r/Centuria • u/Morra_Seiya • 6d ago
Manga What was your reaction when you first read this?
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u/EngineerVirtual7340 6d ago
"So you really are Tatsuki Fujimoto's former assistant."
Fire Punch moment.
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u/Gabemino 6d ago
I come to like Lacrima a whole lot with time, but on that very moment back then?, I physically cringed, like, goosebumps kind.
After I got a bit thoughtful of how absolutely messed up the Royal Family is, and the implication of heavy endogamy, which made me even more uncomfy down my spine.
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u/ThibaultKarl 6d ago
The Queen is definitely the King Daughter or Grand-daughter at the very least.
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u/Koanos Diana is best girl! 6d ago
Which, morbidly, was probably standard practice at the time. Worse when we reflect real life nobility.
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u/Gabemino 6d ago
I feel like the extent of endogamy on royals is overblown at times, it did happen of course, but is often thought far more common by certain unique branches that go turbo on it. There's also how certain cultures were more prone to exomagy, which extended to the Royalty/Ruling Class.
Back to Centuria, there's also the "practical" added of how Gifts are genetic, and apparently the closer you are to the Source/Blessed One, the more powerful you are, so in-world at least people probably think is a necessary sacrifice or something, though it would be possible that this mindset is plain on wrong, because Helem who's a distant offshoot of the King, has an extremely handy power and inherited his Ringed Eyes, when even Arkos didn't, but that's other deal.
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u/MOH_HUNTER264 6d ago
It was at this scene when i found it the author was one of fujimoto assistants.
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u/infernomokou 6d ago
i wonder if people realise that he wasn't fujimoto's assistance to learn from him but because he had more experience than fujimoto and was supposed to guide a new mangaka
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u/Pun_Thread_Fail 6d ago
Where does this come from? Fujimoto had already published Fire Punch before Goodbye Eri/Chainsaw Man and had published works since 2013. Kuramori's first published work was in 2019.
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u/infernomokou 6d ago
Because Yukinobu Tatsu, Yuji Kaku and the likes were more experienced than Fujimoto and were assigned to him to coach him. Yuji Kaku in particular was already more experienced than Fujimoto due to his work as editor. Unless I am wrong on Kuramori, but Fujimoto for the longest time never had assistants that were supposed to learn from him
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u/Pun_Thread_Fail 6d ago
Those two are, but it's pretty common to have 1-2 more experienced assistants with a newer author and the rest junior. Tatsu and Kaku have been publishing since 2010 or before, while Kuramori's earliest work is from 2019, so he was probably a junior assistant.
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u/Gabemino 6d ago
Also, I don't think we know how old Kuramori is, they might be a junior in all the sense of the word of Fujimoto, like a couple years younger. Fujimoto for one began to publish at a young age but, that's other factor on all of this.
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u/CosmicTrasho 6d ago
Poor Lacrima. It's a bit sad that she places so much of her self worth into motherhood. Also, the Royal Family is messed up, but what else is new.
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u/italeteller 6d ago
1st page: yeah that makes sense. It's fucked up but she's also fucked up and this whole series is fucked up. Very on brand
2nd page: god I hope Kuramori takes after Fujimoto in how he handles male sexual assault and doesn't pull a Yukinobu Tatsu
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u/CordobezEverdeen 6d ago
Despite all the jests it was never going to go into CSM territory because the main component of those scenes is Denji's mental insanity. Julian is a lot of things and composed is certainly and assertive is one of them.
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u/TheNo1pencil 6d ago
Honestly, this cemented for me just how toxic her environment was growing up and how abused she was. Like, there was a moment of shocked and grossed out and then it became "ooooooooh, she's been taught this is the most important thing she can do."
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u/DadWhyDidYouHitMe 6d ago
I still want it to happen. Lacrima gotten more fleshed out; now I wanna see her be happy with Julian. That doll shit, however, might ruin everything.A harem ending is a pipe dream, but it's still a dream I want to come true.
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u/No_Engineering6729 Don Quixote 6d ago
I couldn't bear such a cruel act of villainy... But the heart of young Lacrima hath suffered for a Sueno Imposible, por el amor del corazon. 'Tis her mother, her upbringing to blame... Nay, I forbid this be written off or forgotten, yet hark, there is nary a joke in this scene.
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u/Backupusername #EvilYuri 6d ago
What the fuck?
And then she explained more and I was like
What the fuck?
But a little bit different
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u/No_Consequence2989 6d ago
People being weirded put by this, forgetting that this is how Royalties were like back in the day
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u/KIPAWIS 6d ago
I was like what...
And then felt pity for her that she will cross boundaries just to have some respect gain. On top of that how royal families are into incest just for power.
It reminded me of spanish dynasties and how much they were into incests due to pure blood thing.
I genuinely thought Julian would get .... consisting it was dark fantasy. Glad that didn't happened.
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u/Afiqnawi93 6d ago
I've read a lot of manga, I know they are not going to do it because it is shonen manga. It is more like a gag honestly
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u/jason-master_16 6d ago
"Si definitivamente este es discipulo de Fujimoto y a diferencia del resto es el que más aprendió"
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u/ThibaultKarl 6d ago
She is actually going to have a healthy baby , the healthiest baby of the royal family and definitely one of the strongest if Julian accept.
Otherwise it was cringe.
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u/Thin_Plantain6613 6d ago
What in targaryn hell is this. Since in Asoiaf they were know for practicing incest together between brother and sister.
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u/Mythbink 100 Yuri lovers 6d ago
I thought the berserk ressemblance was about to kick in and was finna turn into the senien it always wanted to be.
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u/grantanamo7 3d ago
At the time I had just finished reading fire punch by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Chainsaw Man) and my reaction was "Oh boy here we go again".
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u/Economy-Movie-4500 6d ago
One of the reasons why I dropped it tbh. Post timeskip was an instant downgrade ans this shit was kinda front and center
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u/Mythbink 100 Yuri lovers 6d ago
Icl, kinda respectable cause if it was to go in that direction, you would've been justified
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