#ANZU I TELL YOU!!!

[winkle-pickers]

Character bingo: ANZU ANZU ANZU 😎

ANZU ANZU MY DARLING MY BELOVED JOCK BALLERINA WHO PROBABLY KILLED A GUY IN S0 I will put this on the record for all to see, when I checked "Literally I would kiss them" on all the other character boxes I meant "I would tenderly smooch their forehead and hand them some werthers candy" but with Anzu literally I would kiss her <3

Damn I wish I didn't have to check the "everyone else is wrong about them" and "fandom is so mean" boxes about Anzu because people really have come around on her quite a bit since the Dark Days of Early YGO Fandom, but I still see enough rancid ass takes about my sweet baby angel on Al Gore's Green Internet that it shocks me. I think the most shocking thing is that a not insignificant amount of her behaviour maps 1 to 1 with Kaiba (roasting people with snappy quips, solving problems with violence, putting oneself in grave danger to see one's ghost pharaoh crush, etc etc) and yet Kaiba gets to be the Fandom Meow Meow and Anzu still. STILL!!!! Gets the 'bitch' label slapped on!! You're all WRONG!!! KAIBA IS THE BITCH. IT'S KAIBA.

ALSO P.S. IF YOU COUNT THEM, JOUNOUCHI & ATEM GIVE MORE FRIENDSHIP SPEECHES THAN ANZU DOES. BY FAR. IT'S JUST THE NUMBERS. Anzu is an amazing friend and we love that about her, but she is out there beating up the guy who made fun of you behind the lockers and then offering you a half crushed granola bar out of her purse for comfort and you take it because you just watched her beat someone up and you're not arguing with her. Jounouchi is the friend making earnest sappy declarations of eternal friendship and probably crying at the end while you awkwardly pat his back. Atem is the friend making earnest sappy friendship speeches that veer off into extremely questionable metaphors and uh oh now he's talking about something that sounds suspiciously like organized crime in the name of friendship, but it's okay, go off king. Honda is the friend making sure you wear a jacket and giving you a non-crushed granola bar out of his bag plus a Gatorade too because he thinks you look a bit dehydrated. Get Yuugi's entourage straight y'all!!!

(Also I desperately want Anzu and Kaiba to be friends and roast people together, but also in the friendship Kaiba gets roasted most of all, and he kind of respects it so he keeps hanging out with her.)

[surreal-duck]

too easy

[azoosepted]

i am incredibly normal about hornet from hollow knight i did not take 130 screenshots of her and lagged my game by doing so i am absolutely so undeniably normal about her i

[masterhandss]

Compiling the illustrations I made for the graphics of #AnzuWeek2023 on twitter

I made these for the event + her unofficial birthday :)) They are all based on official enstars stickers (I know I didn't copy them 100% accurately but an attempt was made!) because I desperately want to see official content of her, so I made some myself :)) be the change you want to see in the world, that sort of thing :DD

Feel free to use them for anything as long as it's non-commercial/non-profit, no need to credit but nonetheless appreciated :)) I've seen people say that they struggle to find images to use to present anzu besides the popular anime screenshots used around often :))

[lollich0p]

colored some yugioh manga panels

[hypn0sssss]

I have so many Enstars aus, which one should I write? (FYI, the characters aren't idols in any of these aus)

Fantasy AU #1: Just silly shenanigans and all of the characters are different fantasy creatures or have some kind of magic. Some angst, but mostly whimsy and fun

Fantasy AU #2: Imagine the War except it's a literal war and the executions are literal and people are dying left and right. Some characters are still fantasy creatures, but there is no whimsy, just pain

MILGRAM AU: Based on the YouTube series MILGRAM. Anzu, a girl with no memories but her name, wakes up as the warden of MILGRAM prison, tasked with judging the sins of the 10 prisoners, and has to decide whether they are guilty or innocent

Your Turn To Die AU: Based on the game Your Turn To Die. Tomoya and Hajime are walking home from school one day when they are knocked out and brought to a mysterious location with other clueless people. Being stuck in a death game with puzzles and voting, they have to try and survive

Crazy:B centric Horror AU: Rinne, Niki, and Kohaku end up getting caught in a horrible storm while traveling home, so they end up stopping at a nearby house for a place to stay. They meet a man named HiMERU. He allows them to stay, but on one condition: no matter what they hear, they cannot leave their room once they get ready for bed. (AKA: HiMERU suffers. A lot)

[leviiackrman]

SAEKA RIKIHISA + ANZU ADACHI - Jujutsu Kaisen [anime style]

more art || commissions || saeka page || anzu belongs to my bby @risingsh0t

tag list (ask to be added or removed): @bbrocklesnar @carrionsflower @risingsh0t @statichvm @marivenah @confidentandgood @unholymilf @florbelles @thedeadthree @simonxriley @shellibisshe @roofgeese @aezyrraeshh @faerune @tekehu @arklay @jackiesarch @timdownie @minaharkers @captmactavish @carlosoliveiraa @rosenfey @queennymeria @shadowglens @nightbloodbix @riikugan @heroofpenamstan @fenharel @alexxmason @malefiicarum @perpetuagf @gearvmac @gwynbleidd @delzinrowe

[always-a-joyful-note]

Some game self inserts do their job being good player inserts and being as unobtrusive and removed from the narrative as they possibly can while still getting most of the credit for the work. And then there are the player inserts where you're not projecting on them, they are projecting on you and you cannot escape now, you are part of the narrative, what do you mean this isn't what you wanted?

[llavender]

Joey you’re gonna hurt your eyes that way 

(transparent TV PNG under the cut)

[rosalind-hawkins]

Whump coinshipping

Oh, that's a new one for me!

The Wheel has spoken!

Anzu is trying desperately to make a nice dinner for her girlfriend, because this girl is a tryhard that doesn't do anything halfway and puts her whole heart into everything. But! The grocery store was busy so she gets home later than she planned, now she's rushing a bit in the kitchen. She's trying to make sure everything is ready before Miho arrives but feels the pressure of the clock ticking down. She turns the heat up on the stirfry, goes to get the drinks out of the fridge, checks on the rice (it's looking good), and she turns around to stir her stirfry, then turns away to do some of the dishes, but oh no! She knocked into the handle of the wok and it tumbles off the stove, throwing hot, half-cooked stirfry and oil all over her apron and her clothes and especially her feet! Anzu tries to jump out of the way, but the hot wok still hits one of her feet, and she cries out from how hot it is.

Right then, Miho comes home! She rushes forward because of the obvious state of chaos and Anzu being on the verge of tears. They turn off the stove and get Anzu's burns seen to first: thoroughly rinsed with cool water, bandaged with Neosporin, Miho kissing her cheeks and assuring her that everything is fine, and she just cares that Anzu is okay. She changed into comfy clothes over her burns. Then they go to the kitchen and clean up the half-cooked food off the floor. They do the dishes together, order a pizza, and have a peaceful night in. Miho cuddles her girl extra to make sure she's not upset by how dinner went.

How did I do? I rarely ever touch yuri. Did I do okay?

[dailyaliceyabusame]

Daily Alice For Today: Jester

[number-1-kuaidul-fanboy]

Not quite sure how I feel about season 0 yet

I’ve definitely enjoyed the first three episodes. Retrospectively, parts of it work really well as a prequel to the original Yugioh series. Like Joey/Jonouchi (might go back and forth on their names since I watched DM in dub) going from a bully to a friend to Yugi and Yugi completing the puzzle, two things that were only ever mentioned in DM. It was neat actually seeing those events onscreen. I know they weren’t in DM because they didn’t want to be too derivative of this series and that’s totally fair but it still made DM feel incomplete in some places.

Apart from the “prequel-y” bits though, this has a very different feel from the rest of Yugioh. So far at least, it’s very episodic. The pilot gives some set ups and the next two episodes (and seemingly the next one based on its preview) are really loosely connected filler stories following these characters, with the occasional horror vibe when Yami Yugi shows up. Every episode so far has followed the same “some guy beats up weak Yugi so Yami Yugi appears in the last few minutes to punish them with a shadow game” narrative. Which is fine, it’s just entertaining enough to keep my attention for a couple episodes at a time while I eat. Season 0 feels different from every other Yugioh series but as a result, it lacks the charm of the other Yugioh series, at least for me.

It has its own merits though. Like its characters, some of which are superior to their depictions in DM.

Okay not all of them. I still don’t really like Honda (never have) and Miho comes off as kind of manipulative but the others are all pretty good. I like Jonouchi’s more gruff yet still loyal persona in this show, that could just be a sub vs dub thing to be fair but I quite liked it. He’s about on par with his DM self. Yugi Muto meanwhile gets a lot more screentime in this series than he does in DM and as a result, I actually like him right off the bat, unlike DM where it took me much longer to care about either of the Yugis. Yami Yugi...

...is not as twisted in this as I was lead to believe he was, at least at the point I’ve seen. His voice and design are honestly more weird than creepy which I will admit does disappoint me a bit. I do like how he feels much more like a legit alter ego to Yugi in this than he did in DM, where he was definitely his own person. That worked in its own right but I really like the whole “Jekyll and Hyde” vibe Yugi and Yami have in season 0, as though he’s actually a darker personality originating from within Yugi. Not sure if that’s what they’re going for yet but I enjoy it.

And my favourite season 0 character so far is Anzu.

No you ain’t trippin, season 0 Anzu is the best interpretation of this character I’ve seen. Dark Side of Dimensions is a distant second place in this regard since it showed her achieving her dream by leaving to study dancing in America (the only bit of character she had that wasn’t related to her relationships in DM) and in episode 2 of season 0, she’s willing to break school rules and get a part time job to raise money for that dream. You go girl. She’s also just generally more enjoyable. I don’t know, the writing here makes her come off as more sassy and no nonsense rather than DM where she just felt... for lack of a better term, like a stereotypical nag. Also, she and Yugi are actually kind of cute in season 0. I like the scene where she sticks up for Yugi when he’s being bullied and Yugi just looks so incredibly happy to see her:

And this one where he excitedly talks to her about the puzzle:

They actually seem like genuine friends in this series, a fact that never really came through in DM for me because of how little screentime Yugi got compared to Atem. Anzu’s character revolved around him way too much in DM  and while that could still become a problem in season 0 (in fact it almost definitely will considering the pattern of DM-VRAINS) but I’m glad that for the first few episodes at least, Anzu was allowed to have more of a personality. And she and Yugi have much easier chemistry.

It’s a decent show so far I’d say. If it had been my introduction to Yugioh, I almost definitely wouldn’t have gotten as into it as I have but looking back on it as a “prequel” or the series’ roots in general makes it kind of interesting.

[humbuns]

i'm reading through valkyrie's stories from the ! era and there's just something about shu's personality suddenly shifting about mika that's making me wanna explode just a bit

[mihai-florescu]

great news, theres an entire separate game about how the people left behind by anzu feel actually

[hitsuyou-fukaketsu]

so true

[mintys-musings]

For research purposes do you have the link to the krstars rinneanz?

it took some diggin but it was this! (not sexy or whatever just a lil haha)

also for fun (and bc im insane) pls also look at some rinneanz weddin art (another...), flustered anzu, and kissing

pls enjoy !! also anzu is 안즈 in hangul so if ya wanna find more stuff of her you can look for 앙스타 안즈 (enstars anzu) or specifically 린네안즈 (rinneanzu)