#fictional peril

“Kindred Spirits #2″ by Translucence, p. 30-34 of ?, translated by me with permission.

Translator’s note: The pulse is a critical diagnostic element of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Sichuan lovage root 川芎 is an important herbal medicine in TCM.

Anko Slaying Orochimaru WIP

Two more hours’ work. As you can see I mostly worked on Anko, and changed the position of her right leg. Made the sword of Kusanagi longer and blocked out where I’m putting Orochimaru and Yamato. (Really the only difference there from the value study is that Yamato is taller than the lady, and I’m having his right arm not grab Orochimaru, but letting his wood release restrain him instead.)

I took out the green overlay, which I originally added as a contrast to Anko’s purple hair. I might add it back in again. I’m not certain how much I like it.

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Also, I saw @evartandadam’s version and it’s amazing! There’s no way I could do something that good but it helped motivate me to work on this again!

Untitled comic (afaik, I’ve asked Goose if it has a name but haven’t heard back yet) by Goose, p. 4-10. The link to part one is in the source; if I put a direct link in the body of the post, Tumblr hides the post from tag search. Thanks Tumblr.

These pages are all flashback, which is why they’re all greyed out.

Cultural note: Sakura-chan says to Sakura-kun 辛苦了 “it was hard work” which is a polite phrase to thank and praise someone for doing something good/nice/expected, more or less the same as the Japanese “お疲れ様です otsukaresama desu”, both in meaning and culturally, so if you’re familiar with the Japanese phrase you probably already get it, but basically when Sakura-kun says “There’s no need to say such things between you and me”, what he means is that he doesn’t want her to use rote, polite phrases, because he wants their relationship to be more genuine than that.

Kage no Retsuden Extra: the Birthday of Obito & Izuna, p 4-end.

Art by @huameidevil, translated by me with permission. All parts available through the “kage no retsuden” or “kage no retsuden extra” tag.

I just wanted to post a version with them side by side so you can witness the power of the symbolic killing of all sexual abusers across time and space in stereo

P. 1-4 and cover of an in-progress comic by Goose, as yet (AFAIK) untitled, translated by me with permission.

Tag here will be “serious naruko comic”.

Translation of artist’s notes:

Okay

The first part is done.

Read left to right.

You can say that my work is 100% quantity over quality... it feels weird to try to do a proper story with my derived OCs. Sakura-kun treats Naruko like a challenge. This kind of affectionless opposite sex relationship is actually very difficult to grasp (especially since it could swerve into love very easily too!!!).

If this seems inappropriate to you....... then kindly eat shit.......

Kage no Retsuden Extra: The Birthday of Obito & Izuna p. 3 of 5

Help me trope connaisseurs.

Is there a term for when a character will stop at nothing to protect another character’s interests, reputation, life, etc, out of proportion to how bad the original offence was?

eg “I never saw the appeal of being married until I had a wife myself. I’ve only had my wife for a day and a half, but if anything were to happen to her, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself”

and

“If you even THINK of insulting my wife, I will stab you to death. I dare you to do it, I want you to do it, I’m so fucking crazy.”

only not joking around

Like it’s a common yandere characteristic but what is it when the rest of the yandere-ness is absent? Because this character isn’t externally deredere at all, and he’s not controlling of his beloved (who accepts his affections though she’s not jazzed about the constant murder).