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every single character in k project is so fucking melodramatic  “oh let me dramatically throw my arms up in the air standing on the edge of a blimp and let the wind blow my hair around before throwing myself gracefully backwards off it”   “oh yes let me state your name and title and have a staring contest for ten minutes before fighting you even though we do this LITERALLY EVERY WEEK”  “oh i’m so beautiful let me pose in stupid positions all the time”    “oh yes let me go down on bended knee to pledge my life and service to my boyfriend every time i see him”  “oh let me do a wholeass magical girl transformation when my king awakens”  “oh let me just twirl randomly in midair every five seconds”  “oh I’m a fucking parrot” “oh let me find every single rooftop in the fucking city to stand on”  “what i’m interested in is fLeSh AnD bLoOd”  shut up SHUT THE FUCK UP

in conclusion: k is ridiculous and everybody should watch it

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“BEAUTIFUL PIECES” (Complete)

* Idol K * In the park  * The beginning and the end  * Table sharing  * A dog’s reminiscence  * The stairway to the dream  * The Fushimi Husband and Wife  * Grave  * Epigraph  * Even over time  * Extra: 01/02/03/04/05

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Let's Talk about Glasses for 1700 Words Straight - A Tiger and Bunny Analysis

And what those glasses represent!

So one of the things that stuck out to me in Episode 9 was Kotetsu's reaction. I think it's really interesting how it's like presented, because we see Kotetsu isolating himself from the rest of the team, not trying to get particularly close, his eyes hidden from the audience.

Now this is, of course, part of a set up. It's funny! Kotetsu lifts his head up, and he's wearing Bunny's glasses, joking about how he's never allowed to touch them. But the moment before is important.

At this point, we're viewing Kotetsu from an outside perspective, we can't judge whether his perceived upset is part of his joke or if its genuine, and the joke is a quick cover up. Here's my obligatory shout out to the dub because it's neat to see how things are interpreted by others. The dub takes the line "Bunny never lets me touch these." and adapts it to "Oh, just keeping an eye on Bunny's glasses." The dub version lends itself a bit better to an interpretation of a quick cover up, and the sub to the other side.

I think both of these make sense and have merit, so really lean towards whichever you want to go with is best.

Either way,

He's distracting himself. I believe this is part of how Kotetsu is coping.

When Bad Things Happen, people deal with them in all sorts of ways, I'm sure everyone reading this is already familiar with this idea. But how Kotetsu appears to cope, from my view, is a strategy of "I'll Fix Everything". It's a distraction, and a distraction that makes him feel somewhat more in control.

Time to bring up Tomoe! Direct parallels between what's happening now with Bunny and what happened with Tomoe are drawn explicitly in the show, with Antonio asking Kotetsu about it point blank. They are, very similar situations, and if you wanna take the dubs words for it, it's the same damn hospital too. No wonder Kotetsu's on edge.

But what's different about Tomoe and Bunny, beyond the obvious "one of them was his wife!" thing? Tomoe was dying of an illness. There was nothing that could've been done to prevent it, there is nothing Kotetsu can do now. Bunny is injured like this because of a conflict. This could've been prevented if he activated his power only a few seconds later, if someone had been there to catch him, if Vincent Carl hadn't become a villain, if, if, if. And what can Kotetsu do now?

Two things. First, his much more explicit of his quest to find Vincent Carl, which Agnes specifically calls out as a direct result of Bunny's injury. And second, in how he tries his hardest to comfort everyone around him.

Kotetsu's being optimistic, isn't he? Oddly optimistic, repeating out loud for the benefit of his teammates and daughter and likely himself, that he's certain Bunny will wake up soon. He's sure of it.

Something to keep in mind.

But of course, we're talking about the glasses here. They're used first as part of this joke, but they don't just vanish after this.

I think now is a good time to mention that most bits of symbolism, a lot of Good Symbolism too, can be explained away as "it doesn't mean anything, it's just practical, how things are done, its just convenient for the plot' etc etc etc. However this is a reading of this episode/scenes through a lens of symbolism, so keep that in mind.

Kotetsu puts the glasses away, into his breast pocket. The pocket over his heart.

By now I'm sure you've caught on. The glasses are a symbol. But for what? Glasses, conventionally, symbolize things like logic, wisdom. But what we see of how they're treated, as something Kotetsu clings to and "protects", the idea of wisdom doesn't really fit. In fact he's specifically noted as being 'irrational', bending rules and getting 'over emotional'. (to clarify i think his reaction makes perfect sense I'm giving points from the business side as presented in the show). For this we're going to have to look specifically inside the show. I'm not going to waste anymore time on this, the glasses represent Bunny. They're his glasses, they belong to him and Kotetsu's holding onto them because he can't hold on to Bunny right now. (and we know he wants to, as soon as Bunny wakes up his immediate goal is to hug him). But there's more to it. It's his glasses specifically, not any other object of his. What do we know about glasses? Glasses are breakable. Fragile. What do we know about Bunny's glasses in particular? He doesn't wear them in his suit. The screens and data mean he doesn't need them, his powers make his vision stronger than ever before. What do we know about Bunny's glasses? He wears them when he's not being a hero. He wears them when he's not invincible.

The glasses represent Bunny. Bunny as human, Bunny as breakable, Bunny and NOT Barnaby Brooks.

It's perhaps easier, at least visually speaking, to draw a line between Wild Tiger and Kaburagi Kotetsu. There's a clear difference between Pao-lin Huang and Dragon Kid. A lot of superhero media focuses on this divide between identities. Who you are in any given setting fluctuates, it's part of being human. This is especially true in the world of Tiger and Bunny, where Heroes are Celebrities, coated in advertisements. There's Blue Rose, sponsor for Pepsi/Coolish, adored hero and there's Karina Lyle, pretty normal girl in her late teens who wants to be a singer, not a hero. They're different, and they're the same person.

But Barnaby's lines are blurred. They're blurred by design, by his choice and Maverick's influence.

Bunny in season one devoted his life to finding his parents killer and avenging their deaths. Everything was secondary to that. Who he was as a person didn't matter, all of his being was simply a vessel to complete this goal. We can see it in how empty his apartment is, in his lack of motivation to socialize, etc etc.

But this is season 2. and we get to see Bunny grow.

Part of Bunny's growth comes from embracing more of himself. Letting himself have an identity outside heroism and revenge. Letting himself be a hero out of his own choice. Season two has a few examples of this, of how his plants and rekindled friendship with Mattia. Going with the plants metaphor; earlier his apartment was empty, the only things he needed were basic necessities, a bed to sleep, a chair to sit in, a computer to research. And now? The apartment is filled with plants, and life. Plants that Bunny clearly cares a lot about, watering them with a little spray bottle, talking to them, using special plant food. it's sweet and it shows how much he's changed since we last saw him.

These plants are private. This isn't part of Barnaby Brooks appeal as a hero. This isn't a selling point, this is just something he likes.

The differences between Bunny and Barnaby are growing.

When making the distinction between Tiger and Kotetsu, there's a mask, a physical eye mask, he wears. Blue Rose has blue hair, Karina is blonde. And Bunny? Bunny wears glasses. Barnaby does not.

The glasses represent Bunny. Bunny as a human, Bunny as breakable. Bunny's humanity in a sense, as opposed to him as a symbol.

It's Barnaby in the hospital. It's Barnaby who was injured. The glasses are off. It's not until he wakes up that the glasses come back on, he's back to being Bunny, a person, not a hero.

So what does it mean when Kotetsu is carrying them around?

Kotetsu carries Bunny with him. The idea of him as a human, breakable. He keeps that idea of him safe, putting it in the pocket against his heart. The only other time we see the glasses outside of the initial joke is here. When Kotetsu visits after the train crash, tells him to wake up soon, it's hard working alone.

And what's the next line directly following this shot?

"I thought we were supposed to go out for drinks."

Kotetsu is clutching onto Bunny as Bunny, onto his partner, in more than just hero work. The guy he wants to go out drinking with. The person he cares about so much. Not just as a partner in crime fighting. As a partner, full stop.

As I close this up I'll give my disclaimer reminder, this is just a little analysis for fun about symbols and stuff! and second, I'd like to wrap this up by speculating a bit!

After the scene holding them in his fist, the glasses aren't seen again. We see Bunny wearing glasses when he wakes up, but I believe these are a different pair of glasses. There's not a good place close to the bed in Bunny's room where Kotetsu could leave them. The last time we saw him with the glasses, the door was closed, so it's not like he even could've gotten in to leave them. The likelihood of Kotetsu passing them off to a nurse or doctor is extremely low. He was clearly attached to them by how he held onto them and wouldn't have given them up.

I believe that the glasses Kotetsu is holding were the pair that Bunny was wearing before he was blown up, and the pair Bunny wears in the scenes following him waking up are a separate pair. What happens to the pair Kotetsu carries around remains a mystery. Are they in his locker as seen in the intro? His house? Pocket?

There's lots of possibilities and I think they're all really intriguing.

After all, if the glasses represent Bunny as human, where do you think they should be?

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Hey you made it to the end, I hope you enjoyed it! It was a lot of fun to write so I hope it was fun to read. Answer my questions or give thoughts in the tags if u want, I love to see em.

Thanks again for reading all this~!

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𝐌𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘: 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈

Written by Ichiro Okuchi, illustrated by CLAMP

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Part of Lelouch’s “breakdown” scene from episode 3 of Akito the Exiled. Again, the audio isn’t perfect but I mean it gets the job done

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Shouwa Genroku Rakugo ShinJuu:Descending stories Series Lookover.

So I know I’m kind of super late to the party on this one here. But I’ve just recently watched this anime show not too long ago, which is now one of mine personal top favorites anime series of all times in terms of well-done mature layered compelling storytelling. But I just want to add in while also giving my own thoughts on this who’s is Shinnosuke “Baby Daddy” thing along with my other thoughts regarding the ending.

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Sephiran and Zelgius in translation

I was curious about how they speak to each other in the original Japanese, and what I found was actually fairly interesting. granted, there are like three scenes where they interact, but hey, that’s rarepair life.

summary:

Zelgius worships Sephiran

Zelgius is the only person Sephiran is comfortable enough around to not worry about keeping up appearances

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the canon LGBT+ character of the day is

ike from the fire emblem series, who is gay !

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I think that a very interesting point about Soren is that overall, he��s one of the Fire Emblem side characters that gets an entire character arc in the background of the main narrative. Obviously, having two games in which he gets to appear is already excellent, but out of all the returning characters, I’d argue he got the biggest arc - not role, but arc.

Thematically, a major aspect of said arc is the idea of acceptance, and it manifests in three different ways for him - desire for acceptance from Ike, initial lack of acceptance for others, and finally, acceptance of himself.

He starts out with none of the three aforementioned elements - he lacks acceptance from Ike, he lacks acceptance for others, notably the Laguz but also for most Beorc, and he lacks acceptance of himself, but by the end of Radiant Dawn, he is on the path on, or has already obtained, all three.

PART 1 - PoR and Ike’s acceptance

In Path of Radiance, a large part of his story, which features prominently in both his role in the story and in his supports, is acceptance from Ike. Soren both sees Ike as his sun and stars, as the most important person in his life, and fears complete rejection from him, due to being branded and having everyone in his past that cared for him abandon him because of that.

His Ike support especially demonstrates this conflict of desire for acceptance, and fear of rejection - in their B support, after telling Ike about his past, he immediately apologizes and leaves -

Soren:  Huh? Oh… I apologize, Ike. I should not have made you listen to such nonsense… Ike: Soren, it’s no nonsense! It’s awful! It’s the most terrible thing I’ve ever heard! Where did this happen? Was it in Begnion? Soren: No… But, there’s more. I haven’t told you… About my parents… No, that’s enough. I’m sorry. Excuse me…

he’s unable to stay long enough for Ike to comment or say anything, because he fears the worst.

However, Ike does legitimately accept Soren - from the earliest moments of PoR, Ike has shown kindness and acceptance to anyone, and of course that extends to his closest friend.

Even when Ike expresses his support however, Soren can’t understand that - he’s someone who’s never had unconditional love and support in his life, so he immediately tries to undermine Ike’s. Ike: So, you have laguz blood in your veins. So, you have a mark to prove it. So… What’s the problem? Soren: What’s the problem…? Don’t you find me repugnant!? I work beside you, eat beside you. I’m nothing! I don’t belong anywhere! Doesn’t that sicken you? Ike: No. It doesn’t change anything. You’re still you, Soren! You’re a capable officer of our army. And my friend. We can’t keep going unless you are with us.

However, Ike insists that he still cares for Soren, and accepts him, which leads to the final line in their support (that I’ll get back to in the end):

Soren: When the sage died, no one would help me. I couldn’t speak. Couldn’t find food. I was dying. You were the only one who helped. You and your father. That’s why you’re my friend. My…only friend.

It’s also important to note that Soren has only two support conversations - one of the fewest quantities in the game, with only Volke having less, and Stefan, Haar, Elincia and Geoffrey also having two. They’re mutually exclusive - either you get rank A with Stefan, or with Ike. And if you do the former, Stefan warns him that the Beorc around him will catch on and that he will lose the acceptance that he already has, and will have to leave. And that if he ever has to, he will be accepted in Grann Desert, once again touching on that same theme - that Soren needs acceptance.

PART 2 - RD and Soren’s acceptance of others

While in PoR, Soren is shown to be abrasive at best and cruel at worst towards the Laguz, in RD he is remarkably calm and accepting of them. While the NA version removed a scene of him growing closer to Ranulf, I think that Skrimir is the  best example of Soren’s growth and acceptance.

Initially, he’s introduced as being everything Soren hates - he’s loud, arrogant (both of which are things he insulted Boyd for in PoR), overbearing, that completely disregards strategy, and is especially overly familiar :

Skrimir: Ah, here comes the great strategist! Don’t be so shy. Come sit next to me. Soren: Not if you begged me, Skrimir.

On top of everything, he’s a Laguz - the species that, 3 years ago, he attacked on sight, even if Muarim and Lethe were comparatively a lot less grating for Soren.

And yet he’s rather civil to him - sure, he’s still relatively cold and reserved, but  is willing to listen to, and try to reason with Skrimir,

Skrimir: What do we do next? We hit  Begnion hard in the last battle. Surely we will use this opportunity to wipe out the enemy entirely? Soren: Actually, it would be unwise to launch a new offensive now. I recommend we negotiate a peace treaty with Begnion.

demonstrating that Soren as a person has grown significantly, and that he’s a lot more open and accepting of those around him - even those that he would’ve hated in the past.

PART 3 - RD’s ending and Soren’s acceptance of himself

In the end, if you get Soren and Ike’s A support, and their final convo, Soren finally achieves a sort of catharsis - Ike finally remembers the long-ago bonding moment and fully, openly accepts and embraces Soren.

And it turn, Soren himself is able to find catharsis - for the first time, he is fully and completely honest with Ike about everything, and Ike in turn is fully understanding -

Ike: Soren… Don’t cry.

Soren: Don’t cry? What? I’m not crying…

Ike: Soren, you’re smart, but you’re no good when it comes to your emotions. Come over here.

He even gives him a hug, and reassures him.

And in turn, Soren can finally let go of all his doubts and fears with regards to Ike’s acceptance of him. Now, he and Ike are on the same footing and understand each other’s past and history and accept each other fully.

In leaving together for their journey, (if you have Ike and Soren’s final support), Soren is not only validated by Ike, but is also seen as the most important person to him - just as Ike is to Soren.

And he can finally go and “set off with the only person he had ever trusted” - validating his support of Ike, and finally ending Soren’s arc, where he is able to accept others, himself, and to be accepted by those around him.

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Crypters + no context

Bonus:

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Old Xian update of [19 Days] translated by Yaoi-BLCD. Join us on the yaoi-blcd scanlation team discord chatroom or 19 days fan chatroom!

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“Jack-ge, there’s news from Taipei,” one of Jack’s men tells him over breakfast that morning. “The cops have arrested Mark.”

Jack grins. “Good,” he says, and serves himself another strip of bacon. Mark has always been a pain in Jack’s ass, had betrayed him once on a job, even. Good news deserves to be celebrated. “What’s the charge, do we know yet?”

“Not yet.” He shifts around, averts Jack’s eyes. “But there’s something else.”

“Oh?” Jack asks, setting his fork and knife down. He smiles. “What is it?”

The man swallows. “Officer Zhao was on scene,” he tells Jack. “Word is that he got shot…multiple times.”

Jack stops smiling.

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From Enimies to Half Friends to Boyfriends.

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I love them all so much

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Gregory Dadworth

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“He’s been saving his pocket money for months.”

i work in a toystore and this one time a doting father came in with his tiny shy son and i almost wept right in front of them

Miles is buying this btw