#Kemurikusa

[gaelic-diary-holder-returns]

I just want to point out that while people tend to criticize tsundere as a trope the best tsundere characters are the ones who act like that because of trauma not because it's a cutesy gimmick.

Asuka Langley Soryu from Evangelion's self worth is tied to how well she can pilot her mech and is forced to deal with the fact that Shinji is supposedly an amazing prodigy who match her without training.

Rin from Kemurikusa meets Wakaba on the same day her sister dies in a world where anyone who isn't family is a threat to her family.

Claire Francois from I'm In Love With The Villainess grew up with distant parents who were never around for her and then her mother died so she assumes Rae will eventually leave her life too.

I think relationships like that are the real definition of tsundere.

[xnote08]

571 - Rinn (Kemurikusa)

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group J Round 1: #J8 vs #J1

#J8: Teenage girls find a random guy in a river, adventure ensues.

A few young girls with strange powers and a tree that has grown through a railcar cling onto life in a desolate land, searching for its last reservoirs of water. Their routine struggle to survive is interrupted by the arrival of Wakaba, a boy with no memory beyond his own name.

The girls and their new companion commit to a perilous journey across seas of burning red fog—all in order to find what they need to sustain themselves on the more distant, dangerous islands swarming with robotic bugs. Their ultimate fate will be decided by their own strength, along with Wakaba's curious ability to understand the Kemurikusa: mysterious glowing leaves with wondrous powers. Besides the girls, Wakaba, and the hordes of ravenous bugs, the Kemurikusa are the last sparks of life surviving in this land. How did things end up this way? Why are there so many empty buildings with no one to live in them? Wakaba and the girls lack the answers to these questions, which means the truth can only be found within the Kemurikusa.

#J1: Magical girls kill monsters, find themselves, and yuri it up

Cocona is an average middle schooler living with her grandmother. And she, who has yet to decide a goal to strive for, soon met a strange girl named Papika who invites her to an organization called Flip Flap.

Dragged along by the energetic stranger, Cocona finds herself in the world of Pure Illusion—a bizarre alternate dimension—helping Papika look for crystal shards. Upon completing their mission, Papika and Cocona are sent to yet another world in Pure Illusion. As a dangerous creature besets them, the girls use their crystals to transform into magical girls: Cocona into Pure Blade, and Papika into Pure Barrier. But as they try to defeat the creature before them, three others with powers from a rival organization enter the fray and slay the creature, taking with them a fragment left behind from its body. Afterward, the girls realize that to stand a chance against their rivals and the creatures in Pure Illusion, they must learn to work together and synchronize their feelings in order to transform more effectively.

Titles, propagandas, trailers, and poll under the cut!

#J8: Kemurikusa (TV)

Propaganda:

Here’s ONE bit of propaganda for you: Kemurikusa is made by Tatsuki, the extremely talented director behind the original Kemono Friends anime by Yaoyorozu. This time, Tatsuki’s really stepped up his game: not only is this an improvement from his original short by the same name, this is also both an animation improvement and a writing improvement from the Yaoyorozu made Kemono Friends.

With Tatsuki’s skill as a writer to tell tight, medium-paced stories centering girls and the apocalypse, Kemurikusa focuses on both the emotions of Rin, Rina, and Ritsu, as well as fleshing out Wakaba to be more than just a simple sidekick, but the heart of the series, providing a very typically feminine role of comfort, care, and nurturing. The subversion of typical masculine and feminine roles in the story, especially from a male director, as well as the well-written, well-developed female characters (of which there are about 7, including a spoiler character), is a bonus for people who don’t like stereotypical “cool tough male character/generic nice boring female character who doesn’t do anything” stories.

The concept of a world sapped of resources by technology is also fascinating. [Admin: this part of the propaganda has been cut out due to possible spoilers.] Sadly, I can’t find a trailer, as this anime is SUPER obscure, but I linked the opening video to show another strength as well: the music. Just listen to it: this song is a total banger.

Trigger Warnings: Flashing lights, Child death (in reference to the characters’ motivation to find water)

#J1: Flip Flappers

Propaganda:

Flip Flappers is a magical girl show that brings its own unique twist to the genre, while still being reminiscent of older classics. It has incredibly creative visuals, good characters, and an absolute banger soundtrack! The deeper messages of the show are about finding the courage to start making your own decisions and living your life the way you want it, growing up, and the struggle against controlling authority figures that entails. While it is a fun show, the emotional moments it has hit hard! It also has a yuri narrative (seriously, they even get taken to an all-girls Catholic school yuri setting one time), which I’m sure the himejoshis on this webbed site would appreciate if they saw the show!

Trigger Warnings: Depictions of child and emotional abuse, both at a side character and a main character. Control over children is a common theme in the show.

If you’re reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.

[da-riya]

The Rins!

[superchat]

If you liked

Then you should try

[patchoulism]

Happy 5 years to "You couldn't become KemoFure 2 but you sure tried your best": The Anime

[spicydonutz]

BRUHHH LOOK AT THIS SHIT I FOUND ON DANBOORU BRUHHHH 🤯🤯🤯

[nirmalayumeria]

Will be premiering today, at 18:45 WIB!

[festaventurine]

my Rin nendoroid is the absolute cutest

[laguzmage]

Remember when Tatsuki and Yaoyorozu made Kemono Friends popular with two sticks and a rock and then they got screwed over by Kadokawa so they just. Went off and made an anime so good it’s BD sales were beating out the Heaven’s Feel movies

[sillywhimsicalgirl]

Ahem, sooo, it has been a long while since I did one of these. So yeah it was about time I brought it back. Anywho, here are the blogs I chose to include. Most of them will be mutual, some are not but still many blogs I do love to see on my page and constantly repost from. Thank you all for your time; hopefully, I will come up with more sometime soon! As always, let me know if you ever want to be included or want me to check out your blog! I always love meeting and seeing new people on my page! Enjoy ❀

Here are the blogs in no particular order:

Himehide || Orchid-Bud || animetupac || animiya || gentlesakura ||

starlightride || summoneryuna || evenifyourthronecrumbles ||

kiritaasuna|| de-ra|| glassycrown|| the-palm-of-a-tiny-hand||

naruzumake|| oyukiichan|| psychoticstalker|| Inuyashas|| notsocottoncandy|| kemurikusa|| animedobeco|| dat-moustache

inahochi || 21gaysoftheseas|| aestrels|| kiukmi || yuukiina || hopelessbaka || mirayama|| seikatsu-ga-tsuzuku || tsukiiyon || udon-udon|| kirashadoz || kaizoku-niiichan || amerabu || porco-galliard|| reehlia ||itodoriyuji || decidoeye|| sorasawakening|| bunful || a-stolen-breath || halfghxul || mikamochii || anemosone || margaret123456789 || adeeve|| omggeekworld-blog|| astroemia

cutepekenana-blog || shiintan|| airaishi || welcome-to-the-dreams-of-ni-blog|| suco-de-amendoim || pastel--hime-blog|| kawaiimemories|| yonae|| nichibro|| yumenousagi|| sakura-hime || tsuckishima|| starks-wings|| nyuuking|| raitobezarius|| kocho-ahg|| crystariumrose|| lilybearr||a-sakuras||kakochii|| horitsuba|| transientbeauty||rorronoa|| bowtiesnmusicals|| shikadeer|| kiukmi|| rolling-heart-vibration|| koroani|| kielis|| yossanos|| redbluenight|| yuujies||

[gaelic-diary-holder-returns]

Finished Kemurikusa for the third time I don’t think anyone’s remarked on Tatsuki’s love for reincarnation plots, both Kaban and Rin can easily be viewed as reincarnations of Mirai and Riri (since they share voice actresses) and both are able to defeat a seemingly all powerful enemy that their last incarnation understandably failed to defeat (the black cerulean/the red tree)

I think it’s a really cool theme in his writing

[thesafaribaggirl-returns]

So I wanna say thank you to all my newer followers, this account is getting a pretty big remodel over the weekend.

My main verse is going to be a crossover between Kemono Friends, Kemurikusa, Touhou Project and Keifuku-San and I’m going to try to incorporate the worldbuilding of everything together.

I’m probably gonna drop a few muses and certainly gonna pick up a few too.

This will likely not affect how I play my current muses much so I don’t think I need to reset interactions or anything like that.

[best-underrated-anime]

Best Underrated Anime Group J Round 3: #J8 vs #J2

#J8: Teenage girls find a random guy in a river, adventure ensues

#J2: Two girls wander the post-apocalyptic world

Details and poll under the cut!

#J8: Kemurikusa (TV)

Summary:

A few young girls with strange powers and a tree that has grown through a railcar cling onto life in a desolate land, searching for its last reservoirs of water. Their routine struggle to survive is interrupted by the arrival of Wakaba, a boy with no memory beyond his own name.

The girls and their new companion commit to a perilous journey across seas of burning red fog—all in order to find what they need to sustain themselves on the more distant, dangerous islands swarming with robotic bugs. Their ultimate fate will be decided by their own strength, along with Wakaba's curious ability to understand the Kemurikusa: mysterious glowing leaves with wondrous powers. Besides the girls, Wakaba, and the hordes of ravenous bugs, the Kemurikusa are the last sparks of life surviving in this land. How did things end up this way? Why are there so many empty buildings with no one to live in them? Wakaba and the girls lack the answers to these questions, which means the truth can only be found within the Kemurikusa.

Propaganda:

Here’s ONE bit of propaganda for you: Kemurikusa is made by Tatsuki, the extremely talented director behind the original Kemono Friends anime by Yaoyorozu. This time, Tatsuki’s really stepped up his game: not only is this an improvement from his original short by the same name, this is also both an animation improvement and a writing improvement from the Yaoyorozu made Kemono Friends.

With Tatsuki’s skill as a writer to tell tight, medium-paced stories centering girls and the apocalypse, Kemurikusa focuses on both the emotions of Rin, Rina, and Ritsu, as well as fleshing out Wakaba to be more than just a simple sidekick, but the heart of the series, providing a very typically feminine role of comfort, care, and nurturing. The subversion of typical masculine and feminine roles in the story, especially from a male director, as well as the well-written, well-developed female characters (of which there are about 7, including a spoiler character), is a bonus for people who don’t like stereotypical “cool tough male character/generic nice boring female character who doesn’t do anything” stories.

The concept of a world sapped of resources by technology is also fascinating. [Admin: this part of the propaganda has been cut out due to possible spoilers.] Sadly, I can’t find a trailer, as this anime is SUPER obscure, but I linked the opening video to show another strength as well: the music. Just listen to it: this song is a total banger.

Trigger Warnings: Flashing lights, Child death (in reference to the characters’ motivation to find water)

#J2: Girls’ Last Tour (Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou)

Summary:

Amid the desolate remains of a once-thriving city, only the rumbling of a motorbike breaks the cold winter silence. Its riders, Chito and Yuuri, are the last survivors in the war-torn city. Scavenging old military sites for food and parts, the two girls explore the wastelands and speculate about the old world to pass the time. Chito and Yuuri each occasionally struggle with the looming solitude, but when they have each other, sharing the weight of being two of the last humans becomes a bit more bearable. Between Yuuri’s clumsy excitement and Chito’s calm composure, their dark days get a little brighter with shooting practice, new books, and snowball fights on the frozen battlefield.

Propaganda:

Above everything else, this is a show about how human life and curiosity will continue to exist even in terrible circumstances. The two main characters are super charming, so following them around is fun, but even beyond that it’s just a gorgeous show. The scenery is often awe-inspiring and beautiful, as is the soundtrack. Despite the show taking place after the end of the world, it can be surprisingly uplifting as the girls (and the audience!) find wonder and joy in the world around them. Definitely a show more people should watch!

Trigger Warnings: There are some flashbacks that depict the war that ended the world, but they are not graphic. Some blood is shown, but not much else. Main characters own guns, though they don’t use them on other people.

When reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that I’ll be sure to see it.

If you want to criticize one of the shows above to give the one you’re rooting for an advantage, then do so constructively. I do not tolerate groundless hate or slander on this blog. If I catch you doing such a thing in the notes, be it in the tags or reblogs, I will block you.

Know one of the shows above and not satisfied with how it’s presented in this tournament? Just fill up this form, where you can submit revisions for taglines, propaganda, trigger warnings, and/or video.

[arbitrarygreay]

Great iyashikei requires loss. A lot of examples are self-obvious, by being post-apocalyptic (Girls Last Tour, Sora no Woto, Kemurikusa). The central character exclaiming "suteki~!" at everything manages to not be insufferable because the audience knows how much better these characters could have it. It brings peace/joy by putting the audience's first world living into perspective. Some of those "living in the countryside" type iyashikei (Flying Witch, Tamayura, Non non Biyori) is kind of doing a contrast with urban living, but I nonetheless have a harder time connecting to those shows, because they often feel more like papering over the cracks than having it as underlining subtext. From that angle (advertising rural living), a more energetic TikTok Shenanigans approach or a more nonfiction nitty-gritty approach catches my own interest better, whereas the iyashikei approach doesn't land. Another category would be supernatural beings: Natsume Yuujinchou, Konohana Kitan. Their stories involving spirits and such are full of mono no aware, keenly aware of the passage of time when juxtaposed against the inhuman. It's a horseshoe of the very long-lived and the very short-lived entities and phenomena, always mismatched against human time-scales. There's K-ON, which stands out from other CGDCT by dint of its lush KyoAni Yamada Naoko execution. The dedication to atmosphere in the day-to-day lends it the "keen awareness of the passage of time" as the previous paragraph, both in the audience and in the characters. Everyone knows that graduation is relentlessly incoming. The care paid to the liminal scenes (such as the opening to S1E13) emphasizes to the audience the careless adolescence they will never experience again quite in the same way (or never experienced in the first place). Tamayura tries too hard to have the characters verbally point these things out, which ruins the immersion. But the way to sidestep that slight unreality of the characters is to inject more of the unreal into the world. And thus, some of Tamayura's shortcomings work perfectly fine in Aria. Aria is a curious case, threatening to stubbornly counterexample my theory. Sure, some of its episodes do follow the third "tales of the supernatural" category, but much of the rest is just post-scarcity paradise living. So what allows Aria to retain its "greatest iyashikei" title? Where is the loss? Well, for one thing, I do actually find some of the most "suteki~!"-centered episodes to be a bit too fluffy, and rarely rewatch those. I've heard that the manga is stronger on that point (as is Konohana Kitan), because they can go harder on drawing the luscious settings, which therefore creates that "and you will never quite have this experience again" feeling you can get in real life from exploring a location at your own pace. So again, what makes Aria the greatest iyashkei? Simple, really. Aria's strongest episodes are when the characters actually go through with meaningful turning points in their lives, or when the characters are being openly nostalgic about the past stages of life behind them (which is reinforced by the generational structure of the cast). And finally, the whole premise of Neo-Venezia underlines everything with the fact that the author and everyone in that world are striving to re-create a lost time and place. tl;dr iyashikei that fails to land is probably because they tried to create peace via pure paradise. As with using salt and/or acid in cooking, you gotta have lack as a contrasting palate cleanser and taste enhancer, even if you're going for a qingdan style.

[molafish]

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I did the illustrations for Nirmala Yumeria's Song Cover "Indeterminate Universe" from Kemurikusa!

【Cover/歌ってみた】Indeterminate Universe from Kemurikusa【#NirmalaYumeria】

Credits

Acoustic Instrumental Arrange: @fall_corokke Mix: Adhiew x AkizoraPiku @Adhiewns Art: Molafish @M0LAF1SH Video: Adhiew