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one chilly memory: 2years ago, I was traveling with my friend through Scandinavia. His van is looking beautiful in photos, but it´s an old,stinky thing =_= So one bright morning, I just got out and put my head into a strangely coloured river. Colouring is due to the nearby melting glacier.
(colour in this picture is the same as in real life! Glacial rivers look like the product of a chemical factory!)
Kinda want to keep talking about this series? I already yapped a lot (w/o much spoilers) in my (Spanish-written) sideblog, and I might repeat myself, so.
The Long Summer on August 31* (8-gatsu 31-nichi no Long Summer) is a series I recently picked up in Spanish, because, man, the covers REALLY caught my attention, and luckily of all, it's a bimonthly series that Panini MX is releasing (given the fact it is incredibly recent, and it only has 9 volumes released right now in Japan) and I kinda tend to be a sucker for interesting time loops stories, which is the basic premise of this series, lol.
So, that's basically the concept behind the plot? Two teenagers happen to be trapped in a Groundhog's Day time loop, the last day of summer. They didn't know each other up until a moment where Suzuki (our main guy) did something different on a TV report and that caught the attention of Takagi (our main girl).
They ignore the reason why they are trapped in a time loop, but Suzuki suggests that he might be the culprit, as a typical horny male teenager, wanted to finish the summer getting laid with a cute girl, and lose his virginity (I'm pretty sure this isn't as simple as that, but bear with me - also, this being published in Kodansha's Morning magazine means it's actually a seinen, surprise). Takagi, obvs, calls him out, but, promises to help him to help each other to give the time loop an end.
...except, like I mention I don't think it's as simple as "hey, maybe I need to get laid to end this"?
So, it's basically adventures of a pair of strangers-turned-to-friends to finally, FINALLY make it to September 1st, as they go back to school the next day. But, as they try to figure out a way out, they start to get interested into each other (in more ways than one), and it's kind of fun... but Suzuki is incredibly awkward with girls, not to mention, quite... a fool.
You see, Suzuki goes to an all-male high school and, as streotypically this tends to happen in other media, they often idealize women. So, many of the things that Suzuki is going to do (especially with Takagi present) are mistakes. And, oh boy... this guy.
I think the reason I like this series, in a general sense, making me buy all of the four available volumes there are now in Spanish, it's because I'm hooked? In the development of Suzuki and Takagi's relationship? And while I try to not spoil much, I feel... slightly? nostalgic? towards the vibes this series gives?
(not to mention that I am trying to wonder why there has been such a surge for time loop stories a la Groundhog Day... which, tbh... I do feel it? but I kinda blame the pandemic? maybe?)
Like, on one instance, I feel there's something nostalgic about the series as a whole and I cannot pinpoint on what it is exactly? There's a lot. Like, the art for starters feels too 80s, maybe early 90s vibes. I have been too into looking at old manga art from that specific era and it does feel something like I may have already seen or read (also the way Ikkado manage too much repetition in panels, could be intentional given it's supposedly giving you, the reader, déja vù or an style choice -ie, have seen it sometimes in Hojo Tsukasa's City Hunter and Angel Heart?- to get the point of the gag.
If it wasn't for the use of smartphones, the internet, and streaming sites... or mention of parody artists (Thrice, instead of Twice) you could easily think this is actually situated in that era, as well, not contemporary times.
The covers also feel quite intentional to give you nostalgia, especially since they look inspired in art made by Eizin Suzuki (hey, maybe even Suzuki's name was intentional on that side?)
And... honestly? Dare I say I feel somewhat nostalgic? towards the way we are presented Suzuki and Takagi's relationship?
Like, teenage romance, right? I am in my 30s right now. I sometimes look at shoujo romances featuring teenagers and it's cute and all, as always. I follow a few newer series with high schoolers, then there's the more comedy oriented ones I have at hand (like Kamisama Hajimemashita, Witch Watch, maybe?) and it's not the same, lol. I tend to try and go for more adult choices or weird/realistic ones, I guess? That are far and between. But... there's definitely something about Suzuki and Takagi that feels somewhat... nostalgic? and it ends up bothering me a bit (in my Spanish post I actually use the phrase "me cala más")?
And I think it's because their "teenage romance" is... isolated. And that's because they are in a time loop, and they only have each other. Not even as lovers, but strangers that end up being as friends. So, I think... it kinda hurts? when Suzuki makes a mistake (too early in the series run! by the way!) because he has this idealized idea of a woman, and then starts realizing he was quite an idiot to make a move, to say something he shouldn't have? because, of course, it also hurts Takagi and all that. And she also starts developing such an interest in this guy? And if they don't work together (leaving aside Suzuki's "possible" reason of being the time loop's culprit), they... become isolated. They will never get out of the time loop. They would never "grow" (improvement!) with each other, either. And there's the time loop tragedy as a whole, I feel. One thing is when there's one main character, but here we have TWO that actually remember stuff and bond together... screwing up happens, teenage romance can be like that... but here?
And, man... I have been enjoying this a lot, regardless. The art is appealing. The dynamics of them both is nice (and they start knowing each other! which is cute). You start knowing side characters that also are going through a lot in their last day of summer, and it's a shame they have to keep repeating them given the nature of the time loop (and that both Suzuki and Takagi CANNOT solve/save everyone's problems)... there's HILARIOUS gags that I'm all "??? LMAO"... not to mention interesting aspects of the time loop itself ;p
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*(actually called "The Long Summer of August 31st" in English, as released in Kodansha's K-Manga App, and by Seven Seas. I'm not sure WHY Panini MX chose "on" over "of", but probably stuff about incorrect English grammar from Ikkado Itou themself and the inconsistency on how Panini chooses titles if in ENG or in JPN... or translating them)
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Fell into another anxiety rabbithole trap, which is more of the same, more of the same.
I think g00gle seems to have given up in attempting to tell the difference between (specific email 1) and (specific email 2), because I was the smartest person in the world in making 1 the recovery one for 2 🙄 (they are named similar, for starters...), so the latest few ones that are about "privacy" and tos updates are directed towards 1... instead of 2, so now I have two copies of the same email directed to 1 in 1's inbox.
I honestly didn't think this throughly back then, and I SUPPOSE I could change that because it's so fucking silly, and I kinda think what's going on, as well. The THING is that it's just g00gle emails, ALL other emails that are specific for 2 DO arrive in 2's inbox... so, that's definitely not a problem whatsoever, but the g00gle ones are making me go... nuts?
And I somewhat descended into the trap in the afternoon, because it feels like... g00gle stopped falses pretenses and sent the same 2 damn reminder emails to specific mail 1... and my mind goes to weird places after reaching a conclusion.
That, or... look, maybe it's a mistake made by their AI stuff which I also don't discard in this situation, and given they are "linked" for recovery stuff, and are named similar, well... because it's curious that since 2024 they have been doing this to me for some reason.
Todavía no me cae el veinte de hacer plática con la chava que atiende la tienda ahorita, y yo diciendo cualquier tontería que me sé al respecto de cosas de manga de acá y aún con mis rollos de "no, no... entiendo. está bien" y así y asá.
O sea, cuando los vendedores anteriores, sí hacía el intento de lo más mínimo de plática, pero aquí fue otro rollo y siento que arruiné algo o así, lol
I honestly do wish we don't get a The Long Summer on August 31 anime, for the simple fact that part of its charm are the repetitive panels (which I also feel is also a stylistic choice to not involve too much work in the (digital) drawing process)...
But if we do, I also feel they will go to the cheap-road that is doing stuff like what happened with Gok*ushufudou (which didn't deserve an animated adaptation like that, btw), and, I will still be mad about it (even if it might stay true to the manga's essence... which. at this point, would feel like a waste of money, because then I would just stay with the manga itself... you know?).
Look, I love my awkward teenage romance stuck in a summer time loop, and while some things would be great to look at with color (art illustrations influenced in the 80s -specifically what we consider today as "city pop-esque", but also includes 80s romcom-like manga as well), I do think this should stay as a manga instead.
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As I was reading Akuma de S*ourou, I REALIZED that the Bet*suma memories thing I talked about months ago is MORE annoying than I thought. To add salt to the wound, the Akuma de S*ourou illustration they put in that color pages edition I talked about? IT'S NOT a CHAPTER COVER. IT'S A LITERAL POSTER. I CHECKED WHAT CHAPTER IT WAS, AND IT HAD A B/W COVER in the manga itself!
LIKE, the interns or editorial staff of the magazine MAYBE didn't know as they were scanning/digitizing the color stuff... and that's why the Sen*sei elusive color cover from that issue is ABSENT??? (not to mention that I also notice that they sometimes did add the color pages of other manga, but attempted to stay "exclusively" on the color chapter covers... I DON'T particularly blame them, btw... the editorial staff in 2016/18 were probably not the same in 2000 and the same applies to the interns and what not...)
But, it's a bit of a frustrating situation? YEAH.
I REALLY wish that page was a more functional archive than what it became (and also that they didn't stopped in 2005, like I KIND OF GET IT, considering how HUGE was Kim*itodo in the years since, still salty that they didn't cover up to 2009, at LEAST), but still sorta glad they haven't TAKEN IT DOWN, regardless...
I was writing a post about how my country's bunch of clowns as a gvnmnt are doing their worst in making us to register our mobile phone numbers as a "way to erradicate extorsions" and such, when in reality it's just another tactic of surveillance and what else and TECHNICALLY the limit date to do so was going to be next week.
Well, considering that... apparently 40% of 100 MILLIONS of mobile phone numbers have been registered in the past six months, and the other 60M haven't budged in (you would think it's because actual distrust, which, I mean, largely possibly, but I also feel there's laziness on this), you would THINK... but, nope, our oh, so wise government seems to have put an extension and it would be now in blocks according to our numbers' last digit? and... FUCK, I just.
I HATE. I HATE.
I was already in an anxious state of mind, because, in this house we weren't going to budge in (and it was just a "phone line suspension" punishment) and were ACTUALLY planning to make a fuss at our mobile phone service company's physical help centers to MAKE A POINT (not to mention, do you know whom is monopolizing the mobile phone service in this country, despite there being two international companies' branches that APPARENTLY, rumors say they are planning to leave the country in the near future? it's one of the richest men of the country AND the fuckign entire world, whom has been benefitted QUITE a LOT by the 2018-24 and PRESENT presidential periods!). Now the "oh. so wise" president of ours said they will put an extension and it smells as a "divide and conquer" tactic because that way no one would give a shit in uniting us to MAKE A POINT and NOW the punishment is not a line suspension, but a line termination.
NOW, the banks and the same fucking ass government DEPEND a lot of our personal numbers. People have been leaving behind landlines (and who is the owner of the telephone service monopoly? YEAH, same guy as ABOVE :))) ), and to rub salt on the wound, not even a public land phone seem to exist these days. SO. SOOOO.
Like, fuck, FUCK, FUUUUCK, this fucking stupid ass govmnt I SWEAR.
And, Look. it's not just "registering our numbers", literal they want our personal information as well. Their systems are so vulnerable that were easily hac*kable since DAY ONE, and YOU WOULD THINK, but these assholes prefer to spend money in other vanity project shit, ""giving it to people that need it"" than actually investing in cybersecurity services for PLENTY of stuff that has been sold to criminals and sketchy people in the past... what? SEVEN FUCKING YEARS?
(how literally it feels trying to put a nice face with all the ongoing shit around here :)... ahhh... nvm I just remembered I used to have this reaction pic since a decade or so ago... STILL RELEVANT AS ALWAYS I GUESS)
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Artwork by Akemi Takada commissioned for the cover of "Mobile Police Patlabor LD Box", Warner Music Japan, November 1992. Scanned from my personal collection.
This laserdisc box set contained all seven OVA episodes of the original series (aka Early Days), "199X Tokyo On My Mind (Parts 1 and 2)", "Vol.1½: Trends and Countermeasures", footage of Hiroko Kasahara preforming "Miraiha Lovers" in the studio, "Vol. 6½ Kawaraban", the video footage from the first "Contact" CD Video release, and a 16 page booklet.