Weekly manga roundup

[branchandroot]

Bleach is absolute love this week. I'm fascinated that even the Visored can't maintain their masks for very long and delighted that all the old connections are pulling back together again. (*secretly hopes for some tasty Kensei/Hisagi vibes*)



KHR seems to be doing an odd sort of reversal of how the Ring Battle went. With the rings, they won but had it stolen on, more or less, a technicality, and it was only the Rings' own rejection of Xanxus that saved the day.

Now they have lost, and yet we know that life will go on somehow or other, that there will be some technicality, that Irie probably won't really die, but for that to happen there will have to be some technicality or reversal or, hell, just plain refusal to accept that this decision means anything but "time for a free-for-all, then". Or, just another round, which I kind of suspect is most likely. We shall see.



Monochrome Factor is always hot, but this week... *fans self* Oh my. Even not knowing what they're saying, some things are nice and obvious. And I really do love it that Akira knows Shirogane is a scary bastard, knows he's ruthless and alarmingly powerful, is clearly scared when Shirogane shows that, and still stands up to him. And not exactly in a defiant way, or at least defiance isn't most of what's in there. It's more... Akira's moral compass insists. And I am endlessly entertained that Shirogane 'gives in' and yet never, ever actually lets Akira do something dangerous alone or without protection and, usually, interference.

Comments

[arashi-neko.livejournal.com]

*hearts* it really is a lovely chapter. Shirogane's expressions are also very very lovely. It is quite amusing, considering who doesn't get the polite face from him, and instead gets his actual emotions. And for all his early protests about how much trust Shirogane wasn't extending to him, Akira certainly trusts him to let him make his own judgment calls now. Even if those judgments run contrary to Shirogane's own opinion, heh.

[branchandroot]

It really is! I'm liking how subtly Akira and Shirogane's relationship is progressing toward increased trust and, I think, increased equality--almost without either of them seeming to notice.