Sleepless Domain

Kinda meta there - something that always struck me about the strip is that it first presents itself as a quirky magical girl comic, throws out a familiar decoy cast, kills them all without warning, and just when you're thinking "yep, here we go again"... it goes right back to being a quirky magical girl comic, and has been for four times as long now.

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-10-page-23

Introducing Mitsuki (Aichi?) - Moonlight Spear

The (Aichi?) is because I'm not sure if we're assuming Kokoro uses her surname or not.

Though that does make me wonder, given the prevalence of Magical Girls, if family lines use the womens' names over the mens'.

Fixed

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 3rd 2018 at 6:14:16 AM

That link leads to the previous page before the current one.

Moonlight Spear seems pretty cool though the reference to keeping out of the media is interesting since I don't think we've seen a Magical Girl who wasn't publicized in some way.

Even Undine had shampoo endorsements.

Though that does remind me to wonder how anyone in this landlocked, barriered-for-who-knows-how-long city knows what an "ocean" is. Attack on Titan had people behind a wall for a hundred years and that was enough to render oceans a foreign concept.

Like you said, we don't know how long it's been for. And the city administration doesn't seem to be evil, so they wouldn't feel the need to suppress anything just for the hell of it.

Might be something the older members of society remember, or something that's passed down. "Oh, before the monsters showed up, we would always go to the beach and see the ocean" "Granny, what's the ocean?" and so on. It's nice setup for a character's drive, too. They want to take their family to see the ocean one day.

It worked for Eren Yeager

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-10-page-24

Team Blade On A Stick, no relation to the current Team Blade On A Stick.

I wonder if Kokoro has any contact with the other two.

I mean, strictly speaking, a halberd is a type of axe, so much so that it's name pretty much means "Staff Axe", but that's a bit of a nitpick.

Love how the lineup just looks like a color gradient, this makes me wonder if this applied to their personalities and Starlight was the intermediate between Sunlight and Mitsuki.

The thing that struck me was that I think this is one of the few, if not only, times we see Kokoro get annoyed at Undine.

http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-10-page-25

"So it seemed like things might turn out so right... Until one night, when I was a few months old... the Fire Nation attacked."

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 10th 2018 at 5:33:29 AM

What would the mascot of Sunbucks be?

A fish head with human legs??

Undine seems to be more comfortable with discussing/mentioning sex than HP, unless part of HP’s embarrassment is that it’s her conception/parents? Hmm.

That or they had very different experiences when it came time for The Talk.

I could almost see Papakoro being more explicit precisely because of how HP was born, to try and keep her from doing the same thing.

Different people deal with it differently. What said also probably happened, which could lead to Kokoro being more nervous about it. She's also far more Japanese than Undine, which could be a factor, given the Japanese are generally more bashful about this kind of thing, even if it's just a nod from the author (since we don't know if Japan exists in this world). Or maybe, if Kokoro is attracted to Undine like people think, that might figure into it as well.

Either way, I'm interested in knowing how Undine knows the details. Was it her family, or does the school have some proper sex ed classes? Considering what happened to Momkoro and what that tells us about the added complications, I can see how having proper sex ed would be in the government's interests.

Edited by TheLovecraftian on Aug 10th 2018 at 9:42:42 AM

Turns out Cube has a retort for that:

https://twitter.com/cubewatermelon/status/1027413096262975488?s=19

The "apparently my grandparents were supportive" implies to me that they are dead. I'm guessing that there was a breach and the whole family got wiped out. Kokoro was presumably elsewhere with her father at the time.

...part of me thinks that's fair enough. Part of me wants to be really nitpicky about all the different kinds of weapons that could technically be considered spears under that label.

Remember the ones naming the team were teenage girls, or possibly their agents trying to market to other teenage girls. Either way, I could easily see them not caring about all the specific types of spears.

If nothing else, "Team Spear" sounds better than "Team Polearm."

"Like, does that mean their arms stretch out like poles?"

"Spears are knives for people with intimacy issues."

I want this on a shirt or something

Yeah, I know. I'm just being nitpicky for fun. It's not really an issue or anything. It worries me that Cube felt the need to clarify that, though. I wonder if enough people were actually bothered by a webcomic to harp on about this.

Seconded. That would be a cool-ass shirt.

Some fanart of Team Spear: https://twitter.com/heyitscorinth/status/1028161877241749505?s=19

The authors reaction was, and I quote, "*SCREMS EXCITEDLY*"

The tweet also prompts a discussion idea: if there were focus on a magical girl or magical girl team besides Undine and Heartful Punch, who who would you want to see?

My first thought was Team Flash, just to see who else was on it. Bud and Harley a close second.

Edited by sgamer82 on Aug 11th 2018 at 7:37:42 AM

New comic: http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-10-page-26

We're now in a proper flashback.