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yaraneechan · 1 year

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some Aliens arc tome meta (+ talking about animation and directing)

Tome has two fears:

1)That shes dragging everyone along and bothering them. They're pretending to want to help her and are tired and annoyed from trying to keep up with her interests

2) Even if they are genuine in wanting to find aliens, failing at finding aliens would sour the memories of being in the club for everyone.

its also great that the alien arc is divided in two episodes, cuz in the first episode we get introduced to telepathy and Takenaka, a telepath, explaining how he prefers to understand someone through eye contact rather than their thoughts.

Then in the second episode, that episode is the one that is made with much more animation frames than usual, so we get so much detail in their body language, especially Tome. AND there are times when they don't have faces. To keep the suspense that we don't know how they're feeling from not seeing their expression.

SO let's unpack all that

the telepathy club started with Tome's dream of using telepathy to contact aliens, but everyone else was in it just to laze around and play games. And they do figure that they're wasting time early on. When Takenaka leaves in the 2nd episode, they're all like "oh no! we cant let this club be disbanded, they cant let all those memories go to waste! All those memories of....lazing around and playing games and eating snacks. Oh we actually do nothing here"

They had recognised that they aren't making special memories even before meeting mob, that's why Tokagawa wanted this club disbanded and also how he persuaded mob not to join their club. and he doesn't. By the end she figures that this whole time she's the only one who cared and was dragging them along, so she disbands the club.

But then they realize how much Tome cared, so they actually work hard to make her dream happen, actually looking for telepaths and finding one. And tome keeps pushing them away, telling them she's not coming to the trip, then not answering their calls.

But She does come on the day of.

But even though she's pouting in the car and looking out the window like she's not going to try to be part of a conversation, she's actually looking at inukawa's reflection and tuning in to what everyone is saying. She's playing with her fingers to pretend she doesn't care and because she's fidgety from anxiety.

note takenaka's expression being hidden during the conversation in the car

After they almost crash, they're all out of the car except her, talking about whether to go on or cancel their plans and while they're not seeing her expression we get to see that she's disappointed. the conversation shifts and they don't get to see that expression

Later When inukawa realises that they forgot the book with the ritual, she just chuckles (which sounds sad) and said "don't mind" off screen, we don't see her face.

sometime later they do find a trail and still talk about going up the mountain. shes a bit far and stylized so we don't see her expression, saying "huh? weren't we heading back?"

they argue and... that's the mouth of someone trying not to cry.

When kijibayashi tells her " seriously kurata, who do you think inukawa and saruta painstakingly planned this out for?" KijiBAYASHI NO LOOK AT HER SHES GOING TO CRY. Her eyes shine and she starts yelling at them

"Are you seriously blaming this on me right now? I disbanded the club because all of you never tried to do anything!" Her eyes shaking and her loud inhales. Both the animation and the voice acting show her about to cry.

"I kept wondering if I should come or not because I didn't want this very thing to happen." One of her fears about this is that her dream is a pain for them, because they'd rather laze around and she's stringing them along for something they don't want to do. That's why she keeps saying she doesn't care anymore,

the way he phrased it as "painstaking" is literally the most hurtful way for her.

The thing is right after she yells at them for lying about finding a telepath and trampling on her feelings and that's she'll leave, takenaka looks at her guiltily, inukawa is uncomfortable by her yelling with his eyes darting everywhere, while mob is the one who encourages her to go on.

Out of all of them mob is the least likely to be seen as someone who'd trample on someone else's feelings. (See Emi's arc) coupled with the fact that Takenaka was convinced to help because he could tell that mob's feeling were genuine (eye contact scene), mob is the one who got this to work out that's so sweet. also She's embarrassed for changing her mind and the little blush is a cute anime addition :3 (note mob's role is more emphasized in the anime than the manga because the anime removed dialogue about mobs carsickness affecting his powers and that needs its own post)

Its really well animated, how she has all this intense emotions of excitement to see aliens vs fear of disappointment and fear of how her friends feel about this trip-and that made her so fidgety, during the walk she randomly ran on the bridge slamming kijibayashi's back, started balancing herself and a railroad, brushing her fingers against the leaves, trying to let the extra energy out.

And also making good memories about climbing the mountain, because she's not expecting anything more, and she really wants this to be a good memory, for the club to end on a good note. the "making it a good memory" is mentioned a lot

Right before reaching the top, we don't see her eyes, then the camera pans up and we do see her eyes she seems scared and amazed.

when they reach the top and ask about the spell in the book, she lies says she didn't memorise it and goes "isn't it enough that we all climbed to the top of the mountains together? We've already made plenty of memories today" so that they'll stop.

Takenaka knows its a lie cuz telepathy. So to show her that he cared, he comes clean about spending the night researching and said the other three are also taking this seriously.

The thing is she after figuring out that she's the only one who cared about the goal of meeting aliens, she was afraid that shes the one who made them feel they had to do it. She was afraid that by going along with her ambition, its souring their last memories together as a club because they don't actually want to be there.

Besides being upset that they might be messing with her and trampling on her feelings, she's afraid even if they are genuine. Because what if they fail that will sour all the memories with the club.

Remember the previous arc -divine tree arc- how becoming carried away mobs popularity and dimple's brainwashing- ends up with shallow friendships cause that can't get others honest opinion. She was afraid of being like that to them, her goal in meeting aliens made her too carried away and not notice that she was dragging people along who don't actually want to. A one-sided friendship from her end.

mob getting too carried away about being popular also lead to more hurt that he was stood up by both tome and mezato. Tome is afraid of them looking back on their relationship as an annoyance.

takenaka also tells her that everyone else were looking for him (a telepath) to make her dream happen, so everyone wanted to be involved

then takenaka says her second fear out loud "but even then, I'm scared of this going wrong, its probably better to limit this being a fantasy. Maybe all that matters in this is whether we had fun, because all my other memories with everyone may end up a joke, too. We almost got lost in the mountains because I'm forcing my delusions on them, I don't want to face reality more than this"

she was pretending she doesn't want this so that they're not pressured to keep going, but takenaka reads her mind and they do want to do this with her. even with the risk of nothing coming out of it

And even if its a failure it was still worth the effort , the journey not the destination reigen quote time: (note: anime reigen looked more genuine saying it than manga reigen)

in the anime we don't see anyone's faces but we can tell that they lost hope and trying not to feel sad

punchline is that mob is the only one with a face because he didn't lose hope

Even when she's not sad anymore and gets to show that she actually wants to be there. She's anxious, anything they try and aliens don't show up is too quickly followed by 'its fine I'm glad we did it anyway', she really really doesn't want their last memory to be a sad one. she's trying so hard to push through that even if we don't meet aliens its fine. She slams kijibayashi's back in the anime. in the manga its the telepathy club trio more exaggerated backslap

in the anime her nose gets red showing that she's holding back tears

And then the aliens show up!

And takenaka can be an interpreter, so tome- whose dream is to meet them so bad, gets to finally to talk to them about anything!

And....she has no idea what to say. She blabbers, blinks rapidly, pulls at her hair and looks around

She's so starstruck that no ideas come to her.

So! Inukawa gets the idea of playing games together, and she sighs in relief. then

And its like they were preparing for this moment! lazing around and playing games the clubs specialty! Its the group of friends who literally did nothing except eat snacks and play games! Meeting the aliens with this group of friends is special to tome because they knew how to break the ice and do what they always do. They made this experience special to all of them!

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fullonfandomindulgence · 6 months

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the years

post-canon tome headcanon-that-turned-into-flash-fic in honor of tomeweek and mobtober

even tho everything else about the ritual was made up, the aliens really do only visit every seven years. so everyone is excited abt seeing the aliens again in the epilogue but they never arrive. the telepathy club just sits at the top of mudboat mountain all night. mezato is piiiiiissed. and like its still nice but. disappointing. tome will never forget that night but she was hoping to create a tradition, like, something to celebrate the strange but friendly. she finishes a bag of takis at 3am and tilts her head back to pour all the crumbs into her mouth.

she thinks, Was that the only chance I'll ever get? kijibayashi gets mad at her for finishing the takis. the air is silent and cloudy.

tome and inukawa are both insistent the aliens will come back the next year. the club tries again and the aliens dont come back, again. tsubomi wasnt expecting much but at least its interesting to go camping with mob and some weirdos.

so thats what it becomes, a yearly camping trip to mudboat mountain. on year three takenaka cant make it, so the shiratori brothers do the transmission instead. tome rolls the alien stone around on her palm. no response.

then tome graduates and moves away for university. and mob, inukawa, and takenaka have to worry about exams. and it all just doesn't line up. so they skip year four. tome sits in a corner of her dorm room and hates the feeling of obligation and fatigue washing up around her. she doesnt have the wisdom to accept it yet. maybe she never will. she cant tell if that would be good or bad.

It's year five. Saruta puts down his marshmallow stick, gets up, and walks away from the fire. "Okay, I'm gonna go look for aliens." Mob smiles but warns, "It's slippery." "Does--does he mean--?" Tome responds, laughing, to Teru's confusion. "He means he's gonna find somewhere to take a dump."

the next new years she tries something new and it doesnt go well. sitting in an alley and trying not to cry she gets a text. its a shitty picture of some mountains and the distant horizon at night. you cant see any stars, just the dim glow of city in the distance. in the corner of the photo is a green smudge with little red cheeks giving her the finger. the message is from mob.

she pretends like she doesnt remember the seven years number but she starts thinking about it in like june. it takes her until september to finally say something. tome: okay mfers this is the year this is THE year inukawa: What year tome: let me finish this is t he YEAR WE SEE ALIENS AGAIN all thet sources say seven years! the aliens dont visit every year, only ever seven well were all old now and its been sseven years! so lets get out there and DO THIS!!! whatever or whoever else youre doing plz bring it all up the mountain with you inukawa: Oh my god this is the year mob: Seven years, jesus. kijibayashi: THIS IS THE YEAR kijibayashi: THIS IS THE YEAR kijibayashi: THIS IS THE YEAR takenaka: THIS IS THE YEAR mob: THIS IS THE YEAR! kijibayashi: THIS IS THE YEAR

in the end no one can get hold of saruta. he would respond to a hello but wouldnt engage for more than a few messages. tome is mad but everyone hopes hes okay. mob dredges up mezato from her journalism internship. he even convinces jun (shaved head guy from the body improvement club) to come with. the team comes equipped with two switches, a laptop for anime, ultimate werewolf, a portable speaker, comics, snacks, and as much booze as they can carry.

tome can feel the transmission vibrating her teeth, but only the ones without fillings. she leans backwards as the tractor beam pulls her up so she does a slow flip before landing on her back in that warm, round space. shes 15 again. these are her friends, the same aliens she met last time. takenaka confirms this but she knew it as soon as she shook one of their hands.

shes not 15, though, shes 22. she has to elbow in on mezatos interviews. Are there alien ghosts? How old are you? Are there like alien teenagers or is it more of a chrysalis situation? Why are you here? Are there alien videogames? What advice would you give to someone who's struggling to find respect for her work? Have you ever tried fireball?

Inukawa is annoyingly good at telling when the aliens are lying so he keeps winning at werewolf (Takenaka is only allowed to play if he's cool about it). Tome wonders, internally, what it would be like to kiss an alien. Probably reserved at first, like of course, you'd want to start slow. But then after that… She watches an alien laugh at a visual gag in Crayon Shin-chan. Mob slams smirnoff and engages in an intense series of arm wrestling matches. "Hey noodle arms! Square up!" He gets beaten by every single alien. Jun wins against one. Takenaka looks shiftily over at them and says, "That was out of pity." Everyone raises a shot glass to Saruta.

tomes 15, shes 22. and then she realizes she's 29, too, and 36, and 43, 50, 57… she has maybe eight or nine more chances at this, ever. would the aliens accept her as an old lady? how long would she be able to make the hike? I should talk to mob about that. How to become dash granny.

everyone has gifts ready this time, except for mezato, who decides that her offering to these strange beings from another world should be a half-empty bottle of jagermeister. tome gives the aliens one of those compact cb radios, thinking maybe if they were nearby they could gibber on a particular channel and tome, who had her own radio at home, would know they were here. according to takenaka their response is very coy and mysterious and annoying.

Tome shows the aliens the stone they gave her last time. She'd kept it on her person basically since she got it. She receives a hug from one of the aliens with their soft many-segmented limbs and starts crying. More of the aliens move in for a group hug around her and she cries and laughs and cries some more as she reaches out to wrap her arms around as many as she can. Gross rivers drip from her nose. She sniffs and wipes her face with the backs of her hands as they disentangle. She looks at the group of weird big-eyed friends. She opens her arms wide, hands covered with tears and slime, and announces, "Thank you! Thank you all! This has been so much fucking fun. Pretend you all have glasses in your hands, I'm gonna do a toast. A toast to strange friends!" Two species say "Clink! Clink!" as their empty hands knock together.

the suns been up for an hour or two. the ship shimmers in daylight, translucent, floating away.

29, Tome thinks. "I want you all here, next time."

"So I'm free? I can party for the next six New Yearses as long as I go camping with you on the seventh?"

"Whatever, Kijibayashi, fuck you, like that wasn't the best party you ever been to. Yes. Next time."

the memory has multiplied, into past and future. Who? How? Is it stupid to make such a big deal of this thing? tome watches the stone in her palm.

No. No it's not. she puts the stone in her pocket.

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