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testing nii-chan's patience~

gonna do one piece for each of my skr ships bc i feel bad neglecting her other boyfriends,,,,,,

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🐢🌸 | 🚒ⅹ🚓 firefighter Togame saves the feisty cat on a tree~

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Can we talk about chapter 60? I'd like to talk about chapter 60: A Place I Belong.

I specifically want to talk about the sections with the tightrope. It's one of my favorite parts of Wind Breaker and I could praise it for ages. I know it's a kind of common metaphor for struggles and isn't anything too special, but I really do adore it.

And whoever decided to add that anime only scene to the start of the first episode? Absolute genius and I love them for it. It works beautifully without it in the manga, but I think it's going to add a little extra something to the anime!

But for the tightrope section in the manga? It's so good and so well executed!! I absolutely love the way the style changes throughout the chapter!!

We start with white lineart on a black background. The lines are messy, sketchy, and even the boxes don't have clean lines.

I also want to point out how the only clean lines we get from this section are from the adults in his life, as well as the wind chime and the sprout pushing out from the ground.

The wind chime and the sprout clearly allude to Furin and the way both Furin and the rest of the town have shown that he, too, can be loved and accepted as he is.

The wind chime is also the thing that seems to be the transition to Sakura going from walking along the tightrope to considering that there might be another path for him.

I'm going to be real here and say that I don't have a lot to say about the other adults also having clean lineart. I'm sure there's someone out there who'd have something really smart to say about it, though. If I were to say something about it, it'd be that I think it might represent his shaky sense of self, compared to other people who have it figured out.

After that we get to the middle section, with Sakura in the "real world" again and with the rest of the class. I won't focus on the dialogue itself too much, but I'd like to talk about the way we go between the tightrope and reality.

I really like how the panels with the tightrope are woven in. They show us what's going on inside his head while also showing us how it looks like in reality. We see visual representation of how this feels like to him.

It's shown in how before he speaks, as he's gathering the courage for it, we can see him changing his stance on the rope. We get shown the way this is him preparing for that leap. He also mirrors himself with the way he's clenching his hands both in reality and around the tightrope.

A little later, as he's talking, we can see him directly mirror himself in both realities.

We see the way he's holding on preparing for that leap, as well as the way his face is split in two here. It doesn't directly match up, but it doesn't have to, because it already works so well here. I'd maybe even argue that I prefer it this way around as opposed to if this was a direct split of his face.

And then we see the leap itself, the way he throws himself into the unknown.

And then he gets called out on his bullshit, gets told that he's insane for thinking they'd cast him out. That they love him as he is and that they want him around. They actually want him. For maybe the first time in his life, he's wanted, appreciated, and needed.

And it's just this "Oh." moment for him. You can see the way it just clicks for him.

And after this we get to an absolutely beautiful scene, the part that makes me love this chapter so much.

We see that it all isn't so terrible after all, that there is hope. The tightrope isn't a drop to certain death, just a drop.

The colors have changed and we're now looking at Sakura on a white background with black lineart. Though at this point Sakura himself is the only part of the scene with messy lineart. The field of flowers and grass, as well as the edges of the panels, are all cleanly lined. Except for Sakura. Even if it's still messy, I'd say it's definitely a little cleaner than it was before.

You can see the way he's a little more faint, a little less solid than the rest of the lineart.

And then we see Bofurin, the rest of his class specifically. They're all there and they're all cleanly lined. And as Sakura reaches out to grab the hand he's offered, his lineart becomes clean. His lineart is no longer messy, it's no longer a sketch. This is him finding and accepting himself.

And as he grabs that hand, his clothes also change. Before all he was wearing was a plain shirt with plain pants, nothing remarkable, just plain clothes. But as soon as he takes that hand, his clothes change to a Furin uniform.

This entire chapter is so beautiful and I cannot wait to see it animated. I really hope the anime does it justice. From the lineart to the colors swapping around to the dialogue, it's an amazing chapter overall. I know I didn't really talk about the dialogue, but it's also good :)! I don't have much to say about it, though.

Moral of the story is that I really love this chapter and just wrote around 900 words about it.

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Hey I really love your art, been a fan for a while, and I'd love to learn more about the Togasaku Family AU! Like when did they have the kids, were they all surprises, what do their friends think of them becoming parents? Thank you for everything you've made so far!

Aaaaa thank you so much for ur support, and for the questions too !! (I haven't fully fleshed out my AU yet, but now is a good opportunity to do so hehe)

Disclaimer: am not a very good writer. Also, this might be really long!

Some notes:

My tgsk family AU mostly involves fem!Togame and fem!Sakura, but regardless of their forms I think they'll be wonderful parents all the same<3 so they're honestly interchangeable !!

While tgsk remains married in my heart mind and soul forever, this AU was actually born out of this silly tweet, so i guess this makes it an omegaverse AU lol !

In my head, tgsk started officially dating shortly after Noroshi arc, though they've liked each other for quite some time already. Reuniting when Sakura went to Shishitoren to ask for help, and then staying in touch while Bofurin rebuilt the town and Sakura recovered. They get closer than ever before, and realize it's love. That's the highschool part of their love story, at least!

Despite ups and downs in their relationship, they make it to their early 20s and move in together. I like to believe they move into Sakura's little apartment at first as they found their footing as adults, sharing the little salaries they had to make things work. What jobs they'd have, I'm still considering it, but I just know Togame's the type to work a lot of odd jobs on the side, earning extra so she can spoil Sakura. That's just the type of person she is.

Togame also really strikes me as a family person, and perhaps she was the one to ask Sakura the difficult question: do you want to start a family? Sakura gets scared at first, because while she's slowly gotten comfortable with giving and receiving affection (at least, around Togame and a few select friends), family is still a difficult subject for her, considering she's never had a loving one of her own.

There's trauma, pain, residual fears left in her heart, and most especially, that nagging voice in her head telling her that she'd never be a good parent. I mean, just look at her.

This part, I thought of while discussing with mutuals on twitter. It was a painful thing to talk about, honestly...

But after Togame planted that question in her head, she starts noticing all the little kids running to the playground she passes by every morning on the way to work. Starts looking longingly at the tiny shoes for sale at the local mall. She even catches herself, one time, smiling wide at a little girl who ran up to her hip, asking her for help to open a ramune bottle.

The space in their shared futon starts feeling colder and wider, like it was missing another body to help warm them up.

It takes a long while to work through her fears, and longer still to build the confidence to actually voice her desires out loud, but through Togame and everyone in Makochi showing her that she's safe and loved, starting a family started not to sound too bad anymore.

To have a family of her own, that she'll raise to be strong and never judge others or oppress the weak... One that she can love and be loved by with all her heart... she takes Togame's hands and says yes. I'd like to think it was the happiest day of Togame's life.

At this point, although they're doing well as adults, they still get shocked at the news that Sakura is carrying twins. Both in happiness and in shock at the financial hurdle this will introduce !!

(The twins are Ruka and Haru, by the way! A girl who has Togame's eyes and fluffy hair and Sakura's snow-white hair color, and a boy with green and blue eyes and Sakura's straighter, dark hair. I designed all the tgsk babies based on ice cream, because I thought it'd look silly-cute)

When the twins become school age, perhaps around 7 years old, the entirety of Makochi is basically their aunts and uncles. Bofurin and Shishitoren especially, who dote on them and spoil them rotten. Although Togame and Sakura have long outgrown their fighting days (but trust me, they can still fight strong !!), their teams still hold get-togethers every once and a while to catch up (and to see their beloved niece and nephew!!)

Suo and Nirei are the most frequent babysitters, with Nirei being the stricter of the two and watching how much sweets they eat and how early they go to bed ("If you want to grow up strong like Sakura-san, you'd do as I say!!"). Meanwhile, Suo sneaks them treats and toys every chance she gets. It's half because they're just so hard to resist, and half because it's a chance to be a devious sneak behind Nirei's back, which is always a past-time Suo enjoys.

The twins are regularly hid from Umemiya though, because God knows how clingy he is with soft little babies. When Ume gets her hands on those two, it'll be 3 days before they're returned to Sakura and Togame's arms (and they suspisciously smell like barbecue !!)

Ruka's quiet and gentle, living life at her own pace much like Togame. One could even say she's lazy, but when she's having fun she has about the same amount of energy as Choji, and they like to joke that maybe she's Choji's daughter, too!

(Choji vows to teach her backflips once she's older, and Togame just shakes her head. "If she gets so much as a scratch on her, we'll have a spar" "You're always so protective, Kame-chan! She'll survive it~").

Haru, on the other hand, keeps more to himself. Not because he doesn't care! He's just very shy (and turns a shade of red that reminds everyone of a certain someone very often). Truthfully, he cares a lot, especially about his family. He just hasn't got the words for it yet.

(Kaji borrows Haru a lot, just to sit on a park bench and listen to music, watching birds hop from one tree to the next. They don't speak much unless its when Haru asks what the song is called, and Kaji smiles and tells him "I'll get you a cd of it later.")

By the time the youngest daughter is born, most of Bofurin and Shishitoren have become full-fledged adults too, with some having families of their own. She's a tiny little thing, that makes all the aunts and uncles in Tonpu Market Street do backflips just to make her laugh. Spoiled, too, by Togame, Sakura, and her older siblings.

(Out of everyone though, Togame loves her the most. She looks the most like Sakura, after all. But she'd never make them feel like there's favoritism at all!)

A family of 5 full of warm laughter and warmer hugs. That's what I wanted Sakura to have, so I ended up making her an entire family. I'll probably add more to it as time goes by, but so far this is my au! Thank you so much for enjoying it ! (and for reading this far, if you have!)

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⚠️togasaku children au! ⚠️

🐢🌸 togasaku family picture 🩷

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⚠️togasaku children au! ⚠️

And what if togasaku had children in the future and they were adorable and squishy and every bit as beautiful as their parents 🥹🥹🥹

i've been crying over tgsk as parents on twitter all day today so ofc i had to bring their babies to the material world 🥹 (and good lord they make my heart ache SO SQUISHY)

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that one meme circulating on twt recently lol lets make many many tgsk babies !!!!!!!

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nonverbal communication

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Am in the mood to yap right now so I'd like to express my feelings for Suo Hayato (because if I talk about about skr I fear I'll start feeling nauseous from excessive emotions again).

First off, my thoughts are no where as well-researched as those cooler fans who make analysis threads on Suo and his mysterious background and Chinese (probable?) origins and themes, but i do have lots of feelings for him, and one of those is cuteness aggression. You'd think the way i draw Nirei-kun like a fluffy sunny pomeranian made of cheese curls means I find him the cutest, and trust me he is definitely in my top 5 most squishable characters of all time, but the way Suo Hayato is simultaneously "the mature friend" and a disgustingly immature childish fool makes me want to squeeze him with two hands until some strange fluid bursts out of his eyepatched eye and I discover he was a slime monster disguised as a person this whole time.

Suo Hayato is obnoxiously adorable. He never gets his hands dirty, doesn't even let his closest friends see him eat or drink things that aren't water coffee or tea, and his fight style allows him to knock people out without so much as wrinkling his clothes. diva??? princess??? He's far worse, actually. He's a babygirl. I'm sure there's a reason for it, and I fear it'll be sad and depressing and possibly even painful to read, but for now it's hilarious. Like if I sneeze on him will he want to kill me? Would I see that rare glint of rage in his eyes if I wipe a cheetos dust finger on his crisp white changsan? So spicy

And then you get to the part where he cares sooo deeply about his friends. His patience to let skr figure out his emotions? The way he was out for blood when Nirei got hurt, and without hesitation said yes to training Nirei to become a (relatively) more capable fighter? All the times he'd lovingly smile at class 1-1's antics? I know what you are... fake idgafer....

Don't even get me started on the whole "let's climb the stairs to adulthood together" thing. Calling Kanuma immature? yea totally. Implying that he too is immature thus they gotta climb it together? hell yeah. That's probably not the right interpretation, but i find it silly. He is probably 100% capable of reigning in his emotions and being a sensible mature person, but the little shit-eating grin on his face tells me he finds that boring, so he'd rather make you so angry you mald and die.

And that's why i love Suo Hayato so much i want to fight him. No, I need to fight him. I love and respect and even resonate with his characterization so much that i feel the need to dig my fingernails into his flesh and unravel what else is hiding behind that smile that we only ever see crack when Tsugeura is annoying him. I need to see what else I can make Suo Hayato do or say if i rile up his emotions enough. I need to land a blow to his face that'll reveal what's under his stupid eyepatch.

Not to mention he's stupid beautiful. That's too many good things to say for one character. I need to beat his ass. All these strong emotions and he's not even my 3rd favorite character of the series. This windbreaker shit is insane.

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him

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need some help getting rid of those pesky noroshi spirits?

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As a chaser to the previous post, I just have to point this out: Earlier on, Sakura didn't even know how to use chopsticks or other utensils properly, but this right here makes it seem like he's been learning to cook.

Actually, I kinda like to think Sakura is a pretty gifted learner in the right setting, so maybe his friends just showed him how to grill the morning of the party and he immediately picked it up.

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something something suo and his fight with kanuma, how he 'helps him to the staircase of adulthood', and one of the first traits we get out of suo is his tendency to get caught up in his emotions (when it comes to his friends) and thus act immaturely. one could say. like a child. anyway he's such a character and i want to put him in a meat grinder

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windbreaker another style collection volume 16

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it’s a happy new year and i wish sakura will continue to heal his traumas and find in his heart to realize how amazing he is, and he doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone. 🫶🏼

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drew myself a new icon :3 kura always looks extra pretty in big pink bows

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but first, a quick souvenir--

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