#🍓🍊 tr ramblings

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

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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*

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Idk if this had been addressed or not but the Tachibana parents look exactly like Kisaki and Hinata as a married couple

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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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In the final timeline, Mr. Tachibana asks Kisaki if he can tutor Naoto since Naoto's being negligent at school and Hina offhandedly mentioned at the dinner table that her friend gets top grades in all of Japan, and when Kisaki finally sits down with Naoto the first thing Naoto says is, "Are you dating my sister?" because he's blunt and nosy and, at the end of the day, protective of Hina. By the end of their tutoring session, Naoto thinks Kisaki's a total dork, but he wants to strike conversation anyways to avoid studying.

Also, Kisaki decides that he wants to be Naoto's best friend after hearing about the phenomenon of people having a crush on their sibling's friends.

They proceed to have the most awkward friendship of all time.

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This panel haunts me for its blatant disregard of canon character heights

I wonder what it'll look like animated

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Thinking of Takemichi being so gentle and tender with Kisaki in the final timeline. The first time they meet, Takemichi bursts into tears and hugs Kisaki so tight when he realizes it's him. He's too young to be lonely, and Takemichi is desperate to finally have another try at saving him. He is an incredibly supportive friend to Kisaki, who can't help but wonder why someone as amazing as Takemichi would so badly want to befriend him. They walk home together, stand at the bridge and watch the traffic pass below, and they study and talk until late at night. Takemichi lets Kisaki squeeze his hand when he gets his ear pierced, and when Kisaki asks Takemichi why he didn't pierce his own ear Takemichi just says, "Because I don't wear an earring! You do," and Kisaki has no idea why Takemichi said it like it's an absolute truth, but he believes it. They're also good friends with Hinata, who teaches them how to play Chopsticks on the piano, and they all play it together at the same time, going faster and faster until Takemichi messes up and they all start laughing and tumble off the bench. Kisaki realizes that this is all that he needs and all he ever wanted, and he loves both of them more than the whole world. On the day of Hinata and Takemichi's wedding, when Kisaki arrives at Takemichi's house to help him get ready, he starts crying just at the sight of him in his wedding suit and he apologizes for breaking down because he never wanted Takemichi to see him cry but when Takemichi says, "It's okay," and nods yes, I've never seen you cry until today there's some dishonesty in his eyes that Kisaki can't comprehend but then Takemichi starts crying too and he hugs him and Kisaki never wants to let go because as happy as he is for Takemichi's happiness, he's terrified of being alone and he doesn't know how to tell Takemichi that he and Hinata taught him what love is and how to be loved, so his heart aches with the notion that Takemichi will never know, but Takemichi knows very well how true this is and for a moment he also thinks that he never wants to let go, lest Kisaki ever feel lonely, because nothing is more painful than loneliness. Takemichi does everything in his power to make sure no one he loves ever feels lonely again.

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Ken Wakui where's the Bonten design for Hanma we all know you're hiding it somewhere so just show it to us already

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when I find out that Hanma plays video games in Kisaki's bedroom while he works

they really are friends :')

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when Takemichi is finally old enough to get his hands on some beer in the final timeline he's so excited because it is his favourite brand from the timeline he originally came from, but then he drinks it and discovers that his tastebuds aren't developed to like it yet so he cries. "I'm supposed to like this!" he exclaims, and then Hinata laughs at him for failing to seem mature

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very interested in the idea of Hanma trying to piece together what Kisaki wanted out of being a delinquent, specifically when he said "I will get what I want" while they were on their way to kill Emma. He becomes obsessed with finding out what it was that Kisaki wanted because he wants to either (a) complete his mission or (b) exact vengeance (whichever ends up being more applicable). he says it's just for fun because Kisaki was the only fun in his life but also he never stops thinking about him.

maybe he even joins Bonten as a part of this mission and gets the Bonten tattoo on his ring finger

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Thinking about Bad Toman Kisaki slowly becoming more and more disenchanted by Takemichi over the years as he watches him devolve into a selfish, heartless delinquent who always does as he's told, eventually becoming a Toman Exec who quickly accepts murder orders. How this is exactly what Kisaki wanted, to keep Takemichi close and to have him suffering, but he still almost hates seeing Takemichi devolve from a willingness to be hurt for others to fearful obedience of authority. How he's simultaneously disgusted by the villain Takemichi has become and delighted by the grip he has on his life. How though this is a way of exacting punishment on Takemichi for stealing Hinata's heart, by the time Kisaki holds the gun to Takemichi's head, his hero has already been gone for quite some time.

He must be shocked to see Takemichi cry for probably the first time in years after Chifuyu gets shot. When Takemichi begins to cry, Kisaki basically asks him if he's still a crybaby after all their time together and says he's disappointed. I'm not exactly sure why he says he's disappointed, but there are at least two probable reasons.

First, he's disappointed that he wasn't able to fully remove Takemichi from his old crybaby self. He wanted to erase the "crybaby hero" from Takemichi, to make Takemichi terminally unrecognizable from his "crybaby hero" self.

Second, he could be disappointed that Takemichi, who hadn't seemed like his old self in years, is only returning moments before death. Kisaki misses the old Takemichi, his old hero.

I think Kisaki is conflicted between these two very different sentiments here, because while he chose to keep Takemichi around for twelve years and make him suffer, he also always idolized the hero Takemichi used to be and probably missed him very much.