#BASARA

[sotiredmostnights]

yeah i'm fine i just finished reading another shoujo manga from the 1990s that rewired my brain completely and am fearful that whatever i read next won't live up to my expectations after reading peak

[pimientosdulces]

Sarasa for @joseiforaction on twitter

[stackslip]

continuing basara. moment i didn't comment on last time but that i absolutely fucking love is when shuri is being deposed by a military coup orchestrated by his brother and he flees, wondering where he can escape to and thinking he's all alone now that all of his allies are dead or alienated. and then he is offered refuge by ordinary residents of the city who genuinely grew to love him for the peace and food he gave them and the fact that he's worked by their side. so you expect this to be a touching moment where the times he acted as a Good King is rewarded but instead HE RECOILS AND RUNS AWAY FROM THEM BECAUSE HE CANNOT STAND THE IDEA OF BEING RESCUED BY PEOPLE BELOW HIS STATION. it's so good. and he flees again, lamenting his solitude, because he legit does not see his own citizens as actual human beings on his level. and part of it is his pride and his obsession with kingship vs having been marked as a slave by his father, but gd it's also his genuine inability to understand or conceive of others who aren't either royals or in his direct personal life as actual people rather than pawns and subjects to be guided and punished and cajoled like pets or punished like existential threats. anyhow. zuko redemption arc whomvst. shuri is MY villain prince arc.

[aimee19]

sarasa from basara requested by katerin! thank your for supporting me :)

[kleptoyadecosplay]

戦国BASARAの三成の衣装、やっと完成！！

After a month and a half of crunching my cosplay of Mitsunari from Sengoku Basara is finally done!!!

[nekolah]

Basara (バサラ) by Yumi Tamura

[hak]

Sarasa in Basara: Flame, Art Book I (1998) by Tamura Yumi

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: BASARA Artist: Tamura Yumi Publication: Gekkan Flowers (05/2013) Details: Tamura Yumi 30th Anniversary Postcard Calendar (June) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[comickergirl]

Almost finished with Basara and much like with Maalo from The Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, I would, in fact, die for Shinbashi.

[pfpanimes]

⌕ basara • sarasa.

♡ like or reblog if you save/use.

[arataka-reigen]

hello!! i saw the tags on your pinned post abt how shoujo wasn't just romance and it got me curious bc i've read some nice shoujo but really dislike romance-heavy plots. are there any shoujos you like that don't have much or any romance in them? ty and i hope you have a good day! 💛

Oh, there are lots of mangas that are classified as shoujo and don't have romance!!

I am just now beginning my journey through shoujo as well, so I don't have a lot of recommendations for stuff I actually read, but the ones I did read or watch so far are:

Natsume Yuujinchou and basically anything else by its author, Yuki Midorikawa. Sometimes, her works do include romance, but the focus is almost always in the interpersonal relationships and the difficulties her characters go through in life. NatsuYuu is about an orphan boy who can see yokai, and for that reason he acts in "weird" ways and his foster families dislike him, so he keeps going from family to family. The story is about how he finds a good family who accepts and loves him, makes friends, and learns to make friends even with yokais.

There are currently 6 anime seasons out, and a 7th season is on its way, so you can either read the manga or watch the anime.

Akatsuki no Yona - i mean, this one does include romance, but i'll still put it on the list because as far as the anime went the focus is heavy on Yona's actual journey to gather the dragons of legend to be able to recover the kingdom that was stolen from her. It shows how Yona goes from a sheltered spoiled girl to a person befitting the title of dragon king.

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom - this one is the og villainess isekai and it truly deserves the hype. It is about a girl who wakes up in the child body of the villainess of her favorite otome game. She remembers that the villainess' fate in the game was always either death or exile, so she tries her hardest to change her fate. This one is classified as a reverse harem, but the main character is pretty oblivious and worries more about farming and eating sweets and generally being the best girl ever than actually worrying about romance. Aro ace queen tbh. And her harem is just happy to be with her and be dragged along for her stupid adventures. Plus, the female members of her harem are taken seriously as well, Mary is a raging lesbian and it is not subtext. I mean, it is a shoujo, so of course the female characters would be important lol.

Usagi Drop - listen to me. You will absolutely not look for anything related to this manga. If you like the premise you can watch the anime. But, please, do not look for the manga. You will only be extremely disappointed by it. That being said, I recommend the anime. It is about a man who returns home for his grandfather's funeral and then finds out his grandfather had an illegitimate daughter who has now become an orphan. He ends up having to take care of her because the rest of the family considers her a shame to the family.

Now, for the stuff I havent seen yet, I'll just write some that are on my "plan to read" list and put their genres next to their names so you can check it out if you think the genre's sound interesting:

7 Seeds (drama, horror, psychological, sci fi, survival)

Requiem of the Rose King (drama, historical, supernatural, gender identity)

Basara (drama, fantasy, adventure) (i think this one has romance, but from what i've heard, the main character's story is a lot deeper as she takes her brother's identity in order to fight against the king who killed her brother, it is pretty famous and considered a classic)

Ghost Hunt (horror, mystery, psychological, supernatural)

Helter Skelter (horror, psychological)

My Stepmother and Stepsisters aren't Wicked (comedy, historical, slice of life)

Ikoku Nikki (drama) (this one is the one i'm currently most interested on, i hear it's about a distant woman who's never had a good relationship with her sister and now has to take care of her teenage niece because her sister died)

Itsuwari no Freya (crossdressing, historical)

Limit (drama, psychological, school) (this one sounds incredible tbh, on a field trip their bus gets into an accident and only 5 girls remain, having to learn to survive and trying to assert themselves over one another because they hate each other.)

Machida-kun no sekai (school)

Mitarai-ke, Enjou suru (drama) (the main character wants to infiltrate the household of the family who blamed her mother for a fire, in order to prove her mother's innocence)

Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You (comedy)

Uramichi Oniisan (comedy, showbiz, workplace)

Usotoki Rhetoric (mystery, historical)

Don't Call It Mystery (mystery)

If anyone has more things to recommend I would also love to hear about it!!

[sotiredmostnights]

[lieserli]

If I had a nickel for every time a fire prince got scarred by his father, treated as an outsider by his own family, ordered a village to be burned down, tried to kill the “chosen one” that was said to be able to defeat the emperor, gets a dramatic haircut, pretends to be a normal citizen and experiences poverty, had a long and rough road to redemption…I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[izark]

Series: Basara Artist: Tamura Yumi Publication: Shogakukan (07/2000) Details: Print included in the Basara Special Box Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[ursulaleguin]

[kleptoyadecosplay]

#戦国BASARA20周年 おめでとうございます！Happy 20th Anniversary to Sengoku Basara!

It’s thanks to this series, and the Basara fandom on Tumblr in particular, that I met so many internet friends. Including Agi! I’m so glad I finally got to cosplay these two with him this year.

Sengoku Basara 4 cosplay

Shima Sakon 島左近 @ yuomii on Instagram

Ishida Mitsunari 石田三成 @kleptoyadecosplay

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