#MYYTTT GOOOOODDDDD

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OMG GUSARI!!! just.. her way of characterizing them and just her art like she has incredible talent with story-telling and pacing and a wonderful way of putting everything together with a metaphor (whether the metaphor is something obvious or not). like she has this sense of "settled unsettledness" with her writing if that makes sense. if you haven't read the matsuhana oneshot as well - i highly recommend it!!!! idk if you read given either but the moment mafuyu sings for uenoyama is VISCERAL

HHHHHHH I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS ABOUT GUSARI TTTTTT i literally start gnawing on the nearest possible object whenever i think of her doujins, like literally. i just. HHHHH the way she writes is so quiet...like i like how the love she has in her stories is not just like,, its powerful, but in a quiet, subtle, mundane way. it feels real. it feels Raw.

there's that one doujin where its about how like, UGH there's so many but there's that one doujin about iwaoi's past and how oikawa had to go into the hospital and iwaizumi was blaming himself and there's that line about how tooru & hajime's names were like,,,they had a one character difference or smth?? and how their moms wanted to symbolize that iwaizumi completed oikawa i just UGGGHHJDJSKFKKS i read all of the gusari doujin translations when i was home alone and i have never Wailed so viscerally in my life before 😐

AND YEAH I TOTALLY AGREE HER METAPHORS ARE JUST 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌 HHH i don't think i've read the matsuhana oneshot, i think i didn't come across it when i was doing my gusari binge :( i'll look for it in the morning tho!! matsuhana just...matsuhana <3

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON GIVEN I JUST 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 given has me by a chokehold and Wont Let Go... i Hate to be one of Those People but i just think the given manga is better ,,, like dont get me wrong the anime is so good Esp With That Soundtrack <3 but after watching the movie i'm kinda sad they took away the complexity of the overlapping storylines of mafuyu letting go + ugetsu letting go too,,,like they were such good foils for each other so im kinda just 🥲 (+++ THOSE PANELS WHERE MAFUYU GETS REMINDED OF YUKI JUST MAKE ME AAAUUGHHHHHHDHSHHDJWJEJ LITERALLY K WORD ME IT WOULD HURT LESS I THINK .) yeah the ugetsu plotline and everything surrounding that arc is just so. [clenches fist and cries a little.]

also i Love the set up currently with mafuyu's two childhood friends?? i forgot their names but 😭 once again i love how every one of gusari's relationships is depicted with so many layers and it just feels so Raw And Real . i think she's really mastered the art of depicting beauty, in its happiness and its pain.