Together, To That Promised Aquarium

┈　‎webcore KANADE layouts 　☆ requested by anon reblog and credit to use !

Really quick Tenma Brothers drawing because I needed to draw them.

Tsukasa 100% gives injury kisses btw. He kisses Saki's IV needle areas a lot after she gets to take them out, Toya getting caught in bushes when he's escaping his home situation for a while, any Leo/Need members when they get hurt, etc

monster high at 25:00 !?!

CHICKEN TIME

Kanatoya height difference...

No because I was SO excited to finally be getting a kanatoya event because I thought they would NEVER interact. But knowing Mafuyu will be there… I can just tell this is going to be another exciting picnic situation. An, Toya and Saki hanging out for most of the event with an unrelated kanamafu B-plot, and in the last episode they happen to interact a little bit to justify the event being mixed

Actually you can't tell from the set yet so I'm just saying: it would be Very funny if An's role in this event if fairly minor and she doesn't meet Mafuyu and Kanade. I mean I would die inside but it would be funny

I'm guessing the untrained is just pjsk trying to repeat the same thing anthology manga did (Touya trying to do customer service) but seriously this time and An is teaching him how. I don't particularly mind though

I would love to see what your hypothetical Kanade crash out would look like ngl (you don't need to draw for this if you don't want to a text explanation would still be awesome)

ok soooo this isn't exactly the crashout but rather building up to it i guess :P

the rest of this post is gonna be rambling and predictions ⬇️

alright this ask enabled me, im gonna just dump all my thoughts as of now on what's to come for kanade's story :) i could end up being completely wrong, but hey im just theorizing and having fun here while i wait very impatiently lol

To start, I don't think kana5 will be on the scale of mizu5 (i mean i might be biased but idk if anything will come close to that level of insanity again), mainly because there hasn't been as much build-up to a breaking point. Kanade's issues have been pushed aside (by herself especially) and not heavily focused on up to this point in the story. There hasn't been any increasing tension for things to reach a climax yet. Having her big break be in this next event would be too sudden and sort of unprecedented. For this event at least, I highly doubt that'll be the case. Instead, I think this event will start to touch on Kanade's buried issues more, and begin building that tension for something bigger. I can see this being a multiple event arc, similar to the events leading up to the climax of Mafuyu's story. Summarizing that, yes I think Kanade's got some real tough shit ahead of her, but that's why this won't be a one-off event story. I think it'll just be the beginning.

That being said, to touch more on my predictions for kana5 itself, I think Kanade will start to slip, and the others, Mafuyu especially, will take notice. I can't really predict anything specific, but I think something will happen that will make her question her ability to save people, or cause her to be harder on herself, as she has in the past, to keep composing persistently, neglecting her own needs and health. However, things are different now than they were before niigo. She has more people around her that will be able to see the damage she's doing to herself. But she also knows they all look up to her, and that her music lifts them up. She knows they all have a lot they're dealing with, and she needs to be there for them. She can't let them down.

Then, when Kanade pushes herself past her limits at the cost of her well-being, what will she do then? She meets with the others on nightcord every night, and Mafuyu is living at her place. She won't be able to rot away by herself anymore without people noticing. But she still feels this need to be the group's rock and to be the one to save everyone, so she'll try her damn hardest to prevent the others from worrying about her. She'll shoot down their attempts at trying to talk about it. I think she might be especially stubborn this time around, and it might cause niigo to have to figure out a way to help Kanade, since they won't be able to get through to her at first.

Kanade has shown in the past to get uncharacteristically aggressive when she's pushing herself too hard, as shown above. She starts to take on everything herself, and snaps at anyone who tries to stop her. I think this side of her will be shown more going forward, as she begins to go down this kind of self-destructive path yet again. At least, that's where I think her story will go. Her tendency to work herself to the bone hasn't really been resolved, and she's gone so far with it before to end up in the hospital after passing out. She doesn't care what happens to her, as long as she can save people. The only reason she has ((slightly)) gotten better at taking care of herself is so that she can be able to keep composing without ending up in the hospital again. Not because she cares about her health. Because she must keep composing. She still only does the bare minimum for herself. If it's her cooking, she's only having instant ramen, and most days she's probably not going to see the sun. She still doesn't sleep much, and Mafuyu has said that she's often falling asleep at her computer.

This might be getting a little rambley atp, but my point is that Kanade neglects her own needs in her determination to save others. I mentioned how she neglects her physical health in the last paragraph, but she also neglects her own feelings as well.

She minimizes her own problems or just doesn't even talk about them. I think she truly believes that her problems don't matter, that they only distract her from her goals. The reason she doesn't open up is likely because she herself doesn't believe her feelings are important at all. She doesn't pay them any mind, and she doesn't want anyone else to either.

Of course, I have to bring this card up. I think this is just a perfect visual representation of Kanade's feelings, and it's great foreshadowing for what's to come. Those feelings are buried deep within Kanade, yet to be addressed or solved. THIS is what we're getting into. Kanade, depicted as an angel, surrounded by death. I think this is related to her guilt surrounding what happened to her father, believing it was her fault. That she destroyed everything. But because of that incident, she told herself she has to keep composing, and never stop, in order to save people. She feels like she owes that much, and that that's her sole purpose. She won't allow herself to think otherwise. No matter how much it destroys her, she must be a savior for others.

Last thing I wanted to add, because I saw this reblog under a prev kanade analysis post, and they brought up great points. Especially how dangerous Kanade's composing grind can get. We wouldn't even have a story if Honami hadn't found Kanade unconscious!!! I think she might get to a really low point again like this, but having Mafuyu there especially, it won't be able to go unnoticed. I don't have much else to add to those tags though cus they speak for themselves 🙏

Finally, just real quickly going back to the little comic I drew, this is just a rough idea of how I think Kanade could act. She'll get noticeably worse, but will try to hide that fact from the others and deny any help from them. I also mentioned that I think we could see more aggression from her again, so I included that, as she feels threatened in a way by Mafuyu worrying about her. She can't let that happen. Also, Kanade's impending doom aside, I think this progression in the story may also spark some change in Mafuyu. She might show some more emotion in this or future events, and she may realize how much Kanade means to her, motivating her to do more for her. I think it'll be a full group effort to save Kanade, but I wanna see Mafuyu taking a bigger role in this. I just think this also has the potential to grow Mafuyu's character more.

Also, as for the Kanade crashout, I really don't know how they'll handle that. I can't really predict what they're gonna do with her climax. But I want her screaming yelling and crying !!! like she better go insaneeee 🙏 and I also feel like they have a lot of potential with her seiyuu/VA and stepping out of the soft quiet voice to do some crazy shit, maybe in the songs too pls pls pls give us loud kanadeeee

OKAY THATS ENOUGH YAPPING its 5 am i havent slept....

Who hid this poll from me I could’ve tipped him above Kohane 👺👺👺

another pure curiosity poll. also feel free to tell me why in rbs or comments cuz i would like to know :)

It’s so insane to me that some people will see two characters who are or have been hospital-bound, and immediately equate their experiences to each other like they’re exactly the same. It just feels so… dismissive? There are so many people who end up in the hospital at some point in their lives. Saki was born with an illness that she struggled with her entire childhood. She was in and out of the hospital and had to adjust to and cope with her difficult circumstances, and now she is healing and trying to take back years that she lost. Soma was perfectly healthy until an unfortunate accident suddenly ripped one of the most important aspects of his life away from him, and he had to grapple with the pain of losing something so dear to him, and then try to find a way to move forward in a different way. Their experiences, while having similarities, are so incredibly different from each other. And I just find it incredibly reductive to see two characters who struggle with a disability reduced to being ‘the same’ simply because of that theme. There could be a hundred different characters with the same theme of ‘overcoming a disability,’ and all of them could still be completely unique!

It always makes me so happy to see disability focused project sekai content because it’s such a nice change of pace from how frustratingly ableist the fans can be towards characters like Saki (canon disabled I think? Or at the very least extremely disabled coded) and Mafuyu (not canonly disabled iirc but has a lot of traits shared with neurodivergent ppl). Hope none of those types of people have found their way to the ask button yet!!!:)

They haven't! Thankfully. I haven't even seen those people; I think she's canonically disabled, considering all of the hospital comics.

Either way! I'm glad I haven't had to fistfight someone yet.

PUT MORE ENERGY INTO IT !!!