#Kitashirakawa--anko

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tamako market FA from last year.

my favorite anime series 🩷🍡

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Azusa and Anko: Spiderman pointing meme

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I will fly. So I shall go ahead!

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So, because I love fleshing out NPCS, I decided to pick out FCS based off what I imagine Isono's wife and daughter look like in my head! So, here they are with a bit of extra lore!

Haruka (Isono's wife)'s FC is Akiko Miura, featuring brown hair, brown eyes, and glasses. She is very much a no-nonsense & outspoken kind of person and won't take any kind of BS, but she is very caring and protective of her family. She is half Japenese and half German (which is why Isono learned German to begin with, did it to impress her and communicate with the in-laws), but she has lived in Japan for most of her life. Being with her prepared Isono for dealing with Seto since they are similar in many ways, that's for sure. She works as a college advisor for Domino University, specifically in the School of Business.

Riko (Isono's daughter) FCs are Anko Kitashirakawa (Young) & Urara Kawashima (Teen/Young Adult), and has her father's black hair and her mother's brown eyes. She is two years younger than Mokuba (so 9 at the start of the story), and is very much a Papa's girl. She is very energetic, kind, and cheerful, but at the same time very protective of her friends and has a temper akin to that of her mother's if pushed enough. She also has a deep love for gaming, especially any type of RPG or strategy game. She attends Aibo Academy, just like Mokuba's friends and Mokuba & Akatsuki later do, and hopes one day to go into game development, specifically regarding anything testing or debugging games for Kaiba Corp.

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Tamako and Anko's bedroom - Tamako Market (Kyoto Animation, 2013)

In Tamako Market, titular character and protagonist Tamako Kitashirakawa and her little sister, Anko, share a bedroom. It is a large, upstairs room that sits above Tamaya, the mochi shop run by the Kitashirakawa family.

The room is divided in half by a large curtain. Two more sets of curtains are hung across the windows facing the path that lines the Usagiyama shopping district. Each girl has her own bed, wardrobe, vanity, desk, bookshelf, and rug in their respective halves of the room. None of these items are identical, and reflect each of the girls' ages and sense of style.

The Kitashirakawa family seem to love color, and have no issue with adorning their walls with whimsical drawings. You can see a few pictured on Anko's side of the room in these sets of screencaps; however, even more can be spotted throughout their home, including on the walls of the stairway leading up to Tamako and Anko's room, and in their dining area. This not only shows how long and happily they've lived in their home, but that they are a kind and loving family overall.

Every space in Tamako Market is filled with beautiful little details, and the message repeated throughout the show is: "Everybody loves somebody."

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Anko Kitashirakawa has Monika's daughter vibes~

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this seems like the most random thing ever

doesn't even have brown hair?????

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There are always similitudes and differences in media from a specific show, below you could find how subtle changes can affect the audience perception, without ruing the charismatic aspects of the media.

Tamako Market is the 1st anime-only production by KyoAni (not adapted from any other media), directed by Naoko Yamada and the team of K-On!. To date, there's only a 12 chapters anime, Tamako Market (2013) and an 83 minutes movie called Tamako Love Story (2014).

It tells the story of a girl named Kitashirakawa Tamako and her friends. The story is set around the Usagiyama Shopping District in Kyoto, where Tamako lives with her family in a mochi store called Tama-ya, founded by her great-great father.

Tamako, the main character is a bubbly, energetic and joyful 16 years old girl that LOVES mochi and life around the shopping district. She has a younger sister called Anko (like the mochi filling) that is kinda the opposite of her elder sister, she doesn´t like to be related to mochi neither like much the district community. Their front-door neighbours are the Ooji family, like the Kitashirakawa family they also have a mochi store, called RiceCake-Oh! Zee is not as traditional as Tama-ya. The son of the family called Ooji Mochizou is a dear friend of Tamako, they know since they were born, and talk sometimes via cup-phone. There are also Tamako's school friends, like Tokiwa Midori, Makino Kanna and Asagiri Shiori. The first two girls attend with Tamako at the baton club at school, and the last girl is Tamako and Kanna´s classmate. Another interesting character is Dera Mochimazzi, a talking bird that Tamako found in the flower shop of the district.

The story is made in chronological order, being the anime the first part of the story and the movie the second and final part of this word. Both stories are, as previously said, about Tamako´s life and the relationships between her family and friends. The two media present a world view where collectivism is fairly visible and remarkable in the daily life of the characters that live in the district. For example, every day the shop owner welcomes the children of the district with several gifts when they arrived from school, taking care of them in a family-like manner. Another way that collectivism is portrayed is that they do meetings to craft ideas to help each other and thrive in the Usagiyama Shopping District, a example of that is chapter 6, "I felt chills down my spine too" (俺の背筋も凍ったぜ Ore no Sesuji mo Kōtta ze), when Tamako notice that not many people went to the district because it was too hot, and decide to do a “haunted house”.

There are also some differences between the anime and the movie that makes a difference in the perception of the media. Tamako Market has fantasy elements like Dera, the flamboyant talking bird, that the movie does not incorporate (it's never denied, but it's almost irrelevant to the story). Also in the anime, the problems are much non-existence, or not in a way like an antagonist force, Tamako prefers to be non-confrontational because the problems do not affect her at all, unlike in the movie. In the movie, Tamako has to deal with her changing environment, and problems like her future, career and relationships, which worry her to the point where she does not behave like herself because the movie is focused on how life changes when you are in the last years of your school life. In the movie, there's even more depth to certain characters like Mochizou and brief mentions of Dera or Choi (Dera´s boss). Another thing that can be distinguished is the use of colour both media are very colourful but the pallet used in Tamako Market is more consistent, while in the movie there's more experimentation with hues and tones. With that display, both media deal with a difference in the approach to life, whereas the anime is very optimistic, colourful and funny the movie is more gloomy, profound and tense than the anime.

To put it all together, the changes in the two of the media are very slight but they impact in a way that doesn't affect the core of the world of Tamako Market, the changes feel organic because it´s like quite relatable events that occur at that age. The motive of the character evolves as they grew older and experience new things. Because maybe the magic of the mid-teens being kinda lost when you are in your last year of high school and you are also kinda scared that everything you ever know will probably change and that the world is not as you used to fully believe.

To prefer one media over the other would be to disown a part of my teen years, so I recommend you watch the anime and the movie, they are perfect if you are feeling down because I'm pretty sure they will brighten up your day, and it also refreshing to watch something so optimistic for once in this world that has focused on bad news and chaos. Francisca Scopesi ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

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Kitashirakawa Anko ; Tamako Market ☆ Alter

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KyoAni Month

Day 8: cutest KyoAni work → Tamako Love Story

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tamako market

like/reblog, pls  ♡

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You're a bird.

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Anko + Dera (Tamako Market Anime Figure)

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