#GouEn

[bobgoesw00t]

It’s that time of year again…

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BIGGEST SAKKA BAKA IN THE UNIVERSE/MULTIVERSE ENDOU MAMORU!!!!!!!

Oh, and Happy 16th Anniversary to Inazuma Eleven xD

[bobgoesw00t]

Soft fluffy kissy kissy FTW…dear GOD how I want someone to look at me the way these two boys do at each other…and has a solid relationship like the Sakka Baka and his REAL lover, Gouenji Shiuya :3

Art by うみ (Umi)

Twitter: @umiinsao || Pixiv: users/4740629

art source:

https://twitter.com/umiinsao/status/1564991528132435969

[dreamerkitty]

This has been stewing in the pot for a while because well... I couldn't quite be bothered to type all the descriptions... soooo... just have it without and if there are any questions for a segment, I'll answer it!

I'll put the text here too if anyone has trouble reading it

Sky:

Lord Enma's real identity Phone games Anime complaints Libertynyan and Mimikin Tunnel jumpscare Noko bowtie, Komasan purse Busters Blasters Sailor Cuties - Sailor Moon Robonyan is gay Whismellowman Movie -> season 2 Terminator Alien YG Star Wars Useless Yokai The chase Alternate world Katie Cannibalism Trans Arachnia Komami was a publicity stunt Some Original and Shadowside Yokai are different Western manga FF - Yokai Watch - Shadowside - Y Gakuen

Tip:

Translate YW4 they said... QR codes are bad! Popular Fukurou Gracie Superhero Yokai Amy -> Jinpei Death Note Goku Enmas Noruka Soruka Wib Wob 2 variants Fatphobia Yokai can reproduce Alternate world Enmas Punipuni Yokai humans Anime exclusive Yokai English anniversary tweet Just Dance # saveyokaiwatch Game and anime lore are different Pokemon animal experiment Yokai Bustlin' School Life trailer YG season 3 Trans Lily mistake Shadowside was cut short Attempted suicides Kouen, Gouen, Shien Horn-less Oni Wakuwaku Nyanderful Days Yokai Watch + Inazuma 11 + Professor Layton Lucas is Shien

Shallows:

Robonyan meets Arnold Bustlin' School Life Kumako Venoct's age Rockin' Rachel YW4 cut content Scrapped Yokai What is Mary Uula is dead Mary's dad Hazy Lane & Omori M Yokai Azure Dragon YW! Ranto, Chiaki, Mataro Yokai SS Seiryuu exclusion Whisper isn't a ghost Manga Komasaburo YG season 2 movie Movie 2 dub Shadowside dub Anime cupistol Fiona can see Yokai Muzzle-less Komajiro Shadowside in YW!, Nate in Y Gakuen YG manga reset Non-binary Chiaki Shadowside seasons Hino has an ego Touma is autistic Busters 2 spanish translation Y School Heroes in English

Depths:

Genjuu Fudou Myouou & Ashura SEGA lawsuit YW2 anal Suicide tree Dick nickname Lost media YG has a lot wrong with it... Traced contest submission

SUPER DEPTHS!!!!

AI!!!!! Indy Jaws google images (DO NOT RESEARCH!!!!)

(these last two are jokes...)

[twin-chains]

See images of the bosses below the cut

Based on any criteria: whoever was the most fun to fight, the coolest or most clever design, the hardest battle, general vibes, etc.

Big Manhandla, Dera Zol, and Gouen

Vaati, Stone Arrghus, and Helmaroc King

Big Poe, Big Moldorm, and Frostare

I never played FSA so let me know if I forgot anyone. It’s been a long time since I’ve even touched Four Swords too, so I don’t really have an opinion on any of these.

I was so confused with Dera Zol though so that brings it down for me. Manhandla was kinda cool I guess, I liked having to fight my own color petals and pulling the handles and stuff. Then Gouen was just Ganondorf’s volley but with colors so nothing to write home about. I love Vaati but can’t remember how his fight went so I’m impartial

[dooniichez]

What if Maxie had a giant form?

Inspired by Wukong's Gouen form, I wanted to draw Maxie having a kind of giant form. When she loses control of herself, and goes into more of a destructive state.

Wukong's Gouen form:

[candy-canes-and-tinsel-chains]

gouen-鸡 I ＣＡＮＴ

pov youre gouenji being called chicken man by the mukata triplets:

[toxicanza]

i lvor them... so much

[shuuji-chan]

豪炎寺修也誕生祭2020 🎉🎉

[inazumine]

Reflections on EnGou - Ultimate BROTP and Otherwise

So, I’ve been rewatching bits and pieces of the old series and reflecting on a lot, but… can we just talk about Gouenji and Endou for a second?

(Warning, long ass post ahead. Read if you dare)

GouEn is the first ship I ever shipped in Inazuma Eleven, and whether or not you see them as an OTP, more of a BROTP, or even a NOTP (that would be real hard but to each his own), you can’t really deny how important they are to each other and Endou’s role in Gouenji’s character arc.

I’m no master analyst and I really can’t form coherent thoughts worth a damn, but I just really wanted to write this and get my feelings out about them so here we go!

In the beginning of the series, Endou’s primary reason for interacting with new people is recruiting people for the soccer club. Raimon’s future looks bleak and Endou won’t let it just fall to pieces, so he’s aggressively recruiting anyone he can to fill their roster. Soccer is something that Endou loves, and ultimately he’s trying to find people he can play and enjoy soccer with, but there’s some desperation to his recruitment too. He really doesn’t care how interested someone is, or how much they’ve actually played soccer, they just need to be there as a warm body and he’ll make them like soccer and things will work out somehow.

Then, Gouenji comes in.

Forewarning, I’m trying to only put observations of canon in to this, but I have some headcanons about Gouenji and his mental state so bear with me.

Gouenji, I’d say, is a loner by nature. It’s not that he doesn’t like having friends or doesn’t want to make them, he just doesn’t actively push for it. He’s a man of few words and only speaks when he feels necessary. However, on his introduction, he seems pretty closed off from interacting with Endou, and pretty much everybody. It’s mostly Endou’s mention of soccer that tips Gouenji off, but I think context is important here. Gouenji’s a teenage boy who’s experienced the passing of his mother, believes that he’s guilty of putting his sister in an indefinite coma, and gets little emotional support from his increasingly distant father. He has very little in terms of a support system (thank God for Fuku-san), and has just abandoned his team in one of the biggest matches of the season, while moving to a new town where he knows no one. On top of all this, most of these events happen within what has to be a few months of each other, and Gouenji’s made to deal with it pretty much all by himself.

Soccer should be an emotional outlet and a way to have fun, but for Gouenji in the first part of season 1, it’s something that causes him to feel guilt. It’s his fault that Yuuka’s in a coma. He left Kidokawa for no good reason without telling anyone, so it’s his fault they lost. So, Gouenji decides to punish himself, and stop playing soccer. Why should he be able to have fun and play soccer while Yuuka suffers?

Gouenji’s depressed, and he internalizes a lot of negative emotions. He’s prickly, not willing to open up to people or make friends, and isolates himself on purpose. He has a thing for punishing himself, and as we see later, he doesn’t have the wherewithal to come to his own defense, not necessarily because he doesn’t care what people say, but because he doesn’t think they’re wrong.

Okay, so back to Endou. Endou meets Gouenji, and while Endou is a friendly person and genuinely cares about people, I daresay he doesn’t really act very empathetic towards Gouenji, at least initially. This is definitely not on purpose, more of a result of Endou’s one-track mind and general tactlessness in the beginning of season 1. Endou goes on and on trying to bring Gouenji back in to playing soccer, because if he can kick a ball like that, of course he should be playing, despite Gouenji being standoffish and uncomfortable. He doesn’t know anything about him, and ends up treating Gouenji like a phenomenon, some dude who’s going to come in and help solve the soccer team’s problems. This is quickly subverted when Endou and Gouenji start to see each other differently.

Gouenji see’s Endou as less of a nuisance and more a guy with a lot of passion and a good heart. He sees what he loves about soccer, and someone who enjoys it to the fullest, and it’s hard to keep denying himself. Endou accepts that Gouenji has his reasons for not playing and starts to see that Gouenji is a good guy that deserves to be left alone when he says he wants to be, but he wants to understand Gouenji and help him where he can. The key here is that Endou knows Gouenji isn’t happy not playing soccer, so while he doesn’t try to recruit him, he still tries to nudge Gouenji back towards it.

And that’s the beautiful thing. Because of Endou bringing soccer back in to Gouenji’s life, and giving Gouenji someone to lean on, Gouenji finally begins to lift a lot of those burdens off his being. He makes friends in Raimon, smiles a lot more, and opens up to others a lot more. Gouenji starts to feel happy again, and it’s because Endou is willing and ready to care about him.

(I almost damn cried when I saw this opening again and caught this, because it’s Gouenji and Endou and it’s Endou’s casual kindness that pulls Gouenji up and starts all this waaaahhhhhhh)

It’s this emotional investment in each other that grows in to a deep friendship built on trust and care. Later on in the series, Gouenji gets confronted with being pulled away from soccer again and again, and each time we see that it tears him up inside. He doesn’t let anyone know what’s really bothering him, except for one person: Endou. During Aliea, Gouenji can’t tell Endou what’s up, but he feels bad enough that he’s leaving again that he says sorry, and even tears up. None the less, Endou hides his sadness and tries to cheer Gouenji up, because he trusts that he’ll come back no matter what. Gouenji trusts the others to carry on and keep winning until he comes back, and he trusts he’ll have a place to come back to.

The real kicker is in season 3, when things get so much sweeter. Gouenji’s almost ripped away from soccer one more time, and we see how much this means to Endou. Gouenji hides his emotions because he doesn’t want to make anyone worry, but Endou’s so in tune by now that he notices something’s up, and Gouenji almost leaves without telling him anything, but he just can’t lie, not to Endou.

Now, we see Endou emotionally distraught, for a lot of reasons, and I kind of want to compare this to when Kazemaru left in season 2. During Aliea, Endou gets monumentally depressed because not only does Kazemaru leave, but Kazemaru leaves of his own accord, and Endou’s questioning his ability as a friend and as a captain. This, a long with the pressure, breaks him down and leaves him without direction. Here, instead we see that it’s clear Gouenji doesn’t want to leave, and that he’s trying to convince himself and everyone else that this is okay, but it’s not, not to Gouenji and not to Endou. Here, Endou is sad, but he’s frustrated on his and Gouenji’s behalf, and this has less to do with leaving Inazuma Japan, but more the fact he’s leaving Endou and soccer behind while trying to act like it’s not hurting him.

Endou goes as far as trying to appeal to Gouenji’s father, and it’s heartbreaking to hear Endou’s voice crack while he struggles not to cry, and this is the only time something like this happens in the series. What’s important is that while he’s talking, Endou doesn’t bring up how much Inazuma Japan needs him, but how happy soccer makes Gouenji and how he can’t take him away from the thing he literally lives for. Endou wants Gouenji to be happy, and he wants him there when they take on the world. So, it’s not a one-way street, and you can see that they appreciate and rely on each other through the rest of the season.

Gouenji goes through a journey from season 1 to season 3 of opening himself back up to people and soccer, and Endou is the catalyst for it. You can see how Gouenji becomes more talkative and expressive as the series goes on, and we have Endou to thank for it. This isn’t to deprive Gouenji of agency in his own mental affairs, but to emphasize how important Endou was in helping Gouenji start this process of healing.

It’s also why I think we see Gouenji play such a big role in helping others solve their problems. Gouenji by himself is really observant and cares about others, but he notes that it’s because of Endou that he makes it a point to look in to others issues. With Fubuki in season 2, his and Gouenji’s talk really says a lot. Gouenji flat out says he’s scared and imperfect; he lives with the fear of not being enough and hurting others along the way, and even though it’s something he can’t get over super quickly, he knows Endou and the team will have a place for him, no matter how many times he’s abandoned them or not been enough. And in season 3 when Gouenji gets all prickly again and starts not being himself, falling back down in to the Gouenji rabbit hole? It’s Endou who notices what’s up and decides to confront him. Gouenji learns from Endou’s habits, and he becomes someone who speaks up to help his team.

“You’re the one who taught me that.” - Gouenji being sweet as hell

Just in general, GouEn moments in season 3 are really sweet. The fist bumps get real emotional, and Gouenji starts initiating emotional GouEn moments a lot more as the episodes go by, which just rips me apart internally. In season 3 especially you see a lot of Inazuma Japan trying to help Endou block the goal and carry some of that burden, and Gouenji, more than once, tells Endou he’ll score goals to do just that. It’s not just to help them win, it’s to make sure he helps Endou carry that responsibility. He could have just not said anything, as we know Gouenji’s a man of few words, and could’ve just let the goals speak for themselves, but he chose to say it out loud and reassure Endou, so you know to Gouenji it means something more.

I think it’s easy here to say Endou is Gouenji’s rock, but I think Gouenji is more Endou’s rock. Gouenji is someone who brings Endou back to earth (the irony) when Endou starts thinking too deep and not being himself, and is the constant Endou relies on to keep going in a lot of aspects.  I’d rather call Endou Gouenji’s buoy. Throughout the series, Gouenji threatens to and does slip off the edge back in to deep water, his guilt, his shame, and his tendency for self-punishment, but Endou is always there to pull him back up and keep him afloat and let him breathe new air.

Anyway, I think I’ve done enough rambling about things everyone already knows. I won’t go in to Go but long story short, it’s another situation of Gouenji punishing himself to set things right his own way, but trusting Endou (and the others) enough to hold down the fort, and no matter how guilty Gouenji feels after all is said and done, Endou welcomes him back immediately with open arms.

This was really messy and dumb but I had to get my thoughts down somewhere. We don’t have a whole bunch of GouEn moments in Ares/Orion as of yet, but I have hope and I’ll keep waiting for them. It’s almost impossible to keep these two apart for too long, so it’s only a matter of time.

[bobgoesw00t]

Have some MOAR FLUFFY AND WHOLESOME HUSBANDS BECAUSE GOD DAMN IT LOOK AT THEM!!!!!!!

[toxicanza]

still thinking about them

[shuuji-chan]

Happy Valentine’s Day 💓

[bobgoesw00t]

I think the “it’s about being gay/also about being gay” aspect applies to almost EVERY SINGLE SPORTS ANIME EVER…not all of them of course but most…I’m looking at you Inazuma Eleven I MEAN YOU COULDN’T MAKE IT ANY MORE OBVIOUS THAT ENDOU MAMORU AND GOUENJI SHUUYA ARE HUSBANDS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU FUCKING TRIED!!! xD

Me describing sports anime, a series:

Free: It’s about swimming, but really it’s about being gay and having a rival

Yuri on Ice: It’s about figure skating, but really it’s about being gay and having a mid-life crisis in your 20s

Sk8 the Infinity: It’s about skateboarding, but really it’s about being gay and in love with your bestie

Haikyuu: It’s about volleyball, but really it’s about… volleyball. It’s literally about volleyball. (and also being gay)

[bobgoesw00t]

So I was laying in bed last night trying to fall asleep and I got a brand new Inazuma Eleven headcanon, and I want to share it with the world...mostly @shuuji-chan and @inafallsaway.

Since we now know that the character Level-5 teased a while ago is Endou Haru (I mean it was obvious that he was related to the Sakka Baka in some way, we just didn't know how) and that he's Mamoru's son I figured it out.

Since Haru is obviously in Junior High, the new game HAS to be at least 15 years after the end of Inazuma Eleven Go! Galaxy, meaning the Sakka Baka and his friends are even older than they were. Now given the fact that Haru appears to have the skill and personality of Gouenji Shuuya, but looks like his dad this is my headcanon...

ENDOU HARU IS THE CHILD OF ENDOU MAMORU AND GOUENJI SHUUYA!!!!!!!

Now hear me out, 15 years is PLENTY of time for the Sakka Baka to finally break free from the bullshit, OP, broken, Black Magic Natsumi used to get him to marry her. After doing so, he goes to Gouenji and FINALLY admits his feelings for the striker, they get married, and after one night out drinking with their friends in which Mamoru has a tad TOO much to drink randomly says that he wants a kid. When Gouenji tells him about this the following morning, the Sakka Baka admits he was half serious which leads to them talking about how they could make it happen. Anyways, after using a surrogate mother, sperm bank/donor, or whatever, ENDOU HARU IS BORN AND IS A MASTER AT SAKKA!!!!!

ENGOU IS CANON AND I WILL NEVER BELIEVE THAT MAMORU MARRIED NATSUMI OF HIS OWN FREE WILL GO AHEAD AND @ ME!!!

[imiteeshon]