In February I tackled a manga, that I've been curious about for a while: When 光が死んだ夏 was published as a tankōbon in 2022 and was immediately a hit, I unfortunately only read the very first chapter before I gave up.
This was because it is set in a rural area of Japan and is told almost entirely in dialect, which I didn't have any experience in back then.
Now that I'm more used to reading various texts in Japanese, I wanted to try reading this series once more and found that what was a significant hurdle a few years ago, was now easily manageable and I was able to read the 6 volumes comfortably back to back even.
There's of course the (eldritch?) horror and the grief of losing your best friend paired with the confusion over the thing that replaced him becoming him, but interwoven with that is also the theme of being young in a rural and mostly elderly community steeped in incomprehensible traditions. And both of these themes mesh extremely well!
I would recommend N2 reading abilities, but the manga has furigana on all kanji and is not particularly difficult to read except for the dialect, which you can look up and also will get used to after a while.
You can read the first few chapters and all new chapters for free on the publisher's official site:
Soukoku as Gem boys UwU.
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Abigail, the 4-year-old hostage who was freed from Hamas terrorists after 51 days in their brutal captivity, is now reunited with her aunt and grandmother.
Why not her parents? Well, they were both slaughtered before her eyes during the October 7th massacre by the same savages who held her hostage.
Her coming home is a joyous moment for us all, but make no mistake, Abigail was orphaned by bloodthirsty, antisemitic Hamas barbarians; her neighbors were slaughtered, burned alive, shot and kidnapped. We will keep fighting these terrorists and make sure that no more 4-year-olds are ever orphaned or held captive by them.
Every two months or so Molly comes back into my brain and makes me cry, to combat this I drew him being very normal and not gay at all with Caleb (I am sleep deprived as fuck rn guys)
Turned 21 today🎉☆ hanging out with me cat sons :D
yeah for me the whole point of Death Note is watching Light's downfall, he spirals into insanity and is not meant to be genuinely supported by fans, most people will agree that after L's death it lost it's spark and so did Light as a character. both saw it as a game, Neither were perfect, but holy shit was Light awful, no one should be pro Light that is insane!
“the world would be a better place if we just got rid of all the Evil People” cool anyway for those of us who are not interested in cosplaying as the medieval catholic church
Artist and Witch. He/Him. be gay do crime🌈. Currently 21 ✌ ☆ Multifandom☆ My card. Proshippers DNI!Read Eden of the Dead Created by Me and Manicteagirl
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