#Keisuke amano

[xuzuul]

Average Yokai Watch episode

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

finally got around to go through YW4 and it seems that my feelings towards keita and keisuke haven't changed

[myloh]

Blud think they contributing anything to the team 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 /j

[takizawakick]

[gayest-persona-character]

Round 1!

Rules

Vote for who you think is more queer/gay (doesn't matter if you think they're bi, pan, gay, lesbian, etc. Who's the most not straight!)

I will allow propaganda in the form of asks or notes (tags and comments)

Be nice and respectful. Not everyone has the same headcanons.

Remember, this is mostly just for fun! We have a few submitted characters for this exact purpose, so don't take things too seriously. (It doesn't matter what the results are, most persona characters will be queer-coded in my heart)

The list of polls is as follows:

Labrys vs. Daisuke Todoroki

Principal Kobayakawa vs. Yukiko Amagi

Mayumi Yamano vs. Suguru Kamoshida

Bebe vs. Sho Minazuki

Isako Toriumi (Maya) vs. Ann Takamaki

Ichiryusai Madarame vs. Ichiko Ohya

Chihiro Fushimi vs. Ai Ebihara

Philemon vs.Shibusawa

Kou Ichijo vs. Fuuka Yamagishi

Munehisa Iwai vs. Miyabi Hanakouji

President Tanaka vs. Akihiko Sanada

Ryuji Sakamoto vs. Taro Namatame

Kanami Mashita vs. Haru Okumura

Nozomi Suemitsu vs. Angel and Julian

Ryotaro Dojima vs. Rio Iwasaki

Sadayo Kawakami vs. Maya Amano

Nagi vs. Saori Hasegawa

Cashier from Peace Diner vs. Junpei Iori

Chizuru Ishigami vs. Minoru Inoue

Chihaya Mifune vs. Mamoru Hayase

Misuzu Hiiragi vs. Lala Escargot

Setsuko Sonomura vs. Junko Kurosu

Eri Minami vs. Tae Takemi

Zen vs. Kenji Tomochika

Eriko Kirishima vs. Takeharu Kirijo

Mika vs. Metis

Junya Kaneshiro vs. Takuto Maruki

Moel Gas Station Attendant vs. Hanako Ohtani

Maya Okamura vs. Igor

Sayoko Uehara vs. Makoto Yuki

Lesbian Student from P3 vs. Mami Shibata

Shunsuke Fujii vs. Saki Konishi

Tatsuya Suou vs. Akinari Kashihara

Miho Ogishima vs. Kinshiro Morooka

Hisano Kuroda vs. Ayane Matsunaga

Kanji Tatsumi vs. Makoto Nijiima

Marie vs. Tatsuya Sudou

SIU Director vs. Reiji Kido

Baofu vs. Takahisa Kandori

Yuuki Mishima vs. Tamaki Uchida

Zenkichi Hasegawa vs. Yosuke Hanamura

Mitsuo Kubo vs. Aigis

Kei Nanjo vs. Margaret

Masao Inaba vs. Noriko Katayama

Yukino Mayuzumi vs. Saeko Takami

Tadashi Satomi vs. Chidori Yoshino

Yumi Ozawa vs. Gay Demons P2

Kasumi Yoshizawa vs. Yuka Ayase

Hidetoshi Odagiri vs. Mutatsu

Shinjiro Aragaki vs. Kazushi Miyamoto

Localized version of Naoya vs. Ren Amamiya

Coach Hiraguchi vs. Chie Satonaka

Shuji Ikutsuki vs. Shiho Suzui

Futaba Sakura vs. Naoto Shirogane

Jin Shirato vs. Hifumi Togo

Keisuke Hiraga vs. Eikichi Mishina

Maki Sonomura vs. Toranosuke Yoshida

Rise Kujikawa vs. Elizabeth

Goro Akechi vs. Yuko Nishiwaki

Noriko Kashiwagi vs. Ulala Serizawa

Yuko Himeno vs. Anna Yoshizaka

Hikari vs. Joker (IS)

Mitsuru Kirijo vs. Hidehiko Uesugi

Masayoshi Shido vs. Youichi Makimura

[dollsandmasks]

Hello, Youkai Watch fandom, today I bring you this.

I stumbled upon this alignment chart by accident, please tell me who made it if you have their info so I could credit them.

This alignment chart uses characters from Youkai Watch Shadowside and Forever Friends (mostly Shadowside, it's just this one guy from FF), and you can see I was scraping the barrel to fill some slots. It was very fun, though, and made me rewatch some episodes I haven't touched in a while, which is always a good thing. Also, I decided to only add one character per slot, the one who fits best in my opinion ( unless the characters are practically a single unit, such as the Onimaro Trio), but that ended up pushing some major figures to the side (like, for example, Keisuke and Akinori would both be Benefactors, and Fukurou and Douketsu would both be Soldiers, but I had to choose one for each category). I know that some characters don't really fit in these narrow slots, some are up for interpretation (how much do we really know about the Onimaro Leader or the corrupt royal advisers who framed Kuuten?), and some might be me misremembering the shit out of a show I'm in love with. If you have anything to add, please feel free to do so!

Here's the list, top left to bottom right, as well as some thoughts on their placement. Beware of spoilers, though, because it gets very spoilers!

Crusader - Tsukinami Touma. The post-movie Touma, obviously. He is a genuinely good guy who fights for what's right and is associated with sword imagery, what else can you say. Also, the reason he attacked the police station while under the influence of the Onimaro was because they made him believe the police weren't doing their job right and Touma was the only one who could fight crime efficiently, which means he must care about upholding the law, making him Lawful, alignment-wise.

Nurturer - Himeno Ayame. She is the kindest soul ever and doesn't want anyone to get hurt under any circumstances. She is the the only person on the show who is consistently nice to everyone, even the team's punching bag (Micchy, that is). And she is pretty social to boot.

Benefactor - Arihoshi Akinori. He is a free-roaming magical detective who will do illegal shit to solve a case, but will also do completely legal shit to solve a case, because he likes helping people and doing the right thing. Good for him.

Hero - Amano Natsume. I mean, who else would it be? She is literally the hero of this story, and she will try to deceive the villains by giving them chocolate bars instead of sacred swords, and I'm also not sure how legal jumping into that river from the movie was, she could have been fined for that if it didn't literally save a kid's life.

Vigilante - Jibanyan. All those Nyan Reno movies must have been one hell of an inspiration. He is a free spirit indeed, I mean, aren't all cats free spirits? And he is rough around the edges, but undoubtedly heroic and kind, and he will take on the supernatural law enforcements if they try to hurt someone who's dear to him.

Protector - Arihoshi Mitsue. She has high morals (some accidental dog-and-frogslaughter aside) and follows both the common Japanese laws and the laws dictated by the supernatural realm. She is not actively heroic (she tried her best during the movie, but at her age, she probably shouldn't have), but she is both a protector of tradition and a protector of the new generation of our spirit world doo-gooders. Respect the granny!

Counsellor - Whisper. Who else is there to give counselling to our leads if not the all-knowing butler himself? Whisper respects the laws of Youmakai, and appears to be working for Enma directly in the movie (I wonder if he still does during the show itself, that would explain where the detective agency gets the money to buy all these chocobars), but, as we can see from his past in the first anime, he is no stranger to barging into the royal palace and demanding laws be changed so he could keep hanging out with a friend. His relative closeness and complete lack of respect for Enma in some cases (the You-Tube prank and the Halloween boink come to mind) seems to indicate that he would be the most likely youkai to actually talk to Enma about changing the laws of the Youmakai if he disagrees with them, instead of following them begrudgingly (making him Lawful) or straight up breaking them (making him Chaotic).

Philosopher - Komasan. Why would a dog even care about laws? Also, he gives me general philosophical observer who would rather muse about the world around him than change it vibes. He is still a good doggo who will fight for his friends when they are in danger, and he follows his morals, but he will pay no respect to the silly human laws that forbid sentient creatures from urinating in the streets. Let him live, goddammit!

Rebel - Micchy. Acts without thinking? Check. Suffers the consequences? Check. Mantains a moral standing? Check. Would totally wear a leather jacket with a word "Rebel" etched onto the back? You betcha. I mean, many superhero comics and tokusatsu shows, which he is clearly a fan of, have rebellious protagonists who do the right thing and have high moral values without necessarily following the rules or staying in their lane, and many are at odds both with the criminals and with the law enforcements. Micchy himself has a delinquent background and would totally use underhanded tactics if necessary, but he is still a good guy and a self-professed hero. This guy is everything to me.

Trickster - Junior. Fudou Myouou Boy fits here too, to a lesser extent. Junior is still a little kid, so he views the world as a fun game to play, and being raised in a detective agency where exciting things tend to happen on a weekly basis is clearly affecting his development. He can be mischevious and cause minor trouble (including, but not limited to, eating someone's ark or cheating, like, twelve or so kids out of their Yu-Go-Oh! cards), and trickstery kinda comes with being a cat, but he is still a benevolent creature and will use his powers for good, even if using them for good means scaring a guy half to death (especially if it means scaring a guy half to death).

Judge - Lord Enma. Even with his throne usurped, he is still a just and honorable ruler who cares deeply about the safety of Youmakai and is willing to sacrifice himself to protect it. He is the law, or at least was the law before Lord Kaira took the throne for himself, but even then, saving Youmakai came first for Lord Enma, and getting his throne back came, like, third or so, he didn't even bother with it in the end. Nurarihyon could be in this spot as well, at least at the time of Shadowside, but the absolute shitshow that was his time as a consort in the second movie of the first anime makes me see him as more "Lawful Disaster" or "Lawful What the Fuck" than "Lawful Neutral". There was nothing neutral about him at the time, and even during Shadowside, his devotion to everything Enma kinda takes the neutrality out of him.

Soldier - Douketsu. Fukurou could be in this spot as well, but Douketsu had considerably more screen time than him, so I went with the teach. Fukurou can never win, can he? My poor owl child. Anyway, Douketsu is the devoted type. His moral compass is based entirely on what's best for the Oni clan, and, specifically, for Shutendoji. Shutendoji's wish is his command, and, even if he does not approve of his master's actions (see the Ayame/Jorogumo disaster for reference), he will always be there for him, will follow his every whim, and is more than willing to die for him (which he eventually does). Showing compassion to anyone but his fellow Oni clan members is out of the question, kidnapping little kids is the least he would do for his master. I wonder if his colleagues ever noticed anything strange about him during his short gig as a school teacher.

Undecided - Komajiro. Frog. That's it, that's the reasoning. He frog. Baby froggo. Dat boi. Why would he have morals, why would he follow the law? He loves his brother and is a friendly little creature, but he is more than capable of revenge, both petty and not-so-petty, and you will get your eye gouged out if he doesn't like you. This is what happens when you give a frog magical powers. Frogs cannot discern between good and evil, they don't need to, they are above that. Praised be the frogs. O shit waddup.

Rogue - Mitsumata Mizuchi. The Mitsumata Brother who did not grow out of his delinquent phase, but might begin to change his ways soon - not because he wants to be good or doesn't want to be evil, he just wants his brother to respect him. Laws, morals and alignments don't mean much to him, but his pride as a Mitsumata does, and so does his family (even if his reunion with an estranged brother did end up with a girl crying and a factory getting blown up). I don't think this guy respected a single law in his entire life, if he did not break a law, it means he just wasn't feeling like it on that particular day. His plan to get his brother's attention was to kidnap a girl, tie her to a chair and write a ransom note. I'm starting to think that watching too many movies and then poorly imitating them is a Mitsumata family trait.

Free Spirit - Ogu, Mogu and Togu. I'm including all three because they are an inseparable unit and play the same role in the story. While technically part of the malicious virus hive mind, they are not particularly motivated to do good or to do evil, they just float around doing what they are told, get attached to a guy and then help the guy in any way they can because they like him, whether it is by fighting the good guys, fighting the bad guys, performing a self-sacrifice or coming back after the self-sacrifice to float around once again. They even develop enough personality to get separated from the hive mind, all while not being technically good or bad. They literally become free spirits, after spending their entire lives as non-free spirits. Godspeed.

Overlord - the owner of NGEI, the power plant from the Robonyan 00 episode. His secretary also included because I couldn't be bothered to take a screenshot where he would be alone. A corrupt businessman who wants money and power, unsafe work practices be damned. You've seen these guys in the real world, now you get to see one on the screen. Not the strongest bad guy around, one combined effort from Whisper and Junior is enough to scare him into submission, and he gets his just desserts by the end of the episode. I know that the description says "bending" the law, and the guy clearly broke some laws in managing his power plant to get arrested at the end of the episode, but he fits otherwise, and bending the laws without technically breaking them can still get you in legal trouble if your power plant catches on fire and a group of kids nearly die. Shit, or was it a factory, not a power plant? I'd fact check if my browser didn't have a lethal amount of tabs open already.

Socialite - Lord Kaira. He wanted to lead all right, and lead he did. I don't think he was even that bad at it, like, everything bad that happened during Shadowside mostly took place in the human world, and the whole Soranaki kerfuffle wasn't even his fault. Nurarihyon is responsible for more ridiculous lawmaking than Kaira ever was, as far as we know. Lord Kaira's problem wasn't how he ruled, it was how he came to power (starting a coup and throwing a guy into a prison because he was more popular back in youkai school), and how he cared about power more than he did about effectively protecting his people (either that, or he genuinely believed he would just assimilate Fudou Myouou's power and slice Oni King Rasen in half effortlessly like a potato or something). On a sidenote, do we ever learn what kind of a human-youkai hybrid he is? Was he born from a youkai parent and a human parent, was he a human who somehow turned half-youkai, is he some weird magical amalgamation which resulted from some youkai scientists playing God? Either way, it clearly gave the guy some self-esteem issues that need to be adressed.

Schemer - the Onimaro Leader. You know, the guy from the movie who manipulated a lonely kid into doing lots and lots of crime, just so he could merge with Rasen, effectively stopping to exist in the process. We don't learn much about him, but he is hellishly good at manipulation (all of his scenes with Touma made me gawk at how good he was at reading that kid) and seems to be fairly smart and logical for someone whose goal is incomprehensible to humans. Like, why would you even want that? My theory is that all Onimaro are aspects of Rasen, one way or another, and the Leader represents his smart, logical and cunning side, you know, the traits that are kind of needed to be a competent king. This would mean that Ogu, Mogu and Togu represent friendliness, empathy and having an open mind, and these are the only three Onimaro he did not absorb. Says a lot about the guy, doesn't it?

Nomad - Shien. Yup, we are entering the Forever Friends zone, because it still counts as Shadowside, kinda, sort of, same game! He is a prince who hates his dad and wants to prove himself while also being a dick about it, and a lot of political and family drama follows, resulting in many senseless and tragic deaths among the common folk. You know, just like with real life monarchies. Also, Shutendoji was there, and it made things worse (of course it made things worse), and then Soranaki attacked, and Amaterasu of all youkai was there for some reason (it lasted for three seconds and he had, like, three lines of dialogue), and we ended up getting a baby Enma as a result. This movie was something else, I'm telling you. Anyway, Shien had zero respect for anything and anyone, ever, and his second life as Lord Enma is a big improvement (his second-second life as Hikage Mao is an improvement as well, he manages to be a background character for 214 episodes of the first anime without making it known that he can see youkai, despite everything that was happening around him in the classroom. A true legend).

Psychopath - Jorogumo. Hello, my favourite spider lady! We've all heard about women's rights, now get ready for women's wrongs. She does not. Give. A fuck. Morals can fuck right off, she will suck a guy's soul from his dead skull, and she will commit identity theft while commiting a different identity theft (theftception) to manipulate a simp into doing dirty work for her, and she will ridicule him every step of the way, and she will endanger all lives, any lives, as long as she gets to do what she loves (murder and consumption of human flesh). There has never been a better depiction of "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss" as a character, and that phrase originated long after Shadowside came out. I love how she got to hang out in the opening credits long after the gang had defeated her. That's how much of an impact she had on everything, all while not being even remotely connected to the Soranaki drama (if she was present during Shuka and Kuuten's time, though, she would totally meddle with them to make sure the drama gets even juicier and everyone suffers even more, all while pretending to be Shuka's bff, friendship bracelets and all. I want a fanfic of this, not gonna lie).

Dominator - the corrupt advisors who framed Kuuten. This is the only slot that I have genuinely pulled out of the depths of my ass. How much do we even know about these guys? Why did they frame Kuuten? Were they worried that he was getting too much influence in the Youmakai court due to being Shuka's lover? Were they planning to set Shuka up with a different suitor to further their political agenda? Did Kuuten do something to anger them, maybe he vetoed a law he shouldn't have or crossed paths with the wrong politician? Was there genuinely a plot to kill Shuka's father, and the advisors decided to frame Kuuten to cover up the true culprit's ass? Were the advisors themselves behind the assassination plot? Or... Maybe the advisors genuinely believed that Kuuten was scheming behind their backs, but they had no evidence so they faked it in fear that Kuuten will go through with the assassination while they are too busy trying to catch him red-handed, and it was their distrust of him, not genuine malice, that got him killed. Either way, I needed someone for the Dominator slot, so let's go with the assumption that they framed Kuuten because they were evil, and were most definitely methodical and intentional while doing so. Honestly, I'm not even sure if it's them in the picture I used, or just some youkai they hired to get rid of the pesky Kuuten supporters. That's how vague the Kuuten situation is. Real world history tends to do that too, actually.

Sociopath - Shutendoji. Let me make this clear, the alignment chart uses the term as a description of a character archetype, I'm not trying to actually diagnose Shutendoji with sociopathy or anything. He clearly needs therapy (don't we all?), but I'm not sure if that would be the right diagnosis for him, same as I'm not sure if an actual medical professional would diagnose Jorogumo with psychopathy (they would probably get eaten by her before they could finish the assessment). Anyway, this guy had an agenda (to put Shuka back in charge of Youmakai, whatever it takes), and he sacrificed everything for this agenda. We don't know if it was his personal decision or if he was raised like that by the Oni clan and just trying to finish what his ancestors had started; we don't know if he genuinely believed that life would be better for everyone under the Oni clan's rule, or if he just wanted to have political power and saw Shuka as the only way to get it. His devotion to Shuka is almost fanatical in nature, his one-track mind makes him miss obvious signs that Something is Wrong, and everything about him screams "a kid who got brought up in a literal cult and does fucked up things because he doesn't know any better", but does that absolve him of responsibility for, well, everything that happened? Not really. Also, by the time we last see him in Shadowside, his two closest friends and allies are dead, his plan has failed, he has nowhere to go and he plans on drowning his sorrows in alcohol so he wouldn't have to face the existential dread of having failed the task that he's been preparing for his entire life. The tragedy of Shuka gave birth to the tragedy of Shutendoji, and time will tell if it, too, will result in a Soranaki-level threat that some kid with a magical watch will have to fix in a hudred years or so. Jiba Jinpei's descendants better get ready.

Malefactor - Oni King Rasen. The first trial our heroes had to face on their journey to Time Timely. The monarch who actually does something, that something being smashing stuff, throwing girls into rivers, shooting blood spikes at people and generally being an evil piece of shit. He is so mindlessly evil, it's kinda hard to hate him, unless you consider him and the Onimaro Leader to be parts of the same personality, then yes, he is very hateable. Also, his defeat made for a very entertaining kamishibai play by an obscure, but highly talented artist Mike Shadowside. Look, I'm referencing my own old posts now. It's time for me to go to bed, and, thankfully, we are almost done.

Anarchist - Shiroda, the thug from the first episode. At first I misremembered his name as Sorada and wanted to have an entire bit about how him being the first enemy of the series proper was a subtle foreshadowing for Soranaki, but alas, my bad memory is to blame. Anyway, he is a criminal who does criminal things criminally and beats eleven year olds with a chain. A disgrace to all anarchists everywhere, good thing the ghost of a little boy who looks inexplicably like Kujo Jotaro got him beat up.

Destroyer - Soranaki. The grief of a wrongly accused and executed innocent which took shape and went apeshit on everything, but especially his ex-girlfriend. Destruction of beauty and life, indeed. He wants to take away lives the same way his own life was taken away once. Tokio Ubaune from the first movie of the first anime had something similar going on, but her scope was not nearly that big, and her ex actually had nothing to do with it, yet he becomes the reason she changes her ways in the games, which is kind of another parallel to Soranaki. I guess the Amano family is just doomed to keep dealing with bitter spirits who are murderously angry about getting wrongly accused of crimes they did not commit and dying in prison as a result (an understandable reaction, not gonna lie), and the best solution just happens to bring their long dead ex to them so they could make up.

Oh God, I'm going to have so much fun tagging all of this, aren't I?

Anyway, have a nice Youkai Watchi-chi day, I hope the time is timing timely for you.

[plutom3lon]

kinlist

[name || source || tag || quote || who i’m looking for || (other)]

shota aizawa/eraserhead || boku no hero academia || #SA - 💤 || “there’s nothing crueler than letting a dream end midway.” || hizashi yamada/present mic, oboro shirakumo/loud cloud, nemuri kayama/midnight, toshinori yagi/all might, eri, and hitoshi shinsou. any of my other students are also welcome

hizashi yamada/present mic || boku no hero academia || #HY - 🎤 || “going the battler route? i have a hard time picturing it.” || same as above, minus hizashi, plus shota

hubris nestoris || songs of war || #HN - 🍋 || “in this war, it was you who turned the tides.” || any members of the knights of ardonia, particularly grek and senn, but again, any sourcemates are cool || (yes i kin a minecraft man deal with it)

reki kyan || sk8 the infinity/sk∞ || #RK - ☀️ || “no one knows the answer to the meaning of happiness.” || langa and miya in particular, but like all the previous ones, all sourcemates are cool with me

langa hasegawa || sk8 the infinity/sk∞ || #LH - ❄️ || “i wanna infinitely skate together with you!” || all sourcemates

ryomen sukuna || jujutsu kaisen || #RS - ⚡ || “know your place, fool.” || any & all sourcemates are welcome to interact

kai || bubble || #K - 🫧 || “with our blue blazes, we’re gonna burn it all down!” || looking for all of team blue blazes (ie hibiki, uta, isozaki, usagi, osawa, shin & makoto). other teams are welcome to interact too

pip fitz-amobi || a good girl’s guide to murder || #PFA - 🔎 || “i’m not sure i’m the good girl i once thought i was. i’ve lost her along the way.” || i’d love to meet any ravis! cara & naomi as well. any elliots dni

love thorsdottir || mcu (thor : love and thunder) || #LT - 🫶 || mainly looking for gorr, thor and loki :)

kusuo saiki || the disastrous life of saiki k. || #KS - 🍮 || “good grief. ordinary people sure are a pain.” || mostly looking for my parents and brother (kuniharu, kurumi and kusuke) riki nendou, shun kaidou, reita toritsuka, aren kuboyasu and mikoto aiura.

inosuke hashibira || kimetsu no yaiba || #IS - ⚔️ || “if there ain’t no hell, i’ll goddamn make one for you.” || i’d like to meet anyone from the kamaboko squad & any of the pillars. other sourcemates are welcome too.

jiji || kiki’s delivery service || #JJ - 🍁 || “…if you wake up tomorrow and find a white cat, that’s me.” || looking for anyone really

luna || sailor moon || #L - 🌙 || “you can’t keep depending on others.” || mainly looking for the inner & outer senshi and artemis

keisuke suga || weathering with you || #KS - 🌦️ || “the world’s crazy. always has been, always will be.” || hodaka morishima, hina & nagi amano, moka, asuka & natsumi suga

osamu dazai || bungo stray dogs || #OD - ⛓️ || “justice is a weapon. it can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others.” || anyone from the ada, chuuya nakahara, ango sakaguchi, and sakunosuke oda

chuuya nakahara || bungo stray dogs || #CN - 🗝️ || tba

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kinsidering

kaina tsutsumi/lady nagant || boku no hero academia

keigo takami/hawks || boku no hero academia

viktor || arcane

brom holcombsson || eragon (book ver.)

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separate posts will be made for my timelines too

last updated: 28/01/2023

[yokaiwatchconfessions]

[puzzlevision]

"Keita and Keisuke are different peoples and you shouldn't confuse them."

Me: KEITA IS KEITA

[theresivysart]

Hold the Babies

I was originally gonna post this for #SaveYokaiWatch but stuff happened so yeah. Have my first ever fanart for the Yokai Watch Shadowside spin-off which deserved at least five seasons, and no im not salty about it not even ending at 50 episodes ^^

[xuzuul]

Yokai Watch Weezer sequel! The Green Album!

Of course, after using the main regular characters for the Blue Album, I had to use the main Shadowside characters for the Green Album!!

[bearlycute-art]

Gotta do some Christmas doodles!

[myloh]

-How Yo-Kai Watch Shadowside episode 37 should’ve gone-

Akinori : You’re THAT dedicated to being "The Princess" back ?? How far did you go to do that ??

Shutendoji pissed at some teenagers : MY RELEASE OF THE ONI KING RASEN WAS PROOF ENOUGH !!

Shutendoji : Oh-

Natsume : Say What ??

Touma : Say What ??

The rest of their yokai friends and Keisuke : SAY WHAT ?????

Soranaki in the background : Say what ?? Oh my goodness it was him ! What a twist-

[mat2modblog]

Is that a freaking Kitaro reference?

[ydotome]

Amano Family

[dollsandmasks]

Hello, I have watched John Wick 4 and I’m back on my bullshit. 

Imagine this: Youkai Watch Shadowside but it’s a Yakuza AU.

Wait, hear me out.

It all starts with two brothers, Mitsumata Nozuchi (nicknamed Micchi) and Mitsumata Mizuchi. They are orphans who have been through the system, had seen some dark shit and only have each other to rely on. Making the best out of all the shitty cards that life had dealt them, they become members of a notorious street gang knows as “The Hydra” (no Marvel comics were harmed in the making of this post). Due to their high physical strength and fighting skills, they serve as enforcers for the gang. Their job is to punch and kick, not to think. 

Mizuchi thinks it’s fine, he is genuinely content with the life he and his brother managed to claw out for themselves. Micchi, on the other hand, feels the gang lifestyle weigh heavily on his conscience. He used to have ideals. He used to have dreams. He would read comic books as a little kid and dream of protecting the weak, of being a kind and virtuous hero. So, he decides to quit. To start anew. He shares it with his brother in private, and Mizuchi is furious. After all they’ve been through? After all they’ve done for each other? Mizuchi feels betrayed. The brothers have a huge falling out.

They were also overheard by a different gang member.

The next time the gang heads out on a job, Micchi is set up and basically given to some crooked cops as a sacrifice. There is no use ratting out the other gang members, the cops are all in cahoots with The Hydra. Micchi is thrown into jail. He doesn’t know who set him up, the only person who knew that he was about to leave the gang was Mizuchi. Did Mizuchi tell his secret to the other gang members? Did his own brother just destroy his entire life out of petty revenge? Micchi doesn’t know. He doesn’t want to know. His life is basically over, he is never getting out of this mess...

Then, suddenly, he is freed. The are no longer any charges being pressed against him. He is off the hook. Great, right? Except for one tiny detail. The people who bailed him out didn’t exactly free him -- they bought him.

Enter the Amano family, one of the most important Yakuza clans this side of Japan. You see, there are hard times coming and danger brewing -- the recent political unrest caused by an important government official Enma going to prison and a much less popular, but very influential among the right people Kaira taking his place resulted in a full-out war among Yakuza clans with different affiliations, and the Amano family needs someone to give extra protection to their young heiress, Natsume. Preferably someone who is not part of any existing clan and doesn’t have any affiliation on his own. Someone to be used as a meat shield if needed, whose life won’t be missed and whose inevitable death won’t rock the boat too much. 

Micchi is perfect for the job.

Thus begins his life as the loyal bodyguard of Amano Natsume, the kind and optimistic girl who will one day rule the Japanese underworld as the fearsome Oni Queen. He also meets her younger brother, Keisuke, who secretly hopes to escape the clutches of his family history and get a chance at leading a normal life someday, and Whisper, a bumbling middle-aged butler who is actually a skilled assassin and the true bodyguard of the Amano siblings. They manage to grow close as friends and form interpersonal relationships despite, you know, crime drama happening all around them.

There are also other clans at play, such as the Arihoshi family, with their fearsome matriarch known only as The Grandmother. The thing is, the Grandmother actually has an axe to grind with the people who wish death on the Amano family, so the two clans become unlikely allies, and The Grandmother’s  sole surviving grandson and heir, Arihoshi Akinori, becomes part of their immediate circle as well. He is the one who introduces the gang to Komasan, also known as The White Dog -- a legendary swordsman who was thought to have died years ago when a building collapsed on him, and would much prefer that people keep thinking that. They also recruit Jibanyan, the well-known hitman of the past who has now retired to raise his young son Junior, but now must return to get done with some unfinished businesses and secure his family’s safety.

Their main adversary for the first part of the story is the Tsukinami family, whose young heir, Touma, has temporary gained all the privileges of the clan elder in absence of his parents, and appears to have gone mad with power. Of course, it turns out that he was being manipulated by the outside forces, and so in the end he decides to set everything right and stop the people who had turned him against the Amano clan -- thus, the Amano, Arihoshi and Tsukinami families form an alliance, and right in time, too, because a mysterious fourth party has entered the proverbial chat, and things are about to get messy.

Of course, all of this is completely above Micchi’s understanding. He is just a hired muscle trying to earn his freedom by being useful, and he grows to care more and more about his new friends, especially Natsume, the girl he owes his newfound purpose to. 

So imagine his distress when she is kidnapped, and the hired kidnapper turns out to be none other than his brother, Mizuchi.

I’ll leave it at that, this is something I will never write, I’m not even a fan of crime dramas, what am I doing with my life.

Anyway, John Wick 4 was good.