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Red River (天は赤い河のほとり)

Other name(s): Anatolia Story, Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori, Heaven by the Red River, Orontes Renka, Orontes Love Song, Where the Sky and the Red River meet

Author(s): Chie Shinohara

At the age of 15, Yuuri Suzuki has just received her first kiss. She should be full of happiness, and yet lately, she’s grown anxious because arms keep reaching out for her in water. One day, she’s pulled into a puddle and emerges in the completely different world of the Hittite empire in ancient Anatoli!

The queen there wishes to sacrifice Yuuri in order to produce the death curse that will promote her son, the youngest prince, to the throne. But the ritual is soon interrupted by the third prince, Kail, who says that he’s already taken Yuuri’s virginity! Although she’s free from the ritual, the queen doesn’t stop her schemes to kill Yuuri, and Yuuri is now bound more and more to the handsome Kail’s side. Will she ever get to return to Japan? Or will love make her stay?

Red River Chapter 1-10

Red River Chapter 11-20

Red River Chapter 21-30

Red River Chapter 31-40

Red River Chapter 41-50

Red River Chapter 51-60

Red River Chapter 61-70

Red River Chapter 71-80

Red River Chapter 81-90

Red River Chapter 91-97

(Note: I didn’t compiled it in volume by volume because it’s too tiresome for me. But I hope you’ll enjoy this. 10/10! This is my most favorite manga evaaahhhh)

(Disclaimer: I don’t any of this manga!)

PS. This is my ultimate favorite manga! although its kinda old? the story is gold! I love Yuri because she gave me a Yona from Akatsuki no Yona vibes. The story is 10/10 !! 

Natsu preaches his love for his friends, and he’ll die protecting them, no questions asked. Except I think he holds grudges. Never allowed to express them, because he’s always expected to love his friends. But sometimes he sits across Lucy’s table and breaks the silence of them eating, by saying something along the lines of “I didn’t like it when Erza punched me in the face today. I seriously didn’t mean to ruin her cake, it was an honest accident. She didn’t even apologise, even though I did.” And Lucy won’t say anything, because she knows he doesn’t want an answer - he just needed to air his frustration out. “Happy gave me the silent treatment, but I don’t think I deserved it. He always butts into our conversations, but I can’t say hi when he’s talking with Carla. He has double standards and I can’t help but feel annoyed.”

Lucy once tried to get him to tell his friends about the troubles he was having - that he didn’t care for being punched or being treated like nothing when he was doing all he could for everyone, but Natsu just told her that having someone to talk to about it was enough. Except Lucy couldn’t help but wonder if she ever made him feel that way - defeated, overlooked. So she asked him. He only said that his wishes regarding her hadn’t been because she upset him - it was him being possessive. Wanting her to stay in bed for longer, wanting her to spend more time with him rather than her books - all things he’d also be sad if she did, because he knew she loved reading and writing, and he loved the coffee she made every morning for the two of them.

Yes, Lucy was the one person who Natsu could never hold any grudges against. She who had offered so much to be with him - how could he be anything but grateful

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Quick reminder that vending machines kill more people annually than sharks do.

I’m glad Maes Hughes died.

He’s a fan favorite character and I enjoy him a lot too, but I think fundamentally he’s a character who has to die. His role in the narrative is to haunt it.

I might be even more of a weirdo because I enjoy his manga characterization over his Brotherhood or ‘03 portrayal, but I love the idea of Hughes being someone the Elric brothers barely know - someone we, the audience, barely see.

Until he dies.

Because suddenly he’s everywhere. He was Roy’s friend and Armstrong’s superior officer and Winry’s acquaintance and Elicia’s father - and he was the soldier both Ed and Al knew, but didn’t actually know, that got killed because of them anyway.

In the manga Winry stays at Hughes’ place, but Ed and Al enter his house for the first time after they found out he died. For them, it’s not about losing a friend (though I am sure they liked him just fine) because that story is already Roy’s - for them it’s about realizing that this plot they’ve involved themselves in kills people that aren’t actually directly involved at all to begin with. It makes sense for their allies and friends and loved-ones to be targeted by the antagonists - but a soldier who mostly joined in because he was at the right (or wrong) place at the right (wrong) time? That’s not supposed to happen. And that’s what makes Hughes’ death so hard on them.

(and poor Elicia - abandoned children without their fathers were always a weakness of Ed’s)

But Roy? Yeah… he suffers. From the moment of Hughes’ dead on, Roy is haunted by it. By him. His best friend follows him everywhere. We see it in the way Roy only involves himself in the plot because Hughes figured something out and Roy is desperate for answers. He hunts down the homunculi to save this country, sure, but mostly so he can burn his best friend’s murderer to the ground. When Riza talks about winning against the Führer and their military dictatorship, she talks about all of them, not a hint of revenge coloring her vision - but Roy? It is telling that it isn’t a greater ideal that makes him torture Envy, but the agony of his best friend’s death.

The thing that almost breaks Roy is Maes.

No.

It’s Maes’ memory haunting the narrative.

And isn’t that beautiful?

The tragedy of it all, the horror, and the realization that Roy Mustang never really recovered from the War, that his friends are the only think keeping him in one piece, the fact that Roy Mustang is a Hero and a Monster and a fallible human capable of love.

Maes Hughes has to die to remind all of us of what Roy Mustang is capable of: love, loyalty, devotion…. and the slaughter and torture of numerous people.

His ghost is haunting the narrative - and for that I love him.

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It's a rat king. Except mice. A Mouse King.

"A Cluster Of Rats" is an extremely impressive Japanese Netsuke (small sculpture) from the late 1800s 🐀