Since it's international woman's day, today we're reading the beautiful tale of a sad, genderless rock with a dumb name and how she emancipated herself from old ties, fell in love with a dashing prince, discovered herself as a woman, got married and became the Princess of the moon.
I'll post the relevant pages from chapters 67 to 76 of the houseki manga.
Houseki no kuni storytime - the Karen saga
Ryder Richardson
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Carson Turner
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Gabriel Torres
Also thank Rohiniposter for the OP art
Ian Ortiz
The whole thing is 86 pages so it'd be good if you'd bump the thread if you're reading
Christian Davis
I don't fully endorse this romance shit but it's entertaining to say the least
Camden Jones
Not to mention that this chapter with the Ghost thing is quite heartbreaking
I remember the thread when the spoilers hit back then leaving everyone horrified
Logan Miller
The inclusions in the eye aren't technically touching the rest of the body because of how the eyeball works so how does that work
Owen Peterson
I don't buy this in full at all but poor Craig
Jaxson Allen
Another thing I forgot is to thank PAS for the translations
Robert Flores
Ichikawa and her fetishes
Adam Hughes
Look at how touchy Aechmea is already and how enticed Cairo is when he definitely hated being touchy-feely with anyone
Leo Morales
It begins.
Cooper Nelson
I never liked Ghost that much from the start to be honest
Nathaniel Bell
Maybe it was the chuuni sickle, maybe it was those dumb long tufts
Ayden Brooks
Blake Campbell
Wyatt Wright
>those announcement texts
Pretty sure that no one could foresee Karen from those
Sebastian Barnes
Rare page not featuring Crabporn but we learn something so I included it
Carter Perez
Fucking hell is this offputting after the last scene
Jaxson Wilson
>framed picture of shoes
James Foster
>uguu~
Cute Kima
Michael Scott
>that vagina imagery
Really makes you think
Isaiah Torres
Adrian Hernandez
Look at all those fucking outfits
Ichikawa you madwoman
Logan Walker
That reaction in the top left panel is pure Craiglist
Owen Rodriguez
Mason Allen
NTR time.
Jordan Jackson
>that expression when you did nothing wrong but you weren't supposed to be there either
Relatable
Aaron White
>eating junk food and watching tv until you realize it's morning
Living the life
Jack Morales
Reminder that we still don't know what Sutranika's supposed to mean
Nicholas Phillips
>his left arm
Food for thought
Anyway Karen basically disappears for an in-universe month or so
Aiden Cox
That's when she comes back.
>covered left arm when the right one is not
Hmmmmm
Also she has a Vajra now
Brandon Peterson
I'm going with the redrawn version found in the collected edition rather than the one from chapter 70 in Afternoon
Ethan Barnes
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
I LOVE PHOS!!!
Connor Taylor
Phos says
>Ca-
as in the first character for Chaingun's name
Adam Lopez
Phos gets NTR pretty hard
Adrian Smith
>Bortz retrieving his new gf
Jackson Roberts
Oh, the last page says the same line
>so, you've collected those three
Zachary Hughes
Such a nice princess caring for her subjects
Mason Foster
And that's the last thing Parappa said so far
Brandon Barnes
There were a lot of theories about Karen not properly explaining what happened
Eli Clark
>tadaima_elephant.png
Jaxson Turner
>those throbbing, veiny horns
Jace Ortiz
Luis Campbell
Is that Appe or Cicada?
Juan Lewis
That's pretty sad
Jason Wilson
Except we're not reading Phos's story today so who cares lmao
Tyler Price
the outfit isSO UGLY
Grayson Young
I don't think I'll ever find those necks not retarded
Joshua White
You're just jealous you couldn't rock it like /ourprincess/ does
James Taylor
Yeah, that arm is definitely a replacement from when he had the mental breakdown in front of Aechmea.
The arm he lost then is what is given to him later.
Julian Price
>that was the last time they spoke as friends
Still, it's pretty amicable and it does bring some closure even if Karen's actions seem to tell a different story from her words
Cooper Long
Greatest love story ever told
Austin Taylor
I'm not a disloyal ugly faggot with daddy issues so no, I couldn't.
Leo Cruz
The foreshadowing is all there
>breaks his arm in ch 67
>Aechmea operates him
>protect it with extra layers
>covered in the night raid
Aiden Rogers
Minor thing but remember that
>treating those who are around you poorly for those who aren't there
is how Cairo came to existence because Phos thought of Shinsha in the fight with Lunarians and got broken so Ghost had to jump in
Zachary Perry
AROUND BLACKS
Michael Taylor
One day even you will find your prince who smells good like a summer night, is smart and shy, user.
You'll feel like a princess too!
Liam Reyes
Such a cheeky expression
Anthony Diaz
Didn't someone bring up that he's not using >yome here but a word that's more along the one meaning 'housewife'?
That too
What did Ichikawa mean by that?
Henry Walker
There'll be a couple of ugly-looking copy and paste to keep the flow from now on
Aiden Robinson
>nuMorga broke himself quite hard and his white paste vanished too in ch64
>nuGoshe is having fun
Leo Russell
That dog should get a name
Evan Davis
But as is clear from this page, Karen is still getting used to how living things work, like this whole 'feeling physical pain' thing
Carson Turner
>leeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaks
Spooky ghost in the reflection
Caleb Gonzalez
Also the fact that Ghost-Cairn's arm was broken off on the forearm, while the one that Aechmea gave Cairn later, claiming that it was the one from 102 years ago, was broken off close to the shoulder. It's just a blantant lie.
Grayson Garcia
>the dog placed itself in Aechmea's hoodie
kawaii
Dominic Miller
I wouldn't let myself be assfucked by the guy who raped and genocided my species just because he said "y-y-y-your eyes are brainwashing you."
Not even I am that stupid.
Robert Davis
Well, at the point the chipping was over, Cairo still missed his arm from above the elbow, which is the reason why his new one has that length -so it technically *could* be reconstructed on the moon
But it's an obvious lie of course
Leo Brown
Cameron Lopez
>tfw everytime I tell myself 'not even I am that stupid' when trying to make up how something went on and I can't remember what I did, it usually turns out that I in fact am that stupid
Jacob Miller
All of this is nice and dandy, and shows how much Cragglepants is really being manipulated, but what is it leading to?
Aiden Richardson
Luke Roberts
I can't believe you don't believe in pure love and can't recognize a nice love story of empowerment when you read one
Hell if I know
Dylan Rodriguez
Jordan Reyes
God Fosu is so fucking cute.
I want to kiss her!
I want to hug her!
I want to see her smile!
Brayden Green
People have been theorising for ages now, but the likelihood is that Cairngorm is going to fucking die and we'll all feel sad because of how pathetically easy it was to manipulate him into this mess.
Michael Price
He's being constructed as the one gem who fully aligned with the moon, as to what that might entail I guess it'd be something that will antagonize Phos
Benjamin Nelson
Isaiah Adams
Well, his 67-75 arc had to do with his self-perception and freedom -the arm gets snapped at the beginning, the arm gets grinded at the end, with the imagery of power and might right at the center with the Vajra and the bunny suit who he uses for the wedding too
Aiden Gomez
Little thing of note: you know how the 7 treasures comes from the Pure Land sutra blah blah
The pure land is supposed to be covered in gems of course, but palms are also mentioned
Jaxon Myers
Hudson Wright
>"Nothing gets me hornier than a snuggle and a wide view of the ground-up corpses of my brethren!"
Cameron Cooper
Karen barely identifies as a gem at this point
Lucas Diaz
Anyway it's surprising how the Cairmea stuff in these chapters reads better when deprived of anything else where the reverse is awful
Liam Martin
Well maybe not really awful but everything leading to and following the night raid feels slow
John Ward
>what the fuck dude
Wyatt Cruz
Something I can't really read is the vases and the grinders having the same design
Maybe it's Ichikawa being lazy or wanting to give the moon designs a coherent feel but it looks weird
Luis Martin
Lucas Rodriguez
The 'it's 100% manipulation' crowd can't tell me there isn't a self-affirming idea behind this page, otherwise there'd be no dramatic irony
Andrew Edwards
And even without dramatic irony, it's hard to deny that Karen has been shown to have a degree of independence and manifest some positive traits
Hunter Parker
And there you have it
Undeniable proof that it's okay to sexualize the gems and being gay for a rock
Ethan Ramirez
Love trumps all, fuck the haters
Brandon Bennett
Onward to the latest chapter
Kayden Ortiz
I wonder how moonies' respawning works really
Is it a concentration thing or not?
Christian Young
Listening is the secret to a good marriage.
Evan Bennett
>not being into dangerously young-looking girls
And here I thought Barbata was our guy
Evan Perry
And that's it so far.
How does rereading just the Carin/Aechmea part feel? Is there something you noticed? Do you have a better opinion of it now?
Evan Morgan
Wow. Phos looks beautiful here.
Brandon Russell
Sapph-
Phos is always beautiful.
Isaac Brooks
ACTUALLY that's not right.
Notice where the powder/paste skin stuff is here. It's high up. If they had reconstructed it from all the pieces chipped off Cairngorm 102 years ago, there would be no powder on it to begin with. If it was the original arm from 102 years ago, it would only be a forearm. (and the powder would, if anything, be where it was snapped off.)
But it's at the top, which means that the arm was snapped off there to begin with.
Lucas Carter
I'm not sure I follow. There's no paste in the page you quoted, only Craig's black arm.
Anyway let's post the detailed theory again
Christopher Davis
and 2
Zachary Baker
>sad
Hahaha no way.
Connor Harris
paste.
Noah Rodriguez
I'm inclined toward thinking it's the possible rendition of the shiny section since we see from the next page it's a very angled one and it's hard to render
Carson Hall
It's not the rendition of the shiny section. We can already see the shiny section of the surface of the arm, and the cross section is the part with red here. The part between those two is clearly covered in paste, as it also sticks out from the rest of the otherwise smooth arm.
Charles Hall
I assumed that it's a garbage can for the moon men so anything thrown in gets turned to dust and it blows away or whatever
Zachary Murphy
Jackson Diaz
Man this is sad.
Landon Johnson
Is it?
I for one think Ichikawa is just presenting the situation to us in a neutral way, I doubt we'll ever get a 'real explanation' about the eyes or the arm but the manipulation is definitely there. Still, since usually in the manga change=good albeit hurtful, I want to see where Karen's wild ride is heading to.
Another thing I find interesting is how this whole deal has been a fresh take on something that was starting to become stale -that Tsukijin society looks like ours but it's eerie in-universe.
It was a shock when Phos got there first, but as the other gems followed him that novel effect started to wear off because after all it's just like our normal world. Seeing Karen's feminization, her outfits, the date, the marriage, the wedding party from the baffled gems' point of view served at least to keep reminding us of how weird it's supposed to be to them. Anyway earth chapter soon
Jaxson Roberts
>Still, since usually in the manga change=good albeit hurtful, I want to see where Karen's wild ride is heading to.
death
>Another thing I find interesting is how this whole deal has been a fresh take on something that was starting to become stale -that Tsukijin society looks like ours but it's eerie in-universe.
almost nothing about it was explained
we had 30 chapters with a big emphasis on facial expressions without any dialogue
no information about how ships work
no information about the crab people
NO PROPER CONVERSATION BETWEEN PHOS&SHINSHA
Cameron Wright
>pic
fuck me, that hurts.
Hudson Butler
The last time Ghost was seen.
Caleb Nelson
The fanbase raging at these chapters.
Brayden Ward
I miss padparadscha.
Brayden Garcia
If you're seeing ghosts you should talk to someone about that
>Phos finally acquires a wise mentoring figure he can trust
>immediately loses it
I had hoped Pads would at least shown once before the new trip to Earth but I guess we're going with 'he's lost it all'. Still, seeing Phos paying him a visit before leaving would've been nice.
Anthony Scott
We all hate this.
Blake Morales
I miss Ghost.
David Perez
so fix it man
you have the power to mend everything
Gavin Jackson
I honestly don't. People complain about Antarc showing up just to die but we had actually seen his character and he was a good POV for the winterscape.
Ghost basically acted as a living plot point to introduce us to Lapis, be a foil to Antarc and Shinsha when we see Phos try to figure out the partnering up deal and then she dies in their first battle together. Everything interesting about Ghost is actually creating mirroring relationships and how she might or might not have influenced Cringeworm later.
Sure that's the point, being called Ghost and all, but a couple more chapters would've helped if Ichikawa wanted me to care
Brody Green
>no information about how ships work
Oh, you again? They work through the power of Buddhist imagery, as everything else in the manga. Look up "Raigo-zu" or Amida raigo.
>but muh science
Houseki no kuni isn't a manga that operates via sci-fi lore or ideas. It's entirely rooted in Buddhistic concepts and the sooner you understand it the better
Juan Lee
Stop being mean to others, Phos.
Asher Anderson
Name 1 (one) memorable thing about Ghost that's not 'he sneaks up on people cuz he a ghost lol'
Aiden Gonzalez
I don't want to talk to you.
Austin Howard
rejected
Camden Powell
rude
Juan Sanchez
Isaiah Taylor
>people ask 'how can gems blush' every other thread
>no one wonders how and why they'd feel the instinct to yawn if they can't breathe
Ian Kelly
Maybe Phos will take Pad to the sea?
Dominic Brown
Ghost and Lapis are both characters we essentially only know about through their influence on others.
Lapis is Phos now, so that's fine but I still miss Ghost.
Luke King
>yandere
>loves Lapis
>felt so guilty about Lapis dying that he dies for Phos.
Xavier Clark
Except that comparison isn't really good on Ghost since Lapis had all reasons for that being, you know, already dead before the story even started
Although I do hope that the anime does Ghost some justice, even if they took the Shinsha intermission scene from him already so I have a hard time seeing it
Isaac Ward
Oh I did not know that. That's pretty neat.
Austin Reyes
I'm thought Karen was referencing Antarc here. And maybe Ghost. How Phos is trying so hard to bring them back that he doesn't think about how it makes others feel and what kind of circumstances he drags everyone into.
Like "lets break sensei" time when Pads put him in his place.
Adam Foster
Short OVA by studio Orange, the thumbnail girl looks a lot like Red Dia
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Oliver Mitchell
Ghost was certainly interesting as a character, especially when they had that back and forth with Cairo at times, but I can't help but not like this arc because it feels like Ghost is treated as less than a person and more of a parasite.
Eli Perry
Looks like a blowjob doll.
Jacob King
>pic
>not with Shinsha
Disgusting.
Matthew Parker
Yup, that's the obvious, go-to mention that Karen seems to have in mind, I just wanted to point out a nice coincidence, or parallel in a sense.
Even in his absence -or because of that-, this is probably the most exposure that Ghost has had since the time Craig gave Lapis' head up. I like that it makes you go back and reread everything with something obvious in mind that seemed to have escaped many, which is how fucked up the twins' relationship was. Also how Ghost describes his brother as a 'violent, brash, impulsive child' and he almost immediately becomes the responsible, laidback, reliable partner that Phos needs.
Bentley Gonzalez
fucking adorable. Season three when?
Lincoln Harris
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I LOVE ICHIKAWA
Jaxon Sullivan
>smiling girl is red diamond
Carson Walker
Phos motivation was Antarc, not Shinsha. Shinsha is end game.
Zachary Cooper
Cringe was probably also talking about himself, who felt that Phos was using him as an Antarc replacement.
Jace Phillips
>character becomes female
>immediately becomes emotionally distant, leaves you for a rich man, becomes moody and violent, blames you for stuff that happened a century ago
Where did she mean by this?
Joshua Robinson
it means that i must save madoka!!!!
Hunter Stewart
>blames you for stuff you haven't done for an entire fucking centuryo, and was also sorted out a century ago, and was explicitly stated through active communication that would never happen again, which it didn't.
Wyatt Watson
Too real
Andrew Jones
what the fuck am i doing
Jonathan Carter
>implying candycorn wasn't moody and violent literally the moment he got out of ghost
Adam Sullivan
You'd have to do this six times over in houseki no kuni
Landon Murphy
When will the moon die?
Mason King
>giant fragments orbit earth some freefall
>most of them are KT level others just drift into space
rip earth
Jaxson Young
did they use 嫁 or 妻? both of these are often how a husband refers to his own wife
Grayson Scott
>first interaction between Phos and Sensei
>SEVEN times
>no, six times
>ah, six
Imagine I posted that Phos edit of the comic with the 'one fear' t-shirt
Nathaniel Reed
I can't into moon so you tell me
Isaac Long
who are you calling phos
Wyatt Murphy
Phos in a summer outfit!
Grayson Baker
I'm only now realizing that Shinsha literally never changed into a summer outfit
How emo can you get
Julian Brown
Samuel Richardson
Hudson Brown
nips used 妻 "tsuma" , which is "spouse, better half" so the english translation to "adorable wife" is fair...
I guess other user you mentioned was thinking of 家内 "kanai" which is "housewife" (literal meaning is "inside the house")
yome is just used for bride, not wife