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Yay manga women of the week!
Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate it! Here are some Christmas gifts for you. Clickable thumbnails behind cuts.
Nice. And it has Megumi on the back cover! And is it just me, or are Urd's breasts kinda-sorta actually obeying the laws of gravity?
Not a new image, but still one of my favorites. (Yes, her hand is that blurry in the original image.)
Nice close-up of the image originally posted here. Also, Shii Kiya can draw Wilhelmina so much better than Ito Noizi can. It's not even funny.
Having said that, though...
Wow this second chapter sucked.
And what a let-down, especially after the so-awesome-it-made-my-teeth-hurt first chapter, too! And it's especially a letdown in light of the fact that I had to wait three months between chapters... Anyway, despite appearing on the cover of the magazine, Mathilde and Wilhelmina weren't even IN this chapter of the manga. Instead, it was twenty-four pages of some new Flame Haze that I don't care about ("Throne of Burning Sparks" Sokar WTF) fighting some two-bit villain (an evil talking tree, to be exact) and then, not surprisingly, killing it. Hooray. Except, why? Why do I care about this new and painfully generic Sokar character, why did the writers waste twenty-four pages on him killing some random evil tree, what does any of this have to do with Wilhelmina or Mathilde, and why don't the two title characters appear in this chapter at all?
With the addition of Sokar, however, the gender distribution of canon Flame Hazes is now officially equal. So far we have:
Female - Shana, Margery, Wilhelmina, Mathilde
Male - Khamsin, Yuri, East Edge, and now Sokar
...Which is interesting, because for so much of the original canon (the books and the anime), the Flame Haze thing was an all-woman show, until Khamsin showed up. Since Khamsin, each new Flame Haze introduced has been a man. Hmmmm.
Also, as long as I'm in the Santa mood, a few quick links that you might enjoy:
Evil Editor's Best. Writing. Exercise. Ever.
A motherlong interview with Jeff Smith. But it never gets boring because it's, you know, Jeff Smith.
Nice. And it has Megumi on the back cover! And is it just me, or are Urd's breasts kinda-sorta actually obeying the laws of gravity?
Not a new image, but still one of my favorites. (Yes, her hand is that blurry in the original image.)
Nice close-up of the image originally posted here. Also, Shii Kiya can draw Wilhelmina so much better than Ito Noizi can. It's not even funny.
Having said that, though...
Wow this second chapter sucked.
And what a let-down, especially after the so-awesome-it-made-my-teeth-hurt first chapter, too! And it's especially a letdown in light of the fact that I had to wait three months between chapters... Anyway, despite appearing on the cover of the magazine, Mathilde and Wilhelmina weren't even IN this chapter of the manga. Instead, it was twenty-four pages of some new Flame Haze that I don't care about ("Throne of Burning Sparks" Sokar WTF) fighting some two-bit villain (an evil talking tree, to be exact) and then, not surprisingly, killing it. Hooray. Except, why? Why do I care about this new and painfully generic Sokar character, why did the writers waste twenty-four pages on him killing some random evil tree, what does any of this have to do with Wilhelmina or Mathilde, and why don't the two title characters appear in this chapter at all?
With the addition of Sokar, however, the gender distribution of canon Flame Hazes is now officially equal. So far we have:
Female - Shana, Margery, Wilhelmina, Mathilde
Male - Khamsin, Yuri, East Edge, and now Sokar
...Which is interesting, because for so much of the original canon (the books and the anime), the Flame Haze thing was an all-woman show, until Khamsin showed up. Since Khamsin, each new Flame Haze introduced has been a man. Hmmmm.
Also, as long as I'm in the Santa mood, a few quick links that you might enjoy:
Evil Editor's Best. Writing. Exercise. Ever.
A motherlong interview with Jeff Smith. But it never gets boring because it's, you know, Jeff Smith.