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#horrible exorcists #<-

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I love stories that are love stories but aren’t about romantic love!!!!!!!!! even if they contain romantic love it’s not the focus!!! and love for friends and community and strangers is shown as valuable and worthwhile!!!

#natsume yuujinchou to me #<- #YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY

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you're so off-putting i need you

#horrible exorcists

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EXTREMELY remiss of me to have not made fanart of natsume yuujinchou in the 3 or so years I’ve known and loved it

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hello @arquerite, im your secret santa for @natsume-ss!! im sorry im late, but i hope you like your gift! so heres a belated merry christmas, and a very happy new year to you~｡･:*:･ﾟ★,｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

#☹️☹️ #sooooo cute

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crawling out of the hole that is artblock w exposed back matoba

#natsuyuu #natsume yuujinchou #natsume's book of friends #my art #matoba seiji #my doodles #seiji matoba #kuromisa #i swear i’ve been trying to make natsuyuu art but artblock has me in chains 🙏

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what if i drew kuromisa as mana from malice mizer….

#it’s 3:30 am #i need to remember to do this later. #so important. #might just drag me out of my artblock .

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beautiful gay woman shinobu

#sigh…..

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redraw of a screenshot from S2 EP1

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bonus:

frog natsume

#:}

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NATSUME’S BOOK OF FRIENDS VOLUME 23

#THIS IS SO CYTE #OMG

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the ship has been referred to as matonato/natomato for decades but consider: isnt it also cute to call them seishuu/shuusei

#that is really cute actually >_<

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OH DISTANCED TANUMA SITTING ALONE ON THE BENCH NOT LOOKING AT THEM NOT BEING PART OF THIS CONVERSATION ON PURPOSE....ARGHHH....like tanuma isnt like actually in this part of the manga so this addition of him being present in the anime always stuck out to me and it was always just a little bit heart breaking. tanuma suddenly meeting taki who immediately is taking natsume's attention and offering him more help than tanuma ever feels like he's been able to do. she's right to the point of offering information about yokai, notices that natsume is injured and is able to patch him up all while tanuma stands there and can do nothing but think about how like. absolutely helpless and useless he is, and that natsume now has someone better who knows about the yokai that he can talk to. tanuma thought they were getting closer but the distance is suddenly so great between them again, and he doesnt know how he's supposed to go about closing it now when it feels like he has nothing left to offer. and then later he runs into natsume and asks if he needs help and gets turned away, but at least nyanko-sensei offers some insight about natsume to tanuma. "he's so thoughtless" in reference to natsume not wanting to bother people by reaching out does feel like a genuine attempt to comfort tanuma. and tanuma runs into taki, who natsume did ask for help which can't. feel good at all, when he's so often pushed away but. well that's his best friend, even if he's not sure if natsume feels the same that's his best friend and insecure or not he's not going to turn his back or anything.

and with tanuma finding the information he asked taki to find....Gahh. iirc taki doesnt even come back in the manga to tell natsume that she found the information, and the anime having it be tanuma is pretty awesome esp with the way they've added him into it. he can feel like he's done something for natsume, and taki telling natsume means he gets to know that tanuma cares for him and isnt going to turn away. Which makes the like, difference between the sub & dub of this part crazy, bc the subs (at least the ones ive always used) taki says to natsume "you told me not to tell anyone, but..." and in the dub she says "he [tanuma] said i wasnt supposed to tell you that, but..." which ultimately is very funny. i love a girl who'll snitch<3 but gahh...GAHH much to think about in both cases. eats glass and all.

#☹️

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every time i remember anime tanuma’s treatment i dread the new season lol. though i don’t think he’ll appear that much this season. except for the tanatsutaki inn arc. i’m assuming that’s this season.

#T_T

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He deserves a break sometimes.

Reprise.

#🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

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/_ ^ and the gang!!! (<- hes so smol)

the clan is highly likely to keep members who have been serving since previous generations meaning those peeps may have very well known seiji, played around with him, and witnessed his growth since he was a teenager. they feel comfortable enough to even joke about their boss being a goofy ass and slipping out to buy snacks. when another scolds them for that, it doesnt even seem to be about being disrespectful to seiji but rather the untimely joke.

(and actually. what if he really did something of equal scale in the past to make them bring up the possibility of a next time. what if they really KNOW his shenanigans)

PLEASE I need more of this clan's interactions.............. outwardly they are a very closed off circle with limited personnel whom seiji can trusted enough to stay by his side but they can also be just a group of besties who do sleepover and girls talk giggling and shits behind the doors 😞😞 i mean instead of being secretive and "nuh uh none of your business now focus on the job" like an usual boss look at how seiji goes "its real cool what ive seen but imma spill the tea later kk"

they are not the peers he need but the funny uncles presence who give him the support typical of senior figures, and sometimes they chime in with his mischief to spite the pretty boy next door with whom he got some suspicious beef

is it too much to at least imagine some people who see and know him before, or more than the role and power of the clan leader he is. yet also consider: miharu arc revolves around a clan leader's attachment to his clan - or put differently - undetachable relationship with his clan...............