Storytime : Melusine 01 - Hocus Pocus

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Jinkies!

am curious op please continue

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>>69100321
>They will never translate and publish the other ones
>They will never launch them in order

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>>69100372

Best witch.

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>>69100415
>you will never cook anything on a cauldon

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>>69100449
ay lmao

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Gotta admit, I would run like a little girl on this situation

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>>69100605
How come witches are ALWAYS caring brooms and cleaning things up, but the castle is always dusted and full of spiders?

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>>69100657
Remember kids, never drink anything offered by strangers

>>69100704
I don't get it....

Is it easy to make?I never tried

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>>69100735
I hate captcha...

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>>69100796
>That's what Alan Moore does every night

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>>69100842
Witches aren't shit

>>69100292
Didn't know this was published in English.

It's often a rollercoasters, alterning great and meh, but you really feel the authors love their witch.

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>>69100919
Can't you do anything right, Melusine?

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>>69100966
Now that's just plan cruel

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>>69100954
From what I know it was originally a daily strip. So like any other daily publication, in some days the jokes are great, some...not so much

>>69100919
In case you wonder, the song in this this page is a traditionnal one from Britanny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naro5GGXf4o

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>>69101078
Not much of a choice here. Call a Ghostbuster and everyone problem is solved

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>>69101134
Wait for it...

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>>69101165
I will take that witches really love doing silly things

>>69101078
Well, I guess it was published in a weekly prepublishing magazine.
Quite interesting to see how it has been translated, I offered this one to a sibling years ago and I remember the stories.

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>>69101219
I don't get this one either...

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>>69101309
This means that witches and fairies are like...political views on this world?

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>>69101390
Saw this one coming

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>>69101427
I am a fairy and I find this offensive

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>>69101427
It's official, she's doing it on purpose

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>>69101559
WHY A GHOST NEED A CLEAN ROOM ANYWAY

>>69101605
ghosts are people too

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>>69101605
OH MY

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>>69101699
>go amuse yourself with your magic wand

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>>69101759
No copyright was harmed during this strip

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>>69101836
Melusine is going from "annoyed distant parent" to "intolerant bitch"

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>>69101883
l-l-lewd

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>>69101926
so...she lied?

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>>69101926
>they don't have magic spells to clean

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>>69101985
Well, the Fairy did one, but Melusine find those gay as fuck

Also Merlin is lvl 10 wizard. It does not count

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>>69102050
I guess it's the witch way

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>>69102050
>father christmas

please, translator...

So google is saying my image contains a embedded file

Whatever the fuck it means...


Any clue?

Well, fuck it

There's page 32

postimg.org/image/rsymr8cbh

I hate that kind of bullshit

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>>69102322
SURPRISE MODAFUCKA

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>>69102366
w8 u m8

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>>69102408
That pops the question

Is Melusine the only good looking witch on the castle?

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>>69102458
And you thinking that mutant vampires were silly

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>>69102508
This is getting good...

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>>69102554
status : wrecked

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>>69102602
that poor bird

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>>69102646
WHAT A TWIST!

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>>69102695
Looks like I'm alone in the thread

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>>69102724
Sounds like my last Christmas

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>>69102759
Aw shit...

>>69102724
I'm reading - thank you, Anon!

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>>69102792
Gotta love magical duels

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>>69102824
Now they are just being tsundere...

>>69102724
/co/ doesn't really dig this comic for some reason. I translated the first three French volumes and just needed someone to add the text to the word balloons (and if possible, find better scans) but never got a bite.

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>>69102851
Wait, it's being a fairy a race or a human choice?

If there's no choice Melusine was REALLY being a cunt all that time

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Well, guess it's it

The last page

Hope you guys liked, like you can see in that page they promissed all books, but only did 3 or 4, and out of order.

But maybe a nice french anon will scan and translate for us

Like this nice fella here

>>69102885

>>69100513
Why is the dude checking his pants on the third panel?

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>>69102885
>/co/ doesn't really dig this comic for some reason

The lack of Batman, perhaps

See yo guys next time

>>69103003
Because she is the only pretty person on the village?

Also, nice catch

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>>69100919
I prefer the Manau version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhDbgmmTki0

But that's probably cause I can't understand the lyrics. Supposedly they are singing some retarded "here comes the hardcore rappers to fuck you up" kind of thing.

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>>69101165
>>69101219
This one is actually an old strip that did not make it into the earlier books, and the artist re-drew it in his current style.

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>>69103191
Kind of interesting to see how the art style changed over the times.

In the current books, she looks sexier than ever.

>>69101309
>I don't get this one either...

Cancrelune got the spell perfectly right, but she used it on a rotten pumpkin, which is why it turned into a hearse instead of a carriage.

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>>69101390
>This means that witches and fairies are like...political views on this world?

Don't know, but the upcoming 23rd book might shed more light exactly on that (title: Fairies vs Witches).

>>69103214

She's probably one of the more erotic characters I ever saw in comics. And cute at that.

>>69102885
I dig it! This is the first time I've seen it in English.

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>>69103316
>you will never be able to read it

Fucking America and their capes

>>69103416
based France know how to make sexed up characters without being too obvious about it

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>>69102885

>/co/ doesn't really dig this comic for some reason.

Actually back in the day we had Melusine megathreads and everything.

I requested this in one of them for instance, and a friendly drawfag obliged.

>>69101836
>No copyright was harmed during this strip

In book 19 they meet the witch from hansel & Gretel (I think - whichever is the one with the candy house), the three little piggies, that donkey who sheds gold (don't know his name), Hop-o'-My-Thumb and his brothers, little red riding hood (she wears a wolf skin coat), Rapunzel, Cinderella, Belle and the Beast, Snow White and the seven dwarves, the rabbit with the clock from Alice in Wonderland, a fairy godmother, they toss the genies lamp in a well, and they top it all off by accidentally killing Queen Grimhilde.

>>69103574

You're oversimplifying it. The French and the Japanese know how to infuse their characters with natural eroticism and femininity. The latter being the key. There is a warm acceptance about it which is utterly absent from US comics. In US comics the "sexy" woman dresses like a whore, is aggressive and yet is antagonistic to men or simply rude. Her sexuality is like that of a cockless man who can't get off.

Actual French women seem kind and nice too, from my limited experience. They aren't afraid of giving you a genuine smile.

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>>69102458
>Is Melusine the only good looking witch on the castle?

There is also Krapella, who was translated as Gothica in the latest English release.

>>69103676
Well, lots of those characters are public domain. However the Disney design they gave to them is the one copyrighted, that's why Disney always change their stories a lot, so they can make the copyright a lot more solid

But is fun to see Melusine got away with this one, like that book from Moebius where in the middle of desert there's a exact replica of the famous Dumbo model from the ride of Disney, and they guy use it as a spaceship half of the book, with chases and everything

>>69102917
>Melusine was REALLY being a cunt all that time

The thing is - she is a witch. And not the nice anime witch, but the classical European mess-with-me-and-I-turn-you-into-a-frog kind of witch. So it is in-character for her.

>>69103912
They do use the Disney designs in the book, except for Belle I think.

>>69103513
Cinebook released 5 books in English so far, so there is still hope as long as they sell. Go and sign up on izneo.com, you can buy the digital versions from there.

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>>69103960
>implying anime witches are nice

The only super nice witches are the ones in HP .But still, if fairies are a race, Melusine was really being over the line

>>69102885
>/co/ doesn't really dig this comic for some reason.

I've storytimed all the English releases a few times, and it seems to me that few people care about it, but the ones who do like it.

>I translated the first three French volumes and just needed someone to add the text to the word balloons (and if possible, find better scans) but never got a bite.

That's news to me, as far as I know only a few odds and ends were translated, and a lot of them were poorly done. I had a translation for a couple of pages from book 2, but Cinebook ended up releasing that (and their translation almost matched word to word what I got).

Anyway, the biggest problem with translating is that most of the scans are shit. However they are digitalized in good quality, so once I get a stable job, I'll slowly start buying all the issues.

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>>69102973
>but only did 3 or 4, and out of order.

Even the artist of the book doesn't know why Cinebook does that btw.

My guess is that they either wanted to prioritize topical releases so they sell better (release the book titled Halloween on Halloween, or the one called Hocus Pocus around the latest harry potter, etc), or they are skipping some books due to nipple slips. They actually re-draw panels in Largo Winch to cover up nudity, despite that series being released in a higher age category - and it is not uncommon for Melusine books to have nudity.

>>69102885
Well I'm pretty sure I fucking loved it.

Thanks for the story time No Cape Guy Man Dude

bump

>>69102236
Protip: Open the page in paint, add some dots on the margins or some other change, save it then upload it. It's happened to me before.

>>69104041
>Cinebook released 5 books in English

Wut.

Know if the 5th has been ripped?

>>69102050
>you will never be the fiancé of a cute fairy
Life is pain

>>69100919
Funny story, this is actually the second version of this strip, due to a retcon. The original version was one of the first few strips published and back then the idea was that the castle was near a modern city in contemporary times, and so she went to a night club. But pretty soon they settled on a fairytale land setting instead and so that strip never was published in book form in its original version.

Recently the author drew a modern variation of it again, with the idea that the modern world is an alternate dimension. I like that third version but I'd really want to see the original strip again

Where can I download this and the rest of the translated books to save it for reading later?

I didn't find it in the scanlator folders.

>>69100292
>Melusine IN ENGLISH!!!!!!!

Thank you !!

>>69108703
You can get it at izneo.

>>69102218

It's a British translation of a French comic, of course he's Father Christmas.

>>69110631
>Cinebook
I second this!

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continuing the storytime

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>>69114291

HA! I love this one.

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>>69114160
Coffe in the morning just cleans my "pipes" when it is to strong.

Feeling this.

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>>69114697

OP do us all a favor and upload these books somewhere for people to save them.

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>>69114719
I'll do that later on of course.

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>>69114991
and now, the dead come alive on the eve of Halloween.

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>>69115042
the end.

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>>69115083
Will continue a bit later with the next book, Vampire's Ball.

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I always did want to pick this up.

You're a good anon, anon. Your story is cool and I would consider you my brother.

Very comfy read. Melusine a cute.

Thanks OP

>>69100372
Learn to speak snail, son.

Here's a blog post featuring a story (in french) by the original writer of the comic detailing Melusine's first meeting with her cousin and including some backstory: http://scenaristegilson.blogspot.ch/2009/12/la-genese-de-melusine.html

So, her parents have vanished, are presumed dead, and her cousin's parents died after being ostracized. Didn't expect that. Since this never was in the comic the canonicity of it may be wobbly.

>>69116359
Holy shit. Apparently the witches here are ancient. This story says that Melusine was 113 before she even first met her cousin.

>>69117034
I think it does a +100 thing so Melusine is 119 and has the appearance and mentality of a teenager.

Did the ever translate the one where she gets laid? I must know. This is very important

>>69117086
Not really, later we learn that her Aunt is well over 500 years old.

>>69117135

Not as far as I know.

>>69117353
>>69117135

Does anybody have it in french?

>>69117034
>>69117086
yeah, in the very first strip Melusine is introduced as being 119 years old and it's rather obviously meant to be 19

>>69117450
Wait, so is this not the first comic: >>69100415?

>>69117397

I don't, neither do I know where it could be found.

>>69117450
>yeah, in the very first strip Melusine is introduced as being 119 years old and it's rather obviously meant to be 19

17. You have to divide the years by 7. Her niece Malicella is 112 for 16.

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>>69117579
No; "Hocus Pocus" is actually volume 7. Cinebook decided not to publish the series in order for whatever reason. It's true the art wasn't as good in the beginning so maybe that's why.

I'll just post the first page of the first volume, Sortileges.

>>69117397
I have the hardcover.

>>69117579
Indeed, in the original french Hocus Pocus is the seventh book. The actual first comic takes place back when she applies to be an au pair for the count.

Seems the english publisher decided to start at a point where the art had already progressed quite a bit and the cast had started focusing on the magic school rather than the castle.

>>69117863
Malicella acts like a twelve years old so the +100 approach seems a lot more plausible.

>>69117885
Oh wow.
So that's from around 20 years ago?

>>69117995
It wouldn't work with the fact that her aunt is 400+ years old (70-something).

>>69118019
first book in february 95, so it's her 20th anniversary like right now. Actual prepublication started in spirou magazine the year before, but I can't remember the exact date. But from the first moment she was waifu material.

>>69118235
one of the things mentioned in that Melusine genesis link from earlier is that she's pretty sure her aunt's lying about her age.

>>69117952
They are just releasing things in random order. It helps that the earlier books don't really have any sort of reading order beyond "character x is introduced". But the later ones get more storylines that go through the entire book, and since the original writer left, the books now have a continuous plot with sometimes major changes (like killing off a character).

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Continuing. This is book 3, Vampire's Ball, which was originally the 2nd book released.

Hocus Pocus was book 7 and Halloween was book 8.

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>>69118413
Since this was originally the 2nd boo, you'll notice that the art is a bit different, and some characters may be absent or have smaller roles.

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>>69118505
Telekinesis sounds like a good power to master, but I'd be too worried that once you get too good at it, you'd keep using it subconsciously by (fatal) accident.

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>>69117885

The way her face was drawn back then made her look a lot younger.

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>>69118736
Everyone looks smaller and less proportioned in the early books.

I didn't really like how she looked in the middle books, she looked much older than she was.

In the recent books, she looks younger, but much sexier.

It's all just art evolution though - they did not progress with the real years at all, despite even celebrating her birthday at one point.

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>>69118360
>one of the things mentioned in that Melusine genesis link from earlier is that she's pretty sure her aunt's lying about her age.

Yeah but she says she is 500+ in that one, while elsewhere in the comics they said 400+. And also Cancrelune is meant to be 113 but she definitely looks older than that, so the /7 rule fits the best.

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>>69118895
I love how she looks in this page. That fifth panel is so cute.

NYEK NYEK

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>>69119129
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>>69119362
How would you wash the clothes of a ghost anyway?

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>>69119718
and now, the Vampires' Ball.

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>>69119797
End of the book.

Will post the fourth one (which is the fifth in the original release order) a bit later.

>>69118932
Adorable

>>69118895
being Melusine is suffering

>>69119580

I'd give Melusine the stake any day.

>>69119642
that was a tad too dark

>>69118863
>Cancrelune is meant to be 113 but she definitely looks older than that

Cancrelune is just ugly

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>>69100966
realistic version

>>69114252
Is Melusine a Mary Sue ?

>>69114314
>what else he would be doing

That strip could end in very different way...

>>69114387
>ugliest
>that pose
>those hips
>those tits

Yes, indeed, Melusine. You are perfect

>>69121872
I'd say no. She fucks up and has several character flaws.

let us all bump

>>69119642
HOLY SHIT

Melusine crippled a man for life

And she call fairies the baddies...

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From when Editions Dupuis had cartoonist Philippe Bercovici illustrate an entire issue of Spirou magazine.

>>69122931
Sounds like a lot of work! Was that some sort of punishment?

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I can't wait for the next book.

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>>69123350

Dat ass. Well, dat everything when it comes to her.

>you will never make Melusine go "Oui! Oui!"

Why live?

>>69124002
Well look on the bright side. If you couldn't get her to feel like that, you'd be living the rest of your life as a toad.

>>69123240
Far from a punishment, really. Think of it as an experiment of sorts.

>Known for working at unusually high speeds, in 1999 Bercovici illustrated an entire issue of Spirou on his own (No. 3183), imitating the styles of the other regular artists, including the continuing stories.

So, who else here can read and speak fluent French?

>>69123350

The way the eyes and mouths are drawn there reminds of Batiuk; the women in Funky Winkerbean in particular.

>>69124201

Sounds like a French Sergio Aragones.

where could the newest issue be read? (regardless of language)

>>69124721
izneo.com

bump

>>69124552
Sums it up. He made his debut in Spirou at 14 yrs. old.

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>>69127258
> He made his debut in Spirou at 13 yrs. old.
Fixed that for myself.
Here's his first artwork from Spirou #2011, 1976.

Just finished the thread, thanks OP and company

>>69128862
Lucky sumbitch

>>69128862
Isn't the plot of that literally that she needs to get laid or she looses her magic?

>>69133135
Hm
That's actually...passable, for me? There's a lot of "do this, get powers", is the lay a big recurring thing?

So are you gonna' post volume 4 or not?

>>69104230
It's because Melusine is a humor book and they're choosing ones that mostly translate well. French writers rely on a lot of wordplay/puns that come out as nonsense in English if you translate directly. Real professional translators want to do as little creative writing as possible.

>>69137243
But you know they do the same thing with Yoko Tsuno?

>>69133135
The story of the book is that she is chosen to represent her school in the upcoming magic tournament, but she just lost her magic since, like all witches, she is of age and has yet to "experience true Love, with a capital L".

>>69122931
I saw a picture of this guy. Looks like Bluto.

>>69128862

Knowing how things work it'll be years until I actually get to see this.

>>69139191
Well, do you want to see it or understand it?

If just the former you can always just order the book.

And, you know, scan it for people to translate.

>>69139191
>Knowing how things work it'll be years until I actually get to see this.

http://www.izneo.com/melusine-tournoi-magie-tome-21-A5156790

2€ and you can pay with paypal.

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Continuing storytime. This is the 4th book by the UK order, but 5th book in the French order.

As you can guess, this book is about various love-inducing elixirs.

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>>69143182

Page ten emergency bump.

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>>69128862
front cover makes it look sexier and more erotic than it really was. I would have expected at least some partially depicted sex act, if only because it's a euro comic

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>>69143263
the cover looks more like a movie poster.

and it is implied that they had sex ALL NIGHT LONG.

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>>69143303
Well too bad it's never shown. I'm a "pics or it didn't happen" kind of guy

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>>69143352
Ask Jebb about that, if he is still in the thread.

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>>69143383
this is too cute.

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>>69143416
In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, all the spells are actual words, written oddly.

This one if Claudia Schiffer.

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>>69143460
and this one is Johnny Depp. and also, "back to square one".

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>>69143460
>>69143493

Wow. I never noticed that. Huh.

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>>69143575
>>69143593
There are many other examples. The one where she turns Winston to a prince, she says "Rudolph Valentino".

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>>69143677
oh Cancrelune, your stupidity will one day end up killing you.

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>>69143872
I believe the teachers name is Hasselblatt originally - not sure why they changed that.

the spell is of course Tangerine Dream, for the progressive rock band.

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>>69143928
well, electronic, progressive, whichever you count it as.

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>>69143952

I want a Melusine cat.

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>>69144028
I've had nightmares like this.

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>>69144050
We all want some Melusine pussy.

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>>69144115
"Invisible Man"

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>>69144115

Double lol.

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