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Hello All, Space here to tell you why YOU !! Should read classic manga Magic Knight Rayearth.Â
âWhatâs that?â you ask? Youâve never heard of Magic Knight Rayearth? Well, I am here to tell you ALL about it.
WHAT IS MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH?
Magic Knight Rayearth is a 6 volume manga about magical girls, giant robots, and isekai. Yes, you read that right. All three amazingly loved tropes together and itâs done seamlessly and beautifully. Youâll laugh, youâll say âwtfâ, youâll sob big Ghibli tears.Â
Also like. If you have any intention to actually read this manga after this post, donât google anything? Seriously donât. Itâs only 6 volumes but googling will spoil literally every twist and turn this series has and BOY DOES IT HAVE SOME. Iâm not gonna spoil you for them. Donât spoil yourself.
To put into perspective how much I love this series and how badly I've wanted people to read it for years: I was pinching pennies for p much my entire life until very recently. I read this series when I was 14 (~20+ years ago oh god) and fast forward to today I'm still a penny pincher but I went out of my way to collect 5 different full copies of this series in various printings and languages because I just. I gotta. I love it. I have a copy that is a dedicated loner copy so I always have one ready for someone to borrow and read. PLEASE understand how much I love this series and go along with me here.
All right, so the story goes like this: three middle school girls on a field trip to Tokyo Tower get summoned to an alternate world called Cephiro. Oh by the way, they go to different schools. Also theyâve never met before.Â
Youâve got rich, beautiful hothead, Umi Ryuzaki. Her magic element is water, fierce and unforgiving. Her two loving parents are still in their honeymoon phase 14 years later. Theyâre rich, she loves food, she is kinda selfish, but has such a great character arc because of it. Sheâs amazing and I would die for her.Â
After her, youâve got polite but very very shrewd and thoughtful, Fuu Houoji. Her element is wind, kind, occasionally harsh, and healing. Fuu is the one with plans, who is very sweet and formal but also very conniving if you arenât paying close attention. She cares deeply about those around her while also being realistic. Sometimes she can be a little aloof, but itâs ok sheâs cute.
And finally last girl, BEST GIRL, Hikaru Shidou. Energetic, sympathetic, understanding, and eternally the best. Her element is fire, she IS the magic knight of Rayearth, the titular character, the beautiful perfect darling angel who has never done anything wrong in her life. She goes to an all girlsâ school. She has three older brothers. Almost every girl in her school has a crush on her. She is oblivious as fuck. She grew up in a kendo dojo and beat her father in a match when she was in kindergarten and thatâs why heâs not around. She has the biggest heart in the universe. I love her. I would beat gen urobuchi in a dennyâs parking lot at 3am for her honor.Â
These three girls meet a magician, Guru Clef. This lil dude.Â
The rare âsmall boy who is actually a bajillion years oldâ trope before it was such an annoying trope to use on women characters, but heâs 700+ years old and the most powerful sorcerer in Cephiro. He gives the girls magic and armor, and tells them they were summoned by Princess Emeraude to save Cephiro.Â
How do they do that?
By talking to the chief Pharle (artisan, blacksmith, etc) of Cephiro named Presea to make them weapons. And oh yeah they have to use those weapons to revive the rune gods.
Yâknow.
Big Giant Mechs.Â
Waking these bad boys up takes a lot for the girls and itâs really really good seeing how they go about it and what they're willing to do to accomplish it.
Iâm not gonna spoil the story for you but I WILL go through some of the other characters.
Youâve got:
Princess Emeraude. The Pillar of Cephiro, imprisoned and kept from praying for Cephiroâs well being. Sheâs sweet, sheâs heartbroken, she wants her world to be safe again.Â
Next to her you have the High Priest Zagato, her second, the antagonist who got the ball rolling on this whole thing. Heâs gloomy, heâs serious, heâs methodical and looming.Â
I mentioned Presea, did I mention her already? Sheâs great. Sheâs feisty and loud and would be THE most amazing dom queen if she could ever find a sub willing to tolerate her.Â
She makes the weapons for the girls and also gives them a guide to find the rune gods.
Oh yeah their guide.Â
So like. Probably obvious by now but in case itâs not, this is an early 1990s CLAMP series. You know CLAMP. They did xxxholic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles and Card Captor Sakura. Yeah, this series came before ALLLLLL of those.Â
You know that lil fuckin rabbit mascot they have?
Thatâs Mokona. Heâs their guide. This is the series he originated from.Â
Mokona is an adorable caring little shit who knows exactly what heâs doing at all times. He helps them out but my god. The way he makes their blood pressure skyrocket on the journey there.Â
Then weâve got Ferio. A traveling swordsman who enters tournaments. Unfortunately Fuuâs straight alignment. But heâs fine, heâs cute. Heâs got like⌠a whole Thing about him that I wonât explain but know that heâs okay. Heâs all right.
The latter three volumes expands their allies to some other people that I cannot spoil but please know: theyâre gay. They are all gay. Thereâs no heterosexual explanation for any of them. You think "oh that's a straight couple". Wrong. They're all gay, even if they're straight. One of them is like. Holy shit I cannot express how obviously gay they are. This isnât like. âOh youâre reading too into it with your fandom eyesâ, I mean this is like. Wow. You two had the worst ghosting breakup and should get back together because it was over something stupid.Â
There are a fair number of villains and only one of them is like. Pure Actual Evil and I wonât tell you which one it is but the rest are all VERY satisfying in their character stories and arcs and I love them all dearly. Got some hot magic ladies, got some nervous quiet men, and some awkward cute boys. The whole variety is there!Â
Aside from the great characters, the artwork is GORGEOUS.Â
I know in this day and age of 2023 digital art and speedy turnarounds of weekly manga releases, all the art is crisp and kinda minimal except for big scenes, and people like that.Â
But also consider: gorgeous detailed intricate illustrations.Â
And I still wonât spoil you for the story, but it will still surprise you I swear to you.Â
âOkay but isnât there an anime? Can I just watch that instead?â
Look at me. I am holding your hands gently, and I am looking you in the eye as I pull you close and tell you: no.Â
You notice all the artwork I've shared is specifically manga art. The anime is. âŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚâŚ not great. It has its pros like padding out filler episodes so they can flesh out the girlsâ friendship and some of the side characters. But in having to pad out a 6 volume manga to two 26 episode seasons, some Decisions Were Made that were not in the best interest of the series or its themes. And when I say that, I do mean the very core of some of who these characters are. Motivations and internal goals changed for no reason, added characters for padded run time, an entire character killed for no reason only for their (anime only) twin to dress up and pretend to be that character because the directors realized âoh shit that character is in the second half uhhhhh quickâ. Itâs not great and itâs just not a lot of fun.Â
All Iâm saying is please please give this manga a read. Itâs very quick, you can finish it in like. 3 days tops. Itâs beautiful, itâs heartbreaking, itâs tragic and hopeful.Â
Iâm gonna leave this with a link to read it online and some other characters I didnât mention because I just think theyâre neat.Â
YOUR ANNUAL REMINDER TO PLEASE READ MAGIC KNIGHT RAYEARTH
The new adaptation comes out next year (2026) and we just got a new teaser image which almost promises that it'll be the manga story and not a remake of the 1995 anime
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trans girls who reject and deny all compliments given to them: i understand, i really do. However. at a certain point you simply have to stop. you cannot hate yourself into a version of yourself that you love. and pushing away the love people try to give you only hurts you both. fake it till you make it, girl, the more you let people love you the more lovable you will begin to see yourself as.
some days you just have to lie really hard to yourself, lie straight through your teeth and say "i'm pretty" even if you don't believe it at all. and it's hard, but it's better then falling into a depression hole forever.
a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesnât even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.
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Thinking about one specific moment in this week's witch hat atelier episode has me feral. I'm gnawing on the bars of my cage I'm going to destroy my enclosure
#wha spoiler talks below the cut
The animation team has been absolutely using the medium to elevate the material where they can, especially with things like different POVs. They gave us 1/3 of this episode from Tartah's silverwash POV which I kind of expected.
What I did NOT expect was this shot right here:
mfers gave us a glimpse of Qifrey's bad vision POV. Are you kiDDING ME THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO. God. I'd always tried to envision what Qifrey's vision must be like given the manga doesn't show it, and my own vision is one of the very few things that works well. But seeing this, and then imagining the bright flash from the twin bottle spell. Trying to draw spells like this. Qifrey is not only dealing with so much but he's incredibly fucking skilled. jfc.
not interested in getting involved in the rest of this discussion, for the most part, but to me this is a GREAT piece of advice that many people these days don't seem to be getting or understanding.
not everyone you meet or interact with is your friend, the requirements and expectations for respectful behaviour between friends is not the same as between strangers.
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my most toxic trait is i fucking love work gossip. i play neutral not to be the bigger person or take the high road but to hear slander and hearsay from every side. two coworkers complained about each other to me in the same afternoon and i nearly blacked out from the rush
If you ask me I don't want "good Christians" in government to counter the "bad Christians" I just want a separation of church and state like they promised us in third grade
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
My grandma just called and, among other things, said âYou have hips. Thatâs good! Men like hips!â and then she interrupted herself to say âWomen like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never rememberâÂ
And I was like âThanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.â and she was like âOkay, no one will comment on your hips!â very self satisfied, like âaha, I have figured it outâ
I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she canât always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like âsheâs a little confused, but sheâs got the spirit!â
I told my grandma that Iâd told my friends about what she said and that some of yâall had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said âWell, you can never have too many grandkids!âÂ
So likeâŚconsider her your honorary grandma* I guess?
*if you want an honorary grandma, that is
Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said âThatâs okay, youâve never been straight!â and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone
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Do you have any advice for someone else who is in the very beginning stages of the "life is a precious gift rapidly escaping me, I have to change to become someone better and be happy before I've wasted all of it" transition? I'm tired of losing so much life and joy to grief and trauma and I also want to start creating and seeing and enjoying as much as I can for my tiny time as a carbon based lifeform but it's overwhelming to say the least
Actively seek out things that inspire wonder
Look for the good parts. There are good parts. There are interesting parts. There will always be good and interesting parts.
Treat yourself kindly. This one is difficult.
Do things out of ridiculous whimsy.
Practice cog itive behavioural exercises to self-examine and address beliefs and behaviors that are causing suffering.
Don't argue when people compliment you.
Don't rush yourself, and don't assume it'll be like this forever when you have a backslide. These things happen. Over time, they happen less.
Be honest with the people you love and trust.
Tell people how much they mean to you and what you like about them.
Help others and find satisfaction in being the stranger that did something good
Consider speaking to a medical professional, my antidepressants and anti-anxiety medical took some time to figure out but life is WAY better.
Have a silly little craft or hobby.
Let yourself be bored sometimes. Stand outside in the rain and let yourself get wet. Go on a walk. Put your phone in a different room and wander off. Meet up with a friend and go on a long walk together to nowhere in particular
Start doing things because you want to and it feels good, not just because you think it's something you should say yes to.
Say yes to things.
Take a random day of the week and go into a store or a business you've never been in before.
Compliment strangers when something about them is striking.
Read books and watch movies that make you feel the exact right amount of ecstatic and embarrassed, and make all the silly noises about it.
Collect scraps of fabric and little trinkets and all the little textures and colours you love and stash them in a shoebox or something like a tiny dragon's hoard.
Start a collection of something small and inexpensive. Like corks.
Make food with ingredients you've never used before
Make long lists of all your favorite things- flowers, bugs, songs, foods, places
Start a trash-book to fill with scraps of neat wrappers and bits of paper and colored fabric from old ruined clothes
Imagine yourself as a alien from a dead and barren world who has just arrived on this planet for the very first time and imagine how excited you would be by every little thing
Cannot recommend enough that you befriend a creature