{"id":2177,"date":"2023-12-04T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2024-04-27T09:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:55:31","slug":"book-manga-the-blood-of-the-butterfly-by-remin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/04\/book-manga-the-blood-of-the-butterfly-by-remin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manga): The Blood of the Butterfly by Remin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BloodoftheButterflybyRemin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BloodoftheButterflybyRemin.png 708w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BloodoftheButterflybyRemin-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BloodoftheButterflybyRemin-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/BloodoftheButterflybyRemin-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Blood of the Butterfly <br><\/strong>by Remin<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tappytoon.com\/en\/book\/the-blood-of-the-butterfly\">published by Tappytoon.com<\/a><br>2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a grim future, giant alien insects invade earth and violently devastate the population.  A heroine appears to fight them; after her death, through risky experiments, the government imbues a group of orphans with her powers.  These young people are humanity&#8217;s only defense against body-snatching and massacres by these aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, another child appears, and seems to also have insect-battling abilities.  How is that even possible?  And will his arrival turn the tide so that humanity can finally win?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a dark tale of a brutal future where children with differently manifesting powers fight on behalf of people who both admire and ostracize their heroes for their freakish abilities.  Meanwhile, the arrival of a new child suggests the government keeps strange secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is high stakes and somewhat dark in subject matter.  Kids risking their lives to fight aliens (while adults&#8230; don&#8217;t) is a grim topic, though it gives them some agency, and they fight to win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was my first Tappytoon comic, and I found it well-paced, well drawn, and interesting.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blood of the Butterfly by Reminpublished by Tappytoon.com2022 In a grim future, giant alien insects invade earth and violently devastate the population. A heroine appears to fight them; after her death, through risky experiments, the government imbues a group of orphans with her powers. These young people are humanity&#8217;s only defense against body-snatching and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/04\/book-manga-the-blood-of-the-butterfly-by-remin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book (Manga): The Blood of the Butterfly by Remin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128,265,8],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-manga","tag-manhwa","tag-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}