#Moribito

[therosecrest]

[ooccoo]

trick or treat preddy pease

(Yami no Moribito, Volume II)

[doyouknowthisanime]

Do You Know This Anime?

[samballesbian]

everyone always talks about the romance between loid and yoru but no one ever pays proper respect to the true power couple, balsa and tanda

[iukasylvie]

Can someone enjoy a work and criticizing it at the same time? Sorry if this ask so sudden.

Yes.

The Wittebane lore got me interested in The Owl House in the first place and introduced me to a passionate fandom, which included @anglerflsh. The way "Watching and Dreaming" did it dirty by ignoring all the build-up from Season 2 to the first two episodes of Season 3 is so egregious. I've had bad times among the fandom, but it's been great to find people with whom I could discuss the show from a critical lens on Tumblr and the Discord server of @mdhwrites.

Philip would absolutely get along with Bai Jin from Karakuri Circus over having older brothers who abandoned them and everything they stood for—even though both of them had looked up to and had the closest bonds with their brothers since childhood—and how the writers did them dirty by neglecting their backgrounds and misrepresenting their motives. I count Bai Yin among the worst brothers in fiction alongside Yuguro Musa from Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness and Akio Ohtori from Revolutionary Girl Utena. It's egregious how Fujita refuses to criticize him as much as he does with Bai Jin given the themes of love and relationships in the manga.

As for Witch Hat Atelier, I love Tartah's arc in which he finds a way around his disability and the Romonon arc in which the apprentices complement each other, helping them grow up—Richeh's and Eunie's backstories are among the greatest in the series and Eunie's internal struggles connect with the lore too! I wish Shirahama had been more resolute in criticizing the rigidity and cruelty of witch society like she did with Coco's, Agott's, Tartah's, Richeh's, and Eunie's backgrounds.

Why is Qifrey not allowed to convey his struggles through his own voice like the apprentices, Luluci, and Dagda? Why do almost every bad adult figure—including Beldaruit who partook in the neglect of Qifrey by the adults around him and blames his own apprentice for being the way he is due to it—escape a call-out for their behavior unlike Luluci's teacher? Why are the Knights Moralis allowed to act like judges, juries, and executioners? Why do they threaten to erase people's memories first instead of asking questions whenever they show up? Why do they not pursue the Brimmed Caps as much as Qifrey has been doing on his own when they are supposed to enforce the law of magic? Where are detectives and attorneys? Why has Luluci been granted kindness and understanding when everyone else—even Agott from the prestigious house of Arkrome—receives nothing but cruelty and ignorance from the Knights Moralis?

Speaking from experience, I find people to be more open to criticism for The Owl House than for Witch Hat Atelier. People such as @imsosocold, @let-us-cultivate-our-garden, @mdhwrites, @peacesmovingcabaret, @the-enchanted-archivist have talked about the flaws of The Owl House but I've never seen anyone examining the series from a critical lens like them on Tumblr or Discord.

[oopsalldadsderby]

ROUND 3 GROUP A

(Reminder of the criteria. Names are formatted as [dad name(s)] & [kid name(s)].)

[sotiredmostnights]

"i wish they made shonen but for girls :/" some of you have never watched seirei no moribito and it shows

[singingbun]

Anime list: ATLA-esque anime (aesthetically speaking)

This is a personal list, but more specifically, these titles I am marking here are stories I feel like are worth the read after finishing avatar the last airbender. I put these in the list mostly due to its East-Asia-esque setting as well as its fantastical elements with it. Most of these are surprisingly underrated, or that not a lot of people talk about these titles I've listed.

Twelve Kingdoms

Moribito

Sword of the Stranger

Dororo

Yona of the Dawn (aka Akatsuki no Yona)

Mushishi

Kemono no Souja Erin

Princess Mononoke

Children of the Wales (?)

Let me know what titles are worth adding to this list.

[mirrorgrets]

no one understands moribito like i do....

[therosecrest]

[ooccoo]

Trick or Treat! 👻🎃

You get balsa baby picture

(Yami no Moribito, Chapter 1)

[amvmusicart]

moribito guardian of the spirit Liberation amv by vermillionamv

[mechanimereview]

The Deer King - The Wolves Are Coming

I Wish I Jumped Into This Faster This film is a major case of “why didn’t anyone tell me about who was behind the source material?” Ok, part of that is my fault because I wasn’t interested in Deer King for a while so I didn’t read any sorts of posts or reviews about it. But still, I wish I knew that Nahoko Uehashi was the one behind the novels this series was behind. Why is that important? Same…

[iukasylvie]

How to do a pure evil antagonist while exploring their background: Yuguro Musa from Moribito II: Guardian of the Darkness by Nahoko Uehashi

How not to do a pure evil antagonist while exploring their background: Emperor Belos/Philip Wittebane from The Owl House

[oopsalldadsderby]

ROUND 2 GROUP A

(Reminder of the criteria. Names are formatted as [dad name(s)] & [kid name(s)].)

[djwaglmuffin]

Bodyguard in a fantastical version of Feudal Japan.