Narsus: Daryun, When You See Kharlan, Dont Kill Him.

Narsus: Daryun, when you see Kharlan, don’t kill him.

Daryun: Aye.

Narsus: -looking at Kharlan’s impaled body-

Narsus: I thought I told you not to kill him.

Daryun:

Daryun: Sorry?

Monstrous, she is, tar-black strands like gnarly vines in the dark of the night— so dark it refuses to have any shine. It absorbs all light, even the lustre of the golden headpiece seems dulled and corrupted with grisly shadows. No one has ever seen her face for it is always behind a veil— all that escapes that piece of cloth is her voice... a cracked and gravelly one that scrapes the air like nails across a blackboard. It sounds broken, like something took her voice and mangled it before returning it to her, thin and pained. She never raises her voice, but it carries anyways, as if from a higher entity that permeates and seeps into their surroundings. If she is some sort of entity then she must be a malevolent one, of shadow and blood and death. Everyone thinks her face has to be hideous too, surely it must be, when the rest of her body too is certainly inhuman— blackened veins taking root in ashen flesh.

I read your posts, they are very interesting! Thank you for them! I would like to ask who is Kazai? Is this a canon character or not?

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy my posts!

Kazai is @tired-reader-writer's OC (original character). If you want to read more about him, you can check the tag for him on their blog!

Oh, I want to divert you from an unpleasant topic! Let's talk about Arslan's wonderful hair color. I think it's boring to consider them just white. The anime, of course, does not convey this, but it seems to me that if they were filming a movie, they would be an unusual color!

Oh, sure! Well, for starters, Tanaka himself doesn't even specify what Arslan's hair colour is! The original illustrator of the novels, Yoshitaka Amano, gave him blond/white hair, and after that, it seems everyone else more or less followed his example. I don't think it's boring; in fact, I think this pale hair colour was chosen precisely because it is unusual, and it (in particular for the manga/anime/OVAs) hints at the mystery of his origins.

He doesn't look anything like his dark-haired father, Andragoras. In the novel, although Daryun ventures that Arslan looks more like his mother when Vahriz presses him for an answer, the truth is that he doesn't look like her, either (in the novel series she has black hair and eyes; the fact that both Sachiko Kamimura and Hiromu Arakawa changed this in their character designs was no doubt to make the matter of his parentage all the more confusing). So right away, it makes people start questioning things — is Andragoras not, in fact, Arslan's father? Why does his mother, who he does resemble, treat him so coldly?

I doubt Tanaka pictured him as having white hair, but I do think it's an appropriate choice. Is there a particular colour you think would suit him better?

I'm looking for someone who can write about Arslan Senki.