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foxpunk · 6 months

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10 FANDOMS 10 CHARACTERS 10 TAGS tagged by @leejihye thank youuu <3

ORV / one of yoohankim would be the easy and obvious answer so i will say jung heewon my beloved...

FFXIV / don't dO THIS TO ME i love all of them...i'm only in the shadowbringers patches but uhm. y'shtola has my everything. if we're talking about the character i'm most crazy about though it is definitely foulques.

D.GRAY-MAN / lavi will come back one day it may have been over 10 real life years now but know he will pLEASE HOSHINO-

SUBNAUTICA / robin and al-an are a set...to me...oh who am i kidding the hot robot alien gets my vote…al-an…my wife…

DUNGEON MESHI / you'd think it's laios cause of my icon but actually it's kabru <3

VILLAIN INITIALIZATION / YOU KNOW I GOTTA PICK MY BOY YE ZIMUUU but everyone else is a VERY close second...jiang xiao is one where i love every single panel she's in she rules. also like. ling chen is LITERALLY a catboy cmon now

SSS-CLASS REVIVAL HUNTER / genuinely hard to choose they're all incredible characters for different reasons. gongja is such a perfectly fucky wucky lil guy though

YU-GI-OH!! / kaiba lives in my brain 24/7 rent free top floor penthouse suite room service jacuzzi tub complete service etc

TIME TO ORBIT: UNKNOWN / god they're all sooo good but of course i'm biased towards Aspen, our lil pov buddy. just a totally normal person on a totally normal spaceship! :^) (PLEASE read time to robit please please please-)

DEATH NOTE / L, zero contest.

HONORABLE MENTIONS / all the blorbos from my friends' and partners' brains are top tier everyone go appreciate @marcmorrigan's art and read @waterloggedsoliloquy's comics right neow

TAGGING: @warriorspork @blazednarancia @zlink @waterloggedsoliloquy @cteranodon @buqbite @1864th @kkomaism @wh0rehound @omegazoro + anyone else who wants to do this legit just say i tagged you i would love to see your blorbos...

#goddd this was so hard to choose #ones that didnt get in bc my hyperfixation carousel is rotated away from them rn or bc the other stuff is higher on my obsession list:#yoohyun SCTIR / san lang TGCF / L DEATH NOTE... / zevran DA:O / dorian DA:I / suzaku code geass / player character evoland 2 #OBI SWWTRH <333 / you huo GUEE / mae NITW / swk GTTW / juice 17776 / hide tokyo ghoul / kai ajin / yue CCS / alex and krobus SDV #i can and will be here all day so i will stop myself here #tag game #abt me

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charitybell · 2 months

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I’ve been Rereading D.Gray-man and because it’s been a long while I’m remembering the old stuff way way better than any of the later chapters. Which means my mind is spinning with theories I feel are way too out there and that I’ll need to wait til I get everything reread to see if it’s worth putting out in the world.

Also Jasdevi slays so hard. Fashion Icon.

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xsoteria · 1 year

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TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER!

favourite colour(s): red, purple, green, black favourite flavour(s): sweet, some sour or spicy from time to time favourite genre(s): supernatural, fantasy, action, comedy favourite movie: Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke favourite series: currently? none. of all time? yu yu hakusho, d.gray-man, inuyasha, teenage mutant ninja turtles, houshin engi, saint seiya. they are comfort, and childhood series i always go back to now and then last song: undefeatable - sonic frontiers last movie: uuuhhh, can’t remember lmao currently reading: teenage mutant ninja turtles idw collection currently watching: ff14 twitch streams like the monkey brain i am currently working on: did icons earlier but nothing right now except chilling until i go to bed lmao

tagged by: @wouldhope thanks a lot <3 tagging: all my mutuals that want to and haven’t done this yet

#dash games.#i miss ghibli movies i should rewatch sometime soon

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tomiokasensei · 1 year

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hello hello marilyn! it's your secret santaaaa! 🎅 oh my gosh i adore your new icon it's mega cute!! tomioka in his santa costume is super adorable! i love kny christmas official art they have amazing ones and so pretties!! I'm happy to know you're doing well :) did you already bought some goodies on your christmas shopping? 👀 i still have to do mine have been so busy these days! ahh snow so cool here we only have on north of our country, on where i live it never snows dghvcsdjk i live in portugal btw!! be sure to be warm marilyn! i wish i could go to amercia on this time of the year :D it's so awesome when you have snow and christmas seems always to be in high spirits on there... not it isn't here but idk why i find it more beautiful there ^^ oh sure i can recommend you some, if you'd like i can say some of my fav ones hope you like it and it's to your liking ^^ blood+ (super good!!! one of all time favorite animes), d.gray-man, mahoutsukai no yome, natsume yuujinchou, barakamon, bungou stray dogs, bleach, soul eater, zankyu no terror, violet evergarden aaand can't think of more if i do will tell you xD i hope you like them marilyn! which are your fav genres of anime btw? which were the animes that gave you happy moments? sad moments? yeaah i agree with you i guess kny's mangaka should have explored a bit more the other characters.. not that i didn't liked the ending it was like.. they all reincarnated and reunited to be always together again but it should have been more! more juicy story for the charcaters please! but yeah just like you said if it's the decision of the mangaka then it is xD awww thank you marilyn i always find it so awesome and fun whenever we talk! i too see our friendship to bloom and have lots of good times together!! i hope you have been doing well these recent days and don't forget to rest and stay cozy ok? :D take care marilyn till next time! 🥰🎅🎅

hello, hello, secret santa~! ! ! 🥰 glad you like my new icon! i wanted to use the new chibi art that came out but i decided to use the old one XD actually i used the new chibi art of giyuu for my header 👀 and my shopping was fun, still have to figure out what certain friends want but i am mostly done 😊 and good luck with your shopping, i would do it sooner cuz items can sell out (i made the mistake in shopping at the last weeks and i regret it lol).... i love the snow and it's fine in america, i think you might enjoy it and find it fun as well as crazy!... and white, snowy christmas is the highlight of the holiday season! 💜 i would love to check out portugal someday, how is it there and when is it the best time to visit? 😃

out of the ones i have seen are d. gray-man, bleach, soul eater, and violet evergarden. i need to finish bleach i am no where near the current arc of the thousand-year blood war xD;;;;; i have heard of blood+ but i never watched it, maybe you could tell me a little bit about it? 💜 my favourite genres are perhaps shonen because of the fighting action and characters (even though the standard main characters tend to be the same (i.e. the goofy, happy-go-lucky kid, the brooding serious one, and the peppy, high-strung types in a trio group) but i still enjoy it. aside from that i love a dark, thriller genre with suspense like death note and puella magi madoka magica, also tragedies and melodramas

speaking of melodrama, kny was definitely one with tragedies and sadness and probably the one i am deep into because of the emotions i felt thoughtout the whole series. however, i felt like having an overwhelming amount of death was a bit unnecessary. maybe having at least one more hashira survive... the ending itself was fine and nice to bring everyone back for the final chapter. i think we all just wanted more in general, a longer series would have touched on their characters...

thankyou again for dropping by secret santa!! 🎅 likewise, take care and until next time~! ! ! 🤗

#animangasecretsanta #asks

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luk4orlele · 2 years

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deadly-disturbed · 3 years

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softditts · 4 years

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animiconz · 4 years

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allen walker/d.gray-man icons (300x300)

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dazaisuicida · 5 years

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ALLEN WALKER ICONS (Parte 1)

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grassbreads · 10 months

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I’d love to know about Yulma and how important it is to representation in shounen manga

This has been sitting in my askbox for a couple months (because I am incapable of punctuality), but anon sent this to me back when I was talking about Yulma over on my vnc blog. For those unaware, Yulma refers to Yu Kanda and Alma Karma from the manga D.Gray-man.

So the thing is, to be honest, I don't know if you can say Yulma is/was important for representation. They don't tend to get brought up as an example of representation (except by diehard d.gray-man fans like me, lol) in shonen, and their whole thing is complicated enough that I feel like the queerness of it all flies over a lot of people's heads.

However! They're very important to me personally, and I do think it's kind of remarkable their story came out in like 2010. Because even though their queerness gets overlooked a lot, it's like. really there no matter how you interpret it.

The short version of their very complicated story is that Kanda and Alma are a couple who were resurrected into new bodies. Alma was a woman when they were originally together in their past lives, but is physically male in the present. Kanda is still very much in love with them by the end of their story, which, depending on the reading, makes Kanda very bi and/or Alma very trans.

This sound like something you want details on? If so, let's talk about how D.Gray-man's fan favorite edgy badass toughguy character briefly became the star of his very own heart-wrenching tragic queer romance.

Here's a brief crash course in Yu Kanda and Dgm for the uninitiated:

D.Gray-man is a manga about a group of exorcists (in the loosest and most anime sense of the term) in the 1890s fighting a holy war against mechanical demons powered by the souls of the dead. There are two things you need to understand about this plot for me to explain Yulma:

The Black Order, the secret branch of the church that exorcists work for, has a long history of committing horrific human experiments to further the war effort.

Due to complications of world building, only a tiny number of people can become exorcists, and tracking down new ones is extremely difficult.

Yu Kanda is one of the exorcists, and though not the actual main character (that's the lad in my icon), he's a very important secondary character. Arguably he's the most important secobdary character, since he's the main guy's biggest foil and the first character to play deuteragonist in a major story arc. He's also a huge fan favorite. The character popularity polls that Jump used to do always had him and the mc going back and forth over who won #1 most popular.

Kanda was also a classic edgy toughguy character. His first two scenes are him almost murdering the main guy because he thinks he's an intruder, then complaining about people grieving for their friend too loudly. He never smiles. He argues with the righteous mc about wasting time/energy protecting civilians. He threatens (and delivers) violence on anyone that annoys him. He looks like this:

TLDR; Kanda was an adored-by-fans mean badass archetype in a 2000s shonen manga. Not generally the guy you peg for starring in a piece of queer romantic storytelling.

And for the entirety of the original anime adaptation's 103 episode run, for the first 188ish chapters of the manga, you do not learn a single thing about his early life. You learn he joined the Black Order very young, and you meet the mentor that took him in at that point, but although there are little hints, a couple cryptic mentions of him searching for a certain person, his early origins remain a complete black box.

Then came the Alma Karma arc.

This is the point where I start getting into spoilers.

To make a very long story short, the Alma Karma arc reveals that Kanda is one of the Black Order's human experiments. The Order ran a secret project 9ish years before the start of the series in which they essentially tried to re-use dying exorcists (since finding new ones is so hard). They took the bodies of dying or recently deceased exorcists and harvested their brains, implanting those brains into new magically grown child bodies.

Key to this project—the second exorcist project—is that these newly grown second exorcists were not supposed to remember anything from their previous lives. Kanda, however, recovered a few hazy memories from his past self. Most importantly, he can recall an unclear image of the woman that his past self was in love with. This memory gradually becomes Kanda's reason to live. He wants desperately to find and meet that person.

Now, aside from Kanda, there was one other successfully revived second exorcist. This was a boy named Alma Karma.

Over the course of their brief shared childhood, Kanda and Alma become extremely close. However, due to a series of horrible events that I'll spare you the details of, Alma is eventually driven to murder-suicide. He wants himself and Kanda to die together to spite the Order, and Kanda almost lets him do it.

The one thing that keeps Kanda from letting Alma kill him, the thing that drives him instead to kill Alma, his most beloved and only friend, is that he can't bear to die without finding that woman again.

Have you figured out the twist yet?

9 years later, in the present, Kanda discovers that he didn't actually quite kill Alma. The Order kept Alma secretly half-alive in order to do more dubious experiments. And, more importantly, when they meet again, Kanda discovers the truth. The woman that he's been searching for his whole life, the woman he's in love with, the woman he tried to kill Alma in order to find, was also killed and made into a second exorcist. And her brain was placed into the body of Alma Karma.

After quite a lot more violence and tragedy, Kanda and Alma end their story arc by running away together on their deathbeds. Alma dies, for real this time, in Kanda's arms, and his last words are to tell Kanda he loves him. These words are presented as something Kanda hears from both the boy and woman versions of Alma's soul.

So! At the end of a very long and complicated story, one thing holds true: Kanda and Alma are in love. As passed down from their past selves, they are specifically in romantic love. They were a couple. And to speak as a fan, the sheer absolute devotion to how Kanda's love for Alma is presented is seriously intense and moving.

Now, given the absolute hell that is Alma's life, gender identity is frankly the last thing they have time to worry about, so it's hard to say how the whole "literally a woman's brain in a male body" thing might have settled for them if given time to think about it. But that is inherently a pretty trans narrative. And given the whole Alma gender situation, there's simply no reading of their whole situation where neither of them is queer.

If you take present day Alma as a guy, which is more or less how he's presented in canon (though again, who knows how he would've felt about that male body in different circumstances), then congratulations! You've got mlm in your shonen manga. They were straight in a different life, but now one of them's a dude, and they are still deeply in love with each other. They've even got not one but two "let's forget it all and run away together" scenes, just as every mlm couple seems to have.

On the other hand, if you go with the angle that Alma's still a woman based on her mind/soul, even in her new body, then Kanda may not be canonically queer, but Alma is inarguably trans. Again, literally a woman's brain in a male body. It may not be how most people end up trans, but that doesn't change the facts of her situation.

You see what I mean about how they're undeniably queer, but also kind of easy to miss? There's so much other insane shit going on in their story that Alma's whole gender situation can get passed over. Plus, you can look online to this day and find people arguing that Kanda's not "technically" explicitly in love with the present day male version of Alma, since he doesn't 100% unambiguously say as much. I love reading comprehension.

Also! As a possible extra reason for why people don't talk about them much, the official English translation of the manga translated Alma's final "I love you" very differently. There's always a lot of nuance and argument when it comes to translating "大好き" into English, but given the full context of their relationship and the scene it's in, Viz's handling really sets off the censorship bells in my head.

Here's the different versions (Japanese then fan then official), if you want to compare:

Nothing more classically queer than censorship by way of questionable translation 🙃.

At the end of the day, Kanda and Alma are in kind of a strange middle ground. They're each in love with the other one, but the whole second exorcist brain transfer situation makes it complicated enough that people argue their feelings aren't explicitly romantic (and thus not gay) in the present. Alma is literally a woman's brain implanted in a male body, but we don't have time to dwell on the gender complications of all that because of the hell that is the rest of their life. They're canon but not canon—queer people whose stories don't have space for them to be queer.

However, given that all this messy, tragic ambiguity was published in a fairly popular shonen manga back in 2010, it still feels kind of remarkable to me. Alma is somewhat an antagonist (it's complicated), and he dies at the end of his arc, but once again, Kanda was/is the fan favorite! And when he re-enters the main story after Alma's death, he's more important than he's ever been, and his history with Alma continues to be a huge part of his character.

Katsura Hoshino took the much-beloved edgy toughguy character from her long-running shonen series and, after keeping his origins secret for such a long time, confirmed that his whole life has revolved around love this entire time. Almost every facet of his character can be traced back to his love for his lost best friend or his yearning for his past life's missing partner. And then she reveals that the best friend and the partner are one and the same.

You can go back and forth about the degree to which they work as representation, but in any case, I think their story is something people ought to know about. It's romantic and it's heart-wrenching and it's fucking wild, especially given the context in which it was published (a Shonen Jump spinoff in 2010). I never see anyone besides the few remaining hardcore dgm fans talk about them, and I think that's a shame.

So anyway, that's tale of one of the most insanity-inducing romances I've ever seen put to paper. I love queer people.

Here's some choice pages if you want to cry with me (the last two are a sequence):