#Yuki MayoPan

[nerdy-arty]

Watch Mayonaka Punch. Watch it. Now. Do it. Funny Vamp Youtuber anime OWNS

[pleaseplaygrimfandango]

Yuki being a gamer makes sense. she spends her time off playing heartstone or league or some shit no wonder she's fucking miserable.

[kaban-bang]

oh that's yuri that's doomed yuri of my comfort character

[that-taters-my-tots]

Shigeyuki is a male name. Yuki gets really upset when you call her by it. Yuki itself is a unisex name. What I'm getting at here is that Yuki is MtF and that's her deadname.

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[rogzeeyaya]

This shot in the op where Yuki's roasting what appears to be some form of yam/potato is so intriguing. When did this happen? Where did this happen? She's dressed in a very European style, but it's one from a time before Japan and Europe had really had much contact with each other. What's with the backpack? Did Yuki go on a backpacking trip across Eurasia in the 1600s? Is this even in Europe? This sort of dress calls to mind the Salem witch trials, is this north America? It brings up so many questions.

[grelleswife]

While rightfully hailed as Brat summer, we should also acknowledge this season of 2024 as vamp summer: The fleeting era when we witnessed the mlm-wlw solidarity of a Gothic bishounen vampire polycule stumbling their way through childcare and criminal investigations and a chaotic household of sapphic vampire YouTubers, one of whom is physiologically and romantically thirsty for their demanding, self-centered, problematic human manager.

[tetrix-anime]

Megami Magazine November 2024 Issue (#294) - Mayonaka Punch

[sananaryon]

Live/Masaki and Tokage/Yuki are good but I think people are sleeping on the "Dad vampire mom and the dog human she didn't want" potential of Masaki/Yuki

[dude1818]

Started watching Mayonaka Punch. Surprisingly cute, although high energy almost at my limit. The first episode with the flying scene started to give me Call of the Night vibes, but it's been more like Kobayashi since then. [Glad the humans are adults in this one]

Given how goofy it is, I was taken aback by it suddenly getting pretty serious in ep 4. It didn't feel out of place though, and I hope there's more stuff like that mixed in later

[reallybigtunak]

Hey y'all, that one part in Episode 10 where Yuki talked about her past with Live with one scene having Tokimeki Memorial textboxes really put a shotgun blast through my brain!

I hope you enjoy this slightly angsty Live/Yuki fic I did, it's the first writing thing I've published in over 2 years yippee!

[nijigasakilove]

Ahhh my lesbian vampires are idols now, thank you PA works 😭 bat shit(pun intended) crazy episode as usual, but even funnier with all the antics going on in the background. Tsuma fes was both a nightmare and a huge success for the girls lol

Tokage don’t use your powers on stage challenge(IMPOSSIBLE) I thought Yuki would damn near jump on stage at that point, but she was too busy being distracted by the yandere Sidebrah stan sitting next to her. Mayopan need some fans that dedicated because being willing to go to jail and disrupting the power system of an event so your faves win is crazy.

Actually shocked the hell out of me when Masaki punched the sidebrah stan, but she needed it lmao and it set up that great performance at the end from everyone. May not have gone perfectly, but Mayopan definitely gained a lot of fans and some clout from this event

This week’s end card is so good too

[pleaseplaygrimfandango]

mayopan doodles

[kaban-bang]

Ok we'll have to wait and see but I'm sensing some potential here 👀

[yurisorcerer]

In a development I definitely wouldn't have predicted even a week ago, the title of "first anime to make me cry this season" goes to Mayonaka Punch.

This is *very* different in tone, structure, and even subject matter to every prior episode of this show and, judging by the previews, probably many of the later ones, too. Rather than focusing on the main group, this is a spotlight episode about Fu, probably the least-focused-on member of the group so far, and an old friend of hers named Aya. It's much more poignant and heartbreaking than funny, and I think MayoPan, somewhat surprisingly, manages to make this massive shift in mood completely work.

Before now, the series hasn't really grappled with what it *means* to be a vampire. It's been an obstacle or inconvenience or a role that comes with a set of rules or even a prop for some of Masaki's videos earlier in the series. With this episode though, MayoPan drills down on one of the oldest tropes in vampire fiction; the tragedy of immortality.

Fu met Aya when the latter was, going by her appearance, roughly a high schooler. She got Fu into western rock and pop music, and the two played music together, with Fu singing and Aya providing guitar. Aya eventually gets the idea that Fu is *such* a good singer that they could even go pro. Fu knows---and Yuki tells her this much---that this cannot possibly work. She can't go out in the sunlight and doesn't age, so people will start talking at some point. The entire thing is a foolish dream, and Fu knows this. But she can't bring herself to tell Aya, and she ends up stringing Aya along right up until the very moment that they're supposed to debut as a duo on an outdoor stage. The sun catches her outstretched hand, which briefly alights, and scared and confused, she runs away.

Back in the present, Masaki finds out about all this from the other vampires and gets it in her head that she should record Fu singing covers. Fu is initially very reluctant, but after a somewhat strained heart to heart she ends up seeking Aya out upon learning that she moved to New York some years ago. Then, upon meeting a friend of hers, the episode delivers its solemn last twist; Aya is dead. Fu will never see her friend again.

All of this loses something in the retelling, but in the moment it's really, truly heartwrenching. (I *love* Masaki and Fu's conversation, too. Fu goes back to this idea several times that she doesn't *deserve* to sing, since she abandoned her friend, but Masaki contends that there's *nobody* who doesn't deserve to do the things that make them happy. There's something really powerful in that, and I think it's a theme the show will come back around to.) Fu makes a kind of peace with Aya's passing, and the episode has a semi-happy postscript in that she *does* end up singing for the channel, pouring her passion into a new version of her dream in her friend's memory, but it's definitely bittersweet as opposed to just straight-up happy.

With this episode I think Mayonaka Punch has firmly placed itself in roughly the same category as Zombieland Saga, another show about undead entertainers that is fully willing to mine that status for both comedy and pathos. ZLS was, until now, kind of a one-of-one, so I'm really happy to see something picking up its torch in this way. I don't know if it'll ever touch this territory again, but I'm glad that it did. Not only does this do an amazing job of making Fu immediately one of my favorite characters, it's just also a frankly incredible piece of character work top to bottom, a story so self-contained that it's almost a great anime all on its own.

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I can't get over Yuki being the one to write the Ai love letters