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elman (kinome) extra comics
This is a batch post translating all 13 of the extra Elman comics that Kinome has posted to their twitter! Links to each of the comics will be included in their titles.
Content warnings for these comics include: Suicidal ideation, pet death, unhealthy romantic obsession and self-negativity, emotional abuse/neglect, apocalyptica, and general discussion of body horror.
An Incident From Mid-Warp
[sfx: stare...]
Elman: ?
Mugica is warpsick.
Elman: Whoa! W-what is it?
[sfx: pat pat pat]
Story: I just... got curious what your skin feels like... you're very smooth and soft. And a little warm too.
Mugica: Their lap feels like a baby's skin or really smooth sheets, it's super comfy~
Story: Ooh! [sfx: stick]
Story: Ohhhhh!! I love this!!! I want to take a nap here!!!
Owan: (They'd better not.)
A Banquet
Kinome: I dug up a 4koma I drew a while back.
Mugica: Marianne, Imma make a real feast to celebrate your birthday!
Mugica: I'm gonna go get it ready, so wait just a lil!
Mugica: Here you go! [sfx: put]
Mineral water, liquid fertilizer, clump fertilizer, stick fertilizer, fresh dung, worm
Mugica: Huh?! This isn't what you want?!
Curiosity
[sfx: flop]
Story: It's so pretty... The particles are wavering in the air and sparkling like fireworks...
Story: I bet if I took my helmet off right now, my body would disintegrate bit by bit and go floating away to all corners of the universe...
Owan: Hey Story, are you done over there?
Untitled Oscar sadstuck
Kinome: This story about Oscar and Ijuuin is pretty dark, so I wasn't sure whether to post it. Read the columns from top to bottom, left to right.
Oscar: There's something I want to tell you about, Ijuuin.
Ijuuin: What is it?
Oscar: A long time ago, I kept a pet bird... its name was Ijuuin, too.
Oscar: I was just a boy, and I did my best to care for it in my own way. But I was so horribly ignorant.
Oscar: I kept giving it food it couldn't eat, and trapped it in a tiny box.
Oscar: Eventually a day came when I forgot to close the window.
Oscar: The sky was so blue that day.
Oscar: I think... it must have wanted to run away for a long time.
Oscar: When I found its twisted corpse outside the window, it had such a happy look on its face.
Oscar: That bird was my family, but I killed it.
Oscar: So when I learned that your name is Ijuuin, it felt like this had to be fate.
Oscar: That my fate is to never be forgiven for the rest of my life...
Oscar: So, Ijuuin... Please hold my sins against me.
Oscar: Please, never forgive me, until the day I die.
Ijuuin: ...All right, Mr. Oscar.
Butterflies
Kinome: Kuginashi part 10 is up today. I found another old Mugica & Marianne 4koma, so I'll show you all.
Marianne: Oh, butterflies!
Marianne: Mx Mugica, look!! Look!! Butterflies!
Mugica: PEEEEEEEEEEEEEESTS!!!
[sfx: SWIPE]
Mugica: LET ME GO, MARIANNE!!!!!!!!!! THOSE VARMINTS ARE DEVILS PLOTTING TO LAY EGGS ON MY CABBAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lost Previews
Kinome: Here are excerpts from the nonexistent parts 31 and 32 of Elman. Chaosman, you sound like a stalker.
[sfx: typetypetypetype]
Chaosman: Elman... Every time I think of you it reminds me of how worthless my existence is...
[sfx: lean]
Chaosman: Elman, you are the only creature in the universe that deserves true blessings... I'm sure that your data array must be as beautiful as a true miracle...
Eery: Eery wants a special someone too!
Chaosman: What, are you begging for a friend again?
Eery: Eery doesn't care about friends anymore. Eery wants LOVE!
Chaosman: You want a partner?
Eery: Yeah!!!
Chaosman: Life is an endless cycle of composition and decomposition. It takes an incredible amount of time to create that cycle. For instance, when I created you, how many years do you think it took to properly distribute the oxygen--
Eery: EERY DOESN'T CARE!!! EERY WANTS ONE!!!!!!!!!
Chaosman and Elman.
Chaosman: I was born in a research facility on the moon.
Chaosman: I had a good view of Earth through its windows.
Chaosman: They say that once upon a time the Earth was round, but nowadays it's incomplete.
Chaosman: And I'm just like it.
Chaosman: I'm a prototype for "Elman", but I'm unfinished and a failure.
Chaosman: The humans were always busy trying to make "Elman".
Chaosman: Of course they had no more use for their failed attempt. So I hated "Elman".
Chaosman: Hmph, I bet Elman's not so great anyway!
Chaosman: At least, I hated Elman until I saw the real thing--
Chaosman: TH--THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL!!!
Chaosman: What a perfect lifeform...!!! No, can they even be called a "lifeform" in the first place?! They've come from the outside of the universe! They're free of the cycle of life, they don't need sustenance...
Chaosman: Those idiot humans seem to think that they made Elman themselves, but... they're so wrong!!! That creature chose of its own free will to be born here!!!
[sfx: blink]
[sfx: GAY]
Chaosman: I grew ashamed of myself for having made Elman into a convenient scapegoat for my resentment, and became proud that I had been born as their prototype.
Chaosman: THEY LOOKED AT ME WE MADE EYE CONTACT OMG EYE CONTACT EEEEEEEE
Why Chaosman Started Wearing Helmets
Scientist: Hey, Elman!
Scientist: Oh, wait, you're the prototype... I got mixed up, sorry.
Chaosman: Wha... did this guy just... DID HE THINK I WAS ELMAN?!?!
Chaosman: I mean, sure, we may LOOK similar... but we're TOTALLY DIFFERENT ON THE INSIDE, YOU DUMBASS!!!
Scientist: You're just both so round~
Chaosman: This is why I can't stand humans!!!
Scientist: Ahaha, sorry!
Chaosman: They're so preoccupied with appearances that they don't care about anything's true nature!!!
Chaosman: How could you mistake trash like me for Elman?! That's the absolute peak of rudeness!!! (To Elman!!!!)
Chaosman: So this guy's name is Ueda, huh?!?!?!??!!
Scientist: Now, where has Elman got to?
Chaosman: Just you try getting us mixed up again!!!! I'll blast you into space dust!!!!!!
However, Ueda wasn't the only one to get the two of them mixed up...
"Hey, hey, Elman!" "Elman! Oh? You're not Elman???" "Elman! Heeeeeeey! We were looking for you!!!"
And, at last--
Scientist: Hey, prototype! It's time for your examination, get your ass--
Scientist: Oh, wait, you're Elman! I'm sorry...
Elman: That's okay!
Having had it up to here with the scientists' bullshit, Chaosman began wearing helmets...
Scientist: Whoa! What's up with that gross mask?!
...and came to hate humanity even more.
Chaosman: (Die...)
Elman the Cheerful
Elman's first job was to repair the Earth.
Scientists: Wow, look how fast it's sticking back together! Amazing!
Scientists: We might have created a real monster...
Scientists: No, we didn't create that thing...
Scientists: It's something horrifying that came here from someplace else...
The next day
Chaosman: E... E... E... Elman, why do you look like...
Scientists: We're having them give a speech, as the hero who saved Earth.
Scientists: It would be a problem for them to go out in their true shape, so we had them turn into a human.
Chaosman: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Chaosman: I'm begging you, please don't take the shape of those awful lower lifeforms...!
"Lower lifeforms? Does it mean US?" "Damn, that thing is rude..."
[sfx: poof]
Elman: I won't give the speech after all.
Scientists: Ehhhh...
[sfx: pat pat]
Chaosman: That's the only time in my life I ever cried like that.
Chaosman: (I'm never washing my head again...)
You should really wash it.
Elman: (Wow, he could still tell it was me even though I looked so different...)
My Dear Beloved Child.
That place was a vast expanse of emptiness.
I was just a cluster of dense energy, and had neither a form nor a name of my own.
But I was all right with that.
I was happy just floating there.
Then one time, a little explosion happened.
It got bigger and bigger,
and many little lives came to be inside it.
I watched it for a long, long time.
A hundred million years. 46 hundred million years. 137 hundred million years. And even longer.
The little lives were born and vanished, vanished and were born. I thought that all of them were so cute.
They were feeble, but they tried so hard, and they were dear to me.
But eventually, after a great amount of time had passed... it all began to crumble.
The fragments that broke off eventually dissolved into particles and vanished.
Everything living must one day die. I had always understood that this would happen eventually.
But something had begun to change inside me.
"If I went to the other side and poured new energy into them from the inside, they would be able to keep their shape."
I had the option to do it secretly so that no one would know it was me. So why didn't I do that?
Maybe... I wanted to stand where I could see things from the same perspective as them, so that we could touch each other, even only once.
"It worked!" "It's finally complete!"
"Elman!"
"Hip hip hurrah! Hip hip hurrah!"
And so, I obtained a form and a name.
Elman: (I'm here to save you. Oh, Universe, I'll protect you no matter what.)
That new emotion that had bloomed inside me was love.
Baby Me
[sfx: pet pet pet]
Chaosman: What are you doing?!
Scientist: If you're getting in line, hold this.
[sign: Hugs From Elman / End Of The Line]
Chaosman: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!!!!!!!
Scientists: Elman's kinda like a mommy...
Scientists: They so are... they're so relaxing...
Chaosman: STOP IIIIIIIIT!!! You shouldn't ask Elman to do dumb things like...
Elman: You can have one too, Chaosman! C'mere~~~
[sfx: POP]
Chaosman couldn't fight the gay.
Chaosman: (I can die happy...)
[sfx: hugggggg]
Scientist: HEY, DON'T CUT!!!
A Matched Set
Scientist: "Where did you come from?"
Scientist: When I asked it, this is what it said.
Elman: From "the open system".
Chaosman: Since Elman has come here to "the closed system", that means that it's not just earth that's in danger.
Chaosman: The whole universe is on the verge of death.
Scientist: So you're saying that the Earth crumbling was just the first symptom?
Chaosman: That's right.
Scientist: Does the universe really have a concept of death? Isn't it just going to keep expanding forever?
Chaosman: There's nothing in all of creation that won't die eventually. The universe is no exception.
Chaosman: It's had a concept of death since it was born.
Chaosman: Life and death come as a matching pair, like a married couple's cutlery.
Scientist: That simile is, uh, sure something.
Chaosman: You shut it.
The EL Project and Shin-kun, The Youngest Researcher
Shin: The EL Project was developed to save the Earth. This is my interpretation of what that EL means.
Shin: First, the E stands for Eternal, meaning everlasting and unchanging.
Shin: God created the world. So, where was God before the world existed? The answer is that God is eternal. That's the "eternal" the E means.
Shin: As for L, it has three meanings. First is Love. Eternal Love.
Shin: The second is Life. Eternal Life.
Shin: The third is Luke.
Shin: The word Luke means "one who comes from the land of light" or "the lightbringer". Elman, created in the EL Project, is an ultimate lifeform befitting of that name.
Shin: ...there, my report is done.
Senpai: Uh, no, EL stands for "Earth Linker", duh??? "Luke" is a person's name, not a word.
Senpai: And hey, you're our chronicler, so you better be writing a record of what life here is like or at least write about Elman. Don't just write dumb stuff like that. What are you, a chuunibyou?
And, finally, an additional bit of bonus lore: Despite being significantly smaller and shorter than the 13-year-old protagonist of Kinome's following work The Wind Blows for Kuginashi Bon, Story is actually 23 years old!
Kinome casually dropped this fact in a tweet joking about how Taki from Kuginashi Bon and Story basically have the same traits (androgynous, polite, 23) and confirmed in responses that yes, Story is old enough to drink, and that it's hard to tell because of Story's looks but Kinome pictures them as having been in the workforce for a year or two already by the time Elman starts.
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Content warnings for these comics include: Suicidal ideation, pet death, unhealthy romantic obsession and self-negativity, emotional abuse/neglect, apocalyptica, and general discussion of body horror.
An Incident From Mid-Warp
[sfx: stare...]
Elman: ?
Mugica is warpsick.
Elman: Whoa! W-what is it?
[sfx: pat pat pat]
Story: I just... got curious what your skin feels like... you're very smooth and soft. And a little warm too.
Mugica: Their lap feels like a baby's skin or really smooth sheets, it's super comfy~
Story: Ooh! [sfx: stick]
Story: Ohhhhh!! I love this!!! I want to take a nap here!!!
Owan: (They'd better not.)
A Banquet
Kinome: I dug up a 4koma I drew a while back.
Mugica: Marianne, Imma make a real feast to celebrate your birthday!
Mugica: I'm gonna go get it ready, so wait just a lil!
Mugica: Here you go! [sfx: put]
Mineral water, liquid fertilizer, clump fertilizer, stick fertilizer, fresh dung, worm
Mugica: Huh?! This isn't what you want?!
Curiosity
[sfx: flop]
Story: It's so pretty... The particles are wavering in the air and sparkling like fireworks...
Story: I bet if I took my helmet off right now, my body would disintegrate bit by bit and go floating away to all corners of the universe...
Owan: Hey Story, are you done over there?
Untitled Oscar sadstuck
Kinome: This story about Oscar and Ijuuin is pretty dark, so I wasn't sure whether to post it. Read the columns from top to bottom, left to right.
Oscar: There's something I want to tell you about, Ijuuin.
Ijuuin: What is it?
Oscar: A long time ago, I kept a pet bird... its name was Ijuuin, too.
Oscar: I was just a boy, and I did my best to care for it in my own way. But I was so horribly ignorant.
Oscar: I kept giving it food it couldn't eat, and trapped it in a tiny box.
Oscar: Eventually a day came when I forgot to close the window.
Oscar: The sky was so blue that day.
Oscar: I think... it must have wanted to run away for a long time.
Oscar: When I found its twisted corpse outside the window, it had such a happy look on its face.
Oscar: That bird was my family, but I killed it.
Oscar: So when I learned that your name is Ijuuin, it felt like this had to be fate.
Oscar: That my fate is to never be forgiven for the rest of my life...
Oscar: So, Ijuuin... Please hold my sins against me.
Oscar: Please, never forgive me, until the day I die.
Ijuuin: ...All right, Mr. Oscar.
Butterflies
Kinome: Kuginashi part 10 is up today. I found another old Mugica & Marianne 4koma, so I'll show you all.
Marianne: Oh, butterflies!
Marianne: Mx Mugica, look!! Look!! Butterflies!
Mugica: PEEEEEEEEEEEEEESTS!!!
[sfx: SWIPE]
Mugica: LET ME GO, MARIANNE!!!!!!!!!! THOSE VARMINTS ARE DEVILS PLOTTING TO LAY EGGS ON MY CABBAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lost Previews
Kinome: Here are excerpts from the nonexistent parts 31 and 32 of Elman. Chaosman, you sound like a stalker.
[sfx: typetypetypetype]
Chaosman: Elman... Every time I think of you it reminds me of how worthless my existence is...
[sfx: lean]
Chaosman: Elman, you are the only creature in the universe that deserves true blessings... I'm sure that your data array must be as beautiful as a true miracle...
Eery: Eery wants a special someone too!
Chaosman: What, are you begging for a friend again?
Eery: Eery doesn't care about friends anymore. Eery wants LOVE!
Chaosman: You want a partner?
Eery: Yeah!!!
Chaosman: Life is an endless cycle of composition and decomposition. It takes an incredible amount of time to create that cycle. For instance, when I created you, how many years do you think it took to properly distribute the oxygen--
Eery: EERY DOESN'T CARE!!! EERY WANTS ONE!!!!!!!!!
Chaosman and Elman.
Chaosman: I was born in a research facility on the moon.
Chaosman: I had a good view of Earth through its windows.
Chaosman: They say that once upon a time the Earth was round, but nowadays it's incomplete.
Chaosman: And I'm just like it.
Chaosman: I'm a prototype for "Elman", but I'm unfinished and a failure.
Chaosman: The humans were always busy trying to make "Elman".
Chaosman: Of course they had no more use for their failed attempt. So I hated "Elman".
Chaosman: Hmph, I bet Elman's not so great anyway!
Chaosman: At least, I hated Elman until I saw the real thing--
Chaosman: TH--THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL!!!
Chaosman: What a perfect lifeform...!!! No, can they even be called a "lifeform" in the first place?! They've come from the outside of the universe! They're free of the cycle of life, they don't need sustenance...
Chaosman: Those idiot humans seem to think that they made Elman themselves, but... they're so wrong!!! That creature chose of its own free will to be born here!!!
[sfx: blink]
[sfx: GAY]
Chaosman: I grew ashamed of myself for having made Elman into a convenient scapegoat for my resentment, and became proud that I had been born as their prototype.
Chaosman: THEY LOOKED AT ME WE MADE EYE CONTACT OMG EYE CONTACT EEEEEEEE
Why Chaosman Started Wearing Helmets
Scientist: Hey, Elman!
Scientist: Oh, wait, you're the prototype... I got mixed up, sorry.
Chaosman: Wha... did this guy just... DID HE THINK I WAS ELMAN?!?!
Chaosman: I mean, sure, we may LOOK similar... but we're TOTALLY DIFFERENT ON THE INSIDE, YOU DUMBASS!!!
Scientist: You're just both so round~
Chaosman: This is why I can't stand humans!!!
Scientist: Ahaha, sorry!
Chaosman: They're so preoccupied with appearances that they don't care about anything's true nature!!!
Chaosman: How could you mistake trash like me for Elman?! That's the absolute peak of rudeness!!! (To Elman!!!!)
Chaosman: So this guy's name is Ueda, huh?!?!?!??!!
Scientist: Now, where has Elman got to?
Chaosman: Just you try getting us mixed up again!!!! I'll blast you into space dust!!!!!!
However, Ueda wasn't the only one to get the two of them mixed up...
"Hey, hey, Elman!" "Elman! Oh? You're not Elman???" "Elman! Heeeeeeey! We were looking for you!!!"
And, at last--
Scientist: Hey, prototype! It's time for your examination, get your ass--
Scientist: Oh, wait, you're Elman! I'm sorry...
Elman: That's okay!
Having had it up to here with the scientists' bullshit, Chaosman began wearing helmets...
Scientist: Whoa! What's up with that gross mask?!
...and came to hate humanity even more.
Chaosman: (Die...)
Elman the Cheerful
Elman's first job was to repair the Earth.
Scientists: Wow, look how fast it's sticking back together! Amazing!
Scientists: We might have created a real monster...
Scientists: No, we didn't create that thing...
Scientists: It's something horrifying that came here from someplace else...
The next day
Chaosman: E... E... E... Elman, why do you look like...
Scientists: We're having them give a speech, as the hero who saved Earth.
Scientists: It would be a problem for them to go out in their true shape, so we had them turn into a human.
Chaosman: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
Chaosman: I'm begging you, please don't take the shape of those awful lower lifeforms...!
"Lower lifeforms? Does it mean US?" "Damn, that thing is rude..."
[sfx: poof]
Elman: I won't give the speech after all.
Scientists: Ehhhh...
[sfx: pat pat]
Chaosman: That's the only time in my life I ever cried like that.
Chaosman: (I'm never washing my head again...)
You should really wash it.
Elman: (Wow, he could still tell it was me even though I looked so different...)
My Dear Beloved Child.
That place was a vast expanse of emptiness.
I was just a cluster of dense energy, and had neither a form nor a name of my own.
But I was all right with that.
I was happy just floating there.
Then one time, a little explosion happened.
It got bigger and bigger,
and many little lives came to be inside it.
I watched it for a long, long time.
A hundred million years. 46 hundred million years. 137 hundred million years. And even longer.
The little lives were born and vanished, vanished and were born. I thought that all of them were so cute.
They were feeble, but they tried so hard, and they were dear to me.
But eventually, after a great amount of time had passed... it all began to crumble.
The fragments that broke off eventually dissolved into particles and vanished.
Everything living must one day die. I had always understood that this would happen eventually.
But something had begun to change inside me.
"If I went to the other side and poured new energy into them from the inside, they would be able to keep their shape."
I had the option to do it secretly so that no one would know it was me. So why didn't I do that?
Maybe... I wanted to stand where I could see things from the same perspective as them, so that we could touch each other, even only once.
"It worked!" "It's finally complete!"
"Elman!"
"Hip hip hurrah! Hip hip hurrah!"
And so, I obtained a form and a name.
Elman: (I'm here to save you. Oh, Universe, I'll protect you no matter what.)
That new emotion that had bloomed inside me was love.
Baby Me
[sfx: pet pet pet]
Chaosman: What are you doing?!
Scientist: If you're getting in line, hold this.
[sign: Hugs From Elman / End Of The Line]
Chaosman: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!!!!!!!
Scientists: Elman's kinda like a mommy...
Scientists: They so are... they're so relaxing...
Chaosman: STOP IIIIIIIIT!!! You shouldn't ask Elman to do dumb things like...
Elman: You can have one too, Chaosman! C'mere~~~
[sfx: POP]
Chaosman couldn't fight the gay.
Chaosman: (I can die happy...)
[sfx: hugggggg]
Scientist: HEY, DON'T CUT!!!
A Matched Set
Scientist: "Where did you come from?"
Scientist: When I asked it, this is what it said.
Elman: From "the open system".
Chaosman: Since Elman has come here to "the closed system", that means that it's not just earth that's in danger.
Chaosman: The whole universe is on the verge of death.
Scientist: So you're saying that the Earth crumbling was just the first symptom?
Chaosman: That's right.
Scientist: Does the universe really have a concept of death? Isn't it just going to keep expanding forever?
Chaosman: There's nothing in all of creation that won't die eventually. The universe is no exception.
Chaosman: It's had a concept of death since it was born.
Chaosman: Life and death come as a matching pair, like a married couple's cutlery.
Scientist: That simile is, uh, sure something.
Chaosman: You shut it.
The EL Project and Shin-kun, The Youngest Researcher
Shin: The EL Project was developed to save the Earth. This is my interpretation of what that EL means.
Shin: First, the E stands for Eternal, meaning everlasting and unchanging.
Shin: God created the world. So, where was God before the world existed? The answer is that God is eternal. That's the "eternal" the E means.
Shin: As for L, it has three meanings. First is Love. Eternal Love.
Shin: The second is Life. Eternal Life.
Shin: The third is Luke.
Shin: The word Luke means "one who comes from the land of light" or "the lightbringer". Elman, created in the EL Project, is an ultimate lifeform befitting of that name.
Shin: ...there, my report is done.
Senpai: Uh, no, EL stands for "Earth Linker", duh??? "Luke" is a person's name, not a word.
Senpai: And hey, you're our chronicler, so you better be writing a record of what life here is like or at least write about Elman. Don't just write dumb stuff like that. What are you, a chuunibyou?
And, finally, an additional bit of bonus lore: Despite being significantly smaller and shorter than the 13-year-old protagonist of Kinome's following work The Wind Blows for Kuginashi Bon, Story is actually 23 years old!
Kinome casually dropped this fact in a tweet joking about how Taki from Kuginashi Bon and Story basically have the same traits (androgynous, polite, 23) and confirmed in responses that yes, Story is old enough to drink, and that it's hard to tell because of Story's looks but Kinome pictures them as having been in the workforce for a year or two already by the time Elman starts.
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