The Summer Hikaru Died And Onomatopoeia

The Summer Hikaru Died and onomatopoeia

I've wanted to gush about this topic for a while and i have no organized thoughts but a lot of feelings i need to get out. First and foremost being "Holy shit this manga is so damn loud" which is a weird feeling to have since manga is generally understood to be a silent medium.

And yet the Mangaka MokuMoku Ren has filled their work to the brim with sound. Now comics using onomatopoeia (words that echo a noise ie: crunch) is nothing new the sound of a fist hitting it's target and walls being wrecked is nothing new. But usually onomatopoeia is worked into whatever action is resulting in the noise

adding both a sense of motion as well as sound. Which is what makes The Summer Hikaru Died's use of it so unique and compelling. To utilize onomatopoiea you have to give up on space that could otherwise be going to deatil work in the background or foreground. Now this is fine with smaller unobtrusive effects like Wolverine's claw extending, and there's numerous example's where a sound will take up large portions of the page to show how loud something like a bomb going off is. But i've yet to see another comic western or otherwise so consistently use this facet of the medium to instill such claustrophobia and dread. As a slower paced horror manga The Summer Hikaru Died builds it's suspense mostly through atomosphere, the supernatural happenings weighing on the surrounding evironment until they break the surface

The use of sound is heavy, it's harsh, it's a vehicle to show how wrong things have gotten from the whisper of "it's coming" heard in the ringing bell of a train crossing to the omnipresent call of birds, bugs, and frogs that pushes in on the paneling shrinking the world with their cacophony.

the way sound shrinks the world making reader and character both feel suffocated by the drone is matched by how the manga uses silence as a way to make the characters feel exposed and vulnerable. the page is now empty of distraction the world of the story on full display and it still feels wrong it's agorophobic, at least amidst the din there was some sense of anonymity being just one voice among hundrends.

even the speech bubble feels out of place as it wanders off desperate to fill the space. The manga is full of these moments of sound and silence in some dance with eachother always too much or too little, never comfortable. It adds a lot to the horror of the manga, and is just one part of many that makes The Summer Hikaru Died such an excellent manga, every chapter I can feel my skin crawl as the setting becomes more hostile to the charactres while they uncover more of the truth of their circumstances.

soo about crisis on infinite earths...

tldr: razer and aya show up at 1:05:00.

but WOW. I thought I set my expectations at rock bottom, and I was still disappointed. I thought that their reunion would be glossed over, but we didn't even get that! there was no reunion! they're just here now, hi guys, no answers as to how they found each other again, no emotional resolution whatsoever. no mention as to how crazy it is that they're fighting the anti-monitor again, nothing. not even one little throwaway line that would be tantalizingly close to good characterization!

I see people posting about them showing up again and being excited, and I don't want to seem like an asshole by complaining about it. but this was so, so shallow. again, I wasn't expecting anything spectacular. I knew they wouldn't set up the whole movie to explore razer and aya, they had plenty of other characters (far too many, in my opinion) to focus on. but I just don't like how relentlessly positive everyone is being about this. I get we're all starved for razaya content, but it feels like we're giving dc praise for the absolute barest minimum.

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badfungi

3 years ago

“he’s just some guy” well i like some guys

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badfungi

2 years ago

AT SAKURACON TODAY STUDIO ORANGE SAID SEASON 3'S EXISTANCE DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH ATTENTION TRIGUN STAMPEDE GETS

SO PLEASE

SHARE YOUR CRUNCHYROLL OR HULU ACCOUNT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY, GET MORE PEOPLE INTERESTED

ORGANIZE ONLINE WATCH PARTIES

RECOMMEND IT ON EVERY PLATFORM AND IN EVERY CHATROOM

TALK ABOUT IT NON STOP ON SOCIAL MEDIA

GIVE IT HIGH RATINGS AND REVIEWS ON IMDB, ROTTEN TOMATOS, COMMON SENSE MEDIA, AND ON CRUNCHYROLL.

SHARE THE FREE 1ST EPISODE OF STAMPEDE OFF CRUNCHYROLL'S YOUTUBE PAGE, THEY HAVE SUBBED AND DUBBED!

POST CROSSOVER FAN ART AND WRITE CROSS OVER FICS, AND COMMISSION POPULAR ARTISTS, TO GET ATTENTION FROM OUTSIDE THE FANDOM

COSPLAY AS THE STAMPEDE CHARACTERS, GET OTHER ANIME FANS TO NOTICE HOW MANY OF US ARE CHOOSING TO COSPLAY THAT ANIME SPECIFICALLY, "MUST BE POPULAR IF THEY'RE ALWAYS DRESSING UP AS IT HUH?"

IT IS POPULAR ACTUALLY! BUT WE WANT IT TO KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING MAYBE EVEN GROWING

REBLOG THIS POST. REPOST THIS POST. DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO.

I BEG

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badfungi

3 years ago

Happy Vader’s Day everyone

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badfungi

5 months ago

Day 4. EXOTIC The exotic thing is that clowns are rare in our area

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badfungi

10 months ago

btw i always knew they'd find each other. if you even care.

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badfungi

2 years ago

SakuraCon 2023 Trigun Stampede Panel (Attempted) Masterpost!

There’s SO MUCH good and new content leaking out of this event, mainly on Twitter, that I wanted to collect as much as possible for us all to salivate over and save as references. I’m including as many angles and clips as I stumble across! And also I’m going to put this under a cut and add anything new that I see (and feel free to let me know about anything I missed on any platform and should be included!!!)

Seguir leyendo

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