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Crybaby

I wasn't overtly happy with how the digital drawing of this turned out, so I decided to color my original sketch in traditional and do some retouching in digital.

And yeah, it's so much better.

I just hate how my digital art looks so...digital (?) if that makes sense.

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Mr. Steal Your Girl

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It just takes up so much room it’s pissing me off

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Reblogging this (because it popped up on my feed again) just to say that sometimes I feel like some people just can't help but to stretch the narrative because they want to be mad at something.

There are countless different ways, that definitely makes a lot more sense, to interpret the end of the movie, and yet you're choosing not only the worst, but one that you entirely made up in your mind, because two characters interacting with each other like human beings isn't proof of anything. You're so sucked into heteronormativity that for you it takes two characters of the opposite sex standing next to each other to completely erase the fact one of them is gay. Same goes for Shinji; he's just bantering with a person, because he's grown up and isn't afraid of freely interacting with others anymore.

People need to stop viewing female characters as competition or as being in the way of their ship, and instead try to analyze the media they consume.

After watching an entire sequence of Kaworu admitting he was attracted to Shinji, with Shinji offering him a hand because he still wants to connect, with the movie telling the viewer that they're bound by fate and will always meet again no matter what...after all of this, do you really think they randomly paired them with female characters ? That's your take ? Because they interact with someone outside of one another ?

If anything, this is an incredibly happy finale for them, and an open one at that. You can literally imagine anything happening after the movie, and, again, for some reason you're choosing the one scenario that makes you mad

So did Anno just say homosexual relationships are bad and heterosexual ones are good by making Shinji get with Mari (with 0 development) and Kaworu get with Rei (also no development)? I can’t believe I waited 9 years for him to say Kaworu’s love was toxic actually, separating them, then having them get with female characters they barely interacted with. Kind of wish I never even shipped kawoshin in the first place.

Kaworu states that he misunderstood Shinji's happiness, which isn't really toxic in any degree. This came via the existence of the Evangelions. They brought a sort of false happiness and a lack of growth to the pilots. That's what Curse of Eva is.

He revolved himself around Shinji to such a degree that we didn't see much of who he was. He thought Shinji's happiness derived within Eva, so he piloted Eva to make Shinji happy. In FINAL he states that the Book of Life has their names together. They're always destined to be. It's why Kaworu states in the end of 3.0 and FINAL "We'll meet again." Without the world of Evangelions, people can finally be. Kaworu loves Shinji but doesn't base his whole being on him. He interacts with others.

We’re so used to seeing Kaworu and Shinji always together that it feels surreal that they’re interacting with others more. This is what it means to grow. You can love someone and still give them space. FINAL teaches you that it’s ok to want to make someone happy but revolving yourself entirely around someone isn’t healthy.  There’s no indication that Kaworu and Rei are actually together. They’re interacting with each other without Eva. Same with Mari and Shinji. 

I covered the gist of it here!

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Sakura Nagashi ~

I ran out of the nice paper I usually use, so I had to resort to this old sketchbook I found in a drawer...the paper is so bad, it kept peeling off anytime I applied any pressure ⚰️

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Yoshiki's face in that bathtub scene scared the shit out of me

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History repeats itself

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I made another Gilbert!

I liked the first one I made, but I wanted to redo him with my current more anime-like style of sculpting faces (I love how the shojo eyes turned out) + make a full body figure. I still need to add his jacket on the shoulders but I was just too eager to post it!

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I agree that watching media that normalize queer relationships helps to destigmatize them in the eyes of some people, but I think there shouldn't be any omissions when recommending the anime, because it will just hurt the community in the long run. Feeling like they got tricked into watching queer media just fuels their hate, as we can see from, again, the review bombing on multiple sites.

The process of acceptance, for these people, should be done on their own volition, the outcome for a real change in perspective should be "I decided to watch this anime even if it has gay people in it, and it changed my view on queer relationships" not "Someone recommended me this horror anime with an 'up to interpretation' relationship between the two male leads and now I'm watching them moan in a locker room". The second option is just gonna make them spiteful.

Of course, when recommending the story it's not like all you should say is "they're gay and creepy shit happens", I just think saying something like "Yoshiki's best friend Hikaru dies and later returns to the village as a foreign entity inhabited by a monster. Yoshiki is conflicted because he was in love with Hikaru and doesn't want to lose what remains of him; because of that, a series of progressively horrific incidents happens in the village" works best as you're still giving an interesting premise without betraying the concept of the story

Might be a hot take, but I'm sick of people downplaying the queer aspects of The Summer Hikaru Died to appease to homophobes / a wider audience.

"N-no but I swear the characters being gay isn't even relevant to the story !!" "It's just a tiny fraction of it, if you blink you'll miss it" "their relationship isn't even the main focus"

Say what ?!

The manga is a coming of age queer story about a gay guy learning to accept his sexuality. The horror stems from the relationship Yoshiki has with his queerness and with 'Hikaru', he's disgusted and afraid of the 'monster' and attracted to it at the same time, the monster that represents how Yoshiki feels about himself, his guilt for being who he is.

So, no, the queerness isn't just a "tiny aspect" it's what the story and its message of acceptance for a part of yourself are centered around.

I'm sorry, but you're not a hero because you tricked a bigot into engaging with a queer story, and that bigot isn't gonna turn to our side just because they were lied into watching a queer story either. Doing that is just harming the fandom and the anime itself, because it's getting review bombed after they found out the relationship between 'Hikaru' and Yoshiki does play a major role in the narrative after all.

Why can't we (generic) be happy that such an interesting queer story, that resonates with the experiences of many, is getting animated and so high in popularity instead of trying to hide what made the story so compelling in the first place ?

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Might be a hot take, but I'm sick of people downplaying the queer aspects of The Summer Hikaru Died to appease to homophobes / a wider audience.

"N-no but I swear the characters being gay isn't even relevant to the story !!" "It's just a tiny fraction of it, if you blink you'll miss it" "their relationship isn't even the main focus"

Say what ?!

The manga is a coming of age queer story about a gay guy learning to accept his sexuality. The horror stems from the relationship Yoshiki has with his queerness and with 'Hikaru', he's disgusted and afraid of the 'monster' and attracted to it at the same time, the monster that represents how Yoshiki feels about himself, his guilt for being who he is.

So, no, the queerness isn't just a "tiny aspect" it's what the story and its message of acceptance for a part of yourself are centered around.

I'm sorry, but you're not a hero because you tricked a bigot into engaging with a queer story, and that bigot isn't gonna turn to our side just because they were lied into watching a queer story either. Doing that is just harming the fandom and the anime itself, because it's getting review bombed after they found out the relationship between 'Hikaru' and Yoshiki does play a major role in the narrative after all.

Why can't we (generic) be happy that such an interesting queer story, that resonates with the experiences of many, is getting animated and so high in popularity instead of trying to hide what made the story so compelling in the first place ?

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Netflix Italy at it again by translating "I can't stop liking you" with "I can't stop appreciating you" in the sub of The Summer Hikaru Died. I have no words LMFAO

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I just finished sculpting this bust of Hikaru from "The Summer Hikaru Died"! Although I've been reading the manga since it first came out in my language, it was the absolutely gorgeous cinematography and animations of the anime that made me crave to make some art of the characters.

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Work in progress !

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They did that in Italian too with "I appreciate you"... just why

There's also like, other errors in the subtitles themselves (Kaoru is misspelled multiple times and there are grammatical errors and wonky dialogues) they did a crappy job in general, sadly

"Suki" is always translated as "like/love" when it comes to heterosexual dynamics, but when it's two male or female characters saying it it's suddenly "ambiguous" and "it could mean anything !!"

It also makes absolutely no sense in the context of the scene. Yoshiki was crying because Hikaru never said he liked him in THAT sense.

The scene becomes just silly by implying that his best friend in the world, the person he grew up with, never told Yoshiki that he's appreciated or cool

the netflix adaptation of the summer hikaru died translating “i like you a lot” to “i think you’re cool” in portuguese and “i appreciate you” in french is crazy work welcome back 2019 neon genesis evangelion netflix redub

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you will be the first killed when the rapture comes

Thanks, this made me chuckle

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THE Asurei kit just came in the mail and I'm so excited to work on it !!!

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After I don't even know how long I finally managed to find this gorgeous and very rare Garage Kit.

I finished painting it today, and I really love the sculptor's style.

The kit traces a scene from the anime "Waraeba ii to Omouyo" or 'I think you should smile", and was produced in 1996 by Musasiya and sold as a Japanese exclusive at a single edition of the Summer Wonder Festival.

[Sorry for the quality of the pictures, but trying to upload higher quality ones makes my tumblr crash for some reasons]