Animage September 2017 Special Feature - Rebellious Individual, Fudou Akio

The caterpillar metamorphosis is complete and the adult butterfly wakes, ready to leave its cocoon and experience its new life.

i think it'll be a while before it all comes together but i can't stop thinking about how Ave Mujica plays off of MyGO's themes of like. Communication and failure to communicate? And how music factors into all of that?

MyGO ultimately is about discommunication, how words and action and conversation can fail, but music, because it is raw, earnest, open, and one-way, can pierce through any of that. Tomori spends the show unable to communicate properly, being misunderstood, being spoken for without her consent, being shouted down and convinced into doing things. but when it comes down to it, Tomori can express herself by singing everything she has as loud as she can. her raw emotion is able to pierce through everyone's fog and bring MyGO together in the end, because they all realize that they all felt lost all the same.

meanwhile have you kinda noticed that like. Ave Mujica really isn't a fucking band anime at all. like. at all at all. we haven't gotten any new songs, there's been more made about the times they aren't performing and are failing to perform than anything else. they aren't letting themselves be heard, they aren't communicating with each other, they aren't having that level of honest communication with each other. they aren't even singing for each other. Mutsumi falls asleep dreaming of singing, and the band never sings again. It's heartbreaking.

i think that's why the end of episode 5 is the first time i've felt genuine hope - Tomori reaching out, begging Sakiko to take back have that emotional honesty that Sakiko once forced upon an unwitting Tomori. Tomori asks Saki to join a band. It means something, goddamnit

what's with me and my habit of forgetting to crosspost

(the number on their surfboard is a number pun of their names. reference to tsunami's surfboard in inazuma eleven's canon)

Waaahhh thank you so much for tagging me they're very very precious I love them... T_____T💜🩵 I don't know how to describe him but I love the way you draw Sakuma's nose in the expecting tongue part lol they're both so lovely in your style

The bit of Kidou liking it when Sakuma gets angry at him always makes me laugh every time even tho I had seen it in the DMs before LMAO

I really like the thought of Kidou being down bad for Sakuma. He's a person who is as motivated by love as many others in the show, and added with the comfort level he has with Sakuma he would be as affectionate as Sakuma is to him especially in adulthood. That aside I just love the idea of Kidou being a wifeguy (gender neutral) haha

Kisaku meal is served

I like the impassible at work and professional settings to down bad trope, I think it’s funny

I’m a bit exaggerating cause like, I know Kidou is literally this emoji🧍‍♂️but since I saw @fraybury ‘s post about him being comfortable with Sakuma giving him physical affection it wouldn’t be crazy to think he’d like it more the older he gets and even giving back when he finally gets that stick out of his bootyhole 🙏

EnNatsu | The Whole Journey

I see a lot of people saying that EnNatsu came out of nowhere. As one of the biggest shipper pf this fic, I decided to compile the standout EnNatsu moments and see exactly how much they developed through out all the three seasons of the OG series.

The first episode introduces both characters and their dynamic effectivey. Natsumi threatens to disband the soccer club if they don't win against Teikoku Gakuen in their first ever match, which obviously makes Endou angry — so much so that he's fuming even when talking to the team.

This scene sets the tone for most of their initial interactions going forward: they bicker and push each other's buttons even as they slowly start to strive for the same goal. Natsumi is condescending at times but she also helps the team in her own way, and Endou is generally a happy person, but no one can annoy him like Natsumi can.

It's subtle but as Natsumi slowly becomes integrated into the team, they start having some more friendlier interactions even aside from Natsumi informing them about the matches and stuff.

Slowly, they become friends.

Their bickering also becomes more friendly instead of being just about Natsumi threatening to disband the club or about Natsumi picking at Endou's passion for soccer.

Like at the end of episode 16 when Endou and Aki visit Natsumi and her father in the hospital.

Natsumi immediately notices Endou's injury and is genuinely happy to hear that the team won their match, two things she never would have done in the start of the season.

The argument that comes after it is about Endou misunderstanding Natsumi's words, and it's more laid-back than their arguments in the start of the season when Natsumi would threaten to disband the club or pick at Endou's overenthusiastic passion for soccer. It's nothing but friendly bickering between friends, showing how far they've come in their friendship since the beginning even if they are very much still the same people.

Then we have this scene in episode 19.

Natsumi, who's visiting her father in the hospital and feeling melancholic because it's a hospital and her father is admitted in it, sees the tower near which Endou always practices and goes there on a whim. And when she gets there, she automatically envisions Endou practicing as usual.

When Endou sees her there, he can tell at first glance that something's btohering her, even if she says that things are getting better. And what does he do? He takes her to his favorite spot and reminds her that she isn't alone.

I believe this is the moment where Natsumi really developed her crush. Before this, their whole dynamic was "enemies to friends" and now they're moving on to the "friends to lovers" bit.

Endou, of course, doesn't see it that way just yet, and I doubt even Natsumi sees her crush as a crush, but this is the moment where it actually starts.

(Reblogging to continue because I can't add more pictures)

Gonna add another cute observation some time and it’s how endou doesn’t mind and still enjoys his food salty and it’s very likely because he’s used to Natsumi’s very salty onigiris. He loves her so much

jolly boy

When my mutuals dont post for a long time and I notice I imagine them like wandering a lonely mountain in a flowing cloak at dusk. Holding a little lantern. Yknow. and i always wish them well on that imaginary dramatic journey