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If anyone needs Mareach rn, here's some Peter Panario and TinkerPeach for your TL's❤️🩷

I've been in a Mareach mood for a while now if you couldn't tell🤭😌

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I was talking to my partner about how I think the main reason "heroic" gyaru characters are so trendy in anime right now, is likely because the actual fashion trend is over now, meaning they're no longer "scary" for being girls that rebel against Japanese beauty standards and act "rough". I do remember a time where gyaru characters showed up a lot less frequently but were generally portrayed as aggressive dumb sluts when they did, you know the drill... I remember there was even an afterward in the sailor moon manga where Naoko described herself as being scared when approached by a gyaru because that was the culture of the time. They were considered scary delinquents.

But now that anime is officially over, anime can look back and decide "that was pretty cool actually! maybe they weren't all dumb sluts! Maybe stereotypes are bad! Maybe those delinquents were cool!" (it does fail to address that even if a girl slept around that's fine, all the gyaru characters portrayed as good in anime are generally chaste, which generally gets a big whawhwhwhwhwa reaction, you can't judge a book my it's cover it seems!!! okay but why are judging the book to begin with.)

like don't get me wrong i love gyaru characters i love delinquent girls with all my heart and am glad to see them getting their flowers even it's too little too late. But it's interesting.

There is one big exception to the "animanga portayed gyarus as bad and dumb" at the height of the trend (and probably a lot of smaller ones but I'm talking in broad strokes) which is a shoujo manga called Gals! The main "gal character" is portrayed as struggling in school and a little ditsy, but overall plenty smart. She's a role model! She's a gal for justice. I've been meaning to read/watch it so I can't say much more but:

When she was in elementary school, she was enthusiastic about becoming a police officer, but quit the ambition after learning that she won't be able to dye her hair or wear her favorite accessories.

Being a gyaru saved her from becoming a cop, thank god.

There's some other big examples I found are also shoujo: Peach Girl and Shiritsu! Bijinzaka Joshi Koukou...

Sukeban were considered a similar delinquent subculture rebelling against norms, and I don't know enough about manga scene then to how Sukeban were overall portrayed, but it also interests me that the major positive portrayal of them was also a shoujo manga-- in this case Sukeban Deka/Keiji. This was in 1975 when sukeban was very much still a thing. And arguably, that manga is why a lot of Sukeban heroes/nice girls show up in media today despite being so incredibly anachronistic.

(there's something to be said about how both delinquents being "good" comes with ties to the police, though with Saki it's more complicated because law enforcement is also depicted as incredibly shady and actually blackmails her).

I don't know what my point here all is, just that it's an interesting but unsurprising trend of rebellious women only getting sympathy when they're no longer active and no longer perceived as a threat, but the exceptions of sympathetic portrayal specifically when the trend is popular coming from shoujo manga...well it's only two examples so it could be a coincidence, but it's interesting. I think a very likely reason is the mangaka some girls who read manga might fall into those countercultures so they should have a story for them, or the idea rebellion might be more enticing for girls even if they are straight laced...

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it only took 38 years

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★ 【Ducartoon】 「 art 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission A/N: Politician Desmond, but his (fake)wife can read minds 💭

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1 like = 1 prayer for chopper's mental health

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WAPEACH LORE BLAST (aka i went through the comments on the instagram posts for anything interesting)

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wapeach

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wa

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Wapeach

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OK I already LOVE this character! Like I really love her!

so Waluigi’s creator just dropped a Wapeach design on Instagram intended for Mario Power Tennis on GameCube???

on a random Friday hello??

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Animal Crossing if it used a more realistic art style

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P.S. Why do you think Tomoyo supported Syaoran so much? I mean from her perspective, Syaoran did not have a chance with Sakura given that Sakura had an enormous crush on Yukito? She must have seen something on the contrary right? Also, can we appreciate how adept she is at being the gadfly. She is truly amazing. ❤️ Also, I was reading the manga (this is actually the first time I am reading it) and it is so obvious that Sakura had subconscious feelings for Syaoran from nearly the beginning. The anime really toned that down and on the converse, amped up Sakura's feelings for Yukito. That was really unnecessary (and a bit annoying now that I am reading the manga, I am really enjoying Sakura's blatant affection for Syaoran in manga, poor boy has no idea how to deal with her exuberance).

Well, everything Tomoyo does certainly has Sakura's best interest in mind, and I am absolutely convinced that her amazing perceptiveness allowed her to see the feelings Syaoran and Sakura had for eachother even before they fully realized themselves. We saw that "process" from Syaoran's POV, but we kinda missed an explicit portrayal from Sakura's POV for the majority of the story because, as you said, there was also the crush for Yukito in-between, which acted as a "veil" that didn't allow her to see clearly the feelings she had for Syaoran till that "veil" was removed. But as you said, Sakura did have early displays of affection towards Syaoran, with all the spontaneous hugs she initiated, because feelings move the body even when the mind isn't aware yet (please stop me from making a parallel to a certain Hand™ of a certain someone in this Clear Card arc - whoops, too late 😆), so I completely agree that the hints were subtle, but they were there. Sometimes it's kinda shocking how Sakura talks with such honesty to Syaoran (like the "I'm sure the person you love loves you back because you're a wonderful person" scene) and doesn't realize her feelings in the least! I guess CLAMP wanted to keep us guessing till the end, and maybe that's why it was toned down in the anime as well (let's remember that 80% of the anime script was written by Ohkawa, and specifically, the whole Sakura Card Arc). But back to Tomoyo, I simply think that she saw the situation quite clearly and tried to help those two finding their way to be together, because she saw that in that moment that was the best thing for Sakura. The thing that would make her the happiest. ❤️

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Don’t let people make fun of you for liking japanese culture.

I am living in japan right now and let me tell ya:

There are people here who can’t speak or understand English who play nothing but Missy elliot and ludacris, even in businesses like housing offices and restaurants.

There are people who have cowboy hats and dead cow skulls in their home because they idolize what they assume American homes are like.

There are people who learn English strictly through music videos and American television shows.

There are entire karaoke bars with english songs often sung by people who have no idea what the lyrics mean.

Japan often takes American shows like the powerpuff girls and make japanese versions of them.

They often mistake common Americans for celebrities. I have been mistaken for Micheal jordan, tiger woods, Shaquille o'neal, Tyler perry, and saddest of all: queen latifa.

The act of sprinkling English into your japanese sentences is considered cute and cool and is popular with teenagers. Bonus points if you happen to use it correctly.

Japanese stores sell shirts with english on them and people buy them not knowing that most of those word combinations are nonsense.

Don’t let someone shame you for singing an anime opening, using japanese in your sentences, wearing clothing with japanese on it, ect. If anything, this is just one more thing that you have in common with them.

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Pavitr: Wanna hear a fun fact about whale sharks?

Miles, absently: Sure

Pavitr: They have teeth in their eyes

Miles:

Miles: What the fuck