#Ikenami Ryunosuke

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Hey, Utchy… did you know the Shinkengers???

[nanaaaxmch]

I finished shinkenger recently and my chest hurts sm every time i remember their last ep i literally cried like a bitch i love them too much…… i still want to see them together……………;;;;;; so expect more drawings of them from me lol

also ig u can tell im so obsessed with ryu/take o(—(

(i’m also on twitter btw (@nana___henshin)!!)

[taliquest]

Shinkenger 37:

I thought I was ready. I thought I was prepared. But no.

No, I was not prepared for the incredible homoeroticism of Ryunosuke and Chiaki being stuck together at the wrists.

[aliencatart]

a gathering of some dragon guys

[chootaminute]

animal crosses your samurai

[r1ch1e-the-killer]

chiyunosuke amirite (pls im the only one ik that ships this) + trans chiaki he's like me af!

[inkyuki]

inksatsu día 12.- Arquero

hola a todos! bueno hoy toca la palabra arquero pero si soy sincera no sabia que dibujar XD así que hablando con amigos me acordaron que el shinken blue era un arquero, no me la complique y les hice caso XD si soy sincera no se si era arquero o no, recuerdo que era un actor de kabuki y ya, pero asi quedo el dibujo espero les guste x3

[sunxy45]

ryuu n’ mako evil reverse😵🔥🔥

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Since I have recently started Shinkenger, I would like to request Ryunosuke/Takeru where Ryunosuke gets taken a little more seriously than the show tends to take him. Maybe something with battle injuries :D

Loyalty and Dependence (are dangerously similar)

He didn’t have to say anything to the Kuroko. They simply moved away from Ryuunosuke with one single movement of his hand and from the expression on his face.

(And who was he to have this power? Nevertheless, it was the way it was, and the fact was—odd as it seemed to him—that he wanted to be the one to patch up his Blue Vassal.)

However, as the Kuroko moved away, in that silent way of theirs, Takeru found that Ryuunosuke had apparently been trying to patch himself up, probably in some way to punish or discipline himself for allowing attacks to get through.

“Ryuunosuke,” Takeru sighed, grabbing a roll of bandages the Kuroko had left behind.

“Tono!” Ryuunosuke gasped, gaping. “You don’t have to do this for me!”

(And that was the thing, wasn’t it? He, Shiba Takeru, did not have to patch up his vassals. He had to throw them into battle, and he had to make sure the world wasn’t swallowed by the Sanzu River, which was why his vassals were being thrown into battle. But it wasn’t his duty to do something as trivial as patch up the other Shinkengers; after all, they had the Kuroko.

And sure, Mako was trying to dress a wound on Chiaki’s neck as Chiaki made a mess with the bandage rolls trying to wrap Kotoha’s sprained ankle, despite Kuroko fluttering around. But Takeru didn’t need to concern himself with such matters.)

Having gotten lost in thought, Takeru almost missed it when Ryuunosuke got up to leave, but his reflexes were honed enough to grab his most loyal vassal’s wrist. The bandage wrapped around said wrist was better dressed than one would expect for it have being done one-handed, but still needed to be secured better.

Takeru wasn’t sure why this detail seemed so important all of a sudden, but it was something he, at the very least, could fix.

“Sit.”

Ryuunosuke wavered, probably torn between obeying the person he had sworn his (earnest-to-a-fault degree) life to and thinking it was improper for someone like Takeru to do such a task.

(Which, Takeru was just a man. He was no better than Ryuunosuke when it came to matters of his birth.)

Thankfully, Ryuunosuke sat, biting his lip.

“I can just have Mako redo it,” he offered.

“She’s busy dealing with Chiaki’s injury.”

(And again, who was he to send these four into battle? Simply because of families they had been born into? He might have overestimated the enemy’s escalation, but…)

Ryuunosuke watched as Takeru starting undoing his bandages, eyes wide.

“Tono…”

Takeru didn’t say anything for a moment, trying to collect his thoughts. There was a metaphor here, in the unwinding of bandages, and his unwinding thoughts, wasn’t there?

“You...you’re my second-in-command,” he started, needing to get the right words, so that Ryuunosuke understood.

“That may be so, but your life is still more important than mine,” Ryuunosuke replied swiftly.

Takeru frowned, wishing Ryuunosuke hadn’t used those words.

After all, water was used to put fire out.

He fixed the bandage so it was more secure, wondering what the magic words were. How ironic, to have the power of words at his fingertips and yet not the knowledge of how to get them out in a way that let others understand him.

Maybe if Ryuunosuke was more like Mako, this would be easier. Even in their short time spent together so far, she seemed to understand Takeru in a way the others weren’t. But then he wouldn’t be Ryuunosuke, would he? He wouldn’t be sweet, over-eager and earnest, good at what he did but riddled with insecurity Ikenami Ryuunosuke.

Somewhere in the depths of his memories, a very vague one of lips kissing a band-aid on a scraped knee arose.

If he couldn’t say something, maybe this would suffice…? Takeru mused, raising Ryuunosuke’s wrist and placing a kiss on the bandaged pulse point and hearing a gratifying squeak.

[denebsapphic]

Top two favorites from Toku I Finished so far in 2024, Part 2

Engine Sentai Go-onger: Hant Jo and Renn Kosaka

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Chiaki Tani and Ryunosuke Ikenami

Ultraman Orb: Gai Kurenai and Naomi Yumeno

Dogengers: Fukuokalibur and Yamashiron

Garo: Kaoru Mitsuki and Kouga Saejima

[t-u-i-t-c]

Blue Is Best

↳ Samurai Sentai Shinkenger - Ryunosuke Ikenami - Shinken Blue

[gemlighter]

chiaki is my favorite

[best-match]

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger role call!

I can just hear their dialogues whenever I look at these. Ugh. Genta’s is my favorite.

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[dangerouscommiesubversive]

ShinkenBlue with anyone of your choice, number 20?

Ahhh, wonderful! My choice of smooching partner for Ryunosuke is pretty much always going to be Takeru, and 20's my choice as well, so we will go with a number 7, the romantic kiss. And I will be honest, I actually lifted a great deal of this from an unfinished fic that I was really happy with but could never quite figure out a plot for. a person with a life

Ryunosuke takes a sip of his tea and says, "You really haven't seen any of the others since?"

Takeru shakes his head. "I'm not totally isolated, I see Kotoha fairly frequently."

They're at a cafe, and they're drinking tea and having some kind of pastries, and Takeru's going to kill Jii. The theater class had been his idea, and Takeru's been enjoying it, but having Honda-sensei walk in with a guest lecturer who'd introduced himself and then looked across the room and frozen and said, "Takeru?" hadn't been a surprise he was prepared for.

Not that he's unhappy to be seeing Ryunosuke. No, of course he's happy to be seeing one of his friends.

Jii could have warned him, though.

A nod from Ryunosuke, who's been smiling in this sort of strange, gentle surprise ever since class ended and he came over to say hello. "Kotoha, really? What's she been up to?"

“Teaching music lessons to primary school students and taking care of her sister, mostly, but she and the prin—Moth—Kaoru have gotten really close.”

“What, really?”

“Well, Moth—Kaoru’s lived a very sheltered life, she’s never gotten to have…friends. She wanted to learn how people actually live when they’re not constantly studying to defeat ancient evils, and Kotoha’s her age, so Kaoru got me to call her—”

“She didn’t want to call herself?”

“She’s very shy. And she asked if Kotoha would teach her how to go grocery shopping.”

Ryuunosuke blinks. “I bet Tanba hated that.”

Takeru grins. “He was furious. Especially because she wouldn’t let him come with them.”

There's an odd noise that Takeru realizes after a moment is Ryuunosuke stifling laughter. “I almost wish I’d gotten to see that conversation.”

“You really don’t, I think Tanba actually damaged my eardrums with all his screeching.” Takeru takes a sip of tea. “So now they meet up every few weeks to do something ‘normal’ together,” air quotes over the top of his teacup, “and sometimes we all have dinner. Last time Kotoha took her to the movies, I think.”

“That’s wonderful.” Ryunosuke reaches for the warm teapot in the middle of the table and gestures for Takeru's cup. "May I?"

“Yes, please--Kaoru’s very happy about it, I think she likes getting to be a person with a life.”

“What about you?”

Takeru frowns. “What about me what?”

Ryunosuke pauses in the middle of bending over his own cup and looks up at Takeru through his eyelashes in a way that makes Takeru feel off-balance again. “Do you like getting to be a person with a life?”

Takeru stares into the air past Ryunosuke's head for a moment before saying, "I'd like to like it. But I don't think I'm very good at it." A long, awkward pause, and then he coughs. “So, uh. What have you been up to? You said the troupe's doing well, but what about you? Do you have a, a girlfriend or anything?” Ryuunosuke makes another one of those surprised noises, and he frowns. “What, was that funny? I promise I’m not making fun of you.”

“No, no, it’s not—you thought I’d have a girlfriend?”

“Is that strange?”

“Takeru, I’m gay. I thought you knew.”

Takeru almost jumps. “What? But, I thought you and Mako—I mean, at least, I thought you were interested in Mako.”

Appropriately enough, Ryuunosuke turns briefly pink. “Mako’s an exceptional woman, but—no. I mean, even if I were interested in her like that, she wouldn’t have me. And in any case, she was clearly in love with you, which I’d…thought you reciprocated. Are you all right?”

Takeru is choking on his tea. “You thought I was…with Mako?”

Ryunosuke's turn to frown. “Weren’t you?”

“No. I mean, not that she isn’t very, she’s, she’s extremely—I wouldn’t have with any of you.” A hurt look flickers across Ryunosuke’s face, and Takeru immediately regrets his phrasing. “I mean. Look, I thought I was. Going to die. And I was lying to everyone. I wouldn’t—I couldn’t have done that to anyone. Least of all you.” He means the “you” generally, any of you, but Ryuunosuke looks away from him, cheeks reddening, and Takeru has a sudden, vivid realization of how it could have been taken. He very nearly clarifies and then…doesn't. And isn’t entirely sure of why, except that it seems important not to clarify, to let the statement be specific.

There's an awkward, shy silence in which they drink tea and eat pastries and fail to make eye contact, and then Ryunosuke says, very quietly, "I should get home, I have early rehearsals tomorrow."

Takeru blurts out, "Can I drive you? I mean, on the, like how we got here from the university, on the motorcycle."

"Yes, please." Ryunosuke's still not quite looking at him, or at least not directly, just out of the corner of his eyes. "I'd like that."

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They pull up outside the Ikenami house, and Ryunosuke lets go of him and pulls off the spare helmet and says, "Would you like to come in?"

Takeru lifts the visor of his own helmet so he's at least audible. "I--sorry, I don't think I can, I have some kind of meeting tomorrow that I have to attend with Jii, I should get back as soon as I can." A beat, and then he twists around to look at Ryunosuke, still perched on the back of the bike. "But, um. Would you like to have dinner with me next week? Tuesday, at seven? Not at the compound, at, at a restaurant."

"I'd like that," with a shy smile. "Which restaurant? Should I meet you there?"

"I'll...I'll pick you up, it'll be a surprise," as he quietly resolves to ask Jii or Kotoha or someone for restaurant recommendations.

"That sounds very nice, then. I should be here at the house then, but if my schedule changes and I'm somewhere else then I'll text you." Ryunosuke smiles, and then his shoulders set, like he's deciding on something very serious. "I should get inside, Takeru, but--one more thing?"

Takeru blinks. "Sure, what is it?"

The thing is, Takeru's never kissed anyone. There had never seemed to be a point to it before. His job wasn’t to look for romance, just to live, and eventually die, for Shiba Kaoru. Now he's actually head of the Shiba Clan and he's taking extension classes at the university and he's trying to be a person with a life and Ryunosuke is kissing him, which is somehow both unexpected and completely reasonable, and he has no idea what to do.

He's pretty sure he makes a surprised noise, and then he relaxes and tries to follow Ryunosuke's lead. They're at a bad angle with him twisted around like this, anyway, so it doesn't last very long, and then Ryunosuke sits back a bit, red-faced, and says, "Um."

Takeru blinks several times. His own face feels pretty warm. It's not bad, though. Kissing's not bad. Kissing Ryunosuke's not bad. "I, uh. That was. I...hope I wasn't too bad at that?"

Ryunosuke stares at him and then lets out a slightly hysterical laugh. "You were fine. Please excuse me, I don't know what came over me."

"You're not excused. I mean, it's fine. I mean, no, look, I'd. Can we try that again?" Takeru shakes himself. "Maybe next week after dinner? I think I might be better at it then."

Further laughter, less hysterical and more genuine. "Yes, I'd like that."

[just-a-gay-toku-girl]

This chapter comes to a close

As you’ve seen by my posts I’ve recently been watching through Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, and just last night at the time of writing this I watched the final episode. This is significant to me because it was the first sentai I watched all the way through that was from before I became a sentai fan (Which was around the halfway point of Zyuohger). Why did I pick Shinkenger as my first? Partially because I like the suits, partially because the opening theme is a bop, and partially because I had seen parts of power rangers Samurai and I was just curious. So having finished the series (still having some movies to watch) I thought it would be fun to give my thoughts on the show and its characters, no note just talking about my thoughts on the show as a whole(Beware as I won’t shy away from spoilers). Starting with...

The Villains 

Arguably the villains can be just as important to the success of a show or movie as the main characters are. They need to be intimidating and powerful to make them seem like a real threat to the team, and I think the Gedoushu manage to accomplish that well enough. The suit designs for the main generals are ok, very intricate but not overly so (The exception to that being Dokoku who just has a bit to much going in his design IMO). One of my favorite things about this group is their main goal: raising the level of the Sanzu river so it’ll flood into the human world, To do this they have to create negative emotions in humans. It’s not often that bad guys in these shows actually have a goal besides just world domination. This actually gives the individual monsters more purpose than just attempting to destroy the rangers, plus it means that whenever they attack their scoring at least a small victory as the river will raise ever so slightly. Another small thing to mention before I get into the main villains as individuals is that despite being evil there seemed to be a bit of comradery between at least the main 3. It wasn’t brought up too often but a scene that stuck out to me was at the end when Dokoku and Shitari seem to be just the least bit saddened by Dayu’s death. Granted that could just be them being thankful that her death made Dokoku stronger but I digress. Onto the individual villains from least to most favorite

Shitari

There’s not much to say about Shitari since I can’t actually remember him doing much throughout the show. He may have helped with the plots of a few filler episodes and commanded a few monsters but that’s about it. Really the most notable thing about him is that his actor also plays Brook in One Piece so part of me was always expecting him to ask to see Dayu’s panties.

Dokoku

Surprisingly the big bad of this season just barely escapes being the worst villain. Much like Shitari he doesn’t actually do much throughout the season, what places him higher than Shitari is two things: 1. he has a reason for being idle throughout the show being that unlike other Gedoushu he can’t stay in the human world for more than 3 minutes without drying up severely and being out of commission for the next week, though we never are really told why that is. 2. When he eventually DID actually do something he was damn powerful. Easily walking through the shinkengers in their first battle. Not to mention it was clear even with monsters that seemed more intimidating than him they still were afraid of him and his power.

Dayuu

Honestly I don’t have much to say about her either. Most of the villains were decent at being villains but for the most part kinda unremarkable. What puts Dayuu and Juzo is just the fact that they had backstories and pretty interesting ones at that. Dayuu after finding out the man she loved had married another woman was consumed with jealousy and burned him and his wife to death. That is friggin metal as hell and I love it. In a series like this where full scale invasions from aliens are common place in rare to see something so small scale like this to be treated as serious as it is. It really makes her feel more human as a villain, which I dig.

Juzo

Juzo was easily my favorite villain in Shinkenger. And no not just because he was played by my favorite character from 555. Like Dayu he had a really interesting backstory that made him feel a lot more human (Despite the whole point of his arc being that he wasn’t human.) Basically he found out he was dying and decided to take a couple people down with him which led to him becoming a Gedou. In the earlier episodes he seemed to be sort of an anti hero, not necessarily working for the Gedou and even saving Shinken red’s life on a couple of occasions just because he wanted so desperately to fight red himself. That is until close to the end of the show when he basically said “I don’t care if my family’s souls are suffering because of me, let them suffer.” to show there really wasn’t a shred of humanity left within him. Not to mention he had an amazing death scene that I won’t say anything because it’s best seen for yourself. 

Now with the bag guys done I’m gonna move onto the actual shinkengers. like before it’ll be least to most favorite

Shinken Green - Tani Chiaki

In this case saying Chiaki is my least favorite really just means I didn’t like him as much as the others but I still did like him. Admittedly there wasn’t much to Chiaki in terms of an arc, just that in the beginning he had an inferiority complex that made him not want to follow orders but that kinda went away after one episode. What I liked more about him was his personality, very happy-go-lucky while still taking his role as a shinkenger seriously. He’s also very friendly, being the first to make friend’s with Genta when he joined the team as well as having a good relationship with every other ranger and even Jii. He really is fun to watch but not much else.

Shinken Pink - Shiraishi Mako

Mako is a very kind person and wants to help those in need, however she only helps those in need and as soon as they don’t need her she leaves them. She’s one of the older Shinkengers thus earning her the affectionate nickname of “Big sis” from the rest of the team. However that’s basically all there is to her. She doesn’t change that much and overall has the lowest amount of character focus episodes. But she’s cute so that puts her above Chiaki.

Shinken Blue - Ikenami Ryunosuke

Ryunosuke is easily the most dedicated to his role as a samurai,he’s kind, hardworking and he’s loyal to a fault which ends up creating an internal debate for him when he discovers the person he’s pledged his life to isn’t the actual Shiba head. Being that he was a kabuki actor his movements and mannerisms are very lively and wild, it’s really just a joy to watch how his actor portrayed him. He definitely carried the show’s energy for the most part. I also loved watching his interactions with the others and when he’s forced to work with them. Some highlights of his include the episode where him and Chiaki get glued together and the episode where Genta tries to follow him around to learn to be a samurai.

Shinken Red - Shiba Takeru/Shiba Kaoru

I lump both of them together mainly because we didn’t see enough of Kaoru for me to really make a judgement of her yet I still wanted to mention her. I’ll say this, I did like her. She was definitely worthy of being the first female red ranger. I appreciate that despite her recognizing herself as the strongest she never tried to put the others down for being weaker than her, even berating her retainer for doing just that. I’ll admit the thing at the end with her “Adopting” Takeru was kinda weird but it showed she recognized the team was stronger with Takeru.

As for Takeru himself I really enjoyed him. Stoic, intimidating, and cold at the beginning but as time went on and he developed relationships with the rest of the team he slowly began opening up to them more and more. So much so that by the end he was joking around just as much as they were. And the twist of him not actually being of the Shiba household I thought was executed pretty well, I would’ve been genuinely surprised by it had power rangers not done the same thing. He was a really solid character and easily one of my favorite red rangers.

Shinken Gold - Umemori Genta

Genta was a unique 6th ranger in that he was mostly comedic relief, but a damn good one. He had me genuinely laughing out loud a few times. despite being a comedic character they managed to have a few serious plots with him that turned out alright. Not much more to say about him, he’s funny and (as the show called him) an extraordinary good boy

Shinken Yellow - Hanaori Kotoha 

Easily my favorite of the shinkengers, Kotoha is the youngest and therefore least experienced of the team. Originally her older sister was meant to take the role of yellow but fell ill before the events of the show leaving Kotoha to take her place. This of course makes her feel inferior to the others and ike she isn’t a real samurai, just a substitute for her sister. Eventually though after Jii learns of her insecurities he helps reassure her that everyone thinks of her as a real samurai. Although this part of her character isn’t really seen until close to the end, it was that which made me love her character, hell I even shed a tear or two during her last character focus episode. Plus she is downright adorable so there’s nothing not to love about her.

Final thoughts

Overall I think Shinkenger was a really good show, easily in my top 5 sentai (although that’s not saying much since most of the sentai I’ve seen have been pretty Meh). As I mentioned the suits are really well designed, and the opening song as well as the fight songs are just badass. The characters are all really good with the weakest of them just being the ones that were under developed. The story while not necessarily ground breaking it was still enjoyable to watch and I wouldn’t mind coming back to it pretty soon, but for now I need to move on to a different sentai.

I contemplated for  a while what sentai to watch next, between Goseiger, Goonger, Dekaranger, Magiranger, Bioman and a few others. Ultimately tho I decided that since one of my favorite things about sentai is the crossovers I should go back and watch all the crossovers, so I’ll start with the season that made these team ups an annual thing. So if I ever make another Long ass post like this, then you’ll be hearing of the fight to protect earth against the evile Baranoia army in Chouriki Sentai Ohranger

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