#Touta konoe

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Touta Konoe Redraw

this character is from UQ Holder!

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It is the next installment of the anime series Negima! Elizabeth Athanasia The main characters are Katherine McDowell, Touta Konoe, Kirie Sakurame, Isht Karin Orte, and Kuroumaru Tokisaka. He longs to live anywhere other than a hamlet in New Tokyo. After the disagreement over staying with Tachibana, Fairyland Hall becomes his go-to travel companion.

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the magus situation, or, "ak remembers log horizon exists and it exacerbates the brainrot"

(gonna be a long one)

so to the surprise of absolutely nobody i did in fact watch log horizon at one point in the past, and also tried reading the light novel but never ended up finishing it. my opinion on it is mostly "solid and had good potential, with some unfortunate quirks to how it's written". the anime is better than sao's, but the novel is worse

this isn't what this post is about

it's instead about a certain *spinoff manga*

the fuckign west wind brigade manga in all its janky beauty. it's a story that takes place in parallel with (and overlaps with) the main story while focusing on different parts of the world and a completely different cast of main characters. it tends to be somewhat more light-hearted than the main story (but not by a lot)

it's also technically a harem story, but in the same way UQ holder is, which is to say that soujirou seta has that touta konoe charm that makes me go "yeah i fully get it this guy is impossible to hate"; he's more the guild dog than the guild leader half the time (affectionate)

*anyway*

spoilers for the west wind brigade manga incoming

so the afformentioned soujirou seta (middle character on the manga cover) is in fact the very first person to die after the catastrophe, and in the process he proved that even after the world became real, *respawning was still a thing*

which suddenly made the prospect of pk'ing much less ethically daunting, leading to a massive explosion in guilds of bored disillusioned trapped people with nothing better to do starting to kill and loot en masse, as was already a massive plotpoint in log horizon proper. some are big guilds, some are smaller

and some are technically solo

which brings us, finally, to magus

*fucking magus* (affectionate?)

edgelord in a longcoat with the cringy speeches

but it's not exactly sincere is it? it's all forced, constantly like he's talking as much to himself as to his "audience"

like he really *wants* to believe what he's saying

"it's all a game anyway, i can do whatever i want! definitely! right? RIGHT?"

it is, in fact, a coping mechanism

because to admit it's real would mean it matters. would mean you're not actually hidden away anymore. no walls to hide behind. no mask

because it's all mask

it was the whole time

because it's easier that way

the persona and the longcoat an the fancy explanations for why it's totally correct and real, trust me! definitely not fucking desperate over here, no sirree!

it's the beater again. there's a beater in log horizon but you never meet them in the main story. because for this beater, the game doesn't end because it's over. but because they finally admit to themself it was never a game to begin with. which was of course the only way out, because log horizon doesn't have a win condition

if you can't "win", you need to stop playing

but that's not quite the whole story, is it?

because you know how it is with beaters

there's always a little footnote at the end

this funny little common thread that all examples ive found so far seem to share

yeah there's a massive very explicit gender angle to all of this because it's just part of the package at this point

and that is how magus' redemption arc also has her turning into a girl

it's frankly amazing, the thematic parallels write themselves, it's so delightfully on the nose!

this whole thing is in fact one giant transgender allegory that's barely an allegory at all

the "edgy longcoat-wearer with terrible coping mechanisms" to "cute akward goth girl" pipeline is real

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madoi tadayou chirijiri no hoshi kumo ga kakusu furezu ni ireba kizu wa itamanai nda to me wo sorashita sou yatte machigaete hodoketa ito wo nando datte mae yori mo tsuyoku musunde mou hanasanai yo to tsukanda te no naka oshieteru itsuka no yozora ga nee ano ryuusei ni mita yami wo saku hikari hitomi ni tomoseba mayowanai onegai regurusu kuragari no ittousei watashitachi wa koko ni tatteru yo negai no rankiryuu wo nukete hatenai SEKAI e saa tooku tooku motto zutto saki e ikou wakaremichi mae erabezu ashi wo tometa toki mo "issho nara daijoubu dayo" tte soko ni ite kureta ne yobiau you ni sou aru you ni tada tobitatsu tori ni kasanete touta mune no naka ni nani wo idaite nani wo shinjitai nda to tashikameteru tokubetsu akarui hoshi janai dakedo otagai terashi atta atatakai kono hibi wo watashi wa hokoreru yo nee ano ryuusei no you ni- ano ryuusei ni mita yami wo saku hikari hitomi ni tomoseba mayowanai miteite regurusu kuragari no ittousei orinasu ito de tsunagatteru yo negai no rankiryuu wo nukete hatenai SEKAI e saa tooku tooku motto zutto saki e ten to ten wo ten ni nazoreba hora LEO

The stars, scattered and drifted in confusion, Are covered by the clouds. Thinking that the scars wouldn’t hurt if I didn’t touch it, I looked away from it. Just like that, the thread that mistakenly came loose, Again and again, I tied it tighter than it was before. “I won’t let go of it again,” I grabbed onto it, And within my hand, it showed me The night sky from that day, hey... I saw it in that meteor, A light that slices through the darkness, If it lights up my eyes, I won’t get lost, So please, Regulus! On the first magnitude star in the dark, We’re standing right here Passing through the turbulence of wishes, Towards the endless world, now, Let’s go far, far away, much, much further ahead! Even when I stopped moving, Unable to choose a branching path ahead, “We’re together, so we’ll be alright,” You were there to say that. So that we’ll call out to one another So that we’re here... I just... In my heart, I asked again and again, To the birds that took flight, What is it that I cherished, that I wanted to believe? I’m checking my answers. The stars are not extraordinarily bright, but, They illuminated each other In these warm days, I’m so proud of them, hey... Just like that meteor— I saw it in that meteor, A light that slices through the darkness, If it lights up my eyes, I won’t get lost, So watch over me, Regulus! On the first magnitude star in the dark, We’re connected by interwoven threads. Passing through the turbulence of our wishes, Towards the endless world, now, To far, far away, much, much further ahead, When you trace the dots in the sky, there, see it? Leo!

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Fin

After 9 years UQHolder has finished.

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From UQ Holder! Mahou Sensei Negima! OVA episode 1 (2017)

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Polls: Who is the Best Boy in UQ Holder?

We have all heard the classic argument: who is best girl? It's a popular topic among anime fans, but there is one I hear far less often regards men, so we're going to focus on them for today's poll. There are many interesting characters who are apart of UQ Holder, so I am definitely interested in your answers. 

You can vote right here!

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Headcanon: Touta Konoe from UQ Holder! is asexual!

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UQ Holder

Episode 11 end card by Morikawa George

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Touta Konoe my by Didi

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These two items came in the mail today! 

First, we have the February issue of  Bessatsu Shonen Magazine. It both featured UQ Holder on the cover and came with a clear file folder. The folder shares the same design as volume 21 of the series, but it’s a neat bonus that I got for a reasonable price!

Next, I saw the neko character buttons while perusing and I just couldn’t not get them! They’re can buttons, so they’re bigger than I thought they’d be. I don’t have much merch for UQ Holder, so I’m glad to add these to the collection!

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[approximateknowledge]

this post was a fucking omen of the brainrot that was to come

let me put it this way

say you put anime and mange (and LN) "boys" on a scale from 0 to 10 on how transfem they are

-0 means: this would be completely incoherent with their characterisation. example: touta konoe in UQ holder

-10 means: it's a central pillar of the main plot and the character herself. example: hinata tachibana in fabiniku

lubbock here is like a 5, 6 at most; itd make sense for the character but it's mostly kind of not there before this moment, it's not really central to their character arc or the plot at all. fun to think about, but not much more to say

and the thing is that's about as much as can be expected in most stories, and what i had come to expect myself. characters like denji (a 3-4 id say)

add to this the fact my standards as a little egg were low for this kind of stuff, my dumb ass was starved ass hell

point is when went on the little nostalgia-trip to rewatch anime i liked in the mid 2010s i wasn't expecting more than a 7

and then after akame ga kill i rewatchted (and then read) sao after almost a decade of avoiding it to avoid being "cringe"

and promptly stumbled upon a gogdamn 9.5

fits way too well thematically, keeps coming up, it's not even played off as a joke in the arc where it's most explicit, all those internal monologues...

so yeah you all know how that's going lol

6-sweep old ak was right all along:

...

someone give me a new hyperfixation please (semi-serious) (i am still having fun) (despite the immense amounts of auto-fuckor upon the realisation that not only am i apparently a kirito-kinnie now, i basically already was ever since i watched it for the first time like a decade ago) (this is my life now) (the above post stands as a memento to my past blissful ignorance) (not sure where i was going with this)

so as stated before, im currently high on concentrated 2010-extract from rereading akame ga kill for the first time since like, 2017, and...

stares at lubbock

i know what you are

^egg, lesbian, girl

chapter 50 happens

nobody made them do this, this was entirely their own initiative like

(incoherent noises)

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From UQ Holder! Mahou Sensei Negima! OVA episode 3 (2018)

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