#Shoot Romcom Reimaginings

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TOGASHI CREATED KILLUGON BASED ON A ROMANTIC COUPLE FROM THE ROMCOM HE WROTE !!

Did you know Togashi created a romantic comedy manga back in 1989? He always talked about liking shojo and romance but it’s not very known that he actually wrote one! (this is about killugon i promise keep reading)

title : Ten de Shōwaru Cupid

disclaimer : it’s nsfw and kinda gross (MINORSDON’TREADIT) but i’m not showing or talking about any of those nsfw things in this post so don’t worry!

It was never officially licensed so there’s no released English translation.

Very vaguely, the story is about Ryuji and Maria, the main romantic couple (pictured above) . It’s sorta a “ friends to lovers “ situation… in it’s own way.

Anyway, there’s one scene that started this whole discovery. Ryuji and Maria essentially go on a star gazing date. (yakwtfgo)

a few panels from the scene :

Star gazing. Shooting star. Deep conversation.

Doesn’t that sound familiar?

But wait, it also LOOKS familiar.

losing my mind bc ohmygoddd togashi ur so insane for this.

hell, even the set up and light/dark scheme is similar.

1989 : Togashi creates a star gazing date between the protagonist and deuteragonist of his shojo.

1998 : Togashi creates a star gazing date between the protagonist and deuteragonist of his shonen.

it took him ten years to make it gay

There’s more :

As we all know, Killua has electric powers. He has one move in particular called “ 落雷 “ (thunderbolt/lightning strike)

Coincidentally, Maria from the romcom ALSO has electric powers. Not just any electric power though, she has a move called “ 落雷 “ (thunderbolt/lightning strike)

Deuteragonists with electric powers and a thunderbolt move.

What’s next? Maria also being immune to poison just like Killua?

Exactly.

Miss Maria over here is the OG “ i’m immune to poison ” character. She drinks the poison from the snake to hide her demon tail (wild plot ik)

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(( 4/27 update : i was just reminded of how Killua has that snake awaken thing with his aura hhhhhhomg

when they’re both associated with snakes ))

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So, a deuteragonist who is strongly devoted to the protagonist, in love with the protagonist, immune to poison, has lightning powers, uses a move called "thunderbolt", and has been on a stargazing date with their protagonist.

It’s almost as if… Maria was Togashi’s blueprint for Killua.

This next portion isn’t as big but they’re just little situations that gave me deja vu :

Here we have the classic jealousy situation when a “romantic rival” enters the story.

- Stalking as they talk by a tree.

- Fuming with anger as something affectionate happens between them.

- Fleeing when the current situation became too much to handle. (in killua’s case he left to go fight a rabbit but still. yk he wasn’t about to stick around for what came next😭)

And there’s also the way they bump heads and bicker with each other like a married couple.

i’m sure there’s more similarities and hxh inspo in the story but i don’t feel like rereading and translating it all

In conclusion :

This means that from the very beginning, Togashi intentionally coded Gon and Killua from a romantic couple. KilluGon is the recreated/reimagined version of Ryuji and Maria (a pure and sfw and gay version)

goated behavior tbh

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Shoot Romcom Reimaginings

Just playing around, I can’t seem to watch any romcom now without imagining my favorite duo Root and Shaw. Just a silly scene remake from the movie ‘When Harry Met Sally’ – one can not improve upon Nora Ephron (well except for maybe gaying it up). Happy Shoot Week!

Shaw and Carter practiced their batting with coin activated pitching machines at a local borough park. A line of kids waited to use the machines after the ‘old ladies’ finished, the kids kept whispering and getting mean looks from Shaw and Carter.

Carter got ready for the first pitch from the machine, “I don’t understand this relationship you’ve got with Root.

“What do you mean?” asked Shaw with a confused look on her face to her friend and colleague.

“You enjoy being with her?” Carter swung and knocked the ball out of the stadium, if there had been a stadium; as it was a batting cage the ball slammed with a huge boom against the back wall.

“Yah.” Shaw swung her arms around and moved her shoulders up and down getting ready for her next pitch.

“You find her attractive?” asked Carter cautiously, knowing how her friend tended to blow up at slightly datey stuff or remotely relationship talk.

“Yah.” Shaw begrudgingly shrugged her shoulders. Okay, so Root was hot Shaw admitted to herself sometimes; and maybe from the very first time they met. Actually, sometimes too damn hot for her own good. Luckily, she annoyed the shit of the Persian detective so most of the time the hotness factor wore off.

“And you’re not sleeping with her,” Carter said this as stating a fact, yet her voice still kind of delivered it as a question.

“Nope. Gawd no,” Shaw scowled back at her fellow detective. Okay, she might have played ‘the lady doth protest to much card’ because the thought had crossed her mind a few times, or a lot of times of sleeping with Root. And in the beginning Root flirted shamelessly with her which was hard to turn down, yet she always managed to do so.

“You’re afraid to let yourself be happy,” Carter hit another home run and then stared intensely at Shaw, confident in her theory on her friend.

“Why can’t you give me credit for this? This is a big thing for me. I don’t have many friendships with women that don’t involve sex,” Shaw whacked her baseball pitch fiercely hard sending it smashing against the back wall with a loud thud.

“Or men,” Carter smirked at Shaw.

Shaw didn’t do feelings well, sex was a way to get close to someone sometimes without having to actually talk to them; and yes she knew now that always backfired even with men. She decided she had to take a new approach in trying to relate people. “I feel like I’m growing,” Shaw paused and looked at Carter.

“You never slept with me,” Carter shot back at Shaw and the ball just pitched to her; which she might have hit too hard to prove a point.

“I don’t ever remember you offering or being interested,” Shaw replied back quickly.

“I was drunk that one time and you turned me down. Did you grow that night?” Carter stared and did a head tilt towards her friend.

Shaw sighed. She didn’t know exactly why she never slept with Carter, she thought maybe because the woman reminded her of a cool, big sister. The main reason she thought probably why she never slept with her because she had been one of the few people in her life she could talk to about some stuff. Carter was practically the only woman she had met in her life she liked hanging out with, she didn’t want to ruin that with sex. Same thing went for Root. The annoying computer programmer was mostly tolerable, she didn’t like overly girly stuff and she seemed to loved having verbal insults hurled at her. She had met both of them in college but lost touch with Root for over ten years ago; only reconnecting in the last few months. Still, when she met both of them and put them in the no sex zone in her head back then, that status stayed in her head.

Shaw paused for a moment to stare at Carter again to get her point across, “I feel like I’m growing.”

Suddenly, one of the kids was getting impatient with the less batting the two ‘old ladies’ were doing and all the talking so they started getting rowdy and mouthy.

“You finish yet lady?” shouted one tall lanky kid.

Shaw looked over with a scowl and growled at the kids, “Hey, I got a whole stack of quarters and I was here first.”

“Were not,” the kid yelled back on the verge of sticking his tongue out at the short ‘old lady.’

“Was too,” Shaw walked over closer to the fence where the tall lanky kid was standing, she was shorter than the kid so at first he wasn’t overly intimidated by her.

“Were not!” Once again the kid yelled back.

“Was too!” Shaw yelled back this time raising her voice. The look in her eyes slightly scared the kid and he stepped back from the fence to go sit on the bench near by until the two ‘old ladies’ were done hitting balls and talking about their boring love lives

“Stupid jerk,” the kid mumbled from the bench.

“Little creep,” Shaw mumbled back to the kid, then turned her head back to Carter, “Where was I?”

“You were growing,” Carter said with a slightly flabbergasted face watching her friend go from getting into a fight with a little kid to also watching her friend try for the second time in her life to make a connection, a real connection with someone. This was big for Shaw, she didn’t have many friends, she scared most people off. There were a few people that were tough and stupid enough to stick around the Persian firecracker like her and Fusco but not many. Shaw’s newfound friendship with long lost one-time road trip companion Root was something different. Carter wanted to support this new platonic friendship because as much as she loved Shaw, her dear friend was not only a dating disaster she was an extreme introvert and maybe something else. She worried if Shaw might ever find someone to settle down with; especially after her breakup with Tomas. The one time Shaw took a chance on a relationship and the asshole cheated on her.

“Yeah. It’s very freeing with Root. I can say anything to her,” Shaw was focused once again on hitting balls, working on perfecting her swing.

“Are you saying you can say things to her you can’t say to me?” Carter hoped she didn’t let a tinge of jealously seep through her voice.

“Nah it’s just different. It’s a whole new perspective. I get the nerd’s point of view on things. Like you she tells me about some of her dates, all women of course.” Shaw smacked another ball, so far she had hit non-stop home runs.

“You tell her about your dates or shall I say, hook-ups…they’re not really dates are they?” Carter teased Shaw.

“Tease if you will, but my three-night rule works mighty fine. Like the other night. I hooked up with this guy, I took him to a place that wasn’t even human. He actually meowed,” Shaw glanced over to Carter with an extreme smug look on her face.

“You made a guy meow?” Carter stopped hitting balls and stared at Shaw dumbfounded.

“Yah. That’s the point, I can say these things to Root you know like I do to you. And the great thing is, I don’t have to lie because I’m not always thinking about how to get her into bed. At first she was always trying to get me into bed, but now I can just be myself,” Shaw was oblivious to Carter still standing motionless in her cage with balls whizzing past her.

“You made a guy meow?” Carter asked again.