Manga Snark

I understand Naraku is particularly concerned about this, given how much care he's taken in hiding his face, but I'm not sure I understand WHY. How is keeping his appearance under a sleeve or baboon mask supposed to benefit him? It's likely the demon rumor mill has already associated him pretty heavily with his baboon disguise, and it's not as though he's in danger of alerting Inuyasha to his whereabouts with his face alone. What? Is he afraid he'll drop his state-issued card with picture and address written on it or something? He's probably wearing his dumb mask for his ID photo anyway.



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Ugh, as long as it's not with those people from high school. Not that I particularly hated any of them, mind you. I went to three high schools in four years, and seeing as how I didn't get to know many people except close friends from those years, I didn't have to deal with a lot of drama. People didn't really pay much attention to the new girl, as she was quite the wallflower in most instances. And that's exactly why it's a party I wouldn't much care for; I wouldn't be able to name anyone there, and they wouldn't be able to name me.

As long as the reunion doesn't involve trying to reacquaint myself with people I never had much time to get to know in the first place, I'm down with it.



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Oh boy, does THAT sound like a terrible description of a woman losing her virginity in a fanfiction. I had only just started reading and writing the stuff very recently, and it has already put me off of it forever for a whole host of reasons. But here I am, weeks after swearing it off for my own sanity, cursing myself for ever poking my curious nose into that cesspit. Wretched Writch's mind is forever stained and she's gagging at a perfectly non-sexual title because someone's sex-ed classes were either inadequate or didn't penetrate their thick skull.

I've no one to blame but myself.



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Apologies to any potentially staunch Christian readers, but the title here does not, in fact, refer to the mark of the beast or the number 666. Then again, I don't know if there are any really fundamentalist Christians who would much care for this series, on account of the fact that it features and encourages empathy for demonic characters. Any Christians who are fans are probably the liberal types who aren't much interested in end-times prophecies or other such fringe interpretations of their holy text. If I'm wrong, I hope a person who IS will let me know how their cognitive dissonance is so incredibly sturdy.



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Such sweet sorrow, as Shakespeare would say. Goodbyes aren't easy, especially when you grow so attached to things and they can't stick around, but I wonder if having more time to say it makes it more or less bearable. Like, if you had, say, two months before someone that meant so much to you and did so much for people, if only in symbol alone, stepped out of the limelight. Is that better because there's at least a little time to cling to them, or worse because you see the looming horizon on which something SO MUCH WORSE is coming?



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Oh good, someone has FINALLY noticed that Sesshoumaru's left arm hasn't just grown back. Limbs don't really do that, so I don't know why no one wouldn't have figured he was wearing someone else's right off the bat. Although, I guess no one really knows what he's capable of, considering he rarely lets anyone get away from him alive. Maybe Inuyasha just assumed this is one of those things that ultra-powerful demons like the one he wants to become are able to do. You would think he might have learned that there was probably a trick behind it much like when Sesshoumaru brought his "mother" back from the dead.

Of course, BOTH of these parlor tricks will turn out to be perfectly within Sesshoumaru's actual abilities further down the line, but we'll ignore THAT for the time being...



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Because that sword can't possibly just transform from a small skinny katana to a hulking boner sword complete with fur at the hilt. That's the only magical thing we've seen it do so far, and there doesn't appear to be any reason for it aside from the obviously naughty joke it tells. It's not even an original joke, either, because people have been commenting on the over-compensation represented by giant murder cocks for ages now. Let's see what this particular murder cock can REALLY do.



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Tainted ink doesn't even begin to cover it, chapter. The ink only did the job of bringing the painter's drawings to life; everything after that is his own doing. But I mean, let's be honest, it IS a pretty tempting prospect isn't it? I'm a terrible artist, so I wouldn't be too thrilled if my drawings came to life, but if you're a good one, wouldn't you at least CONSIDER doing what it took to keep that drawing alive and produce others like it? Or if, say, RT were to come across a pen that brought her creations to life, wouldn't you be super thrilled?

... I'm imagining that world, and it isn't very nice.



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Let me guess; candies, right? Your oni monsters get oni candies that make them stronger, and evolve them into cooler oni, right? And much like the speculation around the candies in Pokemon GO, I think the speculation here is that the candies the painter feeds his oni are probably made up of some pretty messed-up stuff. I mean, what else would he be collecting the guts of soldiers his oni kill for? Unless there's one more thing about his motivations we haven't been told about quite yet...



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Well yeah, Miroku's hand is so cursed that it LITERALLY sucks, but he's at least making the best of it. Most curses only come with negatives like bad luck and always getting sick at the park. Miroku, on the other hand, has managed to turn his sucky hand into a weapon that works in his favor, which makes it just a tad less METAPHORICALLY sucky. There's not much visible downside to being able to vacuum up your enemies. At least not yet.



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