Half the name sake of this blog comes from my favorite manga since my teenage years. The story goes from stopping an undead vampire (with the ability to stop time for roughly 8 seconds) in Egypt to uncovering the identity of a mass murderer (with the ability to automatically reset time whenever he's found) in a sleepy suburban town of Japan to taking over the Italian mafia and becoming a gangster superstar so drugs are kept off the streets and justice is served. Then of course the story goes to a prison break in Florida where a priest needs to complete a ritual involving the absorption of vampire bones and gain the ability to control the gravitational forces of the earth, moon, and possibly the universe so that time is sped up to a vanishing point where everything repeats itself anew albeit with replacements chosen to the priest's liking. Lately, the manga is centered on a cross continent race across the United States, circa 1890, where runners and horse riders uncover a conspiracy to reassemble the body of Christ so that a new world leader can be found.
Um.
Yeah.
I'll take whatever Araki-san is smoking, thanks. And may he never stop creating.
"Don't need...ecstatic 「joy」..."
"Or abyssal 「despair」..."
"A life like a 「plant」..."
"That type of 「calm lifestyle」 was exactly my goal..."
- Yoshikage Kira, Part IV: Diamond is Unbreakable
"Underneath the corset of your mystery
Piece by piece undress you from your history
I'm sleeping with seclusion in sweet disarray"
- Heavy, Holly Brook
WHAT THE HELL?????
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