I'm trying to finish The Atrocity Archives tonight and I seem to have this persistent problem with lovecraftian stuff where the actual horror just goes completely over my head and i fail to pay attention to what makes things scary, until any gory details or whathaveyou are divulged. It's been there since I've tried to dive into HP's work as a teenager, too.

In the original source material, I guess it's actually really good that I missed the point. "Wow cool monsters" is actually the morally correct takeaway from the Mythos. But in the case of Laundry Files, it sucks because I really do want to give this work my full attention! Much of the writing is funny and cool. Honestly, it's at the point where the beurocratic spy meeting stuff surrounding the horrors are more interesting to me than the horrors themselves. It's a real Shin Godzilla Situation

wow when did Heavenly Delusion get an anime adaption

i am horribly behind in media i enjoy. what a disgrace

I was trying to make at least part of this something to sample and failed, but this patch isn't half bad

I think I'm enjoying Itagaki Paru's new work "Sanda" the way it is because much unlike Beastars there's no emotional pretense and it's all stupid as hell from the jump. You can't disappoint me if it's already well aware of its trashiness

Obviously Paru excels at drawing animals, but her art style when it comes to humans has really grown into something expressive and recognizable (you could see it in Bota Bota, too; a miniseries which is somehow less Out There than her current serial. Check it out it you want something weird, but warning for lots and lots of blood as the cover implies).

Although the post-school battle arc was easily my least favorite part of Beastars, the way she drew action sequences was really special. Itagaki has a really great understanding of motion in her art that really translates well to action shounen.

I might enjoy the story itself more if I actually were able to read it properly; currently the only way to catch up is via a discord server with page-by-page live translation, un-typeset, by like 5 people maximum. Not to diminish their hard work of course, no way something like a kid who can turn into santa claus action hero would get licensed in English

I don't recommend it at all, but it's a really fun manga for me to turn off my brain and not think too hard about

Also: Yagiuda. I like his lil ugly ass