character: touhoku_zunko, touhoku_kiritan, zundamon
2koma, comic, multiple views, anime coloring, 3 girls, touhoku_zunko, touhoku_kiritan, zundamon, long hair, green hair, black hair, straight hair, hairband, yellow eyes, japanese clothes, green kimono, kimono, ribbon, one hand beside face, open mouth, worried, looking to the side, kiritan, brown hair, twintails, ahoge, hair ornament, red eyes, red dress, blue skirt, long sleeves, lying on side, hands tied behind back, white cloth gag in mouth, gagged, wide-eyed, struggling, tears, zundamon, green hair, hair between eyes, yellow eyes, white shirt, suspenders, apron, frills, closed eyes, crying, listless, tatami mat, japanese-style room, game consoles scattered around, snacks scattered around, bust-up shot, close-up, lower half out of frame, out of frame, dutch angle, cel shading, flat colors, no noses on chibi faces
Page overview: a two-panel comic strip in vibrant flat colors with standard cel shading, panel 1 placed on the RIGHT half of the strip and panel 2 on the LEFT, each a separate rectangular frame with a clean black panel border and white gutter between them. Panel 1 is a wide bust-up shot; Panel 2 is a single shared close-up framing two faces.
Panel 1 (right panel): touhoku_zunko, seen in a bust-up shot from the waist up, turned three-quarters away from the camera toward the left edge of her own panel as if scanning a corridor off-frame. Her single long straight black-green hair falls behind her shoulders in one heavy sheet, a hairband set back on her crown, the green kimono collar crossing her throat with a ribbon tied at the front of the chest. She is caught mid-call: one hand lifted and held flat beside her cheek, fingers slightly spread, elbow tucked, her weight rocking forward onto the front of both feet so that her shoulders tilt; her mouth is open in a call, brows drawn up and pinched at the inner ends into a small worried knot, eyes moving off to the side with nothing in the frame answering them. The kimono sleeve falls back from the raised wrist, its fabric creasing at the bend. Her lower body and everything below the waist is cut cleanly off by the bottom border of the panel. A soft indoor light comes from the upper left of the panel and falls across her cheek and the raised hand, leaving the far side of her jaw and the hair behind it in flat shadow.
Panel 2 (left panel): the same close-up framing holds touhoku_kiritan and zundamon together, the two of them lying on their sides on the tatami mat of a Japanese-style room, both head and shoulders inside the frame with the lower half of both bodies out of frame below the panel border. Their white cloth gags are tied across both mouths, the knots visible at the back of each jaw and the cloth pulled taut so it creases the corners of their lips. Kiritan lies nearer the front of the frame, her brown twintails and the ahoge splayed and crushed against the woven tatami, one hair ornament caught under a strand; her red eyes are wide open and fixed past the camera toward the right side of the panel in a warning aimed at someone not yet arrived, brows up and pinched, cheeks bunched above the gag. She is struggling: her shoulder is driven into the mat, her whole upper body twisted in a half-turn with the cloth tightening at one corner of her mouth, the collar of her red dress pulled askew and the blue skirt edge visible only at the very bottom of the crop. Behind and slightly above her, Zundamon lies on her opposite side, listless, cheek flat on the tatami, her closed eyes pressed shut with a thin shine of tears running from the inner corners down across her temples into the mat weave, the gag dampening her slack mouth; her green hair and the hair between her eyes lie limp, and the collar of her white shirt with its suspenders and apron frills is crushed against the floor. Around and between them on the tatami are scattered items: a handheld game console face-down with its screen against the weave, another one lying open beside a tangle of controller cables, and open snack bags with loose chips and wrappers spread out over the mat in a spill shaped by the space the two bodies leave. The same upper-left light rakes across the woven tatami, picking out the ridges of the mat and casting short soft shadows from the scattered snacks and consoles, with the room's darkness sitting low at the top of the panel.
Palette: vibrant flat cel colors in clean separated planes, the warm straw yellow-green of the tatami, the deep green and black of Zunko's hair and kimono, Kiritan's red and blue against her brown hair, and Zundamon's green hair over her white shirt, shadows laid in as single flat tones. One physical detail: the spilt snacks and the cable gather in the shallow depression that the two lying bodies press into the tatami, and the mat fibres bend only where the weight actually falls. Quiet dread.
MOAI
