A grabbag of absurdity.

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grelleswife
grelleswife

I’m probably just rehashing an observation that everyone and their mother has made at this point, but I love Shirahama‘s creative use of the basic structural components of manga to further the storytelling.

Of course, there’s this panel from Chapter 1, where Qifrey is not only yanking Coco out of range of the forbidden spell that crystallized her mom, but pulling her from outside the frame (symbolizing her status as an “outsider” to witch society) into the panel with him (depicting her abrupt transition into their world).

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Another example that caught my eye was this scene from the Qiflings’ trip to Kalhn, where the panel’s border forms the flight of stairs that Coco dashes up to get to Nolnoa’s shop, thus directing the reader’s eye to the next page, where Qifrey, Richeh, and Tetia are waiting for her.

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Or these speech bubbles, which are shaped like ragged scrolls to indicate that Coco is reading out loud from a book.

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Other instances, like Qifrey leaning on the panel frame, may not serve a direct narrative purpose, but this playfulness creates the impression that the artwork might spring to life at any moment, as though you really are flipping through the enchanted pages of a spellbook.

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