![]() Trollge has been seen with multiple different abilities and other bits of information that is important to Trollge's existence, so we'll talk about them here. It was recorded in 2021, a decade after he was forgotten. It is unknown if the Trollge is deceased or is still alive. But then the rain comes and the Trollge disappears, presumably flying away. The Trollge is then seen murdering Me Gusta violently via breaking his bones.Īs we can see the Trollge covered in oil in the forest, an unknown person records it while getting found by the monster. As the Trollge speaks something backwards we can hear Me Gusta screaming in the background. All three look tired and severely injured. ![]() In one of the more important ones, we can see the Trollge breaking into a house where we see Derp, Derpina and Me Gusta. There have been several recordings of the Trollge documented so far. ![]() Before the tape's video cuts out, we see the Trollge walk closer and closer, before loud screaming and fleshy tearing can be heard for a solid minute before the tape cuts out. The final entry shows what happens to anybody caught. The warnings are a set of 5 recordings from, what we can assume, to be a survivor of the Trollge, who tells the listener how to survive and to hide from the Trollge. ![]() The Trollge was once the Trollface back in 2011, but as he was forgotten, he was filled with an insane vengeance. Sometimes it's just to mess around with his victim (referring to the one time he turned himself into a reality warping pickle for the hell of it). Sometimes the forms he takes are practical (like when he once turned himself into a giant tree root with a disturbingly disfigured face with several eyes and acidic blood to tear half of the earth out in one reality). Every part of him is configurable by Trollge so he can shift into any monstrous being he wants. It seems for the moment the ‘god of manga’ Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy is more akin to Siegel’s and Shuster’s Superman than to, say, Hokusai’s “Game of One Hundred Grimaces.Trollge is seen as an extremely thin figure with a head resembling troll face. Rob Vollmar on the Comics Worth Reading site points out, in his review of a new (2007) edited edition of Hokusai’s Manga, that to draw a direct line from the contemporary manga back to Hokusai Manga, is a disappointing endeavor. What separates his work from what we recognize as a manga today is the lack of ‘sequential art’ his images, randomly displayed on the page, don’t tell a story frame by frame. Hokusai Manga in total contains more than four thousand wood engravings. Above all, in his characters, two-legged and four, the artist’s personality twinkles his humor is clear, cheeky and comedic. In Hokusai’s case, his Manga was both a set of art instruction books-images for aspiring artists to copy-and an exhaustive collection of sketches, in which he sought to capture, as he put it, “everything in the Universe”-real and mythical: beasts and Buddhas, scenes from everyday life and humans with funny facial expressions, horse equipment and a huge array of animals-for instance, take the five white mice eating a two-tiered mochi cake (shown here). But essentially it means a picture ( ga) without restrictions ( man)-drawings without any sense of formality. The Japanese word manga is hard to pin down in Western terms, and if you do a google translation, the flat-footed definitions “cartoon” and “comic” pop up. He has even been called the country’s ‘first manga master’ -if only, I wonder, because he released fifteen volumes (three of them posthumously) of sketches, starting in 1814, with the title Manga. And from these Impressionists and Post-Impressionists his influence extended, according to many, well into the twentieth century to the Japanese comic book artists. He was all the rage in the last part of nineteenth-century France, inspiring Monet, Manet, and Degas, Cézanne and van Gogh just to name a few. His wood-block prints of Kanagawa’s great wave and of Mount Fuji, all thirty-six views, have been reproduced I would wager no less than a million times. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is surely the best-known Japanese artist outside of Japan.
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