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Teru and Hanako

Fun fact, I don't care for Teru (Not saying I hate/dislike him), this is an attempt on my part to like him a little more, even if it's just a bit.

I'm waiting for one of them to realise that they are two halves of the same coin.

They both have the same objective: protecting the students.

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Teru is an exorcist, his job, his purpose is to eradicate any and all threats to humanity, and he has reasons to believe that includes Hanako. It's been shown that Teru doesn't actually care about the people he swore to protect. He, and he alone, can decide who is worth going above and beyond for, and that depends on two things: if they matter to him (his family + Aoi), or if they're useful to him/don't pose a threat (Akane, Tsuchigomori, Yashiro, etc). The reason he doesn't truly care about the students is because this position has been forced on him since he was a child. He doesn't want to be an exorcist, he wants a normal life amongst the students who are blissfully unaware of the monsters who have indirectly ruined his life. But he doesn't get to choose, or desire things, so he keeps doing his job.

This apathy, this cold, calculating and selfish behavior is a shield. Not only does he not care about the students he's protecting, he needs to not care about the supernaturals he's exorcising. Being like Kou and taking a moment to get to know supernaturals, having compassion for them, all of that would only make his job harder than it already is. He thinks that Kou is weak because he cares; his younger brother is everything he could never be. Kou's goal is also to protect the students, but because he wants to. He interacts with them, makes connections with both the living and the supernaturals, something Teru could never do.

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Now, the job of school mystery number 7 is to be the protector of the school. He is the leader of the school mysteries and makes sure no one is going around murdering students. Much like Teru, Hanako doesn't care about the students. When he was alive, there already was a rift between Amane and the other students. He was an outcast who was being bullied, and only had his twin brother for a friend. As a ghost there is a literal rift between him and the people he is supposed to protect. He is dead, and no one can see him unless they summon him, and even then not a lot of people do that since he is one of the most famous and scariest ghost in Japanese urban legends. Even when he does manage to make a connection with two living people, he still keeps his walls up and tries his hardest not to care about them; especially since he knew Yashiro would die within a year.

Still, he starts caring about both of them despite his own beliefs and stubborn need to keep himself away from everyone. Once again, much like Teru, Hanako only cares about those who matter to him, and will go to great lengths to protect them; in his love for his friends, there is also selfishness because of this. What he doesn't care about is who he has to hurt in the process of saving his friends. He happily sent Aoi to her death knowing Yashiro might end up despising him, but it didn't matter so long as the girl he loves so much got to live a long and happy life. He willingly jeopardized his one chance at redemption by going against the rules he has been given, and his job as school protector; he did that because he ended up caring for someone.

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Teru's visceral hate and disgust towards Hanako is very much personal. It would take a lot for someone like Teru to care so much about a supernatural, yet Hanako's behavior got under his skin. That's because, whether he knows/acknowledges that or not, Hanako reminds Teru of himself. Neither of them care about anyone but themselves and a handful of people they could count on their fingers. Despite caring about those people, they'd be damned before letting anyone get too close and pop their bubble of self loathing and misery they're constantly wallowing in. They both keep everyone at a distance, firmly believing caring makes people weak, and their solution to saving their loved ones somehow always leads to them distancing themselves even further.

Hanako physically struggled to admit he doesn't want Yashiro to die or that he likes her. He is the textbook definition of emotionally constipated, and is forever terrified of being himself near his friends because the last time he "stopped holding back", he killed his brother and himself. However, both Yashiro and Kou saw the dark, ugly, and unstable side of Hanako and decided to stick by him nonetheless.

Teru is shocked by this, because that would mean he also has a chance of having supportive friends if he just opened up, and all the years he spent isolating himself was for nothing. ("that means all the damage I got wasn't good damage, it's just damage. I have gotten nothing out of it, and all those years I was miserable was for nothing. I could've been happy this whole time [...]")

(This post is not hate to any of the characters mentioned, I'm just being blunt)

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Reblogging this to make another point for my case: talking about yourself in the third person is like the most parent thing to do (god he's such a dork)

Allow me to make an addition to the "Nene would make a good mom" headcanon. (For context: The scenes where she took care of 7 year old Amane, gently scolded Kou for bothering Tsuchigomori-Sensei, and played with Tiara are my evidence for this one)

Amane would make a good dad - specifically a good girl dad - . A 15 year old broke into his house (accompanied by her emotional support underclassman but that's not the point), hugged him, tied him up with some kind of wire, fangirled over him, then started crying. His first instinct was to stop worrying about the "15 year old broke into his house" bit and to check if she was alright. Born to be a girl dad, forced to be an eldritch monster

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As if Sumire's life wasn't enough of a tragedy, the villagers she grew up with and had to sacrifice herself for care so little about her they weren't able to tell the difference between her and some stranger that doesn't even look remotely similar to her

I would actually believe you if you told me the villagers all had severe prosopagnosia

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I like mini plot twists (for lack of a better word) like this with the narrative making us think that Hanako is doing too much and being paranoid, only for Nene to end up getting drugged 10 minutes later in the same episode

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So sweet I got cavities ToT

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Do they even know they're alive

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Edit: apparently dbs mistranslated that chapter so now I'm learning Japanese cuz I have trust issues

Anyway props to the Anime translators for actually doing their job properly 👏

They changed the dialogue of the elevator scene with Akane and Nene!!!!!!!!!!!

For context, I have expressed my discomfort in the past with that scene where Akane essentially threatens to force a kiss from Nene if Hanako won't help him, and I was very scared about how they would approach it in the anime. Of course, this scene is crucial and couldn't have been cut, so the only options were keeping it as is, or changing the dialogue.

Here is the original dialogue in the manga

And now in the anime

It makes it clearer that Akane is pulling the biggest bluff of his life, not only with the "play along" but he is also more visibly nervous. I appreciate him being more considerate of Nene here and trying to give her a heads up to the best of his abilities. Nene was more surprised + flustered than scared like in the original scene, and he used that to his advantage to make himself look more convincing. Moreover, this is makes the scene a better parallel to the trick that Teru used on Akane last episode; he was never going to ask Aoi out, he just let Akane think he would to get him to participate in the bet.

Crazy how just one frame completely changes how a scene comes off! Subtle change, but great execution, I love the anime so far.

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He has no idea!!

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Going absolutely feral for Anime! Hakubo, SOMEONE HOLD ME BACK-

YOU CAN HEAR THE ":(" IN HIS VOICE I'M LKHVBSRGJRGHWRPJ

They kept his silly (I still wish they gave him his speech quirks/accent but oh well. I still love him idc klhdfodhwhfwuwrgo)

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They changed the dialogue of the elevator scene with Akane and Nene!!!!!!!!!!!

For context, I have expressed my discomfort in the past with that scene where Akane essentially threatens to force a kiss from Nene if Hanako won't help him, and I was very scared about how they would approach it in the anime. Of course, this scene is crucial and couldn't have been cut, so the only options were keeping it as is, or changing the dialogue.

Here is the original dialogue in the manga

And now in the anime

It makes it clearer that Akane is pulling the biggest bluff of his life, not only with the "play along" but he is also more visibly nervous. I appreciate him being more considerate of Nene here and trying to give her a heads up to the best of his abilities. Nene was more surprised + flustered than scared like in the original scene, and he used that to his advantage to make himself look more convincing. Moreover, this is makes the scene a better parallel to the trick that Teru used on Akane last episode; he was never going to ask Aoi out, he just let Akane think he would to get him to participate in the bet.

Crazy how just one frame completely changes how a scene comes off! Subtle change, but great execution, I love the anime so far.

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Going insane about kicked dog with rabies type characters

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My best crack theory of TBHK is that Natsuhiko is the writer of The Apothecary Diaries in this universe

Also Maomao is a smart, pretty, petite, green-haired girl who often acts coldly to her love interest: a silly but gorgeous and tall guy who all the other girls fawn over. Oh wait-

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Compilation of me going insane on discord over hanakounene

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hanako finding fresh flowers from the most random places to put in nene's hair after the daikon hair incident as an apology...

(one day, hanako-kun gives her blossoming red spider lilies, saying they reminded him of her eyes, and floats away, a slightly mournful expression on his face.)

(the next day, nene wakes up to a picture perfect world.)

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* Won't you play again, Kris?

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"AI does this better than me :("

"My work is never as good as AI's :("

"I have to use AI to be good :("

you're devaluing yourself. AI is not smart, it's not creative, it just has access to the whole internet at once (which btw includes all the wrong things), and guess what, so do you. You're better than the plagiarism machine and you've been lied to and told that it's smarter than you and I hope you stop believing that because you deserve better