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which one ahahaha

I’M HONESTLY SO GLAD? 

Look at the wonderful box I got from @tenderhook, @prawnlegs, and @sadish-radish! Zines and candy and good trash children!

They’re such good friends, and I look up to them so much - I wouldn’t have been able to navigate coming out half so well without their advice.

your haircut is super cute!

aaahhhh good job!!!

tenderhook replied to your video 

why are you so cute!!!!

i don't know anything about Blade of the Immortal but i love Miike. have you seen the Great Yokai War? dude is surprisingly versatile

So Blade of the Immortal is a comic with amazing art that I loved as a teenager.  It’s particularly notable for its over-the-top fight sequences and lovingly detailed full page spreads of dudes getting chopped up really artistically.  The art style is very different from typical manga art, which is what I liked about it when I was younger.  In terms of visual aesthetic and mood, it’s literally perfect for Takeshi Miike’s directoral style.  

But it’s also, like, 50 different kinds of ~problematic~ particularly in regards to sexual violence against women.  In the manga it’s generally not super explicit as far as I remember but I can easily see that becoming more overt in a live-action adaption.  The saving grace of the manga was that a lot of the women also get some really righteous scenes where they murder the people who hurt them, but I feel like a live adaption would be different.  The trauma more traumatic and the payoff less worth it.

I dunno, it’s been a LONG time since I read it and at this point I would literally never recommend it to anyone but it was definitely a formative work of fiction for me.  And hey, the series is super long, maybe they’ll just conveniently cut out those scenes so they can spend more time on outrageous choreographed murder.