Just for me to collect my thoughts on anything noteworthy or suspicious. I forget a lot of things in the series so this should help me keep track and anyone else who wants to look back without rereading the whole series.
This official art is older but I want to talk about vnc so I don't care. This was the cover of gangan joker in December 2017. The chapter released in December of that year was memoire 23. Seeing as Jeanne didn't appear in memoire 23 this art is instead relevant to the chapters that came before, namely the date chapters, seeing as Jeanne is still wearing her date outfit. This probably relates most significantly to memoire 21 as well considering she hasn't got her hat & parasol and just the general vibes of the room they're in. Interestingly, the spot highlighted on Vani's neck isn't the place Jeanne bit him in that chapter but rather the position of her mark of possession.
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There are a lot of blue butterflies in this image. Blue butterflies have previously been used to represent Vanitas himself and/or the paths he could have taken. A good example of this is volume 6's cover where a blue butterfly with frayed wings is shown behind Astolfo. This is obviously because of his similarities to Astolfo and how he very easily could have ended up just like him. Noé even says as much, later down the line in memoire 45.
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Looking at the butterflies in the picture with vanijeanne they are swarming around the couple but they all seem to be heading in one direction, towards the painting on the wall. Again, we've seen plenty of blue butterflies before but they've never necessarily been heading to such a clear destination. Below, the butterflies are all heading up and probably to the left as well but there's no visible end goal. The swarm here is more confusing and Vanitas is falling among them. He's got very little control/agency in this piece. It don't want to get too into an interpretation of this one but I think it's probably more generally about him and where his life has been/is being taken, and not necessarily of his own will. Even his expression is quite a bit more distant and sad. Anyway, I just think the contrast between this and the vanijeanne portrait is interesting. Also worth noting that this is Mochijun's twitter header so clearly it's quite a significant drawing.
