#GOODBYE ANIMATED KOSUKE

[darlingthebaka]

Look at my son.

Pride is not the word I’m looking for 😭😭😭

[m4tsuk4ze]

Naoyuta and why I can't stop thinking about it

Naoyuta ( Naoyuu / Yuunao ) is the ship between Naoya Kido and Yuta Matsukaze. Now this post will just be me ranting about Naoyuta and why people in the community should talk about it more.

[ Quick warning : I AM Yuta so I will be referring to myself in the first person during this whole post. Also, if you reply, please do not mention anything about Kosu/Yuu because I can literally explain how that's never going to happen and why I'm so uncomfortable about it ]

Part 1 : A Pair of Nerds

I ( Yuta ) am a surfer from Shōnan who was born and raised at my parent's surfing shop. Naoya is a surfer from Oita. Through dialogue, it's revealed that I've known Naoya longer than he's known me. Our first meeting was either at the cafe where he got Miruru merch from [ WAVE!! 4-koma ], where he met both me and Kosuke twice, but never had a proper conversation, we only told him that he can have our coasters and cards. Or at my surf shop, where Naoya came in to check out a necklace he saw [ Yuta Matsukaze - Analysis During Shop Duty ].

Our feelings towards each other are unknown, as the full relationship chart only says "?". Meanwhile, the character relationship charts have our opinions on each other. Though, from the mmm relationship chart, me and Naoya are shown to be confused with each other, "Miruru...?" "Megane character...?".

Part 2 : Next to each other.

As the 5th and 6th characters in the roster, me and Naoya are constantly paired together in promotional works and songs. Though, that's not as important as our actual relationship to each other.

We don't get to see much in the anime, though there have been a lot of interactions outside of it that shows that we're not as far apart as we seem.

From the [ WAVE!! 4-koma ], it's shown that me and Naoya has spent a couple of days together. In one comic, I was spending my whole day with him to figure out how he's so amazing at surfing. We ended up only watching anime, which made my notes fill up with data about Miruru. That databook was then given to Naoya. Something interesting is how the narrator said "There was no data collected, but the distance between their hearts did shorten."

On the game story [ Yuta Matsukaze - Analysis During Shop Duty ], I said a line that could be interpreted as falling in love or gaining interest, "At first, I was just supposed to guard the store. But before I knew it, I was..." In the same story, I also told Naoya that I've been watching him for over a year ( to which he called me a stalker, but that's fair i guess ), though it was Naoya telling me that he didn't mind me talking so much.

Naoya, meanwhile, doesn't give us much. He's said I was different on multiple occasions, on the character relationship charts ( which we will get to later ) and in the story [ Naoya Kido - The Secret of the Notebook ], where he said "…… Hinaoka-senshu is not ready yet. But Matsukaze-senshu is different." when it came to names for techniques. Naoya has also became really enthusiastic when I told him that I would probably move to Tokyo after high school [ WAVE!! 4-koma ]. We also got a close up shot of Naoya being worried for me during my heat with Fuke----

Also, a friend of mine theorised that the promotional SURFDAYS illustrations, the ways we're holding our surfboards are the way we'll hold our significant others...... So in terms of being next to each other,,,

Part 3 : Annoying?!

Now on to those character relationship charts.

On my relationship chart :

Y -> N : "He gets really excited when we're in Tokyo"

N -> Y : "I'd rather watch the latest Miruru episode than listen to your data."

On Naoya's relationship chart :

Y -> N : "His Miruru fan-ness gets annoying."

N -> Y : "He's a little different from the megane characters I know."

So yes, not that positive.... Though, despite me finding his love for Miruru a little annoying, it doesn't stop me from looking out for him. On the game event story [ Chocolate Securing Plan ], Nalu reveals that I've been telling him about Naoya. Nalu said that I told him not to touch the truth about Miruru, or basically, not to reality check him. This came up when Sho almost told Naoya about how fictional characters can't make real life chocolate.

Part 4 : Trivia and Hints

Me alerting Bill as to why Naoya isn't going to participate in the Forest Cup [ WAVE!! 4-koma ]

Me being the first to try and help Naoya after seeing him sad because the anime isn't going to stream in his city [ WAVE!! 4-koma ]

Me saying that I need Naoya in Shōnan after finding out how Naoya could actually make Kosuke take a break [ WAVE!! 4-koma ]

Me falling more into interest with Naoya after finding out how he is towards 2D and 3D girls [ Naoya Kido - 2D and 3D ]

Me itching to talk to him after seeing him at the beach [ Naoya Kido - The Secret of the Notebook ]

Me being the most worried when mine and Masaki's plan to give Naoya Miruru Dried Sweet Potatoes failed [ Naoya's Birthday Post 2020 ]

Naoya saying he doesn't mind that I talk a lot and that I'm just enthusiastic [ Yuta Matsukaze - Analysis During Store Duty ]

Naoya actually laughing and blushing at whatever the fuck I'm showing him [ WAVE!! Surfing Yappe!! Vol.2 DVD Cover ]

Part 5 : Yuta's Thoughts

Yeah so far it seems somewhat one-sided. I've shown a lot of interest towards Naoya in multiple different stories. Though there's much on him towards me. It's not something I mind though. In the stories, Naoya has shown to be kind towards me, though sometimes sarcastic and straightforward. He's a really interesting person and I'm glad that I could figure him out piece by piece. In the end, we still feel very far apart.

Yet, despite our distance and somewhat distaste for each other, we also have a lot of similarities. First of all, we're both described as nerds. But we also have shown to be the most perceptive out of the whole group, other similarities is that we can't seem to fucking shut up about our interests, and we also treasure our friends very much.

Part 6 : Final Thoughts

Anyways Naoyuta is a great ship, fuck you nerd x nerd is superior I don't want to hear anyone say shit about it. Also pink and green literally amazing, the colour palette is just spectacular, I cannot shut up about it.

This is dedicated to the first showing of Shonan the WAVE!! which will be streamed on the LOVE&ART official YouTube channel featuring both mine and Naoya's seiyuus, Yusuke Shirai and Shunichi Toki, on Friday 21st of May at 21:00 JST

Manifesting a Naoyuta drama but who knows.

Also WAVE!! Wonderful Party has a clip,,, It might be from a drama featuring the both of us or it could be something else. If it's the former then WHAT THE FUCK WHY DID I FUCKING MOAN AFTER NAOYA SAID SOMETHING ABOUT LAUNCHING SOMETHING [ CONTEXT PLEASE ]

Anyways have a great day, this was Yuta Matsukaze ranting about his own relationship and being gay as fuck so I hope you enjoyed reading it.

To leave off this post, I'll be sharing some art. And that's it, thank you for reading, goodbye for now!

- m4tsuk4ze || Yūta

Part 7 : Naoyuta so true

[kawasaki-division]

Akihabara Division: DayBreakers Drama Track 1 - Part 2

Kosuke plans to send the mics back to Chuo-ku, but many people tend to be quite stubborn

Haruto: Hah?! You’re sending them back?! Why?!

Kosuke: . . . Because I don’t want to form my own division

Haruto: But you know that there are throngs of people who would love to be in your division!

Natsuki: Can’t you at least form some kind of door between your mouth and brain?

Haruto: It’s a true statement and you know it- ohhhhhhhh, riiiiiight. Ops.

Kosuke: Yeah. I mean it’s been a while, but I have more than one reason for wanting to give back the mics.

Haruto: Wait, there’s-mpf!

Natsuki: Take your meal and hide from my tactless brother in your room. Now

Kosuke: How are you two older than me. . .?

Natsuki: Don’t ask, just do.

Kosuke: Yes, Yes, understood!

[backs away]

[Lets go]

Haruto: I am just getting beat up today. . .

Natsuki: For the sake of all of us, just try to make like an owl and be silent while doing your thing.

Haruto: *inhale* Thank you for clarifying, but also, please stop with your animal metaphors.

Natsuki: Just finish your meal.

Haruto: mm.

——————————

Kosuke: (eating)

[phone rings]

Kosuke: Jakurai-sensei?

Jakurai: Hello Kosuke, apologies if this is an inconvenient time for you.

Kosuke: Not at all sir. Is there something wrong?

Jakurai: No, it is just a simple question I would like to ask you.

Kosuke: Go ahead then.

Jakurai: Did you by any chance receive two hypnosis mics from Chuo-ku?

Kosuke: . . .

Jakurai: I see. So you did.

Kosuke: Um- wait! I’m sending them back tomorrow! I have no intention of starting my own division and it’s just that-

Jakurai: Kosuke, please, calm down. I understand you have reservations about this. I’m sure we all do.

Kosuke: . . .

Jakurai: Kosuke?

Kosuke: Jakurai-sensei.

Jakurai: Yes?

Kosuke: . . . We . . . We know that it was Chuo-ku who split us up.

Jakurai: Indeed we do.

Kosuke: I just don’t think I can rap again, much less lead a group, I’ve never been a leader, you know that. And... there’s that...

Jakurai: I cannot force you to do anything, it is your choice.

Kosuke: Mm. Yeah. Thanks. Bye then.

Jakurai: Yes, goodbye.

Kosuke: Dangit.

[Places phone down, tapes box shut, takes out sketchbook]

——————————

[chirping of birds]

Haruto: I’m off!

Natsuki: Right.

[door shuts]

Natsuki: Loud as ever isn’t he Hajime?

*mrow*

Natsuki: *chuckles* I agree… ahhhh… I need coffee.

Kosuke: Good morning.

[pats Hajime]

Natsuki: Morning.

.

.

.

Kosuke: I’ll be going out early to go do some dessin.

Natsuki: Alright.

Kosuke: (takes onigiri) See you in the afternoon.

???: Hey! You’re Kosuke Furuhata! From the Dirty Dawg!

Kosuke: A-ah… yes, um, may I help you?

???: Name’s Tamaki! Please let me and my friend join your division!

Kosuke: Oh. Well, apologies, but I’m not looking for any teammates, I actually-

Tamaki: Whaaat?! You already have a team?! Wait! What if we have a battle?!

Kosuke: N-no! It’s that I-

Tamaki: I’ll be back and challenge them!

[Sprints away]

Kosuke: Wait! Oh no…

[texts]

Kosuke: Hopefully they’ll be careful.

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Haruto: Hm? Be careful? A guy and his friend seem to be under the impression that the two of you are my teammates? Pfft, I wish?

Coworker: Haruto? Is something the matter?

Haruto: Nah, it’s nothin’ that won’t fix itself.

——————————

Natsuki: (making notes to buy more kibble) Hey what are you hanging around here for?

Tamaki: You’re one of the twins who live here right? My buddy Ryu and I were waiting for ya.

Natsuki: Oh, the bothersome parasites.

Ryu: Parasites?! The f#ck?!

Tamaki: Relax, we gotta wait for both of ‘em.

Natsuki: Tch. (Starts to text)

——————————

Haruto: *heavy breathing* Where’s Kosuke?!

Ryu: Finally! Let’s get this over with!

[Mics activate]

Tamaki:

So you’re the chosen runts?

What kinda trick is this?

Once you’re replaced, know that you won’t be missed.

We’ll bring Akihabara straight to the top!

While you just turn around and drop!

Ryu:

You’ve got a lot of nerve to go and piss me off!

This’ll be a fun little run for us.

It’s just a warm up after all.

So don’t even try to act tough!

Natsuki and Haruto: Arghhhh!

Tamaki: Thought that would knock ‘em out.

Ryu: Let’s hit ‘em again!

Haruto: Dammit! What can we even do?

Natsuki: Explain obviously!

Haruto: Yeah! Hey! We’re not actually part of Kosuke’s group! He isn’t even forming one!

Tamaki and Ryu: Haaaa?!

Ryu: What an obvious lie! All the other’s are forming groups!

Kosuke: No. they’re right.

Tamaki: Furuhata! We’re winning! See? We’re much better as you’re teammates!

Kosuke: Did you not hear what I said? They’re right. I wasn’t looking to start my own division.

Ryu: Why not?!

Kosuke: Do I need a reason? Please leave.

Tamaki: No way! You can’t deny us this?

Natsuki: What kind of entitled creature are you?

Haruto: Can you hear yourselves?!

Tamaki: We'll just have to convince you otherwise!

Kosuke: *sigh* Why? Just why?

[takes out mic]

Haruto: You have that on you?

Natsuki: Not another word. Just be grateful.

Kosuke:

You think that you can beat me?

Well then good luck with that!

Hey now don’t look so surprised.

I’m standing right in front of you.

I’ll stay up all day, and late into the night.

That is until you’re finished, and done with this fight.

The only thing that matters is that you’re going home!

Tamaki and Ryu: uuuurghhh!!!

Kosuke: I’ll say this again, please leave. I wouldn't ever choose teammates who can’t listen to anyone else.

Tamaki: Ack! Fine! It’s your loss!

[They stagger away]

Haruto: Kosuke! That was awesome!

Natsuki: Can we just go inside?

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Haruto: Gotta say, that felt exhilarating!

Kosuke: But you’re both hurt! And mostly because of me!

Natsuki: That’s a primitive thought. The fault is those two’s.

Haruto: But you were so cool! You blew them both away! Wish we would do that!

[Whack]

Haruto: Ack! Not again! You sadist!

Natsuki: If that’s the case, then you’re a masochist for not learning your lesson.

Kosuke: It’s fine. Really it is.

Haruto: See? Besides, Kosuke sent those mic back. Otherwise, I’d be begging right now.

Kosuke: Actually, I ran over before I could send them over.

Natsuki: Does no one think when it comes to speaking?

Haruto: *gasp* Please let us join! We took those hits like champs after all!

Kosuke: I still plan to send them back.

Haruto: But that’s such a waste of talent! And you and Natsu need something other than school in your lives.

Kosuke: Oh, you’re not going to let this go.

Natsuki: What a genius.

Haruto: Well?! Well?!

Kosuke: . . .

[Hands mics over]

Haruto: YEAAASSSSSS!!!!!

Natsuki: What am I? The chaperone?

Kosuke: (thoughts) This seems like the beginning of a new era of sorts. Like daybreak. I suppose…

Kosuke: Hey… what do you think of having DayBreakers as our name?

[pythonissam-despair]

❧ Chloric Cloudtop | CH.3 Trial End II

While you’ve all been left to try and work through the results of the trial, the floor beneath you lights up with a sudden flash. Through the purple miasma, pink lights illuminate the section underneath each of the living students' podiums (including where Haruki stands). As the living Magi look between each other in confusion, Chuubey sits back on their hind legs and regards everyone with their typical placid expression. They had laid down for a while, uninterested in what happened after the voting, but they seemed as startled as the rest of you.

"It... appears Wonderland is going to finalize it's choice. Good luck to all of you."

Like a jeopardy wheel, the lights begin to circle the room. Starting out slow, the wheel quickly picks up speed. You feel the heat of the spotlight flicker onto your podium every other second as you all sit in fear of who it will, eventually, settle on...

And then, it stops.

The Spotlight has chosen Kosuke Nakamura.

It was no secret that Kosuke Nakamura, the SHSL Urban Biologist, was afraid of death.

He’d lied, stolen, and killed to survive. When it came down to the line, when Fate’s scissors had gotten too close to cutting his thread of life short, he’d willingly traded another’s life for his own. A little more time, a few more years - that’s all he wanted. Enough time to prove himself, even if he owed nothing to the world. Enough time to leave something behind, to prove that he was better than where he came from.

That time had run out.

“Ah,” says Kosuke, face blank. He stares at the ground stupidly, blinking a few times as the weight of mortality suddenly settles on his shoulders.

“Ahah.”

Kosuke tips his head back, staring at the ceiling. Then, his shoulders start to shake with the force of laugher - something that might come out of the throat of a cornered animal - rings through the trial room.

“AHAHAH! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!”

The laughter abruptly turns to sobs as Kosuke bows his head over his podium, clutching at the sleeves of his lab coat. His voice catches in his throat as one sentence is forced out.

“...why’s this gotta happen to me, huh?”

Is all, in the end, Kosuke can seem to muster up as a reaction. Different classmates flock to the remaining senior Magus of the group (barring Haruki’s existence, as he sits there uncomfortably) for final goodbyes and lingering promises.

Chuubey, likewise, fell into their characteristic silence as the fallout from the random selection played out. But, as the lit up section of ground under Kosuke’s podium flashes once more before dying out, the Incubator clears their throat.

“Time is up, Kosuke. Say what you must before the end.”

The Incubator jumps off their podium, padding away from the doomed Magus. Kosuke watches them go, something close to hate in his visible eye. But, he turns away, addressing the rest of the class in his final moments.

“I got everythin’ worth sayin’ off my chest. But, uh. Anyone who survives this shit, if ya find my loved one from the motive, some asshole named Kagemori Kanta... Tell ‘em their ugly mug better warn me before peacin’ out next time so I don’t gotta try to play Where’s Waldo with my Wish! Really did, uh… try to find ‘em.”

It’s then that a glow comes from Kosuke’s lab coat pocket. Panic lights up his face, and he fishes out his Soul Gem in its civilian form. The normal yellow-green is already rapidly filling with pitch black, cracking around the edges of the gem.

(CW: self-harm related to Soul Gem damage?)

Then, the Urban Biologist does something unconventional. Throwing the Gem to the ground, he stomps it with the heel of his boot. There’s a CRACK, like crunching glass, and Kosuke doubles over as jolts of pain up through his leg. He raises his foot again, and there’s another crunching sound. Hs form flickers.

“The rest is up to y’all! Get the hell outta Wonderland, tear it apart if ya can.”

He looks towards Hisa specifically.

“But make this quick, yeah?”

Then, his Soul Gem bursts apart with flash of nauseatingly bright light --- The trial room is dimly lit when you open your eyes, sky blotted out by the dark silhouettes of rising buildings. Neon lights pulse to the heavy thump rhythm of electronic bass, and little yellow eyes stare at you from behind dumpsters and other debris. This is clearly some sort of cityscape, but… all around you, barbed wire and chain-link fences block you into a dome of nightlife.

Something rises to its feet in the center of the dome, looming over every Magi. As a light flickers on in it’s head, illuminating cracked glass. A distorted sound echoes through the area, staticky and incomplete.

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Kosuke Nakamura is no more. All that remains is Hyde, the Chlorinated Witch.

[ The Fourth Witch Hunt Begins ]

[shslgymnastnerd-blog]

Journal Entry 5

[Time Period: A few hours after Kosuke’s execution]

[Several paragraphs have been redacted due to sensitive information. The handwriting is very shaky.]

[CW: Breathing trouble, mention of torture, allusion to drowning]

I took a nap and I feel even worse waking up, like somehow that made me even more exhausted. I didn’t rest at all. It feels like I’ve been held underwater and my body’s so fatigued from fighting it that it doesn’t even hurt anymore. I woke up gasping for air, and my head feels raw and runny. How long was I crying earlier? I think I dreamed about something terrible like boiling oceans and violent predator animals but I can’t remember it now.

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Apparently the robots have been waterboarding Nakamura-san. Why? Was it to punish him? To force him to obey them? Just pure fun and sadism? It has to be the latter two. They must have been trying to force someone to act. They must have been trying to screw up his head, make him paranoid that everyone here could hurt him.

He shot

Sayuri Nishu-san is dead. They’re both dead. It hasn’t just been them, either: We lost Kozakura-san and Naniko-san, too.

I keep blaming myself for those last two. Yasu Kozakura-san, because I should have known someone would go after them after the incident with the fish(?), and because I heard something happening in the gym. Did they feel like we abandoned them? I wanted to talk to them. It’s for silly selfish reasons, really – because they were the only other NB classmate here that I know of. And when I realized I was the only one left… I felt very vulnerable and very alone.

And then there’s Naniko-san. Mia Matsumoto-san. I helped put suspicion on her, knowing what would happen. I refused to vote for her despite that. And she praised me for abstaining, like I was the only good person left in this vessel. I don’t feel proud of that at all. How am I supposed to feel proud when a killer someone who’s done something terrible insists that she and I are the only good people here?

Nishu-san insisted that I shouldn’t dwell on all this or blame myself. She tried to reassure me that the best course of action was to keep moving forward. And now she’s gone.

I keep feeling like this is my fault too, like I should have tried to protect Nakamura-san. Like I should have been keeping an eye on him and made sure no one was hurting him. Like I should have protected Nishu-san and started seriously working on those ideas we had to arrange a party. A party. It sounds so disrespectful in this context but all we really wanted was to ease the tension between everyone. And instead she is dead and he is dead and everyone is angry with each other and they must be angry with me and

and I never got to say goodbye, to either of them.

I don’t remember Kosuke Nakamura-san’s execution at all. There’s a whole chunk of my memory where I know something happened but I was more concerned with myself than anything around me, and I’ve forgotten all the details. I’m not even sure how I made it back to my room like that.

People are writing in the chatroom right now. Apparently Junshu-san wants to lay down rules for everyone. I don’t want to get up. But it’s important for me to be there and know what’s going on. Neo-kun and Nonoka-san are already gone, so I should go meet everyone too.