I Think It'll Be A While Before It All Comes Together But I Can't Stop Thinking About How Ave Mujica

i feel like lot of things people easily miss or fail to do when analyzing ina11 characters is nuance or "these conflicting traits can coexist in the same character" and from observation it often happens due to projecting or biased view..

at which shindou is the main victim of this treatment because everyone remembers his weaker moments when he isn't thinking straight but rarely his kind actions and thoughts (which there are so many)... leading to the amount of mean shindou jokes which immensely pisses me off. if i were to sum it up, shindou is mostly strict when it comes to serious events where things are at stake because it's his role to keep things under control, otherwise he's very gentle to people. strict shindou and nice shindou are two traits of his that coexist, and so is shindou who is taken by his emotions because he feels strongly especially for people he cares for

there's also how kazemaru's breakdown is the part people remember about him but rarely his s1 focus and episode 94... understandably these scenes are the ones that leave impression in people but ina11 (OG and GO specifically) is a series that did a good job giving depth to the characters in off match scenes and more sublte interactions and i wish people take time in thinking about them too

i'm guessing i'm one who takes more time in the off match scenes because i came from slice of life genre and my favorite episode is episode 56 that flies under people's radar when it's very important in the kidou arc. people (and areori writers) forgot that kidou is supposed to stay at raimon for temporary time and S1 ended at him being Interested towards raimon at most instead of being Attached. he just stayed with them in early S2 because the schools are being destroyed and he only decided to stay after sakuma's encouragement

Why was episode 56 titled Endou vs Gouenji when it's literally a Kisaku episode. Whacks the staff with toy hammer

Yukimura has a matching t-shirt of his own too

The T-Shirt

nothinggg better than torturing an emotionally repressed character until every single trauma they've ever refused to process starts spilling uncontrollably out of the cracks. like a matryoshka doll situation of repressed trauma and baby you better believe i'm going in there with a hammer

Another inameme xD

Hi! First of all I’m sorry for using the characters JP names as i’m accustomed to them than their dub ones, and I can’t give screenshots as proofs as i’m too busy to rewatch as for this moment

I believe Kageyama’s actions would make sense if one considers that despite everything and for all his obsession for Kidou, Kageyama is attached to him akin to how a parent is towards their child. If he wants to commit on revenge he can simply do whatever, but he chose to manipulate Kidou to go back to him and refer to him as his creation because Kageyama actually sees Kidou as a son figure to him. They love each other, even if it’s twisted and complicated.

I’d recommend to check out Italy arc of FFI both Team K and Italy matches (episode 90 to 106) as they revealed so much about Kageyama, hopefully it’ll help clear things up for you! ^___^

Shin Teikoku arc has really good animation and storyboarding in general; this particular scene has cleverly drawn frames where Sakuma's hair was positioned to look like how he normally looks until he fully turns at Kidou and you can see the the black eye

I don't have frames that are of 1:1 comparison but I hope you get the gist

People either love or hate adult fei and like, i get both points? In my opinion they nailed the shape (it’s camp) but i also guess that they messed up his palette because fei is supposed to have strong yellow and orange palette in both skin and outfits so he looks off as an adult. because grayish outfit and pink skin are Not what he’s supposed to be. Most of Fei’s outfits are orange or if he’s not it’s the vibrant GO raimon blue

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giveaway prize for @soccerpunching !!

as you can see i really like sakuma