#🍓🍊 tr ramblings

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I just had a premonition that this scene will not be animated in season 3/it will be cut out

It's a shame because this is one of my favorite scenes, but because it's Kisaki-sympathetic I sense that at the very least the dialogue will be significantly altered or cut down, maybe eliminated entirely. I always got the vibe that Mr. Wakui was foreshadowing something different from (or something more than) the Kisaki + Takemichi reunion in a restarted timeline (ie, a Hanma time leaper moment), but we never got that, so the scene might be reduced, maybe to just this panel, for some foreshadowing of the reset timeline. Other than that, I feel like the producers will be worried this scene asks the viewer to like Kisaki, which it doesn't, and that would also lead to the scene being altered.

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wait how did it take me this long to realize that if there's a Tokyo Revengers musical then Kisaki will probably definitely be singing in it??? Will there be a Hinata + Takemichi duet????? OMG ♥️♥️

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RIP Kisaki Tetta you would have loved Will Wood

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thinking about how much Kisaki Tetta would hate the Barbie movie

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I love Kisaki *listens to will wood*

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Naoto, Hinata, and Kisaki (three characters that are integral to the series): *exist*

TR merch team:

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Kisaki's Birthday is tomorrow (or today depending on where u are) and I have absolutely nothing prepared for him •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀ so sorry, my king

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Tokyo Revengers manga spoilers below cut (final arc)

The end of Tokyo Revengers is actually so wild.. I genuinely forgot they killed Kakucho because I just erased it from my memory. The editors wanted to torture our hearts more for no reason at all, huh TT_TT anyways, I love finally seeing him animated <333

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(about prev post) what I love about this advertising for the Tokyo Revengers musical is that the Kisaki / Hinata obsession is actually being shown already!!! It's being advertised!!! Literally the driving force of the series and it's somehow seldom examined or discussed that this is what roped Takemichi into his situation!!! Why does the story never fully even address how intrinsically tied he, Hinata, and Kisaki are??? How they are all mutually obsessed and incredibly, incredibly lonely???? How loneliness is the most painful thing and can manifest itself in vastly different ways???????

How will the musical end, I wonder? It must have an actual ending (and not be one inconclusive arc) since it's a stage production, which means it'll be different from canon, which means maybe they'll focus on this trio and their loneliness and their obsession and their love and their hatred and--- *gets stabbed by kiyomasa*

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If they change Kisaki's pose when they animate this panel I'm suing

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how did he go from being a shonen villain to a shoujo protagonist in one panel

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I find it really funny that in the character book ranking for Least/Most Likely To Get Married they simply did not include Kisaki, even though this man getting rejected in every timeline is a major catalyst for the whole series ...

I can't tell if Wakui just didn't include Kisaki because he has very few fans and the fans want to see which other characters wouldn't be married/wouldn't want to get married, or if he actually thinks Kisaki would get married before these guys, but either way, this is quite funny to me!

I personally think Kazutora wouldn't allow himself to have a relationship because he is guarded and feels he doesn't want or deserve a relationship because of the chance of getting hurt or hurting others. I headcanon Mikey as being aromantic, but I think we can say for sure that Hakkai is not, and the fact that he is ranked below Kisaki is hilarious. Hakkai, you miss 100% of the shots you never take, smh 😔

If Kisaki saw that he wasn't last he'd probably be so happy LOL

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obsessed with the idea of a young Final Timeline Kisaki confessing his feelings to Takemichi because he's deliberately taken Hinata's place as the first person to treat him so warmly and tenderly in this timeline and he just blurts, "What about Hina???" and Kisaki is confused and responds, "Huh? So you're rejecting me, right?🥺" because Takemichi and Hinata aren't even dating yet and it hits Takemichi all at once the precarious ✨situation✨ he may be in so he quickly says, "No, no, of course not!" and Kisaki quietly asks, "You have feelings for me too, then?🥹" and Takemichi just takes a deep breath and says, "Give me a minute," before contemplating all his life choices like

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Hanma drunkenly calls Kisaki "Kiki" by accident and Kisaki threatens to disown him from Toman

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I feel like we don't talk about the fact that Hinata literally beat up Takemichi when he broke up with her... I think that Wakui wrote that scene with the intention of some humour because of how Takemichi looks afterwards but it's not funny just because a girl is beating up a boy. It's worth examining why she beats him up and what that says about her character.

I wouldn't go so far as to say this scene was out of character for her, but it really stands out. It isn't totally out of character because of how much she has been shown to care/think about Takemichi (even 12 years later, when she wears the necklace) and the lengths she has been willing to go to for him (ie, slapping Mikey). With these two points in mind, this breakup scene really stands out to me because instead of sticking up for Takemichi she's lashing out at him due to her strong feelings for him.

I always thought it was a little odd that she had worn the clover necklace for twelve years after the Meobius Arc, considering Takemichi was just her middle school boyfriend, and also her childhood and grown-up selves had always seemed more well-adjusted than the lonely Takemichi (ie, she has a career as a teacher, and we see her on the pedestal that Takemichi puts her on since the story is from his POV). But if you really think about it, she's been devoted to one person since middle school who she hadn't interacted with after all that time, even though she easily could have. And when we actually see her being rejected by that person, her response is violence. I can't help but recall a really unnerving parallel.

The story fails to address the fact that Kisaki and Hinata actually have some really interesting similarities. Kisaki's response to being rejected by the person he idolizes is exponentially more violent than Hinata's, and his obsession has a much more tangible/real impact on his future since he becomes a top gangster for Hinata, but I think it's worth mentioning that Kisaki and Hinata do in fact have similarities, that they really heavily fixate on someone they admire. (I'm not even going to get into the fact that Kisaki's obsession is also directed on Takemichi, that's a whole other discussion)

There are actually parallels between all three characters in the Takemichi, Hinata, and Kisaki "love triangle" that I wish were further explored/discussed because these characters all mirror each other at least slightly. They somehow manage to be quite similar but also quite different. A lot of these differences stem from circumstance, I believe, but intrinsically there are similarities that tie them so closely together it's no wonder the series can be traced back to the day these three met.

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what did Kisaki do immediately after he was fired from Toman? After the meeting ended, did he leave by himself or did Hanma try to follow him? Did he shoo Hanma away? Did he wait a few days before meeting up with Hanma again? Did he allow himself to cry, even when he was alone? Did he ever, for even an accidental second, let Hanma know how devastating this was to him? Did Hanma try to console him? Did he express gratitude to Hanma for following him out of Toman? Did they even once say in plain words "I care about you" or was it unspoken? Did they-- *gets hit by a truck*