I'm sure many of you are probably wondering exactly what this blog is about, what that crazy name means, and why the Saralya it's all shady and gloomy. Well, whether you are or not, here's why!
This site, sangkara.tk, is where I'm going to announce updates to
Tyrian, a manga series that I've had in planning for about a year or two now. (A manga, for the uninitiated, is a Japanese-style right-to-left graphic novel typically serialised weekly by the chapter first and then in bound collections of about two months' worth of chapters.) Although I was too busy living life then to get to the stuff that really gave it meaning, and never got any actual chapters done, I'm gradually getting more attached to this story and think I might be able to make some time for it in the near future.
Tyrian is basically going to be a hybrid plot/gag manga (predominately plot, but with a lot of crazy randomosity, too) revolving around a sort of ongoing battle between sincerity and absurdity that begins after a
society of subjectivist lunatics swamps the world with all manner of peculiar paradoxes, physics violations, and disturbances. Girders start levitating, pigeons start doing the communist salute, and water starts flowing uphill, among other things—and nobody seems to be doing anything to stop it, or even commenting on how bizarre any of it is. What in the world's going on?!
Tyrian, our indigo-haired hero, is seemingly powerless to stop any of this, except for the fact that he has an unusual ally: a creepy, nightmarish shadow-dragon named Anyokurou that seems to be trapped inside him by some mysterious force. Though rather grumpy and anti-social, he has an extremely useful ability: the Sangkara.
The Sangkara almost evades description, but essentially it gives Anyokurou the power to alter reality in any way that would turn out physically-possible, allowing him to revert all the rampant nonsense (if he so chooses, of course). Though the amount of things he can alter at one time seem to be somewhat limited, it can be incredibly powerful.
Of course, there always has to be a catch... and the catch here is that Anyokurou's extremely stingy with his super-special ability and never wants to use it.
Hello? We're in the middle of a crisis here! Why don't you want to use your super-cool whatchamacallit?!
Well, he must have his reasons, whatever they are... but in the mean time, it's definitely not going to be easy to face an organisation whose members can turn rifles into carrots or deserts into tundras by any means.
...Yeah. Though I can't give you a set date on when the first chapter will be out, I know it's going to be awesome when I get it done, and that it'll be announced here at Sangkara. For the time being, though, you can always check out my
deviantART account for concept drawings and whatnot, and as always,
salutate unicornem!
