#but also hou mei going >:3c when sei kai died vs ka rin having a tantrum and leaving when kan mei lost lol

[cospinol]

kingdom staff finally heard my plea and they made ten cute this week :)

egg-shaped, as she should be, thanks ❤️

also a couple of additional lines between her and shin where he talks abt how they’ve only made up ground because of her…

cute for him to acknowledge it out loud like this!

also cute is shin & kyou kai’s campfires of dreams sequence…

the perfect little resolution to their conflict from ten plot, both in shin’s goofy apology and kyou kai insisting on bullying him a little bit about it, and then her comparing his relationship with ten to hers with shou just to confirm we’re all on the same page. and the conversation moving seamlessly into their shared goal/ending w kyou kai’s bit abt making general before shin… they are so sweet

tou and roku omi also have their adjacent scene where tou explains his Mentorship Scheme (his ou ki impression is so fun to hear out loud…) and the significance of this battle for shin and ou hon (and the manga had a panel of mou ten that i’m a little disappointed we didn’t get to see..) in terms of making a name for themselves by defeating someone else who has recently made a name for himself. which is the core & whole point of the arc, but I do think when shin is describing the situation (in extremely similar terms to tou in the other scene, which is just innately cute, he’s so on the right track!!) his phrasing does unintentionally cast light on a very funny aspect of the plan…

With all possible love in my heart, I don’t think it’s fair to say that this guy almost toppled kankoku pass lol. Like it’s an extremely valuable aspect of his character to me that he Is Legitimately Very Talented (and tou has good reason to believe this, I love that the arc opens with him immediately knowing that it’s hou mei he’s losing against) and that he *is* an opponent worth beating, but I just think it’s cute that he’s made such a name for himself off a campaign where all he did was get his siege towers burnt down and used against him, *and* that this newfound fame is the specific reason why he’s about to get curb-stomped by a bunch of teenagers. proud of my baby ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Oh, and also the best frame from this week is of course this one of shin and kyou kai in combat

woosh!!!

#hit image limit in the post but I think my talk last week abt making everyone Cuter really manifested this ep into reality #I have a whole lot of shin caps saved just bc they made him look cute too which we almost never get #moe kingdom real 🙏 #they are still being mean to ou hon but I’ve accepted that no one except hara knows how to make his design look good. and even he was Better #txt #kingdomposting #AND ALSO the hou mei and ka rin from tou’s monologue… So Cute #I also just love the premise of tou putting them on the same level of New Rising Stars from the coalition army #like I think ka rin did objectively more (she contributed nearly as much at the pass while also almost winning her own battlefield) #but the two of them in that arc Are neat little parallels in terms of both just sitting back and Waiting for their plans to play out #and both ultimately being undone not by any fault of their own but bc of a failing on the part of general they were partnered with! #but also hou mei going >:3c when sei kai died vs ka rin having a tantrum and leaving when kan mei lost lol #////edit. returning to this post months later. I got them backwards #hou mei’s >:3 is when kan mei dies and ka rin’s tantrum is About kan mei but doesn’t come until ou sen’s reinforcements arrive #same net point tho. now back to the original tags of this post//// #and all of that vs him aggressively playing the straight man at all the generals’ meetings while ka rin completely dominates the room… #wanna reread coalition again lol #WAIT— ALSO: RI BOKU SCENE #tou’s whole thing here is about how all the other great generals of this era are Looking At This Battlefield #but the only one we actually see reacting to it is ri boku :’)