#twewy anime spoilers

[gramophoneturtle]

A post stream doodle and edit I posted to the bird app that I wanted to cross post before I forget about them and they get lost.

The first was after working on the POWER prompt comic. It was going to be 4 pages and this was one of the panels I was working on. I got side tracked working on the fashion disaster character which eventually became Father. I forgot a design option was to give him a beanie but...he will get it. After I break his heart~. He will need more fluff to recover.

The second...I think we were talking about certain hair styles, and decided to give a certain someone a bit of a clean up.

#twewy #the world ends with you #twewy spoilers #the world ends with you spoilers #father twewy oc #kinda #sho minamimoto #stabbing #yoshiya joshua kiryu #joshua kiryu #hazuki mikagi #twewy anime spoilers #the world ends with you the animation spoilers #are those the right tags? let me know if i messed up #ntwewy #neo the world ends with you #my art #my twewy series art

[rainydizzy]

No thought. Only twewy.

#twewy #twewy anime #ntwewy #the world ends with you #kiryu yoshiya #twewy joshua #neo the world ends with you #sho minamimoto #twewy neku #neku sakuraba #twewy rindo #twewy fret #twewy beat #rindo kanade #tosai furesawa #daisukenojo bito #minamimoto my beloved #ntwewy spoilers

[kayoi1234]

Started playing the first twewy on the 3ds and I have come to some conclusions:

Neku is a major dick

Due the game originally being for the Nintendo DS, the audio is so incredibly compressed. It's so crunchy now

#txt #kayoi bullshits again #the world ends with you #twewy #no spoilers please #although I did watch the anime but I'm treating it like it doesn't exist

[abnormallynice]

Twitter polls have spoken~

Animal eared TWEWY characters : NEO ver 🙌

#my art #twewy fanart #ntwewy #ntwewy fanart #rindo kanade #fret furesawa #nagi usui #shoka sakurane #sho minamimoto #animal ears #leopard #dog #sika deer #swallow #lion #black lion #neo twewy #neo the world ends with you #ntwewy spoilers #twewy spoilers

[ngc-5194]

woe joshua be upon ye

#twewy #twewy spoilers #joshua kiryu #neku sakuraba #sanae hanekoma #.. kinda #i had to watch the anime for this </3 #n e ways i have even more posts saved for him so expect more. at. some point #lemon blossoms #joshua

[purplelea]

Imagine Neku spending his whole week with Joshua complaining that he misses his bestie Shiki only to end up in the RG and reuniting with her and complaining that he misses his worstie Joshua

No actually no need to imagine. That's canon. That's exactly what happened.

#his guilt over Shiki is way more emphasized in the anime #'you should've seen her. how big she smiled' #and then you take Neku's monologue at the end obviously #'see you there?' #poor guy just wants to have all of his friends at the same time is it really too much to ask #twewy #twewy spoilers #joshua kiryu #shiki misaki #neku sakuraba #joshnekushiki #yes i'll tag this because i can <3

[pennyanims]

Joshua's Sacrifice Animatic

#joshua kiryu #the world ends with you #twewy fanart #twewy joshua #yoshiya kiryu #joshua #twewy spoilers #art #artists on tumblr #animation #neo twewy

[vilmublue]

Since TWEWY loves its little biblical references like Angels (duh,) Joshua's name referencing a biblical figure and being close to a version of Jesus' name, him being called Him and being a god-like being walking around in human form, the villainous Conductor being a snake, Joshua opening up his arms when seemingly sacrificing himself so his pose resembles a cross, and this very, very subtle part:

I wonder if the part in the anime where Joshua reveals his betrayal and responsibility for Neku's death is a Judas reference.

He walks up to him and seemingly leans for a kiss when he reveals what he's done, but doesn't actually do that (I think even Josh would think that kissing someone and going "btw I killed you lol" would be a bit too much.)

...Or maybe it's not referencing that at all and it's just our good friend Josh doing his usual gay shit.

#The World Ends with You #TWEWY #Joshua Kiryu #Neku Sakuraba #anime #games #twewy spoilers #vilmu posts

[smallphoenix13]

when you’re playing ntwewy and you’re at week 1, day 7, knowing you’re about to get a new party member

#my brain sees the word ‘beat’ and i automatically think of the character. big serotonin boost tbh #also I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again. babymetal on twewy ost. screw the no anime rule. #twewy #ntwewy #ntwewy spoilers #neo: the world ends with you #the world ends with you #beat bito #daisukenojo bito

[lascivuscorvus-twewy]

It's too cold outside For angels to fly

#twewy joshua #neo the world ends with you #twewy anime #the world ends with you #neo twewy #twewy #joshua kiryu #kiryu yoshiya #yoshiya kiryu #subarashiki kono sekai #twewy spoilers

[gellofello]

still pissed that 777 got erased. like. for what

#twewy spoilers #i guess #but only for the games #heard he survives the anime! resistance to change in the adaptation vs. Ok But I Like Him FIGHT #twewy #twewy 777

[gramophoneturtle]

Some photoshopped NEO Joshuas and some Composer versions cause I was feeling rusty. Plus some before and after gifs cause it was cool seeing the changes.

The Composer versions are actual redraws but for the human forms I just drew on top of the anime screenshots cause I was feeling lazy and wanted to try and keep the anime feel. I thought it might be easier but honestly I don't think it was because of the gradients they use on top.

Tagging @rainbow-nijisaki and @black-quadrant since apparently we were all thinking of anime NEO Joshua about the same time. I was doing Composer form redraws from anime screenshots when the redraws were first posted by rainbow-nijisaki, (so if you like these and you haven't seen those ones, please go check them out!) which inspired me to try some human NEO Joshuas. I guess we had anime related Joshuas on the mind!

#ntwewy #ntwewy spoilers #neo the world ends with you spoilers #neo the world ends with you #yoshiya joshua kiryu #joshua kiryu #gif #redraws #screenshot edits #twewy #twewy spoilers #twewy the animation #the world ends with you the animation #it started cause I was cleaning up my joshua refs - which is why some of these are cropped and some are combined screenshots #i saw them and thought: dang these would be good expression practices for neo composer joshua #and i'm so rusty with composer form holy heck #also big appreciation for drawing neo josh from not his like...only two angles we have. and trying to make it look official. his hair sucks #my favourite neo one is probably the first one honestly. composer wise i dunno - i still feel super rusty. glad i did it #my art #my twewy series art

[newtgati]

Ok I just got it.

Sanae Hanekoma

Sanae Ha NEKO ma

Neko=CAT

Either that was really obvious and it’s amazing I didn’t get that till now or wow the cat motif is just everywhere. I’ve been in this fandom for so long and just got this, I learn something new everyday about this series it’s great XD

#twewy #twewy final remix #twewy the animation #sanae hanakoma #twewy spoilers #also I do know the Neku one #I shoulda known this game is filled with double meanings

[astrxealis]

WAIT YOU LIKE THE WORLD ENDS WITH YOU TOO!?!?!?

I DO!!! i have not played either game or watched the animation YET. but i have been interested & like twewy ever since neo released <3

#or b4 release even KFBEKFNS IDK. but <33 i've been wanting to get into it more for a while now AAAA #so far i've just done the neo demo and know a Few spoilers ?? barely any ?? :O will watch the animation soon hopefully hehe #⋯ ꒰ა my galaxy ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა letters of stardust ໒꒱ *·˚ #— marilove! ♡ #I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE INTO TWEWY TOO OMG ... this now marks 3 mutuals (not including my twin) <333 AAAA LET'S GO !!!

[sabaramonds]

the intimacy of possession: a glimpse into hyde-brand formative yaoi

hello, everyone! i mentioned once or twice here on tumblr and several times over on twitter, but my good friend @tshirt3000​ organized a zine among its friends with the topic being yaoi. specifically, formative or otherwise largely influential yaoi in our lives or what yaoi means to us. a few topics came to mind when this was presented before me. one of those topics was murder or violence as a love language and the overlap between joshneku (twewy) and akeshu (p5). however i would have had to replay both games because its been so long and i didnt have the time; luckily someone else discussed joshneku (which made me super happy to see) so thats another essay for another day. instead i ended up writing about - you guessed it - possession, and not of the material kind. in my entry i discuss how i view it and use several ships that impacted me greatly enough to definitely qualify as ‘formative yaoi’. the following will contain spoilers for: yu gi oh (the manga), kagerou project (the light novels), and season 1 of the kekkai sensen/blood blockade battlefront anime adaption. you can find the full zine, all 81 pages of it!, over here. the digital pdf is free to read, so please enjoy it at your leisure. so, lets talk about possession

there is an unavoidable intimacy in possession. no matter the circumstances, no matter how the characters feel about one another on a personal level, there is an intimacy that simply cannot be denied. no matter how hard you try to maintain a distance between you and the one you share a body with, there is an inevitable overlap, a bleedover of information, of self. who else could ever know you as well as the one who has cradled your soul, your mind, your heart, within their own vessel; who else could ever know you as well as the one who fit themself within your body, within your heart, as if it were their home? CASE ONE: TENDERSHIPPING. in YGO, ryou and his spirit, the thief king, are not often shown together despite acting as narrative foils for yugi and his spirit atem. in fact ryou is scarcely shown at all: he fades into the background like a ghost more often than not and we are very rarely afforded a glimpse into his life outside of his introductory arc, at least in the manga. we know he is socially isolated from both friends and family: he has himself and his dioramas and his ghost. so i think his possession would be a relief for him; instead of having no one, he always has someone, even if that someone is zorc-pilled, prone to violence, and repeatedly puts him in dangerous situations.

unlike yugi, ryou, is for the most part cut off from his spirit. they do not visit each other in their soul rooms; the thief king actively excludes ryou from his plans despite piloting his body to achieve his goals. and yet, towards the end, it is ryou who constructs a diorama at the thief king’s behest as the battleground for his revenge plot against atem. this must have required extensive communication, with the level of detail it had. i imagine ryou glad to grasp the opportunity to know the one who has haunted him all these years, both hurting and protecting him, especially knowing with confidence that yugi and his friends have defeated the king of thieves once before and that they could surely do so again. after all, if he was bothered by the thief king's anything, he wouldnt have stolen the ring back from yugi after it was taken from him in the wake of battle city. the thief king is HIS shitty roommate from hell to evict if he so chooses!! there is also, of course, the thief king: one who hurts more than he helps, one who cannot care for ryou the way he might have if it werent for his zorcpilled grief and thousands of years of a festering grudge to fuel him.

he manages to care anyway; there was no reason for him to trap the soul of a teacher who had harassed ryou in a figurine, or to keep ryou alive during the battle city arc, either, when it risked his working relationship with malik. its hard not to care for the boy whose body you have lived in for years, no matter how zorcpilled you are; a boy who you have been alone together with for a long, long time; a boy who does not forgive you for the way you hurt him but keeps letting you in anyway. we dont get to see any resolution between them, by the way. at the end of it all, when yugi is saying goodbye to the spirit of his puzzle and the millennium items are being taken away for good, there is nothing for ryou and the ghost who has been with him since childhood; the ghost who has been, for the most part, the only company hes kept for many years. i like to think that at the end of it all, de-zorc’d, the thief king might have let ryou in the way ryou has always let him in. just once, just for a moment. an honest goodbye. we dont know, though. i guess thats typical of ryou and his thief king. we never get to see them during such private, pivotal moments. CASE TWO: HARUKA, KONOHA, AND THE SNAKE OF CLEARING EYES. kokonose haruka has known he was going to die for at least six years by the time shintaro, the protagonist, meets him; by the time the story itself begins in volume one, he is already two years gone.

kagerou project, the series he’s from, contains the daze: a world which ‘devours’ pairs of people close to death. to help them survive, its creator began to give some of these people parts of herself and her power, via her snakes. a caveat: the power given has to suit the human. can you guess what harukas most earnest wish might have been? this is how konoha was born. konoha was not a person, not at first; he had been harukas oc for a video game he played with his classmate and friend, takane. he was harukas idealized self: not only healthy but inhumanly strong and capable of being of use to those he cared for. konoha is who and what haruka was meant to be, yet haruka, who rejected this body, was stuck within the daze, in an endless white room and his hospital bed, only able to see the outside world in glimpses of konoha’s eyes.

he resents konoha. konoha is living a life that was meant to be his—although that, too, is a life haruka was not meant to have. hes always been on borrowed time.

konoha, himself instead possessed by a fragment of the daze’s creator’s power in the absence of haruka, is barely aware of haruka beyond his understanding that he resembles someone his friends have lost. 

the snake of clearing eyes is a parasitic entity constantly recreating a series of events that will lead to him being able to possess a physical vessel, however briefly, before one of the other protagonists—mary—forces time itself to loop back several years in a fit of grief over those she has lost. he’s the one who actually created konoha, having secretly been the one to meet haruka instead of the daze’s creator. he finds konoha convenient and ultimately takes him over, having told haruka when he created the body, “i am very glad this was your wish for me [...] if you do not wish for anything, i cannot ‘fulfill’ anything.” it’s only in the act of fulfilling the most ardent wishes of others that he is capable of action, and only then: only when he is doing what others beg of him. so he spends timeloop after timeloop brutally murdering a bunch of teenagers to get the perfect body for himself, even knowing mary will, in her grief, rewind time itself. and then he does it all again.  so much work. years and years of effort expended over and over again in loop after loop—just for a taste. is it worth it? we know after the series ends, haruka is alive. but it begs the question of how he lives. i like to think he took the snake of clearing eyes into his actual flesh and blood body to act as that substitute life. but why do i find that so compelling? because he sees himself in the snake of clearing eyes. kokonose haruka is a boy who has always known he was going to die no matter how desperately he wished otherwise. if he resents konoha for living, it stands to reason that he would empathize with the snake of clearing eyes, so desperate for a life of his own, even if the rest of those around them would not think the same. he can give the snake of clearing eyes a lifetime to live. his own lifetime, shared, and maybe that could be enough to satisfy him. i think the snake of clearing eyes would hate him for this kindness. a shared lifetime that isnt on a timer that leads inevitably to repeating the same several years, again and again: a gift he does not deserve and did not ask for. its a punishment as much as it is a gift, anyway, given that it isnt truly a life that is the snake of clearing eyes alone. i think thats funny as hell. CASE THREE: THE KING OF DESPAIR AND WILLIAM “BLACK” MACBETH. kekkai sensen takes place in the city of hellsalems lot (fka new york city) in a world after an apocalyptic event called “the collapse.” 

now let me talk about william ‘black’ macbeth. black spends his whole life repressing his immense power both because his twin sister mary ‘white’ macbeth was born without it and because hes afraid of it. during the collapse, his parents give up their lives to turn his sister into a piece of the barrier that keeps the effects of the collapse from spreading, and he embraces despair both literally and metaphorically. the king of despair is…well, nobody really knows who or what he is, but where the thief kings motives were rooted in grief and vengeance and the snake of clearing eyes motives laid in a desire to live, the king of despair wants one thing: to die. towards the end of episode 11, he monologues: “...how fragile a thing eternal life is, a fate of endless wandering; without death in mind one cannot be said to be truly alive. and so, forgotten by death, the despair that i am shall at least take my foolishness to bed with me.” he says this very dramatically on a live broadcast to the entirety of hellsalems lot by the way. right as he kickstarts the collapse 2: electric boogaloo! it is uncertain who or what the king of despair is, but we know hes been ‘a silent observer’ since ‘rome’. prior to meeting black, he was a shapeless fracture of blue light, having presumably lost his physical body in one of his many previous suicide attempts. guy really just wants to die. im especially fond of him because despite his behavior, he is actually the sort of guy who cares a whole lot about other people, specifically at the very least, black. during their fight in the season finale, another character says: “as long as you crave the light, you cannot kill him. It is precisely because you desire hope that you sought him out, is it not?” the him, of course, is black.

this enrages despair. despite that, despair does eventually admit—in a breathless, wavering voice—that actually, he had not taken blacks body by force. “you came to rescue him from me, but i didnt take him by force. he welcomed me.” top 10 most haunting lines in all of anime. to me. the tenderness in his expression, in his voice, the raw ache of it: and then, when the protagonist leo arrives with white, the fear and hope. black wants to live, despair wants to die, and even if despair didnt want to kill black alongside himself he was willing to do it. he doesnt, of course. its not the right choice. but despair wants to die and black wants to live, so until despair stops trying to kill them both, hes got to leave.

ive talked a whole lot about these ships now. whats their common denominator? I’d have to say the friction in each relationship. theres something so incredibly gripping to me about two (or, um, three if we count the haruka situation?) fundamentally different people (or entities) sharing a body. the thief king and his millennia of grief and rage, worsened by zorcs proximity. ryou and his passive detachment from himself,  his relief at knowing someone will always, always be with him: he is not as alone as he thought. the snake of clearing eyes and who knows how many centuries or millennia spent desperate for a life of his own, grasping for it no matter what the cost, no matter how repetitive. haruka and a lifetime spent knowing he was living on borrowed time, that he would die young just like his mother—younger even than she had. konoha, caught between them, a vessel of both hope and rejection. the king of despair and his yearning for death. for that final, eternal sleep. caring despite himself, hesitating in the face of the young man who had welcomed despair into himself. black and a lifetime of repressing himself and fearing everything, but mainly his own power—but not despair. not really. so i want to ask everyone who read this a question. do you think its gay to possess someone and be possessed in turn?

#my writing #um. i guess. #should i even tag the fandoms #ygo #kagepro #kekkai sensen #thank you again to tshirt for organizing this #the real yaoi truly was the friendships we made along the way

[regallibellbright]

Didn't realize you were a ghost trick fan (I played it a month ago and finished it in 3 days of doing nothing but playing it it's one of my favourite games now)

Now we must discuss

My friend who’s currently playing it (and just met Jowd) follows me so I don’t want to get into TOO many details, but:

Missile. Best boy, or bestest boy?

There was actually a project spun off from the Ace Attorney fan musical like, a decade ago to try and do a Ghost Trick musical in the same style. Don’t think it ever got finished - I believe there was trouble getting enough singers - but I remember I wrote lyrics for a song for it before having a health crisis that meant I dropped the project suddenly. (This was basically the story of my 20s.) It was a fun time.

So yeah, love that game. Of the two Standalone Cult Classic DS Games About Death With Quirky But Well-Utilized Mechanics Using DS Gimmicks, Spiky-Haired Amnesiac Protagonists, And Themes About How We Relate To Other People, (and HELLA spoilers with a massive eleventh-hour plot twist or two that completely recontextualize the game on replay, which I COULD draw deeper comparisons on but will not because the aforementioned spoiler thing.) TWEWY’s always been the one that consumed me more, but Ghost Trick is still one of my absolute favorites and I recommend it to literally everyone. It’s funny, it’s clever, it’s got an extremely cute pomeranian, it’s a GREAT mystery that holds up on replay, the soundtrack is fantastic, and the animation…

Cabanela is the MOST ridiculous character but trust me, there are more, and even more understated characters’ animations are top-notch. (Friend has not yet reached The Most Giffable Part, or I’d use it.)

#ghost trick #gifs #asks #it’s hard to talk about Ghost Trick because we as a fandom agree Not To Spoil Ghost Trick #but man I love Ghost Trick and I am SO GLAD it just got a Switch port. #* TWEWY has a sequel now and if you’d asked me ten years ago which one would lend itself better I would have said Ghost Trick #but like that does not change the fact to me that TWEWY is essentially a standalone game that got a sequel almost 15 years later #I happen to like Neo and the characters and playing in that sandbox but it wasn’t necessary to me you know? #anyway. loving the experience of playing the game with one friend who likewise Knows #and two friends who are wondering what the HELL is up with that desk lamp while we just smile knowingly. Don’t worry about it! :)