's the world, here are the characters, here are their motivations, here are their struggles. And this is where the stage ends. This is where the play concludes, these are the curtains, farewell and thank you for watching.
In contrast to the manga, which doesn't have Defrott in as nearly an interesting position, the anime's decision to have him as something of an outsider POV yet being inexorably dragged into the story by Aoi and Misaki both...it parallels the other vampires grappling with whether or not they're human. Are they human enough to participate in the narrative?
I genuinely love both adaptations, by the way. They're different enough that I love them for almost entirely different reasons. The anime has a fantastic handle on atmosphere and purposeful framing in a way only an animated adaptation can have, but the manga has the freedom to linger on things the anime brushes over. For example, you get a lot more development for Takeuchi and Suwa's friendship, you get a slightly different take on Aoi and Kurusu's romance, and you get. Well.
Maeda's manga death hits so much fucking harder.
Like his anime death was heartwrenching and the fact that Yamagami sacrifices his own life to try and save Maeda's (in vain, jesus christ) but. You can't beat the celebrated general, lauded as a badass in the universe of the manga and framed as an invincible machine respected by his men, dying alone. Ingloriously, in an empty hallway. And not by a fatal battle wound--no. He refused to take care of himself when he knew he had a debilitating heart condition and instead of staying in the hospital, he put on his uniform, crawled into the hallway, and died.
And he dies in the arms of General Nakajima, tells him to use his body however he can for Nakajima's cause. The ostensible villain's arms. So when Code Zero sees Maeda's body perverted into a robotic vampire's and they howl that he wouldn't have wanted this, that this was wrong and monstrous--
Nakajima gets to say that no, he gave me his permission. He consented to this. It's awful, it's heartbreaking, and when Yamagami sacrifices himself to put Maeda out of his misery in Maeda's first and only moment of lucidity as a vampire, it hits like a fucking truck. Tempura still makes me tear up sometimes. Like. Holy fuck. They loved each other, they really did, they loved each other so much it saves them in the only way it could.
I'd have to write another ten pages to talk about everything lovely and beautiful about Mars Red (I. Might. Later. LMAO) but I just wanted to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to ramble :) it's so sweet of you and I hope you continue to enjoy the vampire lads with me!
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1 volume of Solanin, 1 volume of Witch Hat Atelier's cooking spin-off Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen, 3 volume of Made in Abyss and 3 (and the last) volume of Mars Red have arrived!
There were quite a few bonuses. A beautiful card for Solanin (it's even bigger than the similar one they once did for A Sign of Affection), a bookmark with Qifrey on one side and Olruggio on the other for WHA, a little magnet with Nanachi for Made in Abyss and as advertisment among flyers there were a bookmark with A Sign of Affection on one side and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas on the other, and one thing I never expected, a whole first chapter of Quintessential Quintuplets!
The iconic dust jacket of Solanin (with brief information about Asano on the side)
The inside cover
And the bonus card
The dust jacket of Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen. One side has few words from the mangaka who's drawing the spin-off.
The inside cover is made in the style of original WHA inside covers but with red instead of gold.
And a cute middle sized bonus bookmark:3
The dust jacket of Made in Abyss makes one full drawing. It has Nanachi on one side and brief explanation on relics classification on the other
The inside cover face side has the same Nanachi from the side of the dust jacket and the one featured on the bonus magnet
The back of the inside cover has a little recipe of Abyss stew made from things you can find in the Abyss. Instructions are given by Nanachi while Rag is helping
And finally the final volume of Mars Red
The sides of the dust jacket feature words from the authors. Bun-O says his thanks to everyone, how glad he is that he worked with Karakara and how they all were waiting for the final but not wanting it. Karakara says "I really want some tempura..."
The face of the inside cover has some brief explanation on characters relations
There is one colour page inside
The very end has two pages for the authors goodbye massages (each has one page)
#personal#manga#solanin#witch hat atelier#witch hat atelier kitchen#tongari booshi no atorie#made in abyss#mars red#nasha idea#укртумбочка
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