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Dispatch! (The Ossan's Love Episode)

And we're back!

NiNi and Ben bring our friend @twig-tea to the show to talk about the entire Ossan's Love series. We'll talk about the way this franchise evolves over time, the difficulties of comedy, what it means to love older queer men, and how this show tackles the complexities of family and masculinity.

Timestamps

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00:00:00 - Welcome 00:01:15 - Introduction and Some Context 00:06:25 - Ossan’s Love History and Summary 00:13:42 - The Characters 00:28:23 - Love or Dead and In The Sky 00:39:00 - Ossan’s Love Returns 00:45:33 - Final Thoughts and Ratings

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00:00:00 - Welcome

NiNi

Welcome to The Conversation About BL, aka The Brown Liquor Podcast.

Ben

And there it is. I’m Ben.

NiNi

I’m NiNi.

Ben

And we’re you’re drunk Caribbean uncle and auntie here sitting on the porch in the rocking chairs.

NiNi

Four times a year we pop in to talk about what’s going on in the BL world.

Ben

We shoot the shit about stories and all the drama going into them. I review from a queer media lens.

NiNi

And I review from a romance and drama lens.

Ben

So if you like cracked-out takes and really intense emotional analysis…

NiNi

If you like talking about artistry, industry, and the discourse…

Ben

And if you generally just love simping…

NiNi

There is a lot of simping on this podcast…

Ben

We are the show for you!

00:01:15 - Introduction and Some Context

Ben

And we're back! 

This week, we are covering all of Ossan's Love, from 2016 through 2024. We have brought on a special guest for this special episode as we're going to talk about the longest-running BL project. We have brought on our friend @twig-tea.

Twig

Hello.

NiNi

Hi, Twig. Welcome to the show.

Twig

Thank you so much for having me.

NiNi

New friend of the pod. Super excited to have you here. Twig is what we delightfully referred to as a ‘fandom old.’ I'm very excited to be having this conversation with two fandom olds in here, Twig and Ben, because, dear listeners, I have not had the time to watch Ossan's Love, so this is gonna be interesting. Ben and Twig are gonna school me.

Twig

We'll do our best.

Ben

This is going to be an interesting episode because we're going to be talking about a project that was somewhat overlooked by fandom, myself included, until the last couple of months. And I'm a little bit salty about it, and so I wanted to bring on somebody who has watched all of this in real time, and I thought that their perspective would be helpful. 

Twig, you are new to our listeners. Why don't you tell them a little bit about yourself in fandom and your history with queer cinema and BL?

Twig

I actually started on the GL side, which is a little bit different than I think a lot of folks in the BL fandom. I started with getting into Sailor Moon and got involved with a group of women who started Yuricon. The first Yuricon was held in Newark, NJ, in 2003 and I was the secretary. 

From there, there just wasn't enough GL content, and so I got into BL, too. I was really into Japanese manga, was part of a few scanlation groups, got oversaturated, stepped away, came back in 2016 to be shocked at the fact that a whole lot of the stuff that I used to watch was now made into live action. 

The YouTube algorithm in late 2016—early 2017—fed me Lovesick and I sort of went, “Hello. What's this?” Then watched Make it Right and was hooked on Thai BL. Tried to backfill as much as I could, so I watched Gray Rainbow, and Diary of Tootsies, and all this stuff that nobody talks about, really, anymore. 

One of the things about fandom at that time was that the way you found stuff was digging and a prayer, and random people making random lists, and it was very hard to tell how good those lists were. And so I managed that by watching everything and making my own opinions. And that is why I watched Ossan’s Love when it aired, or as soon as I could get my hands on it.

NiNi

So we're talking like real, real old school. We're talking about “Oh God, maybe some fansubber might help us out here.”

Twig

Fuckin’, like, Internet relay chat.

NiNi

IRC was my job back in the day.

Twig

Yes!

NiNi

I was talking about other things—not BL, but I was there.

Ben

Twig has sketchy as shit DVDs that were handed to her by a fan that have not great rip but really solid subs.

Twig

Bought in a mall parking lot with Mandarin subtitles that we used to watch with my friends who spoke Mandarin so they could translate for us in real time. It was hard. We used to walk uphill both ways back in the day.

Ben

A lot of folks who have been in this for a long time—we joked that we watched everything because we had to. You have done a better job of keeping track of what you've watched.

Twig

I wish I'd done better. I only really started tracking things in 2020. I did try to backfill the years before that, but I only really captured all of the major series. There was so many shorts, and things like that, I just couldn't do. But my spreadsheet has about 600 things on it, 606 as of today.

Ben

Incredible.

NiNi

I have been watching media overall—like seriously watching media—for…30 years…and I have not watched 606 of anything.

Ben

Nah, I believe her. It adds up. I engage with close to 100 BLs every year for the last 2-3 years.

NiNi

Clearly I'm not in these streets with y'all.

[Twig laughs]

Ben

I'm so glad Twig has showed up because it has given me permission to not watch so much.

NiNi

I bow down to you guys, because there was a point in time where, trying to keep up with week-to-week, I was watching something like eight shows at a time and I literally felt like my head was on fire. So, I don't know how you guys do it.

Ben

Practice. [laughs]

NiNi

We talked about this on the show, how last year I watched 50 things, maybe, for the whole year, and I felt like I was losing my mind. I usually watch like 15.

Ben

50 is good. Like, that's a really healthy number.

Twig

That is. That's pretty solid.

NiNi

As in five-zero? 

Ben

Yeah, no, that's great!

NiNi

A year?! 

Ben

Yeah! And we made a whole fucking show out of it! It’s good!

NiNi

Deep breaths. Okay, let's continue. Let's go on. [laughs]

00:06:25 - Ossan’s Love History and Summary

NiNi

Let's get into Ossan's Love. Ben, do the honors, tell us what is Ossan's Love about?

Ben

Actually, I want to do this one a little bit differently. 

NiNi, you have not engaged with Ossan's Love. The most you have is the fandom vibe on it from the periphery. What is your impression of Ossan's Love prior to all of us posting a lot about the new show?

NiNi

When you say periphery, I think you're being incredibly generous. There was one where they’re flight attendants maybe, or something to do with an airline. I am aware of that. And then there was something with a boss. There was a thing about a shower. There's some dirty jokes that go over my head because they're referential to this show. But in terms of my awareness of Ossan’s Love, it's honestly not much. 

Did I get any of those things correct by the way?

Twig

You totally did.

Ben

You did. I almost shouted “Dispatch” when you mentioned the airport. [Twig and Ben laugh] 

All right. So, I will give what I knew of Ossan's Love prior to earnestly engaging with it: Ossan's Love is a workplace-set drama in which a guy who works in an office is being pursued by a colleague of the same age as him and his boss—who is like 20-plus-odd years older than him. At the time when I didn't watch it, the fandom vibe on it was that it was fairly offensive, particularly around the old guy character. And, when it was hard to find this show, I was like, “Whatever, I'm not going to work that hard for a show that people seem really put off by.” I have had to make sure that I check if I am riding an old fandom opinion from prior to 2019 when it comes to older work, because those opinions are usually not informed by the lens that I use. And so I decided to engage with Ossan's Love properly. 

Before we start describing what the show is specifically, Twig, what do you remember about your experience watching the show in real time and the popular opinions about it?

Twig

So, the first thing is real time had really different meanings back then because we didn't have international distribution. It was sort of when things were fan subbed and when you could find them and knew they existed. So, I actually didn't get to watch the short until years after the original. So my first outing with Ossan’s Love was season one. 

At the time, it felt like if you liked it, you should be quiet about it, because the opinion was so negative that you would be shouted down if you said anything positive about it. So I just sort of stayed in my corner of enjoyment and tried not to think too hard about it.

Ben

That is unfortunately how I remember it being. It was not popular to say positive things about Ossan’s Love at the time. Even the fans of Ossan's Love seemed super ambivalent about the second season, which was an alternative universe.

Twig

Yeah. When Season 2 aired it was an even wider swing. The people who really loved Season 1 seemed to hate Season 2. I actually like Season 2 better than Season 1, so I was even more like, [laughs] “Okay, I guess I don't know what I'm talking about, guys, so I'm just gonna stay over here and let you all have your opinions over there.”

Ben

So our quick timeline: we have Ossan’s Love the TV special in 2016. We have Ossan’s Love the TV show airing during spring of 2018. They released the movie Ossan’s Love: Love or Dead —that went into theaters on August 23rd of 2019—and then a few months later, in November, they released Ossan’s Love: In The Sky. It's my understanding that Ossan’s Love Returns was originally supposed to air in, like, 2020-2021. They've returned to that project this year in 2024.

NiNi

I know they're going to be doing a Thai version of this coming up and they also have the Hong Kong version?

Twig

That's right. Yep. There was a Hong Kong version in I think 2021 or 2022.

NiNi

I love when they take a property and they remake it across cultures over and over again. I'm always intrigued to see how they turn out.

Ben

Have you watched the Hong Kong version, Twig?

Twig

I peeked at it. It's really true to season one in a lot of ways. I haven't actually watched it all the way through because I was like, “If I want to rewatch season one, I'll just rewatch season one.”

Ben

I feel like I have to watch it at some point. 

All right, so let's get into Ossan’s Love properly now: Ossan’s Love is about a 33 year old man named Haruta who is a slob. He is a hot mess of a man. He cannot take care of himself. He lives with his mom, and she does all the housework. She decides to bail on him and go run off with the hot new man she's with. And so he asks his colleague, whose name is Maki, to move in with him to help him out because Maki is very good at house chores. 

He learns accidentally that his boss, whose name is Kurasawa Musashi, has had a crush on him for a long time and also simultaneously learns that Maki has been crushing on him for a long time. Hijinks ensue as the two of them begin aggressively pursuing him, and he is not prepared for this sudden surge in gay activities.

Twig

One thing I add to your description, Ben, is it's a comedy.

Ben

So this is where things get a little bit complicated. Comedy is hard to do correctly, because a big part of comedy is playing with people's preconceptions of how an interaction should go. A lot of folks struggle with Japanese comedy because they're just not aware of the expectations for how an interaction should go, and so the humor is not landing on them, and this can happen even in your own culture. Like, if you showed a teenager today Airplane, many of the jokes in that movie would make no sense to them because they're missing some of the cultural context. Some of that exists with peoples engagement with Ossan's Love, I think.

Twig

I think that's right.

00:13:42 - The Characters 

Ben

The big part about Ossan's Love that impresses me is how the show gets better each time they come back. There are things that are kind of yikes in the short that are tweaked out in the first show. There are things that they retooled Haruta and Kurosawa over in the airport season. And then, in the most recent season, Ossan's Love Returns, they've shifted where the focus of their storytelling is after everything that's going on. So we are seeing the same characters, but they're dealing with much different dynamics. 

So, Ossan's Love Returns was a completely acceptable point for a lot of people to jump on, and I almost just jumped on. But, I like to know how we got here. So I was like, “I must watch all of this first!” [laughs]

NiNi

I was about to say on what point were you ever gonna just jump on without going back into the before times? You, sir, are a historian and a completionist.

Ben

Of course. And so I went back and watched. 

Twig, since you didn't have a lot of people to talk about Ossan's Love with at the time, how about you talk about your impressions of Haruta, Maki, and Kurosawa when you first engaged with it?

Twig

The thing that stuck with me is that, even in 2018, it felt a little more queer than a lot of the other stuff I was watching alongside it at the time. Haruta and Maki, and all of the characters, play into that in different ways. Haruta is an extremely frustrating character. I just wanted to reach through the screen and strangle him through most of season one, and I think that's partially intentional. 

Haruta is set up as the literal straight man. He's there to be what your average straight guy reaction might be when confronted with gayness, and everyone around him literally slaps him and tells him he's being an idiot. Delightful, but it doesn't make the character himself very likable at first. The fact that he grows on you anyway, even while he's being so frustrating, speaks to the other strengths in his character: his kindness, and the way he values his coworkers. And I think the later seasons did a really good job of picking up the things that made Haruta such a great character, and enforcing that in the character writing itself to make him more likable overall. 

I loved Kurosawa from jump. I think he's [laughs] incredible. He lives life on 11, and I think watching an older man step through some of the more standard romance tropes very clumsily but earnestly is incredibly charming. 

Maki is the competent character. He's also a self-actualized gay man. He at no point questions his sexuality at all, has no crisis about it. He knows who he is and what he's attracted to. And that was also really refreshing for BL at the time.

NiNi

Describing the kind of character that Kurosawa is made me think of Ben describing characters like Shin from Minato's Laundromat. When you tend to see these younger characters who are full on gung-ho chasing after the ones that they like, people like that. But they don't like the boss because they don't think their character should be doing that.

Twig

When I was first telling Ben about my opinions about the show, I said one of the things I struggle with is whether Kurosawa is telling the joke or is the joke. I think the more I have watched and rewatched, especially in later seasons, they do a really good job of him being a funny character and we're not laughing at him. He's not the butt of the joke, he's just funny. The people who would be turned off by an old guy hitting on a younger guy no matter what were turned off by that character and the ones who were sympathetic to older men also having romance in their lives were turned off by the idea that it was a comedy.

Ben

The comedy in the way Kurosawa pursues Haruta is about the age gap, not the fact that he's an old man. It's that he's at a different stage of his life. He's not fumbling to figure out stuff, he knows what he wants and his time is limited, so he's pursuing it determinately and also because he's older, he's behaving in line with his generation.

Like, if you don't have friends who are more than 10 years older than you, sometimes you're going to get weirded out by their cultural stuff. Like right now, I'm reaching the age gap with some of the kids I tutor, and I had to deal with all the various iterations on rizz and I don’t like it. 

[Twig and NiNi laugh]

I had an 8 year old call himself The Rizzler the other day and I almost pushed him down.

Twig 

Oh no.

NiNi

Oh my God.

Ben

I understand the concern around Kurosawa. But that is not what I think the show is doing, and even if it accidentally does it, that is not the show’s intent. Haruta is dealing with the sudden shift in his relationships with men who are important to him. Maki was just like his friend and colleague, who he was low-key mooching off of to do housework for him, and he has to deal with the fact that the only reason Maki is willing to put up with him is because Maki likes him. With Kurosawa, a big part of their relationship is the fact that he respects and admires him so much. The relationship between them is very paternal in a lot of ways?

Twig

A mentorship.

Ben

Yeah, he sees Kurosawa as a respected mentor and Kurosawa respects Haruta as well as a valued member of his team. A big part of the show is them sorting out the way that affection complicates some of these relationships, and we as the audience have to struggle with why these men like this man. Haruta is fucking useless in the household. He may be good at his job, but he is horrible at house related stuff. And so the question is why would anyone want him? 

And this is not rhetorical for the show. They really want you to grapple with this. The fact that Haruta is kind of repulsive as a romantic interest is something the show wants you to think about. You have to work to understand why so many people are into Haruta, and I think this gets better overtime.

Twig

They do a really good job with all of the women characters in this show, which was super rare for the time and still worth saying. His best friend Chizu also is terrible at housework, but she's a woman, and so she's struggling with the expectation that she get married and she keeps talking about how she needs to find somebody who does for her what Haruta’s men are willing to do for him. I just love putting those two characters side by side. And the silent question that's asked of the audience. That's like, why is this okay for Haruta, but not for Chizu.

Ben

It's not really subtle. As the show goes on, Maki won't really commit to Haruta because Haruta is ostensibly straight. Maki is hesitant about full committing because it's hard to be gay, like you got a lot to face as a gay person and he doesn't know that Haruta is going to stand up to all that. He's kind of a waffly type of dude. He's kind of a people pleaser who won't really stand up to anyone. This is kind of good for him as a salesperson. It's obvious why all their clients like Haruta. But it makes him kind of unreliable as a partner because you're not certain he's going to hold ground with you when the world is telling you that you shouldn't be together. 

The first season ends on a really cool note, ‘cause Maki and Haruta break up and Haruta just falls apart. And Kurosawa moves in with him for a while to help take care of him. For Kurosawa, it's a romantic thing, but it very much feels like someone’s parent going to take care of their kid. Haruta recognized where he failed with Maki, and he starts trying to help out with house stuff a little bit. But it's not like he suddenly becomes like a great housekeeper. I really liked that choice, that he starts putting in an effort but he's still horrible at it. 

Kurosawa ends up proposing to Haruta. Haruta has a hard time saying no to people, so he accepts. Also, he used a flash mob. It's hard to say no when someone flash mobs you.

NiNi

Pause. Pause for cause.

Twig

Michael Jackson-themed flash mob.

NiNi

Okay, not pausing. Unpausing. Go ahead.

Ben

Kurosawa is always at 11. He is an incredible character and like he and Haruta are going to get married and at the altar, Kurosawa is like. You need to go to him. You don't actually want to be here. And so Haruta runs to Maki and proposes to him at the end of the first season. 

And then there's just an incredible supporting cast in the show. I don't think we have time to talk about all of them properly, but. Haruta’s friend Chizu’s older brother Teppei runs a little bar diner that they often hang out at. He's so funny, always giving them weird gross food combinations to try out. They’re’s Maro, who's a member of their team who did not know Haruta’s given name for the years they worked together, there's Maika, who's kind of a nosy busybody at their work. She's a great source of comedy, ends up with Teppei. There's Takegawa, who's the second at their office in the first season, who is revealed to be Maki’s ex later. And he is intense as hell and becomes a complicating factor in the budding relationship between Haruta and Maki because he challenges Haruta. He's like, why is he putting this much effort into you? You suck! I really love the Takegawa character because he is a hot mess.

Twig

He just is so pained at Maki falling for a straight man. Something that is deeply relatable for anybody in queer spaces. [NiNi laughs] Like we have all been that person. Like, what are you doing to yourself?

Ben

I want to nod to Choko real quick. In the first season, Kurosawa has a wife of 30 years. Her name is Choko. Once his feelings for Haruta become known to Haruta, he decides he's going to pursue them and he tells this to his wife and they get divorced. She is understandably upset about this whole situation. But what's so great about it is, the show allows her to have a journey of figuring out what her life is going to be now that this information is out there. Like, she was hurt and upset at first, but then decides to support Kurosawa because this is her partner of 30 years and she understands him, so she ends up eventually supporting what he's trying to do with Haruta. And she ends up developing her own relationship with Maro. 

It's really cool in this show where there's this whole complicated thing about whether or not these three gay men are going to sort themselves out into various relationship configurations, they're also doing a pretty steep successful age gap romance between like a 30-something year old man and a woman approaching 60.

Twig

I love Choko's arc so much. It's the one thing that stayed with me the most. She is also allowed to be funny. She's silly and immature in the same ways that the male characters are. She's not perfect either. And I think that is super important that she's a complicated character. 

I think it's really important that this show talks about the ways in which homophobia and being in the closet hurts everyone, not just gay people. I think this show does a good job of at least alluding to the fact that the hurt that's caused by people having to live lies makes waves in communities.

NiNi

I like when they put that on older characters, as well. There's so much to unpack when you're talking about a life lived in the closet, emerging from a life lived in the closet later on in life. What you're gonna do with that life and how you're gonna treat it. From what you guys are saying about Kurosawa, it’s like he just decided to take life by the balls once he came out of the closet, and that's always something that I enjoy seeing.

Ben 

I guess, well, on some of the negatives. The humor is choppy in the first season. You do have to recalibrate as you're watching. It is very funny, but in ways that are unexpected. You will end up feeling a sense of revulsion in the show, particularly to season one Haruta. When I started going back to it, I had a difficult time with the first episode because I'm asking myself why would anyone want to fuck this man? [NiNi and Twig laugh] That is a real and valid reaction that you have to work with as you're watching the show. And so parts of it are a little bit difficult to watch in that regard. 

And Kurosawa is a huge character. You have to take time to get to know him and understand him and understand where his behaviors are coming from. And if you're not willing to do that work, the show is super off putting. 

Twig 

It is loud. You do have to allow your comedy ear to calibrate to its shouting. 

Ben 

However, I will say that if you want to see romance in BL about older characters, Ossan’s Love is right there. The entire drama is about 30-somethings and much older dealing with life and love. There is no wistful stuff about “things were easier when we were kids” in this show at all. It is very much grounded in the perspective and dramas that people in their 30s and 40s and 50s are dealing with in life and romance. 

Twig 

I feel like the one other thing that I always feel the need to call out about the first season is Haruta, because of what his character is struggling with, is physically uncomfortable with displays of affection, and particularly with kissing, in the first season. And that can be off putting too, but he makes it clear verbally that he's not actually against physical affection, he's just familiar with it? It is one of the things that the show does better later on.

00:28:23 - Love or Dead and In The Sky

Ben 

Let's talk about the movie! Ossan’s Love: Love or Dead. 

Twig 

[laughs] Every time I think about that title, it makes me laugh, ‘cause it's just so extra. 

NiNi 

I'm sorry, Love or Dead? 

Ben

Mhmm.

Twig 

Oh yeah. 

Ben 

The premise of this movie is at the end of season one, Haruta got an opportunity to go work in Shanghai for about six months, and the guys are going to be facing a separation for a bit. There's drama when Maki goes to pick up Haruta ‘cause he's found in a compromising position, and a big part of this is Maki still dealing with his anxiety around whether or not Haruta can be a partner to him. Maki gets selected to be part of this high-powered real estate team, and there's a bunch of drama that unfolds involving a partnership with a drug peddling organization and then we end on like an action note where they have to rescue Haruta from a burning building. 

Twig 

There are explosions. 

Ben 

Lots of explosions. 

NiNi 

This sounds… delightful. This sounds like exactly my kind of crack. 

Ben 

You should watch it sincerely. 

Twig 

It is delightful. 

Ben 

If you're not certain about Ossan’s Love, legit, watching Ossan’s Love: Love or Dead is not a terrible place to start. It's a two-hour outing that covers the basic ground of the franchise, has some really strong moments, and is super cracked out. 

What's so fun in it is, we talk about the retooling of the characters. In season one, Maki and Kurosawa beef a lot over Haruta and legit get into physical brawls over it. This is a feature of the entire franchise. These men scrap on the regular. There's this great moment when they're trying to rescue Haruta from this building where Kurosawa's role as their mentor comes through and he reads Maki about how he's always holding back in the relationship. That's what I think works for me the most in this franchise, the collective love that everyone has for each other. It's true that Kurosawa is not going to succeed as a romantic rival to Maki in this story, but that doesn't mean that he's not important to everyone and everything going on. And I really, truly love that. 

Twig 

His mentorship relationship with Maki really starts to flourish in the movie, the moment where Maki’s hanging off of a ledge and Kurosawa is helping him physically back onto the ledge so he doesn’t fall into the flames, but also verbally telling him what he needs to do to save his relationship. This movie is not subtle with its metaphors. But it's such a good moment where we realize that Kurosawa plays that role for Maki, too, of a mentor, and that he's willing to do it for the relationship, even at the same time as being a love rival. And it sets up the new season really well. 

Ben 

The movie matters to the timeline of the series. The movie is not just some sort of one off moment that occurs. The events of the movie are built into the characters, and it was the beginning of them retooling how these characters function. 

NiNi 

This sounds like a very experimental type of series, just the way that they do different things each time. While they are refining their central characters and the central storylines, they're also experimenting with style and tone, and a number of other things it feels like? 

Twig 

I think that's really true. One of the things about the movie that's really fun is it's the first instance of sports in the series. We get Justice playing basketball with Haruta and working his feelings out through basketball. 

Ben 

JUSTICE!!! [Twig and Ben laugh]

Twig 

Love and peace! And that becomes a huge part of the AU and also part of Ossan’s Love Returns that I think really adds to the experience. They try things out and then if it works, they pick it up and add and yes, and it, and then they pull out the things that didn't really work. I find that really interesting to watch happen. 

NiNi 

The concept of something being iterative like that in real time, it's not for everybody. 

Ben 

This series went on to do something super experimental where a couple of months after they released a continuation movie promising that these characters would get back together, they released an alternative universe season where only Haruta and Kurosawa were present from the original cast, and now we're at an airport dealing with a completely different set of characters and a slightly different dynamic. 

It also gave Twig and I our favorite bit. 

Twig

[laughs] Dispatch! 👍

Ben

Dispatch! 👍 Oh my God. It is so funny, every single time. 

NiNi 

Every time. 

Ben 

Every episode has at least two dispatch moments. [Twig laughs] It's so fucking funny. 

Twig 

Sometimes it's to end a conversation. Sometimes it's to greet somebody, sometimes it's to shut down a conversation, distract from someone saying something you don’t want them to say. 

Ben 

So in this particular season, Kurosawa is still a leader. He is the captain of a flight crew. Haruta is a new flight attendant who is joining this team. In this case, Kurosawa is not Haruta’s long-term mentor who has been harboring a crush on him. He develops his crush in real time. Haruta moves into company housing and there's a slightly older guy there who's got a crush on Haruta, but he won't say anything about it. And then there's the meanest twink who's ever existed in BL. 

NiNi 

I mean y'all just seem to be giving me multiple reasons to watch this show at this point, so. 

Ben 

So in the second season, there's far more complicated people in the Haruta stuff. There's Kaname who is the older mechanic who lives in the dorms, and he's got this huge crush on Haruta, but he'll never say anything about it. Naruse is causing fucking problems all the time, because every time he has relationship drama and people show up at their airport to fuck with him about it, he just starts kissing Haruta to make people go away. And then people throw drinks in Haruta’s face over it. Because Tanaka Kei is a master of physical comedy. 

Twig 

One of the staples of the series is what I call the Haruta reaction supercut, where they just have multiple cuts of Haruta’s face as it morphs into more and more absurd huh, no, whaaa faces. He does bend his body in ways that's like a cartoon falling over, it's pretty incredible. 

NiNi 

Ben knows that I love physical comedy. 

Twig 

Yoshida Kotaro has incredible physical comedy, too. 

Ben 

Like if you ever want to see an old man try and kill an aging twink [Twig laughs], this is the show for you. 

I get why people who liked the first show bounced off of this, because the rest of the cast is gone. The supporting cast is a really strong part of the Ossan’s Love experience, but I really like the AU season because I think it allowed them to retool Haruta and Kurosawa. And retool the relationship between them to make it more about their mentorship. They're building that relationship in the AU season ‘cause they don't know each other. 

Twig 

The thing that I really like about the AU setup is because Haruta is coming into a new environment, we get to see him build his network of people around him over the course of the season. Showing us what's likable about Haruta because he has to charm all these people around him in order to get friends and build a community, is a really important piece of the puzzle that allowed me to get to like that character a lot more, because he was charming me at the same time. 

Ben 

We get a lot of great moments in the season. Kurosawa has been a pilot for 30 years and he decides to retire and everyone is sad about it. I'm sad about it, Twig is crying about it. 

Twig 

Mmhm. 

Ben 

He ends up inviting the three guys who we've mentioned out to hang out in the park with him. He has this sumo tournament with them where he's basically giving them the last bit of advice he's going to give them and it is, one of the most intensely emotional man moments I have had in this genre. I was losing it and I was crying. I was hollering and screaming, messaging Twig like, “Wake up, I need to talk about this right now, I don't care what you're doing. Get up.” 

Truly, it is one of the best moments in TV about the relationships between men that I have ever experienced, and it is this hyper ridiculous sumo wrestling moment in a gay romance drama in the AU season that is technically not canon, and it was the moment from the series that lingers with me the most. 

Twig 

Even in the moment they're looking at each other like, is this happening? How is this happening? This isn't real. Nobody does this. Nobody calls each other to the side of the river with a note [laughs] to hold a wrestling competition in which we talk about our feelings. 

Ben 

But it works really well. I ended up really loving the way it allowed us to think about these two men and the relationship between them. We get to appreciate how important Kurosawa is to Haruta. 

Twig 

That sumo wrestling moment allows us to see Kurosawa's relationships with all of his subordinates. The way he's so firm and so gentle with Naruse, with like “soft landing,” meanwhile, throws Haruta out of the ring. 

Ben 

The way he talks to all of these men as specific to them, like his role as leader is strongest in the AU season. My primary concern for the Thai adaptation is who is playing Kurosawa, because this character is as important as the romantic leads. 

Twig 

I think it's more important. 

Ben 

I am with Twig. Who is going to match Yoshida Kotaro in Thailand? I need to know. 

Twig 

I'm eagerly awaiting that announcement. 

NiNi 

The answer is going to be Nu Surasak or Kob Songsit.

Ben 

I really hope it's good. 

00:39:00 - Ossan’s Love Returns

Ben

Ossan's Love Returns reunites the original cast after five years. Maki is returning from an extended stint in Singapore, and now he and Haruta are gonna start their cohabitating married life together. Maki is now part of the super team at headquarters, following up on the movie. Haruta is still on the streets with regular folk, ‘cause that's where he wants to be. Kurosawa has retired, I liked that follow up from the AU season. And now he's working as a housekeeper. Maki is working too much and Haruta is still bad at house, and so they hire a housekeeper, who ends up being Kurosawa [Twig laughs] who cannot hold back his feelings for Haruta and it becomes one of the ongoing dramas of the season. 

One of the things I enjoyed in this season is… they explore how to integrate Kurosawa into their lives long term. Haruta is serious about Maki and committed to their romance. Kurosawa is also extremely important to him and he treats him like a father figure. They explicitly have Choko talk to Kurosawa about how a lot of the ways he feels [laugh] about Maki are a lot of the ways a mother-in-law might feel about their daughter-in-law with the way they beef with each other. And when we say they beef with each other, I mean, these two men are legit fighting in their kitchen, like Kurosawa hits Maki in the head repeatedly with a frying pan. Maki legit throws Kurosawa through a door at one point and knocks it off the hinges. These two men, when they scrap with each other, are fighting for real and I love it every time.

NiNi

It's just like you all conspired to come into this recording booth today and just be like, okay, so you say this and I'll say that and between us we're gonna get her to watch this, because she likes this kind of stuff.

Ben

I didn't really have to work that hard. We're just legit talking about what the show was doing. We get a really great season of Maki and Haruta settling into what their life is going to look like. There's some introduced new characters in the season that we all had very complicated feelings about who I think end up fitting fine by the end. Most of the original cast comes back and there's like a really great bit of exploring what all these characters settling into their relationships that they got into in the first season in this one. 

So Haruta and Maki are now living together and figuring out what that is going to look like, who are they gonna be as a couple now that they're not doing long distance ‘cause they've basically been long distance between every outing. Which I think was a clever choice because it means that the characters’ relationship dynamic doesn't really move that much between outings. 

Choko is now living with Maro and Maro’s mom, and Choko is struggling because she's older than Maro's mom. She can't just treat this woman like her mother-in-law. And Maro doesn't know how to help because he's caught between his wife, who's way older than him, and his mom, who's confused and a little bit uncertain about this whole dynamic.

Twig

I also love that that's not the only thing we see Choko having worked through in the time we've been apart from her. She opened an archery range after her divorce, and sort of reinvented herself with this new life that she's actually thriving in.

Ben

They get new neighbors who are a bunch of weirdos.

Twig

[laughs] They're so weird. They're so weird.

Ben

These two are revealed to be members of, like, a public security division that maybe doesn't actually exist. Izumi ends up becoming obsessed with Haruta because he's a doppelganger for his dead lover who was killed in the line of duty, who is very, very different from Haruta. It was fun to see Tanaka Kei play a very different type of character in those flashbacks. I don't know that it entirely landed for me over the course of the season, but by the finale, which was fantastic, I was okay with them.

Twig

A large part of the way they were written is that they were a mystery for a large part of it, too. It's hard to bond with a character that you know nothing about and is intentionally opaque.

Ben

Chizu is trying to make it as a single mom and this reinforces one of the big themes of the season, that family is all the people who are going to show up for you all the time. She relies on Teppei and Maika to help, and she feels guilty about this and they tell her straight up, like, don't feel guilty. We are a family. You should rely on us. 

She had already made Haruta and Maki designated adults who can pick up her kid from the daycare. An important gay right of passage is your friend calling you and telling you I need you to go pick up my kid, and then you show up at said kindergarten to pick up a kid and they look at your ID and they go “oh you're allowed” and the kid runs to you and everybody goes, well, that makes sense. An important gay moment that everyone must experience.

Twig

One of the things that I love about this so much is that it picks up from a throw away line that Chizu says in the movie. She sort of brags that she's going to balance having a kid and her career. One of the things about the series is that it really feels like the people who are writing it love the whole series and are constantly thinking about how to call back in loving ways and how to pick up threads in loving ways. Something that she just sort of confidently stated she was going to do no problem in the movie becomes a whole plot in the following season.

Ben

There's a final arc in the season where Kurosawa has a health scare where we think he's going to die.

Twig

When we were talking about it, Ben, you said that it was an important moment for Maki and Haruta to confront the idea that Kurosawa won't always be around. And I was like, oh, that's why I don't like this part because I don't want to ever think about that. [Twig and Ben laugh]

Ben

The entire finale is this really great examination about the way this whole group of people are a family to each other.

Twig

It's not even just that it's happening, but they're explicit about it. They're having conversations about what is family? What are we to each other? How do we define our relationship? Where do those lines get drawn? And the answer is just sort of, yes.

Ben

There's an explicit line, like, what is Kurosawa to them? And then Maika comes over and hammers it home for the audience and is like, “There's no need to describe it. What matters is you all are going to be part of each other's lives forever.”

00:45:33 - Final Thoughts and Ratings

Ben

I don't think we talked about it as much. So, the first season is pretty light on kissing and intimacy between the male characters. Ossan's Love Returns is not! There's so much married intimacy between Haruta and Maki.

Twig

The casual intimacy in Ossan's Love Returns is constant, and it just feels very lived in? They're just constantly touching each other and having small kisses and teasing each other.

Ben

We got more of that today in the unexpected special spin-offs we're getting. I was like “ohh, I thought we were done. Oh, it's another cute little 20-minute office episode ending on the two of them making out next to the copier.” Love it.

NiNi

This is called Forbidden Gout Temps Nouveau. 

Twig

Mhmm.

NiNi

I have so many questions, but I feel like I should not ask those questions right now.

Ben

My general attitude is you don't need to watch all of Ossan's Love to enjoy parts of Ossan's Love. I think if you are interested in gay domesticity and complex family units, you can just watch Ossan's Love Returns right away.

NiNi

I'm watching it all. Eventually. I don't know when. There's a lot going on in the IRL space right now, but I'm gonna be watching the whole thing.

Twig

I feel like I should say something about the original short. It has a lot of the things that people found the hardest to swallow about season one. A lot of the stuff that they did originally they fixed or did better as they moved through. I would say the short is the thing to skip, of all of it, unless you're really curious about the journey of this franchise.

NiNi

I'm really fascinated by the idea of this as a reserve process of working through and refining the show in kind of a real time. I would like to see the whole thing just for that purpose. I'm a writer, so the way that this feels like multiple drafts, and you getting to actually see the multiple drafts to see why they might have decided to make a particular change in the next draft, or why they would have gone for an overhaul, or what would they have tweaked around the edges. I like the idea of looking at that.

Twig

It is not just the writing that they iterate. We haven't talked a lot about the visual effects that this show uses, but it has its own style. One of my favorites: it uses the bokeh effect, where the lighting in the background is blurred and sometimes takes shapes. It starts from the very beginning. You'll see the lights behind Kurosawa make little hearts while he's confessing to Haruta and Haruta’s has little like stop signs. [Ben laughs] And then they get bigger and bigger with that where Kurosawa’s hearts have little like heartbreak. They have– there’s little, like, zigzags in the hearts behind him when he gets rejected. Sometimes he'll be crying tear lights. That’s just one of the things that they play with in the different versions.

Ben

Naruse having that whole tantrum trying to get someone's attention for help? Then having that super cut of them screaming and then smash cutting to them just sitting at the table. There's like the courtroom audio stinger that dominates the first season that I fucking love [mimics the sound] thing that happens over the course of the whole season. It's so, so dramatic, and I'm like, “Is Judge Mathis gonna walk out? What is happening?”

Twig

Oh, and they do this thing where they hard cut to a visual metaphor like water leaking out of a water bottle or a pot boiling to represent the character’s emotions. There's so many visual moments. It's not just written well and acted well. It's also represented visually really well, and seeing how they experiment with that and how that changes. Like, the weird bobble heads we got in the AU season. I'm still not over those. I'm glad those didn't return.

Ben

It is not a perfect show. This is not a “Everybody was wrong. They should have watched all of this. Grab your pitchfork!” situation. This is not an easy show to love. If you can find your way to loving the show, I think it has been one of the most rewarding watches I've had in the genre since What Did You Eat Yesterday? 

Japanese BL is different from Thai BL. More experimental and weirder things are gonna happen over time if the series has a lot of leg in it, and Ossan's Love is one of those that has so much leg in it. Like the second season just ended, and I'd be okay if we don't see them again, but, I really hope we do.

Twig

Me too.

NiNi

All right, so let's get into ratings. I mean, is this the kind of thing that you rate? Instead of rating, let's rank. If you had to rank the different parts of the Ossan's Love franchise, how would you rank them? In terms of, for you, most enjoyable to probably the least enjoyable?

Ben

Well, the least enjoyable is the original special. It's the most rough and the hardest to swallow. I think the best season is the current one?

Twig

Yeah. I mean, for me, it's basically chronological order, I think. I struggle between the film and the AU ‘cause I like them for different reasons, and I struggled with them for different reasons. But I think Naruse tips it over there so that it stays ahead.

Ben

[Ben and Twig laugh] I love that mean twink!

Twig

He's just so great.

Ben

I don't know that I'd want to…rank them that way. I think each outing adds something to it. It's really a question of, do you like seeing people try to get together for the first time, or do you really like seeing people be together? For me, I'm very partial to Ossan's Love Returns because it's about gay life drama, which is what I’ve wanted for a while. And so I'm really fucking enjoying that.

Twig

Yeah, I love it when people have to figure out, “Now that we're in this relationship, how do we make this work?”

Ben

But I also love the AU season. I think the retooling of Haruta and Kurosawa is actually really helpful. I think taking a break from Maki is actually helpful for appreciating Haruta when you come back to them. I think you end up liking Haruta more by the time you get to Ossan's Love Returns and seeing the potential in him. The love people are trying to pour on to him in the current season is more accessible to me as a viewer because I got to spend time with Haruta growing to love him in the AU season.

Twig

I also just have affection for an entire season that seems to have basically been built off of like a throwaway reference to episode one, when Haruta says he's most attracted to stewardesses. And then, and also, like, maybe a pun because Kurosawa’s character is called bucho which means, like, manager essentially through all of the regular Ossan's Love stories. But in the AU he's kucho because he's a captain. And I think that's very funny.

Ben

In terms of my ratings, I'm looking at on MDL, I gave Ossan's Love and Ossan's Love Returns a 9. But I gave the AU season a 9.5. [Ben and Twig laugh] So, there's your answer.

Twig

There you go.

Ben

Twig, what did you rate the second season? I know ratings aren't always your thing, but did you give the second season a rating?

Twig

I didn't. If I was going to give it a rating. Ossan's Love Returns? Yeah, I’d give it a 9.

Ben

It's a 9 for me in that I think if you're into BL, you should watch the show, but I don't know that it is the most accessible show, so I don't want to give it a 10.

Twig

I think the thing about this show, too, is it's about multiple relationships. It's not just about Maki and Haruta, and I wouldn't even say their relationship dominates the story. So, to rank it against other BL as a romance narrative is quite difficult. It's about family and what that means in a queer context. Part of that is romance, but it's not even the biggest part? The family feels is what gets me about this series.

Ben

That's going to do it for Ossan's Love. We have succeeded at our mission. NiNi has agreed to watch the show. Twig and I got to unpack the entirety of this whole franchise. We have the benefit of knowing it gets better over time now, and so I don't begrudge people bouncing when they did in 2018. I think that in 2024, it is beneficial for people who care about the history of the genre to go back and properly engage with Ossan's Love. I genuinely think it is worth reconsidering your initial opinion. They… grow. Their characters are not static. What has occurred is taken seriously and what worked and didn't work is considered as they move forward.

NiNi

That is going to wrap us up on the Ossan's Love episode. Twig, it was so great having you on, and I hope you come back.

Twig

Thank you so much for having me. It was really fun.

NiNi

With that, we out. Say bye to the people, Twig.

Twig

Dispatch!👍

Ben

Dispatch! 👍

NiNi

At some point I'm going to find out what that means, and then I will be unstoppable. Say bye to the people, Ben.

Ben

Peace.

#ossan's love returns #ossan's love #ben and nini's conversations #podcast #lgbtq #the conversation #on art #thai bl #bl series #japanese bl #spring series #spring 2024

[random-mailbox]

Random-Mailbox's Favorite Sailor Moon Fics - Week 49 - Proposals

Today’s stories are all about proposals and I think including them into this list is more spoiler-y than usual. Sorry! But they are all amazing ♥️

As always, my apologies in advance for spoiling some of these for you (Fic Titles are linked to either FFN or AO3 entries).

Walk These Old Roads With Me - @queenrisa14

To reconnect with Usagi after his Galaxia-inflicted disappearance, Mamoru whisks her away to the mountains, trying to get over the chasm that has formed between them.

Let's Try This Again…- @areptiledysfunction1107

To make up for his Galaxia-induced botched proposal at the airport, Mamoru decides to rectify things by taking Usagi to check out the Perseid meteor shower and tell her his wish. This one is a lemon.

King of Earth, Fool of Love (and Fashion) - @midnightdrops

Mamoru finally worked up the courage and made a plan to propose to Usagi. That is until the rest of the senshi got involved “to help”

(Im)perfect Proposal - @kaleidodreams

Helios tries his best to propose to Lady Serenity, with everything going absolutely sideways.

Belonging - @tinacentury

This story is set in Sailor Stars if Mamoru DID make it to Harvard but Usagi still didn't realize that the ring he gave her was an engagement one. My favorite part was seeing Mamoru react to one of the best episodes of the season "A Night Alone Together: Usagi in Danger" unfold outside-looking-in. 

The Reveal: Chapter 11: Theme: Secrecy - @kasienda

Mamoru is trying his best to propose to Usagi, except that Sailor Moon and her paranormal activities keep getting in the way. This story is definitely miscommunication done right!

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Next week we will cover the trop of "Locked In" - be it closets, islands or other tight spaces.

Here are the links to the previous Tumblr posts in these series to explore more amazing works based on different themes - make sure to check them out if you haven't had a chance! (Click on title name to go to the post) - I will keep updating the list every week as new posts come up:

Week 1 - Groundhog Day

Week 2 - Established Relationships

Week 3 - Sex Positivity

Week 4 - Unfinished Stories

Week 5 - Darker Stories

Week 6 - Potions 🧪

Week 7 - Reveals

Week 8 - 👻Halloween🎃

Week 9 - Wrong Perceptions

Week 10 - Non-Senshi AU

Week 11 - In-Progress Fics

Week 12 - Mutual Pining

Week 13 - Enemies to Lovers

Week 14 - Slow Burn

Week 15 - Christmas Part 1 - Ugly Christmas Sweaters and Santa!

Week 16 - Christmas Part 2

Week 17 - New Years

Week 18 - High School AU

Week 19 - Slice of Life

Week 20 - Coffee shop AU

Week 21 - Huddle for Warmth

Week 22 - Friends to Lovers

Week 23 - ❤️Valentines Day❤️

Week 24 - Do a Grouch a Favour Day (or Cheer Up Fics)

Week 25 - Soulmate AU

Week 26 - Amnesia Fics (and resources)

Week 27 - 🍀St Patrick's Day🍀

Week 28 - Fix it Fics

Week 29 - Prompt: Mug

Week 30 - Flowers

Week 31 - Traditions

Week 32 - Dreams

Week 33 - Friends

Week 34 - Body-Swap

Week 35 - Medical Assistance

Week 36 - Sex Pollen

Week 37 - Psychometry

Week 38 - What If

Week 39 - Missing Scenes Part I

Week 40 - Green Jacket

Week 41 - Dr Chiba

Week 42 - Birthdays

Week 43 - Fluff

Week 44 - First Kiss

Week 45 - Reviving Shitennou

Week 46 - Tutoring

Week 47 - Thunderstorms

Week 48 - Food

#sailor moon #usagi x mamoru #helios x chibi usa #fic rec #fic list #sailor moon fanfiction #proposal

[usakofashion]

Sailor Moon Episode 33 - The Last Sailor Senshi! Sailor Venus Appears

#makoto #orange #casual #fall #spring #retro #outerwear #sailor jupiter #makoto kino #sailor moon #sailor moon fashion #kino makoto #baseball jacket #baseball cap

[vespadesu]

Sailor Moon Filler VS Plot List

Hey so awhile ago I went through every episode of the original 90's anime series of Sailor Moon and put together this list for a friend who was trying to speedrun it, and I figured folks might find it useful, starting with some definitions:

"Real main plot progression": absolutely necessary. They tell the story of the season, and are the most important parts of the plot. They may also include major character introductions or deaths. "Plot progression": technically skip-able if you read a summary, but things will make more sense if you watch them. May include minor character introductions or deaths. "Character exploration": generally mostly or all filler. Watch if you enjoy casually spending time with the characters. "Filler" is filler. Has no bearing on the plot whatsoever, and can be safely skipped. It may contain some fun or interesting elements, but if you're rushing, you can skip it without confusion.

Sailor Moon Classic 1: series premiere, real main plot progression 2: filler 3: filler 4: filler 5: filler 6: filler 7: filler 8: real main plot progression 9: filler 10: real main plot progression 11: filler 12: filler 13: real main plot progression 14: plot progression 15: plot progression 16: filler 17: filler 18: filler 19: plot progression 20: filler 21: filler 22: plot progression 23: plot progression 24: real main plot progression 25: real main plot progression 26: some plot progression 27: plot progression 28: plot progression 29: plot progression 30: plot progression 31: Wild fucking filler episode with a small amount of plot progression 32: plot progression 33: real main plot progression 34: real main plot progression 35: real main plot progression 36: character exploration, some plot progression 37: filler 38: filler 39: filler 40: filler 41: plot progression 42: plot progression 43: filler 44: real main plot progression 45: real main plot progression 46: real main plot progression, season finale

Sailor Moon R 1: season premiere, real main plot progression 2: real main plot progression 3: real main plot progression 4: real main plot progression 5: real main plot progression 6: character exploration (cute) 7: character exploration (cute) 8: character exploration 9: character exploration 10: character exploration (funny) 11: filler, some character exploration (funny) 12: real main plot progression 13: real main plot progression, arc ends 14: new arc begins, real main plot progression 15: real main plot progression 16: character exploration (serious), some plot progression 17: plot progression 18: real main plot progression 19: plot progression 20: character exploration (cute) 21: weird fucking filler episode, some wild shit goes down. 100% filler, but it's worth the ride. 22: real main plot progression 23: some real main plot progression 24: plot progression 25: plot progression 26: plot progression 27: real main plot progression 28: real main plot progression 29: real main plot progression 30: plot progression 31: plot progression 32: character exploration (funny) 33: character exploration (funny) 34: character exploration (serious) 35: character exploration, some real main plot progression 36: real main plot progression 37: real main plot progression 38: real main plot progression 39: real main plot progression 40: real main plot progression 41: real main plot progression 42: real main plot progression, season finale

Sailor Moon S 1: season premiere, real main plot progression 2: real main plot progression 3: real main plot progression 4: character exploration 5: filler 6: filler 7: character exploration 8: character exploration 9: character exploration 10: filler, some character exploration 11: character exploration 12: character exploration 13: real main plot progression 14: real main plot progression 15: filler, some character exploration 16: character exploration 17: character exploration 18: character exploration 19: filler, some character exploration 20: character exploration, some real main plot progression 21: real main plot progression 22: real main plot progression 23: real main plot progression 24: plot progression 25: filler 26: plot progression 27: filler 28: plot progression 29: plot progression 30: real main plot progression 31: plot progression 32: plot progression 33: plot progression 34: real main plot progression 35: real main plot progression 36: real main plot progression 37: real main plot progression 38: real main plot progression, season finale

Sailor Moon SuperS 1: season premiere, real main plot progression 2: real main plot progression 3: real main plot progression 4: filler 5: character exploration 6: plot progression 7: filler 8: filler 9: filler 10: filler 11: filler 12: filler 13: filler 14: filler 15: filler 16: plot progression 17: filler 18: filler 19: filler 20: filler, some plot progression 21: plot progression 22: real main plot progression 23: real main plot progression 24: filler, some plot progression 25: filler, some plot progression 26: filler 27: filler, some plot progression 28: filler 29: filler 30: character exploration 31: plot progression 32: filler 33: character exploration 34: real main plot progression 35: real main plot progression 36: real main plot progression 37: real main plot progression 38: real main plot progression 39: real main plot progression, season finale

Sailor Moon StarS 1: season premiere, real main plot progression 2: real main plot progression 3: real main plot progression 4: real main plot progression 5: real main plot progression 6: real main plot progression, arc finale 7: new arc begins, real main plot progression 8: plot progression 9: filler 10: plot progression 11: plot progression 12: plot progression 13: filler 14: filler 15: real main plot progression 16: real main plot progression 17: filler 18: character exploration (cute and funny) 19: filler, some real main plot progression 20: filler 21: real main plot progression 22: real main plot progression 23: plot progression 24: real main plot progression 25: filler 26: character exploration 27: real main plot progression 28: real main plot progression 29: real main plot progression 30: real main plot progression 31: real main plot progression 32: real main plot progression 33: real main plot progression, series end

I even went ahead and did the same treatment for the 2003/2004 live action drama, which in my opinion is the best adaptation of Sailor Moon that exists:

PGSM 1: real main plot progression 2: real main plot progression 3: real main plot progression 4: character exploration 5: character exploration 6: character exploration 7: character exploration, some plot progression 8: character exploration 9: real main plot progression 10: real main plot progression 11: real main plot progression 12: real main plot progression 13: real main plot progression 14: plot progression 15: character exploration 16: character exploration 17: real main plot progression 18: real main plot progression 19: character exploration 20: real main plot progression 21: real main plot progression 22: real main plot progression 23: character exploration, some plot progression 24: real main plot progression 25: real main plot progression 26: real main plot progression 27: real main plot progression 28: real main plot progression 29: real main plot progression 30: real main plot progression 31: plot progression 32: real main plot progression 33: character exploration 34: character exploration 35: plot progression 36: real main plot progression 37: plot progression 38: real main plot progression 39: filler, some character exploration 40: character exploration 41: plot progression 42: real main plot progression 43: real main plot progression 44: plot progression 45: plot progression, character exploration 46: real main plot progression 47: real main plot progression 48: real main plot progression 49: real main plot progression, series end.

They also did two additional specials for the live action series: Special Act: filler Act ZERO: plot progression

#sailor moon #reference #live action #pgsm #filler

[kunzoi-archive]

KunZoi doujin: eve

This is a doujin by￥EN (twitter/pixiv), focusing on Kunzite and Zoisite between episodes 33 and 34.

The art is wonderful (here are some SFW sample pages they posted), and although I can't read Japanese, I had a go at using google translate to read it, and it is a super sweet (edging on bittersweet at points) and romantic "missing moment" type story.

As it says on the cover, it's R18, so definitely decidedly NSFW.

If you want to check it out, it's available on booth, but you'll need to use a proxy service to buy it. I recommend Japan Rabbit for ease of use, though there are other services that are slightly cheaper. If you have any questions about how it works, I'm happy to help as best I can!

I have a small collection of Sailor Moon doujins (mostly KunZoi), and I'll share the rest like this as well :)

#kunzoi #doujin #sailor moon #sailor moon doujin #sailor moon doujinshi #kunzite #zoisite

[fairygeek777]

Today's batch 31-35 was fun. Because I started with this

And I ended with this

Wow! I got really into episodes 33-35 oh my gosh.

First, Venus is here! She's not a decoy princess but she still uses Crescent beam 🤷‍♀️

Second, for a guy who throws roses and fights with a cane Tuxedo Mask is actually kinda badass in this anime. Which is not a word I would use to describe manga Tuxedo Mask. Mamoru still didn't know that Sailor Moon's identity was Usagi. But he was cursing the fact he couldn't protect her. After getting stabbed by Zoisite who acted as a fake Sailor Moon he was still gonna try and save her. He didn't try and treat the wound at all which is totally on him. He definitely had time. But maybe he didn't know how. Idk

ANYWAY things get really fun when Usagi follows Mamoru to the tower where he's meeting Zoisite. Because neither knows they are Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask so Mamoru is all "ill give you the crystals just let the girl go" and Usagi's all "why does Mamoru want the crystals" But the whole time she's starting to suspect that he is Tuxedo Mask. And Mamoru is being really protective of Usagi which warms my heart 🥰 Then they get lured into a long elevator ride and this is where Mamoru reveals that he has no memories. I was very happy because the panels from the manga showing his accident and him as a child were perfectly adapted. And then we get a cute moment between them 🥰

THEN Kunzite is a little douche and throws a fire ball down the elevator forcing Usagi to transform IN FRONT of Mamoru who then discovers her identity. Then the two confront Zoisite and Usagi's all like "What do you mean? Where's Tuxedo Mask?" And then Mamoru is like "Here" and then we see him pull out a rose from his jacket

WHICH IS THE PERFECT REVEAL AHHHHH Love it love it love iiiitt. Anyway Mamoru gives Zoisite the crystals and then Zoisite proceeds to try and literally stab Usagi in the back. But Mamoru jumps in to take the hit instead of her 😭😭

Then things proceed similar to act 9, Usagi's tears become the Silver Crystal, Mamoru regains his memories, Usagi transforms into Princess Serenity. They don't really show that much about the Silver Millenium at all but I'm sure I'll see more later. I did notice that they made Queen Serenity blonde. she's not in the little glimpse we got of her. As Mamoru is taken away Usagi faints after using the moon rod and silver Crystal and is out for a good while.

Usagi is way less focused on Mamoru in this instance compared to how she reacts to his death in the manga. Also Rei gets mad at Usagi for denying her identity as a princess and slaps her. She still likes Mamoru that much is clear. He was technically still her boyfriend I guess.

Anyway 35 leaves off with Usagi accepting her role as princess and Mamoru taken captive by Queen Beryl. But he's still alive so thats good!

While watching I was getting all giddy and excited because this is all new for me. I'm really enjoying this version of the story. Its slower pace gives more room for an interesting dynamic between all the characters. Some are completely changed (Rei) and some are getting development they never had (Naru) So yea this is a fun experience.

#sailor moon #90s sailor moon #pretty guardian sailor moon #usagi tsukino #mamoru chiba #tuxedo mask #minako aino #sailor venus #manga #anime

[obsessedprincess]

How Peter Met Sad Girl (Sad Girl Au)

(gif found on google)

pairing: Peter Parker x mentally ill! reader

summary: thank god May is such a saint, or else Peter would have never met Sad Girl.

wc: 464

warnings: we starting off light so nothing much just a little angst and hints at depression at the end.

a/n: okydoky the first part of Sad Girl is here. I want to first say that this is my first time posting a fic on Tumblr so please be gentle but also constructive criticism is appreciated. This is just to get the basics out the way, and to establish what little relationship Peter and the reader have. I also mention the hair type the reader has and I’m ngl most of my characters will be POCs because I am Black and like feeling seen in fics but I do want everyone to enjoy it.🧸❤️‍🩹🌃💧🌸🎧🫂please like,reblog, and send comments <33

(ง ��̀_•́)۶ *:･ﾟ✧MINORS DO NOT INTERACT [18+ ONLY]

May was one of the kindest souls on earth. Always holding the elevator open for an elderly person, giving up her seat on the crowded F train for a pregnant woman, taking in her nephew after the death of his parents, and offering to watch unruly children in the apartment complex. Well, she really only watched one unruly child, Y/N. Unruly probably wasn’t the best way to describe 12-year-old Y/N, at least not according to May. No Y/N was creative, free-spirited, and opinionated. That’s why after Y/N’s mother hightailed it out of New York, May had no problem watching Y/N when her dad had to work weekends. 

It also didn’t hurt that it helped Peter gain a friend. Peter was the exact opposite of Y/N, he was shy, cautious, but also hyper-aware In their adolescence they made quite the pair. Y/N preferring Sailor Moon to Peter’s Star Wars and Peter preferring Legos over her Monster-High dolls. Despite this, the two enjoyed each other’s company. So much so that Peter would set up the living room on weekends in anticipation of Y/N arrival. He’d ask May to pop popcorn and order pizza and set up whichever Sailor Moon episode they were on. Then he’d sit until he heard the frenzied knock of the bright-eyed 12-year-old. 

Y/N enjoyed her “staycation at the Parkers” as she called it. May was nice and never fussed about her coarse hair like her mom used to, and May never ever yelled. And Peter was Peter. Sweet and always trying to make Y/N happy.

Until she stopped having her staycations. The weekly ritual of setting up the living room for Y/N’s arrival became second nature for Peter. Despite them both being 17 now Y/N liked the tradition and didn’t like being home by herself. But as Peter waited with cold pizza atop of the kitchen table his leg bounced under and the TV logo bouncing on the screen Peter guessed she was busy. She was a teenage girl after all. So he texted Ned and decided to hang out with him that weekend instead, maybe he could even meet up with MJ too.

It wasn’t that Y/N didn’t want to go to Parker’s apartment. It’s that she couldn’t pull herself out of bed and when she checked her phone for the first time in 24 hours seeing 8 messages from Peter wandering about her whereabouts she felt herself seep deeper into her bed and allowed herself to succumb to the noise in her head. She turned over in her bed after turning off her phone, it landed below her on her gray carpet, with a muffled clink. And decided to let the tears wet her now warm pillow.

#sad girl au 🧸❤️‍🩹🌃💧🌸🎧🫂 #peter parker x reader #peter parker x mentally ill! reader #peter parker x y/n #mcu!peter x reader #mcu!peter parker #princess writes angst(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ #peter parker x poc! reader #peter parker #peter parker drabble

[sorakazeno]

Nakayoshi Media Book Season 1 Volume 1

I posted some of these books a few months ago thinking I would never have all of them. Well, I found an entire set of the Nakayoshi Media Books! Most are first edition and the condition is pretty good.

The series is a total of 33 books that covers Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon R, Sailor Moon S, Sailor Moon SuperS. Stars was never released, much to my dismay. The series also became shorter as each season progressed.

The entire set is huge! I took pictures of some of my favorite scenes or just something that I wanted to comment on.

First bundle of books.

Tenth Edition, and in the worst condition of all the books. Very readable.

Back cover.

First opening animation.

Character cast.

Episode 1: The Crybaby: Usagi's Beautiful Transformation.

Usagi and Mamoru first meeting. Love Usagi's facial expression.

First transformation.

Episode 2: Punishment Awaits! The House of Fortune is the Monster Mansion.

I'm not as familiar with this episode since I haven't seen it a lot. This was one of the episodes cut from the DIC dub. Usagi is trying to have her fortune read.

I love how she flips her shoes off and it hits Mamoru in the head. It takes talent to aim it like that even if you're not trying!

Episode 3: The Mysterious Sleeping Sickness: Protect the Girls in Love.

Luna's reactions to Motoki are the best in the episode.

The look on Sailor Moon's face during the explosion.

#sailor moon #bishoujo senshi sailor moon #bssm #sailor moon collection #sailor moon collectibles #sailor moon merch #nakayoshi #tuxedo kamen #tuxedo mask #sailor moon 90s

[stedesbonnets]

✨️ 8 shows to get to know me ✨️

thank you @blakbonnet for tagging me <33 i'm not sure if i have eight so we'll see how many

sailor moon. one of my first hyperfixation as a kid. i watched it when i was 11, and i loved it so much. i had a poster of usagi in my room that i took off just last year, my first ever fic was about the show, i literally opened this blog just to post about it. i'm not quite in the fandom anymore, but sailor moon always makes me happy and will always have a special place in my heart

our flag means death. i don't think the show needs any explanation why it's on my list, it literally changed my life. i was in a bad place, creatively, before i watched the show. i lost my inspiration and motivation to write, and i'm so grateful for what this show brought out of me. my biggest insecurity as a writer has always been not being able to write a long, multi chapter fic, and the show just fixed that, and that has given me so much confidence, and i'm really grateful for that, and for the friends i've made bc of the show. but also, greatest show on earth, no question

steven universe. su is the definition of iconic, i joined the fandom at the beginning of s2 and i never missed an episode since. it's just so funny, bright, emotional, and just mindblowing. i remember sitting on my desk before class started and watching an episode. su is such a phenomenal show i remember exactly how i felt when i first watched the episodes about 7 years ago

yuri on ice. another show i will always think fondly of. i recently watched it again as an adult and not a 17 year old and god, it blew my mind. i see a lot of myself in yuuri and his journey is incredible. perhaps the best anime out there, i'm so grateful i watched it when it came out, experiencing it with the rest of tumblr was incredible

good omens. again no explanation needed i think. i just love aziraphale and crowley so much, watching s2 was so much fun

lost. this is another show from the deep past, i watched it when i was 14 i think, with my parents. i'm not as connected to it as the other shows, but it just left a mark of me. i will never forget weeping with my mom when charlie died, i cry to this day. and i maintain my crush on sayid too

the owl house. one of the most special shows i've ever watched. dana and the crew kicked it out of the park in the last season. such a beautiful, touching story, and the representation, oh my god. i just love the owl house

code lyoko. i'm kinda on the fence with this one but it's one of the first shows i've ever watched, i loved it as a kid. like lost, i'm not really attached to it but it was a part of my childhood, and honestly it's such a good, epic show!

i'm tagging @theosrose @aroacefrenchie @jellybeanium124

#tagged

[solarsavoy]

WIP Wednesday, Magic Shuu, again

My muse decided to latch onto this idea and run with it, so now I've got all of it planned out, at least the first season. I may or may not do season two through five with mini stories based off the movies in between (when my muse runs with things, it runs halfway around the world. With scissors. 😑) However, I currently only have solid plans for the first season/first work. I may or may not have already chosen who I want for each of the scouts though (as in it's subject to change in some cases). Including the gender bending Sailor Starlights. 😏 And the love between Uranus and Neptune will most definitely be intact regardless of who I choose. 😏😏

So here's the plan so far!

Magic Shuu, inspired by the first season of Sailor Moon, will be a total of thirty chapters long, each based off particular episodes from the first season. The episode number is in relation to the Japanese version, but I'll be listing the English titles when possible because they're shorter. Here's the list.

Chapter 1, A Star is Born, is based off episode 1: A Moon Star is Born Chapter 2, Love Radio, is based off episode 3: Talk Radio Chapter 3, Definitely a Cat Person, is based off episode 5: Scent of a Monster! Chanela Will Steal Your Love Chapter 4, Cram School Blues, is based off episode 8: Computer School Blues Chapter 5 is based off episode 7: So You Want to Be a Superstar Chapter 6 is based off episode 9: Time Bomb Chapter 7, No Prince Charming, is based off episode 10: An Uncharmed Life Chapter 8 is based off episode 13: Fight to the Finish Chapter 9 is based off episode 14: Match Point for Sailor Moon Chapter 10 is based off episode 19: Who is That Masked Man? Chapter 11 is based off episode 16: Wedding Day Blues and episode 21: An Animated Mess Chapter 12 is based off episode 23: Wish Upon a Star: Naru's First Love Chapter 13 is based off episode 24: A Friend in Wolf's Clothing Chapter 14, Make Way for the Mad Scientist, is based off episode 25: Jupiter Comes Thundering In Chapter 15 is based off episode 26: The Power of Friendship Chapter 16 is based off episode 27: Mercury's Mental Match Chapter 17 is based off episode 28: An Artful Attack Chapter 18 is based off episode 29: Too Many Boyfriends Chapter 19 is based off episode 30: Grandpa's Follies Chapter 20, Kitty Karma, is based off episode 31: Kitty Chaos Chapter 21 is based off episode 32: Tuxedo Melvin and episode 33: Sailor V Makes the Scene Chapter 22 is based off episode 34: A Crystal Clear Destiny and episode 35: A Reluctant Princess Chapter 23 is based off episode 36: Bad Hair Day and episode 37: Little Miss Manners Chapter 24, Prince of the Ice, is based off episode 39: Ice Princess Chapter 25 is based off episode 40: Last Resort and episode 41: Tuxedo Unmasked Chapter 26, ___'s Tragic Love, is based off episode 42: Sailor Venus' Past: Minako's Tragic Love Chapter 27 is based on episode 43: Fractious Friends Chapter 28 is based on episode 44: The Past Returns Chapter 29 is based on episode 45: The Tragic Final Battle And finally, chapter 30 is based on episode 46: Eternal Wish: A Brand New Life

It may seem excessive to list all of my outlining here chapter by chapter, but the reason I did is so that you can prepare ahead of time and watch the anime, if you so choose. I plan on twisting and changing a lot of stuff to make it fit the new characters while still honoring a lot of the stories and how they play out in the original anime. So, I highly encourage everyone to watch the first season, but in case you've already seen it, you can just watch the episodes listed here as the chapters come out, which will be every other Friday.

Next update is this Friday, 8/5, and I also plan on doing a picture with each one. Hopefully the updates are slow enough that I can keep up with them along with Life in Retail. And Kristmas Karma II when that starts posting daily in December. Yikes. O.o But it's worth it! It hurts so good!! (Please send help.)

If anyone would like to guess which Assassination Classroom character is which scout, I will answer truthfully, but you only get 2 guesses total, and they have to be for different scouts (this only counts for you. Others may take a guess for the same scout if you don't guess correctly). You may guess for the following: Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mini Moon, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, Sailor Pluto, Sailor Star Fighter, Sailor Star Healer, Sailor Star Maker, Tuxedo Mask

All of them should be surprising, but there are hints among the chapter names for at least the inner senshi. Any guesses? Thanks for joining me for WIP Wednesday!

#daily delivery #WIP Wednesday #assassination classroom #solarsavoyfics #ao3 fanfic #sailor moon au #asano gakushuu

[dayseternal-blog]

Don't hate me but I want to know your answers to ALL these:



Get to know my Shipping Preferences & Ships!

Made an ask meme ^ ^

Send me a number!

1. List 3 shipping tropes you love

2. List 3 shipping tropes you don’t love

3. One emotional aspect of a ship that always gets you

4. One physical aspect of a ship that always gets you

5. Multiship or Monoship?

6. Rare pairs or Mainstream?

7. Polyamory or Monogamy?

8. If the ship is physical, reversible or not?

9. Do you always have romantic ships for fandoms?

10. How important is the sexual part (if any) of your ship?

11. Opinion on platonic ships?

12. List 3 ships you currently love

13. List 5 OTPs from past fandoms

14. Opinion on the importance of marriage?

15. Opinion on kids?

NOW, about ONE ship (ships I’ll answer for in the tags!):

16. One thing one character likes about their partner(s).

17. Now one thing that the other character(s) likes about the first chara.

18. Who confessed?

19. How long did they know each other before getting together?

20. Who’s the ship’s biggest in-universe supporter?

21. Any rivals for the ship?

22. Any mutual friends?

23. Have they met each other’s families?

24. What’s ONE conflict they’ve had.

25. What’s ONE way they’ve resolved a conflict?

26. What’s ONE location that’s important to them?

27. What’s ONE object that’s important to them?

28. What’s ONE food/beverage that’s important to them?

29. What’s ONE thing they do in their free time together?

30. What’s ONE thing they do in their free time APART?

31. What’s ONE thing character A might gift their partner?

32. What’s ONE thing character A’s partner(s) might gift back?

33. How would they react to long distance?

34. How would they react to an ex showing up?

35. Describe one date.

36. Describe one example of comforting after a bad day.

37. Describe one reunion after time apart.

38. Describe their ideal home.

39. Describe their first kiss (if any).

40. Describe their first time (if any).

41. Would they have any pets? If so, describe.

42. Would they get married? If so, describe their wedding.

43. Would they have any kids? If so, describe.

44. Give each character a color.

45. Give each character an element.

46. Give each character a Pokemon.

47. Give each character a Hogwarts house.

48. Give each character a super power.

49. Give each character an rpg class.

50. Imagine each character as an animal.



I know it's a lot, so take your time...but, please?  😁



Original post

😘 thank you for answering first!

1.List 3 shipping tropes you love - I don't know if it's shipping tropes, but in no particular order are Soulmates, Secret Relationship, and Friends-to-Lovers. 2. List 3 shipping tropes you don’t love - Again, not really a shipping trope, but I think the only trope I can say that I don't particularly enjoy is public humiliation. 3. One emotional aspect of a ship that always gets you - when they encourage and compliment each other 💝 always building each other up 4. One physical aspect of a ship that always gets you - holding hands/touching each other for the first time 💓 so fluffy 5. Multiship or Monoship? - I usually monoship 6. Rare pairs or Mainstream? - Mainstream 7. Polyamory or Monogamy? - Monogamy, like Asriah said, polyamory is too much work 8. If the ship is physical, reversible or not? - If this is what I think it means, I'm fine with that. I think Hinata prefers to be a bottom in bed, but...like that one Boruto episode when she kicks Naruto and Boruto out, Hinata's the boss at home. So I imagine there are times when Hinata does take charge in bed. 9. Do you always have romantic ships for fandoms? - No. Like for My Hero Academia, I did not even think of shipping until I saw fan content. 10. How important is the sexual part (if any) of your ship? - Important! 11. Opinion on platonic ships? - Fun! 12. List 3 ships you currently love - Naruto/Hinata, Marinette/Adrien, Kyouka Jirou/Denki Kaminari 13. List 5 OTPs from past fandoms - Sakura/Syaoran, Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask...hmm... Tohru/Kyo... 14. Opinion on the importance of marriage? - In terms of fandom, I don't need marriage at the end of a show to tell me that there was a happy ending. It's nice but not at all necessary. 15. Opinion on kids? - In terms of fandom, it's so rare to see your OTP have kids that I never expect it, so it's amazing that NaruHina has kids.

NOW, about ONE ship:

16. One thing one character likes about their partner(s). - Naruto loves how awesome Hinata is. He just thinks she's amazing at everything. 17. Now one thing that the other character(s) likes about the first chara. - Hinata loves Naruto's determination and passion. 18. Who confessed? - both 19. How long did they know each other before getting together? - long time 20. Who’s the ship’s biggest in-universe supporter? - Sakura and Kiba, right?

21. Any rivals for the ship? - Not really rivals, but Naruto got marriage proposals, like from Shizuka from the Star Village and Shion from the Land of Demons. 22. Any mutual friends? - many 23. Have they met each other’s families? - Naruto met Hinata's family 24. What’s ONE conflict they’ve had. - i imagine that their arguments are really short. Maybe something about how Naruto doesn’t care for his health? 25. What’s ONE way they’ve resolved a conflict? - through talking and then reassuring each other of their love 26. What’s ONE location that’s important to them? - The Uzumaki family home!!! 🥺💕 27. What’s ONE object that’s important to them? - Their photo album 📸 28. What’s ONE food/beverage that’s important to them? - ramen 29. What’s ONE thing they do in their free time together? - Sex! :) 30. What’s ONE thing they do in their free time APART? - Naruto catches up on sleep and Hinata knits. 31. What’s ONE thing character A might gift their partner? - Naruto would give Hinata sweets that his Shadow Clone bought during work. 32. What’s ONE thing character A’s partner(s) might gift back? - Hinata would give Naruto knitted items. 33. How would they react to long distance? - They'd video-call each other every night and text each other about what they're doing that day. 34. How would they react to an ex showing up? - Naruto would avoid eye contact with his ex at all costs. He'd try to keep Hinata from seeing her, too. Hinata would respect Naruto's wishes to avoid the situation. / Hinata would gauge her ex's reaction, and depending on the circumstances and their avoidance/lack thereof, she'd respectfully nod/bow/greet/make conversation. She'd keep any such contact short and cordial, then after assure Naruto of her forever-love. Naruto would be a little bit jealous simply because of seeing her ex, but he'd enjoy Hinata's loveydovey-ness after. 35. Describe one date. - modern au: browsing the mall aimlessly, Naruto taking mental notes on the things Hinata likes for gift ideas, eating an early dinner at a ramen restaurant, spending money on desserts and drinks as they go through the mall, ending the day with a movie, going home to kiss and love. 36. Describe one example of comforting after a bad day. - lots and lots of long hugs 💝 37. Describe one reunion after time apart. - modern au: they can’t stop smiling at each other as they head back home from the airport. They hold hands and sneak kisses and talk about the flight (they’ve been talking throughout the time apart so they’re up-to-date on each other). When they’re finally home, Naruto makes the first move and easily convinces Hinata’s clothes off :) 38. Describe their ideal home. - in a safe neighborhood with yard space for their children to play and gardening. A comfortable-sized house, yes 2 and a half bathrooms, with ideally a beautiful window view of the community they love and serve. 39. Describe their first kiss (if any).

in a modern au, because of all of the dating magazines he borrowed from Sai, he knows that a first kiss is supposed to be super romantic. Naruto plans exactly where he's going to kiss her. On their big date, Naruto takes her to the riverside, and he's really nervous, and so he's pretty quiet the whole time, and Hinata thinks that he's bothered about something. She keeps asking him if he's alright, and Naruto's keeps saying that he's fine. Hinata is suspicious, and she notices how Naruto's leading in a certain way even though there's no rush. She gets clued in to the fact that he miiiight be trying to kiss her because he keeps looking down at her when he wanted her to enjoy the view. She decides to test her theory and look at him. And she's super shy, but the kiss happens :) and internally Naruto is like "mission-accomplished." 40. Describe their first time (if any). - Canon-compliant: Dating is impossible due to all of Naruto's fans. After saving the world again, Naruto's popularity is at a legendary status, and he can rarely walk around during the day or get a meal without being stopped by people talking to him. So the only solution for Naruto and Hinata to spend any quality time together is for her to go over to his apartment. They spend most of their time flirting and eating meals together. These visits start off innocent and become more charged as they grow more and more reluctant to part. Kissing leads to petting, leading to lovey-dovey fun times in bed :). 41. Would they have any pets? If so, describe. - In another universe, Naruto and Hinata would definitely have a pet. They'd be that couple that are dog parents before having a baby, and that dog would be a big dog. And I imagine they'd keep pet fish won from goldfish-scooping games at festivals. Or if Boruto or Himawari brought home a class pet bird or such thing to take care of over the weekend, and then at the end of the year, the teacher would let them keep it. 42. Would they get married? If so, describe their wedding. - modern au: It would have to be a big wedding because Naruto invites all his friends, coworkers, and found family, and he's so loved, everyone tries to make it. He has a hard time choosing who to have as his groomsmen. Hinata is torn between a romantic garden wedding or a traditional one. Out of consideration for all of Hinata's elderly family members, she ends up having a church wedding and indoor ballroom reception because all her old relatives would be uncomfortable if it were outdoors. Their vows bring tears to everyone's eyes 🥺 43. Would they have any kids? If so, describe. - If they can afford it and Hinata's a full-time homemaker, I don't see why they'd stop at 2 kids. Let them have more kids!!!! I also adore the idea that they'd open their home to fostering others besides Kawaki. 44. Give each character a color. - Naruto 🧡, Hinata 💙💜💗 i refuse to choose 45. Give each character an element. - Naruto 🌀, Hinata ⚡ 46. Give each character a Pokemon. - Naruto: Blaziken, Hinata: Mienshao

47. Give each character a Hogwarts house. - Both Gryffindor 48. Give each character a super power. - Naruto: Self-replication, Hinata: X-ray vision 49. Give each character an rpg class. - I had to look this up. Naruto: Fighter Class, Hinata: Rogue Class 50. Imagine each character as an animal. - Naruto 🦊, Hinata 🦁 though I also enjoy Hinata as a rabbit

#asriah #I finally answered all of this 😶 #ask game #naruhina headcanons #I changed my mind on their superpowers

[random-mailbox]

Random-Mailbox's Favorite Sailor Moon Fics - Week 47 - Thunderstorms

Today’s stories are largely lemony and focus on Usagi’s anime-canon compliant fear of Thunderstorms and how Mamoru helps her deal with it. 

Don't forget to check out @smquickies2023 and #smquickies2023 tag for some more smutty (and smut-adjacent or smut-inspired when it comes to my pictures) content over the next week or so. It is open to any SM pairing.

As always, my apologies in advance for spoiling some of these for you (Fic Titles are linked to either FFN or AO3 entries).

Distraction - @kaleidodreams

Mamoru and Usagi end up using a thunderstorm rolling through town to reconnect after weeks and months of mostly co-existing due to conflicting schedules.

Drenched - @allyunabridged

With completely terrified and drenched Usagi bursting into his apartment, Mamoru does his best to make her feel safe and distract her from the storm outside.

Thunderstorms - @jupitereternal art by @sailorspacecougar

Chibiusa attempts to blame Makoto for the storm outside that scared her awake.

Mercy - @floraone

This story is a continuation of Nocturne For A Queen (that was part of the Amnesia Fics post), with Usagi reaching out to Mamoru as a last resort when she gets stranded in the storm when a work event goes sideways. Leading to Mamoru to finally admit to a few half-truths. 

Caught in the Storm - @sailormoonandme

Not quite a missing scene, more like a scene from MAmoru’s perspective for episode 64, where we see him struggle with his visions and decision to stay away from Usagi.

You Were Good To Me: Chapter 1: A Protector's Heart - Rebekah_Matthews

Darien helps Serena after she takes a tumble in the park, making them both realize that they can do more than argue.

Peaceful Sleep - Makoclb

Mamoru waxes poetic about how much of a difference sleeping next to him made for Usagi and her fears.

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That's it for this week. Next Monday we will cover "Food" as the post theme.

Here are the links to the previous Tumblr posts in these series to explore more amazing works based on different themes - make sure to check them out if you haven't had a chance! (Click on title name to go to the post) - I will keep updating the list every week as new posts come up:

Week 1 - Groundhog Day

Week 2 - Established Relationships

Week 3 - Sex Positivity

Week 4 - Unfinished Stories

Week 5 - Darker Stories

Week 6 - Potions 🧪

Week 7 - Reveals

Week 8 - 👻Halloween🎃

Week 9 - Wrong Perceptions

Week 10 - Non-Senshi AU

Week 11 - In-Progress Fics

Week 12 - Mutual Pining

Week 13 - Enemies to Lovers

Week 14 - Slow Burn

Week 15 - Christmas Part 1 - Ugly Christmas Sweaters and Santa!

Week 16 - Christmas Part 2

Week 17 - New Years

Week 18 - High School AU

Week 19 - Slice of Life

Week 20 - Coffee shop AU

Week 21 - Huddle for Warmth

Week 22 - Friends to Lovers

Week 23 - ❤️Valentines Day❤️

Week 24 - Do a Grouch a Favour Day (or Cheer Up Fics)

Week 25 - Soulmate AU

Week 26 - Amnesia Fics (and resources)

Week 27 - 🍀St Patrick's Day🍀

Week 28 - Fix it Fics

Week 29 - Prompt: Mug

Week 30 - Flowers

Week 31 - Traditions

Week 32 - Dreams

Week 33 - Friends

Week 34 - Body-Swap

Week 35 - Medical Assistance

Week 36 - Sex Pollen

Week 37 - Psychometry

Week 38 - What If

Week 39 - Missing Scenes Part I

Week 40 - Green Jacket

Week 41 - Dr Chiba

Week 42 - Birthdays

Week 43 - Fluff

Week 44 - First Kiss

Week 45 - Reviving Shitennou

Week 46 - Tutoring

#sailor moon #usagi x mamoru #fic rec #fic list #usamamo #sailor moon fanfiction #thunderstorm #fear of thunderstorms #lemons

[usakofashion]

Sailor Moon Episode 33 - The Last Sailor Senshi! Sailor Venus Appears

#usagi #spring #fall #casual #blue #pink #soft girl #sailor moon #sailor moon fashion

[siriusscanlator]

“Vitória.”

Destacando uma recente estreia nossa, temos Sentai Daishikaku, que deve sair no mesmo formato que Yozakura Family, durante a semana e nos posts! Além disso, temos o penúltimo capítulo de Sailor Moon Eternal. Semana que vem, virá com destaque em especial ao seu último capítulo.

Por fim, temos: Sentai Daishikaku (33 & 34), Sailor Moon Eternal (59), Requiem of the Rose King (51), Dear Mr. Rain (05), Blue Lock Episode Nagi (05), Matsuribayashi-hen (24), Twilight of the GW (20), Rurouni Kenshin (125) & Bungou Stray Dogs (104).

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#sentai daishikaku #sailor moon #requiem of the rose king #canis #blue lock #higurashi no naku koro ni #umineko no naku koro ni #rurouni kenshin #bungou stray dogs #algol

[namazunomegami]

Sailor Moon was EVERYTHING to me as a child, I think it was one of the first, if not the first, animes that I was ever HOOKED on. Same with this other one called Precure. I loveeee Bleach and JJK duh, my husbands are literally Aizen, Ichigo, Urahara, Geto, Gojo, and the whole fucking cast of both shows lol. I also like Demon Slayer.

I like One Piece but I’m not a One Piece Jehovah’s Witness™️

Sailor Moon is a gay masterpiece that was SO ahead of it's time. Takeuchi Naoko deserves all the praise honestly. And I just love seeing women GETTING! SHIT! DONE!

The cast of Bleach was literally created for all the simps out there. Everybody has a nice drip or they're serving a lot of cunt!

I'm not a big fan of Aizen but... seeing him in Muken... I could ruin that tied up bitch.

And pls don't let me start on Mayuri. I volunteer as a lab rat. I want him carnally even with his makeup on. He can modify the fuck out of me. Maybe he can get rid of my diabetes!!!

I remember watching the first season of Demon Slayer but somehow I just fell off from the story. Maybe it's not for me.

One Piece fans are a different breed. A thousand episodes scare the fuck out of my possible ADHD ass, but they charge into battle and keep going. Unstoppable fellas indeed. But design vise I like Boa and Yamato (I'm gonna keep him safe from the dudebros) a lot <33

#asks