Halloween Tatsumi!

my immediate thought when seeing mika’s new casual wear was that it reminds me on kintsuji

it’s a japanese pottery technique that fixes ceramics by bringing the broken pieces together with gold. it’s meant to show beauty in imperfections and how broken history can be healed.

i think that kind of symbolism is sweet and really suits mika’s character!!

also i think these colors look very nice on him (very meikyuu denshi kairou) and overall this outfit really suits his sense of style…. kinda ugly but in a way that’s really endearing… i love it a lot waaah

anyways i hope you don’t mind that i use your image for my anime boy analysis, model thinkers dot com

go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

Commission for anon <3

i love the scene of adonis noticing that rei was depressed post-crossroads and all the discussions of adonis being particularly clever / observant throughout the story... it really hammers home the adonis and rei parallels. both emotionally intelligent people who feel othered and who are driven by their love for humans and desire to help even strangers to the point of self sacrifice. the major differences between them are caused by adonis' crippling self esteem (which is something he's slowly but surely learning to improve) and rei being treated like a god (something that's also changing as rei allows himself to be fallible)

he looks so happy in the mv it makes ME smile

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ensemble Stars! (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hakaze Kaoru/Oogami Kouga/Otogari Adonis/Sakuma Rei, Hakaze Kaoru & Oogami Kouga & Otogari Adonis & Sakuma Rei, Hakaze Kaoru/Sakuma Rei, Hakaze Kaoru/Oogami Kouga, Hakaze Kaoru/Otogari Adonis, Oogami Kouga/Otogari Adonis, Oogami Kouga/Sakuma Rei, Otogari Adonis/Sakuma Rei Characters: Hakaze Kaoru, Oogami Kouga, Otogari Adonis, Sakuma Rei Additional Tags: Ensemble Stars Rarepair Week, Enstars Rarepair Week, Established Relationship, Fluff, Polyamory, Beaches, Touch-Starved Otogari Adonis Series: Part 6 of enstars rarepair week 2024 Summary:

Day 5: Beach / Family - UNDEAD has fun at the beach!

still thinking about how the concept of undead's AIs could have been explored even more. it makes so much sense for a morally bankrupt company like rhylink (who already doesn't understand the appeal of undead as a unit) to fund an AI version of undead using their old selves because all they see are numbers and the popularity of hellsing (and it's certainly what akira was expecting us to assume from the first half). they set up so much for the conflict to center around undead feeling useless in the face of technological progression, like all of adonis' comments about feeling unmotivated to improve his writing when he could just run it through an AI writer.

take rei's monologue in the final chapter about what the true strength of humans is -- that humans are alive. (and he's talking about himself, too -- he's a human, he's alive.) rei comes face to face with an AI version of himself that acts as his charismatic, godlike war-era self with none of the physical disability and limitation, something that can do anything and everything, and recognizes that it's not alive. not just because it's an AI -- rei was also not alive back then. rei was just like the AI, acting out a shallow personality, following a set pattern of behavior, not feeling any kind of human emotion or connection. like a living corpse pretending to be human. his "softness" in the modern era doesn't make him weak, but is rather his greatest strength. and now rei is loved just as he is, for being human.

i also think it would make the reveal of koga having written resurrection soul more impactful -- this is proof, flesh and blood, that AI is a shallow copy. every song koga writes is a labor of love (nightless world's lyrics make me incredibly emotional). rock 'n roll comes from deep within your soul, as koga would say! all the pain and love and character development undead went through over these past few years is sublimated into their music. AI would have been a fantastic vehicle to reaffirm what undead meant as a unit, especially in the wake of undead losing fans in !!-era and feeling directionless.

Happy Maid Day! ft. Eichi