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I loved this chapter so much.

#fushi: is it really possible to be an emo farmer

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fushi in the new chapter.... they kinda look like . they kinda look like kaha- [GUNSHOTS]

#the malewification of fushi... #fnae #fnae 150

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my favorite thing is when people are like “this is my favorite character and they suck”. not even “they are flawed but I still like them” just “I like them because they’re pathetic”

#ME ME THIS IS MEEEEEE #theres a really specific type of character i like and its just. the most pathetic mf youve ever seen #i see a very cringe and fruity person and am just like yep youre my bestie now #this is mostly referring to tokio choujin x and junpei jjk. #but kahak is there too i guess ^_^

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bon chien

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BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK ARE GETTING ANIMATED BON AND KAHAK A

#fnae #this is so insane.

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Tonari Dalton “Cheif” (トナリ・ダルトン) - Fumetsu no Anata e - Episode 14

#Greatest of all time. Zenith of the medium. Hallmark of media. Gold standard of storytelling. Apogee of creativity. #Vertex of invention. Crest of ingenuity. Acme of imagination. Pinnacle of innovation. Epic of epics. Legend among legends. Peak fiction.

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Chapter 146.2

This chapter was a turning point for Fushi. They examined their priorities and realized that going home was most important. However, their reasoning is shit. I cannot stress enough how bad their reasoning is. Everything in this chapter is geared towards Fushi's decision at the end, so let's just go through it in order.

First they get hooked by another way to help Mizuha make friends. I'd like to note that they ask Mimori to teach them to make mud balls specifically because they want to show one to Mizuha later.

Mud balls themselves are another sort of trophy, just like the feather hair-ties. Fushi likes trophies a lot themselves; the clearest example is the doll they replicated in Chapter 69 because they wanted to show it to March. When they finally give it to her in Chapter 134.1, it comes as an unempathetic response to March's grief over Parona's death. When Fushi shows up after going missing for what I estimate as at least a week, March won't give them the enthusiastic response they're hoping for.

Since their conversation with Satoru, Fushi's been reassessing whether they can actually stay away from their friends for centuries all over again, especially since they know that their friends have assumed that after they die in the present era, they'll be free to pass on. They took a break from fighting knockers for one day to initiate their plan with Funa's body, but it's still weighing heavily on their mind. Mimori's arc works as a sort of thesis for the present era; on some level Fushi recognizes this and uses her as an example of what they should do. So her telling them directly that she's glad the knockers took her body is another crack in their resolve. They won't listen to Mizuha when she tells them to let the left hand stayed because it's proved that it can control her whenever it wants, but when Mimori, who is knocker-free, essentially tells them to wait and see how it plays out, they can't refute her.

It also helps that she revealed that removing her knocker didn't actually fix anything. Her life is the same as it always was, the only thing that's changed is her determination to enjoy it. This is meant to show the reader that although Fushi and the others failed to solve all of Mimori's problems, she'll be fine. But Fushi takes this as "you failed so there's no point anyways."

Fushi also just doesn't want to deal with Mizuha right now. They're bad at handling her, everything they do just makes things worse. Although they haven't acknowledged it, they know that she isn't like Kahaku at all, so they've lost a good part of their motivation, but they also don't want to throw her to the wolves. It would be a great time to back off like they think Mimori implied, but Fushi still has this obsession with being the good guy. Everything's lined up so that they can leave in the easiest way possible, but they haven't quite tipped over the edge yet. What pushes them to return to March is this:

Fushi made something specifically for Mizuha because they thought she would appreciate it and their effort would be rewarded. Not only does it not work, she outright rejects it and Fushi's response is along these lines: "March would never do this to me. I'm going to go back to my friends, because they appreciate me." Satoru told them that even if they eradicate the knockers, they won't be able to see their friends again, so they've decided to go for instant gratification instead. Like I said earlier, this will not go over well on their friends' side.

I doubt they're going to give up on the knockers entirely, but for now, they just want to be with the people they love. They may even go back to school routinely, as evidenced when they tell Mizuha they'll see her tomorrow. But the way their whole fantasy of seeing March again is framed—like she's Mizuha's replacement right now. Like she's their proof that everything is fine (their reward for doing a good job? Their TROPHY if you will???)—makes them look unwell. Which they are.

This analysis is focused mainly on Fushi, but I think I should touch on Mizuha's behavior in this chapter. She's gone right back to her reliance on Fushi, making it look even more like her attempt to control them was something the left hand encouraged and assisted. When it potentially ruined her relationship with Hanna, she doubled back and returned to them because when it comes down to it, she still trusts them by default. Like we saw at the start of Chapter 145.2, her newfound control was an act. I'm including the panels I'm referencing because it's just a really pretty sequence, you know?

Fushi, similarly to how Mizuha tried to give Hanna a feather hair-tie, used a mud ball to communicate their feelings to her. But Mizuha finds a trophy is meaningless in this situation, and like how Hanna threw her hair-tie away, she drops the mud ball on the ground. Fushi doing what she wants and asking for instructions doesn't make her happy anymore. I'd say based on her desperation, her fear right now is that she exposed too much of her weaknesses to Hanna, and Hanna didn't like what she saw. She still has the mud ball at the end of the chapter and Fushi knows that she and Hanna got into a fight. Whether or not they'll try to intercede or leave things entirely to Mizuha will be affected by how March and the others react to their return.

#this chapter was surprisingly nice #talked to one of my friends about it and we came to the (insane) conclusion that the mud ball fushi gave to mizuha was supposed to #represent fushis empty form / the orb or whatever #and breaking it kinda... held a certain significance to them #i know its super farfetched #also that line mimori said about her using the knockers instead of the vice versa... shes sooo cool

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really like this type of video so i decided to try and make one

#that panel of kahak is my favorite ever HGHFHGH HE LOOKS LIKE A GOBLIN #he definitely has roaches in his house #markings of a bad malewife.. #fumetsu no anata e #to your eternity

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#I LOVE THESE.....

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Screencap redraw because my life as I know it has been hinged on seeing Tonari animated and hearing her voice on July 5th but I just learned a recap episode is going to be airing instead so I made this instead of sitting in my chair for ten days but there's still over a week left girl Help.

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"Watch your mouth, Yanome. I am the man who will be King."

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JANANDA ARC CAST ANNOUNCED

#fumetsu no anata e #to your eternity #AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #eri inagawa huh......

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Based on this post.

#LOSING MY MIND AT yuuki

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recently noticed that my brain has been conditioned into knowing what fushis character design looks like detail for detail by heart and i hate it. this little motherfucker has been permanently burned into the back of my eyelids

#this discovery was probably kickstarted by me finding a 4 year old drawing of them and just being like #NO... NO THIS IS WRONG....

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#my little cringeass (affectionate)

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Chapter 145.2

This chapter I'll mostly be analyzing Mizuha's behavior. There's been a huge shift in her treatment towards Fushi since the last time she talked to them, and I wanted to take the time to consider why this happened because I know many people find Mizuha difficult to understand. Not me though. I understand perfectly.

Mizuha starts this chapter with a plan, and that plan is to pressure Fushi into admitting they were wrong to meddle with her school life. As we can see when she prepares to abandon the feather hairband early in the second page, she's not actually upset that they wrecked the symbol of her friendship with Hanna and Tonari, so there's another, greater purpose to this confrontation. All of her questions are deliberately worded to make Fushi look bad, she gives them orders to follow, and demeans them. The first part of this chapter is just her asserting power over them, and it's super effective.

This isn't to say that Mizuha's done a complete one-eighty since Chapter 140.2. The sequence on the very first page of this chapter captures her internal conflict very well; she initially reacts to Fushi's words with the same affectionate smile she usually gives them, but then she covers it with a calculating expression. It's not that she hates Fushi now, it's that any happiness she gets from their care is drowned out by the sting of rejection.

Mizuha's desire to overpower Fushi didn't just come out of nowhere either. Like Izumi, Mizuha has always strove for perfection in herself and others. The reason she likes Fushi so much is because they're the embodiment of that perfection, and her goal was always to obtain them in some way. But Fushi appeared in her life as someone who was really, really eager to help her in any way they could. Mizuha quickly became emotionally reliant on them, meaning she could expose her imperfections in front of them, and that experience was better than putting on an act all the time. In a sense, she was controlling them already, but in a way that Fushi accepted, so it was fine. At least until it all came crashing down in Chapter 139.2. A quick recap:

In this scene Mizuha has, again, killed someone without remembering it. Fushi knows, but instead of treating her with kindness like they did the first time, they're angry and scared of her. For the first time Mizuha trusted someone to know everything about her, and they abandoned her. In Chapter 145.2, Mizuha's bubbling resentment at Fushi bursts out. Everything she does is designed to tell Fushi, "you thought I was controlling before? No no no. THIS is controlling, motherfucker!" Yes that's verbatim.

But Mizuha's perspective didn't shift immediately after they left her alone. For the disrespect she displays in this chapter, she'd have to lose the belief that they're a god first. So let's take a look at Chapter 140.2, where she pleads with Fushi to leave Izumi's knocker alone. From Mizuha's viewpoint, they've gone from hating her to going on revenge trips in her name. There is something really obviously wrong with this, and more than that, Fushi tosses aside their weak try at heroism in favor of attacking Izumi's knocker in a cruel and inhuman way. To her, they're still a god, but not the benevolent kind that'll grant wishes. Although they ceded this time, Fushi is now an unpredictable nuisance in Mizuha's life. There's no way that she can coexist with them.

And then some dumbfuck took this mess decided to enable it. If the left hand happened to tell Mizuha that Fushi usually hates Hayase's successors actually, but made friends with one of them who killed himself and that's why they care about her, that would explain their contradictory actions, and it would taint all of their well meaning gestures. And if the left hand then told Mizuha how cool her ancestors were and how they were meant to take charge of Fushi? And that they could take Fushi in a fight and one time even managed to kill them (with its help, of course), and that actually it thinks she's special, and even better then all the other successors? Yeah. With the left hand around to boost her confidence, Mizuha is free to manipulate Fushi without any repercussions.

Which brings us to the kiss. In the Jananda Arc, Hayase used her tongue to try and claim Fushi for herself, and there's a similar thing going on here. Mizuha doesn't express her affection with kisses. In the past she's only ever wanted company and a hug. So this kiss isn't a loving kiss, it's the ultimate proof that she can control Fushi: they hate her, and yet they make no attempt to stop her. Dominating her would entail an intimate relationship, and by combining that with her power trip Mizuha reduces it to another form of control.

Obviously, that's not all that's going on here. The one who tried to kiss Fushi (in Chapter 139.2 too) was the left hand—not Mizuha, although I analyzed it as such because the two are beginning to blend together—which has all sorts of weird implications I can't even begin to understand, but it does probably mean that its goal is different than what Yuuki predicted, and maybe different than the other knockers'.

Funa appears and Mizuha is faced with the consequences of her own actions. She's not the one who killed Funa, but she's cooperating with the one who did. If your cold medicine murders someone, can you be held responsible? In the second half of the chapter her cold act snaps and she freaks out completely. Mizuha hates to have people judge her, so Funa knowing her secret and just existing in general is terrifying. Her reaction got especially intense after Funa said she saw the inside of her room, so I'm wondering if there's something in there we don't know about.

And that's all on Mizuha! Back to Fushi, who didn't really do much this chapter. There's something very fucky about them saying "well I tried my best" when they haven't done anything at all. @eko-thoughts (hiya) noticed—and I'll paraphrase here—that Fushi sounds resigned to failing because they can just try again with the next reincarnation. Directly after that their speech bubble cuts Mizuha's head off which is just—exquisite framing. I love it when mangakas fuck around with that.

Anyways just so we're clear, Fushi knows what a kiss is. They know what a romantic relationship is, they know that Mizuha is in love with them. I just find it strange that they didn't react negatively to her touching them at all, because they have in the past. Hell, when Kahaku hugged them they had to throw up. Now they're just completely neutral. And I'm done with Fushi's part.

I don't have much to say about Funa, other than I thought her knocker was just dicking around when no one was looking but I guess she's like that all the time so it must have been method acting. "Horndog." "Skeeved out." I want her to appear more just so the translators can get more of her dialogue. She has good bitchy energy.

Two more things I'd like to point out: (1) Yeah that's a collage of Mizuha in Kasabe's room. If she doesn't have a crush I don't know what the hell that's for. (2) Mizuha dropped her hairband on the way out of the room and she's going to talk to Hanna soon. Whee.

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mysterious guy in a cape: i can stop time. here's how to defeat this monster. i am your maker. you are destined to help preserve this world. there are forces that oppose you *fades into a tree*

fushi: .....lmao that was weird anyways back to these pears