#the kurosawa family

[kurosawa-family]

Diabolik Lovers Oc's as Vines (Holidays Edition, Part 2!)

Warning: Cursing.

The Kurosawa Family and Shoma Komori belong to me.

Mystic Tsukinami, Kazuha Tsukinami, Desdemona Jomei and Elle Laurent (plus this version of Carla and Shin Tsukinami) belong to @dj-diabolik-fan.

Ryuuto Sakamaki belongs to @the-mostdiabolik-of-lovers.

This version of Ruki Mukami belong to @goldazu.

Virek Sutcliffe belong to @poohwhin.

Scarlett Wakahisa belongs to @the-precious-sugar-chan/@kindan-no-kanojo.

Claudia belongs to @hattori-ryuu02.

Tomoky Masamune belongs to @supersweetlyuniquebouquetstuff.

Merry Christmas, everyone! And Happy new year!

#multifandom #multifandom ocs #multifandom oc #diabolik lovers ocs #diabolik lovers oc #diabolik lovers oc blogs #diabolik lovers oc blog #the kurosawa family #kurosawa family #Yvonne Beauchene #August Kurosawa #Convoitise Kurosawa #Aimer Kurosawa #Hela Kurosawa #Volker Kurosawa #Varick Kurosawa #Shoma Komori #mystic tsukinami #kazuha tsukinami #carla tsukinami #shin tsukinami #Desdemona Jomei #Elle Laurent #Scarlett Wakahisa #Virek Sutcliffe #Tomoky Masamune #Claudia #Ruki Mukami

[komori--shoma]

The Cow Outfits, Part 1

Here you go, you filthy sinners.

#Ask Shoma Komori #Ask Shoma #Ask The Kurosawa Family #the kurosawa family #kurosawa family #shoma komori #komori shoma #Convoitise Kurosawa #Aimer Kurosawa #August Kurosawa #The Cow Outfits #scandalous ask #scandalous tag #scandalous stuff #scandalous!

[animeshon-anime-by-blbambeyond]

CHERRY MAGIC! THIRTY YEARS OF VIRGINITY CAN MAKE YOU A WIZARD (2024, JAPAN)

Kurosawa and Adachi each can't hold back what they've been feeling. Culminating in Adachi lost of not only his virginity but his newly acquired "wizard powers" of hearing thoughts of the ones he touches.

@pose4photoml

#ANIMĒSHON-ANIME #CHERRY MAGIC JAPAN #ANIME VERSION #THIS IS REALLY GOOD #AVAILABLE ON CRUNCHYROLL #AVAILABLE ON GAGAOOLALA (FOR SOME) #KUROSAWA AND ADACHI TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL #My GIFS #MYGIFSET #MY-GIF-EDIT #BL-BAM-BEYOND FAMILY OF BLOGS

[waitmyturtles]

TL;DR: My analysis of the quiet tone of the Cherry Magic movie -- the overarching theme of the movie was the development of family between Adachi and Kurosawa. 

Well, I’ve turned this space temporarily into a Cherry Magic hovel, a kind of messy sanctuary, really, maybe a cave full of hoarded passing thoughts, rising and cresting emotions, lots of SIIIIGGGHHS, at least two and a half re-watches of the movie, many reblogs, plummeting away my phone battery on consuming more and more gifsets. I regret not being here on Tumblr for the original series, but I feel like I’m more than making up for it by doing all I can to contribute to the dialogue around the movie, which I want to continue doing, meta-style!

Two things have cropped up in my reads of reviews here and on Twitter, one about the tone of the movie, and the other about the pace of growth between Adachi and Kurosawa. I think the first point goes into the second, so here we go:

I’ve seen a lot of comments about how the movie was quieter than the series. I reblogged a quick statement on quiet Japanese BLs earlier this weekend, and I also learned a bit about what the OG CM fandom hoped for with the original series way back when, when there were rumors of a real kiss for the final episode, and how the fandom was slightly let down. 

I think there’s an interesting dichotomy between heat and quiet in the kind of Japanese BLs I tend towards. If you read this space, y’all know my top three -- CM, Kinou Nani Tabeta, and Old Fashion Cupcake -- generally trend toward the quiet, with the slight exception of OFC, which turns up the heat in a panicked moment of revelation.

As I thought about this point, I asked myself -- why the draw towards quiet development and/or contemplation?

For me, all three of these dramas, especially KNT, center on family -- actively creating family, dealing with existing family, and/or managing expectations of creating a future family. 

If you’re Asian, as I am, the thinking on and managing of family issues is, in my opinion, the dominant issue that you spend the majority of your life dealing with. That’s not to say that in Western lifetimes, less time is spent on family issues. What I mean to say is that family issues, I would argue, take up more of your brain space and your sense of morality and ethical engagement in humanity if you’re an Asian, as opposed to the manifest destiny of the West. When I was right out of college, for instance, and rolling with a majority white hipster crew at that moment, my friends would comment on how I’d visit my family’s house once a month. That was tooooo much for them. And they’d legit tell me -- you care too much about your family, you need to separate yourself from them.

These are surface-scratching statements, and if you’re Asian, I know you’ll immediately guffaw at how ridiculous and impossible it would be to even BEGIN contemplating how to “separate yourself” from your family. It’s taken me a LOT of my old lady years to even come to grips with the fact that I needed to live an independent life away from the expectations of my family. And for hundreds of millions of people in our Asian cultures, those Western notions of “separation” and “independence” simply don’t exist. You can cohabitate, be co-dependent on, be enabled by your family, and that is just fine. Family is the structure that gives meaning to the lives of many Asians, without question. 

So to say that the movie tends towards the quiet, I think, possibly bypasses what I think is a major point that the movie is trying to make, both in a cultural arc and in the actual storyline: We are seeing Adachi and Kurosawa making a family together, THEIR family together. 

IMHO, the king of family-oriented BLs was KNT. Both Yoshinaga Fumi, the mangaka behind KNT, and Adachi Naoko, KNT’s screenwriter, deliberately gilded the KNT script with the tadaima and okaeri greetings that you hear when someone comes home at the end of the day. That set-up was meant to indicate that Shiro-san and Kenji considered themselves family to each other -- because, you might be saying tadaima to your parents when you’re a child, or your spouse as an adult. 

The clues to Adachi’s thinking about family are apparent. There’s the moment where he gives advice to his chief about the chief’s complaining wife. There’s the moment in the office when Rokakku and Fujisaki are talking about their lives, the very moment in their lives where they are single but happy at work and with friends. There’s the moment when Adachi picks up the mail and sees his name and Kurosawa’s name, while coming home. 

And of course, the gorgeous moment in the kitchen when Adachi states his desire for a public and permanently committed relationship with Kurosawa. 

Adachi is creating his new family in that moment. 

I want to tie this together with a comment I read on Twitter about how Adachi’s personal growth matched Kurosawa breaking down his walls of perfection, and how he originally projected his perfectionist nature on their relationship. We remember in the series Kurosawa being ULTRA cute in the office after Adachi’s original confession, saying he was going to create the best first date ever; and then all the practice dates they had; and all the planning that went into the Christmas date. 

Those walls began breaking down a little bit in the last episode of the series, and we saw that even more as the movie began, when we realized that they had not, indeed, bonked, as we thought they had, on Christmas Eve. When Adachi’s hunger interrupted their potential love sesh, Kurosawa was like, WEEEEELLLL, through gritted teeth -- I’ll still be patient for Adachi. 

That’s life. But as I originally wrote in my first review of the movie, what I didn’t expect to see in the film was that the movie would be utterly dominated by Adachi’s internal growth INTO the relationship, and how that ultimately steadied Kurosawa to be okay to be weak in front of Adachi, and in his own (Kurosawa’s) life. We know this is a HUGE DEAL, a HUUUUGE DEAL for Kurosawa. He mentions it in the essay he writes for Adachi’s family. He states it as a major point of being devoted to Adachi to his (Kurosawa’s) mother. Breaking down his walls is a major life moment for Kurosawa -- and it would not have happened without Adachi becoming his family.

Because -- family, often, is about rejiggering and redefining one’s boundaries, and creating new ones with the people you’ve chosen. If you’ve chosen well, and right, like our boys did, then your partner gives you the strength to do this major lifting.

AND: where else do we see these boundaries being rejiggered, besides between Adachi and Kurosawa themselves?

We see them in the family scenes. I think that the movie devoted a LOT of time to the family scenes says a lot about what I said earlier about Asian cultures.

I swear to jebus that I nearly had multiple heart attacks during the family scenes. Besides Kurosawa’s mom’s very apparent sadness and confusion, Adachi’s mom had me at moments, even though she outed herself as a fujoshi, basically, lol, when Kurosawa showed up. Why the heart attacks?

These confronting kinds of conversations to family about things like marriage -- I mean, I don’t know if I have the words to describe HOW MOTHERFUCKING HUGE THESE CONVERSATIONS CAN BE FOR MANY ASIANS. Like -- these conversations can be the culmination of a lifetime. They can destroy you. Y’all, if I wrote about what happened to me when my family learned I was dating my husband (in a cishetero relationship, peeps! Interracial and interfaith, yes, but otherwise, not really rocking the boat here!), I probably wouldn’t finish writing without breaking down in tears for an hour. It was horrible. My family couldn’t handle the growth, simply put. 

This Asian family dynamic that an individual’s original nuclear family unit carries SO MUCH WEIGHT IN THEIR APPROVAL OF WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU DO -- I emphasize here that this theme was major in the movie. The movie NEEDED to spend time on this in order to achieve Adachi’s dream of permanence with Kurosawa. Adachi NEEDED to tell Kurosawa that he (Adachi) would be present in front of Kurosawa’s parents -- because Adachi KNEW that Kurosawa would NEED Adachi there, because of how BIG that BIG CONVERSATION would be. I’m talking BIG, here, BIG. And I believe that the movie’s OG Japanese audience understands this very implicitly and very, very deeply.

Adachi NEEDED to grow into himself -- he needed to lose his magic, his crutch -- and needed to FIND himself to be the strength and pillar that Kurosawa would need to face his family. I want to take this point, make it into a Cherry Magic teddy bear, brand it with Gelato Pique, and place it on a mantle. 

In order to face their families, our guys needed to become family. And that’s why I think the movie tended towards the quiet -- because THAT kind of growth takes a lot of internal work that comes out in the quiet moments of intimacy with the people you’ve chosen and you love. 

#cherry magic #cherry magic meta #cherry magic the movie #cherry magic the movie meta #adachi kiyoshi #kurosawa yuichi #akaso eiji #machida keita #adachi x kurosawa #kurosawa x adachi #kurodachi #asian family dynamics #asian family culture #family boundaries #asian families

[lucreciaart]

Soon-to-be Kurosawa family in a nutshell   🥺💖

#Detective Conan #Miyano Shiho #Haibara Ai #Kurosawa Jin #GinSherry #Actors AU #Lucrecia's art #I would die for this little Actors AU family 🥺

[mino-diabolik]

Wedding Memory

@kurosawa-family

[Admin!Danny: Colorized newlywed husbands 🫶✨]

#diabolikloversoc #mystic tsukinami #aimer kurosawa #aimic #kurosawa-family #mi arte #my art

[madeinjapan-thailand-blbambeyond]

MADE IN JAPAN

MICHIDA KIETA

AKASO EIJI

#MADE IN JAPAN #THAILAND-JAPAN BLOG #JAPANESE PHENOMENAL BL SERIES #THE ORIGINAL #THE BEST #KUROSAWA ADACHI #ADACHI CAN'T IGNORE KUROSAWA #From My Main Blog: BL-BAM-BEYOND #My GIFS #MYGIFSET #MY-GIF-EDIT #BL-BAM-BEYOND FAMILY OF BLOGS #THIS ONE AND THE NEW ANIME IS THE ONLY CHERRY MAGIC FOR ME

[mifunebooty]

I guess it was a good ending but melancholia was still boring I wish it was just about a depressed woman getting married

#cherry says #U TRY TO BE TARKOVSKY SO HARD DONT YOU IF YOURE A NORTH EUROPEAN U CANT IMAGINE BEING RUSSIAN SO SHUT UP #And i stopped watching tarkovsky for Kurosawa but dont start #to have bleakness in life u must have a heart within tenderness and compassion can come loneliness and depression and isolation u dont know #i wish it was more about that the sisters manipulation towards charlotte that makes her grieve #it should've been more about family abuse but alright

[honeygleam]

rhapsody in august (1991) dir. akira kurosawa

#八月の狂詩曲 #rhapsody in august #akira kurosawa #richard gere #sachiko murase #mitsunori isaki #tomoko ohtakara #film aesthetic #film stills #film #japan aesthetic #japanese film #family drama #east asian cinema #90s movies #90s nostalgia #90s aesthetic

[kindan-no-kanojo]

"... You are..."

"... The goodest Kitty I've ever met..." 🥺

Based on this interaction with @kurosawa-family's Convoitise 🏃🏻‍♀️ RIP Scarlett's matrix 😭 she deserved a down terrible simp tho

Art by me. Do not repost!

#Scarlett Wakahisa #Convoitise Kurosawa #kurosawa-family #.i will not waste the chance to draw heart-eyed concon ok 🗿 #.i tried to made a side-by-side thingie for once 😩 1st person simp concon view is a must #.i think i captured the moment where she *knew* she was fucked up pretty well 🗿 FDJDHG #.omg nvm this is like the Simp View™ #💘ConCon #💖. ConLett #🖌️. 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝

[kurosawa-family]

Diabolik Lovers Oc's as Vines

Warning: Some of these are suggestive.

Elle, DJ, Judas, Mystic Tsukinami and Kazuha Tsukinami belong to @dj-diabolik-fan

This version of Ruki Mukami belongs to @goldazu

Scarlett Wakahisa belongs to @kindan-no-kanojo

Virek Sutcliffe belongs to @sutcliffe-v

Ryuuto Sakamaki belongs to @fruit-of-infidelity

The rest of the characters belong to Rejet.

#diabolik lovers #diabolik ocs #diabolik oc #diabolik lovers oc blogs #diabolik lovers ocs #diabolik lovers oc blog #diabolik lovers oc #the kurosawa family #kurosawa family #August Kurosawa #Yvonne Beauchene #Convoitise Kurosawa #Aimer Kurosawa #Hela Kurosawa #Varick Kurosawa #Volker Kurosawa #Mystic Tsukinami #Kazuha Tsukinami #Ruki Mukami #Virek Sutcliffe #scarlett wakahisa #Judas #Shin Tsukinami #Carla Tsukinami #Elle Laurent #Desdemona

[animeshon-anime-by-blbambeyond]

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You A WIZARD!! (2024, JAPAN)

Episode 2 (CRUNCHYROLL)

@pose4photoml @bengiyo

#ANIMĒSHON-ANIME #EPISODE 2 #JAPANESE ANIME #CHERRY MAGIC #ANIME BL #ADACHI AND KUROSAWA #AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON CRUNCHYROLL #My GIFS #MYGIFSET #MY-GIF-EDIT #BL-BAM-BEYOND FAMILY OF BLOGS

[bl-bam-beyond]

A LOOK BACK at ADACHI & KUROSAWA

Part 1

30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii (2020, JAPAN)

Adachi Kiyoshi (AKASO EIJI) is basically harassed by co-worker Urabe Kengo (TANAKA SUZUNOSUKE) about his impending birthday with his status as a virgin.

Teasing that if he turns 30 without losing his virginity it will make him a wizard. So Urabe suggest a single female co-worker for Adachi.

@pose4photoml @lutawolf

#CHERRY MAGIC! THIRTY YEARS OF VIRGINITY CAN MAKE YOU A WIZARD! #CHERRY MAGIC JAPAN #THE ORIGINAL #ADACHI & KUROSAWA #ANNOYING CO-WORKER #HARASSMENT FROM AN A-HOLE #CRUNCHYROLL #AWAITING NEW CHERRY MAGIC ANIME #My GIFS #MYGIFSET #MY-GIF-EDIT #BL-BAM-BEYOND FAMILY OF BLOGS #A LOOK BACK

[ahjuummas]

am I crying at the sight of seven people having dinner? yes, yes I am

#it's the warmness.. #it's the joy of having a new family member #it's kurosawa and adachi feeling loved... #cherry magic

[mino-diabolik]

DL as TikToks ⭐️ once more

[Admin!Danny: Tumblr didn’t like the vid so here we are. Anyways—hope y’all do tho🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️]

@sutcliffe-v @ruki--mukami @iricathel @kurosawa-family @kindan-no-kanojo

#[the way I literally finished this and collapsed to sleep 😭] #diabolikloversoc #mystic tsukinami #virek sutcliffe #sutcliffe-v #ruki mukami #ruki--mukami #irina avenel #iricathel #scarlett wakahisa #kindan-no-kanojo #aimer kurosawa #varick kurosawa #volker kurosawa #kurosawa-family #crackpost #shitpost #danny #mis pendejadas #mystictsukinami

[ruki--mukami]

💭 + Shoma or The Kurosawa Family if you want to 👀 (I wanted to send an interesting topic but fuck it :') Feel free to delete! )

𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓬𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓷𝓼 — send 💭 + a topic to receive a headcanon about said topic.

"Shoma is sweet one moment then immensely troubled the next, which often puzzles yet intrigues me to learn more about her. That includes her family as well, though I cannot fathom how all of them happen to be vile recreants. One of them is as tall as an elephant, one has gotten in banned in who knows how many countries, and the list goes on. Even so, I hope to make a decent impression on them. It would be a shame indeed if I could no longer while away the time with Shoma, after all. It's surprisingly a joy to tease her over the most insignificant matters or even relax together when all is said and done."

🧩 Ruki & Shoma and a bit of the Kurosawa Family Headcanons 🧩

Thanks to Shoma's warning, Ruki already knows that her family is most likely too wild for him to handle. However, she hasn't given him much of a reason to torment her other than what he deems harmless teasing (other than potential bloodsucking in her future). With that said, he actually puts forth his best effort to appear a respectable Vampire and acts civilly around the Kurosawa family.

However, when they're not around, they enjoy idling away the time with frequent book discussions or perhaps even completing a jigsaw puzzle which Ruki is very eager about. While he prefers the blank ones, he wouldn't mind trying out some puzzles that are more to Shoma's liking.

#diabolik lovers #ruki mukami #mukami ruki #headcanon meme #shoma komori #komori--shoma #kurosawa family