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mizari's design and temperament remind me of a mixture of juzo (i think that's his name?? the stitches dude) from tokyo ghoul and nikolai from bsd. every manga series needs a freaky little guy i guess

i'm just about halfway done with the series and i cannot believe it's still as good as it is. every new arc feels fresh and the characters continue to captivate me. i'm endlessly impressed by kusanagi's ability to juggle so many characters. she has a keen sense for knowing just how much development to give each character so that no one feels like a waste or like they're taking away page time from someone else

yotaka you are so gorgeous i need to look at you more pls join the group

okay wow i was expecting to get my answer so quickly but there you go!!!! it still doesn't feel like the entire explanation for il killing yu-hon but it's another piece of the puzzle for sure

wait wait wait WHAT is kouren referring to???? are we finally gonna start unraveling the mystery of yu-hon's death???? does it have something to do with xing??? did he make some kind of deal with them and then betray them which caused il to feel like he had to kill him for the good of kohka???? with yona and hak potentially meeting with su-won very soon i can feel some big reveals on the horizon

CHILLS I HAVE CHILLS MY HEART IS FUCKING RACING
yes absolutely let's return to hiryuu palace, the drama will be DELICIOUS. also kouren gives me big laurent of vere vibes somehow, i guess bc she's gorgeous and charismatic and has the short blonde hair. jury's still out on whether or not she's anywhere near as cunty as he is though

will my heart ever stop breaking for zeno i don't think so
the way that the rest of the crew was so distraught at the idea of him suffering that they were arguing about who should go try to save him????? and zeno knowing that that would be their instinct and using it as motivation to get himself out before anyone could get hurt for him??????? the gentle cradling by yona once he's out, oh my heart

okay i'd definitely been wondering if su-won is supposed to be asexual so it's nice to get more solid confirmation!!!

truly hilarious that even when she's apparently professing her "love" for geun-tae (which i'm reading as pure admiration bc she literally just talked about how COOL he is, nothing about his looks), she still can't resist throwing in that comment about how she'd marry yuno if she could aksjdhkahda riri is a LESBIAN who wants to be strong and fight like geun-tae and that's THAT

OH MY GOD??????? AM I HALLUCINATING IS THIS HEAVEN IM FREAKING OUT
i hope this affection from hak starts to become more and more frequent after big missions cause ouch he loves and appreciates them all so much

my jaw dropped when i saw hak hug jaeha i literally had to put the book down
HE’S SOFTENING UP SO MUCH I LOVE TO SEE IT
and jaeha again teasing hak for being so ridiculously down bsd for yona and refusing to accept that yona loves him back yup mmhmmm that’s my reluctant older brother figure right there

yet another absolutely electric sequence!!! the panelling is just masterful with all the different actions happening all at once and building such palpable tension and then everything just STOPS. i love how kusanagi prioritizes those reaction shots after massive moments like these. we get to sit in the shock and the comedown from the adrenaline along with the rest of the characters

that was simultaneously the stupidest and sweetest sequence of events in this manga thus far and you best believe i am giggling and kicking my damn feet at it

sinha calling tae-u a “littler hak” is the cutest shit i’ve ever seen i need to rip these pages apart with my teeth

THE HANDS????????? hak scratching the wall of the border so hard that his fingers are bleeding vs su-won gently touching the other side with his palm?????????? the yearning the longing the tragedy this is GAY

oh you sweet fools pls stop trying to marry off a lesbian to a gay man

I ACTUALLY CHEERED WHEN I TURNED THE PAGE LETS GOOOOOOOOOO oh my god if hak and mun-deok get to reunite even if it’s just for a few minutes i am going to sob my eyes out

these little moments of gija checking in on everyone (but especially the other dragons) are so important to me!!!!! kusanagi could easily let those things fall to the wayside but she never does and it makes the characters feel so alive and consistent. gija is probably my second favorite dragon bc of how loudly and unashamedly he expresses his care, even when it makes him seem kind of ridiculous sometimes

ayura and tetra are such bad bitches oh my god??? give me the spin-off NOW i’m curious about them and how they came to be riri’s bodyguards

YALL THE SLOW BURN IS BURNING EVERYONE STAY CALM MAKE NO SUDDEN MOVEMENTS
yona is SO close to realizing her feelings but i’m counting on jaeha to give her that last push

….your honor, my client is gay
kusanagi can draw su-won blushing over yona all she wants but i will not be forgetting how he’s blushed over hak too mmmhmmmm

“sleep well”???????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????? of course kusanagi has to make me emo even during the transitional, goofy arcs. before that gut punch (plus the zeno one from before), i really did need this lighthearted reset though. kusanagi has such a keen sense for tone and always knows when and how to give her audience a hug after ripping their hearts out

i’ve been too locked in to comment on much but god now that zeno’s backstory has been unlocked he is stealing the show at every turn. that spread of him opening his arms to the blue dragon spirits as he tells them the horrible reality of his life????? he can afford to be so calm there bc he knows he needs nothing more than honesty to scare them off. his existence is monstrous, like he said

i can’t even breathe i’m sobbing so hard what the FUCK kusanagi you are brilliant this volume is spectacular i am in awe and so in love with this story and these characters
wdym zeno went to see each of the dragons when he sensed that yona had been born what the FUCK do you mean “zeno is good at waiting” how am i supposed to just go on with my day after this heartache how do i leap into the pages and hug him

so the implication is that after kaya, zeno never got close with anyone else for HUNDREDS OF YEARS??????? he was just alone, constantly feeling the presence of the dragons and their life cycles but forced to live outside of it all??????? how is he not clinically insane or evil how is he sunshine after all of that grief

unsurprisingly, the real reason behind zeno referring to himself in the third person ended up being even more depressing than i could’ve imagined. thanks kusanagi

i’ve been asking for zeno’s backstory for so many volumes and now that i have it i’m ugly crying and my chest physically fucking hurts from how tragic this is. on the bright side, i’m so happy that the current dragons are much more of a family than the first ones ever got to be. it’ll hurt even more when it ends but at least zeno can finally experience true love and companionship after so much loneliness

“let’s protect the crimson dragon king together” BUT ITS JUST ZENO STANDING ALONE AGAINST AN ENTIRE ARMY WHAT IF I RUN OUT OF TEARS WHAT HAPPENS THEN

awesome and i’m sobbing AGAIN
the idea of zeno never being able to reunite with the dragons in death and just being forced to feel them all die over and over and over again for at least 2000 years is enough to make me want to lay on my floor and stare at my ceiling for days on end

oh he knew from the moment zeno showed the dragons his healing ability. he knew what his power entailed and that’s why he never wanted him to get injured. to protect him from the horrifying reality of invulnerability and immortality. of course it was a pipe dream but god that just makes it even more tragic. poor zeno. and now he’s gonna have to watch the dragons die one by one too. COOL