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KidoFudoWeek 2023

✹ Day 01: Wind Chimes You can't imagine how much I love wind chimes and the summer vibe they gave. I wanted to draw something like this for so long and now I took my chance!

I have this Hc that Fudou's family is very Japanese Traditional people. His mother's family having a ryokan+onsen in Ozu (Ehime). You can read the new story I am writting about this >>HERE&lt;<. Anyways, I'm very excited about this week so I hope you'll like my little entries, likes and reblogs are very welcome. I drew and write everything with lots of love, but I had a very hard time this past weeks.

Other entries: ✹Summer List: Day 01: Wind Chimes KDFD DAY

✹AU List: Day 01: Detective vs Thief AU Day 02: Mixi Max AU Day 03: Dragon AU Day 04: Omegaverse AU Day 05: Red String of Fate AU Day 06: Aliea Stone AU

[miyabinopenguin]

🐧 KIDOFUDO WEEK 2023

August is around the corner once again and with it, our favourite date, KdFd day! In Japan, Summer mean festivals, watermelon, and cicadas. When the days are long and the heat is suffocating, people use their imagination to have fun and refresh themselves. So come with us to celebrate our beloved ship of the two playmakers, Kidou Yuuto and Fudou Akio. This year's event will take place from August 8 to August 14. Don't forget to add the hashtag #KidoFudoWeek2023 in each post! We will track and reblog your contributions to the event 💜.

🍧 RULES

Any kind of contribution is acceptable. Fan Art, Fan Fics, AMVs, etc.

Mature content is allowed, just properly tag it.

You can add other characters too, but the main focus should be KidoFudo.

🍡 PROMPTS

You will have two themes to choose or 7 prompts to combine if you don't have enough time but still want to participate!

08/08 Day 1: Wind Chime | Detective vs Thief AU 09/08 Day 2: Yukata | Mix Max AU 10/08 Day 3: Kakigori | Fantasy AU 11/08 Day 4: Water Balloon | Omegaverse AU 12/08 Day 5: Animal Mask | Red String of Fate AU 13/08 Day 6 : Sparkler | Aliea Stone (Evil) AU 14/08 Day 7: Free Day!

Wind Chime: Also called Furin in Japan. It's a small bell usually found hanging from the balconies and porches of Japanese houses in summer. The season is not complete without the distinctive ringing sound of the Furin, a staple of Japan’s long, hot summers.

Yukata: A robe usually made of cotton or synthetic fabric, wrapped around the body and fastened with a sash (obi). While it means “bathing cloth” people use them for more than that. Going to a Summer Festival or a Hot Spring (Onsen) isn't the same if not wearing it.

Kakigori: A Japanese shaved ice dessert flavored with syrup and a sweetener. What's more summery than eating a Kakigori while eluding the sun? Japanese love ice creams, popsicles and Kakigori to help them when the day is too much hot.

Water Balloon: A small water balloon filled with air and water used in the game Yo-Yo Tsuri, one of the main charms of Summer Festivals in Japan. It is attached to a rubber string which has a loop on the end. You use a “fishing pole” which is a paper string with a metal hook attached to the end of it to try and pick up the water balloon by the loop before the paper disintegrates.

Animal Mask: While some people believe that they were originally meant to protect people from evil spirits now people wear them just to have fun and honor their culture. While walking around a Summer Festival, it's easy to see a lot of different masks, from Animals like foxes to anime characters like Doraemon.

Sparkler: What do you think when thinking about Summer Festivals? Fireworks are a must. Sparklers are just a little version of fireworks people light to have fun in the humid summer nights.

Have Fun!!

-Mods Starline (@starline-art) & Rose (@miyabinopenguin).

[spatio-rift]

i think if theyd gone straight into the ffi plot after the first season like the second game sets up before aliea attacks trying to give kageyama a redemption could be a little more justified.

take my hand and lets think about it together. they could easily reframe kageyama giving kidou that hint abt the steel beams as kageyama testing kidou to see if hes sharp (ha!) enough to take on garshield and win. in that same vein zeus would be another test. surely if kidou can beat his super soldiers, then hes got a chance against garshield? even further than that you could reasonably imagine that the reason kageyama raised kidou in the first place was to defeat garshield and free himself after being under his control for literally his whole life. its still selfish and manipulative and awful and disregards kidou as a person completely, making him his weapon and tool and nothing else. its kageyama-like. it would still make what happened to yuuka unforgivable, but they could have had the rushe thing be about her instead. anonymously helping her or whatever. like it would at least build upon everything that happened in s1 and stay in character because kageyama would still not be a good person, hes trying to save only himself.

HOWEVER aliea completely destroys this bc shin teikoku is a point of no return for me. he cannot possibly come back from that a good man. you cannot possibly redeem him and make the kids he hurt THAT BADLY try to save him. you CANNOT !!!!!!!

but with s2 and aliea out of the way well. dont mind if this takes over my brain for a week or so.

[wikifoxnews]

Who was Kaylee Goncalves ( University of Idaho student shared heartbreaking final post hours before death ) Wiki, Bio, Age, Crime, Incident details, Investigations and More Facts

Kaylee Goncalves Biography                                          Kaylee Goncalves Wiki

One of four female University of Idaho students who were brutally stabbed posted a heartbreaking message online saying she was 'one lucky girl' able to spend every day with the group close-knit friends.

Kaylee Goncalves shared the news on Instagram with photos of herself surrounded by friends including Ethan Chapin, 20, Madison Mogen, 21, and Xana Kernodle, 20. University of Idaho student Kaylee Goncalves shared heartbreaking, final post hours before death https://t.co/xUib0uLfm1 pic.twitter.com/ABsoP9Z79N — New York Post (@nypost) November 16, 2022 "A lucky girl to be surrounded by these people," Goncalves said. Shortly after posting the photo, the 21-year-old was found dead in an off-campus house with Chapin, Mogen and Kernodle on Sunday. A few weeks earlier, Goncalves posted several photos of her and Mogen growing up together, according to CBS News. "I wouldn't want someone else to be the main character in all my childhood stories," she wrote. Mogen replied, "I love you more than life! My best friend forever and more. Goncalves' older sister, Alivea, released a moving statement about the loss of the family. "Kaylee was, is, and always will be our advocate and protector," the family told KREM2 in part. "She did absolutely everything she wanted to do. He didn't hold back love, fights or life. Kaylee was a resourceful person and always wanted an adventure," she added. Aliea said each of her five siblings has a unique role in her family. As a middle child, Kaylee served as an "equity fighter". Alivea described his sister as always looking for adventure and living life to the fullest, saying he couldn't say much to Kaylee that she couldn't do. She told KREM2 that she last spoke to Kaylee via text on Friday. Her mother Kristi said after hearing the devastating news that Kaylee and a family friend Mogen had passed away, it looked like she had lost two daughters, the outlet reported. Aliea said she felt like she had lost two sisters. Meanwhile, Kernodle's sister Jazzmin wrote in a message to The Associated Press that her family was eagerly awaiting news of the investigation. "Xana was so happy and loved and it breaks my heart," wrote Jazzmin Kernodle. “She was so lighthearted and always updating a room. She made me such a proud big sister and I wish I could spend more time with her." Jazzmin added, "He had so much life left to live." Kernodle and Chapin had dated. In a post, Kernodle wished her a happy birthday, writing, "Life is so much better with you in it, love you! Read the full article

[soccerpunching]

In the ffi arc it was implied that it was during the vacation bcs they were using the raimon's grounds and there were no students to be seen going to school (but the principal is there tho for the gouenji subplot bcs faculties do go to school w/o the students sometimes) but it was heavily implied that this was either the summer vacation or winter vacation.

But it cant be the summer vacation bcs atleast 40 days passed and the football frontier in the first arc happened for AT LEAST a month (i would argue that it was at least 2 months). The prelims for FF is at least 2 weeks after the start of classes (1st/2nd week of april) just about after the golden week (last week of april, as these things go) as indicated also by how in inago, there was at least two weeks before holy road (competition that was just FF w a different name and sponsorship). So if you add that to the 40 days and then the indicated 3 months after between the aliea and ffi arc, that's roughly 5 and 1/2 months since the start of classes. Which means it should be happening at the half of september... which is in autumn! BUT SUPPOSEDLY WHEN THERE ARE CLASSES!

Would that mean the ffi arc happened during the winter vacation? I suspected so at first, but then when i counted the passage of time as the ffi happened, they were using the raimon grounds for more than two weeks before they went to liocott which is how long this vacation usually is (and how nobody ever referenced colder weather or the new year coming). So it CANT be during the holidays or the winter vacation. All the context points out to before that!!

I considered the possibility that they may have pushed the summer vacation farther in date or just slimmed it down in days bcs their schools were pulverized by fake aliens. But remembering how this is a universe where they let kageyama destroy whichever schools he wants to, the government probably already have plans on how to continue school and learning even after your school is gone in the first place so the sun garden kids destroying schools shouldn't be that big of a hindrance in education (/neg bcs im shading their fictional educ system).

i forgot where i was going with this. But ig i still cant decided when the ffi took place but i will pretend that i havent been thinking about this this madly the whole time

i just understood why nobody was complaining about the inconsistency of time passage in s1 esp in the aliea and ffi arc... it is because nobody but me counted how many days passed in each episode

[astrojanus]

i haven’t posted inazuma eleven art in a while and i know the fandom here is small but i’m happy enough with this so as to post it here as well (it’s part of aliea week 2021! if you wanna participate you can find it on twitter @ alieaweek)

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first day of aliea week - fashion! i like to think when saginuma gets older he's more adventurous with his wardrobe lol.  fashion icon

@alieaweek

[irisviel101]

I rewatched a few episodes of Inazuma Eleven last week, there was definitely way more trauma and dark stuff in the show than I realized before.

Off the top of my head, we have:

Season One:

Raimon getting annihilated by Teikoku (that's so common in the show though, so does this even count? I feel like it should)

Gouenji and his sister's storyline (I think that counts)

Kageyama literally trying to kill Raimon by dropping construction beans on them

Kidou seeing his teammates getting brutally injured and hospitalized by Zeus

Aki and Domon's flashback and memories of Ichinose's "death"

Zeus Jr High being encouraged to drug themselves to become inhumanly strong

You cannot convince me that Raimon was not messed up after the match with Zeus. They were literally being beaten up until near the end

Season Two:

All of season two is like one big trauma factory for these kids. This was probably the darkest season of the series.

Aliea Gakuen destroying various schools

The team getting beaten up by them under the guise of a soccer match (again and again by nearly every team)

Fubuki's backstory and his whole character arc (DID, PTSD, his insecurity of not being good enough, his self-destructive fixation on being perfect, it's also implied that he wished Atsuya was the one to live instead of him)

Gouenji being blackmailed by the aliens and his sister being threatened which is why he has to leave the team and go into hiding

Kazemaru and his extremely slow breakdown until he leaves the team

The whole Dark Emperors thing

The Aliea Gakuen kids being used by Kira in a fight they have nothing to do with

Kageyama manipulating Sakuma and Genda into destroying their bodies to mess Kidou up. The Shin Teikoku episodes were dark and scary af

Kogure's backstory of being abandoned as a kid and his behavioral and trust issues surrounding that

Rika is implied to have issues surrounding her parent's divorce (in the English dub, she mentions that her dad just straight up walked out on them)

Hiroto's story is pretty messed up as well. Kira renames him to replace his son because he looks a lot like the original Kira Hiroto, and Hiroto has clearly internalized it and devoted his woke life to make Kira happy even at the cost of himself. Then, Kira uses him and the rest of the Aliea kids to get revenge on the government for Kira Hiroto's murder, actively using Hiroto's toxic selflessness to his own advantage and manipulating him and the other kids to fight this war for him. Then, Kira forces Hiroto to release the limiter, knowing that it can cause severe and even permanent damage to these kids. There are many instances where Hiroto falters when faced with extreme violence only to end up following his father anyway because he feels like he owes it to him.

Hitomiko's coaching style is not very good either. I like that that's the point and it's used to give her cgaracter development, but one of her strategies was to remove all defense abd let Endou take dangerous shoots over and over again to show him that he needs to get better, something he could have figured out on without that too. Also, Hitomiko puts Raimon through so much without even telling them why they're fighting in the first place, which is kind of like using them in her own fight, like Kira Seijirou did with Aliea Gakuen.

Just the fact rhat these are children fighting actual terrorists

Raimon's mental health in this season was in a pretty bad state

Endou's depression period

Season Three:

Kidou's character arc with Kageyama

Fudou's backstory

Almost everything Kageyama does to Inazuma Japan and Orpheus

The Kingdom's plotline of them being blackmailed and their families basically being held hostage

Ichinose still having damage from the accident in his past

Kageyama's death

The entirety of the heaven and hell arc. Haruna was almost sacrificed and Rika was almost married off to a demon

Literally everything Garshield does in this season. Blackmailing children, human experimentation, plotting to take over the world, confining The Kingdom's real coach etc.

Daisuke's backstory with Garshield, especially when you consider that he spent forty years in hiding and had to fake his death and let his family and friends think he died for so long because of his altercation with Garshield

And these are just what I can think of at the moment. I'm pretty sure I missed a few things.

The point is, Inazuma Eleven has a lot of dark stuff in it, especially when you stop to think about the stuff the show didn't explicitly point out.

[officialleehadan]

Meeting Gazes

Hello darlings! It's the first Poll Winner of Prompt Month! Today's story was brought to you by CJessie, who is Level 35 and got to pick all four stories for this week's Poll!

Winner: Trading Secrets

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It was difficult for Aliea to keep her face straight when Saber swung down off his horse. He was dressed formally, in the striking white and gold of his father’s banner. A long, sweeping robe took the place of a cloak, and he wore a slim coronet of gold at his brow. His sword hung at his hip, and his eyes were cold as he looked them over. The whole household sank to their knees before him.

After all, a visit from the Crown Prince was not to be taken lightly. Saber had a terrible reputation, and had, in fact, killed a member of this family only a few short days earlier. This visit would be utterly inappropriate to a house in mourning for anyone but a member of the royal family. As it was, it was no secret that he had come because of the circumstances of Yorra’s death.

A house suspected of treason, even if their names had been cleared, could no longer expect privacy.

READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE!

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Trading Secrets:

Raise a Hand

River Sprite

Up the Cliffside

In the Mountains (Subscriber Only!)

Swamp Water Tea (Subscriber Only!)

A Breath of Rebellion

Whispers of War

Helpless No More (Subscriber Only!)

Lessons for a Lady  (Subscriber Only!)

Silks and Secrets

A Discussion of Family  (Subscriber Only!)

Cousins by Candlelight (Subscriber Only!)

Suspicions Raised

Words of Warning

Summoned to Crown

Echo Blade (Subscriber Only!)

Carriage Secrets

Fine Threads

Trusted Shared

Meeting Gazes (Subscriber Only!) (New!)

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MASTERLIST

[fsdgsfhdsh]

For Aliea week! Day 6: friends/food

(DO NOT REPOST)

[forelsketparadise]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Inazuma Eleven, Inazuma Eleven GO, Inazuma Eleven: Ares no Tenbin, Inazuma Eleven: Orion no Kokuin Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kiyama Tatsuya | Kiyama Hiroto | Gran/Midorikawa Ryuuji | Reize, Kiyama Tatsuya | Kiyama Hiroto | Gran & Midorikawa Ryuuji | Reize, Kariya Masaki & Kiyama Tatsuya | Kiyama Hiroto | Gran & Midorikawa Ryuuji | Reize, Mentioned Kariya Masaki/Kirino Ranmaru Characters: Kiyama Tatsuya | Kiyama Hiroto | Gran, Midorikawa Ryuuji | Reize, Kariya Masaki, Kirino Ranmaru(mentioned) Additional Tags: Family, Family Feels, Family Fluff, Family Bonding, aliea week 2020, Day At The Beach, Beach Holidays, Beaches, Ranmasa is mentioned, HiroMido - Freeform, tatsumido, MasaRan Series: Part 1 of Aliea Week 2020 Summary:

Hiroto and Midorikawa take their son Kariya to the beach for a day.

Day 1 of Aliea Week 2020- Beach

[starline-art]

KidoFudoWeek2023

✹ Day 03: Fantasy AU

This one was so difficult to choose between the hundreds of Fantasy AUs I have X,D. But I really wanted to go with my Dragon AU so well, I did. And maybe (maybe) I'll be adding more out of the week because why not? In this story Dragons and other Magical Creatures are chased and killed because of fear, the same with Dark Mages. Fudou is a Dark Mage who adopted two dragons (Hakuryuu and Taiyou) and they are trying to get to the Neighbour Kingdom (in where dragons are protected and in the same way is protected by dragons) until he is caught by the Guard's Captain (Kidou) to let the other two escape. Just to realize Kidou is also a dragon, haha.

Other entries: ✹Summer List: Day 01: Wind Chimes KDFD DAY

✹AU List:Day 01: Detective vs Thief AU Day 02: Mixi Max AU Day 03: Dragon AU Day 04: Omegaverse AU Day 05: Red String of Fate AU Day 06: Aliea Stone (Evil) AU

[alieaweek]

if you notice i’ve forgotten to reblog your aliea week pieces feel free to send an ask about it! sometimes tumblr tags don’t show properly

[astrojanus]

this is reaaaaally late but here’s the art i made for aliea week! i posted it on time on twitter but forgot to do the same here

i also wrote fanfics for two of the days so if you wanna read them you can find my ao3 acc by looking for astrojanus on there too! <3 tysm

[scourgefrontiers]

aliea week day 5 - past/future

i could have put more effort into this but lol. its friday and im tired

@alieaweek

[inazumine]

Sameness in Difference: EnKi Things

Okay, so like, hear me out for a second.

There’s one pairing in Inazuma Eleven that I think codifies the “enemy turned rival turned friend” dynamic, and was the first in the series to do so. From the start, these two have been defined by their similarities despite coming from vastly different worlds, and are equals that understand each other in a way no one else quite does, and grow to support each other on every front. That pairing, is EnKi (Endou x Kidou)

(WARNING: Another long ass post, even longer than the first one and straight trash.)

To begin an analysis of EnKi worth its salt, I feel as though we have to first understand who Kidou is, and the context through which he operates in the beginning of the series before the Teikoku v. Raimon match, then compare it to who Kidou becomes by the end of the series. Endou fundamentally changes Kidou’s world view and helps him reconcile the divide between his role as a soccer player and his feelings as a person.

Kidou begins the series as “Teikoku’s Commander” and “Kageyama’s Protégé”, our first taste of the level of soccer that Inazuma puts on full display, and a demonstration of the level of cruelty that can come out of the sport. Kidou only explicitly says it far later in season 3, but as viewers we see that his origin as a soccer player, at least through his eyes, begins with Kageyama and his teachings, and that’s something he struggles to separate himself from as the series continues. Kidou and Kageyama both see Kidou as someone who stands above others, with other weaker schools and even his Teikoku teammates on a level below him to be subjugated. Until a certain point, that worldview was never called in to question. That is, until the first game with Raimon.

God Hand shocked everyone on the field and in the audience, but it was Endou’s determination that broke expectations, and that’s what Kidou latched on to in his interest. It’s Endou’s tenacity and simple mindedness that breaks Kidou’s calculated expectations. Just the way Endou interacts with Kidou, with pure enthusiasm as an equal without formalities and without restraint, is why Kidou’s barriers start to come down and he starts calling the role of ”Kageyama’s Protégé” in to question: Rather than the Commander’s soccer, what is Kidou Yuuto’s soccer? Kidou is constantly in Kageyama’s shadow, and it’s Endou that starts to pull him out of it.

Initially, Kidou and Endou looked like completely opposite sides of the spectrum, but once Kidou starts to shed some of Kageyama’s influence, he returns to Kidou Yuuto’s values. Like Endou, Kidou loves to be challenged and he wants to play soccer giving everything he has on an equal playing field, because soccer is now again something fun, and not just something to win and dominate. And Endou knows this, he knows that despite how Kidou initially seemed, that Kidou is more than Kageyama’s copy and has his own way of doing things. Outside of Teikoku, Endou is the first person to truly trust in Kidou for what he is past “Teikoku’s Commander” and “Kageyama’s Protégé”.

After Teikoku’s defeat, Kidou seems to develop a strong amount of trust in Endou as a rival, and then as a friend. Kidou seems to continuously marvel at how Endou is able to answer to Kidou’s worldview with his simplicity, and after a while it’s something he’s able to confide in.

(Okay sidebar gonna talk about episode 17 now it’s liKE MY FAVORITE ONE IN THE WHOLE SHOW)

In episode 17, Kidou really puts on full display how much Endou affects him. I don’t know how many people have actually visited Kidou’s home, something’s telling me not many if any, and it’s telling that Kidou invites Endou on the spot without even having known him for what at that point must’ve been a few weeks maybe? He also divulges his family situation, which he says he explicitly hasn’t told anyone before. When Endou says that Kidou and he are the same, it’s a big moment because until that point Kidou had acknowledged that distance between himself and others, and had started to envy Endou and his soccer where there is no concept of it, just pure hearted feelings for the fun of the game. It brings Kidou to a point where he can start to engage with the world differently, and as he says later, begin looking for the soccer that fit him over the one Kageyama prescribed all this time. Endou continuously ignores the distance that Kidou seems to have put between himself, his soccer, and other people, and strips him of anything that isn’t explicitly Kidou Yuuto.  

Gouenji goes on to tell Kidou that he’s only ever looked at Endou from the front, which means as an enemy but also has the implied meaning of “at a distance”, and asks him to let Endou look after his back. Letting him look after his back means so much, because it means not just joining the team, but Kidou learning to let his walls down and be looked after. You can clearly see Teikoku is supportive and works together as a well-oiled unit, but at Raimon there’s an emphasis on covering for each other’s weaknesses, and it’s Kidou admitting to himself that he has weaknesses that’s a big step in learning how to play alongside others, and not just in front of them. Endou is a captain but he’s also a friend, and that’s what Kidou needs.

(LMAO Gouenji stop trying to be cool)

Fast forward a bit to season 2 where Endou and Raimon are up against a threat they can’t even conceive of. They’re getting battered and beat up left and right, teammates are starting to break down and leave, and Endou is beginning to grow weary and question himself and his decisions. Yet still, there’s one person who continues to hold fast and completely trust in him and his world view, who stays until the end and beyond and never once stops supporting Endou and his vision, and it’s not even Endou himself, it’s Kidou.

Throughout season 2, we see Kidou continue to change in this same way, where he stops distancing himself from others and grows closer to Endou and Raimon as a whole. There’s more moments of Kidou goofing off with everyone, loosening up and being dorky, and just smiling and acting like, y’know he’s 14 and not 30. Here more than ever is where Kidou and Endou truly seem like close friends and equals, when Endou starts getting down on himself and can’t really find anyone else to talk to, especially about Gouenji’s departure.

I really wish we saw more of Kidou and Teikoku interacting, especially him and Sakuma/Genda so I could have a little more to go off when trying to analyze how Kidou is with them vs how Kidou is with Raimon, but for now I can say I think it’s because it’s Endou that Kidou doesn’t have to posture or act like a commander, and this is even supported by Sakuma during the training for Death Zone 2: “You’re more yourself at Raimon.”

(He’s looking at Endou oh god WHAT A SOFT SMILE)

Speaking of Teikoku, we all remember the nightmare that was Shin Teikoku in season 2. At this point in the series, Kidou’s been removed from Kageyama and is given space to breathe, but it hasn’t even been close to long enough for the trauma to subside, which is why seeing Fudou, Sakuma, and Genda like this is such a big hit to his psyche.

Kageyama seeks control, and his obsession with Kidou leads him to hurting his friends as collateral damage, because people like Sakuma and Genda are expendable if it means getting Kidou to realize where he belongs. This is straight up emotional abuse and midst Kidou trying to fight against Kageyama’s grip, he in turn loses control of himself and is caught between trying to protect his friends from destroying their futures, win the game for Raimon’s sake, and beat Kageyama for his own sanity to reaffirm why he walked away in the first place. Alas, things don’t end cleanly, and Kidou is forced to push it all aside for the sake of beating Aliea… until season 3.

Season 3 is truly a test of Kidou’s and Endou’s mental strength, and moving forward to be better leaders for Inazuma Japan, and this is where we really see how parallel Endou and Kidou’s stories become. Endou has to deal with growing out of his his grandfather’s shadow, and Kidou has to deal with growing out of Kageyama’s shadow, seeing if Endou Daisuke’s grandson and Kageyama’s protégé live up to and can progress past their legacies.

Kidou thinks Kageyama is well and gone by this point, and even still just the thought of Fudou being a national team member sends Kidou back in to questioning if he’ll ever really be free of Kageyama and all the progress he’d thought he’d made in spite of his origins as Kageyama’s protégé. It only gets worse as we see that Kageyama is still alive and influencing the events of the FFI to get rid of Inazuma Japan and control soccer for good. Kidou plunges back right in to Kageyama’s clutches and goes forward futilely struggling against him with no direction, forgetting about how much of himself he’s become since he broke away from Kageyama all those months ago.

For Endou, if his reason was to take down Kageyama for his grandfather’s suffering, it would be understandable, but it isn’t. He knows how Kidou is struggling and what Kageyama does to him, and he wants to be there for him more than anything else. Endou moved past Kageyama’s hold over him way back in season 1, and whereas Endou is able to move on and focus on playing his soccer that lies ahead, Kidou is stuck in his past. It takes a kick in the face (metaphorically) from Fudou for Kidou to realize this, and it’s none other than Endou who’s literally next to him for Kidou to finally get the push he needs to reject Kageyama’s influence over him for good. It’s Endou’s influence that has pushed Kidou forward all this time, and he wants to keep going that way, with Endou and Inazuma Japan right next to him helping him walk his own path. Endou helps pull Kidou away from his past and focus on the present, what he can do for now over contemplating what he couldn’t do because of yesterday.

As always, I have to state that this isn’t a one-sided ship. Like I said earlier, Kidou is the first and longest-lasting rival (in terms of episodes anyway) that Endou has in the series, and Endou returns that trust and confidence in Kidou almost immediately and ten times over. Endou sees Kidou as a close friend that has stayed beside him since the beginning, and is beyond grateful for his support in leading Raimon and Inazuma Japan, especially in season 3. He may not be able to wax poetic like Kidou can, but there have been more than enough occasions where Endou has gone starry-eyed over how cool Kidou is, or explodes at the thought that Kidou is anything less than amazing.

(I’M NOT CRYING, YOU ARE)

As captains Endou and Kidou share a bond that not many in the series can lay claim to, and they understand each other in so many ways even though they have almost completely opposite personalities and upbringings. Both Endou and Kidou know the burden of being a captain, and Kidou knows exactly when Endou’s frustrated or troubled, and often for what reason (ie. Before and after the Kidokawa match, Aphrodi’s sudden visit, during like the entire second season.)

Kidou plays a support role to Endou’s captainship, being the brains behind Raimon’s success, and laying out plans of attack to supplement Endou’s motivational role. For someone like Kidou, who’s been so used to leading his entire life, I can’t imagine that wasn’t hard to get used to, but he does it wholeheartedly because he trusts Endou and is there to back him up, not usurp him. Endou in turn knows most intimately about what kind of things Kidou struggles with, and fights him whenever he starts to get self-deprecating because, in his words, Kidou is amazing. He sticks to Kidou’s side when he needs him and does his best as one of his closest friends.

For Endou, Kidou has been a friend and an amazing guy since the beginning, something that never changes, and for Kidou, Endou goes from Raimon’s idiot captain to his best friend, and his captain that he’ll follow no matter what.

That’s because he’s Endou Mamoru!

I think the best thing about EnKi is just how much Kidou adores Endou and how much he tries to be his support after he joins Raimon. I mean, Kidou legit says the sweetest things, like how “pure-hearted and straightforward” Endou is, and you can see how much he explicitly trusts Endou, not just his skills, but that because it’s Endou he’ll do everything in his power to help his friends and win with them all. There’s so many times where Endou’s capability and prowess as a goalkeeper and a captain get called in to question, especially in the second season where Endou goes through some of the toughest times in the series, and Kidou will usually be the first person to be like “nope, you’re wrong” and state his unwavering confidence in Endou. It’s almost like Endou’s modified Kidou’s internal logic: Endou’s drive and optimism have broken down Kidou’s calculated expectations so many times that as soon as you introduce Endou in to the equation, Kidou’s like “ah, of course” and knows Endou will move them toward the best case scenario.

(HE’S SMITTEN, LOOKING AT THE SUN)

ANYWAY, I think this has gotten long enough. Tl;dr, Endou and Kidou are almost two sides of the same coin even if they don’t seem like it in the very beginning. Endou and Kidou both think the other is the best thing since sliced bread, and they help and support each other through being captain’s and trying to handle more stress than I feel like middle schooler’s should ever have to. They mirror each other in a lot of ways, and through their differences make up for where the other can’t to help themselves and their teams move forward, going from enemies to best friends. 

As always, whether or not you ship them romantically or platonically or none at all, I feel like their relationship is important and I hope you guys do too!