I hear Gackt is down with all that nerd stuff
My SquareEnix Headcannon is that all of Tetsuya Nomura’s pointy-haired lead characters are actually the same guy in various degrees of wind-tunnel-sweptuptitude, who lords over all of the other denizens of the Squarenix games like a Mafia don deciding who gets to come out and for how long. If any of the other Squenixians want to show their face in a movie spot, Kingdom Hearts Walk-on, or fighting game they have to appease the mighty King Vidjya!Gackt like a computer game version of Venture Brothers David Bowie.
Considering the hundreds of comments I saw between here and tumblr last week calling Sion “Sora”, I think we might be onto something.
Commander has strong feelings about body image issues. That’s probably got some kind of backstory-relevant significance. Yup.
Oh, and if you’re in the area, I’ll be at Madicon, at James Madison University this weekend!
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No one but no one?
Still, great great comic. Can’t wait to see what happens next.
“No one but no one” is a legitimate turn of phrase, yes. It’s like the escalated, redneck-sounding version of “No one but me”.
“GLAMpire” is now my favorite word. :D
Certainly descriptive. Wouldn’t “WereGLAM” be more accurate, though?
No, they don’t change back.
Nier DID say something to the effect of, “Nnngh! It’s happening again!” which brought werewolves to my mind, too.
He’s speaking off the cuff, not writing a treatise on the taxonomy of Nomura Syndrome sufferers.
Yeah, it’s legit. “No one, except for-” NOPE THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS
I like how the Commander manages to be imposing while in this… form. In the last panel I could hear a gruff military voice just barking that. Can’t wait until next week. Keep up the great work Coelasquid =)
With the way his goggles look now, I hear him more like Kamina with a slight accent.
It must be slight SCOTTISH accent.
More like GERMAN ACCENT!!!!!XD
I can see why the guy’s name is ‘Gackt” ’cause I was gack-ING when I saw him.
BTW what’s with the flowers?
The flowers are a reference to the cover art of his single “No ni Saku Hana no Yō ni.” Specifically the version with just the music cd. The deluxe edition is a bit different, has a close up of his face with the flowers and a black back ground…
My husband showed me this comic because I am a huge Gackt fan. Check out Bunraku, Moon child, and I esp love the song “Cube”
That is only because of attitude and training. Those things can’t be changed by how one looks.
I don’t know, his face in the first panel is the scariest thing I’ve seen in this comic’s entire run.
It must have taken a lot of effort on his part to make that expression. He was commenting just in the last comic that it’s hard to emote with his current face.
GLAMpire = best phrase ever.
^ YUS
We NEEDED this word when Twilight came out.
And tragically we gain it to late to be effective.
When it’s in regards to Twilight ‘nothing’ is too late to be effective… It’s like roaches. No matter how hard you try it just won’t go away! So we can continue to apply as many terms as we deem necessary to it.
Here comes the pain. And backstory-relevant significance.
Also, I’m having a bit of a gigglefit considering Gackt’s voicing the Knight-Commander in that new DA anime movie, and singing the theme.
Well….he’s had how many years of the/a Military telling him what to do and how to look if you think about it…
That was likely volunteer so he really was the only person to decide for himself.
I thought he was made from steak and soil, unless he went AWOL and stole a time watch.
That was likely him jerking with Jonesy. He did in a way jokingly admit that he exaggerates some of his origin for laughs.
LOL! Gackt might be the antagonist? That’s…it makes so much sense. Oh god, nothing on the internet makes me laugh out loud anymore, but this I don’t even.
Maybe a side gag will be the various real life bishonen getting the crap beat out of them like Johnny Depp. We can always hope.
Damn it, now I want to see Michael Cera and his clone whatever his name is that was in Zombieland get the shit beat out of them. I swear they’re the same guy. And wimpily bishonen.
Out here in the non-spiky-haired world, most just call them ‘effete’.
I liked zombieland, arrested evelopment, and scott pilgrim versus the world. What’s wrong with those two I ask you? They make good shit
I liked Zombieland too, but Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg look almost clone like identical and pretty much just do the exact same role and acting job no matter the movie and I get really annoyed by the pair really fast. And they both would be carriers of Nomura Syndrome that I allow my biases to come out.
They both seem more dorky than pretty. Maybe it’s just me…
It’s mostly because they play the exact same basic character “Aloof, awkward nerdy guy sadly struggling to reach any sort of normality in a world that makes no logical sense.”
. . . which they stole from Woody Allen anyway, yeah?
at least jesse eisenberg has a jaw.
I don’t think they look similar at all.
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/1/5/129071918436435690.jpg
Thank you for finally explaining to me why the same guy seems to have two different names. I seriously thought Michael Cera just kept using a different name.
jesse eisenberg is not micheal cera’s clone. if anything, it’s the other way around.
Even with his, as you put it “real-life bishounen” appearance, I don’t think the commander could beat up Depp. After all Depp had Brando as a mentor, thus making him a disciple of the Commander’s religion.
But I wouldn’t mind seeing a bloody and beaten Michael Cera.
Sadly, half of the FF characters by Nomura were indeed inspired by Gackt. You can tell with the facial structures and usually the eyes. Not to mention that they’re hardly able to make an expression past ‘I have botox’.
Goddamn it Square.
Much love for the comic as usual Coelasquid.
It’s funny how Botox was originally to treat people who overly perspire. I remember seeing them on dermatology clinics before it faded out and then became popular as a way to deliberately paralyze your face. (o_o)
Still, gotta say, I was kinda hoping it would be all those guys from one of the earlier comics who “didn’t meet the pectoral girth requirements”. But this is great. This entire comic is great.
So you mean Jared?
Wasn’t Squall technically modeled after River Phoenix though?
So… I think I found a man who must make an appearance… the epitome of real life badassery.
Jack Churchill.
Look him up, seriously… most badass man I’ve ever heard of.
Woah, that guy is just manly beyond belief. He gives a huge middle finger to all the people using “superior technology” and just goes out there and tears nazis a new one the good old fashioned way.
look up this guy too leo major
and sgt york
He was cool but jack churchill invaded a death camp playing the bagpipes and swinging a sword and later broke out of an inescapable death amp then marched back to britain to try and get back to the frontlines! York holds no candle to churchill
Forget all that nonsense. The man survived on Marmite. That’s bad-ass enough.
true but they were badass in their own way
Better yet, make a spinoff comic series of http://www.badassoftheweek.com, where the Commander goes back in time and kicks ass with all of history’s bloodthirsty, sack-eviscerating motherfuckers in the most balls-out way possible.
Did I channel Ben’s writing style correctly?
Gen. Jack Pershing, ’nuff said.
Fighting Jack Churchill FOR THE WIN!
http://www.commandobear.com/cast/
Jack Churchill and Voytek
it pains me to see the Commander like this. It pains me alot.
GLAMPIRE is my new favorite word ever.
Also, goddammit Gackt, must you ruin everything?
[obligatory TTGL reference]You can’t do this to me! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!?[/obligatory TTGL reference]
I’m sorry, but someone had to do it.
I think it’s time he lives up to those sunglasses and MAKES THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE.
The impossible is not possible. You decided what possible is impossible. It is your decision to go beyond the very reaches of the horizon. For it is you who makes the horizon! So it is you who can destroy the horizon and replace it with a better one of your own creation!
YOU MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE! NOW UNMAKE THE POSSIBLE OF IMPOSSIBLE!
WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE!
YOURS IS A DRILL THAT WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS!
Mine already did. It was……overrated.
Row Row Fight the powah my friend
Oh man Commander is pissed
How can you tell? That doll like face makes it impossible to express emotions.
He could be as giddy as a little school girl right now. We’d never know from his one expression.
Seriously? o.o The last panel is full of hate and rage! :3
Wow… you are right… he is able to show emotions!
HE IS FIGHTING BACK AGAINST NOMURA SYNDROME!
No you just have to exaggerate the facial expressions or in Commanders case have over the normal level of emotions to show through. So regularly commander emotions show though if only subtly. No his emotions have to be at a level 9.5 or above to show through. Basically he’s angrier then he looks which is saying something.
I have been having issues NOT thinking of him like Kamina-sensei since the beginning of the whole story line.
That last panel just pretty much enforced it in my head.
I’m waiting for him to scream out, “JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!”
I just hope that commander is in full badass form when he fights gackt. It would be glorious.
Of course, the old chestnut of if something weird is happening to everyone, take down the head vampire/glampire/werewolf/Jehovah’s Witness and the rest are cured.
Now I have an image stuck in my head of GLAM!Commander busting into a Vampire!Jehovah’s Witness meeting and kicking everyone’s asses before making them eat those pamphlets they hand out. Thank you for that. XD
If I see them at my door I try to scare em
I’ve basically started doing my own missions to counter them.
I go around door to door asking if they have heard the terrible news.
For the stars have been right for some time. Soon he who lays dead dreaming waiting for Death to die, in the deeps of R’lyeh, shall find his city rise up from the depths of madness beyond where we can truly understand it. With this, shall herald thousands of years of pain and unending agony, as death no longer exists as a release for anything. Tortures that you cannot even dream about, because just the ability to comprehend such terrible sadism would unhinge your mind beyond the maladies that would allow you to still think. When this new age of eons with deathless pain, torturing and suffering commences you shall not be warned beyond the sky filling with the terrible inky ichor leather blackness from the wings of the Yoggoth. Who the lucky ones will be the first to be brought up, and turned into a red cloud or bits of flesh as their terrible mandibles, tentalces and gnoshing teeth destroy any evidence of their person.
Will you be one of the lucky few to be the first to be eaten?
Have you arranged an obscene ceremony in which you dance in pure degradation to appease the terrible elder things from dimensions beyond your comprehension?
—
Well I haven’t started that yet. I haven’t figured out a proper uniform (Jehovah’s Witness have a uniform as they do it) and I’d still need to do up some pamphlets for it. Just to have it be the right effect.
I have an even simpler and direct solution. I’m 6’4″ 320 pounds and hairy enough to hold 50 balloons on my chest, let alone my back and legs. I just answer the door naked and holding a thing of baby oil. I do it one time and only one time, never get bothered again.
Yes, let’s persecute these people for spreading what they believe to be a good and true way of life. That sure is a totally reasonable way to react to them.
I’m not sure if you can call “messing with unwelcome, pushy people who want to come into your home” persecuting them… since the word “persecute” can be defined as “to annoy with persistent or urgent approaches”, I’m not entirely convinced that the Jehova’s witness door-to-door harassment machine doesn’t fit the bill itself.
+1. they totally do, and they can escape harassment lawsuits like a squid in a fishing net because of their “religious beliefs and practices”. My friend had his door knocked on 3 times in the same week, and actually entered their house when it was just him and the babysitter.
I apologize for my late reply.
By “persecute” I mean the miasma of the Internet validating people’s decisions to respond to missionaries of any sect with violence or inappropriate behavior. The rest of my reply is below, to Nick Manly.
Around these parts, and everywhere I’ve been, I’ve found that if you try and simply turn down a Jehovah’s Witness they still keep coming. Me and Katrina simply do what needs to be done to live our lives in peace. She takes an overt route, I take a direct and not at all tactful route.
No one is mocking them and attacking them. She gives them a taste of their own medicine, I just pose naked and hold something naughty. I could tell you about persecution, I’m mormon. (Though never been on a mission so I never went door to door.)
The difference is that they think they are saving you while she is doing out of revenge but whatever lets all jump in the internet hate machine try asking /b/ for help.
What saving? The Jehovahs Witnesses believe that a small number of people have been chosen to go to heaven and the best you can hope for if you’re not chosen is that you “earn” the chance to serve them for eternity. They deserve to get jerked around, and have been long before the internet was even Darpa Net.
Uh, that’s not actually what JW’s believe.
Protip, though: They have a policy that says that if someone specifically says “don’t come back”, they’re supposed to take note of the house number so that next time they’re in that neighborhood, they don’t come back. Maybe try that next time instead of showing up to your door naked wearing balloons… that probably just makes them think you’re some poor crazy person who needs help.
Although depending on where you live, it might not even be JWs who are at your door. In my area, the Catholic, Baptist, Evangelical, and Mormon churches ALL send members out to do door-to-door work, so telling one denomination not to come back probably won’t do you much good if all you want is for people to leave you alone. XD
Just because they have that policy doesn’t mean they don’t still do it. There’s always some jerk that ignores the policies. And the only other faith that sends people out are mormons, but they’re my faith so it’s more friendly. Still, the JWs around here use a lot of trickery to try and get people listening to them. And tracts, which is where a lot of the hostility comes in.
Well, no. The Mormons are a rather progressive group as religion.
They’ve actually changed and adapted how they work as a religion based upon the current conditions around them.
My main goal is to try to indicate those missions are not necessary as part of their religion…
If anything, by spreading the madness of C’thulhu, my main goal is to try to indicate that everybody knows about the Jehovah’s witnesses (and not as many people know about Lovecraft).
I kind of want those missions to go the same way as polygamy as something defended by their religion. That is: sure one or two CRAAAZY splinter sects will still do it. However the others will recognise the need to do so, have long since no longer been there.
(Augh this is too long of a reply, sorry. Please don’t start a religious debate in the comments section of a webcomic about super manly men turning into bishounen augh I already have)
I’m Mormon as well, dude, and I’d have figured others of our beliefs would be less likely to respond to people like this because A) Our missionaries are facing people who don’t make a distinction between the people at the door’s religion when they are reacting towards them with violence, inappropriate behavior (I bet you wouldn’t laugh if it was one of our sister missionaries who answered the door to some naked dude), and hatred; B) This type of behavior is cruel and perpetrates the idea that just because you don’t like what the people knocking on your door are saying, it gives you the right to respond with ugly actions.
I looked up the below question on google, and the top result (Yahoo answers, of course) was responded to like this:
“How do you get the Mormons to stop knocking at your door?”
“tell them you worship satan and throw the book of mormon at them and hit them in the face. “
In addition to not making much sense (how would you throw a Book of Mormon at them if you didn’t have one in the first place?), it tells everyone reading it that the missionaries are less than worthy of human rights (you wouldn’t throw a book at anyone else!) just because they’re trying to get you to convert.
I’ve never personally encountered a Jehovah’s Witness, which may lead some to believe I have no right or knowledge to speak of this topic, but which leads me to believe that accounts of encountering any type of missionary are exaggerated (I have been visited by our missionaries, once, which led to some awkward staring after my familiar greeting until one of them asked if I was already a member). I understand that some people will feel like they’re being harassed and that there are some pretty nasty tales of harassment out there (and I really hope people don’t take one tale they heard on the Internet as a representation of our entire religion). I just feel like responding with anything other than, “No, thanks, please don’t visit this home ever again,” is wrong.
I agree. When I go on my missions, if I see somebody doing something to discourage me going around spreading madness, I’d feel upset as well. Yes, I understand that Nick’s display would be rather beneficial to the purposes of my missions. Other missions may feel upset at such a display.
Look, my mission is one of empathy. To allow people to be humanely rendered to shreds before the age of pain and suffering. Producing more pain and suffering without going to the goal of being the first to be eaten is not productive to my goal.
For all reading this late in the game, this comic Katrina is reading off exists. “Who will be eaten first?”
Most of the time i just take the papers say thank you. close the door and throw the papers away.
I now have this image of awesomeness stuck in my head as well too now.
This made me chuckle… even if I’m a big fan of FF and KH XD
Gotta say, looking up Gackt on Wiki… holy pete he does look like half my favorite characters from there! That’s just weird, and now I can’t quit seeing it O.O
Also, still very much liking the comic so far, and can’t wait to see more! ^^ V
So, does that make Lightning lady Gackt? I kinda thought of her as a slightly more masculine Cloud…
Also, I was hoping Auron, Barret, et al would get a mention. It’s not that Nomura can’t draw manly guys, they just don’t get to be the stars (sadly).
Ikr? Auron in particular is my personal hot fox. The things I would do to that man are…unmentionable. And numerous.
And Nomura can’t draw manly dudes. His assistants can. He just looks at the designs, snorts, redresses them in something that makes them look like Hot Topic threw up on them and goes, “You….second banana.” And thank the seventh wave that Cid saved himself by value of his filthy, filthy mouth. I tell ya, that’s the first character who ever swore at me in video game history. That’s saying a lot, considering I played Resident Evil first.
However, “Sit down and drink your GODDAMN TEA.” will always stick in my head like a neon sign of obscenity.
/slow claps for Cid Highwind
…now I kindof want to see Xaldin show up in the comic.
Anyway, so very much love for the comic as usual. Keep it up!
I vote yes on this. Or Lexaeus.
Both!
A Those Lacking Spines-esque quest to find the others some damn masculinity!
I wish I had a ‘like’ button right now. YOU GOTTA DO THE COOKING BY THE BOOK
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Here, have an Internet. <3
That.. is not who i expected to behind this. FEAR THE GACKT
Hahaha yeah I didn’t see that coming either : ))
I’m not. Everything is either a Gackt or Nemesis plot.
… Dammit, I want to see Xaldin show up now. He’s a badass.
Guh. Seconded. And Lexaeus too, though since he is pretty much leashed/married/attached at the hip to tiny Zexion it’s probably not meant to be.
XD You missed out the guy who genuinely was based on Gackt.
http://www.videogamelookalikes.com/pics/genesis-crisis-core-final-fantasy-vii-gackt.jpg
Genesis from Final Fantasy Crisis Core.
Gackt is one beautiful human being. :( I really hope that the Commander doesn’t hurt him too badly. Especially his face. His glorious, perfect face. @_@
BTW, not saying that the others weren’t inspired by Gackt (because I think it’s obvious that Gackt is pretty much Nomura’s muse), but I think Genesis is the only character where it’s been officially stated that he’s based on Gackt.
As long as I remeber it’s been stated after FF8.
=P That’s why I said “I think” rather than “I know”. XP Was never a fan of VIII. Thought Squall was a massive douche. Gackt is much nicer. <3
Squall was based after River Phoenix though. Oddly IIRC it’s been Gackt claiming Squall was based off him, not a developer. Go figure.
I have a hard time seeing it. River Phoenix had very distinct facial features, especially the upturned nose, which Squall has none of. That may have been Square’s intent, but the similarity seems to end at “pale skin and dark hair”.
Wanted River, settled for Joaquin.
Hey, COMMANDER! I hear the FACE is the WEAKSPOT!
Go for the EYES!
:p
I hear only a crowbar will hurt him! In the face!
Noooo! His face is the most important part of him! XD
Masamune has clearly been turned to being a Glampire! He is under Gackt’s control!
WE HAVE ONE OF THE ENEMY IN OUR RANK!
TWO OF THE ENEMY!
I’m a rabid Gackt fangirl.
Make that 3… I too am a rabid Gackt fangirl.
It’s okay, Masamume, I’m on your side!
Actually, I’ve been a Gackt fan for years because of his music and his utter randomness, and the fact that he used to be the vocalist of my favourite band. But, I must say, as a Gackt fan I can only say that this is pretty much perfect. If anyone has seen any backstage videos of him they know he’s a big loony, so yeah.
People shouldn’t forget that there actually ARE a whole lot of feminine men in Japan. The typical shounen-ai boys (the well written and well drawn shounen-ai, anyway) are all over the place. What the West calls manly isn’t what the Japanese call manly. And, to be honest, after all this time of man having to be just manly, I am not complaining about feminine men.
PS: most of these comments crack me up XD
IIRC it’s almost a direct inversion when it comes to West/East manliness.
I appreciate your openness, and I can definitely get behind the idea that male gender expression should be more free. But I must quibble:
“What the West calls manly isn’t what the Japanese call manly.”
This meme needs to die. Bishounen and biseinen are paragons of male beauty in Japan, not paragons of manliness or masculinity. It’s purely an aesthetic choice that doesn’t say anything about the character’s qualities. It would be like looking at US pop culture and concluding that Robert Pattinson is considered more masculine than Vin Diesel over here.
Ditto this. I read that line, and thought “Tell that to Toshiro Mifune”…
…Or for that matter, any of those lesser male Japanese actors (both live action and anime voice actors) that’re always transparently trying to push their voice as many octaves lower than their natural voice as they can manage. That’s gotta be cultural, given how frequent and obvious it is.
Mifune … <3 <3 <3
Or for a more recent actor who's popular and masculine, Hiroyuki Sanada. There are countess others like him, I just wuv him from Ring.
*countless
I agree. I meant their body types – muscular Japanese men are often still quite slim compared to Western muscular men. My “there are femmy men” thing was to people who keep saying that it’s just a yaoi fantasy, and not something you see IRL. I was just lazy and didn’t feel like typing different comments, although I probably should have, I can see it was a bit confusing ^^;
No problem, don’t feel bad about it, I wasn’t meaning to be accusatory. It’s just that the “Japanese people consider bishounen to be the most manly” thing comes up over and over and over and I think it needs to be challenged more.
I think I must have laughed for about ten minutes solid. Of course it’s Gackt’s fault. Sweet Christ, you’d think after Dirge of Cerberus we’d all know.
Hahaha, Jesus. Eventually, I knew someone would bring up Dirge of Cerberus.
I was wondering what your thoughts on Xaldin and Lexaeus were, and lo my question has been answered. Sweet.
Oh gawd it WOULD be Gackt. XD The hair, the pout, the fanservice! (Can’t say I mind all the time, mind.)
This headcanon of yours makes me laugh loonishly, and also nod my head yes. I can definitely picture it. Ah Squeenix. At least we have some Bara boys in there too!
In other news: holy lensflare, Commander! Shit just got declared! :D This is gonna be good.
Well… that explains a lot. I don’t play the games, but I liked it when FFXIII featured a big cast of girls, especially kickass Lightning. But I was disappointed she seemed to have been replaced as the hero(ine) in FFXIII-2 by your typical Nomura pretty boy.
Actualy Nomura’s instructions was to create a “female Cloud” and the result was Lighting
The concept sorta evolved from there, though.
Apart from anything else, she’s pinkhaired, not blonde.
Gackt! Gackt? That’s so cruel! I swear, that man has no fat on him whatsoever. Plus he recently played a certified loon in Tempest.
But it was fun to see him putting in a cameo as a Kamen Rider! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EnbkilnYcE
Somehow I believe this will lead to it being Decade’s fault.
Hmmm not Hyde or Miyavi… no it could only be the work of dun dun duuuuun… GACKT!!!!
Before Hyde met Gackt, he wasn’t all that “pretty boy”… Hold on, I think Coelasquid is on to something! 0_0
Hyde wasn’t a pretty boy before he met Gackt? Hyde used to be a cross dresser before he met Gackt.
I dunno, he got a lot more sex appeal after Gackt… I’m not sure what it is, but something changed. I’m not saying he wasn’t pretty, just that I always thought compared to Gackt and Miyabi (back in the days when Miyavi was still in Due’ le Quartz), he really wasn’t all THAT good looking. And then along came Gackt…
Crossdressing doesn’t have to mean pretty, though XD I’ve seen quite a lot of guys in dresses who aren’t really all that hot.
..Then again, this is of course all personal taste ^^;
>Blond Gackt
lol
I always imagined that Sion was bond to be reused at some point in the KH series as some kind of reveal of the identity of Sora’s father.
Which would make his mother Dominique…
Which would mean Sora is a cyborg!
And you know what. That translates into Caboose speak.
“so you were dating him…. And he is a robot…. So that makes Sora a gay robot?”
And coela, you just did what no one else has ever managed to do in the history of existence….. I think you just found a cure for the ff fangirl condition. Ughhhh, damn, it feels like I just got bitchslapped out of indoctrination….. Ugghh glampires…. Icky.
This is what I get, I was listening to some old Malice Mizer with Klaha thinking “God I loved them till Gackt took over.” Then i thought. “I haven’t heard that name in awhile as is, Gackt.” How dare you read my mind.
Klaha was Gackt’s replacement though, so that is like saying you are listening to some Van Halen songs with Sammy Hagar as the singer and going ‘God I loved them till David Lee Roth took over’.
Gackt’s been doing tons of shit over the years, including being no less than fifty Nomura characters, so I don’t know why you haven’t heard of recent exploits.
The Bouncer reference?
+5 approval.
AHHH! I used to be the BIGGEST Gackt fangirl in the history of the world. *sigh* So this made me laugh pretty darn hard… the picture with the roses was especially amazing. Good times.
There are not enough belts.
Wait a band is behind this story arc? O_o Only Gackt I know of is a Jrock artist o.0
Same guy. He’s a voice actor/bishonen rockstar/author. He apparently does everything while looking absolutely –
~ does an elaborate hand gesture ~
faaaabulous.
Wait, he writes books now? Or do you mean his autobiography, ’cause that’s the only book I know of. Mind you, I’m usually years behind on info about my favourite musicians because I’m good like that o/
I wanna picture Cid and the Commander drinking together sometime. Drinking tea. Manly tea.
^THIS!!!
Tea anyone? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxRGEVsSOc “fucking tea” by pantsuit
Umm…that link is broken….
That’s why I posted the name as well, just in case. Forgot one letter above, had to type it manually, stupid 3DS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxtRGEVsSOc
Oh hey, Auron got a mention! Auron was fun. I don’t suppose we’ll ever see him in the comic?
I never actually realized how many of those particular Squenix characters look so similar, but… wow, they did, didn’t they?
And last but not least: Commader’s bishie face can make an expression! I… think.
That being said, I also thought Sephiroth was going to appear.
Is he part of some anti-Nomur Syndrome resistance group?
Are you kidding? Sephiroth is the poster boy for it; he gets most of his power from the fangirl-related-popularity attracted by his Nomura Syndrome.
By “It” I mean Nomura Syndrome itself, not resisting it.
And thus it came to pass that Homestuck was wrested from its pedestal of Best Webcomic so that the rightful owner of the oft coveted crown could place it upon her head and take her place as the Queen of Webcomics. Manly Guys Doing Manly Things is simply the best thing to have ever existed. Eat your heart out Andrew Hussie!
Homestuck still gets the crown for sheer size.
Homestuck still actually sucks.
No… the fans suck.
The comic is pretty decent. Pretty standard stuff to expect from the people writing it.
I finally got around to reading it a month ago…
I know the writers. Stuff I have talked about with a few people in an IRC channel have shown up in the comic. Terezi is pretty much a troll version of me.
I’m just more wanting to know who I know that is the writer.
Andrew Hussey is a fictional character… spoiler alert.
indeed, andrew hussey, in the context of homestuck, is a fictional character. the author, andrew hussie, is a real person who goes to conventions and all that nonsense thought. btw people have these things called ‘theories’, where they guess whats going to happen and sometimes it does. all of the fans besides whichever fan is saying all the other fans suck at any given time suck, though. between this comic and homestuck, i honestly think they both have their merits, update frequency against art quality, nonsensical epics vs potshots at pop culture. i don’t think one is better.
I don ‘t think Auron would. He may be manly, but he also seems to have his head on straight. If anything, he’d be on the staff teaching the manly men how to be awesome without being a blustery oaf.
It is a temporary upset.
Because a few choice people know that at the end of Homestruck, Andrew Hussey will be battling Dan R. Miller. In some weird fan service homage. This battle of Radd proportions, call me a Kid, shall restore Homestruck in its number one position.
Wait.. wait… people like this actually walk around in real life?! I feel unclean walking on this planet now…
Commander will sort it out
Do not blame those that are born with bishie genes. Do not pity them as women who are nearsighted within 5 inches from their faces adore them. Just point and laugh that they can never appear as manly as us, for theirs is a sad lot with no chest hair and little facial hair.
On a more serious note GODDAMN THOSE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS SOMEONE CATCH ME I THINK I HAVE A CASE OF THE MOTHER FUCKING VAPORS.
That picture of Gackt is about the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I think the added touch of petals is what does it.
From my understanding though, I believe Nomura went on record to say Squall was based on River Phoenix. Everyone else is probably Gackt though.
River Phoenix is just America’s version of Gackt. LOL
Hey now, the kid was manly in Stand By Me. We’ve gotta give him props there.
Yes, Nomura has stated that Squall was meant to be a reference to phoenix River, and was upset no one seemed to make the connection ever, hell he had to slightly man up his original sketches because his boss didn’t approve. Did not help that Gackt was jumping around claiming he was the model of inspiration, pointing at pictures of himself from a year or so before the release of the game wearing an outfit nearly identical to squall’s
I have the poster on my wall that she based the drawing off of. :x
I like to look at his 8% body fat figure when I wake up in the morning.
Your headcanon makes perfect sense and explains why Noel Kreiss looks so familiar. I actually quite like Gackt so I’m probably going to be heartbroken when Commander hurts him (and his doll-like face finally changed so I know shit gonna be serious). I know it won’t affect the real guy and that it is just a webcomic, but this is The Best Webcomic aaand I should probably just shut up, sorry. I’ll never be as funny as that one who criticised Cactuar images so not gonna bother anymore.
Actually, Noel looks more like Terra from Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep.
I’m a fan of Gackt too and I am a boy. I liked it when he sang “Longing” in Dirge of Cerberus (The only thing I liked in that game).
GLAMPIRE! Bahahahahaha! I’m not sure if that term is best suited for the vampires from Twilight, or the competitors in Dragrace but I like it.
Both. Simply, both.
If I take my shirt off and stare longingly into the distance, can I be famous bishie eye candy, too?
You need to sing some songs too.
You also need two pints of hair gel for every square decimeter of hair, three pounds of metal and leather for every sixty pounds of body weight, and enough skin oil to glisten.
Think the hair gel and skin oil would get in each others’ wa–
*reads fine print*
What? No body hair? Seriously? Screw that.
Hahaha, joke’s on you! There is no Gackt in FF VI! That means my favorite game is-
*looks at Amano artwork for Locke*
… Well, fuck me sideways.
Dude.
Setzer.
Bwahahaha! Dude, my husband was playing VI and said, “huh. Didn’t think you could get gayer than Bartz. Setzer, my man, I stand corrected.”
The difference in the Amano era is mostly that the men-as-women-without-cleavage was mostly restricted to the art in artbooks and the manual, while the sprites were small and simplified enough that you could pretend it wasn’t there most of the time, especially when the ingame portraits were pixilated and often not much closer to the gaussian art than the sprite was, although VI was certainly a step away from that.
Yeah in sprite form, Aman era characters look more normal (with the females looking female). And it’s the sprite forms that fanartists go off of.
Though in the Dissidia series, many characters are Nomura style with touches of Amano.
And a bit of trivia: Gilgamesh was a Nomura design yet is not Gackt or belts and zippers.
More trivia: in the Japanese, his name wasn’t Gilgamesh, it was Gargamel. Yes, the same as the name of that guy who wanted to eat all the smurfs.
Because Gilgamesh eats smurfs, eating smurfs is now awesome.
Gilgamesh is the most epicly awesome hero of all time. He totally stole the real sword too–he just faked you into thinking he stole the fake sword.
Nobody can truly beat Gilgamesh!
Next Final Fantasy better consist of Gilgamesh eating all the smurfs.
I would smurf blue smurf so smurfing hard all over the smurfing place if they smurfed this into smurf.
It’s like when I eat blackberries then smurf my smurf… only to find then I also smurf blue smurf all over the place.
Where did you hear/read this? As I checked the Final fantasy Wikia and saw nothing of the sort.
You saw nothing of the sort because this dude is taking ancient, nigh obscure rumors and twisting it.
He has the rumor backwords, the rumor was that in the FF Anthology version of FFV Gilgamesh had his name changed to Gargamel during translations. Which is just a rumor andI beleive it was proven false when the game was officially released, but it is hard to be sure. I also heard rumors that the Anthologies contained the original planned translations they made back when FF5 was meant to be released in america on SNES in 1994, but was originally cancelled, and led to the first ever 100% complete fan translation of a RPG in 1998. This is a big reason why the rumors got started, as the original SNES translations were hilariously bad in some cases.
But other then that, I can’t find much info and had to piece a lot of it together. Like i said, the rumor is really obscure and old, I personally had forgotten all about that rumor.
Actually, Nomura never drew characters for Final Fantasy 6. He started in Final Fantasy 7. Nomura only drew monsters in Final Fantasy 6.
Hate to be the turd in the punchbowl but if the comander is a timetraveling badass.
Wouldn’t the end arc comander just go back in time to cure everyone and just clean up the mess before the end of the working day or is that just not his style?
Whatever, I shall continue enjoying the snot out of all your works!
It only works if you don’t paradox yourself.
He has to find and get the cure before he can travel back in time and hand out the cure. But if he goes back and does that, then he never found the cure OMG PARADOX.
Yes but the first time he does it, he attaches a note to leave some extra to have it analyzed and more copies made so he can go back and give it to himself again when the time comes, repeating the cycle and avoiding a paradox by having a reason for it to exist in a paradoxical loophole.
the time traveling done by the commander is paradox free because of the element bullshitum
Finally some action against the bishie epidemic
PS: I just realized that Mass Effect 3 is coming out today i hope that it contains garrus riding one of the mlp crew (My Little Pony) though wrex was always my favorite
There’ll probably be a mod sooner of later for that
Kick his ass Commander. And his gut. And his face. And his kneecaps.
his face mostly. bet it won’t be so pretty anymore after a good kick from the Commander.
Agreed. And that wimpy chest…. it looks like a nippless, hairless version of my own!
But mostly his face.
Hmm…if you combined all the above Gackts, would they become Mecha Gackt?
Captain Gackt! He’s a hero! Gonna take facial hair down to zero!
Rid of muscle! Shrink their thighs! Gonna minimize their pect-o-ral siiiize!
That would be the most horrific incarnation of Voltron since…well, since Vehicle Voltron.
Ah vehicle voltron, you suck so much
Vehicle Voltron, killer of franchises.
Which one would form the head?
Gackt is like Voltron, the more you hook up the better it gets.
That… that sounds dirty.
I was actually thinking they were like the Power Rangers, only they all look like Gackt.
Gackt looks so pretty!pretty no matter what color he wears! (or what race he is)
So… they look like normal everyday teenagers, until they morph into the Gackt Sentai?
I, uh, I’m pretty sure most diseases require some kind of therapy other than beating the crap out of Gackt, but nevertheless, Commander++
(am I the only one seeing parallels here with the current debacle over contraception/women’s rights in the US? maybe I’ve just had a glass too many and I should go to bed)
Pretty sure Coela said she’s had this storyline on layaway for a while, but I see it too. The “Keep Your Laws Off My Body” bumper sticker on my wall probably helps my sensitivity :)
Make me three who saw that parallel even before I headed to google images to look this Gackt guy up. I was “wow! Now if that was a t-shirt, that last panel minus the bubble at the bottom, I would wear that everywhere.”
Head Glampire! Thanks, now I have to clean tea off my keyboard!
I am imagining a Final Fantasy where every party member actually IS Gackt. Including the women. And every boss is also Gackt. It is glorious.
That makes one of us that feels that way…. OK, such a game might be fun to some, but leave me out of it. ;)
Including the women, though? What might a female Gackt LOOK LIKE?!
Probably exactly like the guys except for an enormous chest.
Gackt with breasts.
Gackt with a pink bow in his hair.
She looks like this – http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9923/lucyao.jpg
Yes, that’s Gackt in drag. Honestly.
Actually for one of his single covers he did full drag:
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxcjffuM981r2c83ao1_500.png
1st post and I will tell the true if no one told me I would have hit that. And now most likely still would.
Bloody mis-spell. sorry
(S)he exists. Look up Lucy Camui.
That would be something I’d love to see. Just for the hilarity of it.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I love Gackt… and this is absolutely hilarious!
…and then Marc Bolan rose from his grave in resplendent robes of velvet and leather to proclaim Glam rock- reborn!
I thought the Commander was born from steak and soil. Or was that some sort of Captain America type procedure?
Oh shit.
So that’s why Cloud’s personality did that huge U-turn when the compliation kicked him outta the polygons and into the pretty.
Nobody but NOBODY decides what’s best for me, but me!
Oh god… can’t breathe… laughing too hard…
GACKT!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
OMG…. awesome….
“Sport Gackt” sounds like the spray-on deodorant every sprite will be using in Final Fantasy MCVIIXI or whatever they’re up to now. *snickers*
Poor Volt. It’s as if he doesn’t want to speak ill of Gackt too loudly, less he be attacked by a style team who’ll blow dry bangs into his eyes and dab a bit of lip gloss on the center of his pout. Now I’m picturing him professing his love for his work into every potted plant and piece of furniture that he thinks might be bugged.
…I wonder how many Square employees feel that same low-level dread…
Its probably part of The Virus. Maybe infected makes you instinctively and automatically deferrent to and/or mentally contaminated by Gackt. The Commander must fight the Gackt within just as he fights the Gackt without.
Aha. Gacktholm Syndrome.
Does this mean he’ll have to visit Magicant after he finds eight songs before he can even begin to think to fight Gackt?
Actually, this raises a point – where the hell is Cid Highwind in the Captain’s amazing organization? Dude may be crazy, but he’s hardcore, yo.
Cid’s got a job, what would he need with the organisation?
All of the Cids do, really. They’re all gainfully employed as aeronautical engineers of some sort or another.
I thought they were all gainfully employed under King Cid…. who was also a crazy engineer!
Mmm, now we just need to see an appearance of the girliest character based off Gackt, even sharing part of his name as well as having his voice: Gackpoid/Gackpo/Kamui Gakupo
Bow to his gloriously feminine box art: http://images.wikia.com/vocaloid/images/0/0d/Illu_Kentaro_Vocaloid_Kamui_Gakupo_img-4.jpg
Is that… lipstick!?
THIS. I was wondering this as well. “No vocal synthesizer samurai Gackt?!”
Also, calling it now?
The Commander will fight Gackt, but will initially lose.
Then, he will SHATTER THAT VIRUS through pure FORCE OF MANLINESS and pound him into pudding.
He will be THE Manly Guy Doing Manly Things
As a side note, Gackt has also taken over Gundam. And, man, I’m glad I’m not the only one who has pictured Nomura with a shrine to Gackt in his closet somewhere.
He’s taken over most anime. Has since forever.
This just means Commander can hijack one of Gackt’s Gunman… er… Gundams to use against him!
You know… somewhere out there, in one of the many parallel universes, I’m just imaging an incredibly talented webcomic artist named Diuqsaleoc depicting the struggles of the other side on thepunchlineiskawaii.com … and that Kakkoii-taichou is preparing to take down Marlon Brando or Bruce Campbell for the polar opposite effect.Haven’t figured out who it would be, yet.
Wolverine mixed with Marlon Brando and James Dean
Hugh Jackman makes Wolverine look like he is struggling with Nomura Syndrome… just going to mention that.
Well, this dimension has a religion around Marlon Brando.
Maybe the alternate dimension has a religion around Gackt?
With Alternate Commander being from a Japanese based set of ideals for the Space Race… fighting against Space Squids instead of Space Commies.
But… what happens if the Space Squids were to team up with the Space Commies?
Many schoolgirls lost.
Ooh, the plot thickens.
Point one: love how even in bishie-form with uncomfortably tight leather clothing, the Commander still looks like he could kick your ass clean through time and point two: I like how you’ve sort of painted this whole glampire/werebishie phenomenon, especially with that list of characters who had lived comfrotably rugged lives “with the syndrome.” Parody within parody, I like it.
Man, screw Sport Gackt…I mean Tidus! Auron was the best character in that game anyway! And Cid and Barret were more interesting than Cloud! (Even though I’m a total Vincent Fangirl) Squall…well…all I can really say about him is at least he was the main character and not Irvine. lol! But seriously, not everyone has to be “pretty” to be cool! Go Commander! Find that guy and kick his ass!
Who is “Chain Gackt”, though? I know “Kid Gackt” is Sora, but I don’t know who “Chain Gackt” is…
Sion Barzhad. He’s from the same game as Volt Kruger here: The Bouncer.
Oh, okay! Thanks! I hadn’t played that, so I had no idea who he was.
This story arc just doesn’t stop being the funniest damn thing I’ve ever read.
So maybe all those anime guys from before were suffering from this disease and if the Commander cures the diseases, they’ll all become hot, rugged, manly men! Oh lord, I’m drooling now…
But then, the Yaoi Fangirls will revolt!
It will be the APOCALYPSE
And poor Marv hat will happen to him!?
As a semi-reformed fangirl I can honestly say for the older set that no. No we shall not revolt instead we shall embrace the manly men in all their glory!
We have Bob Barker on our sides, telling us to spay and neuter all our cat girls.
The Yaoi Fan Girls will not be able to get their numbers up high enough to be a threat.
You mean YAOIPOCALYPSE.
Lol, actually, manly men are better….. :) remember, yaoi stops being interesting when fangirls finally get laid….
Dude, I can’t even imagine what a non bishie Kuja would look like.
I’m… I’m gonna try to figure this out.
I’m pretty sure the only way to make Kuja not bishie without redesigning him from the ground up is to give him breasts, flatten out the codpiece, and call him a girl.
The way the Gackts are introduced sounds like a line of Barbies. Gackt is the male Barbie, and his Ken is a female version of himself. No one can tell them apart at a glance.
This is my new headcanon. I love this comic.
Fourth panel… he looks like… some pretty boy celebrity from real life… I can’t quite put my finger on who it was….
I’m thinking either a former boy band member, an actor, or former child actor from the 90’s. This is really bothering me. Help?
I think you just know Gackt without knowing you do, and now you’re trying to paste his face over some western celebrity to fill the gap XD He’s a very famous singer in Japan, but since the whole Japanophilia going about for the last fifteen or so years took over he’s become quite well-known in the West, too (although I have never listened to a single song of his)
I half expected him to tack on a “WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?” on the end.
I honestly think it took every ounce of CoelaSquid’s ability to not add that onto the end.
She has been doing a good job of not having him sound like Kamina-sensei… who I saw Commander as since it started.
It’s…it’s like I’ve plunged head first into a world where words don’t make sense anymore. What the HELL are all you guys talking about?! For the sake of my sanity someone point in the direction I can go to understand all this girly-man stuff.
You can tell that Cid’s Nomura is definitely a cyclical thing. He thinks he has it in remission, and then BAM!
http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/d/de/Cids.jpg
Those are Amano, not Nomura. Kinda similar, really, but distinct, in much the same way that cowpox and smallpox are distinct.
Volt seems to be looking up hesitantly in panel 6.
Has Gackt become some sort of Omnipotent BishieGod???
IS ANYONE SAFE ANYMORE?!?!?!?!?
Become? There was a time when he wasn’t a Bishie God?
This is gonna play out like some FF Boss Battle, isn’t it?
You can’t stop a contagious disease by fighting someone! Is Volt going to suggest a better option (doesn’t look like it)?
Sure you can. Just like stopping a zombie plague by killing/destroying the necromancer.
That’s magic this is science!
Eh, they both make things explode if you put too much of their generic energy into ’em, and that’s close enough to make them the same thing for me!
D: Where did all the body hair go? It’s just… too… pretty…. e.e
Also, the starry screentone was an excellent touch. That’s the first (&probly only) time you’ve used any in this comic, I think.
And the petals.
Oh God the PETALS
naw, they used it on the “I’m the king of everything” comic with Mr. Fish.
Was going to say “I stand corrected,” but is not actually screentone. I meant the traditional manganamucomic sort of sense~
Thanks for the refresher, though. Every time I see that comic, it makes me smile.
XD
The Mister Fish one was just a photo of space I messed with until it was suitably pink and sparkly.
Usually Mr. Fish cues something like that coming up anyways.
This is the first time it has been used without a cue from Mr. Fish.
I believe is time to cue One Winged Angel.
So Gackt is a Japanese David Bowie? Mother of God, this can only end in Labyrinth themed mayhem.
Except his package isn’t going to be Memetic!
Well they do call his groin Magnum
I honestly had issues not seeing a Gackt substitute into the Labyrinth, long time ago.
I feel some Amano characters should somehow get involved. Nothing screams badass like Sabin.
I am really enjoying this story arc. Massively enjoying.
I love this comic so much it hurts to breathe.
…Whoa! This Gackt guy is a real person? And here I was expecting another anime character! …That said, he’s probably the closest thing I’ve ever seen to a real life anime character without those creepy masks.
Can’t wait for Commander B to get his old looks back. He looks much more adorable with his kids that way.
He doesn’t need the creepy masks. He’s just as creepy without the Uncanny Valley masks.
I just realized that the commander has all of his teeth. Will he lose one when he goes back?
Damn, Commander looks really scary in the last frame.
I miss manly commander…
o.O, pls take Pyramid Head with you when CB kicks his ass!
He havn’t sliced up someone in a long time
=D
Keep up the good work! You’re awsome!
He is powered by the moon now…
Everybody sing!
Raping hope by Moonlight!
Raping love by Daylight!
Always rape instead of a real fight!
He’s the one called Pyramid Moon!
He’ll lay onto the back your friends~
He’ll never let you defend~
He is the on whom you can depend~
He’s the one called…
Kamina Commander~
Bishie Merv~
Falcor Mr. Fish~
Bouncer~
Raping hope by Moonlight!
Raping love by Daylight~
Always rape instead of a real fight~
He is the one!
Pyramid Moon!
Oh… my…
…I just… I just tried to picture Nomura Pyramid Head.
I think I broke something.
He is not much in a fight… just walk away from him slowly… and you win.
Aw, now I kinda want to see Auron and Cid show up in the comic. Though I guess it wouldn’t really work out, what with Auron being an alcoholic ghost and Cid already being gainfully employed by technicality.
Of all the places I thought this arc could go, I NEVER expected it to go THERE. xD Gackt? omglolITALLMAKESSENSENOW
“Who the heck is Gackt?” (Does a google image search) “Oh, it looks like panel 4 from the comic made it into the sea-…wait, that’s the actual guy.” *compares the two, they are the exact same pose* Yup, this must be him.
Haha Captain Badass is going to kick some ass!!!
Could Fenris aid in this quest? He kinda skirts that fine line between bishie and burly, so he may be immune to Nomura Syndrome.
anybody played Mass Effect 3 yet im stuck in school
its like 1:45 pm here for those who wonder
then again everyone who is playing is not to going to look at comics for a while
I have a shitload of copies but I still haven’t beat 2 yet so…yeah
same reason here i want wrex to live through the whole series. i hate relying on jack for biotic support.
Nice comic as always, you know because of this comic, I’m trying to picture what Canadian Guy would look like as a bishounen and I keep getting flashback to the anime wolverine. ;_;
Anime Wolverine looks much closer to what he should, in the X-Men anime, as opposed to his own [sadly].
It is so true, and so very, very sad.
:Hears ‘Gackt’:
As in Vocaloid? But he’s not related to-
:Sees bishie picture of ‘Gackt’; Turns around, walks out, closing the door:
:Whispering: Not Gackt, Not Gackt, Not Gackt…
(This is my very first time hearing about the singer Gackt, so this was a surprise.)
Gackt is Gakupo’s voice. And it really really fits him… And he was like “HECK YES!” when they asked him to do it lol
Gackt is clearly the Eastern form of Bowie. Except no-one can beat Bowie in his bishie manliness. No-one. And yes, I say manliness. His very noticeable manliness if you watch The Labyrinth.
Even a guy who either looks like an 18 year old Japanese boy in one picture, then a 30ish pretty western woman in the next.
I’ve seen porn of Gackt after I refused to believe that was a guy… when I was introduced to him back in 2000.
He uh… does have manliness.
Be glad you are only aware of David Bowie’s manliness. Be very glad.
Let’s add one more gackt incarnation! Wasn’t he the model for the main toon in Bujingai?
Looks like it’s time for the Commander to go beyond the impossible and kick Nomura Syndrome to the curb.
I want to live in a world where people can choose their men however they want…
NOW GIVE ME BACK MY OLDER MUSCLED MEN! I do like bishies but dayuuuummmm they can’t satisfy my thirst! Oh no…it’s getting colder…; -;
That’s because bishies can’t generate enough heat to warm the world, too small. The true secret of climate change is the manly muscular men. Too many together you get global warming. Now with them all turning bishie, global cooling. Expect the Manlyverse to start chilling any time now.
Ahhh… Auron… Mmm… Ah, what’s going on again?
Everybody else has said it but Glampire is a great word.
But now I have to go and find out who Gackt is… actually, I don’t want to. This comic shall be my teacher on Gackt. Whatever gets said is now true… especially that most S-Enix male leads are the same person.
Gackt, wow that’s a name i haven’t heard in a long while. Is that guy still doing his solo thing?
So… Gackt is just the main character in any and every game set in or near the Final Fantasy universe?
Isn’t Gackt actually really gay? I mean, like, ridiculously gay, not Yaoi fangirl gay.
No.
Newp, hes straight. He does the yaoi fanservice thing on stage because his mostly female following absolutely loves it.
Damn, really? Guess he’s just Gar, then.
No, not Gar, GMo.
Gay for Money.
Like that time Madonna and Britney Spears kissed onstage?
You’d be surprised. Gackt was actually married to a Korean woman in his 20s and is known for being a bit of a “ladies man”.
Though he of course knows how pretty he is, and plays up to that ‘pretty boy’ stereotype. I think he mentioned once that he would marry his best friend if one of them was a woman. lol
The only account of Gackt’s personal life I’ve ever seen online was one Japanese groupie who said he acted like a jerk and was unsatisfying in bed. But who knows what that’s worth.
I’m very interested to see why you’ve chosen Gackt as your antagonist
This comic pretty much explains it all… He’s got the potential to be a perfect David Bowie style antagonist.
If he IS final Fantasy like that, then it means he apprenticed under David Bowie… the villain of Final Fantasy II was clearly David Bowie as Jareth wearing a different costume.
Has everyone here seen labrinth or labrynth or however you spell it? I did no expect it
Seen Labyrinth? No, probably not everyone. Seen the Nostalgia Chick’s review of it? Quite possibly a larger number.
Aha, I laughed at the title- Gackt really is down with all the nerd stuff. He’s a massive Fist of the North Star and Kamen Rider nerd.
Also I lol’d at the cherry blossom panel. It hearkens me back to the album art for his song ‘Birdcage’. God, middle school memories.
Good God! Imagine what they would do to the Spetsnaz!
Heh heh. I have played all o those wimps. I never knew about the obsession nomura had with gackt.
This comic had me snorting with laughter for a while. I actually adore Gackt. He has a lovely voice. Granted, I prefer my music in a language I can understand most of the time, but I really do like his voice. And he is ridiculously attractive/talented/amusing. This should be a pretty epic battle, since real life Gackt practices a few forms of martial arts and his evil mastermind comic counterpart should theoretically be even more powerful.
Someone with a twitter account should try to link him to this comic. Considering the fact that he’s a huge giant nerd and seems to have a pretty healthy sense of humor, he’d probably enjoy it. http://twitter.com/#!/GACKT
some one should really do it
Done.
Dude, if he replies, you should definitely say something here :)
Um, am I the only who has noticed that this comic has pretty much THE most positive body image message EVER?!
I think the background story for his body image issues will probably have something to do with the Space Commies
Don’t want to upset Gackt like that?
Buddy you don’t want to upset the Commander like that!!!
And you have.
Correction commander, you are your daughters doll, she can play with your hair and put hats on you all she wants
…ok I’m kidding around.
I am loving this page, and this whole story <3
OMG GACKT.
Why is he here. Oh dear everything. He is…he is the person behind bishies. And all that crap.
Excuse me while I die.
Is it strange I don’t consider Sora bishie? or “Gackt like” I’ll admit Nomura designs a lot characters similarly (himself being a living example of a Bishie, the guy is 40 something and looks earlier 20 without trying). Sora just looks like a basic Shonen protagonist and shonen =/= bishie. Which’s definition is basically an androgynous male who is very effeminate. Riku counts, and so does Squall, Cloud. A bunch of others. Sora’s just to happy to be bishie.
Sora looks kind of like Sion multiplied by Tidus as a 12 year old.
Still not seeing it. Especially since Sora’s appearance is an offset from his original Lion-humanoid look back before KH was finalized as it is today.
But for that matter neither squall and cloud, squall and most of FF characters are bishonen because more of them don’t actually act effeminate and their only “problem” is their design.
Many of them used to be in the military, they get into fights and carry around humongous weapons if I was in charge of design Cloud taller more muscular with a few scars here and there and facial hair since he is like 22 or something, an smaller sword would be good too.
But I agreed about how Sora not really count as a bishonen but only because he is still young and idk about you but I didn’t grew big muscles when I was little and believe me I tried.
Exactly I think people forget the whole “Don’t judge a book by its cover” idea. They just assume he looks like this so he’s automatically a Bishonen! People don’t look at the actions of the characters but just their look. Kuja is by all accounts a Bishie, he cares about his looks he primps himself, compared to Cloud he really just didn’t give a shit about his looks.
And nobody Sora and Riku’s age (I believe 15 and 16 now as of 3D, but the game intentionally de-age their appearance because of the story) unless they periodically go to the gym and intentionally focus on muscle growth.
Of that’s the whole joke of this story arc and I understand and laugh. It is funny to see two distinct cultures clash like that.
Shonen leads are prone to being bishie as to cater to the yaoi fangirls, the second main market along side teenage boys. Why do you think so many of them wouldn’t know a girl likes them until she tears their pants off and mounts them?
I guess that sorta true. But every fandom is prone to rabid fangirls and yaoi, despite its origin and demographic. The whole start of this story line is akin to that.
Gackt is the pinicle of yaoi.
I love him.
Bugingai, or bugingirl!? its stolen but still funny, and that game is fantastic!
-Ctrl+F: Jecht
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Well, color me impressed.
Genesis from Crisis Core was based on Gackt, wasn’t he? They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. This comic is officially the most reliable news source I know.
Even thought i am a huge fan of the older FF series (before 12) and Kh that made me laugh. but the horned guy is right you know. they are two reasons why you shouldn’t piss him off.
1. he has an army of adoring Fan-girls that will just overrun you
2. he wields a Gunblade and a keyblade…..never piss off the Guy with the keyblade.
but joking aside. it would be nice to see the commander and the rest get back to normal soon. And i am still hoping to see Manly aliens Garrus and Wrex in the Agency after this.
Commander has a Gun that shoots Guns that shoot deep fried beers.
That tops the keyblade.
This is assuming Nomura Syndrome Commander has access to the same weapons. His goggles changed to those FINE SUNGLASSES OF LEADERSHIP AND COMMAND! There is a chance that his Gun also has had a similar change.
I’ve got a question that’s been bugging me for a while. Are there any anime characters that would actually qualify to work at the agency? I can’t really remember any ever being featured in the comic (For good reason, since almost all animes seem to suffer from too much bishie. Hardly surprising.) There are only a few that I can think of off-hand that could possibly fit, but most of them are from One Piece, and even then MAYBE only one or two are main characters.
Yes there are. You should have a look at Berserk – I’d say Guts qualifies pretty handily, given how he is a wall of man enormous enough that for him, swinging around a sword that size is actually believable.
Other than him, I might consider Genryuusai from Bleach, if age is no issue.
A decent chunk of the cast of Fist of the North Star might qualify, though a good number of them seem to also have Nomura Syndrome despite their pectorals the size of medium-sized piglets.
Toki, Rei, Shin and Juda don’t qualify… who else?
Actually, I was thinking that might be the tipping point. Maybe the Commander recruits a bunch of manly sunovabitches that are unaffected by Nomura Syndrome and beat the living daylights out of the Glampire legions and their rabid packs of fangirls.
Now that I’ve actually LOOKED instead of trying to recall some from memory, I have quite a few more candidates that I think would fit in well at the agency. A really good one would be Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop.
Even the big modern bishonen-filled ones have a few. Bleach has Isshin and Yamamoto, Naruto has Kirabee and Ay, Gurren Lagann has Lordgenome, Full Metal Alchemist has Hoenheim… Inu-Yasha, mentioned in a previous comic, is pretty much devoid of bulging-muscle hairy men, though.
Don’t forget Armstrong, Heinkel, and Darius from FMA! Bless that Hiromu Arakawa’s dear heart for making so many beefy guys. <3
Does Batou from Ghost in the Shell count? He seems to be a good fit for the agency.
Is even better in FMA: brotherhood specially King Bradley not only his look but is terrifying in battle , the old man chased a thank armed only whit a grenade and a sword and the tank lost…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsxyxEPZ8Qs
Isshin’s great, I love him… On further discussion of Bleach, I like to think Chad will grow up into the Manly Guy archetype too; he’s not quite there now because he’s a teenager but his build and facial bone structure look very promising.
More manly anime characters: Gauron from Fullmetal Panic illustrates that even gay men can pull this off.
Series 1 through 4 of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure were packed with giant manly guys (sadly, it contracted Nomura Syndrome near the end of Series 4).
Yes, nearly the entire cast of Dragonball Z. Frankly, I’m surprised no one else mentioned this. Literally the entire main cast fits this to a T. We’ve got manly men, manly boys, manly aliens, manly robots, even manly slugs! There’s barely any bishies to be found. They would be blown away by the sheer manlitude of the cast! That, and continent-destroying ki blasts.
Most of the cast of DBZ?
i thought he was good in bunraku….
That’s as may be, but I applaud this line on its own merits. Just perfect. I heart you so hard, Coela.
Is badass indeed but I was actually hoping that the fact he can’t be with his kids would be the main reason for his fury…
I mean sure it sucks that some bishonen mafia lord turns you into the opposite of what you want to be but making your kids afraid of you that is just to much or least thats the way I see it.
Uh… Commander has mentioned several people in the agency have body image issues. It is no different that he might also have some.
He has been very empathic in other comics about matters of image… and the ability to chose it. That some people need to choose it.
All CoelaSquid would really be doing is showing us what Commander’s ones are.
So that’s why we never see the manly Final Fantasy characters in this webcomic.
Poor guys were infected. :c
I am downhearted to see this pivotal moment of aggression and badassery come about when the commander has THOSE glasses and THAT nose. Not to mention the build.
Fight fast, commander.
I actually admit I do like Nomura’s drawing style, especially in FF8, where he put more detail than usual and, in my opinion, actually managed to make the characters differ from each other. And apparently Cloud had to be a lot manlier than he is, as opposed to Sephiroth’s bishieness, but then the executives just scrapped the idea and went with a more mainstream idea of hero *rolls eyes*
And then things went progressively downhill, being strapped and chained and hair-gelled to the death XD Now his style is duller than ever, not to mention his overall designs, XII and XIII looked boring as hell >_>
I’m a fan of what you’ve done in panel 3. It really puts the spotlight on how they’re all only differentiated from each other visually by their clothes in the first place.
It’s unlikely that Tetsuya Nomura based all his characters off Gackt. In Japan the bishonen/bisienen aesthetic is fairly old and has been around for centuries. It’s just that Gackt and Tetsuya Nomura characters tend to fit that trope. Also though Gackt is a pretty boy amongst pretty boys. He’s also a notorious bad ass who has a black belt, in both Karate and Tae Kwon Do and can bench press 110 kilo’s. Gackt is someone people probably wouldn’t want to mess with in real life.
Yea is a cultural factor a lot of people think is something new started by anime and manga but this was part Japanese culture before animation even existed but like anything else it has degenerate into something ridiculous just to make profit.
Does this mean he’s pro-choice?
Oh good, I though I was the only one who read that that way. Now I know I’m not alone
Does this line of thinking imply that he’s been pregnant in the past? I don’t think that qualifies as “manly”.
I think the word you’re looking for here is “empathy.”
If it was empathy, he would be talking in general terms, rather than “my” body. The first person singular possessive is being used here, implying he’s making a statement about himself, not people in general…
Empathy would also mean that he can see how his statement about himself and his feelings could apply to other people.
Same here.
With this storyline I get the feeling you’d like Danganronpa, Coela! While it is in Japanese and has a slowly translated LP, it tackles some of these body issues of manly vs. fem really well! Maybe not in the 4th wall anime sense, but it does take certain character archetypes and turn them on its head (or at least use them in an interesting way)– Sakura Oogami here is a great example.
Haha sorry for mainly plugging another TV show/cartoon/game/what have you btw, you probably get it often. I’m really looking forward to maybe possibly seeing Commander’s body issues!
Thanks for always making my Mondays manly! :D
I totally want to see a bishified Lobo.
I also want to see a bishified Sten bringing the smackdown.
Wow I feel slow. I only noticed NOW that The Commander has Epic Kamina Glasses.
I think…
Maybe…
It’d be really embarrasing if I noticed the first time and just forgot… >.>
I am a fan of Gackt, and you just made me laugh out loud. Thanks :)
When we can expect a katana vs. broadsword final boss battle between gakt and david bowie?
(snerk)
Sure, Gackt is a pretty boy but his voice is quite deep and sexy. :3
Speaking of Glampires… what if Gackt was the first, but not the source. What if the true ultimate source… was Edward Cullen?
is it bad that i cant wate to see the death of Gackt ?
I’m actually curious. When some strong gets shrunk down to his “glampire” self, does his strength decrease?
Volt touched on this, but his side of the story was from birth, not if you were already a powerhouse like the Commander then turned into a blonde Kamina.
Definitely not. Nier doesn’t lose any strength from one version to the other, so there’s no reason to believe Commander would or anyone else that’s been bishified.
It’s such a shame he doesn’t realize that his manliness would go up almost 100% (from what it is right now) if he just lowered the shades. *le sigh*
Just throwing this out there, but knowing Gackt, I think it’s a safe assumption that, in a straight-on hand-to-hand fight, Gackt could probably hold his own against the Commander for a while.
From what I’ve heard, every member of his staff at his home is trained in some martial arts, and he challenges them frequently.
Just sayin’. For all his bishie-ness, the man is a genuine badass.
I’m looking forward to the showdown, honestly. XD
Yeah, now that’s the Captain Badass I know.
…When did he get a promotion?
For your information, commander is a higher rank than captain. I oject to the demotion Shade Person is trying to force on the Commander.
Is it just me or do the shades the commander has now look like the shades Kamina has in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann? xP
actually I just realized it is, don’t mind me xD
I don’t know if its been mentioned, but the reason Sora looks so much like Sion is due to the fact Sora’s design was heavily influenced by Sion. Kingdom Hearts is a collective clusterbutt of Sqaure’s design and characters, as well as Disney thrown in there — since the whole idea of KH is world’s colliding and friendship, yadda yadda. Like in the second game you see characters wearing DogStreet brand clothing, thats only some of the obvious stuff.
I always looked at it this way, everything ELSE was stolen in KH, why not Sora/Sion? My Late brother and I used to have this headcannon that Sion IS Sora, Grown up and trying to get out of superheroing. And failing at it of course
Pfft, don’t see the girls whining about their “pretty singularity”.
Except for when they do all the time.
If Cloud, Squall, Tidus, and Sora are all the same person, then please explain how the Kingdom Hearts series exists, because, unless Gacht pulls a Holy Trinity with all these different persons, I doubt Gacht could be all these people at the same time.
remember the guest comic with all the different arnold roles playing poker? something like that
Cid Highwind does deal exceedingly well with his Nomura Syndrome, if he does have it at all…
You know, I kinda miss all the muscle. It’s kind of like… Losing a family member or something.
And I hope Gackt gets some real punishment. Really tired of today’s Japan. Reeeeeeeally tired.
Volt solved one problem: getting emotions on that plastic doll face. On to the next objective.
Goodness, reading back on the archives, you’re right.
Maybe all the Commander needs is to let his natural manliness show through the cracks of the porcelain bishounen skin until it shatters.
I hear an 80’s style manly montage coming our way!
BARRET? How? That makes absolutely no sense!
Likely due to Barret being a Nomura design, though an early one (before he started going crazy with bishiness), but his FF7 designs aren’t so outrageously bishie unlike his later designs (FF7 Compilation included)
Volt has appeared several times in this comic, here he is again!
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/561
and here
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/899
I’m glad the Commander is showing some attitude, that pretty-boy design was starting to get to me…
Volt Krueger is a most welcome appearance. The gameplay in the Bouncer wasn’t all that since it was more of an interactive movie, but I quite appreciated it for its badass atmosphere. Volt is the kind of stable powerhouse you want around when you’re headed for trouble.
WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? I wanna know whose idea was this RIGHT NOW. Who did this on purpose, huh? I found this little secret and I’m so angry I wanna know who did this and why or I’ll report everyone here to the site moderaters on this website and have the one responsible BANNED FOR LIFE. NOW TELL ME WHO DID THIS NOW? Gackt is what they call the best of the best, so mock all you want, but Gackt has his fans, and they lvoe him!!!!
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No but seriously, this made me laugh XD
Also, the commander is not pretty with his newly found “kawaii”. He’s just hideous in that form D:
You know who I think is pretty manly despite what all the fangirls do to him AND his appearance? Marluxia. He is a big fracking dude, (seriously, look at an actual picture of him and not fan art) who carries a big fracking scythe. Who cares if his hair is pink? He is still manly as FRACK!
Thats my opinion anyway.
I only mention him here because Xaldin was mentioned, and he’s pretty manly too.
FRACKITYFRACKITYFRACK! XDDDD
Uh, Nomura actually admitted that Marluxia was originally suppose to be a girl….
They changed it because they already had Larxene and Namine.
http://kingdomhearts.wikia.com/wiki/Marluxia
I know this would stop this whole arc, but why doesn’t B just go back in time and stop himself from getting scratched?
Seems his plastic face is stretching out more too.
Sad to hear it’s vampire related business and not werewolves. Still could possibly come back to his normal self. Depending on what vampire folk talk you use. So basically kill the original and everyone is back to normal.
Wish ya luck Commander! :D
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Jared too >.> If he knows how to use Mr.Fish as a weapon like other kids in pokemon world, that is.
nobaby puts commander in a corner!!
Commander Badass would be, well, badass and manly even if you gender bent him into a sailor fuku wearing Magical Girl expy, but I am starting to go into withdrawal here folks.
Of course Auron’s too badass to take that kind of crap. Tis only natural.
The Commander should team up with Golgo 13 and Itto Ogami to kill Gakct.
Still- Even with the ‘pretty-boy’ thing going on, a few men we’re able to still bulk up. I – personally enjoying some Yaoi – Believe that there should be some bulky guys, right off the start, who get the disease. It’s no fun if every ‘gay guy’ is skinny as a twig. Ya need Pitchers and Catchers!
Most people seem to forget (or are unaware that) Gackt, for how skinny and effeminate and glamorous his figure is, is nothing but skin, bone and LEAN MUSCLE. The guy has not a gram of fat on his body. It won’t be a cakewalk taking down the head GLAMpire.
I don’t care if a guy has feminine features, but when it becomes difficult to discern him from the group of women he is surrounded by, then it becomes an issue.
That’s why the women always have unnaturally large breasts/hips and an outfit that would, in reality, either fall off if she tried breathing or appears to be composed of paint.
I like the point you also made about how there are some characters who have over come nomura virus like Auron and Cid XD
I find this whole story line a bit odd for me though because back in junior high I was very much into prince type bishies >> Now I love manly men who act like men XD
So it feels weird as I like both sides well enough and have been really enjoying seeing the bishie versions of characters XD
BTW last panel = Epic c:
no one but………… no one! and Glampire!
Kelly! I could kiss you for this! If that wouldn’t both be awkward and you weren’t all the way in California.
The idea of the Commander going after Gackt just brings joy to my cold cold heart.
Once upon a time when you were still getting the Commanders drawl right I said he sounded like Sal from Futurama and you didn’t know who I meant. But I started watching Futurama on netflix and recalled that semi conversation.
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/253686-2072-sal_large.JPG
So BAM I’m too inept to properly link that but regardless the dominos have fallen like a house of cards, CHECKMATE
For proper effect read the first paragraph in Fry’s voive and the second in Brannigans and this one in Nixons ARRROOOOUUUGGGGGGG
I love these strips…
While I finally get where the current storyline is coming from, I´m really starting to get annoyed with it.
You made your point, please move on.
In the meantime I´m with the “X-wifey”.
I´ll check back periodically to see when the gay is out of your system.
Now I have this mental image of both of you periodically popping in to see if Commander badass clean the bish from his system, getting told the story so far and in a dull look walk away in unison.
Bishis is not necessarily gay, it is more metrosexual than anything. a metrosexual is straight guy that spends way too much time on appaearace
bishie
I have a feeling hans’s understanding of “the gay” is not nuanced enough to appreciate the distinction.
If it looks like it, if it acts like it….
This last series of comics has made my entire weekend. xDD
Seriously, though. I don’t care if dudes looks like chicks and chicks look like dudes and I can’t tell ’em apart. You’ll hear time and time again that it’s what’s on the inside that matters. The only time it would ever bother me is if that person goes out of their way to gender-bend (or any other body alteration for that fact) that they are so far removed from who they really are and destroy themselves and hurt everyone else in the process. And that’s where I side with the Coelasquid.
I’m a beefy little girl but I’m not going to go out of my way to look like a girl; I just like being myself and people can take it how they want. My best friend is a very feminine-looking man with long hair, but he’s always been like that and he doesn’t take pains to act manly or in a way that’s not like him. But I’ve no doubt he’s a man, because he reads books and doesn’t complain about stuff.
I think my laptop feels unclean now that I made him (yes, my laptop is male for some reason) look up so many pictures of pretty guys @_@
The only depressing thing is seeing men/boys who are infinitely prettier than me, a female. Oh well, at least someone is beautiful!
GACKT. AHAHAHHAHAHH I’M CRYING HOLY CRAP THIS IS THE BEST COMIC EVER
Ya know, I had to wiki Gackt to even get the joke and I’m STILL not sure I get it. Generic Japanese Game Pretty-Boy made sense, but I dun see an association with the comic and who wiki says Gackt is. I think I’m missing it. :(
Basically the joke is that Nomura Tetsuya- the character designer for a lot of Square stuff- supposedly bases his characters off of Gackt. Like so.
The truth is a little bit misconstrued when it comes to Gackt and Nomura. Gackt is said to be an inspiration for many FF characters and he himself loves to state that they asked him to model for them in nearly every FF game Nomura made, which in most cases is him spouting bull, in some rare cases he did indeed wear a shockingly similar outfit to an FF character before the character was publicly revealed. This was the case with Squall of FF8, however Nomura and the others created mentioned numerous times that Squall was based on an american named River Phoenix, Nomura himself lamenting many a time how it was a reference no one seemed to get.
However there is only just one true undeniable case of Gackt actually being used for a Final Fantasy character, and this was Genesis of the FF7 spinoff games. They even had him voice act and Green Screen for the character.
It’s my theory that Gackt made the comments about all FF characters being modeled after him after his involvement with the spinoff series, but unfortunately I have yet to find a date for the interview he first announced this.
Regardless of whether or not he was used for all those designs, merely appearing as Genesis made a lot of people realize how shockingly similar he looked compared to every other FF character, because remember, he was not motion captured for the original appearance, he acted live action on a green screen and they placed his live action performance IN GAME and still looked just like all the other characters. His interview being spread online fueled the fire even further, leading people to hunt down every hairstyle and outfit he ever wore to make a connection to each character, including the women.
Honestly, I always took it as mostly a joke/amusing internet meme with very little truth in it. Because what it comes down to is that Gackt likes to look fabulous and a LOT of FF characters look like generic prettyboys. So of course there’s plenty of potential resemblances…
Of course, I already was familiar enough with Gackt prior to that rumor starting to know anything involving him was probably full of bs, so maybe that colored by opinion. :|a
Recently I had lunch with two lovely post middle-aged Japanese ladies who enjoy learning English. One of them was happy to show photos she had of her standing with a stunning, doll-faced young man in a bamboo grove. It turns out she’d gone to a friend’s bamboo farm and that day a studio was there filming a commercial with this man. She said he was really sweet. So I said “That reminds me!” I introduced them to this storyline. I probably did not explain very well, as they balked at “Gackt may be the enemy. No, no, not the blond man in red.” I think they were intrigues, as I showed them the one where his ex brought their children and the poor kids burst into tears.
Darnit, typo!
He should go back in time and get a whole bunch of commanders! Or just stop Nier from ever scratching him…
The Commander speakers out on issues of female body autonomy. No one but no one decides what happens to my body for me!
So, a good amount of the FF Cast are manly bishie’s?
Gackt is in fact into nerdy stuff. A fan of Kamen Rider and Hokuto No Ken (Fist of the North Star here in the states.) among other things. Apparently, he can also recognize Shonen Jump works and he also likes Gundam. As for how I found out, it was my mistake in introducing my mom to Gackt during the airing of Furin Kazan.
Even though it’s been said by others, I am shocked at the lack of Genesis, the most douchebaggery–and likely accurate–portrayal of Gackt.
so manly bishies are mishies? instead of having to say manly bishies
hey Coelasquid i dunno if someone mentioned this but in the last line of this strip it says dow where i assume it means down, says “takin’ dow th’ head Glampire”, just thought i would bring that to your attention
i think its part of the commanders accent
that’s my two cents on it
http://chrishanel.tumblr.com/post/19196576643/spread-the-word-theft-is-theft
That’s pretty much a list of my favorite webcomics. how comical.
Taking down an evil Glampire? It’s like Brütal Legend all over again, and I couldn’t be happier!
I’ve always wished for Wrex and Garrus to have a place in this comic, but this plotline practically necessitates it. I’m gonna regret image searching “bish wrex,” but now I need to know.
I’ve always thought that all the latter day Final Fantasy leading men look like Meg Ryan. Tidus and Vaan are both really guilty of this.
B-but…I like Sora …even if he’s a bishonen…
LMAO I love EVERY person in the 3rd panel ina no homo way but I Am pleased to see u added sora in ur comic….
So, is the reason why Squall, Cloud, so on, didn’t show up because of the fact they’re all Gackt?
If this ends with BA beating up the cast of Kingdom Hearts there will be a smile plastered on my face for days.
Out of curiousity, why have you never included any of the ME characters in your comics? Like Commander Shepard or Garrus or Wrex?
I know that Gackt sang Redemption and Longing and is in fact Genesis in Crisis Core, but I don’t see the connection to the other characters. He didn’t make contact with the FInal Fantasy series until Dirge of Cerberus and Crisis Core.
In the original FF7, Cloud was more of a smart aleck than an Emo and it was only changed because of Squall and Japanese fangirls loving the emo characters more. >=C
Sora was based more on Zidane from Final Fantasy 9. In fact, Sora was suppose to have a lion’s tail in the original sketch, chainsaw rations for weapons and be hooded. He is also voiced by Haley Joel Osment (I see dead people kid) which is a positive for what a career he had as a child.
THIS. Thank you.
I hate seeing people call Cloud emo–he was only made that way in Advent Children for no reason other than “Because this movie’s stupid, convoluted plot demands Cloud regress 50 steps in personality and constantly whine about Aeris to keep her relevent”. And Sora and Tidus are both about as far from Squall-ish as you can get.
i agree with the commander, no one should decide what happens to your body but YOU. (the only one who can decide if your body is ready is you.)
that said, upon seeing bishie gackt, i squee’d.
I’ve been convinced that Loz from FFVII Advent Children tries really hard to look less bishie than the other mako-addicts in order to avoid attention from fangirls. The crying bits don’t help his case, though
“No one but NO ONE decides what happens to my body for me.”
Preach, Commander!
I cracked up at Gackt. XD He’s a pretty humorously aloof guy.
This makes me think of a movie I was forced to watch in sex ed once upon a time…
My body’s nobody’s body but mine, your body’s nobody’s body but yours. OH GOD…. IT’S STARTING D:
Y’know, this is the first time I heard someone other’n me coin the term ‘Glampire.’
You know I used the word”Glampire” in this comic months ago when Commander went after Gackt for making everyone bishies.
Funny thing about this, actually–Squall is modelled after River Phoenix and Tidus more often gets compared to Meg Ryan.
It takes more to caricature someone than draw something that looks exactly like everything else you do and tell people it’s supposed to be a certain celebrity. Nomura can say Squall was supposed to look like River Phoenix all he wants, but River Phoenix has very distinctive facial features and non of them made it onto character design. Beyond, you know, shaggy brown hair.
It goes beyond character design though. Nomura even gave Squall the same height and birthday as River. It’s clear that a River Phoenix expy is what he had in his mind, even if he didn’t turn out looking too much like River.
But really, on another note, saying Tidus, Squall and Cloud all look exactly alike is kinda painting them with too broad a brush. They do share similarities, being drawn by the same artist in the same basic style, but you can see clear differences. And Sora can’t even be compared to them at all, unless you compare him to pre-Advent Children Cloud with the cartoonish proportions, lethal spike hair and big anime eyes {read: the actual GOOD Cloud}.
I’m really not sure how to respond to a statement that seems to imply giving a drawing the same birthday as a famous person is an important part of caricaturing that famous person.
My point was that River was clearly who Nomura had in mind, as opposed to Gackt. Same height, same birthdate, an attempt at the same look. He may not have succeeded, but River is definitely who he was trying to base Squall on.
I don’t doubt he meant to, but the joke is he’s not a very good artist.
Hey, let’s not forget Jecht, Golbez, Gabranth, Gilgamesh, Garland, and Lexaeus. And I think Xigbar MIGHT be rugged, considering the scars, eyepatch, and the weapons. Idk, what do you guys think?
Y’know, the funniest thing I find about this comic…
Is that you don’t give a caricature of the one Final Fantasy character who is obviously, entirely, admittedly, and advertised as being based off of Gackt, Genesis. I mean sure, he’s only ever referenced outside of 1 spin-off, a prequel that was released towards the end of the PSP’s recognized “Console Life”, but still, seems like a missed opportunity.
On another note, I don’t think Sora looks anything like him…Riku though…maaaaaybe.
i think more people should pick up what the commander says about his body U _ U much needed in our society
Gackt is manly…uh in his own way.( practising martial arts and gymnastics like 4-5 hours some days)…oh and it will be hard to kill for the commander since it is known that gackt has faced death like 15 times or more (it’s like he resurrects himself).
again, like i said in the last comic. there are “japanese pretty boys” who are still rugged and manly as shit, thus proving that coelasquid doesn’t hate “pretty boys” or anything like that. ummm was that coherent?! i have a lot of trouble being coherent…