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Dreamer from a Distance is a fantasy adventure webcomic about an arctic fox named Inu who has the ability to visit others' dreams. The story begins when a stranger asks him for help through her lucid dream. Through his journey to save her, Inu learns to face his fears and to follow his own dreams. The webcomic was created by flashofaurora
, with its first episode released in April 2021, and its last episode released in June 2022.
The comic can be read on Webtoons or Tapas. The Spanish version translated by i_koinu can be read here. The Japanese version can be read here.
Dreamer from a Distance provides examples of:
- Animal Talk: All the characters are animals that can speak to each other.
- Arc Symbol: The upside-down triangle, sometimes with a small circle next to or underneath it.
- Beneath the Earth: Elidanne is a city right underneath the surface of the ground. Everyone lives underground because the wind aboveground is too strong to build anything stable.
- Civilized Animal: Other than the characters being animals, the world is pretty similar to what the civilized human world is like, such as wearing clothes/accessories. There are small differences, such as people sometimes using tools with their mouths.
- Dragons Are Divine: Dragons are either gods or prophets, depending on who you ask.
- Dream Land: The Dream Realm is a realm where dreams physically exist as orbs of light floating around the space.
- Dream Sequence: Inu visits many dreams and nightmares of other characters.
- Dream Walker: Dreamcatchers such as Inu are able to enter other people's dreams, though they cannot directly interact with it.
- Fantastic Racism: Canines and felines tend to be suspicious of each other.
- Functional Magic: Magic is used through magical tools. Technology, such as trains, depend on and run on magic in the form of electricity.
- Heads or Tails?: In the beginning of the story, Inu rejects the outcome of a coin flip, and goes with the heads option rather than tails.
- Humanlike Animal Aging: All the characters refer to their ages in terms of human age (for example, Inu is 15 years old, which makes him a young teenager).
- Pieces of God: The cosmology of this fictional universe is that all life becomes a part of one whole conscious being - the Universe itself, through what is called the Conduit. Basically Pantheism.
- Plot-Mandated Friendship Failure: Downplayed. It happens briefly between Inu and Delta, and it's resolved in the same episode!
- Supernatural Sensitivity: Dreamcatchers see lights flicker whenever someone nearby is dreaming.
- World of Technicolor Hair
- Year Outside, Hour Inside: It is implied that time runs slower inside of the Anomaly’s ship.
