LiA Bespoke Project : A BokuYaba Senryuu For Dark Flame Master

Let’s kick off the new year with a commission (we love those).  Dark Flame Master (he has another project coming up as well) asked me to do a senryuu (a more light-hearted haiku) about my favorite Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu moments.  This is devilishly hard, because with 136 brilliant chapters in the books, how am I supposed to limit myself to 17 syllables (and without spoiling to boot)?  It’s obviously a fool’s errand to even try, but I’m going to do a couple of them anyway.

Ichikawa Kyou

That speech was your finest hour

I know how you felt

Manga readers (who are introverts) will need no explanation.

 

Beneath torii gates

Foxes can’t mask your feelings

Ichi and Anna

See you for Season 2 (it will break the internet)…

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6 comments

  1. D

    Niiiice, thank you!! I’m just burning through vols5, 6, and 7 and enjoying the heck out of them (the speech! that basketball moment! the whole white day thing!) Sensei is a superb storyteller. But the EN publication schedule means, I assume, that there will be surprises for those of us not reading JN. The foreshadowing is killing me. I feel really badly for anyone who bounced off ep 1 or the first volume.

  2. B

    I think the extended delay in an EN release of volume eight is not a coincidence.

  3. Meanwhile, while we wait for S2, the special, “Bonus Dangers,” is out.

  4. And great.

  5. Oh yes, that panel with the fox mask. Swoon.

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