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Well I've spent the past several days blazing through this marvelous gem (pun intended) of a manga, and man oh man did I pick a bad time to start given this new timeskip. I need the next chapter badly, especially since, aside from some confusion during some of the battle scenes, the manga's been nothing short of fantastic. Also I'm sorry OP, but Rutile is the best gem.
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Snooze Cruise posted:New chapter Something interesting I saw pointed out elsewhere: Phos' reforming arms in the last panel of page 2 look strikingly like the human arm's bone structure.
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The wait for this was long, but my God, was it worth it. Oh, was it worth it.
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Squidster posted:Are they performing the most metal fusion dance imaginable? Will Cinnabar be Phos's missing piece? Well, Phos did promise to find Cinnabar a job only Cinnabar can do, so...
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Every time I think Phos has hit pinnacle suffering, it keeps getting worse. 
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Sindai posted:I can't recognize a single gem with no colors and different hair styles. honestly i think that's kind of the point
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Jun 24, 2022 06:26
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Jesus Christ, that ending paneling.  The end really is within sight now. drat.
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Aug 24, 2022 04:04
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Wollawolla posted:Are we still thinking this goes to 108 chapters? The ending feels only a few chapters out. The next 10 chapters are all only a page or two each. We must suffer through waiting, much like Phos did.
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haven't read the new chapter yet but these are some yikes takes im seeing. gas
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Nov 25, 2022 15:46
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symbolic posted:haven't read the new chapter yet but these are some yikes takes im seeing. gas i have now read it & upgraded these takes from yikes to AIDS
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Nov 25, 2022 19:39
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FlocksOfMice posted:This was never a story about Gem Highschool Activity Clubs or Lunar Idol Concerts. It's a story about how Phos' life loving sucks all aboard choochoo. this p. much. if u wanted more Dia/Bort or Amethyst getting into arguments with himself or w/e go read fanfiction, this was always going to be a journey of death and rebirth solely around Phos, and for Phos
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Nov 25, 2022 19:43
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Rody One Half posted:This started as a narrative with story and characters. When you throw out the story and characters and try to hang everything on a (not very good) treatise on Buddhist metaphysics, it's not a narrative anymore. a narrative is quite literally just a series of events, the only way HnK stops having a narrative in favor of Buddhist allegory is if Phos turns to the viewer and starts reciting passages from the Tipitaka followed by curtain close. the manga now might not be what you or seemingly a few others wanted from it at the beginning but there's plenty of other manga out there that are, and not any i can think of that are what HnK turned into (read: a masterpiece).
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Nov 28, 2022 15:47
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i also don't know how it isn't a good treatise on Buddhism. i'm not saying that it couldn't be shaky (Christ knows i don't know anything about the religion beyond the Buddha and reincarnation), but it's not overt unless you're told about it, and if it's because it's only really going into the fundamentals or a specific facet of the religion, that's kind of what you have to do when it comes to metaphor unless you're just that overly ambitious
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Cephas posted:I think to an audience familiar with Buddhist ideas, it would be extremely on-the-nose. The use of extremely long passages of time (measured in kalpas, a Buddhist term). The imagery of Adamant, who is clearly based on depictions of the Bodhisattva Jizo, combating a host of celestial Devas. Phos's procession of becoming various forms of precious stones (gold, lapis, etc.) is a bit of a deeper cut, but once the pattern is established, it becomes easy for folks to suss out that it's a religious reference. By the time they are hanging out on the moon, it really is about as explicitly a Buddhist story as you can get--Adamant and Enma literally reveal their secret identities as Buddhist figures Kshitigarbha and Yama. i was about to say that the majority of the audience wouldn't be familiar with most if any of that but then i remembered that like two-thirds of Japan is Buddhist to some capacity, so mea culpa there. in terms of the West tho, i think it's something a lot more people wouldn't figure out upon casual read which is what i had in mind with that post
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Pewdiepie posted:Voted Cinnabar. I respect it
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very serene chapter
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Squidster posted:All true and likely intentional! It's also just not particularly fun. L
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Endorph posted:nah its cool. skill issue this. ADTRW really is full of freaks..
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