#seriously just go read the manga

[khrysteensart]

HEY how about that finale, huh??? Here's an alternate ending.

Original comic from Hark! A Vagrant

#mp100 s3 #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho 100 spoilers #mp100 spoilers #mp100 #anyways hi i'm here after not doing any art for 5 months just to share...this #living fart ruins man's birthday cake #khrysteensart #now go read the manga if you haven't #but seriously the anime did a great job i really enjoyed watching the final season #oh heck i just realize that i forgot to tag this as #ekurei

[makorragal-312]

Here's the thing:

I can empathize with Emma to some degree. At the end of the day, she's just a girl with an intense crush on Itsuomi and constantly makes her feelings known to him hoping that one day, he'll feel the same way. Just peek high school girl behavior.

HOWEVER...

It has been literal years and Itsuomi has made it clear more than once that he is not interested and he's now in a relationship with Yuki. And Emma refuses to get the hint and even went as far as to try and make up a lie about spending the night with Itsuomi to chase Yuki away. So when she's at her job crying about how Itsuomi "ghosted" her over text, it's hard for me to feel even remotely bad for her.

Again, I feel for her on the "unrequited love" front. But for everything else, she needs to move on.

#yubisaki to renren #a sign of affection #a sign of affection spoilers #a sign of affection episode 8 #emma nakazono #yuki itose #nagi itsuomi #something I forgot to post last week #the transition of Emma being told that itsuomi would text back if he liked her to yuki immediately getting a text from itsuomi was hilariou #but anyway #I haven't read the manga #yet #so I don't know how Emma's arc with her unrequited love is gonna go #but her constant pining for itsuomi is seriously not cute #especially if the guy's been rejecting her since they were in HIGH SCHOOL #and look getting turned down by your crush is no fun #but there comes a point where you have to accept it and move on #im just worried she's gonna see itsuomi and yuki being a couple and she's gonna have a meltdown #and I swear to god if she tries to antagonize yuki over it it's on sight #HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU #but that's just my two cents #also itsuomi and yuki were cute as hell #bow down to the OTP

[dawdlecentric]

Yeag...

#boniji #bocchi x nijika #hitori x nijika #am I allowed to be cringe over a rare ship on tumblr dot com in the dwindling months of 2023? #like I didn't expect this pairing to become my recent comfort ship in these trying times #one time I got curious and decided to read some fanfics back in February (?) It didn't click to me yet. I just think it's cute and moved on #but months later it came back to me full force in July and the next thing I know I went into a gay trance (just like Bocchi in ep10) #and starts searching for fanarts and obsessing over them #this ship is seriously my coping mechanism during a stressful time #sometimes a ship is what keeps a fixation (sanity) going #gathering the crumbs from both anime & manga 'Mmm...scrumptious~ 🤤😋' #episode 8 my beloved 👐💕 #fr what's with me and rare pairs. I'm not that even big of a shipper #but this is actually my first time where the tag of the ship (on tumblr) is basically inactive #or only sometimes gets tagged when other ships are involved 😭 #like I know there are some great art in the tags but it's just...not enough #it's tough to fixate on smth that's barely have any content for it #well there's one way to fix that... ◉⁠‿⁠◉ #I'm about to be annoying on the tag of this ship #I was gonna tag the main tag but I chickened out. I'll just stay in my niche corner brainrotting over a rarepair 🤐😶 however... #btr #<- using this obscure tag instead lol #my ramblings

[silvermoon424]

I love horror/thriller/survival manga, but reading them can be so frustrating because there's always that one fuck who acts as a comically evil antagonist who makes things harder for everyone else. This is especially the case in death game/survival manga, which are like contractually obligated to have someone who is unrepentantly evil and fucks over everyone else.

But the protagonists are always like "Noooo, we need to work together with them! If we kill them we'll be just as bad as them!!!" No bitch, gang up on them and fucking murder them lmao. Stop pissing me off.

#if I were in that situation and it's ONE person who keeps ruining everything and wants to kill me I would simply kill them first #like it's one thing if they're just annoying but if they're ACTIVELY villainous and keep hurting people/fucking everyone over #and the characters are in a life or death situation #JUST FUCKING KILL THEM JESUS CHRIST STOP TAKING THE HIGH ROAD LMAO #I'm reading this death game manga right now and it's literally just ONE GUY who is trying to destroy everyone else #and his only weapon is a crowbar #there are like 20 other people and they haven't ganged up on him yet??? what the fuck??? #I may be an optimistic magical girl but I'm also pragmatic as fuck lol #like seriously just fucking kill him your misplaced naivete is not going to save you #manga #rant

[crowcryptds]

[tucks hair behind ear] so i may have finished fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood

#roy mustang #riza hawkeye #ling yao #mei chang #fma greed #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #black hayate #oops almost forgot i doodled the little guy there #fma #fmab #YEAH so like everyone else who was 10 years late to watching this show... hiiii i'm kind of OBSESSED so #it's a good year for my new years resolution to be drawing at minimum once a week #i know fmab is going to consume a lot of that time #my friend and i may do fma 03 and im seriously considering reading through the manga #brain really is itching at every opportunity to Know More of these guys... #i just drew my favorite characters from my first watch! im currently rewatching it its really good #i also wanted to draw scar but i need to practice him *ROLLS SLEEVES* #i really like how tired greed just looks like honestly what a guy #2023 #doodles #artists on tumblr

[sskk-manifesto]

Omg I actually enjoyed this episode quite a bit!!!

#It wasn't... Particularly extraordinary but it still felt almost meeting the season 4 standard #Things are still going super super fast 😭😭 #Like it may be that I'm just... Slow to process info but I seriously feel like I can't keep up with what they say #I can't believe at this point they've basically caught up with the manga 😭😭 #In the next ep they'll reach the moment when *I* caught up with the manga when I read bsd for the first time which is just insane to me. #Like my brain can't conceive it #It's such a shame to think that means we aren't getting another bsd anime season for another five years... My heart cries #Even more since at this point it's probably going to stop right before sskk meet again and it's going to be so frustrating for me #But the Aya / Bram scenes were so cute!!! In them I felt like the pace was actually okay for the first time since forever. #It may be that they weren't very information packed so they kind of flew smoothly but I thought the pace was enjoyable– #and the animation too was pretty good!!! #There's always a black shadow wrapping my heart tight whenever I notice the animation gets better– #because I can't help but mourn what the sskk fight could have been and can't stop the resentment... #But in the end I'm happy if the budget goes to a little girl that's what she deserves :') #In the next episode we're probably going to get a little Atsushi screentime too!!!! #Man I'm so starved for Atsushi screentime every time he appears on screen for 0.06 seconds there's a whole crowd cheering in my head #random rambles

[daisyachain]

there’s one version of an f/m/m triangle that crops up so often I’m surprised there isn’t at least a tvtropes/vernacular name for it. Miyokichi/Kiku/Shin. Molly/Fitz/Fool. Asuka/Shinji/Kaworu. Futaba/Taichi/Touma. not-really-but-you-could-shove-it-in-here Luthien/Beren/Finrod. Utena/Touga/Saionji is a twisted spun-on-its-head version of it. Specifically comprising:

masculine male character A: either is the protagonist or a character on to which male viewers can project.

female character B: a secondary character and A’s official love interest, often kept apart from A by story/circumstance/gender roles. Shows some resentment of the trials she’s put through by the story in being A’s lover such as being shoved to the side, cut out of his life, or put in danger.

less masculine male character C: another major character, A’s devoted sidekick, feminine and/or conspicuously cold toward women or sexuality, somewhat ill-used by A but not resentful about it, as a contrast to B.

The dynamic is used pretty equally by female and male creators, though probably with different purposes. Outside the story, there’s a clear explanation for how the roles are divided: men are main, women are peripheral. Obviously the female love interest has to be on the margins of the story. Obviously the male main character has to have an ally in-story who can bounce dialogue back. Any human person has to have a best friend (for men, has to be male) and a lover (for men, has to be female). The major character male bestie and the minor character female gf is the minimum character dynamic you need to sustain the main character as a believable construction.

Except within the story, the dynamic begs far too many questions. On B’s part: her other half and love interest uses her for sex once every few chapters and dumps her to go off on another plot-relevant adventure. She’s kept in the dark, talked down to, pushed away, and distrusted. Her place at her sweetie’s side is occupied by Some Dude and no matter how much she puts into their relationship, she’s always going to be a prize for after the mission. Why does she stay with him? What could possibly attract her about this bestubbled grunt machine whose passion for the sword outmatches anything she’s given him?

On C’s part: he gets used as an emotional support crutch, designed to service his best friend’s every need at the expense of his own goals or story. He’s a housewife, he’s a domestic, he does every thankless story task with a smile because he has to provide the exposition/set up the plot/set the plan in action that carries the main male character to victory. He doesn’t have a love interest of his own, meanwhile the most important person in his life is obsessed with a woman he barely speaks to. Why should he care so much about someone who only takes? Why is he committed to this one-way friendship? What does he think of taking the backseat, providing support, submerging his own will for the sake of a person instead of an ideology?

On A’s part: if he’s a red-blooded heterosexual male character who pursues a woman as is acceptable, why does he dig himself so deep in with his designated ally? Through dialogue and because he has to in order to show the audience, he exposes his heart and soul to C and keeps him in his pocket for as long as we are watching, so why then does he cast him aside so easily? He invests the most time and energy into his relationship with C, cultivating love and loyalty there, but he draws the line so firmly in the sand that the audience is sure he’ll never, ever step aside for one minute to follow the friend. Why does he choose a man for his emotional battery? Why doesn’t he communicate with his supposed partner? Why does he choose to use B and C for sex and solace respectively, and why don’t they ever mix?

The gender dynamics wrap around to simple: women aren’t up to being equal partners to a cool guy, so you need a male wife to do everything for you and appreciate the protagonist’s sick abilities. romance with a man is perverse and impossible, so you need a female love interest to prove that the protagonist isn’t gay and fulfil the audience’s needs. But in-between all of that you could ask some interesting questions of the spoke character, A, the male protagonist whose actions are taken as normal. the question being: bro. what’s wrong with you

#kelsey rambles #aaaaaand the only thing that satisfactorily calls the A-character on his mistreatment is the podcast CARAVAN. which is not good #actually i'd go as far as to say it's bad #rgu goes into it a little but it's nowhere near the main focus of the series #using asuka-shinji-kaworu as the example that just sucks so bad #shinji's treatment of asuka is so horrible and misogynistic and despite her screentime. in shinji's mind she's never more than peripheral #and gets dumped at the last second and turned into a corpse. she's an object of desire and he refuses to recognize the ways they're the same #on the other hand shinji loves and idolizes kaworu.....only in as far as kaworu is his own dream guy who gives him everything he wants #and never makes even the slightest hint of a glimmer of expectation of anything from shinji in return #the moment kaworu's desires become explicit--he's not only killed but erased from the story altogether #eva rebuild 4.0 does this in the most insulting way possible by farming him off with....rei? #not to try and take eva rebuild seriously but the way it expands on kaworu and sidelines asuka is somehow insulting to both of them #even moreso than the original series was. which is saying something #someday i have to read the eva manga because i hear it takes kaworu in a more problematic direction that is still a direction and so better #or as for SGRS--shin is far more loving and devoted to kiku than he is to any woman and takes a killing blow for him #he watches him in life and guides him through the underworld. he gives more to kiku than he gives to anyone. #yet as a character any possibility of like-liking kiku is denied. what's the damage there? #how does it make story sense? why does kiku have a more serious relationship with a woman than the ostensibly straight shin? #the answer is The Misogyny but even then it's jarring to have shin's plain love be obfuscated with the constant references to being straight #as opposed to kiku. who actually has girlfriends and not one-night stands #it's nonsensical to read shin as a straight man and yet any possibility of him returning kiku's feelings is barred off blacked out redacted #leaving us with a dog's breakfast of a dynamic that IS fun. because in this case it's intentionally bad. and the author is winking at us

[kitsoa]

ah go me. trying to ignore last months cliffhanger for noragami and thinking that the events of this month chapter might not actually happen. serious case of hopium overdose.

all i could say was 'ahhh fuck' over and over and over again. cause you see it coming, but you hope it doesn't and its a slow motion car crash and has been for months now.

#noragami #noragami spoilers #ill be honest it was the outcome I was seriously against out of all possibilities #i kinda trusted the author to not let this happen #but when everything started just getting so messed up it definitely came to mind that they were capable of doing it #i think im dissapointed #but like not as well #just because something i hoped wouldnt happen happened doesn't mean the right message isn't going to be said about it #and like this is so fucking sad #literally the worst case scenario #this is literally the most tragic manga iv had the pleasure of reading #but like tragic and not in the original genre description #I had the audacity to hope. #for the record im not upset or angry or mad at the writing this is stellar shit #its just a fucky tragedy and a very intentional and artfully crafted tragedy #god im so sad

[ivorypool]

Andrew Davies, Othello (2001) // Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Manon, Ballerina // Richard Siken, The Torn-Up Road // Sue Zhao, I Still Loved You // Nerdy Girl, Hate Me // sadoeuphemist, The Scorpion and the Frog // Madeline Miller, Song of Achilles // The Mountain Goats, How to Love a Swamp Creature // New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle // Jane Heller Levi, Waiting for this Story to End Before I Begin Another // Lavalove, Luck in Love // Sea Ghosts, Cowboy Hat // Aka Akasaka, Kaguya-sama Love is War Ch 231

#kaguya sama spoilers #iino & osaragi #kaguya sama manga #iino x osaragi #the more i make these the more unhinged the tags get lol #on my earlier reads i thought osaragi's rant was kinda like when shinomiya insults shirogane in order to persuade fujiwara away from him #but now i also think it's similar to when iino tells shirogane all the reasons she shouldn't like ishigami only to cry at the end #what do jolene the stone bowl arc and nerdy girl's hate me have in common #they were all supposed to be straight but it doesn't take much to think that they're very much not #seriously the lyrics of hate me are literally about the singer taking the boy that her friend loves #but she spends most of the song screeching to her friend as if burning bridges and knowing her friend hates her for sure is the actual poin #it's the same idea from torn-up road where they do something self-destructive to know for certain that it will be unrequited #hate me is a banger go listen to it! but anyway #the scorpion story fits not only bc of the 'nature' part but bc sadoeuphemist writes it as a loop #the story usually plays out badly but the loop continues anyway which works for knowing the bad ending but being unable to give up #against her better judgement #coincidentally othello is iino's character song although it's about the board game not the shakespeare play #but there's an essay on othello that talks about mimetic desire and that sums up what i was thinking in an older post really well #also fyi torn-up road and othello are a male narrator talking about a man just to clear that up #web weaving

[yume-fanfare]

*stumbles out of oshi no ko covered in blood* what the FUCK that was amazing

#me half an hour in texting friend i was watching with: hey isn't this a bit longer than usual ? #god #like ok. i was Not going to watch this #i read the manga synopsis at the library one day and was like what the hell is tjis #but i heard that it was rly good #and so a friend said earlier today tht he was going to watch it and he got Jumped by us who had heard the base plot and thought it was wild #and one thing led to another n so another friend and i just watched it and WOW #WOOOWWW #IT REALLY WAS THAT GOOD #AND THE ANIMATION QUALITY WAS AMAZING #I SERIOUSLY CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT EP #mar's midnight rambles

[unluckystreak]

10 dance is the most confusing manga ever but only because one chapter they're like "fuck I'm so in love with him" and then next they're like "it's impossible. I can't love men" then the next chapter they're making out and then the next chapter they're like "hmm but what was that REALLY?" and then the next chapter they're like "I've finally found you, my one and only." and then the next chapter they're like "see? it was absolutely impossible for either of us to be attracted to men" and then the next chapter one of them sleeps with another man anyways and doesn't bat an eye while he still MAKES LOVE SMITTEN MOONY EYES AT THE ORIGINAL GUY AND I JUST AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#not mentioned in my rant: #1 the amount of times they've flustered each other #2 the amount of times they made each other blush #3 the amount it times they made the others heart race #4 the amount of times they get worked up and start making out #5 the amount of times they want to be the only one in each other's eyes #AND I COULD GO ON BUT YOU GET THE POINT #AHHHHHHHHHHH #WHY IS IT LIKE THIS #LIKE I'M BISEXUAL MYSELF AND I HAD TO DISCOVER THAT #AND I KNOW NOT EVERYONE HAS THE SAME EXPERIENCE #FUCKING OBVIOUSLY #BUT I'M STILL LIKE AHHHHH WHY ARE YOU GUYS LIKE THIS THERE'S NO REASON FOR THIS #WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!!! #10 dance #anyway great manga tho seriously like 10/10 #I'm not kidding or being sarcastic #it's fucking great #I've been reading it for a few years now it's just #it's just AHHHHHHHHH #yeah

[kyouka-supremacy]

DON'T MANIFEST AKUTAGAWA'S FEELINGS BEING UNREQUITED WAGEHGAHTJSHHAJ

But does it count as manifesting if I'm just stating facts 🤔😔😔

#sskk #people asks me stuff #Jk. Or maybe not. #Idk I used to have a HUGE sskk-is-unrequited-love phase around June– #and in a way I still think as far as the manga events go Atsushi didn't feel anything but loathing for Akutagawa up to at least chapter 87 #(While Akutagawa stopped hating Atsushi on the Moby Dick fight. C'mon guys. I've seen some......... #Questionable takes over who fell first in sskk recently. Do you really believe that Atsushi said to Akutagawa's face the words #“I think Dazai-san has recognized of you a long time ago” and Akutagawa didn't fall for him right there right now.) #But like... Okay I don't want to make this too big because there's so much to unwrap here and it wouldn't fit in the tags but #For how I see it. it's totally believable to read the manga thinking Akutagawa is in love with Atsushi. like seriously it's just there. #“As long as I can't deny your very being I'll never be able to move forward” “You know the reason yourself don't you” #“Is his life that precious to you” “From the beginning the hole was only for his ally to flee through” #I'm not making this stuff up I'm literally just reading the text #While Atsushi is just there being objectively the WORSE he's ever been with everyone @Akutagawa which is undeniably hilarious on one hand– #and tragically sad on the other. He really DOES NOT care about Akutagawa? He barely ever showed compassion towards him #Which tbh!! It's a lot and it... Doesn't particularly bother me‚ because even if negatively it does show Akutagawa is someone who's– #special for Atsushi #he's like no one else for him #and that's so juicy!!! #It's delicious to explore this hidden aspect of Atsushi's character through the effect Akutagawa has on him #And even though I believe Atsushi didn't love Akutagawa for the most time... There's still plenty of room for things to change. #We still have to see how he'll react to meeting him again. It's possible that Akutagawa's last deed might have changed the judgement– #Atsushi has on him‚ and I can't wait to find out! If anything‚ Akutagawa appeared in Atsushi's mind which is... Something

[polarized-here]

I’m so sorry for flooding you guys (my mutals) with bnha spoilers/Togachaco but I’m thinking so hard abt them rn they are so special to me, like I am. I’m going insane.

#bnha #I’m so sorry again I just #my fave yuri couple 💔💔 #but like seriously #I dont even read the manga/watch the anime that much. haven’t watched season five. or cared abt spoilers #I’m so sorry I just #they are genuinely something I liked before this moment so seeing it like?? kinda cannon is making me go insane #I Don’t even like B/KxD/K like some ppl do with these guys #T/SxD/K #are my favs #but oh mksjsksjsjsk #I’m so sorry I’m just going insane #like!!! them!!!! ouughhhsshs #sorrysudijssjisj

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

My main problem is that I like shounen anime but I always HATE the mean boy rivals. Hated sasuke, hated bakugou. Cannot fucking stand those assholes. I don’t even really care about either series anymore but my hatred for them remains.

It is a bit of a played trope. In older shounen I’m usually more annoyed by the protagonist. Midoriya is far less annoying to me than characters like goku, naruto, luffy, etc. though.

#Bakugou doesn’t bother me much either #in part because no one takes him seriously and him going from top dog bully of middle school to just some weird guy in high school is #kinda funny #I was always more invested in the villains and pro heroes though in general #the children just stress me out by constantly being horribly wounded #Aizawa also stresses me out for constantly becoming horribly wounded #I stopped reading the manga for a while because they need a break and so did I lol

[mettywiththenotes]

I do find it weird when I see people being like “but he/she’s a background character!! why are they getting involved!! they mean nothing!! what’s even the purpose!!”

Like idk man let’s refer back to

“Everyone is the protagonist of their own story. You were never a side-character.”

and

“This is the story of how we all became the Greatest Heroes.”

and

“Inventions are the support classes way of being Heroes.”

I mean it is continuously said over and over that anyone can help in their own way, they can be their own kind of hero (even without actually being in the profession), and even if they’re not front-and-center they are still making progress and doing something for their friends/team

Like yes I understand that for some reason you don’t like background characters being given the spotlight but you have not been reading this manga if you’re wondering why background characters are getting involved

#i saw some stuff about this chapter but you know what? i'm referring to the series and fandom in general #you have not been reading the damn manga if you're complaining about background characters getting the spotlight #like maybe you wish for them to have better scenes or better arcs or wish they were utilised better and that IS okay to want that #but when you're like 'why is EDGESHOT getting involved WHY is best jeanist here WHY are we focusing on THIS bg character 🙄' #you're just showing me that you have not read any of these scenes or payed attention #its understandable if you hate the character i guess #but man. you are STILL ignoring what has been said #what has been repeated over and over again #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mettys posts #metty posts #bnha manga spoilers #how many times are we gonna get a bg character doing something only for people to act exactly like hori hasn't been saying #that characters can help in any way #that their actions still mean something for the story or for their character #seriously how many chapters and arcs are we gonna go through #before this sticks

[pa-cha-ran]

hey ya!!! how are you feel about hxh is back!! what is your expecting for new chapters? 🥴

it's been a minute, so this reply is way too late i think but...how unwittingly apt that you chose dramatic chrollo for the gif tho

i am expecting i have to hurry up on my pending fics before we find out [spoilers] actually [spoilers] and [spoilers spoilers] so [spoilers spoilers spoilers] and kurapika and the phantom troupe [spoilers spoilers spoilers spoilers] and they all die together like togashi promised us they would, the end

that all said i'm glad hxh is back! can't wait to not see leorio even once in the next however many weeks before the series goes back on hiatus again

#i'm kidding to be clear #in more seriousness i'm awful at predicting where stories will go so i just take them as they come without anticipating specific things #the only time i ever know where anything is going is when i write it myself tbh #for hxh every week i only have time to glance over the chapters quickly without reading them #and and and i haven't had time to reread the manga yet #so i only have a rough idea what is going on #patxaran replies #weywel #hxh