Here’s A Little Sketch Of Natsume I Did. ☺️ (WIP)

Umemiya, Kotoha n’ Sakura sibling dynamic 🔥

On their way to school for their daily dose of teasing their grade captain like kids embarrassing their parents

Sakura is not amused.

Khshihsnguisgiugsviugvs yippee

1. you just picked out my favourite songs from each unit like what we have amazing music taste plis share me your playlist right now bitte-

2. Yes yes yes you really have to watch more Ghibli movies iwungfiuwggdigwe I’m surprised I haven’t made art ‘bout it (new drawing idea hehe)

3. yes totally did not forget about me seeing the outfits hahahahaha TOTALLY didn’t forget. BUT I have to compliment them again because I love giving out compliments. Oooooooo it’s so pretty and like kwhdfjagkauhasfb. Yeah, that pretty much sums up my thoughts

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Air out 😎 (and no it’s not ‘Air OVER and OUT’ because that literally does not make sense, like do you want the recipient to respond to your radio message or not??!!?!) (I HATE it when movies do that 😭😭😭)

Ok so, Firebug I have a few questions because honestly I’m pretty bored and I have WAYYYYY too much time on my hands:

1. What’s ya favourite song(s) in Project Sekai that’s not from MMJ (if I did not exclude MMJ I think you’d name all their songs. and tbh so would I)

2. Have you seen any Ghibli Studio movies, and if so what are some of your favourites? (I love their movies so much aaaaaaaaa 😭😭😭)

3. Ok so, this isn’t a question but please tell me more about your ‘Phantom Theif’ AU pretty please s’il vous plaît 🥺🥺

4. Ok so, do you have any like costume ideas or character designs for your ‘Phantom Their’ AU because I may or may not want to draw them… Firebug you’ve made me obsessed with this but I can’t blame you this AU is amazing, your magnum opus even

Ok that will be all. Uhhhhhh., expect me to send you some more random asks in the future. I’m just a silly enstars fan who has too much time on her hands… ok so I may have already repeated myself ….

✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ sparkles as usual !!

;; OK!!! OK!!! YAY!!!

;; 1) im offended you think that mmj is my only music taste (it is), really how could you think that (ive shown you my playlist)

;; but seriously I'm a sucker for all of the april fools covers EXCEPT ifuudoudou. as for permanent covers? l/n lost one's weeping is banger and i love it; vbs has odo <3; wondershow's ego rock, adventure log and childish war are all very silly; and niigo's phony, villain, MKDR/DSCF and non-breath oblige are so pretty!!

;; 2) ive watched 2! i need to watch more, ive watched a whisker away and spirited away, they both killed me !!!!

;; 3) first of all i don't speak french and you know this (/silly), second of all ive told you all there is about it right now :(

;; 4) OK!! so you've seen and reblogged minori's design for her phantom thief costume!! as for the other outfits, ive drawn airi with her "fear trad" and shizuku with her "the garden's beautiful pale-coloured flowers style"!!

;; then casuals are just their post 3rd-anniversary casuals!! :D

;; WRBLWBTLNTLTHWLTBA thank you for complimenting my silly lil au :3

;; sparkles!! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

Why is no one in the fandom asking for Sakura's full backstory!? He is the MC ....

We basically don't know anything about his background

I think you'll find a lot of people are asking for Sakura's background in the fandom. But, at least for me, I'm willing to wait for it, for when it makes sense in the story. Nii-sensei is an excellent writer, and I'm sure whatever they have planned for the Sakura backstory reveal will be emotionally satisfying (devastating?) and impactful.

hiiii i love ur art have a good day ☆

Thank you so much, it means a lot to me!! Hope you've had a great day too 🫶

OMG IF RINNE HAD TWITTER THE WORLD WOULD ACTUALLY END. DONT LET THIS MAN GET TWITTER NO MATTER WHAT ❗️❗️❗️‼️

Welcome to Hold-Hands...?

come observe the ensemble stars idols navigate the in-universe social media site, hold hands!

now, it looks like rinne got himself into some trouble…

✨ https://holdhands.hellogirls.info

What I personally think is behind Suo’s eyepatch: A Delusional Theory

The title explains itself (heed the disclaimer please), so I’ll get straight to the point.

Firstly, I believe that Suo is blind in his right eye.

Typically, eyepatches are mainly worn by people who

Are recovering from surgery

Cosplay

Have eye trauma or are half-blind

The first point is immediately negated, since it’s confirmed that Suo has been wearing an eyepatch on his right eye since middle school at the earliest. I doubt that even the most extensive eye surgeries would need him to be wearing one for years on end. Most eyepatches are made out of adhesive material, whilst Suo’s is made out of leather. I won’t dwell on this point much since I don’t think this outcome is very likely, but I just wanted to bring it up anyways (lol).

The second point could be plausible, considering that Suo voluntarily draws attention to his eyepatch in his introduction, even stating that there is “an ancient Chinese spirit sealed” in it—there’s a story behind it.

However, Nirei’s question immediately disproves this. Nii Satoru is a very deliberate writer; I don’t think there would be any reason to include Nirei’s dialogue about a ‘past accident’ (more on this later) if it wasn’t meant to serve as foreshadowing or at least be somewhat true.

Theres also the fact that Suo directly agrees with Nirei’s claim, though his wording is very vague (ie. it’s what other people say rather than Suo himself confirming it).

I believe this scene is mainly meant to showcase Suo’s goofy side (backed by Nirei’s comment about expecting Suo to be more cold/aloof and with Suo introducing himself as Leonardo di Caprio); but I also assume that he decided to make up a story about his eye because he’s been questioned about it many times in the past. It’s obviously not true, but I don’t think that Suo would voluntarily wear an eyepatch for years on end just to look cool (not to mention the depth perception issues!).

It’s also important to note that Nirei’s information is scarily accurate as well. He even figured out that Suo hated natto despite how secretive the latter is, but I digress.

This leads me to the third point, which is what most of the fandom (myself included) speculates. However, I’ll be focusing more on the prospect of Suo being half-blind.

If Suo is blind in his white eye, he would have a white iris. Although many blind characters in anime/animation have their eyes closed or just lack pupils, some do have white/clear/sheen irises:

Additionally, some people who are blind do have ‘milky’ eyes in real life!

Even other animanga characters who wear eyepatches have some sort of eye trauma (if they aren’t pirates/concealing some power/forced to give their eyeball up for a contract, though WBK isn’t that kind of story) such as Hange Zoë and Asuka Langely Soryu.

Personally, I believe that Suo had injured his right eye in the past to the point of blindness, given with the evidence presented before. I can’t really provide any theories as to how this happened due to a lack of canon evidence, but it’s probably linked to why he tells Nirei to never close his eyes. It’s highly probable his right eye is linked to a traumatic incident of his past—though anything further related to Suo’s backstory prompts an entirely different conversation.

Theres also a possibility that Suo might have been born half blind as well, and uses his eyepatch to protect/cover it; though it’s merely speculation on my part (and I’ll talk about this theory more in a bit).

You’ve probably noticed that I’m drawing a lot of attention to the color of Suo’s right eye, rather the cause of his blind eye. This is where my theory gets delusional.

Let me bring in our beloved protagonist of Wind Breaker; Sakura Haruka!

Wait, isn’t this a theory about Suo? What does Sakura have to do with Suo’s eye?

Although Sakura and Suo do have their stark differences, they’re also eerily similar (and this criteria applies to Suo + Nirei and Sakura + Nirei as well). The most prominent thing they have in common [design wise] are their ‘abnormal’ eyes (with Sakura having heterochromia, and Suo with only one eye visible), and how they’re somehow linked to some sort of past trauma. I (albeit briefly) went over how Suo’s right eye connects with a potentially traumatic incident earlier, so I’ll be focusing on Sakura in the meantime.

In the beginning of the anime, we see snippets of dialogue by people from Sakura’s past, which mainly consisted of a barrage of criticism and rude remarks towards him. This line in particular stands out to me:

Japanese society is very conformative both in real life and what we see in Sakura’s memories—being unique or looking different from the norm is 🆖. We see different people in the series poke fun at Sakura’s hair, but I feel like this comment hurts the most. You can’t exactly change your eye color easily without contacts, unlike hair in which you can style/dye it as you please (though I’m not trying to justify the mistreatment Sakura has experienced by comparing apples and oranges; simply put, it’s incredibly vile).

Because of the above, Sakura has been consistently ostracized in the past mainly due to his ‘weird’ appearance. This causes him to internalize those sentiments for years on end before coming to Furin. He then begins to project his insecurities externally throughout the manga whether it relates to his leadership skills or how he interacts with the other students (initially questioning why people can accept him given his ‘strange’ appearance and mannerisms). There’s also this:

Sakura used to cover his hair and eyes with hats/sunglasses, however it failed to work as people still avoided him. This is even shown in the anime!

Poor kid took all those comments to heart and internalized it to the point it essentially crippled his self-esteem—but who wouldn’t, honestly? Being constantly alienated and perceived as ‘disgusting’ by others causes a sense of distrust to a person, especially during their developmental stages (as Sakura experienced most of this as a child/teen), hence why I’m classifying this as traumatic for Sakura. Even though he’s in a better place now, the ghosts of his past still haunt and affect him to this day.

Since Suo + Sakura are written to foil/parallel each other at times, there is a chance that Suo might have also covered his eye for a similar reason to Sakura’s: he doesn’t want other people to know he is blind (either to not be perceived as weak, or Suo was ashamed of for a different reason—perhaps other people thought his blind eye was scary?). Maybe Suo was born with a blind eye, much like how Sakura was born with a “half and half” appearance.

As I’ve mentioned before, Sakura has heterochromia (wow no shit Sherlock); his left eye is yellow, while his right is black[ish-grey] (his eye is sometimes colored a light grey/blue but thats usually a stylistic choice)

Both Sakura and Suo’s character colors are based off their left eyes: Sakura’s being an amber and Suo’s being red (rather than mainly sappanwood but its a shade of red anyways—and Suo is usually represented with a bold red in other official/merch art so shhhh)

And if we were to follow my theory, Suo would hypothetically have a milky colored right eye and a red iris for his left as in canon. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Both Sakura and Suo would have their character color as their right eye (amber and red respectively), while their left eyes (black and white) would contrast each other. Black and white are considered opposites, after all.

If my (delulu) theory holds true, this could perfectly showcase Suo and Sakura’s differences and similarities—but instead of it being almost hidden through the layers of their unspoken relationship, they are physically represented through their character designs.

Okay, I know you’re probably thinking that this theory is too far fetched (hell, even I think the same). But hear me out:

There is another duo in Wind Breaker who have character designs that contrast each other: Togame and Choji!

Nii Satoru makes it a point to emphasize how different these two are—and it’s no secret given their designs: Togame is tall, beefier, and has straight dark hair while Choji is short, lankier, with light and curlier hair. Even their eyes contrast each other; Togame’s are thin, slanted, and green while Choji’s are wide, round and red[dish brown]. (I KNOW THAT HIS EYES ARE MORE BROWN IN THE ANIME BUT THEYRE COLORED RED SOMETIMES BY NIISATO PLEASE TRUST ME ON THIS)

Honestly, this entire section makes me want analyze Choji and Togame (must… control… my demons…), so I’ll just move on to my next point.

Additionally, Sakura is sometimes drawn with his hair slicked back, which makes him look eerily similar to Umemiya…

I believe this is entirely intentional by Nii-sensei, but if I speak any more I fear that I will start rambling about Umemiya/Sakura parallels like a madman. My point is, two characters with similar/contrasting designs do already exist in WBK.

And in the case of Suo and Sakura, these two elements could possibly coexist in their character designs via their ‘irregular’ eyes.

TLDR; Suo and Sakura are the only characters in the cast with messed up eyes -> If Suo’s blind in his right eye, it would be white -> which would contrast Sakura’s black iris thats also in his right eye -> this shows their differences -> but also reinforces the fact that they are similar since their left eyes are red and amber -> which are their character colors -> I am severely delusional -> and I need to be euthanized immediately

So I’ve been thinking more about this Band AU

After practice:

Sakura would not survive practice.

yes yes yes niki niki yes

(This is a card redraw from Niki’s Unbloomed ‘Sweet Hunter’ card!)

I’ve been listening to ‘Coruscate Breeze’ non stop while drawing this. I may or may not become a KnightsP (still a proud CrazybP).

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