Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 芥川 龍之介 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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thenearshore2018-09-03 11:34 pm
killercoat) wrote in thenearshore2018-09-03 11:34 pm
[Closed] Stroke by stroke
Who: Obi and Akutagawa
When: January 13th
Where: Around the Far Shore
What: Akutagawa comes across Obi having difficult reading calligraphy and he helps him out.
[Akutagawa is learning that the afterlife has many strange occurrences. Dealing with ayakashi is one, but even the Heavens have bizarre happenings. As he walks he notices a man with dark hair looking up into the sky and watching as the strokes appear in the thin air. Stroke by stroke a kanji takes form in a very archaic strip and after it's completion it remains there. He notices that the man is still staring up at it as if trying to discern what it is.
There's something very familiar about the script since Akutagawa is able to understand it with ease. He approaches the man, and saying the meaning out loud.]
It reads, dream...
When: January 13th
Where: Around the Far Shore
What: Akutagawa comes across Obi having difficult reading calligraphy and he helps him out.
[Akutagawa is learning that the afterlife has many strange occurrences. Dealing with ayakashi is one, but even the Heavens have bizarre happenings. As he walks he notices a man with dark hair looking up into the sky and watching as the strokes appear in the thin air. Stroke by stroke a kanji takes form in a very archaic strip and after it's completion it remains there. He notices that the man is still staring up at it as if trying to discern what it is.
There's something very familiar about the script since Akutagawa is able to understand it with ease. He approaches the man, and saying the meaning out loud.]
It reads, dream...
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Okay, sure. What's manga?
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[ Akutagawa seems surprised. Manga seems to be all the rage with the youth, it's rare to hear that no one has heard of it.]
Calling it a picture book or even a comic book isn't exactly it. Manga is best described as a visual novel, the pictures and dialogue carry the story along. There are different genres so anyone can find something that speaks to them. Though I will warn you to read the book in the right direction, otherwise you might be confused.
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[ Obi rubs his chin as he thinks over this new bit of information. ]
So.. It's like a storybook, basically.
[ He imagines large images, with text underneath. In a bit more of a classical fashion. ]