#Kizu Tsubasa

[utsukurou]

Stage play Ryota Mitarai core

(Bro hit him so hard that he got lifted a few centimeters off the floor)

'He's right behind me isn't he' ahh scene

[jounetsunosymphonia]

fellas is it gay to have a partner you love and care and trust to have your back every day you stand on stage together and yeah sometimes you fight but in the end you wouldn't have anyone else by your side. is it.

[ikusayu-no-hana]

4 days to kanshasai!

[liliththunder]

今日の2023年12月13日は藤堂平助の156周年の命日。藤堂さんに敬意を表すためにこれをポストさせていただきます。

Today, the 13th of December 2023, is Toudou Heisuke's 156 anniversary of his death. To honour him, I'll post this.

この時代に生きてて、戦っててありがとうございます。薄桜鬼など影響を与えた人物として覚えております。

For living and fighting for this age, we thank you. As a person who inspired Hakuouki and more we will remember you.

薄ミュの平助くんたちで今日をお祝いしましょう！

Let's celebrate with the Heisukes from Hakumyu!

[utapri-translations-uuuu]

GLORIOUS ANGELS - Lyrics + Translation

Please do not repost/retranslate without permission.

Kanji:

(Glorious angels...)

(Glorious angels...)

(Glorious angels...)

(We gotta love and cherish you)

(We'll make your dream)

【Ei】 It's bright広がる光へと

伸ばすこの手に掴む為に

【Va】 So hot滾ったこのエモーション

常に限界に近づけてたい

【Ya】 It's brave傷が増える程に強く

耐える度に瘡蓋へと変わり

【Ki】 Completeきっとユートピアへと開く扉の鍵に

【Ng】 Glorious angels

【Ej】 この身体この唇

【Sh】 髪も目も指先まで

【Ng】 喜び震えた時の

【Ei】 感情の

【Sh】 全部も

【All】 君だけの為に捧げよう…Ah

【All】 孤独と孤高の意味を履き違えるな

「苦しみ」さえ一人じゃない

登って掴んで見せたい景色がある

一番高い場所で

君とKissをしたい

【Ei】 It's pride「変化を恐れない」

そこに留まるだけじゃ駄目と

【Va】 So cool全力で生きながら

凛と背中を見せてゆきたい

【Ya】 It's rule衝動が剥き出すままでいい

明日に晒し信念を貫こう

【Ki】 All right渇き疼いたハート　求めるまま歌おう

【Ng】 Glorious angels

【Ej】 いつもその冒険には

【Sh】 いつだって隣にいて

【Ng】 包むような幸せと

【Ei】 笑顔と

【Sh】 希望を

【All】 教えてくれる君がいた…Ah

【All】 奇跡よ輝け大空越えて超えて

歌の翼よ羽ばたけ

力よ勇気よ音符に乗せて響け

新たな歴史へと

信じてついてこい

【Sh】 たとえ世界の終焉の日が

【Ng】 もうすぐあると知っても

【Ki】 たとえ声奪われ立てなくて

【Ej】 涙すら枯れる日も

【Ya】 誰かが誰かの羽根になって

【Va】 欠けることなく魅せようか

【Ei】 天国-HE★VENS-の名の元誓う…Ah

【All】 孤独と孤高の意味を履き違えるな

「苦しみ」さえ一人じゃない

愛され愛して愛だと言える永遠(とき)を

共に抱き締めよう

【All】 奇跡よ輝け大空越えて超えて

歌の翼よ羽ばたけ

力よ勇気よ音符に乗せて響け

新たな歴史へと

信じてついてこい

Rōmaji:

(Glorious angels...)

(Glorious angels...)

(Glorious angels...)

(We gotta love and cherish you)

(We'll make your dream)

【Ei】 It’s bright hirogaru hikari e to nobasu kono te ni tsukamu tame ni

【Va】 So hot tagitta kono emōshon tsuneni genkai ni chikadzuketetai

【Ya】 It’s brave kizu ga fueru hodo ni tsuyoku taeru tabi ni kasabuta e to kawari

【Ki】 Complete kitto yūtopia e to hiraku tobira no kagi ni

【Ng】 Glorious angels

【Ej】 Kono karada kono kuchibiru

【Sh】 Kami mo me mo yubisaki made

【Ng】 Yorokobi furueta toki no

【Ei】 Kanjō no

【Sh】 Zenbu mo

【All】 Kimi dake no tame ni sasageyou… Ah

【All】 Kodoku to kokō no imi o hakichigaeru na

“Kurushimi” sae hitorijanai

Nobotte tsukande misetai keshiki ga aru

Ichiban takai basho de

Kimi to Kiss o shitai

【Ei】 It’s pride “henka o osorenai” soko ni todomaru dake ja dame to

【Va】 So cool zenryoku de iki nagara rinto senaka o misete yukitai

【Ya】 It’s rule shōdō ga mukidasu mama de ī asu ni sarashi shin'nen o tsuranukou

【Ki】 All right kawaki uzuita hāto motomeru mama utaou

【Ng】 Glorious angels

【Ej】 Itsumo sono bōken ni wa

【Sh】 Itsu datte tonari ni ite

【Ng】 Tsutsumu yō na shiawase to

【Ej】 Egao to

【Sh】 Kibō o

【All】 Oshietekureru kimi ga ita… Ah

【All】 Kiseki yo kagayake ōzora koete koete

Uta no tsubasa yo habatake

Chikara yo yūki yo onpu ni nosete hibike

Arata na rekishi e to

Shinjite tsuite koi

【Sh】 Tatoe sekai no shūen no hi ga

【Ng】 Mō sugu aru to shitte mo

【Ki】 Tatoe koe ubaware tatenakute

【Ej】 Namida sura kareru hi mo

【Ya】 Dareka ga dareka no hane ni natte

【Va】 Kakeru koto naku miseyou ka

【Ei】 -HE★VENS- no na no moto chikau… Ah

【All】 Kodoku to kokō no imi o hakichigaeru na

“Kurushimi” sae hitorijanai

Aisare aishite ai da to ieru toki o

Tomo ni dakishimeyou

【All】 Kiseki yo kagayake ōzora koete koete

Uta no tsubasa yo habatake

Chikara yo yūki yo onpu ni nosete hibike

Arata na rekishi e to

Shinjite tsuite koi

Translation:

(Glorious angels…)

(Glorious angels…)

(Glorious angels…)

(We gotta love and cherish you)

(We'll make your dream)

【Ei】 It’s bright, I reach my hand out to the spreading light to grasp it

【Va】 So hot, these emotions that have bubbled up, I want to constantly push them to the limit

【Ya】 It’s brave, I only get stronger the more wounds I bear, and each time they turn into scabs

【Ki】 Complete, surely it’s the key to the door that opens to Utopia

【Ng】 Glorious angels

【Ej】 This body, these lips,

【Sh】 My hair, my eyes, even the tips of my fingers,

【Ng】 All the emotions

【Ei】 I felt when I trembled

【Sh】 With joy

【All】 I’ll dedicate them to you alone… Ah

【All】 Don't mistake the meaning of loneliness and solitude

Even in “suffering”, you’re not alone

There’s a scenery I want to climb up to, grasp and show to you

I want to kiss you

At the highest point

【Ei】 It’s pride, “Don’t be afraid of change”, being stuck on the same place is no good

【Va】 So cool, I want to set an example with dignity while living life to the fullest

【Ya】 It's rule, It’s okay to let your impulses be exposed, let’s bare them tomorrow and stick to our beliefs

【Ki】 All right, let’s sing as our thirsty, aching hearts desire

【Ng】 Glorious angels

【Ej】 You were always by my side

【Sh】 On these adventures,

【Ng】 Always there to wrap me up

【Ei】 In happiness

【Sh】 And smiles,

【All】 And show me hope… Ah

【All】 Shine, miracles! Go across the sky and beyond!

Fly, wings of song!

Power, courage, resound on the musical notes

Believe and follow us

Into a new history

【Sh】 Even if we know that the end of the world

【Ng】 Is just around the corner,

【Ki】 Even if we lose our voices and can't stand up,

【Ej】 And even our tears dry up

【Ya】 Shall we become someone else's wings and

【Va】 And charm them flawlessly?

【Ei】 We swear it in HE★VENS’ name… Ah

【All】 Don't mistake the meaning of loneliness and solitude

Even in “suffering”, you’re not alone

Let's embrace eternity together,

Being loved and loving and calling it love

【All】 Shine, miracles! Go across the sky and beyond!

Fly, wings of song!

Power, courage, resound on the musical notes

Believe and follow us

Into a new history

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Takemichi's stage actor is so cute do you know who he is?? Also I love how he's got happy pics with everyone just like Takemichi making friends with everyone 🤍

He's Tsubasa Kizu! And yeah I love how friendly he seems to be with everyone, it's so cute!!!

[landofanimes]

Akatsuki no Yona: Hiiro no Shukumei-hen (2018)

Yona of the Dawn: Scarlet Destiny Arc Stage Play

Main cast character portraits:

Rina Ikoma as Yona Masaki Yabe as Son Hak

Yuuta Higuchi as Yun (returning) Ikkei Yamamoto as Kija Tomohiro Okutani as Shin-Ah Shunsuke Nishikawa as Jae-Ha Tsubasa Kizu as Zeno

Mayumi Tsukiyama as Gi-Gan Touru Kugasawa as Yang Kum-Ji

Minami Tsurimoto as Kan Tae-Jun Shou Jinnai as Suwon

[nadekofannumber1]

I wonder how much the audience of each arc’s story (an implicit existence) affects how each story is told in monogatari. Mostly in regards to Koyomi as he’s the character who tends to tell these stories to specific people the most.

Ougi is a not insignificant recipient of Araragi’s second season and owari stories: mayoi jiangshi, shinobu time, shinobu mail, and yotsugi doll. Whilst being present for other arcs in other ways in a consistent manner. Though you could take Ougi formula as a more direct extrapolation of stories and traumas from Koyomi, just in arc form.

Regardless, while it’s hard to pick an audience for owari 1 or owari 3, but I could try and infer that zokuowari is told to senjougahara as it could line up with how monster season is told to her (especially with some internal monologue bits that would imply the recipient knows about zokuowari, like araragi making a comment about how “he’ll never cross dress again” in the novel version of shinobumonogatari, we all know how that went).

But also one could take the odd almost fanservicey moments directed at araragi in monster being for hitagi, like how at times Koyomi internally thinks about the kink sex he has with his GF occasionally when he’s talking with some women.

Of course some of this narration would be for himself, like kizu in most circumstances. Koyomimonogatari is a recount of information before Koyomi dies, so the audience while occasionally for another (like meme), is mainly himself as he dies.

After thinking a bit more on it I’d say that maybe tsubasa family and owari 1’s audience is Koyomi in the way Ougi exists. What I mean is that the narration of both is excessively negative in a self reflective manner, and Koyomi lying in the narrative is also much easier to see than usual as it’s pointed out directly. Though I could see an argument for Shinobu being the audience as a sort of mutuality of the story told by kizu. Or of course scroll to the idea at the end of the earlier Ougi section.

It’s hard to say who the audience of bake and nise are, if I gave a guess it could be senjougahara (as someone actively being told this info while Koyomi and her have study sessions), shinobu (in post as a form of personal recollection), or hanekawa (he talks to hanekawa a lot in bake, enough to get tsubasa cat to happen, however decides to do it less by nise, Koyomi likely told Hanekawa about the events of tsubasa cat after all so you could just say that hanekawa’s the blanket recipient of bakemono’s story).

I personally view musibimono as another one of those reflective stories, but it’s possible that after meeting up with Hitagi he told her after the engagement.

Ikusamono is of course a story told to Koyomi’s bosses.

Though Araragi is the master of his own actions I think it’s interesting some of Koyomi’s most controversial novels are told specifically to Ougi, I’d need to certainly read the novel versions more to see how I can extrapolate this info cohesively, if there’s something to extrapolate at all. Koyomi isn’t a good person obviously and literally does several questionable things but there’s a lot of white noise surrounding some discussion as some see every action he takes in said arcs as done with absolutely zero irony. This is legit where half of all monogatari discourse lies. People even try to pin intents on the guy that aren’t even his doing or his narrative intent, even scenes that don’t physically happen are treated as physical. This isn’t even a defense of why the character is secretly a good person I just think that people should hate Koyomi for what he’s actually done.

However because of the way the narrative is structured, it’s hard to extrapolate reality. I just think that a story told to Ougi by Koyomi, while likely fairly honest, would probably make him look bad. I say this especially with how owari 1 is especially reflective on Koyomi’s failures in the story.

I feel like I’ve lost the plot a bit but I’d love feedback about this idea or at least some discussion.

[penultimate-step]

One thing that interests me about Koyomi and Tsubasa's relationship, especially early on, is the contrast between how much they care about each other and how little they really understand each other. From their first meeting, their relationship begins with a complete lack of understanding.

All through Bake, Hanekawa is talked up extremely highly by Koyomi. In his eyes, she's the one who knows everything, the one who is always right. Her own catchphrase might be "I just know what I know," but this is in response to Araragi complimenting her about knowing everything. He rarely thinks that she can possibly be wrong - which makes it almost funny in retrospect to realize that he holds this opinion of her despite the fact that one of the first inferences he every sees her make is massively misreading his own issues.

In Kizu, spurred by the day's sense of melancholy and the sudden absurdity of Hanekawa's skirt situation, Koyomi briefly opens up and is emotionally honest with Hanekawa. (Given that we as readers learn most about him from internal narration, this is bigger than it seems: this is one of the moments when he shares the most about himself out loud to others in the whole series.) It's not his whole deal, not by a long shot, but he gets across the basics: his strained concept of the value of friendship and human connections, his sense of nihilism, and his desire not to have to live as a human: "I want to become a plant," he tells her, "so that I wouldn't have to talk or walk." Honestly I'm not sure what a good response is to someone you are only now having a first conversation with telling you all about his depression, but Hanekawa chooses to reject it. She tells him that normally people would dream of becoming something like a rock, but in his case, since plants are a form of life, "You still want to be a living thing." Subtextually: "You don't really want to kill yourself. You aren't suicidal." To this, Koyomi basically thinks, Huh, never thought about it like that. Maybe you're right. and moves on.

….20 pages later, Koyomi chooses to kill himself for Kiss-Shot's sake, stating, "There isn't a single reason for me to bother staying alive." Kizumonogatari is in large part about Araragi's suicidal depression. Hanekawa, I love you, but you misjudged this one.

Even at this early stage of their relationship, Hanekawa thinks highly of Koyomi, much more than he deserves. As such, when confronted with something she considers a weakness, like his supremely low self-worth, she tries to justify why this isn't actually a trait he has.

Much later, by the time of Neko White, she's gotten a better chance to get to know him and become familiar with his him as a person, including his flaws, enough that she and Senjougahara can list them for hours. But that doesn't necessarily mean she understands him or his motivations - because she cares for him so much, she ends up idealizing his bad traits and his personal weaknesses into charm points and strengths. She says at the book's start that she admires him because of his confidence in his own identity, describing him as a person who doesn't hesitate over questions of who he is as a person or what he should be and do moving forward and comparing herself unfavorably to her own lack of sense of identity.

Readers, having read his narration in Kizu and Neko Black know this is far from true; that he spends a huge amount of page count trying to reflect on where he stands in life. The climaxes of both those books are great examples. In Kizu, Koyomi has a huge internal crisis after seeing the death of Guillotine Cutter. He tells Hanekawa that he is unsure if he is human or monster, worrying even that he'll eat her. He is unsure if he is going to oppose Kiss-Shot or not. And on top of that, his own guilt is eating him alive, causing him to question the worth of all his actions in the book so far. There's no way that this can be called a man sure of who he is, and it is Tsubasa herself who snaps him out of it. He relies on her presence as a guide to move forward. She has first hand experience seeing him experience deep uncertainty as to what kind of person he wants to be, but her narration in Neko White claims the opposite - that his consistency and surety is a trait she admires. A similar kind of struggle happens in Neko Black's ending, though given her own stresses and struggles at the time its very understandable that she didn't catch this one. Time after time Tsubasa is the one to see Koyomi's doubts and greatest moments of weakness, but rather than harm her view of Araragi, if anything it seems to have raised her opinion of him. In her Neko White letter, she admires what she calls "confronting his own weaknesses." She talks about falling in love with him when she saw that he was crying as he saved Kiss-Shot, comparing it negatively to how she showed no emotion and smiles through both suffering and aid. She basically says this outright in the letter: to her, all of Araragi's flaws becomes positive. Moments of self-doubt become moments of self honesty, to cry while acting is to remain true to oneself, and so forth.

Not that Koyomi is a genius at understanding her, either. While he admires her, for most of Kizu a lot of whats going on between them is going on in his head - he's projecting his own issues onto her and he deals with her more as what she represents to him than an equal friend, as he will come to treat her later in Bake and beyond. Neko Black, taking place between these two points, shows him in the middle of this transition.

I feel like there's less to say on his side though, just because Neko Black is much more explicit about Koyomi's failure to understand Tsubasa than Kizu is for the reverse. When she feels obligated by friendship to tell Araragi about her struggles with her family, in a reversal of their first conversation from the start of Kizu, he has this to say about it:

Despite having been friends for a month by then he realizes he has still been seeing her more as an ideal than a person. However, his reaction here, in contrast to when the situation was flipped, also illustrates that his way of misunderstanding is subtly different from the way Hanekawa misunderstands him. Rather than a direct dismissal, Koyomi, while originally ignorant, does come around to understanding What Tsubasa will do. However, he does this while blocking out any understanding of Why she would act like this. He can grasp the actions and emotions, but not the underlying causes.

As an example, near the end of Neko Black, after Koyomi has had some time to internalize his new understanding of Hanekawa, he is able to predict her words to her father before Meme tells him, then later develops a plan to deal with the Cat based around predicting her actions well in advance, first luring her out and then baiting her into attacking him. However, despite all this, he seems to have no knowledge, or perhaps is intentionally blocking out, the motivations behind her actions. Theres a reason she calls him "the worst" when he offers to give his time and energy to deal with her stress. (And much like when he healed her injury earlier, this is him dealing with symptoms rather than the true problem.) Because he's totally misjudging what she actually wants.

A similar pattern can be seen in the Cat chapter of Bake, when he first sees the cat. He realizes this means she's stressed, and can guess at how this will make her act and that things might get dangerous, but has no idea what set her off this time, not until the Cat tells him outright why things got to this point.

Koyomi views Hanekawa so highly, almost like she is incapable of making mistakes, despite having personal experience from the get go that she is very capable of making mistakes and that sometimes her inferences are wrong, and that she is often wrong about him, specifically. Hanekawa is wrong about Koyomi because she does the same thing, and views him so highly that she dismisses and glosses over his faults that she has seen personally. Together, they both consistently fail to understand each other because they place the other on a pedestal without meaning to. And yet, the book is clear that despite this gap in understanding, the friendship is no less for it. The care between the two is real, as is the effort they take in each other's lives.

[typellblog]

the pattern of failure for koyomi in second season is definitely there but i feel like people overemphasize it - his way of dealing with problems has been very questionable & half-assed from the start, it's just that otori and oni center the people he fails more directly

in nadesnake he's forced to let the jagirinawa go and curse someone else, in kizu he has to inflict a horrific fate upon kiss-shot to save her, in nise he's completely outplayed by kaiki, both times he tries to save tsubasa he gets nowhere and she has to do it herself, in kabuki there's nothing he can do for any of the people who died before getting turned into zombies & au kiss-shot is . . . yeah.

otori isn't even an incident he's trying to solve so you could say he doesnt really fail with nadeko so much as 'is unable to help'. but like. that's all of his failures, isn't it. he's just poking his nose into business that by all rights is someone else's job to deal with and getting upset he can't handle it all himself.

the thoroughly mixed results that this produces is a throughline of the entire story, not just second season, which i think is much more about the successes of characters other than him.

[studentofetherium]

i think the shed scene in Kizu is really fascinating for the emotional maturity on display, even if both of them are very much lacking in that at this point

there's a lot going on with consent in the scene, on both sides, and there's a sense of discomfort that comes from them knowing that the other person has agreed to this, that it's "okay"... but also it kinda isn't because of Circumstances pushing them towards it

and eventually Koyomi has to stop and realize he doesn't really want this, which leaves him disappointed and leaves Tsubasa disappointed. It's probably for the best, because who knows what kind of permanent damage would be done to their relationship if they had gone ahead and done whatever came to mind

but it still leaves scars, too. these are still two kids who barely knew each other nearly acting on their teenage lust for each other only days after meeting each other for the first time. what happens here informs the rest of their relationship going into Neko Black and Kizu, as what happened can't really be gone back on. this is what sets in motion Tsubasa's feelings for Koyomi, and what sets in motion Koyomi breaking out of his shell but still having lots of repressed baggage that he poorly handles. without this scene, they could have gone on with their lives and had things be far more peaceful. without this scene, their relationship does not exist as it does

[ensemblesongs]

Kurukuru Mawatte Unmei Saratte featuring: Tsubasa Kizu as Natsume Sakasaki portraying Gojo.

[aokozaki]

Tsubasa Family Four:

I guess I really correctly identified that self destructive spiral last episode, because Koyomi concludes he can't stop Hanekawa's stress at all, but he can at least force her to want to live - in a mirror of Kizu, he saves Tsubasa from her suicidal impulse, instead of vice versa.

I also think it's funny that the only solution Koyomi has to any problem is to try and use his immortal body to Die at it a bunch. Like, dude, jesus christ.

And, lmao at Hanekawa "not remembering" those nine days. Girls when they lie because their sense of self is built around collapsing down their own desires to be polite and kind. She's too virtuous for real...

Finally, I want to say that I joked that Oshino was trying to imply Tsubasa had a crush on Koyomi, and that Koyomi should consider acting on his own feelings. Only to slowly realize that that's literally what Oshino was doing, and Koyomi missed all the subtext.

[supergenial]

(translation+lyrics) Resurrection by Seraph

Pretty old one but it’s been stuck in my head as of late. Music that feels like a rollercoaster all throughout, Life Rubato really outdid themselves with this one. Lyrics down below and see you all next time.

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Resurrection

Composer: LifeRubato

Vocalist:  海紅 

Kagayaku hoshi yokaze ni nose Tooku asu he inoru wa Yoru wo koete toki wo koete Hitori kodoku no kanata he to

Glittering stars riding the nighttime wind Praying for the distant tomorrow Across the night, across time itself All alone towards that lonesome horizon

Shin’en ni utsuru kage Madowase sono bishou Kuroi kami nabikasete Sasayaku koe wa

A shadow reflected in the abyss Such a puzzling smile The whispering voice Grazes that black hair

Shuuen wo nozomu nara Hibikasete agemashou Aoi hitomi no oku he to, mayoi wo kakushite

If demise is your desire Then I’ll resonate with it Hide all doubts within your blue eyes

Kizu mo omoide mo Izure iroasete shimau no Oshiete yo aogu hi no arika sae mo Sono yukue mo

Wounds and memories Will both fade away one day Show me the day you yearned for Let us head there

Sashidashita shiroi hane hirogete Tooi kanata he omou wa kagayaku hi no haruka Sono te ni urei wo hikitsurete

Spread the white wings bestowed upon you Our feelings shine to the distant boundary Take my hand and guide me through your grief

Towa no yume, yurameite Habataku saki to shiru no nara Soko ni wakare wo tsuge Kasaneta hikari to hikikae ni shite

An eternal wavering dream In which to spread your wings We’ll part ways over there So let us exchange our overlapping radiance

Itsuka itsuka todoku hi ga kuru nara Katsute no negai mo yami he tokashite

One day… one day the day shall come And our former wishes shall melt along with the darkness

Shuumatsu wo tsugeru kane Sono te de hibikasete Fuseru hitomi no ura he to Shizuku wo tokashite

The bell which signals the end Ring it with your own hands And let your tears Melt away behind your eyes

Kitto kono yume mo Toki no nami he sarawareru no Kotaete yo kouen no chikai sae mo Sono yukue mo

Surely this dream Shall also be dragged by the waves of time Answer me, and this I pledge We too shall head there

Sashidashita sono tsubasa hirogete Tooi kanata wo omoeba Yurameku hitomi utai dashita Yaiba ni hibikasete

Spread the wings bestowed upon you To the distant boundary we’ve yearned for Let out the song of your frail eyes And have your blade resonate

Towa no yume, kirameite Habataku hikari de teraseba Umareru mirai no ne Itsuka no negai wo michizure ni shite

An eternal, glittering dream If you shine among the fluttering light To the tune of the future being born Guide me to your wish one day

Itsuka itsuka kasunda hi no yume wa Tsukiyo ni shizunde ochiteiku

One day… one day the dreams from those faded days Shall sink within the moonlight, and rot away

Katsute yume ni mita osanaki koe Tooku sasageru inori wa Yoru wo koete toki wo koete Tsugeru kodoku no imi wo

The jovial voice from my former dream offers a distant prayer Across the night, across time itself It delivers the meaning of solitude

Sashidashita tsugai hane hirogete Tooi kanata wo aogeba Kagayaku gin no tsuki Higeki no sanka to hikikae ni

Spread the kind wings bestowed upon you To the distant boundary we yearn for That brilliant silver moon Through this tragic chant

Towa ni hikari no saki he Habataku sadame to shiru nara Soko he wakare wo tsuge Kazashita yaiba ni kuchitsuke wo shite

Towards the eternal light Know thine fate is to take flight Bid your farewell And kiss the hidden blade

Wasuresarareta monogatari wa Kitto yume no mae ni maku wo tojite Tatoe itsuka itsuka katachi wo nasu no nara Ano hi no negai mo Kodoku no chikai to yobizamashite

This forgotten tale Will surely have it’s curtains drawn before it Some day, some day it’ll shape up And so will the wishes from that day Awakening this vow of solitude

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Monogatari characters and their fetishes

gonna start this off with the easiest one, Suruga, who has a canon fetish in bondage. that's a pretty wide field in its own right so i don't think there's much else kinky that she'd be into

Koyomi is another one where we have some canon answers, that being, he's a lolicon and a little. as far as physical features go, his type is pretty much Tsubasa, but with a focus on glasses. i imagine he's also willing to play along with Hitagi's kinks, which we'll get to later

Karen feels pretty straightforward: she's into incest and toothbrushing. maybe also something like a sweat kink

Hitagi is definitely a sadist. painplay featuring desk appliances. again, pretty straightforward. these are the easy ones

based on the manga makes by the time of Musubi, Nadeko is probably into very tumblr-core guro type stuff. blood, eroticism of the machine, whatever is popular this week. the gruesome stuff. she also has a bit of a sadistic streak to her

Tsukihi is the most vanilla person you've ever met, or, she has a new weird kink you've never heard of every other week. not sure which

based on the shed scene in Kizu, Tsubasa is probably into rough sex, or maybe even rapeplay. she was pretty disappointed when Koyomi stopped violating her, after all

for lack of any other ideas i'm going to self-indulgently say that Sodachi is into hypnosis teehee

given the child seat in Koyomi's care, i'm going to assume Shinobu is also a little

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Thoughts on Koyomi and Tsubasa's interactions in Kizumonogatari?

kizu hanekawa is cute but she's mostly about expressing the idea that people suffering from abuse are fascinated by danger. we see tsubasa put herself in dangerous situations - including just being alone with koyomi - as an exercise in passive suicidal ideation. her desire to meet with kiss-shot is framed as a desire for danger and death and when that befalls koyomi, she is still the one who ultimately gets hurt. she's the reason he ends up leaning into his masochistic desire to let go of what makes him human to help other people. in all ways, kizu mirrors the themes in the rest of the work especially in regards to how it treats the idea of saving. also the softcore scene in the movie is gratuitous as hell but very much like some of the sexual encounters I had at that age