Quotes tagged with trans. Kodansha Comics (by characters)

Asahi Amagami: I suppose it's only natural... Who wouldn't go gaga if a hot older lady with huge boobs gave them a kiss?

Askeladd: What a sight this is. A man, slave to gold, holds a whip and beats the slave he bought with that gold as if to claim he is the master. He just doesn't see it for himself. Every living human being is a slave to something.

Canute: To sin and lose one's way—that is the human condition.

Canute: You let yourself be beaten to a pulp, just so you could stand before an emperor and admonish him to his face?

Chidori Amagami: If you keep staring at the same thing for hours on end, eventually your eyeballs will get tired, no? You need to rest your mind and body from time to time! And it's important to expand your horizons, too!

Einar: If you want fields so badly, till them yourself. I bet you've never held a hoe in your life. Try making your own field of crops. Then maybe you'll understand firsthand what a terrible thing it is to have that stolen from you.

Father: Since the beginning, the world has always been the same. Believers are played for fools. Life isn't worth much. The weak are oppressed. If you lose, you die. If you win, you get to live. The animals. The insects. Even the grass and flowers are in a savage fight for survival. And I really...really hate the whole business.

Fujio Fuji: I am tardy!! As I fly to almost certain tardiness, slice of bread firmly between teeth, I will certainly collide with the fated heroine. Manga plots demand it... And I, specs, must experiment to determine the truth of it!! However, I wonder as to the necessity of pronouncing my tardiness aloud. Also, in the near future, the bread in my mouth will cause a shortage of breath...

Fujio Fuji: During a single point within a time frame two elderly men lived within their abode... And in the abode closest to them, there lived an elderly gentleman by the name of Cinderel. However on a certain day a beautiful, petite elderly man came floating down from the sky...

Fumio Akatsuka: "Akatsuka"? Perhaps that used to be my name. However, I have abandoned my past! I will now be reborn anew... Yes!! From today forward, my name shall be The Jet-Black Crimson Knight!!

Fumio Akatsuka: It's true that as a little kid I was thin and weak... And it was Jump that told me that if I trained, I could get stronger. In my desire to come ever closer to my beloved Jump characters, I'd wear the shell of a turtle on my back... I'd climb a cliff using only one arm... I'd stop a barrage of tennis balls with only my stomach muscles... And while I was at it, I managed to style my hair like a Super Saiyan...

Itsuki Takeuchi: How can you even call that a car? It's an ancient automatic with a freaking diesel engine. It's not a car. It's an antique!

Kanna Tezuka: Being this close to a real-life naked dude is really gross, too! Why does it have to be real?! Why can't he be in 2D?!

Koichiro Iketani: When Tak drives that thing, it's more than an Eight Six. It's an instrument that shapes the road to its will... Maybe even magical.

Koigakubo: You've always been a really good listener. And you can read the room. You know what we want to hear and bring that into the conversation. That's super comforting for us. But it can also make us feel bad. I was shaking with excitement when you chose to pursue art. Because it was something that you decided for real. Look, Yatora, maybe you don't know this, but... me and the guys love hearing about you.

Maki Kuwana: You need physical energy to paint, right? There are a lot of big eaters among artsy girls, aren't there? But I guess there's also a lot of boys who only eat a little. I wonder why.

Maki Kuwana: Looking at people who are feeling down makes me feel like I'm still okay, you know?

Maki Kuwana: Even if you're really good at art, and even if you do it for a long time, or you love it to death... If fighting for it becomes too painful, then it's okay to walk a different path. Choosing to make things easier for yourself is actually pretty hard to do.

Masako Saeki: You're a third year now. A day in the life of a highschooler is like an entire week for an adult. Go find daily inspiration in all manner of things and grow!

Masako Saeki: With the techniques you've learned, you've become better. But techniques are not what make a piece good.

Mayu Ooba: Good works of art look like they were drawn or painted as the artists saw them, but the truth is that they're incredibly calculated.

Ryuji Ayukawa: If I have to be whatever society's definition of "acceptable" is... I would die.

Ryuji Ayukawa: Is there something not normal about wanting to look cute? To look pretty? What's not normal about a man wanting another man? But underneath it all... Maybe my wants are the only things that protect me.

Ryuji Ayukawa: I believe that my wants are the only things protecting me... but I don't even know what I want sometimes.

Ryuji Ayukawa: People who bare their naked bodies and people who try to adorn their naked bodies—they both have a certain freedom and ugliness to them, but isn't it all so lovely?

Ryuji Ayukawa: People can't compare themselves to gods.

Ryuji Ayukawa: Frustrated? Then you've still got some fight in you.

Ryuji Ayukawa: Would've been nice if it'd rained today. There's nothing more painful than heartbreak on a clear day...

Shoko Ishinomori: When a girl with no history of love suddenly falls, they have a tendency to give up the rest of their lives to it! They stop drawing manga because of their infatuation. It's happened to a lot of aspiring young manga artists! Love is a demon that crushes the seed of talent in its claws!!

Shota Ishinomori: If you let yourself be ruled by fear, you'll never, ever become a manga artist!! Even if you're ashamed or afraid of being put down, you still have to show people your work!! Manga exists for people to read and enjoy, right?!

Sverkel: Too much wealth brings disaster. When you increase your wealth, you fear losing it. To ease that fear, you spend money to make more of it. The idiot boy doesn't realize how empty it all is.

Thorfinn: Who negotiates for peace by beating a man? I've only just met you today. We don't know each other, or bear each other any grudge. Why should we have to beat one another? It's foolishness.

Thorfinn: Your power saves many people and torments a few. That is what it does. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I have no right to criticize your absurdity. So all I can do...is run. To a place where your power cannot reach.

Thorfinn: This is a hunt. The strong hunt the weak. It's a fact of life. That's how every living thing struggles to survive. You were weaker than me. So you got hunted. If you want to hate anything, hate your own weakness. I am the hunter and you are the hunted. It's just as simple as that.

Thors: Listen to me, Thorfinn. You have no enemies. No one has any enemies. There is no one that you should hurt.

Uryu Kamihate: I'm not so desperate to turn to a god for help.

Yatora Yaguchi: When it came to work and play, I always went all in. Though that didn't make them feel any more real. But when I expressed myself to others through painting, it was like the first time I ever really talked with people.

Yatora Yaguchi: Art is interesting because you can't understand everything just from reading a book. Our senses lead the way, and logic will follow. If so, then I'll just enjoy myself. I'll have fun with it.

Yatora Yaguchi: Of course it's impossible to understand everything about art. Highbrow... High barriers to entry... Maybe it doesn't need to be like that. Thinking "I don't really get it," used to stop me in my tracks... But just now, I took a small step.

Yatora Yaguchi: I've done my fair share of playing and studying. I thought I was living my life efficiently. But I got hooked on art. And for the first time in my life, I started to take things seriously. Even though I used to think that there was no future to be had in art.