thank you!! i’ve been having fun drawing hair lately, which is not something i thought i’d ever say

happy birthday buddy i’m sorry for everything i do to you. i’ll find you some other fans soon

even friendship building, one of the core tenets of good shonen, is brushed aside when convenient. characters are kept apart for the sake of the plot, and it's not subtle. comforting presences and places are stripped away, never to be seen again. but cool fights, i guess.

with these kinds of stories i'm always looking for something to pull me in, to make me want to spend time with these characters, or at least draw me into the world they're in. there's so little of that here. the world is so bleak, and for what? why do i care? are we aiming for peace?

it kills me. this story had so much potential to be good. but as a writer i can't help but feel that this was written without a plan or motivating theme. so much of it feels like "it was cool in the moment" which is valid, but. why so many characters? why toss so many of them aside like nothing?

nevermind it hasn’t! 🙃

sounds about right, it seems like it’s been fixed now

joining in the chorus of japanese fans who felt it should’ve been in a theater. it’s such a spectacle, it shouldn’t be trapped on netflix

it's going to be hard to think of anything like that 😥 i dislike a lot of modern naming conventions for fantasy books, since so many of them seem to be about setting a "mood" with certain words and cadences rather than telling you anything about it. but theres probably a sweet spot somewhere between

i kind of hate describing it that way because it doesn't feel like a story, it feels like themes. there's a story. he does stuff, i promise. even adventures sometimes. but i guess if you're there for that, you'll be disappointed. it's mostly about the other stuff. conversations and the like.

it's mostly about him and the people around him and the ways he changes and doesn't. it's about recovery, and friendships, and love and sex. how even the most supportive network can't combat certain types of trauma. how oppressive love can feel sometimes. the joys in just doing normal stuff.

genre? what's that? uhhh there's a bit of fantasy obviously, but modern day, magic is kind of a setting rather than the point. slice of life, plenty of that. some romance, but not the HEA, 'you're the only one for me' kind of thing. my main character goes through a lot of different relationships.

you can kinda tell how little i like to think about this stuff that i've been writing this shit for five years and just never had a real title for it lol