[…] To tell the truth, ever since the anime started, I have drawn a lot of illustrations featuring ‘Sebastian and someone’. However, this time it’s not a pair because Lau and Sebastian don’t have common ground at all! (lol)
(The series) already has 7 comic volumes and there are a couple of scenes in which both of them appeared, but I think they only had a conversation once. Hmmm. (Lau has an) amazing skill to ignore the servants. Even in the meeting with my editor, we came to the conclusion that Lau probably doesn’t even remember Sebastian’s name. That’s why the illustration of the pair ‘Sebastian and Lau’ didn’t work.
Even Yusa-san, the voice actor of Lau, said in an interview, “Lau isn’t really interested in Sebastian. If anything, he’s interested in Ciel”, and he’s right indeed. So this time (it’s not a pair but) I put our young master between them [acting as a buffer between Sebastian and Lau].
[source: Yana’s d-6th blog, February 2009]
*Yana is referring to this cover illustration:
Also, friendly reminder that I have a masterpost of all my translations so far (I sorted them by characters/topics, so it’s quite easy to find what you are looking for :)) and sometimes it’s easier and faster to briefly check that than to send an ask and wait for my reply, just saying! ^^; (You can also use the search box on my blog~)
@dorkshadows: this is why Lau is our spirit animal. xDDD
I just wanted to dump this really huge difference in the official translation from the fan translation:
So basically Eren was talking about how Reiner is out of strength and won’t be able to do anything to them. So it seems they are choosing to spare his life here, rather than being out of strength/time to fight him.
The japanese sentences and translations by OrganicDinosaur can be found here. I agree with their translation. CR messed up hard, but the Tong Li isn’t 100% correct either, lol.
…さすがに打ち止めだ 力はもう残ってねぇ (… It already comes to the end. I don’t have any strength left.)
ライナーは… …今は 殺せやしないだろう (And regarding Reiner… … Perhaps now we still can’t kill him.)
The grammar form ~やしない not only means one ought to do something but he/she doesn’t or is unable to do, it’s also an form expressing one’s irritation about this situation.
“The Highly Self-Conscious Princess” PAGE 1 (Left) Reiner: Regarding how the “Virtue Club” will be run in the future… Ymir: Do tell, Reiner. Reiner: I want to save the poor students who have been deceived by baseless rumors. Someone: That’s deep. Reiner: Yah…let’s raise the awareness of those within our school. Someone: I could cry.
Historia: (Thinking) This gorilla is so boring. How could someone this boring be so popular at the school? Don’t even look this way…gross. Other than “tackle” this guy’s a dumbass. Don’t you dare look this way. This group of sidekicks can only say words that even A.I. can generate… What the hell is this “Virtue Club” anyway? Why does it feel like he’s just reciting frivolous words? Boring, isn’t it? Ymir…enough already. If you’ve sniffed my scalp enough then hurry up and go finish my homework for me. Ah…(She sees Eren) You…you’re wandering on the road and not standing out once again today. I get it…you also think that everything in this world is boring as hell, and that nothing can be helped, no? Even though I’ve never spoken to you, I understand… As long as I see you, I feel more at peace… It’s like whenever we put soil and ants into a bottle back in the day, and we kept staring at them…it’s that kind of feeling… …eh?
PAGE 2 (Right) Historia: (Thinking) Oh… You made friends… How lame…you got involved with the Nerds in the end… [T/N: See the high school AU caste system here] Ah…how boring… I guess…once you get dragged by those otaku to watch some pointless movies, you will get tired of being a Nerd eventually, right? Why does it feel like you are troubled by delinquents… What’s going on…you’re still protecting that gross otaku? Ah, I see…if the otaku relies on you, you feel better yourself… You don’t actually have a sense of justice, yet you’re still putting up that front… Honestly, why should he care what state that bunch shows up in… Eh? That guy…wasn’t there a rumor that this janitor used to be some mafia boss? Eh? What’s his relationship with him…? Why does it seem like he’s being appreciated by the janitor…? Heh…seems like a lot has happened…heh…I guess it was just me. I’m the one who’s boring… Ymir: What is it, Historia? Historia: That guy did some harsh things to me. [T/N: This likely means that Eren helped her realize that she was the boring one/the actual loner in the end, even though he didn’t really do anything.]
Well, until now I always considered that Ciel noticing the Shinigamis precisely as he did in ch103 and when it never happened previously was possibly the result of:
Seb trying to eat him a few hours before (no matter if it was “just” intended as a wakeup call or not, Seb did attack him)
Wolfram almost killing him
and then being almost blasted to bits by the panzer
In other words, I used to think that maybe the fact he experienced so much trauma (both psychological and physical) in the span of a few hours activated this special part of his Phantomhive lineage somehow (with Seb’s supernatural attack being the biggest trigger).
However, now I wonder if the answer to him noticing the Shinigamis for the first time couldn’t also be linked to…
…the fact that he lost his sight for a little while when he suffered from PTSD during the arc.
I mean, this part was never really explained besides possibly being a side effect of either the miasma or the PTSD itself (more the PTSD than the miasma though, since he could see again from the moment he recovered his mind), so I wonder if this acute blindness couldn’t also be the trigger to his lineage “activating”, which then led to him noticing the Shinigamis in ch103…
Maybe it’s a mix of both the PTSD (losing his sight for a while) and all that he experienced in a few hours upon solving this case (especially Seb “jokingly” trying to eat him)… Thoughts??
A small observation but it’s interesting how this year’s Amon illustration looks in comparison to last year’s.
He’s shed his robes, and not only that but the cross around his neck as well. If you look in both pictures his ghoul eye is revealed by the red coloring of his iris, but in the first one it’s much more obvious than in the second.
I wonder if it’s a reference to the fact that Amon has now thrown his across away and Seidou has taken it instead.
However, considering that Amon’s ghoul side is more concealed in the second picture and he’s gone back to wearing the exact same clothes he did when he was in the CCG, mirroring his trump card’s outfit even almost exactly.
It makes me wonder if the new birthday art is a sign of his regression. The last twitter art that Ishida drew of Amon, as well as his volume 9 cover both show an Amon that’s much closer to his ghoul side.
There’s even a shining red in the eyes of this one as well. The Amon drawn this year however on the surface looks like a return to his normal form, his robes have been shed and he looks much better put together.
In a way Amon’s received exactly what he wanted, he got to return to the CCG and fight for the right cause again.
Having found the right cause to finally fight for, it seems that he’s rid himself of his emptiness and is able to fight once more without losing control as he did against the Q’s, and during the lab raid.
As I’ve said many times in the past though the sin that the cross symbolized for Amon was ignorance.
Perhaps, mirroring Kaneki’s own arc when he was presented with Re: as an illusory return to Anteiku which later turned out to be false as :Re fell, and Irimi and Koma the two people Kaneki saved died far out of his sight once more we’ll witness the same thing with Amon in the next few chapters.
Amon, wearing a suit again just like he did in his days as a dove, allowed to fight on the side of the CCG that’s now fighting unquestionably for the right thing is shown an illusory return to his days as an investigator where he knew what to fight for and was not plagued by the emptiness he had on the inside.
However, that illusory return should fall apart the same as all the others have. Amon’s no longer carrying the cross that is the symbol of his sin of ignorance, he’s marked with it in one drawing and free from it in the other. Without the cross it’s easy for him to fall back into the illusion.
Anyway, this was my daily dose of overanalysis but as I said with the appearance of Donato it’s likely we’ll get something from Amon in the next few chapters.
Which is why Ishida’s decision to draw Amon looking almost exactly like he did in og tg, instead of his slightly changed appearance in :Re was so interesting to me.
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