joyces

seattle cat

  • she/they hir/it | plural

domestic longhair. remembers the outside world but only sometimes desires to return to it.



minmaja
@minmaja

i was obsessed with dnangel for a while as a tween, it was one of few manga that got translated over here in the very sporadic selection of manga that got brought over in our early-mid 00s manga boom. i dont actually have any memories of what the story was from back then, the only strong memories that remained in my mind were of dark being bishie and of miscellaneous scenes from the BL fics my friends would write of it. the last volume we received translated was volume 9, and eventually some time after that i moved onto other interests, and i would only think of dnangel occasionally as this silly little BL shipping vehicle from when me and my friends were young.

but i suddenly remembered it again recently, looked it up and discovered that after multiple hiatuses the series actually finally concluded in 2021. reading it all over again in 2024 to the end... dnangel is actually like, good. like its not a masterpiece but its a really fun, really cute shoujo about a sweet cast of characters, with some really funny humor moments, and great art. sugisaki, the creator, gives off the impression of not planning most things very far in advance, lore and sudden new character details being sprinkled in clumsily at times, and i expected the ending would be rushed. it is rushed, but it's not a bad ending. it feels really fitting, only one character i felt was dealt an unfair hand, and lying awake reading excitedly at 1am before a work day it actually got a little bittersweet tear out of me🥲 i think revisiting something this formative from your youth and getting closure is something really special.

its a shame english publishing never finished it, with tokyopop having the original license, all the hiatuses and interest probably dropping off hard. im thankful for the scanlations out there but a lot of them aren't of great quality. if some english language publisher miraculously for some reason actually did a new release of the 10-kanzenban collection just for me i would buy them all in a heartbeat, to honor my 12yo self. maybe ill go ham and import the japanese volumes.


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