Takashi Natsume Whump | Natsumes Book of Friends
1x01 Slammed against tree, trips, lonely childhood, pinned
1x02 Head grabbed x2, nightmare, passes out (18:30)
1x03 Lonely childhood, jumped, [flashback; heartbroken, crying]
1x04 Falls down the stairs
1x05 Restrained x2
1x06 Passes out, possessed, head thwacked, elbowed, nearly trampled, crying
1x08 Falls off cliff, trips
1x09 Trips, caught mid-air (kinda hot ngl), nightmare, restrained x2, choked, caught in spell
1x10 Pinned, possessed, carried, sneeze, nightmare, jumps off cliff, unconscious
1x12 Cursed, worsening pain, head thwacked, trips
1x13 Trips
2x01 Ball to the face, choked, nose thwacked, pinned, grabbed
2x02 Nightmare, choked, hands burned
2x03 Restrained, dragged, nightmare, subconsciously crying
2x04 Trips
2x05 Fever, passes out (10:10)
2x06 Nightmare, cursed, captured
2x07 Missing/captured, restrained by the neck x2, falls down cliff, rope burns, poisoned/youkai blindness, head thwacked, knocked down, passes out
2x08 Thrown out the window, choked, drowning
2x09 Uppercutted, freaked out x2, coughing, knocked unconscious, fever, passes out
2x10 Chewed, weak
2x11 Arm bit
2x12 Uppercutted, bullied, hand bleeding, bandaged, tackled
2x13 Depressed, restrained, knocked unconscious
3x01 Passes out (06:30), collapse/unconscious (09:35), shoulder painfully bit
3x02 Choked
3x03 Lonely/bullied childhood, nightmare, snatched
3x04 [Childhood; bullied, ambushed x10, crying]
3x05 Choked, freaked out x3, mini-smacked x18, SNATCHED, knocked unconscious
3x06 Choked, dropped from the sky, knocked down x3, pinned, dragged, knocked unconscious
3x07 Captured, restrained, large fall down cave, grazed by arrow, bleeding, knocked down, held
3x09 Falls down bridge, freaked out (09:00), pinned, crying (happy tears :)), fingers pricked x4, knocked unconscious, nurses bed
3x10 Mirror absorbs into eye, great eye pain x5, head grabbed
3x11 Mirror absorbs into eye, hit with hammer
3x12 Collapse, fever, nightmare/jolted awake, subconsciously crying [Flashback; knocked unconscious, flown off a cliff, hospitalized, crying]
3x13 Lonely childhood, falls into pit
4x01 Manhandled, choked, knocked down, captured, briefly unconscious, restrained, catslapped
4x02 Imprisoned, knocked down, falls down slope
4x03 Hands scratched up, poisoned, pain, choked, cheek grazed, restrained
4x04 Pinned, protected
4x05 [Flashbacks; lonely, neglected]
4x06 Trapped in a bottle
4x07 Trapped cont., scared, collapse, exhausted
4x09 Knocked off the balcony, knocked unconscious (log trap)
4x10 Panicked running/trips, passes out, sick from exhaustion
4x11 Passes out, nightmare, parent lore, denial, crying, emotional pain
4x12 Childhood bullies/trauma, manipulated, restrained, catslapped, possessed
4x13 Possessed cont., unconscious, [Childhood; emotional pain x3, scared, bullied, hit x20], choked, crying
5x01 Nightmare, jolted awake, passes out, scared, squeezed
5x03 Blackmailed
5x04 Choked x3, manhandled
5x05 Unconscious (20:20)
5x06 Pinned, voice taken, soft coughing x5
5x07 Passes out
5x09 Tired as fork
5x10 (Different POV of 3x16; Lonely, bandaged/after hospital)
5x11 Fever, collapse, hallucinating, very sick for multiple days, headache, nightmare, worsening sickness
5x12 Passes out, carried
5x13 Repetitive nightmare, tired
6x01 Transformed as child, amnesia, manipulated, terrified
6x03 Freaked out x3, pinned
6x04 Knocked off roof, pinned, SNATCHED
6x05 Head bonked, awakes/cared for
6x06 [Flashbacks; lonely, nightmare, found unconscious]
6x10 Squeezed
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I sometimes see people wondering when Reiko died exactly and how old her daughter was at the time of her death, but we do, in fact, already have a little bit of an answer to this in canon.
Now this is something that is only implied, but in the very first chapter of the manga, during the conversation Natsume has with Nyanko-sensei the first time he reveals his true form and right before our first Reiko flashback, we have this line (that was cut off from the anime):
[NATSUME: She [Reiko] may not have been able to relate well to others... Not many people even remember her, since she died so young. Not even her own daughter...]
[NATSUME: 確かに祖母は人とうまくつきあえなかったらしい
彼女を憶えている 「人」はほとんでいないんだ
娘だった母でさえ記憶にないくらい若くして亡くなっていて・・・・・・]
This is the official English translation, while the fan translation has this:
"There aren't that many people who remember her. She died so young that even my mom, her daughter, probably didn't remember her..."
This leaves some more uncertainty in the phrasing, but the meaning is basically the same. The original Japanese, "母でさえ記憶にないくらい若くして亡くなっていて" is a bit closer to the fan translation in a literal sense, except in Japanese there is no "probably"; Natsume sounds pretty certain his mother didn't remember Reiko.
So, if "not even her own daughter" remembered Reiko, it's fair to assume that she must have died when Takashi's mom was still a child, and a really young one at that.
(I suppose you could maybe make an argument that Reiko could have still died when the daughter was older, but then something happened that made her forget? But that doesn't seem likely to me.)
Now, this was the very first chapter written 20 years ago, back when NatsuYuu still wasn't supposed to become a long series with much of an overarching narrative, so maybe it's something that could change later. Midorikawa has definitely retconned some details in her story before. But for now that's still one of the only crumb of information we have about this.
Which, if this is correct, then it's very sad because that means Reiko only lived with her daughter for a handful of years at most and never even got to see her grow up. And given we know the grandfather wasn't around and Reiko was a single mom, then the daughter probably spent most of her childhood without her parents, and barely knew anything about either of them (or, well, nothing at all in the father's case).
Which also begs the question as to who raised Reiko's daughter after her death then. We knows Reiko had no family, and no one know anything about the grandfather, so there was no relative, even distant ones, to look after her like with Takashi.
Did she just end up in the foster system/an orphanage, or did someone specific took care of her? If so, does that mean there was a person close enough to Reiko that would have taken care of her child like this? Did the daughter just carry the Book of Friends with herself all this time? Did she knows what the Book of Friends even was, or anything about her mother's abilities? During the eastern forest arc, Takashi says that his mother didn't have any spiritual powers, but then again he never met her or know anything about her at all, so who knows how much that can be true.
Regardless, there's something particularly tragic about the idea that each generation of the Natsumes grew up as isolated orphans who barely knew anything about their family.
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Autistic Anime Boys Side A Round 2 Match 16
Propaganda:
Shintarou -
"shintarou autism facts:
has inappropriately strong emotional reactions to comparatively mild stimuli (his sister says one offhand rude comment to him and he has a meltdown about being a failure of a brother)
hits his head against walls when stressed (during the aforementioned meltdown)
low understanding of the "appropriate" way to talk to people or communicate himself in social situations (commonly described as rude, blunt, and abrupt, or as by saying things which have different meanings then what he says)
low social skills (he doesn't go outside for 2 years because other people scare him, and the only person he talks to is the girl on his computer because he literally can't get away from her) (when talking to people he varies wildly from being a quiet, stuttering mess and becoming extremely agitated and shouting at the top of his voice)
hyperfocuses on tasks to the point he neglects his physical health
says he's a "picky eater" (propaganda via @aceofjesters)
Takashi -
"He was rejected his whole life because he was "different" and the only thing he knows is that his grandma was like him. His whole story can be seen as an autism metaphor, and especially about the traumas and isolation that often come with being autistic, it deeply resonate with the autistic experience and that's why his story is so beautiful and I love his character so much."
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