Since the Kodansha comics' translated edition of volume 8 is officially out on the stands as of 2 days ago, let's reread an older volume together as we hope someone rips the new one.
Houseki no kuni/Land of the Lustrous volume 6 storytime
Aiden Brown
Other urls found in this thread:
Jacob Young
Vol 5
Nicholas Jackson
Rocks
Andrew Brown
Oh, and please bump if you're reading along so the thread doesn't fall off the board.
Jackson Powell
Also: yes I know the translation isn't perfect and 'that gem' is super woody a construction sometimes, but it's serviceable and it's still miles better than machine translations from Russian
Christian Hill
Last time on Buddhist Gem Z: Phos was a dumbass and was shot while thinking of NTR.
Asher Allen
Also he thought a great idea NOT to alert Sensei in order to try and communicate with moonies. Surely that won't backfire in any way!
John Kelly
I wonder why the archers stopped shooting.
Tyler Rivera
Some of the fights are not as good once you remember these are just regular guys
Elijah Davis
Jaxson Cruz
If you want to read deeper into what exactly might have passed here, there's i.imgur.com
Dominic Howard
Jaxson Richardson
>*Ghost Quartz* has joined the server.
Mason Parker
Were they leaving Phos alone to retrieve him in the largest pieces because he's brittle and valueable while quartz isn't?
Noah Campbell
Cringeworm already being a faggot
Oliver White
Where were these wide-eyed, girly expressions before?
Jaxson Brown
Ooops there goes the left arm, I bet this is just a casual happening that won't have any particular symbolism behind it
Justin Powell
>Antarc tries to retrieve his hand
>Ghost willingly sacrifies it
Adrian Wilson
And now all the moonies are super interested. Who knows what's going on in their minds.
Isaiah Smith
Probably
>oooh this is shiny and has a double layer so it's not as worthless as we thought
Nolan Barnes
>hardness 7
Uh-oh.
Zachary Moore
>that dialogue
Craigslist never had a chance, did he
Elijah Jones
>the bell
Man if only they came earlier
Xavier Moore
>the moonies could've kidnapped him too just by snapping him in half
>get rid of him instead
Smoky quartz isn't that valuable IRL
Juan Rogers
One gotta wonder what percentage of the outer layer they had to tear off before it stopped being its own separate consciousness but gladly we ain't getting that philosophical since all of Ghost was conveniently chipped off
Nathaniel Ross
Water in the series is strongly associated with birth and rebirth so this is effectively Cairo being "born" symbolically
Aaron Brown
>instantly goes for the gembutt
Jaxon Ortiz
Second chapter for today.
A familar scene.
Cameron Butler
Camden Walker
Sphene is a qt
Ryder Reyes
Another scene that would work well in a hypothetical season 2 with the light/dark contrast.
Nathan Rodriguez
Xavier Richardson
>black gem
>violent and uncivil
Jesus Christ Raimi
Julian Martin
Good ol' brittle phosphophyllite head, I hope nothing bad happens to it
Logan Bailey
Luke Williams
I can literally hear the Kumiko noises in this page
John Miller
And here you have your reaction image, albeit with a slightly different translation.
Isaac Robinson
What was Crabnorm even doing here anyway?
Dylan Jones
Around blacks, never relax.
Luke Torres
Aaron Johnson
Justin Miller
I can't picture a good seiyuu for Corncob.
Owen Rivera
Ideally, you would need a same VA do two different voices, one for each twin.
Lincoln Carter
I wonder if Cairo not spilling the beans about Phos willingly avoiding to summon Sensei and the others is intentional.
Samuel Hughes
>It's my fault
Jonathan Miller
Brayden Smith
Ah yes, the OPPOSITE COLOR.
Jaxson Collins
Phos... had a hard life.
Gavin Hernandez
Page 10 already, please bump if you're reading.
Aiden Thompson
Haha, time for a mental breakdown!
Nolan Bailey
Austin Morgan
Time for everyone's favourite chapter!
Evan Cox
I like that you can see the strain the gold makes on his body
Jeremiah Ward
Looks like a pretty good volume
Brody Anderson
Volume 5 to 7 are really good and probably the best the series has ever been in my opinion.
Oliver Gray
Also thanks for the bump, it's always appreciated.
Anthony Flores
Melon is a top cutie. The two-toned pupils help a lot convey this.
Jeremiah Turner
bump
Camden Phillips
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR
Evan Brown
You ever have one of those days
Isaiah Kelly
>Melon so startled he starts to get zappy
Domo arigato
Ryder Evans
Jose Powell
It's worth noting that the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara had its head split into 11 because of his care for the world's suffering but here the pieces seem to be 12 so it's probably nothing.
Michael Davis
Ultra OP toughness.
Aiden Evans
Hunter Turner
It looks like the scene of a murder.
Robert Lee
>I'm sleeping with you
L-lewd
Julian Myers
Ryder Martinez
That's the face of someone who gave up.
Carson Williams
Xavier Mitchell
This is a kind child.
Chase Cooper
Lincoln Johnson
It started to pour outside as I posted the previous page. Now I'm worried.
Nathan Lopez
4th chapter, with an interesting title.
Adam Gomez
Heh.
Charles Peterson
I like the scenes where there are multiple moons in the sky, it reminds of how alien the world is supposed to feel.
Adam Perez
Lucas Sanders
Now I've lost it, I know I can kill
Jayden Garcia
It takes some guts to realize you're walking in circles too.
Thomas Brown
The one and only Shinsha 'appearance' for this volume.
Jeremiah Smith
AAAAAAAAHH!
Adrian Anderson
One may rightfully complain about the decompression of similar pages in Ichikawa's style, but this one I like a lot.
Lucas James
Let me guess, you love Phos?
Jayden Robinson
Rare moe Corndog
Levi Sanders
Once you notice, the imagery of Sensei experiencing contacts with the gems through gloves only was really present
Oliver Martinez
Adam James
Underrated panels
Jason King
Nepti isn't convinced at all.
Levi Evans
based Ruchiru
Cameron Gray
Tyler Carter
Where is this level of detail in moon chapters?
Samuel Bailey
Man, fuck Karen. This is why we can't have nice things.
Adam Nguyen
Alexander Reed
Fugg
Cooper Rogers
Halfway there.
Colton Diaz
>gems yawn when they don't need to breathe or oxygenate anything
Bentley Peterson
Thomas Hughes
If climate change is real, how come there's no snow this year? Wake up sheeple
Jordan Hernandez
Jose Allen
Yellow forest?
Hudson Gutierrez
>"the gem"
Daikirai
Lincoln Lee
Bluzo sounds so much better
Robert Peterson
Christian Edwards
Ayden Morris
Zen.
Angel Sanders
Connor Nguyen
Paper
Fucker
Landon Ortiz
Asher Moore
He shouldn't have forgotten though.
Adam Ross
Eli Wright
That damn prayerbot sure had a comfy life pre catastrophe.
Sebastian Ross
Oliver Morales
They should've suspected a trick already
Eli Martinez
THANK YOU
Alexander White
You're welcome.
Zachary Miller
Although this is more or less like the Lunarians pledging with sensei, only we're asking danke to rip volume 8.
Lucas Foster
>new partner saves you from the weaponized memory of your old partner being used against you
This is also why they didn't go to the moon
James Phillips
This fight is probably the most bizarre one.
Noah Perry
Michael Ortiz
Once you've seen a number of Japanese Buddhistic art pieces, those clouds become really recognizable
Hunter Sullivan
Ian Hughes
It's interesting how there's a missing bodhisattva figure when they send down something animated
Luke Taylor
>no Antarc pieces to bait him
Hmmm.
Cooper Baker
Daniel Cook
>what are you going to do, shoot me?
- quote from gem shot
Nathaniel Jenkins
I wonder how those clouds get to move.
Mason Reed
Abomination.
Hunter Ward
Thanks for sharing, this high quality stuff is great.
Aaron Smith
I hate that this is literally the only fight in the series where Phos is allowed to show team skills.
Hunter Murphy
>High-quality
Better than individual chapters scans from Kodansha sure, too bad the inks and the shading doesn't work so well
Jack Roberts
I'm not going to make the obvious joke in case he actually shows up in this thread
Oliver Gomez
A good question would be: what were the pieces trying to do and how does it relate to sensei? Shiro was scourging the school sniffing master's scent.
Noah Thomas
Mah butt
He's breaking mah butt
Dylan Bell
Joshua Hernandez
>ghosts face changing to craigs
It hurts
Joshua Howard
Oh, that's true. They probably didn't give a shit about the worthless rock.
Charles Myers
>bowlcut foreshadowing
Cheeky.
Alexander Jones
The scene is also vaguely similar to red dia's birth.
Mason Jackson
Further reasons to believe that Aechmea is lying through his teeth
Gabriel Campbell
Phos is so wonderful and lapis inclusions gave her the strength she needed.
but now she is just sand
Xavier Bailey
That's Red Beryl, user.
Lincoln Morales
I'm not sure that was a fourth ship or just the third actually showing up dropping the camo in full, probably the latter.
Angel Morales
Nathan Baker
Damn you, changing hairstyles!
Samuel Phillips
Fucking grenades.
Still, it proves that Lunarians have no intention of waging actual war on the gems or else they could BTFO them whenever
Henry Mitchell
History about to repeat itself
Dominic Johnson
Craig saves the day for once
Nolan Kelly
I'm sure someone has masturbated to this and I can't blame them
Matthew Myers
Jesus, when Japanese is super vague and only uses sparse words you still should try to make it into a coherent sentence
Juan Mitchell
What do I have to sacrifice to get a second season with this scene in it
Jackson Nelson
Jose Cook
Melon and Zircon getting to work while Bortz poses dramatically
Elijah Wright
>Sphene's braid
That's his most important part
Colton Reed
ANGERY
Joseph Gray
That day, some lunarians came home with an electrocuting fetish.
Chase Martin
SASUGA BORUTSU
Zachary Campbell
One ship down, two to go.
Jayden Sullivan
>I have my hips
And some hips they are
Dominic Perry
Robert Ortiz
Phos's hair leaves are really pretty
F
Joseph Sanders
Alexander Wright
Literally stretched thin.
Dylan Ramirez
Why did the room dissolve anyway
Chase Clark
Cute little things.
Thomas Kelly
Wyatt Adams
>melon noises
Michael Rodriguez
Blake Brown
Rare Ame.
Tyler Long
So tsundere.
Joseph Collins
>same gems he fought with face him as opponents in chapter 69
Gabriel Baker
Sebastian Phillips
>not wood nor paper
Plastic maybe?
Caleb Wood
Eli Nguyen
>no gloves
Tyler Gray
>crying and smiles
d'aaww
Juan Foster
>fun job
HE SAID THE THING
Josiah Peterson
That's the end of it.
Now off to our last chapter.
David Morales
Hmm I wonder why this chapter would open with a full shot of Phos's head in full focus
Christian Hughes
Is sensei talking to the lunarians here
Levi Evans
Cooper Anderson
He's talking TO the pieces, as to who is he talking about, the 'we' probably includes himself and his creator(s).
Luke Fisher
Man this would be really goofy if it wasn't foreshadowing tragedy.
Aiden Smith
>Yellow-senpai will never prey on you
Ian Cooper
That's basically all of the fighters aside from Goshe&Morga and Benito&Nepti.
Noah Young
I never really noticed that the decapitation scene happens at the beach of beginnings/shore of nascency/whatever
Blake Anderson
>neither even thinks of alerting anyone else
Xavier King
Wait, does the bodhisattva have a vagina face
Liam Perez
>Phos gets a headpiece that looks like a crown
>Lapis' doritos look the same
Gabriel Walker
And now the arm seems valuable enough. Or maybe it was always distraction to get their hands on Phos?
Joshua Ross
Xavier Cox
My ancestors are smiling at me, Imperials. Can you say the same?
Liam Wright
>lmao get fucked ugly quartz
Joshua Nelson
Phos being unable to help himself from "doing the same thing" seems a repeating theme
Carter Sullivan
Maybe a sword would've helped.
Alexander Campbell
>I've always cared about you, all these 102 years
lol no
Sebastian Gray
>Yellow comes first
He's the fastest after all
Ethan Hall
Cameron Howard
>ice floes are dangerous so it's a coordinated, collective research
Gabriel Brown
When RUTILE of all people looks shocked and worried about a medical experiment, you know you're going full Frankenstein
Connor Ross
Remember kids, shortcuts are costly.
Also I like how that chamber looks, it feels ancient.
Charles Hughes
Jonathan Taylor
I like the boxes' design a lot as well.
Josiah Price
And that this scene has a somewhat "sacred" aura.
Cameron Roberts
Henry Harris
Liked better the translation that ended the volume with the words "lapis lazuli" to be honest
Nathaniel Morris
Sasuga boku.
Owari da.
Lincoln Baker
Omake because why not.
Once again, feel free to do whatever with this thread, but it'd be really nice if you
1. supported the original edition of the manga
2. ripped a digital copy of volume 8 so it can be discussed here
See ya
Wyatt Watson
Probably on his way back from having his hair done by Red Beryl.
Brody Sanchez
I wonder if each of these take place on their own day? It seems unlikely that Rutile managed to repair Craig, sculpt an entire hand of random smoky quartz, repair Phos entire body, and repair Phos' head twice within the same night.
Owen Ward
thanks m8, I had just read vol 5 and 6 this morning, but seeing this better translation, it seems I had to read it again
Joseph Ramirez
Megumi Ogata.
Luke Edwards
New chapter is out?
William Diaz
>Houseki no Kuni, summarised in a single panel
Juan Kelly
I'm counting 11. Am I blind?
Jayden Campbell
>Five all-nighters
I guess this confirms my question about the days. So at least one day was passing by between Ghost's capture, Phos' awakening, Phos' second awakening and Phos' third awakening.
Nolan Long
Not until the end of the month
Jaxson Cook
I like all the heel details. The heels symbolise Phos trying to be strong in imitation of Antarc, and here where he's trying to overcome his bout of weakness in Self-Blame, there's placed focus on the heels being pushed out of his feet.
Ethan Phillips
This might just be the explanation for how the moonies are SUPPOSED to move on.
Camden Flores
Yeah, that was much better.
Daniel Hernandez
The previous page quite clearly shows 12 separate 'rays' (there's a less visible one over Phos' right shoulder) and I cannot think of a way to make it so that they number 11. It's very close to this huge established symbolism which is entirely consistent with the lore and yet it seems to escape it. So, I got nothing. Have a cute Melon.
Caleb Smith
Oh, so Phos literally buried all this information subconsciously until Lapis uncovered it.
Connor Rodriguez
>missing bodhisattva figure
what
Logan Fisher
>You'll never break through my alloy membrane
Kevin Ross
>joke
I can't unsee it now.
Eli King
The arrangement of gem parts up there looks like an admirabilis.
Jack Ward
>Shoot, I'm tripping again.
Jason Garcia
AAAAAAAAAAAA
I LOVE PHOS
John Kelly
Julian Gonzalez
Is lapis the mastermind?
Xavier Stewart
yea Phos also took Antarc's weapon and used it in vol4, I love the detail
Ayden Smith
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH I LOVE PHOS!!!
Jayden Clark
Well, it's not a full one, i dunno
Christian Foster
I think that was more of a case of his memories being scrambled pieces of info at that lapis helped piece together, that scene was more about Phos hiding her suffering and realising that her search for the truth may lead to the other gems getting further hurt.
Isaac Sanders
I'll try to get around to uploading it today.
Jason Gonzalez
Daniel Martin
>You'll never get through my alloy membrane!
David Lewis
Thanks OP for dumping, was a good read.
Joseph Anderson
>Half a head
>torso not connected
>half of legs detached
Phos inclusions are in overdrive this chapter, jesus.
Ian Cruz
>Do something that reckless again, and I'll bust you open right in front of the lunarians
At least Cairn is a man of his word.
Adam Hall
Huge if true
I wonder if there's any >Benitoite stripper
William King
Phos had JUST become happy.
Nathan Murphy
About fifteen minutes after this, Phos head gets ground to dust. ;_;
Wyatt Thompson
Those bubble things look like the ones in Phos-Lapis dreamscape.
Justin Morales
Aoi Yuuki
Joseph Lewis
>then
>I'm not wearing paint for my health and my own well being
>now
>I'm not wearing paint because moon daddy said i look cute
Carson Baker
>get away from my waifu
Tyler Allen
Ise Mariya again. For Ghost I can't imagine who.
Bentley Green
That's Lapis.
Lincoln Nguyen
Can someone post Volume 7?
Charles Torres
>Aoi Yuuki voices Lapis
>LaPhos is Tomoyo Kurosawa doing her best Aoi Yuuki impression
Yes please
Justin Brooks
If Aoi uses a modified version of her boogiepop voice, that would be a perfect fucking match.
Grayson Phillips
I wonder what expressions are those that Ghost coerces Karen to do.
Jace Evans
And Phosu being best friend with Betraygorm.
Matthew Lee
None. The eyes are lies.
Adam Myers
Lately I've wondered if maybe it's ghost who is talking here, scolding Karen.
Christopher Sullivan
Do you honestly believe that Ghost's tiny irises can talk? From what we've seen about gem eye makeup, the iris isn't even in direct contact with the gems body. Not only that, but in this very dumped volume, there are clear disrepancies between what Mooncake says about his free will, and what Ghost + Cringle say. How can anyone believe the bullshit Aechmea came up with on the fly about the brainwashing irises?
Carson Nguyen
He almost rip off Capriporn's head just for Phos sake.
Grayson Bennett
English versions worth picking up? I love the look of this series and how Jungian it seems.
Joshua Bailey
Phos almost killed himself in self blame. Gems do that during times of high suffering, and it has nothing to do with mind control.
Juan Torres
The translations are awkward as fuck here and there in the official ones, due to the sjw translators avoiding the male pronouns in the japanese originals.
Also some moments lose a little impact due to the wording of the translations.
That being said, certain portions of the fan translations are really terrible too.
I read the fan translation, then the official translation.
Charles Bell
I’d say read the fantranslations on mangadex over the official english ones, or at least for the first 30 or so chapters before the fan ones get really bad. It’s also one of the few series where I’d reccomend watching the anime first.
Kayden Price
>Who knows what's going on in their minds.
something like
>when's payday
>what's for dinner
>prince is so hot
>my feet hurt
Lincoln Robinson
What did Adamant think here?
Caleb Perry
>pray.exe failed
Why was professor such a fucking codemonkey? Probably Indian, too.
Joshua Gomez
Very nice indeed
Jace Baker
>stupid rocks are smarter than a bunch of anons with memory span of a goldfish
William Ortiz
Is this how Paddypappypadrad tamed Rutile?
Grayson Bailey
Sphene has perfect after sex hair, braided on top.
Alexander King
I can hear the OOOOH from bottom panel.
Chase Taylor
Mrsh should be
>you wouldn't lewd a rock
Isaac Cruz
Are those doritos?