#I love onoda!

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 800: Blue sky of joy

Pag 1

1: A climb's outcome is always

2: decided at a place that's close to the sky

4: You bet everything on it, and when the wheels cross the finish line

5: The winner....

Pag 2 / 3

1: raises their hands to the sky and rejoices

A blessing for Manami, the wide sky is Hakogaku's blue!!)

Pag 4

1: The first day's mountain prize goes to Hakone Academy's number 13, Manami Sangaku!!

3: He clearly raises both his arms up to the sky!! For the third year in a row the mountain prize goes to Hakone Academy!!

The sky... is so blue!!

Pag 5

1: I feel alive!!

2: Hakogaku...!!

Kanagawaaa!!

The kings!!

3: Manami took it!!

He beat Mountain King!!

Pag 6

2: Amaziing!!

3: Manami-saaan!!

You're so cool!!

Hakogaku is so strong!!

4: The strongest!!

Manami-saaan!!

6: Waaaaaa

7: Amazing, what a nice scenery

We really climbed to such a nice place

I don't know why, it's strange...

Pag 7

1: but everything looks brilliant

Pag 8

2: The vividness of the greens

The vitality of plants

3: The birds' chirping

The buzzing of insects

Pag 9

1: I can feel the life of every living being

2: Manami-saan!!

You were so cool just now!

It was so exciting!

Manami-kuun!

I took a video!

3: The scenery looks brilliant, doesn't it, Manami

4: In road racing, “victory”

5: is something that's so important it changes the way your body feels

Pag 10

1: Not to mention that it's against the opponent against who he lost for two years in a row

2: The delight makes your cells vibrate all throughout your body

Here's a bottle!

Ah, thanks

4: Manami, that... you managed to get so far while going through so much suffering, you worked so hard and endured

(I threw it away

But I didn't answer)

5: This is

Pag 11

1: a “rewarded joy” for all of that

2: Manami

Hakogakuu!!

Manami-kuun!!

Pag 12

1: Congratulations

Pag 14

1: Thank you for fighting with all your strength

3: After the mountain line there's still the finish line

Keeping your energies for the team is part of the strategy

4: But you used all your strength until your limit to fight against me

5: So, I'm thankful

Pag 15

1: Ah... yeah, but... I couldn't... win...

Even though everyone worked hard to push my back...

2: You're amazing, Manami-kun

You're even stronger than that time on Minegayama

3: Well... at the time I was still at around 75%, I was still in the middle of it

Yet I could still get a lead on you

5: Honestly, this time, when there were around 100m left I thought I couldn't win

But

6: I didn't know until the very last moment

7: You got stronger too!!

Pag 16

1: No no no no

That's not true at all, not true at all

Woah....

2: I just followed, I just did the best I could

3: Aren't you self aware?

That means

4: I just practiced very hard...

That those two control the practices

Their base power has grown

5: Mo- more importantly, huh... I'm sorry!!

Pag 17

1: Huh.... right before the finish line... uhm... I...

Actually...

3: In my mind I referred to you as “Sangaku” without any honorifics!!

4: In....

6: In your heart?

Without honorifics?

Pag 18

1: Hahahaha

2: Hahaha

Huh!? What kind of reaction is this!? Huh!?

3: I'm- I'm sorry

I just... I was really excited at the end!!

4: It's fine

6: I'm actually glad you referred to me without honorifics, it's like... we got so much closer

No, but... I... huh

I don't dislike it...

7: But I guess adding the “kun” really feels like the most natural thing...

Ugh....

8: Besides

Pag 19

1: While you're shouting inside your heart you don't have to add it

3: And at the end, I too, inside my heart

4: I called you “Sakamichi”

6: That, that makes me happy

Right!

7: Ah... now finally...

8: Uhm.....

Pag 20

1: We fulfilled our promise... thank you

Yeah....!!

2: We haven't reached the finish line yet, so we can't rest (haha)

This... this time, since we raced for the mountain stage we still have to keep running even if our race is over

Looks like there's still a little more to go

Ugh...

Pag 21

1: Buaah, yeah!!

It's Hakogaku's victory!!

2: You're too loud!! San-na!!

It's Hakogaku's victory, buah!!

How many times are you gonna say it...!!

3: I'll say it over and over again!! Manami is stronger than Onoda!!

Ugh...!! Onoda-san..!!

4: Humph

Pag 22

1: Amazing, amazing, he's really so cool!!

Uh... he's cool, I guess...

(Tobirama-kun is acting cool)

2: He did it

3: Yeah, and thanks to him

4: The team's morale is rising!!

6: This is bad... Hakogaku-san's power is increasing

What do we do, Hotshot

Pag 23

1: Don't worry, even if they raise their power, let them do it

5: Or, Naruko, are you worried that their morale is rising?

7: Worried? What is “worry”, some sort of rock?

8: That's right. Us third years, me, you, and Onoda have already increased our base power with a program

Pag 24

1: that was sure to make us stronger!!

3: Kakaka!!

4: Huh... what's that... “base power”!?

Pag 25

1: Does that mean they're getting stronger?!

2: Those two's pressure is suddenly rising!!

Pag 26

2: Imaizumi and Naruko's....!!

3: They're getting stronger... than last year

Is this connected to that time at the beginning of spring...

4: when the third years didn't come to practice for a week?

Pag 27

1: Hakogaku's morale is rising? That's just what I was looking forward

Yeah!! I can't help but feel excited!!

2: The “finish line” is waiting!!

[173176]

[puffinatta]

Their first meeting where manami tells onoda all about himself and onoda is just standing there with his mouth hanging open

[szk-ruma]

Slytherin Manami and Gryffindor Onoda

Posting the process coz why not?

I like the sketch better huhu

Ran out of brown liner amidst the process making me resort to a black lineart ;-;

[lilkikibat]

do people still like yowapeda?!?!?! i want to bring my ywpd prints to anime boston but unsure if people will want them 🤔

[nightrae13]

when you're so prideful and a weeb at the same time, you volunteered on the hardest difficulty mode in your dance activity at the first PE lesson:

[falintouden]

ok ill stop bikeposting now 🚲

[sveffo]

A lil happy birthday doodle.

[festivalofthe12]

Also regardless of how you play it, being in the Student Council gives off SUCH poly energy. I'm very disappointed there aren't any Hikami/MC/Onoda fics on Ao3 (shame I never thought about this game during Yuletide noms!!) and am inclined to try my hand at one of my own someday <3

[angel-kyo]

Pay it no mind

Part XXVIII

In which reader confesses their feelings to Gojo, but it seems these are not returned (maybe?).

Warnings: reader is on the receiving end of rejection (kinda), and the fact that I'm obsessed with unrequited love is a warning itself. Firearms, injuries and blood are mentioned.

Previous: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, Part XII, Part XIII, Part IV, Part XV, Part XVI, Part XVII, Part XVIII, Part XIX, Part XX, Part XXI, Part XXII, Part XXIII, Part XXIV, Part XXV, Part XXVI, Part XXVII

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Onoda Asahi had been a sorcerer what he liked to call a couple lives ago. He had left that world to have a normal job but ended up in the wrong side of the tax law. Sooner rather than later, the corporate life stopped fitting him.

He had then found a job that allowed him to keep a low profile. The only problem was that the salary was just as low. So, he had resorted to do some questionable jobs for anyone who could pay the right price.

When someone from his old life as a sorcerer had contacted him to get rid of a certain nuisance for a decent amount, he had accepted in a heartbeat.

“You can take out a curse but not a human?” Onoda asked to the man who had summoned him. “That’s some strange morality, alright.”

“You’re one to lecture.” The man took an envelope out of his haori and gracefully put it on the table. “If you must know, it is not about the when and the who takes them out, but the why. Their death cannot be linked to us.”

He looked at your finally immobilized form on the floor.

His employer informed him of your upcoming promotion to grade one, and the kind of missions you were taking. His role would be simple. He was just going to activate his technique, which could debilitate a target of his choice if it was within range, from somewhere near your battle.

A strong curse and a sorcerer who was not at their full potential; it was an easy equation. It would be another work accident.

Except that he kept failing. Without knowing the specifics of the curse you were fighting, he had been activating his technique intermittently in the areas where he has been informed you would be, but he could not keep it up for prolonged periods of time without being noticed, and he would not get too close to the battlefield for the same reason. As such, he had not been able to time his debilitating technique with the exact second when you may receive a fatal blow.

How did he know that? Because you were still alive and kicking.

The man who asked him to tail your missions had been clear to state that when did not matter much. In fact, it would be suspicious if an obviously planned attack happened that season. That is why it had to look like an accident.

“Half now, half when we get notice of their demise, whenever that is.” The man slid the envelope in his direction and stood up, straightening his haori. “But remember, Onoda, sooner is better than later.”

And he could not agree more, especially if half of his payment was still pending. So, if sabotaging your assignments would not work, he would try the direct approach.

That is how he had gotten into your apartment. He would end things there cleanly. However, when he heard you in the hall calling someone because you did not have your keys, and he opened the door discreetly so you would come in, he admittedly thought that would make you suspicious and this plan would not work either.

Onoda walked to the side of the room where his gun had landed after you kicked it out of his hand. He had hesitated to use his technique in your apartment because of the residuals and all. If a sorcerer came over, it would ruin the narrative of a-robbery-gone-wrong he had wanted to build.

A thief who thought the owner was not home, surprised in the middle of the night, gets scared and shoots once -no, twice- before running away.

He thought it was a believable story. Newspapers where full of those.

Of course, that fell out when the first and second shots had missed their target and not gone through your head as he had planned. He must have impacted somewhere else though, because there where bloodstains on the floor.

He picked up the gun and eyed your unconscious form.

He still had a bullet left.

Activating his technique as a shock instead of a field had allowed him to fightback and hit your head. If he left you there, bleeding and unlikely to wake up any time soon, maybe you would be dead in the morning, and he would get his paycheck in the afternoon.

If he shot you once more, he would make sure.

That was what he was going to do when he noticed a little girl standing at your doorway, looking at you.

“Your cat is on my window,” she said.

Onoda thought maybe the girl had been awaken by the racket of the fight. He had put a silencer on the gun as to not wake up your neighbors, but whatever the reason, what was a little girl doing by herself outside of her home at this hour?

“Are they sleeping?” the question was then directed to him with a curious look. That was not the man she had seen around before nor the homewrecker with white hair her mother had told her to stay away from, and why where you sleeping on the floor?

Onoda realized he had not much choice. The girl was probably too young to understand what was going on, but she had seen him, and that was an issue.

Suddenly, he decided that last bullet would have a different use.

***

It was past 1:30 a.m. when Nitta tried to park near your building.

She had returned to give back your keys, which she had found on the backseat of the car. She knew they were yours because she had not driven around anyone else that night, but when she had called to let you know she was on her way back, you had not answered your phone.

I need to be better at this, Nitta thought, I should have noticed they had left the keys there sooner.

She guessed that in the worst-case scenario she would find you sitting outside your door, but what she found was a police car outside your building and a group of people in the street.

When she stepped closer, Nitta heard a frantic woman speaking to an officer and understood what the commotion was about.

Someone had been shot in the building. The floor had been evacuated as a preventive measure, although the woman's daughter, the only person who had seen the suspect, had said the man had shot the lights off and escaped through the balcony. It was the girl’s scream at that what had woken up her mother, and she had found her neighbor unconscious and wounded. All officers in the area had already been alerted to look out for a shooter.

“Who was the victim?” Nitta asked to a man standing nearby.

“The occupant of the 101,” the man responded without paying much attention to her, his focus on the surroundings, as if waiting for someone to open fire from the dark. “I think they…”

Nitta was momentarily too shocked to continue listening to what the man said next, because she remembered all the relevant addresses that were given to her, including those of the sorcerers that she assisted on the regular, and she knew the set of keys she was holding was likely to include the key that opened the door to the 101.

***

“Gojo?” Ieiri’s voice was calling him from his phone, but he could not bring himself to say anything. “Gojo, are you still there? Did you hear what I said?”

He had. In fact, that had been the last thing he heard before the world went awfully silent for a second, and he felt his legs and arms going numb, as if all the blood in his body had been redirected to his heart so it could take the news Shoko had just delivered to him. Then Shoko’s voice had distorted like a breaking line.

[name]… Shot… Hospital… Major blood loss… Surgery… “You should come,” Shoko’s voice was firm but compassionate in that professional tone Satoru thought doctors surely had to be taught to use when acting as the messengers of bad news.

Early in the days you had started taking solo missions in your graduating year, you had sometimes returned wounded, and it had been Shoko’s job to patch you up and call Satoru to pick you up.

“Gojo, you should come. [name] did something silly again and needs to be carried to their room,” Ieiri said, a teasing smile forming on her face while she looked at you.

“I do not!” your shouted in the background.

But now there was something else in that tone that made Satoru feel like the ground was shifting beneath him, some genuine worry he did not like, because what if Shoko was not asking him to come and take you home but to come and say goodbye?

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Note: I'll leave this here and go back to hiding slowly...

Thank you for reading!

Next: Part XXIX

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[ywpd-translations]

Ride 797: But still, move forward!!

Pag 1

4: This is bad

5: This is bad...!! I'm not consciously putting strength into them

Pag 2

1: And my hands are about to come off the handles!!

My fingers fell off the brackets!!

Pag 3

1: The lead is advancing!! 250m left until the mountain line!!

Go Hakogaku!

A battle between last year's finalists!

From their faces it looks like they're having a hard time!!

2: There are

3: 250m left!!

Pag 5

2: They're having a tough time and they were about to lower their heads, but they both still looked up and forward!!

Waaa they hit each other!!

Pag 6

1: Soooooo!!

Aaaaaaah!!

Yet they're still only looking forward and turning their legs!!

2: 200m left!!

3: Is that what it means to be incredibly scary!?

Those two are already.... at their limits!!

Pag 7

1: The same moment.... the same race won't happen a second time

2: So pedal with everything you've got!!

3: Everyone sent me ahead, they pushed my back

4: So I'll pedal at full throttle!!

Pag 8

1: Until I cross over this race's finish line!!

Pag 9

5: The finish line of this year's first day's mountain stage.....

Pag 10

1: has a peculiar layout

Pag 11

2: In the last 100m there's a big right turn that turns 180°

3: After climbing that difficult curve, at end of it, there it is

4: The finish line!!

It's a shape that has basically never been seen before in the mountain stage

6: Also, 50m before that curve....

Pag 12

1: The road becomes wider again!!

2: 150m left!!

Pag 13

1: Manami

2: Glasses-kun

3: You should run so that you don't have regrets later

I'll make sure to report the outcome of this race right away

4: to that guy in England

6: Still, Maki-chan

Even though I'm acting as a witness, when I see the genuine way they're running, I can't help it

I can't help but overlap it

Pag 14

1: with the time the two of us raced during the Hakone Inter High!!

Pag 15

1: They're running, Maki-chan, those two...!! Who were still two first years who didn't know anything.... now they became third years

Pag 16

1: Even without us

2: pushing their backs

3: With their own willpower

Pag 17

1: Seeing it with my own eyes, feeling it on my skin, it makes my heart tremble

2: It's nostalgic

and frustrating

4: I want to take your place

6: I'm just a witness, I have no intention of supporting either of you

I wonder how were you feeling when you came here, Manami

I'll only tell you one thing, but you won't hear me anyway

Pag 18

1: Flap your wings freely!!

Pag 19

3: Huh?

I heard something.... I heard

4: He's here!!

Toudou-san!!

Pag 20

1: Yes, I'll flap my wings!!

Please watch me!!

2: To the end, freely!!

5: 100m left!!

[173176]

friends

[nthspecialll]

I love the small references that rdr2 makes to real things and real people, even if it isn't intentional. Take Hayden Russell, the veteran you can find who thinks the Civil war is still going on, and while the date he keeps mentioning is a reference to a real battle, he as a person reminds me of Hiroo Onoda who was a japanese soldier in world war two.

Hiroo, as well as some others, were dispatched out in the jungles in the Philippines and did not believe that the war actually ended when it did. A lot of attempts at getting them back to Japan were made, not only for their sake but also the villagers who were getting tired of a man killing their animals because he thought he was in war. Letters were sent out, loud speakers with recordings of his family, so on and so forth but he stayed hidden for 30 years while those around him slowly returned, even if they didn't fully believe the war was over, they were tired. He saw them as traitors.

Then one day, he mets a photographer who is like "Omg, it is you, btw, the war is actually over" and Hiroo tells him that he will only believe it if his commander tells him. So, his commander is brought out to finally set Hiroo off his duties after thirty years.

Hayden says the same thing to the player, that he will only believe that the war is over if his general tells him.

[couldtransitionsaveher]

ONODA SAKAMICHI from YOWAMUSHI PEDAL

JUSTIFICATION:

"the protagonist of yowamushi pedal was originally supposed to be a girl until the author's editor said that a story with a boy protagonist would sell better, but he still kept a lot of his character concept for the original protagonist in creating onoda.

onoda is really obsessed with a magical girl anime, love hime, and throughout the series she often sings a song from that show singing about the transforming magic princess protagonist to encourage herself to pedal faster during cycling races. i feel like this can be seen as her finding power in femininity. even outside of singing the song there are multiple times while pushing herself during races that she shouts "i'm a princess!!!"

for an additional argument that requires a segue into making the case for another character's lgbt-ness for a bit: onoda's senior mentor is makishima yuusuke. makishima has a sense of style that other people often find weird and effeminate. makishima has a background story about how they were always bullied growing up for not fitting in regardless of what they did, and for quite literally not doing things "straight" (having weird posture/writing crooked/riding a bike with an unconventional style, etc.) makishima is also probably the character involved with the most gaybaiting in all of the animanga

despite all the people who find makishima to be weird, onoda greatly admires makishima, insisting that they're one of the coolest people she's ever met, and looking up to her as a role model. everything that other people find weird that makishima does, onoda admires and tries to imitate, from their cycling style to their fashion sense. in one cute scene, onoda sees makishima put their long hair in a hair turban after washing it, and as soon as she is alone she tries to imitate this despite not needing to wrap her short hair like that herself.

before getting roped into joining her school's cycling club (despite initially being intimidated by people who played sports), onoda was pretty shy and awkward and didn't have many friends. but after gaining a community in the cycling club, she begins to blossom into her warm and determined personality. some of the moments where that shines the most is when she is relating herself to the protagonist of love hime. i think there is a strong argument to be made for her being a closeted trans girl who is just starting to discover herself now that she is in a supportive environment with an older gender nonconforming role model giving her a small glimpse of what is possible for the first time, taking her first steps with experimenting and letting herself be excited about the idea of being a girl through the confidence-building outlet of her cycling.

i've not been able to see onoda as anything but a trans girl since i first watched yowamushi pedal 10 years ago and i hope after reading this you think so too!" - Anonymous

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[redsamuraiii]

Hiroo Onoda : the real life Last Ninja 🥷🏻

After going to the Kyoto Samurai Ninja Museum, I realized that the movie American Ninja (1985) that I love watching, features a character that is actually inspired by an actual one, Hiroo Onoda.

In the movie, John Fujioka, plays a lone Japanese soldier who survived and lived in the forest in the Philippines since World War 2, as he wasn't aware that the war was over. Until he met an orphan, played by Michael Dudikoff, that he realized what happened. He adopted the child and taught him Ninjitsu, to pass his teachings.

In history, Hiroo Onoda survived in the Philippines till 1974, thinking that his country is still at war and refused to believe flyers saying the war was over, thinking it was allied propaganda. Upon learning of this, his former commander flew from Japan to meet him to relieve him of his duty, where he surrendered on 10 March 1974.

The reason he was able to survived that long and evade capture by the allies is because he was a real Ninja. The TIMES magazine attributed to this when he passed away in 2014 at the age of 91.

[nightrae13]

you know what- I'm actually quite surprised the only two fictional men I was head-over-heels in love with were both red-coded jocks who were obsessed with their respective sports beyond normal.