Shonen - Blog Posts
If I had a nickel for every time a blonde in anime spontaneously ignited fire around them like a super saiyan, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it that it happened twice.
WHERE ARE THE HOES?
I have no mutuals on Tumblr... like a girl is lonely!!!! I'm just a girl trying to kiki about anime!!!! where are the shojo Stans who want to dissect the same one season of given or horimiya? where are the shonen divas that want to talk about JJK, Naruto, or BHA!!
shonen anime be like, watch the world's buffest teenager get repeatedly traumatized and be made fun of by grown adults for expressing their feelings
the naruto experience
Shonen authors writing a hetero romance: They bicker... But... They KISS?!?!?! Revolutionary.
Shonen authors writing two male "best friends": They are friends, partners, family. They complete each-other. They've been together for so long it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, and they know each-other so intimately that they can predict every action the other will take. They're opposites and yet they go together like a pair of gloves, they're yin and yang, they fill each-other's weaknesses and boost each-other's strength. They wouldn't be alive without one another, they wouldn't want to be alive without one another. Even when they're on different paths, they trust each-other blindly. Even as enemies they are willing to put their lives in each-other's hands. Their life goals involve one-another, all the roads in their life lead to their partner. A part of one will always be with the other, no matter how far apart the fates carry them.
Y'all, I think that the shonen fandoms I enjoy need to up their hurt/comfort smut game. Like, half of these characters have tried to kill themselves, and the other half have had to pull them from those cliffs with their own bare hands. You're telling me that jokey gratsu fucking is the best you can do? Have you considered the amount of feels you can put into that shit? Gray and Natsu have both lost a ton of people they care about, and now you have the opportunity to write a couple of stupid possessive boys going at it and you're gonna JOKE THE WHOLE TIME?? I want the "I will show you how much you mean to me, I will make you understand. I would crawl inside your ribcage if I could, I would eat you alive if it kept you safe." I WANT THE FREAK SHIT. I WANT THE DYNAMIC OF "you're the only one who can cool me down" AND "you're the only one who can keep me warm"
IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK
Born to yuri, forced to shounen
Yuji’s Hell
I did this piece a few years ago and I can’t get over how cool it looks
were getting somewhere
still can't draw boddies but hey im trying(~￣³￣)~
but hey im not revealing more... i really want to though (╥﹏╥)
Quick sneak peek into the manga
what do you think?
☆～（ゝ。∂）Sabuku no Gaara
Really true insight, it'll be intriguing if the final chapter gets adapted and people see the full-circle of Aizen's journey to this realization.
Honestly, Bleach is a series that took time for me to understand it's core message on the importance of connections with those who make your life meaningful, especially when that message isn't in your face like other shonen.
Looking at Aizen's actions through that lens makes me think "Aizen doesn't need a backstory to make you feel sorry for him" because his very nature is so devoid of what makes us human no matter how we change as people. So many of Bleach's characters have connections they make with each other and wouldn't be who they are without their friends and adversaries.
It always surprises me when Aizen is mostly perceived as this genius-evil-mastermind like oh he is so crazy, who knows what he'll do next!! (and he is, to a certain extent, don't get me wrong) but the silent victory has Ichigo acknowledge him as a sympathetic but ultimately misguided man who sacrificed everything for godhood only to be reduced to....utter loneliness. And I find that interesting!
Of course, this isn't a Conclusive Take (tm) as Urahara's silence definitely leaves a lot of what Aizen did as up to interpretation, but the loneliness of godhood is definitely an interesting theme, especially when you consider how often it occurs in literature, where the trope of the 'God' character playing around with lives due to his own boredom is so common (see: Frankenstein, all of Greek mythology, etc etc). It isn't a stretch to say Ichigo, the Arrancar, the Vizards, the Hogyoku and even Urahara were all just an experiment to him – pawns he played with to ease his own boredom. It isn't exactly that he's evil...per se. It's that he's innately unable to relate to the lives and struggles of mortal beings, because his quest for more power/scientific discovery/pushing the limitations of nature render him devoid of empathy. The intent is not malicious, it's just...curiosity. Which makes him 10× more creepy, but ultimately not one- dimensional.
I think I read somewhere that people found Aizen to be out-of-character here in his dialogue to Yhwach in 686, but I think this is his character arc coming to a close. When he says 'people,' I think what he really means is himself and how he understands it now, now that he himself isn't as invincible as he once strived to be. When you try to alter the cycle of life, when you try to exist beyond social/existential constructs, it's ultimately a very lonely and isolating existence, and that sometimes the status quo is just a means to an end of connecting with other people (ghosts, whatever) and living in social harmony.
Did a full color page for the first time for chapter 6! You can read Generation Kill here!
I drew a depressed looking Cheshire Kou! (idk why) He spilled his tea…
He tried to tell his feelings to a certain someone but got either turned down or their was a misunderstanding..
He even brought some Cyclamens.. In Japan the Cyclamen is the holy flower of love…
Was it Nene? Mitsuba? Or even Hanako? Who knows! You decide! 👀