genuinely it's crazy how you can tell that ushijima's mother's family and their influence on him is like a fucking leash. like a goddamned dog collar. like something he was trained to wear. like, we see him with utsui before utsui leaves and utsui tells him good things!! important things!! things that wouldn't have made ushijima an asshole!! he tells ushijima that a strong team is one that has interesting people!! he tells ushijima that he'll combat all sorts of types!! strong types!! strange types!! new types!! he tells ushijima that these encounters will make him STRONGER!! the implication is that ushijima shouldn't believe he's the end-all-be-all because he doesn't get stronger that way!! he's meant to grow from acknowledging the strength of others!!
but then utsui takes off to the other side of the fucking world and ushijima is left with family who don't quite know what to do with him and don't quite understand him but still try to drill every bit of whatever they didn't promise utsui into his head, and the only space he feels safe in is where he meets someone who tells him that being strong is the only way to survive and it's the only out ushijima has, and so he grows up believing he cannot be anything else and that nobody should be anything else with his memories of utsui buried beneath a grave . . .
. . . until he's up against a boy who beat the odds he never could, a boy who helps him realize that there's more than one way to be strong, a boy who helps him remember his father, helps him remember no matter what you choose, wakatoshi, i hope you'll come to like volleyball, and ushijima thinks that, maybe, he's always had what he's been missing this whole time.
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Takashi Shiina Blog Translation - Comicalization of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
8/20/2021
Takashi Shiina's new work is unexpectedly a work by Rumiko Takahashi (lol)!
It all started a bit before “Yashahime” started being broadcasted. I was working on finishing Zettai Karen Children, and it went like “There’s no manga version? If no one is going to do it, I will after "Zettai Karen Children”, “Joking again lol”. Finally, I was really given permission to do it. In other words, I was the person who came up with the idea of the project, but in the end I made sure of it many times with the editor in charge like “Well then, I’m going to take this to Takahashi-sensei and Sunrise. "Is it ok? I-is it really ok to talk to them about it?”. Something like “Oh.. oh…? Well… more or less, we have nothing to lose…?”.
Takahashi-sensei's first reaction was, "Shiina-san? Are you serious?" (laughs). When I started Zettai Karen Children, Rumiko Takahashi consulted with me about this and that, and she was very kind to me. So the manga is a way of repaying the favor . . . . and a lie, I just wanted to do it. I'm sorry. Because it's a spin-off of "InuYasha," right? What kind of manga artist wouldn't want to draw it? (lol)
However, if I were to actually do it, "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon" would be based on "InuYasha", so first of all, Takahashi-sensei would have to give her blessing. And since it is an original work by Sunrise, it is also a world created by series composition writer Katsuyuki Sumisawa under the direction of director Teruo Sato, with various restrictions, so they too have their own ideas and concerns about the work. I wondered if I would be able to bring something new to it, something that would make sense for me as an artist to be involved in it. Even if I could, I wondered how far I would be allowed to go by the rights holders.
However, my fears were unfounded, and when I told them about the arrangement I had come up with, they readily agreed to allow me to proceed with the work as is, almost as freely as if it were Shiina's. How did the resulting work turn out?
I can only leave it up to the readers to decide what they think of the resulting work, and I can only hope that the people involved with "InuYasha" and "Yashahime" and the fans will like it. I'm doing my best, and I think it's not bad so far…but…I've made a mistake before…no, no, no…well, I guess it's no use now that I've come this far (that happens every time before a new series is published).
So, please look forward to the November 2021 issue of Sunday S (on sale around 9/25) to see what Shiina Takashi has cooked up and how he has finished his "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon"!
The second season of the anime "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon" will also be starting soon. Please look forward to it as well!
Source: https://cnanews.asablo.jp/blog/2021/08/20/9413275
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Toman groupchat
Warnings: suggestive, swearing, mentions of euthansia and suicide
Desc: Mikey has good news (lying)
Mikey: yo
Mikey: YO
Mikey: YOO
Draken: what?
Mitsuya: i'm not gonna lie Mikey, if this is some goofy shit i might actually beat your ass
Mikey: you're always so grumpy oh my god
Mikey: like there's a cactus that's constantly twisting and turning in your rectum
Mikey: can you let me live
Smiley: unnecessarily descriptive
Angry: ☹️
Mitsuya: i actually want you to drop dead
Mikey: bro i didn't even do anything😭
Mikey: Ken-chin get your twin bro
Kazutora: remember when Draken would insist on us calling Mitsuya his sworn brother
Draken: cause it's what he is
Draken: say it Mitsuya
Mitsuya: me and Draken are sworn brothers
Draken: born to live and die together
Mitsuya: chill
Smiley: Draken's so intense sometimes lmao
Takemitchy: i can never tell if he's trolling or not
Mikey: i literally called you guys here for a reason but ok
Baji: Draken thinks he's so cool cause he's 6'2
Draken: yeah
Draken: amongst other things
Baji: like what 🤨
Draken: my abs
Draken: my hair
Draken: my tattoo
Draken: my scars
Draken: so many things yk
Draken: i'm just great like that
Baji: i actually hate him
Mikey: HELLO
Chifuyu: Baji-san, even if you don't have some of those things you're still cool!
Hakkai: you're making it worse man😟
Baji: shut up Chifuyu
Takemitchy: guys wasn't Mikey-kun saying something😅
Smiley: you smell so bad
Smiley: i had to say it
Takemitchy: ah😦
Chifuyu: axe body spray head ass
Mikey: i don't think he smells🤨
Smiley: that's cause you smell too LMAO
Smiley: you're B.O is HORRIBLE
Smiley: the smells cancel each other out😁
Angry: Smiley stop😡
Smiley: don't use that emoji Souya, they're gonna make fun of you
Angry: if you can use the Smiley emoji then why can't i use the Angry emoji
Smiley: idk i'm cooler
Angry: :(
Smiley: i was kidding
Angry: ...
Smiley: you want another plushie?
Angry: :) 💙
Smiley: ...
Smiley: 🧡
Draken: that was kinda wholesome
Takemitchy: aww
Smiley: shut the fuck up before i cave your fucking skull in
Takemitchy: ok chill😭
Draken: can i leave now
Mikey: I WAS TRYNA SAY SMTH THO
Baji: hurry up then
Baji: Tora and i need to finish
Mikey: finish what?🤨
Smiley: the implications of that sentence?🤨
Draken: 🤨
Mitsuya: 🤨
Hakkai: 🤨
Baji: if anyone else sends that motherfucking emoji so help me god
Takemitchy: 🤨
*baji has gone offline*
Takemitchy: WAIT NO
Takemitchy: WE SENT IT AT THE SAME TIME
Takemitchy: BAJI-KUN
Takemitchy: PLEASE
Takemitchy: I DIDN'T SEE THE MESSAGE
Takemitchy: C'MON MAN😭
Kazutora: we're finishing a game btw😐
Mikey: anyway!
Draken: GET TO THE FUCKING POINT MIKEY
Mikey: okok
Mikey: so, good news everybody
Mikey: GRANDPA MIGHT LET ME GET EUTHANASIA IN CANADA❗
Draken: that's not funny😐
Takemitchy: i don't really know what that means but i'm sure you'll look great Mikey-kun💛
Chifuyu: dude...
Kazutora: smart move bro
Kazutora: don't wanna be getting anyone pregnant👌
Mitsuya: ?????
Smiley: ayo...
Kazutora: what?
Hakkai: this is so unserious
Mitsuya: what the fuck do you think getting euthanasia means Kazutora???
Kazutora: um, like when females get their embryos tied or some shit like that, but for males
Draken: ?????
Mitsuya: it's not even close...
Mitsuya: how did you come to that conclusion...
Takemitchy: wait is this serious, what does it mean?😭
Smiley: what do you think it means??
Takemitchy: like a beauty treatment or something?
Takemitchy: right?
Draken: no...
Draken: Euthanasia is medically ending a persons life to relieve suffering or assisted suicide for the same reason
Draken: it's only legal in 7 countries
Takemitchy: 😧
Takemitchy: Mikey-kun that's not funny
Mitsuya: but how did you guys get to those conclusions
Mitsuya: i don't get it
Mikey: y'all were suppose to be happy for me but ok
Mikey: what happened to being supportive huh
Mikey: y'all just killed my vibe fr
Mikey: ...
Mikey: same way they gon be killing me in that hospital❗
Mikey: LMAO
Mikey: i'ma log off
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i think mitsuya would have a really big praise kink.
i headcanon that he’s more of a pleasure/soft dom in bed, so you obviously get to hear all the nice groans and words he has for you. he’d love to tell you how much of a good girl you are for taking his cock after a long day, or when you squirt he makes sure to tell you that you’re the best girl he’s ever had.
“yeah.. fuck, you’re such a good girl..” “can never get enough of this pussy.”
his praising alone could make you cum <33. he’s such a vocal guy.
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