Yeah I can’t say it’s looking too good for our friends in the elevator. But hey, we haven’t seen their (potential) corpses! (trying to be optimistic XD) . Yeah, we will learn about Sleepy’s background very soon actually, it might explain a bit why she can seem so calm in such extreme situations. She’s had an…extreme upbringing!
Sleepy was like “Oh no…anyway” when it came to checking on the three soldiers lol. But really there’s not much she can do, for them or herself. I’m curious to see if she can get out of this “Escape room”. The blonde soldier reminds me of someone I know I swear to god, you just read my mind and put one of my old coworkers into this comic 💀
Lmao. Sleepy would honestly give them a hand if she could. She hates the military but she wouldn’t let those folks die. But yeah, once she realized they were on their own she just shrugged. ðŸ˜
That’s funny, yeah totally read your mind lol. Kaycen is an interesting character. And his big brother is one of my favorite characters in the next arc. They’re definitely in very different organizations.
Yeah, those definitely aren’t good elevator noises, I don’t think I even want to know what was squishy in there! Hey, no stealing the monster, Porcia and Sleepy got dibs on that one!
True lol. She can do a bunch of stuff local to her device, like rewatch that video she took. But yeah, no Youtube or Youtube equivalent. I don’t use Youtube for anything but music these days but I pretty much always have a tab open XD.
lol nahh, I have to be honest I sort of get annoyed whenever I see those these days. the ones that pop up on my feed tend to be pretty bad esp if they’re more popular. last philosophy one I remember watching just completely botched Hegel and Marx. i just got bored of most movie essay stuff tbh, a lot of them are pretty shallow cinema sin level stuff or “THE WEST HAS FALLEN” kind of cringe for 10 to 30 mins 💀. every once in a blue moon there’s an interesting one I might partake.
I am also subbed to smaller comic artists/animators and their youtubes/streams. those are all always awesome haha.
YES! So good, Succession War Arc is basically anime Game of Thrones this is just insane all the the different characters and reveals. It’s amazing what Togashi can build upon and hold interest given we haven’t seen Gon be a major player in like years. I really have some theories about Beyond that I’m curious if we’ll have the answer too soon. I’m also happy that Hunter x Hunter is back officially on an irregular schedule that’s flexible for Togashi. He’s been really prolific lately so I think we’ll see a lot of chapters for a while maybe every few weeks or so.
Oh no I haven’t! I’m planning on seeing Look Back soon though, pretty hyped for that. For Uzumaki, even though I like horror and respect the hell out of Junji Ito, never been like a gigantic fan of most of his stories. Also the anime trailers just haven’t done much for me tbh.
Now Hunter x Hunter just has to avoid a Game of Thrones ending. I want to check out Look Back, but I feel like the animated version of that story will destroy me emotionally lol.
Update, I just watched Look Back! I am NOT okay…at all 😀 😀 😀
Very, very good short film. It really hit home, man a bit too much at points. Fujimoto’s so versitile and the team did a phenomenal job animating and adding to his story!
God, what is that abomination in the elevator? I suppose we won’t see for a bit, but I don’t know if I want to peak at what’s in there given what Sleepy just heard.
It is definitely something nasty. Heh, sorry but uh…we will definitely be back in the elevator if only briefly XD. The last portion of this tunnel arc will definitely mostly focus on Porcia, Sleepy and the theater shenanigans, but we’ll also follow what these soldiers go through and a bit of what Security and Lucia are doing 🙂
Thank you!! There’s a lot of characters in this story. It is also a pretty long story so my favorite part is going to be having the ones that are important slowly unveil all their secrets and layers as they keep showing up and returning over and over haha.
She should have stayed inside 😠To be fair, there was a lot going on down here already, but she definitely threw a wrench into the murderers plans and things have suddenly escalated beyond comprehension. In other words it’s a Tuesday for her lmao.
Oh no I haven’t you’ll have to enlighten me . My twitter timeline has been curated to just Togashi, entertainment news, philosophy tweets, and pretty artist images haha. And then a random guy saying the hurricanes are being controlled every now and then 💀
If the door can be opened at all it’s worth thinking it over, at least. But the masked men seem intelligent and hard to capture. I’m sure they thought of those possibilities. I wonder what Sleepy will do.
Great point! I am pretty excited to show you want happens next with Sleepy haha. I’m in the process of working through a short flashback with Sleepy, her Dad and Porcia. See y’all real soon for the next one 😀
The Japanese style mask is so unnerving I jumped a little when I was scrolling down >.<. I wonder who's behind these killings and why'd they go to the trouble of all this?
I’m glad you think so! They are very creepy these murderers in masks. That’s a great point, they are doing a lot here to say the least. Their motivation must be pretty strong.
We won’t have revealed all the potential suspects for at least until we get back to what Security office is doing, but I can’t wait till then. Y’all will have all the clues by then :D. I really don’t think most will guess who they are lol. I’m still laughing about who it is tbh XD.
Thank you!! It’s so fun, I like posting animations on instagram people seem to be really receptive on there haha. I’m also going to branch out to youtube eventually :>
Yeah, Rabidus is pretty strong with his bayesion rings, like his mom and dad. In terms of fighting he’d do very well as long as he had his rings. He probably would get a bit more worked up and impatient than Porcia and Sleepy haha.
Fun fact, in the tiemline right now he’s celebrating his 19th birthday in Idiko’s Paradise. It’s funny because back when he was the main protag, I did the same set up with Yasha where the story begins with bad things happening after their birthday ðŸ˜. For Yasha it’s Circus, for Rabidus it was the airplane sequence. I can be a mean author sometimes lmao
Also, I find the soldiers comment about General Lavavoth being patronising and not believing he’d rescue Porcia, interesting. How much of him rescuing Porcia is actually out of genuine concern.
Oh yeah Lavavoth is another person we will see more of, but to many of the soldiers he is a lot.
When Kaycen says he’s patronizing more so in the sense that he consistently acts like everyone in the military but him is stupid and incompetent . Instead of the type of patronizing where someone appears friendly but actually looks down on others, Lavavoth is both mean AND looks down on all his soldiers lmao. On top of being a war criminal
But you can say that he does take his job stupid seriously like Iri, and how much of him saving the princess is out of genuine concern we shall see!
Yup! I can say, both those images circumstances aren’t quite what they seem haha. Sleepy’s backstory is nuts, I thought up with some people a while ago we will just touch the tip of the iceberg next page 😉
I’m intrigued. But uh, Sleepy’s not a serial killer herself is she? Tell me she got caught with marijuana or something. I was starting to like her. 😠Also I have somethings to say about the creep with the mustache but I’ll wait till next page.
Haha! That would be kind of on the nose with the whole ‘Evil‘ thing on her beenie but who knows right? Without spoiling too much I can say that man things went down, Sleepy was there for two years until she met Porcia online while she was in prison, then eventually Idiko convinced Paradise’ 002 King to let her out. A lot more happened but we’ll see a bit soon 😀
Oh I forgot to reply to the other part of your comment. I like Valentin’s design too haha. She’s funny. She and Aicha are important players too. Since Porcia and Sleepy are kind of the main focus of this arc, there’s a lot of “cameos” of players that will be relevant later :).
You have me curious about what the fuck Sleepy did. Well played. And on another note, your cameo talk reminded me of someone I was arguing with recently about whether or not the show Invincible is a superhero deconstruction. He was talking about traditional super hero cameos and tropes and subverting expectations and tropes multiverse stuff. I like Invincible but I never liked that term “deconstruction”. It’s a good superhero story, but at this point it’s not really subversive imo.
YO I’m so excited for the next season of Invincible! And yeah I actually agree with you. Whenever I hear the term deconstruction it’s kind of the same as when someone brings up ‘nihilism’, like those are both originally philosophical terms that have kind of been turned into pop terms that…don’t really mean anything anymore to me. At least with how they’re typically used.
I’m pretty sure narrative deconstruction evolved from Derrida’s whole critical analysis schtick, but now it just means the WOAH story goes against cliches I guess. But superhero story cliches evolve too, even back when the Invincible comic first came out, a lot of what it was doing were tropes you’d see in a lot of other stories around the time (not that it didn’t do anything unusual or fresh, it certainly did, but it’s a stretch to say it was like unprecedented).
Thanks!! It’s fun to post them. Those panels in particular are MONTHS old haha. Although fair warning, it’s all subject to be moved to future parts of the story or cut haha. I’m kind of at the point where the last half of this arc will be more letting the established characters take in what’s going on before the climax. At this point it’s looking like next page isn’t going to go into Sleepy’s flashback, it’s mostly her breaking down what’s going on to try to get into the room. I want to flesh out, connect, and focus on the disparate characters and what’s already established down here a bit more before I bring in that big flashback. We’ll see what happens haha. I’ll see how it flows and if including the flashback distracts too much from the already present insanity already happening down here.
That’s a good strategy. I’m really curious how about the crimes against humanity Sleepy commited to get the slammer. But I can wait, however long it takes.
Thanks, yeah it’s just personal choice! I do like when stories just go insane and are more about having a grandiose plot and have a lot of implications rather than being character focused and small scaled, but for me I just want the few characters who are recurring in this big story to get as much focus as they’re supposed to haha. I like that about Hunter x Hunter and One Piece manga. Somehow who and what’s important still stands out among absurdly big worlds/stories.
53 thoughts on “Chapter 2: Part 16”
sovember
Thanks for reading!
Jersey Addict
Now that’s a gnarly episode. R.I.P elevator soldiers.
sovember
Let’s hope by some miracle they’re iight 😠but yeah, RIP
Brylee Bonnie
😨😨😨 Those guys just died didn’t they. Sleepy is so calm that couldn’t be me. I’d be in a fetal position. ðŸ˜
sovember
Yeah I can’t say it’s looking too good for our friends in the elevator. But hey, we haven’t seen their (potential) corpses! (trying to be optimistic XD) . Yeah, we will learn about Sleepy’s background very soon actually, it might explain a bit why she can seem so calm in such extreme situations. She’s had an…extreme upbringing!
Alex Le
Sleepy was like “Oh no…anyway” when it came to checking on the three soldiers lol. But really there’s not much she can do, for them or herself. I’m curious to see if she can get out of this “Escape room”. The blonde soldier reminds me of someone I know I swear to god, you just read my mind and put one of my old coworkers into this comic 💀
sovember
Lmao. Sleepy would honestly give them a hand if she could. She hates the military but she wouldn’t let those folks die. But yeah, once she realized they were on their own she just shrugged. ðŸ˜
That’s funny, yeah totally read your mind lol. Kaycen is an interesting character. And his big brother is one of my favorite characters in the next arc. They’re definitely in very different organizations.
myname123
The background shot with all the people walking through the tunnels is INSANE. It looks like we’re headed towards a climax….
sovember
Thank you!! I had fun making that one. I like how it came out, it’s a couple backgrounds stacked together.
TokyoField138
I hope Porcia is okay 😱
sovember
Hopefully!!
CaitCat
Yeah, those definitely aren’t good elevator noises, I don’t think I even want to know what was squishy in there! Hey, no stealing the monster, Porcia and Sleepy got dibs on that one!
sovember
Definitely!! there’s a lot of things squishy could be, in this case none of them good ðŸ˜
Right?! Just some soldier randos coming in and stealing the monster. Porcia and Sleepy won that monster fair and square haha.
emperialScum
The real tradgedy is she has no internet. No youtube, no nothing.
sovember
True lol. She can do a bunch of stuff local to her device, like rewatch that video she took. But yeah, no Youtube or Youtube equivalent. I don’t use Youtube for anything but music these days but I pretty much always have a tab open XD.
Alex Le
You mean you’re not into those hour long philosophy and movie essays anymore lol.
sovember
lol nahh, I have to be honest I sort of get annoyed whenever I see those these days. the ones that pop up on my feed tend to be pretty bad esp if they’re more popular. last philosophy one I remember watching just completely botched Hegel and Marx. i just got bored of most movie essay stuff tbh, a lot of them are pretty shallow cinema sin level stuff or “THE WEST HAS FALLEN” kind of cringe for 10 to 30 mins 💀. every once in a blue moon there’s an interesting one I might partake.
I am also subbed to smaller comic artists/animators and their youtubes/streams. those are all always awesome haha.
Alex Le
You see latest Hunter x Hunter chapte yet? How about that Uzumaki anime?
sovember
YES! So good, Succession War Arc is basically anime Game of Thrones this is just insane all the the different characters and reveals. It’s amazing what Togashi can build upon and hold interest given we haven’t seen Gon be a major player in like years. I really have some theories about Beyond that I’m curious if we’ll have the answer too soon. I’m also happy that Hunter x Hunter is back officially on an irregular schedule that’s flexible for Togashi. He’s been really prolific lately so I think we’ll see a lot of chapters for a while maybe every few weeks or so.
Oh no I haven’t! I’m planning on seeing Look Back soon though, pretty hyped for that. For Uzumaki, even though I like horror and respect the hell out of Junji Ito, never been like a gigantic fan of most of his stories. Also the anime trailers just haven’t done much for me tbh.
Alex Le
Now Hunter x Hunter just has to avoid a Game of Thrones ending. I want to check out Look Back, but I feel like the animated version of that story will destroy me emotionally lol.
sovember
Oh god yeah that would be terrible XD.
Update, I just watched Look Back! I am NOT okay…at all 😀 😀 😀
Very, very good short film. It really hit home, man a bit too much at points. Fujimoto’s so versitile and the team did a phenomenal job animating and adding to his story!
doradoesntexplore
Sex joke at the wrong time
😂
sovember
😂
Henson
God, what is that abomination in the elevator? I suppose we won’t see for a bit, but I don’t know if I want to peak at what’s in there given what Sleepy just heard.
sovember
It is definitely something nasty. Heh, sorry but uh…we will definitely be back in the elevator if only briefly XD. The last portion of this tunnel arc will definitely mostly focus on Porcia, Sleepy and the theater shenanigans, but we’ll also follow what these soldiers go through and a bit of what Security and Lucia are doing 🙂
MU$HR00M$0UP
So many great and memorable characters and designs
sovember
Thank you!! There’s a lot of characters in this story. It is also a pretty long story so my favorite part is going to be having the ones that are important slowly unveil all their secrets and layers as they keep showing up and returning over and over haha.
Jez
Oh Porcia, this all happened because your cutsey self were bored ðŸ˜
sovember
She should have stayed inside 😠To be fair, there was a lot going on down here already, but she definitely threw a wrench into the murderers plans and things have suddenly escalated beyond comprehension. In other words it’s a Tuesday for her lmao.
TokyoField138
Well she can’t save the soldiers I guess. Save your girlfriend Sleepy 🥰
sovember
lol Sleepy’s energy when comparing the soldiers vs Porcia
Alex Le
Lol. You seen that drama with that mario pfp in video game twitter?
sovember
Oh no I haven’t you’ll have to enlighten me . My twitter timeline has been curated to just Togashi, entertainment news, philosophy tweets, and pretty artist images haha. And then a random guy saying the hurricanes are being controlled every now and then 💀
James Perdido
If the door can be opened at all it’s worth thinking it over, at least. But the masked men seem intelligent and hard to capture. I’m sure they thought of those possibilities. I wonder what Sleepy will do.
sovember
Great point! I am pretty excited to show you want happens next with Sleepy haha. I’m in the process of working through a short flashback with Sleepy, her Dad and Porcia. See y’all real soon for the next one 😀
Alyssa Chiang
The Japanese style mask is so unnerving I jumped a little when I was scrolling down >.<. I wonder who's behind these killings and why'd they go to the trouble of all this?
sovember
I’m glad you think so! They are very creepy these murderers in masks. That’s a great point, they are doing a lot here to say the least. Their motivation must be pretty strong.
We won’t have revealed all the potential suspects for at least until we get back to what Security office is doing, but I can’t wait till then. Y’all will have all the clues by then :D. I really don’t think most will guess who they are lol. I’m still laughing about who it is tbh XD.
Alex Le
I saw that Rabidus animation on your instagram btw. Nice work. I wonder how they’d fair in this situation.
sovember
Thank you!! It’s so fun, I like posting animations on instagram people seem to be really receptive on there haha. I’m also going to branch out to youtube eventually :>
Yeah, Rabidus is pretty strong with his bayesion rings, like his mom and dad. In terms of fighting he’d do very well as long as he had his rings. He probably would get a bit more worked up and impatient than Porcia and Sleepy haha.
Fun fact, in the tiemline right now he’s celebrating his 19th birthday in Idiko’s Paradise. It’s funny because back when he was the main protag, I did the same set up with Yasha where the story begins with bad things happening after their birthday ðŸ˜. For Yasha it’s Circus, for Rabidus it was the airplane sequence. I can be a mean author sometimes lmao
Alex Le
He is a sassy boy.
Alex Le
Also, I find the soldiers comment about General Lavavoth being patronising and not believing he’d rescue Porcia, interesting. How much of him rescuing Porcia is actually out of genuine concern.
sovember
Oh yeah Lavavoth is another person we will see more of, but to many of the soldiers he is a lot.
When Kaycen says he’s patronizing more so in the sense that he consistently acts like everyone in the military but him is stupid and incompetent . Instead of the type of patronizing where someone appears friendly but actually looks down on others, Lavavoth is both mean AND looks down on all his soldiers lmao.
On top of being a war criminalBut you can say that he does take his job stupid seriously like Iri, and how much of him saving the princess is out of genuine concern we shall see!
Alex Le
Is Sleepy in fucking prison in that WIP. Sensing a tragic backstory.
I like that brown haired girls design
sovember
Yup! I can say, both those images circumstances aren’t quite what they seem haha. Sleepy’s backstory is nuts, I thought up with some people a while ago we will just touch the tip of the iceberg next page 😉
Alex Le
I’m intrigued. But uh, Sleepy’s not a serial killer herself is she? Tell me she got caught with marijuana or something. I was starting to like her. 😠Also I have somethings to say about the creep with the mustache but I’ll wait till next page.
sovember
Haha! That would be kind of on the nose with the whole ‘Evil‘ thing on her beenie but who knows right? Without spoiling too much I can say that man things went down, Sleepy was there for two years until she met Porcia online while she was in prison, then eventually Idiko convinced Paradise’ 002 King to let her out. A lot more happened but we’ll see a bit soon 😀
sovember
Oh I forgot to reply to the other part of your comment. I like Valentin’s design too haha. She’s funny. She and Aicha are important players too. Since Porcia and Sleepy are kind of the main focus of this arc, there’s a lot of “cameos” of players that will be relevant later :).
Alex Le
You have me curious about what the fuck Sleepy did. Well played. And on another note, your cameo talk reminded me of someone I was arguing with recently about whether or not the show Invincible is a superhero deconstruction. He was talking about traditional super hero cameos and tropes and subverting expectations and tropes multiverse stuff. I like Invincible but I never liked that term “deconstruction”. It’s a good superhero story, but at this point it’s not really subversive imo.
sovember
YO I’m so excited for the next season of Invincible! And yeah I actually agree with you. Whenever I hear the term deconstruction it’s kind of the same as when someone brings up ‘nihilism’, like those are both originally philosophical terms that have kind of been turned into pop terms that…don’t really mean anything anymore to me. At least with how they’re typically used.
I’m pretty sure narrative deconstruction evolved from Derrida’s whole critical analysis schtick, but now it just means the WOAH story goes against cliches I guess. But superhero story cliches evolve too, even back when the Invincible comic first came out, a lot of what it was doing were tropes you’d see in a lot of other stories around the time (not that it didn’t do anything unusual or fresh, it certainly did, but it’s a stretch to say it was like unprecedented).
Alex Le
Sorry your wordpress comment thing is haunted.
I always find your non finished work in progresses fun to look at. Guessing the balance between drawing and 3D
sovember
LOL yeah I don’t know what’s going on.
Thanks!! It’s fun to post them. Those panels in particular are MONTHS old haha. Although fair warning, it’s all subject to be moved to future parts of the story or cut haha. I’m kind of at the point where the last half of this arc will be more letting the established characters take in what’s going on before the climax. At this point it’s looking like next page isn’t going to go into Sleepy’s flashback, it’s mostly her breaking down what’s going on to try to get into the room. I want to flesh out, connect, and focus on the disparate characters and what’s already established down here a bit more before I bring in that big flashback. We’ll see what happens haha. I’ll see how it flows and if including the flashback distracts too much from the already present insanity already happening down here.
Alex Le
That’s a good strategy. I’m really curious how about the crimes against humanity Sleepy commited to get the slammer. But I can wait, however long it takes.
sovember
Thanks, yeah it’s just personal choice! I do like when stories just go insane and are more about having a grandiose plot and have a lot of implications rather than being character focused and small scaled, but for me I just want the few characters who are recurring in this big story to get as much focus as they’re supposed to haha. I like that about Hunter x Hunter and One Piece manga. Somehow who and what’s important still stands out among absurdly big worlds/stories.
AS LONG AS IT TAKES